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Posted on 05/17/2010 8:01:30 PM PDT by SmithL
Months after clearing the Democratic race for governor of any serious opponents, Attorney General Jerry Brown held his first official public campaign event Monday - slamming Republican gubernatorial rivals Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner as "the apostles of darkness and ignorance" and calling their expensive barrage of mudslinging "intellectually embarrassing" to California voters.
"They are so banal," Brown told about 200 students and others at a rally at UC Santa Barbara, referring to the millions of dollars that Whitman, the former eBay CEO and Poizner, the state Insurance Commissioner, have spent on attack ads in a primary battle that some polls suggest is a dead heat with three weeks until the June 8 election.
"If you know how to write and think," Brown said, "look at those ads, and do the exact opposite." He added: "The apostles of darkness and ignorance are well-heeled and they have great political consultants."
Brown told the students, who like students at other UC campuses are feeling the strain of a 32 percent hike in tuition between last fall and this fall, that the GOP candidates' expensive campaigns raise the question: "What could we have done with $100 million on this campus?"
Monday's event, where Brown spoke without notes and was not accompanied by an entourage, underscored the contrasts between his low-key campaign and the big-spending efforts of the two GOP candidates. Whitman has put $64 million of her own money into her campaign to date, while Poizner has spent $21 million from his own fortune. Brown has spent less than $1 million.
Brown's star appearance at Monday's rally marked a day of campaign outreach to Obama Generation voters in Southern California, where he was slated to attend a high-profile fundraiser in Los Angeles - one of three there in two days...
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LMAO, “They are so banal.” Moonbeam sounding like the liberal elitist clown he is. And Moonbeam, you wrote the book on banal.
What a dope.
Banal? At least they rate a “B”, Jerry. You don’t.
The buffoon Jerry Brown could only attract 200 Students on a UC Campus? Wow that’s not very impressive. Looks like maybe even the UC students are bright enough to see that Brown isn’t the right guy for the job.
“Banal? At least they rate a “B”, Jerry. You don’t.”
And if you subtract the B from banal, Jerry, you get...well...a fine and colorful description of where the orifice is in which your head is planted.
He doesn't have to spend any money. He has the press and the unions to do that...
Ah so...the champion of condescension, and word wizardry lashes out at the opposition redirecting issues to meaningless class envy with the greatest of ease.
Heads should be spinning in wonder, but those students will walk away remembering Jerry Brown as the man fighting to lower their tuition, and his opposition as the cause of all their grief.
They won’t even think about the DemoRAT Legislature that has sunk California deep into debt, and been the cause of the grief of all Californians. NOPE...Jerry will keep jousting windmills, and redirect the minds full of mush away from the truth. He’s really very good at it.
What GOP candidates?
Is “Kerry” a Freudian slip?
Okay. I bookmarked the site for future revenue spending.
Between the two, I can just picture Pat Brown speaking Jacki Gleasons line in "Smokey and the Bandit", that starts "when we get home, I'm gonna kick your momma's a$$...."
That comment crashed the servers at dictionary.com.
It's so good to know that the American Left doesn't engage in heated rhetoric, "demonization" or personal attacks like the Neanderthal conservatives.
Does no one remember how badly Jerry Brown screwed up the State of California when he was governor?
Banality is to toss around “moonbeam” with every reference to Brown. Like it or not he is one of the most effective politicians California has ever had. Petty name calling has never stopped him before, and isn’t likely to this time either.
And he is no fool. No republican in the 92 race was as blunt about what sort of man Bill Clinton was, and what sort of president he would be.
He’s vulnerable on the issues, but the name calling never seems to leave room to address that.
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