Posted on 04/26/2009 3:25:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
State Attorney General Jerry Brown enters the state Democratic convention today favored to be the party's next candidate for governor - but the irony of that development is not lost on Democrats who remember when Brown quit the party a decade ago after sharply criticizing Democratic leaders before the very same audience.
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And he has taken a far more conciliatory tone with his party in recent years than the Jerry Brown who addressed the 1996 Democratic state convention.
"People were stunned; you could have heard a pin drop," said Roberta Lewis, a Democratic central committee delegate from Woodland Hills (Los Angeles County), who remembers how Brown, during what was intended as a tribute to his late father, Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, raised eyebrows by lambasting party leadership.
At the podium, Brown was sharply critical of President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein over their support of what he called a "fascistic" and "phony" anti-terrorism bill.
"He was entitled to his opinion, but he wasn't entitled to lecture us and storm off," said Lewis, who was so upset at Brown's attack that "I turned my back to him" in protest as he left the hall.
Less than two years later, Brown left the Democratic Party - and would later admit to voting for Ralph Nader for president in 2000.
"I'm an independent thinker," he said. "My general thinking doesn't fit the mold of a party."
Brown said he made the switch to be a nonpartisan voter as he was preparing to run for Oakland mayor in 1998. "I really wanted to be a local nonpartisan official," he said.
In a March 1998 opinion piece in The Chronicle, he explained his "disenchantment" with the Democratic Party as his rationale for becoming a nonpartisan voter.
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So what do ya think nickcarraway, do ya think moonbeam will be gov. again?
We all understand the good folks of Calif. have problems with
picking sane politics and politicians but can they be that foolish?
I hate to answer yes, but I think the odds are good at this point. But who knows what could happen between now and then. Brown probably would be preferable to Newsom, though.
Great,
almost as bad a choice as we had for president.
Bad or worse.
Maybe the real headline should be:
Jerry Brown Back on the Bottom after scorning Faith.
“At the podium [in 1996], Brown was sharply critical of President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein over their support of what he called a “fascistic” and “phony” anti-terrorism bill.”
He got the “phony” right, at least. Sounds like he was putting himself in a position of leading the pre-911 mentality, though.
Personally, I think Brown would be a better choice than Schwarzenegger in 2010. If CA is going to bankrupt itself with liberal politics, then I would rather a Democrat take the heat than a RINO. RINO leadership just confuses the message.
So many bottom feeders are U.S. politicians.
Browns old man wasn’t a bad governor as I recall?
And why does politics become a family business?
Isn’t everyone tired of the Kennedys, Clinotns, Brown, and the likes? Guess the graft is just to lucrative.
They can be foolish and have been for years. I say Brown wins it, but it is the letter “D” than really wins, not just the name “Brown”.
LLS
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