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"I guess you could say it's ironic that we're still having these discussions about Jerry Brown and crime in 2006," Deukmejian said. "I think that Chuck has the perfect qualifications for attorney general. And criminal justice has never been Jerry Brown's strong suit. I don't know why he is running for this job."

I suspect it's because he wants to stop the death penalty once and for all (which he tried to do by installing Rose Bird & Co. in the CA Supreme Court), and sees the challenge to the lethal injection of murderer/necro-rapist Michael Morales as the best chance to accomplish that. It could also have something to do with government being all he knows how to do, and can't fathom the relative instability of the private sector.

4 posted on 10/16/2006 12:33:54 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Normal people would kill to save their kids. Muslim fascists raise their kids to die killing others.)

It could also have something to do with government being all he knows how to do...

Exactly - like an old prize fighter who hears a bell and ...

At his age I think he misses any kind of limelight and that his 'legacy' as "Governor Moonbeam" haunts him. I can't believe that any Police Officer association (per the radio ads) supported his current run for AG.