What Happened to That ACORN Investigation Jerry Brown Promised?

Big Government ^ | 3-1-2010 | Derrick Roach

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California Attorney General Jerry Brown seems to be getting a lot of reminders from his gubernatorial challengers Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman about his failed governorship of the state from 1975-1983 when Californian’s endured high unemployment, home foreclosures, large scale labor strikes and fuel shortages at the gas station. Recognizing the failed policies of then Governor Brown, California voters revolted and passed Proposition 13 which is a landmark initiative that limited politician’s ability to arbitrarily raise taxes on California residents.

Over a week ago, Attorney General Jerry Brown got yet another reminder, this time coming from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The report “Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies” focuses public attention on AG Brown’s failed investigation of ACORN. While some of Brown’s gubernatorial challengers talk of the need for a California Governor to have a spine of steel, AG Brown has instead crumpled like an aluminum can cowardly hiding behind state bureaucrats and a wall of state agencies.

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[marron]

He isn’t going to investigate anything that is going to strike at the heart of the DNC or threaten Sorosian interests.

I remember during the Enron debacle, when the Democrats announced that they were going to have hearings. I said then that it wouldn’t happen because the Democrats themselves and most especially the Clinton crowd were up to their hips in Enron. Sure enough, the whole thing faded away. If they could wrap it around Bush, great. If not, then they suddenly lose interest.

This is a similar case. If they could send the two filmmakers to jail, great. If they are actually going to expose the whole ACORN-SEIU-Obama-Soros-DNC mess, then, uh, no.

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Moonbeam should run on the record of his previous administration, especially his heroic and successful effort to save California's state insect, the Mediterranean fruitfly, from the nefarious chemical warfare attacks planned by corporate agricultural exploiters and their diabolical supporters and co-conspirators, some of whom are so evil and uncouth as to have engaged openly in capitalism and even to have joined the dread Republican Party.

The medfly is also sacred, no doubt, to the many New Age groups and counterculture cults who constitute such a large part of Brown's constituency, further broadening the appeal of this strategy.

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[william clark]

It went into the same black hole as the Congressional hearings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that were promised to take place AFTER the 2008 election.

I would say that the hearing on Brown’s (non-)eligibility to be on the California ballot as a candidate for AG was in the same place, but the CA Republicans slinked off with their tails between their legs and withdrew that challenge, which had also been pushed to a post-election time frame by a Dem judge.