Posted on 10/04/2010 10:58:25 PM PDT by flamefront
Plain and simple. Jerry Brown is ineligible to run for Governor.
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE
SEC. 2. The Governor shall be elected every fourth year at the same time and places as members of the Assembly and hold office from the Monday after January 1 following the election until a successor qualifies. The Governor shall be an elector who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 5 years immediately preceding the Governor's election. The Governor may not hold other public office. No Governor may serve more than 2 terms.
Everyone --- NEVERMIND.
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That’s not the way the law reads.
Past service does not make one ineligible to run.
The law simply states that officers may serve for only two terms going forward.
The new law, limiting service to 2 terms, did not go into effect until 1990.
You cannot apply law retroactively (unfortunate in this case).
As much as I would like to see Brown get the boot, you cannot make a law that punishes, or applies to, a person who committed an offense or an action that took place before that law took affect. Example: If you jaywalked today and it was legal, they couldn't pass a law tomorrow and bring you to court for jay walking yesterday. Brown is exempt and it is not a fake exemption it is real. You, and all FReepers, should know that and be aware of it. There are many reasons not to vote from Brown, his eligibility isn't one of them. Stop spinning your wheels for things that are false, don't be liberal like in your actions.
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Does the law apply retroactively or only to those who have been governor since its passage?
I don’t care what you call it, you can’t grandfather a law. Brown is eligible, period. To say otherwise makes you, and every other FReeper who buys into it, look like an idiot.
Because it is not true, that's why.
You tell me. Your opinion is apparently as good as the next guy's.
Many elected representatives on both sides of the isle are getting paid a pension while drawing a paycheck from another government position following their time in sacramento.
I agree. As mush as I would love to see Brown frogmarched to the pokey with a raincoat over his head, he is exempt.
Plus if he couldn’t run, the RATS would probably pull a Torricelli.
Did you read the text of the law, the legal document?
If the laws in IL are working as well as the laws of CA, it probably won’t stop Rahm, either.
Amen! Thank you.
We forgive you. Hey, you made the evening interesting. FReepRegards!
I fail to see how Brown’s having been Governor before the term limits rule was enacted, somehow makes him exempt from the rule. It appears to be a serious and intentional misreading of the law. He has been Governor two times already. Therefore he is ineligible now. It seems quite clear to mean but perhaps I am too unsophisticated in parsing language. The Democrats however, are marvelous at parsing, I guess it all depends on what your definition of is, is.
Okay... you cited an actual law, you win. Jerry Brown is therefore eligible to be a horrible Governor again. Of course, that’s if the people would like him to continue California’s freefall from the fourth largest economy in the world to becoming a third world sewer.
Well, actually in this case my opinion was as good as irishjuggler's, with a qualification that he was smarter because he actually found the citation in the law to support his opinion. I merely presumed it to be so.
Brown is eligible to serve despite the law now restricting governor's to two terms.
Would the opposite then be, "men exploit other men"? Or would it be "men other exploit men"? Trying to understand your tag line.
It assumes that in capitalisn, the "wealthy men" exploit "working men" to make money, while in communism the "working men" (do party leaders actually do any work?) exploit hatred against "wealthy men" to keep in control. I found the statement to be clever.
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