Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown
Charles "Chuck" Poochigian
Charles "Chuck" Poochigian
That's for sure. More people know him as a leftist looney loser lord-of-the-medflies whacko. I wouldn't vote for Jerry Brown for ANYTHING if you held a gun to my head. Poochigian is a good conservative and was the sponsor of the workers compensation reform legislation. Good guy.
Brown's ads are filled with some of the worst distortions and outright lies I've ever heard, and THAT is saying something. For example (closely paraphrasing one Brown radio ad I heard recently):
"Poochigian even opposed Prop ___ for stem-cell research bonds. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Poochigian opposes stem-cell research?!"
Another Brown ad I heard this morning labels Poochigian as a "career legislator." Gasp. As if Brown -- scion of Pat Brown -- isn't the consummate career (and congenital) politician himself. Cripes.
---Nope, haven't seen a TV poltical ad yet, I don't watch much TV and what I see is cable.
At least we know Poochigian is right about one issue.
And, who among us could fail to support someone with 'Ace Smith' as a political consultant?
Oh! It's that Jerry Brown. Didn't know he was still alive.
Jerry Brown is a lifetime self-promoter politician. If he wins the voters deserve him and considering the locale, I feel sorry for the solid citizens.
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The race between Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Chuck Poochigian for attorney general is becoming nastier and nastier.Today, Poochigian unearthed an old skeleton in Brown's closet — Jacques Barzaghi, the former governor's friend and factotum. Actually, Poochigian appears to have used his Nexis account to uncover every available article written about Barzaghi and allegations that he sexually harassed women. From a Poochigian press release today:
"The City of Oakland paid out $50,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim filed against Barzaghi, Brown's confidant and senior aide of more than 30 years, by Nereyda Lopez-Bowden, a married 32-year-old mother of three school-age children. The City Manager suspended Barzaghi for three weeks without pay, but Brown refused to fire his 'closest adviser' from his six-figure salary. It wasn't until almost three and a half years later when the attorney general candidate was forced to fire the 66-year-old Barzaghi."Brown campaign consultant Ace Smith said bringing up Barzaghi, the tattooed former French commando who was fired by Brown in 2004 and now lives overseas, is a "hail Mary pass." Polls show Poochigian 15 to 17 percentage points behind Brown. "This is totally unrelated to anything and they are trying to smear Jerry with something that he handled very professionally.... This is a sign of a campaign sinking rapidly."
Meanwhile, Brown's campaign is promoting a YouTube "documentary" by environmentalists called "Poochigian's Toxic Legacy." Bill Magavern of the Sierra Club says in the video that Poochigian has gone against even his own party by opposing "many of very same environmental protection bills that Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has signed or otherwise supported."