The Jerry Brown 70s: Medflies, Birds, Taxes and Racism
"People want a dictator these days, a man on a white horse."
- Jerry Brown
Governor Moonbeam actually goes back to the 70s hoping that his then quirks of sleeping on the floor, driving an old beat up car and not using the Governor's jet will motivate you to hand him back the keys to the kingdom. However even though Jerry may have been frugal in his youth he has, in his sunset years, learned to appreciate the perks of office.
"The black kids can teach the white kids how to fight and the white kids can teach the black kids how to read."
- Jerry Brown, speaking of a teen work camp in the 1970s
We really don't want to go back to the 70s when Jerry passed the the Dills Act which even fellow Democrat Willie Brown says got us into the mess we have today with public employee pensions. Jerry also took a $6 billion surplus and turned it into a $1 billion deficit and enacted $7 billion in new taxes. We also remember medflies, Rose Bird, Adriana Gianturco, B.T. Collins (the former Brown Chief of Staff who drank a cup of the pesticide malathion at a press conference), Gray Davis (the other former Brown Chief of Staff who eventually became Governor Lowbeam), the "era of limits," Joanie Loves Chachi and all kinds of other Brown era failures there's no need to turn back to.
And finally, it seems as if Brown has his own type of racism he practiced back then too.
Jerry I think MSNBC will have a nice spot for you.
Labels: california election 2010, Jerry Brown, jerry brown fail, pension funds, Willie Brown
Posted by Michael Higby @ 9/06/2010 09:50:00 AM
8 Comments:
But Michael, He has experience... He's been there before... He knows what to do... He's a Brown... He's...
Oh, wait... you addressed all of those. Hmmm.
But you forgot he's a dick.
You're right Trojan I did forget he's a dick. He's incredibly smug and full of himself.
I met Jerry when I was dragged by a liberal high school teacher of mine to volunteer for a fundraiser for him at Devonshire Downs. We would get extra credit if we went to the event.
Anyway this was in 1982 when he was running for the US Senate (and got his ass kicked by Pete Wilson). There was a point where everyone was going to get to meet him. I was in line to shake his hand and I said "Hello SENATOR best of luck." He didn't even look me in the eye and he said "yea whatever."
He is a dick!
Jerry Brown 2010! Don't let the non voting billionaire who suddenly decided she wanted to be governor buy this important position. Jerry's tried & true and has a phenomenal record of positive and important accomplishments.
nut meg.
Maybe he's smug and "full of himself," but given the choice (and it's our ONLY choice)---I'd rather see Brown as Governor again than a person who has spent $105 million to buy her way into office.
The Brown era deficit was caused by Prop 13. It allowed jubilant relief for homeowners and in the process it eviscerated our once phenomenal college system.
No Governor since has been willing to do what it took to return California to the forefront of education.That = brain drain.
Gov. Deukmejian even hijacked the school budget by reducing it by the amount brought in from the Lottery. The lottery $ was supposed to go for improvements not for barely squeaking by.
NEITHER MEG OR JERRY WILL FIX ANYTHING THAT RESTS WITH THE DIVIDED AND DEFIANT ASSEMBLY. SO DON'T EXPECT MUCH. JERRY WILL CAUSE LESS DAMAGE AND WILL MANAGE WITH THE ASSEMBLY. MEG WILL TRY DICTATING THAT WON'T GO ANYWHERE ARNOLD TRIED THAT. MORE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR EVERYONE OH! AND MORE CUTS IN SERVICES. RAISING TAXES WILL FINISH THE STATE FOR GOOD.
Finally a Brown Ad, I was waiting. Vote republican for me NEVER! Its was those BOZO's that got us into the mess we are in not to mention shady locals like Richard Alarcon and his staffers. We will NEVER be happy with our elected. Just do the right thing and thats to vote. OH yeah vote YES on PROP. 19. As a medical patient Icant afford the HIGH prices, making it legal will drop the price, I can get my medication, California will get much need taxes.
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