Posted on 11/10/2016 6:04:14 PM PST by Mariner
California Gov. Jerry Brown, who earlier this year mused about building a wall around the state should Republican Donald Trump be elected, pledged Thursday to do his part to find common ground with the president elect.
But Brown also put Trump on notice that “as Californians, we will also stay true to our basic principles. We will protect the precious rights of our people and continue to confront the existential threat of our time – devastating climate change.”
Despite his complicated history with the Clintons, Brown endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton a week before California’s June primary, and then campaigned for her last weekend before Tuesday’s election.
Brown has repeatedly contrasted the intransigence gripping Washington with California’s progressive policy approaches, from joining other countries to address the threat of climate change to shielding the rights of unauthorized immigrants.
In the statement, the fourth-term governor moved past his earlier criticism of Trump, and didn’t directly address the incoming president’s dismissal of climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese or his promised mass deportations and a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Please define what those “precious rights” are Moonbeam. Jump on your ChooChoo train to nowhere and go to Hell.
Fair enough. “:^)
A wall ??? What would be the purpose of this 'wall' ?? To keep non-Californians out, or keep Californians in ???
And besides ... aren't walls Xenophobic and Racist ???
~ MM ~
Jerry Brown needs to take California out of the Union to be a Sovereign State of its own. Then he could take all the wetbacks he thinks they need over there and suck all the value out of the economy and the state for his elite in San Francisco and Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
I sure hope for fed relief to CA’s over the top gun laws.
You tell ‘em Moonbeam. They’ll believe anything.
Yeah, he’s always been on the outer fringe of stuff, it goes back to his dad. But, when you hear him pontificate about climate change - which is not happening. Or how coal and oil is bad for the environment - which it is not. You tend to think he did a lot of drugs in the 60s. I remember when he was first governor in the 1970s, and how he was on a clean energy kick back then.
What has happened to California? Why is it all blue? It used to be a Republican state when Ronald Reagan was governor. Do you think there was massive cheating? I was surprised that even Orange County, which was known as a bastion of conservatism voted Democrat.
Well it is good to see Moonbeam is consistent and doesn’t let reality intrude into his egotistical musings.
Too much immigration, #1.
OC probably went Dem because people are fleeing the area to live in more conservative states, where they don’t have to worry as much about criminals. I live in conservative Eastern TN, and I swear that I must have met at least 100 CA people fleeing from that dumpster heap. Can’t say I blame them.
Cheating is always part of the answer as to why places go Dem, but I have a couple of other reasons:
-GOP-e and Dems both loathed Pete Wilson and Prop 187. Wilson was pretty much the only politician in CA who recognized the danger of illegal immigration and tried to stop it. Everyone else only saw “new voters”.
-GOP-e squashed CA conservatives by making Schwarzenegger the face of the party
-Cost of living is really expensive in CA, which means that the conservative middle class will inevitably leave so they can buy nice houses at sane prices.
-Arizona and Texas have typically had good state governments who take illegal immigration seriously, and New Mexico is too poor to give a lot of benefits for illegals. That makes California take the brunt of illegals.
Moonbeam Brown, lifelong champion of state’s rights.
Those ‘precious rights’ do not include those outlined in the constitution, however.
“as Californians, we will also stay true to our basic principles.”
Which would be what, Jerry? Things like diets consisting only of eco-friendly, free-range baby arugula and organic kale chips grown only in fields fertilized with sustainable, gluten-free Unicorn dung?
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