[Kozak]

Yet in an interview this week, Brown, 69, was unusually somber in assessing the sacrifices entailed by his very public career, which he is ending next week after 40 years in politics.

Sacrifices. Funny how a "life long public servant ended up a multi millionare...

[laredo44]

...I'll miss the responsiveness of the bureaucrats," he said after keeping a reporter waiting for more than an hour and a half as a stream of visitors waited to gain an audience with the mayor. "I can pick up the telephone now and make sure the guy about to tow your car doesn't tow your car .... I'll miss all of that."

That's not responsiveness, Willie. It's simple power lust, that's all. You're a control freak, dude.

I don't know 'ol Willie, but I'd bet a week's pay that some how 40 years at the public trough has somehow landed him a multimillion dollar net worth. And I'll a month's pay this nancy-boy reporter who had an extra hour and a half to prepare didn't have the cajones to ask even one question about it.

[Cicero]

Only Reuters could feel nostalgic sorrow for this corrupt leach on the body politic. He has no friends because he has never deserved any. He lost his wife because he's a womanizer. He feels bad because that's what you feel when your whole life has been dedicated to felonious corruption and you are about to face your Maker.

[kellynla]

Where's the "Barf Alert?"...Willie Brown is just another liberal parasite riding the race baiter's horse who gorged at the taxpayers' trough. Next case...

[americafirst]

"Brown, 69, was unusually somber in assessing the sacrifices entailed by his very public career"

Sacrifices??? I have yet to see a politician who has sacrificed much of anything - on either side of the aisle. I think of them as parasites, living off the public troth.

[AppyPappy]

Willie Brown is basically a deposed dictator. He'll be in prison in two years. Bank on it.