Governor: Oakland can and should keep port open

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/27/11 | Wyatt Buchanan, Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writers

[SmithL]

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday said Oakland city officials can - and should - keep the port open in the event of future demonstrations.

The governor, speaking to reporters in a wide-ranging news conference at his office in the Capitol, was asked to comment on Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's assertion last week during a meeting with Chronicle editors that the city may be unable to prevent further shutdowns of the port.

"There are the resources under mutual aid, there are resources in Oakland - with some leadership and some imagination not only can they keep the port open but they should keep the port open," said Brown, who was Oakland's mayor from 1999 to 2007.Brown said he believes Quan is aware that the port is important to the Northern California economy and was "going to do everything she can to keep it open and certainly I'd give her whatever help is needed."

Occupy Oakland activists shut down the Port of Oakland on Nov. 2 and Dec. 12. On the latter occasion, three of seven terminals were shut down by roughly 3,000 protesters and some port officials, council members and business leaders criticized Quan for not preventing the closure.

Quan told Chronicle editors last week that even attempting to prevent a port closure by protesters would require at least 500 police officers, which the city would deploy if the port paid the $1.5 million cost.

Future protests could prompt "the port to ask the police chief to develop a plan to keep roads open, Quan said in the taped interview. Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan, Quan added, "has said he could do that with 500, 600 officers. And if the port wants to pay for that, we can do that."

Quan, the target of two recall campaigns, has been criticized for...

[SmithL]

Quan is making "Moonbeam" Brown look like the grownup.

[dynachrome]

“But, Jerry, these stalinists are yore voting base”

[G Larry]

Pro-Lifers need to keep track of the latitude given the Occupy movement and demand that same access starting 22 January!

[boop]

Um, why should the taxpayers be on the hook for costs incurred by OWS vermin? Shouldn't the bill be sent to the PROTESTERS?

The Oakland mayor is USELESS. Maybe SHE should shell out the dough.

[Chode]

ya think????

[vette6387]

“The Oakland mayor is USELESS. Maybe SHE should shell out the dough. “

Oakland hasn’t had an effective mayor for a generation, but just look at where Brown went when he left the mayor’s office in Oakland. When you look at Oakland’s leadership it reads like Detroit’s I am constantly amazed that it isn’t worse there than it is.

[SmithL]

If I don’t think, I can be mayor of Oakland.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Hey Quan, you little red bastard. How about arresting the protesters and putting their little pinko asses in jail, or don’t you arrest your own kind?

These protesters are doing illegal things and all you do is sit around and emote. Well, Quanset Hut, emote on this, you red coward.

I love it when the Left eats their own, and then gets diarrhea.

[Chode]

pretty much...