Posted on 09/23/2006 1:02:41 PM PDT by SmithL
An ad for Chuck Poochigian criticizes Jerry Brown's crime record as mayor of Oakland, describing the city as "one big murder scene."
Chuck Poochigian, the Republican nominee for state attorney general, is broadcasting two 30-second television ads around the state. Here is a text of one of the ads and an analysis by Herbert A. Sample of The Bee's San Francisco Bureau.
NARRATOR: The Jerry Brown watch, part five.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Hey, it's our own political expert. What's up, man?
SECOND UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Well, I just found out that Jerry Brown, who wants to be our attorney general -- the top cop -- pardoned seven first-degree murderers as governor.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Well, maybe they had a bad childhood.
FIRST MAN: Jerry's always been against the death penalty, but when it comes to victims, he doesn't do or say squat.
SECOND MAN: No wonder Oakland is just one big murder scene.
WOMAN: This Chuck Poochigian guy, who's a tough, strong state senator, is looking better and better to me.
SECOND MAN: Just the kind of attorney general we need.
WOMAN: Um, hmm. We're on to you, Jerry.
ANALYSIS: This ad attempts to paint Brown as soft on crime, a charge that Republicans have often used against Democrats.
The ad may leave viewers with the impression that Brown let the convicted murderers out of prison. But all seven were elderly and had long been out of prison at the time of their pardon. Brown's campaign also noted that state archive records show that Brown's predecessor, Ronald Reagan, pardoned 40 convicted first-degree murderers during his two terms in office.
Brown has long opposed the death penalty on moral grounds and often in strident terms. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I lived in CA for 10 years of my voting adulthood. I always supported and voted for Republicans. But there comes a time when you just gotta accept that the registration advantage is too much to overcome.
In 2010 for the next statewide elections, the registration advantage will be too much for us to overcome, so we should accept reality and not run any statewide candidates and just forfeit all elections to the Democrats. There's a winning strategy. We can save all those donations and throw a nice party and be content in our eventual third party status. Woooo!
I'm not saying that all. The Republicans just need to run different Republicans, like Arnold, to win statewide.
Who'd you have in mind? Clint Eastwood? Mel Gibson? Harrison Ford? Stallone? Vin Diesel?
No one in particular. Like I stated up earlier in the thread... just hope Arnold can help McClintock enough for McClintock to win and be happy with that.
I will happily eat crow if Pooch wins. :)
Yeah, just look at what a great job he's done running Oakland. A true dimocRAT hero. </sarcasm>
Its Oakland, what more do you want? Gang capital of the world man.
Russell Crowe?
Count me in...
Bah-dum-dum-chiss!
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