Jerry Brown: If Trump wins, California might need a wall of its own (Moonbean to the rescue)

sacramento bee ^ | 3/14/16 | d siders

[doldrumsforgop]

Gov. Jerry Brown, mocking Donald Trump for his plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, suggested Monday that if the Republican frontrunner wins the election, California might have to take protective measures of its own.

“If Trump were ever elected, we’d have to build a wall around California to defend ourselves from the rest of this country,” Brown told labor organizers at a dinner in Sacramento. “By the way that is a joke. We don’t like walls, we like bridges.”

Brown, the Democratic governor of a liberal border state, has signed legislation granting driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and allowing undocumented immigrant college students to receive public financial aid. Like many Democrats, he has pushed Washington unsuccessfully for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.

Addressing members of the California Labor Federation and State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, Brown said California has benefited from immigration to the state, arguing that young workers are an economic boon.

“Some of these old white guys ought to recognize that the whole pension system would collapse if we didn’t have a bunch of young people coming into this country and into this state,” the 77-year-old governor said. “They’re not all coming from here. They’re coming from other places.”

Brown also re-opened a years-old feud with former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who withdrew from the presidential race last year. Before leaving office, Perry, a self-proclaimed hunter of jobs, ran radio ads in California luring companies to move to his state.

“If I asked you who was that governor, there aren’t 50 people in this room that could even tell me his damn name,” Brown said. “And people who attack California, they do become anonymous and forgotten. Rightfully so.”

[Vermont Lt]

It can run right on the east side of the San Andreas fault.

[ExSES]

“If Trump were ever elected, we’d have to build a wall around California to defend ourselves from the rest of this country."

Sounds like a great idea to me..., will it keep Moonbeam's supporters in???

[ZOOKER]

I'd be willing to bet the East Germans said the same thing when they built a wall ("This is to protect us from you").

By the way, how you gonna pay for this wall, Jerry?

Will water still come in from neighboring states?

How about electricity?

Why should I help pay for your bullet train when I'm not welcome in your state?

If you close your border to neighboring states and leave the Mexican border open, what do you think California will look like in the future?

[TalonDJ]

Are you effing kidding me? CA already had FRUIT INSPECTION CHECK POINTS on the border. They don’t work because they are on the INBOUND side.

Here in NV we would be happy if they built a wall and stayed inside it.

[Thank You Rush]

“”It sure sounds like he wants low-wage brown-skinned slaves
to prop up old rich white men doesn’t it?””

I don’t know how it could be taken any other way!

[TigersEye]

I guess it’s just a coincidence that Moonbeam is a rich old white man. lol

[Popman]

Spoken like a true commie, they build walls to keep people in, not out...

[Popman]

+ 1

[doldrumsforgop]

You can always move, like I did when I wised up

Great in Texas

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Jerry; There are already padded rooms with good walls awaiting you at Happy Dale. Just call a cab. The driver knows the way.

{hattip to “Arsenic and Old Lace”}

[doldrumsforgop]

“Jerry; There are already padded rooms with good walls awaiting you at Happy Dale. Just call a cab. The driver knows the way.”

And who knows? Old flame Linda may be waiting for you there.

[SoFloFreeper]

Just let ‘em secede. Seriously.

The Republic could survive without California.

(sorry, California conservatives....you’re welcome to move to Texas or Florida....)