You might want to BBQ some Weiners! 
Posted on 11/09/2006 3:27:44 PM PST by calcowgirl
California Attorney General-Elect Jerry Brown said yesterday he is looking forward to working with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to create regulations for the enforcement of California’s new Global Warming legislation.
Brown, who defeated state Sen. Chuck Poochigian, R-Fresno, by a decisive margin in Tuesday’s election, told the MetNews he wants regulations that are “practical, defendable and effective.”
Noting that the California Department of Justice--which the attorney general heads--has sent six officers to Oakland to help with its crime problem Brown said he is also looking forward to expanding the program to help other cities in need. Poochigian focused on Oakland crime rates in the campaign, blaming Brown, who has been the city’s mayor for eight years.
He said he has not chosen a chief deputy attorney general yet, and will meet with current members of the department before making any staff decisions. “Building a team is my number one priority,” he added.
When asked to explain his large victory margin--he won by more than 18 percentage points--Brown responded:
“People believed me, and didn’t believe him.”
Poochigan has not called to congratulate him, Brown noted, adding that he thinks the Republican “may have taken it personally.”
Brown said he expects nothing to come of a lawsuit filed by state Republican leaders, and financed by the California Republican Party, challenging his eligibility to be attorney general.
“I bet not one in a hundred lawyers would agree” with the plaintiff’s claims, he said.
In the lawsuit, plaintiffs Thomas G. Del Beccaro, Contra Costa County Republican Party chairman; Adam C. Abrahms, head of the Los Angeles chapter of the California Republican Lawyers Association; and others allege that Brown fails to qualify to be attorney general under Government Code Sec. 12503, which says:
“No person shall be eligible to the office of Attorney General unless he shall have been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the state for a period of at least five years immediately preceding his election or appointment to such office.”
The plaintiffs contend the statute requires one to be an active member of the State Bar throughout the five-year period. Brown’s attorneys argue that anyone who has been a member of the State Bar, even if on voluntary inactive status, during the period qualifies under the statute.
Brown was initially admitted to the State Bar in 1965, but was on inactive status from 1997 to May 2003.
Poochigian could not be reached for comment. A call to the attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit was not returned.
Just doing my part.
Thanks for the clarification ... I was trying to figure out your first response (other than the bottom line) .. so the clarification really helped. I am sorry about that happening to him. Politics ain't beanbag.
People want term limits, hate professional politicos, and then elect this lifelong parasite. Go figger!
Jerry Brown will also be in charge of the state's gun laws and will be in a position to make things miserable for gun sellers and buyers.
More garbage from the Marion Barry of the west coast..
Would it be a stretch to actually enforce the immigration laws first then worry about people using charcoal grills..
I feel so much better knowing the Attorney General of the State of California is going to beat back Global Warming. God forbid he do anything about crime in the state!
It's truly scary that so many people are so stupid. Yet they still found their way to the polls.
Well, the folks who voted for him are going to get what they deserve, anyway. The rest of us are just along for the ride.
There goes the economy (again)!
Many of them are book smart and even street smart to a degree - e.g. office politics. However, like many "Urban Gold Coast" types, they drank a certain ideological Kool Aid at some point and still are true believers in Socialism-lite - FOR THE CHILDREN - IT TAKES A VILLAGE! (Barrrrrrrrrrrffffff!)
The first thing they will do is confiscate Savage's polluting Cadillac and send it to a crushing facility.
Lunar warming will be stopped by the former Gov. Moonbeam.
Who can blame Poochigan for not congratulating this filthy, life-long career Rat? Jerry Brown is the epitome of today's Democrats - blood-sucking leeches who can't cut it in the private sector so they have to warm a chair on the taxpayer's dime.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is who Arnold Schwarzenegger is. It's not a tightly kept secret.
Children (liberals) will be children but the adults should have known better. Specifically one adult: Duf Sundheim.
My sights are not set on the children. They're on the one adult.
Sundheim has now engineered the perfect storm. A liberal governor hatching liberal schemes, assisted by an aging hippy, with the full power of the California Department of Justice behind him.
It won't be fun!
You might want to BBQ some Weiners!
You will probably never find a bunch of more irrational, inflexible Stalinist bureaucrats unless you visit North Korea.
Governor Moonbeam spearheading this project can only make things worse.
I feel for ya buddy!
Go East!
Go East! Why stay there?
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