I think the guy is nuts actually.
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05brown.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
>
> This Time, Jerry Brown Wants to Be a Lawman
>
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>
> By JESSE McKINLEY
> Published: June 5, 2006
> OAKLAND, Calif., June 2 -- In his nearly four decades in American
> politics, Jerry Brown has been a lot of things to a lot of people: a
> two-term California governor, a three-time presidential candidate
> and, most recently, the mayor of Oakland, this Rodney Dangerfield-
> like city across the bay from San Francisco.
>
> But now, Mr. Brown is trying to become something that no one who
> remembers the freewheeling days of "Governor Moonbeam" could possibly
> expect: a lawman.
>
> And not just any lawman. Mr. Brown -- faced with a mayoral term-limit
> -- is running for attorney general of California, the nation's most
> populous state and one where hot-button wedge issues like
> immigration, medical marijuana and same-sex marriage are constantly
> simmering for law enforcement officials and politicians alike.
>
> Could it be that Mr. Brown -- a former Jesuit seminarian who once
> shared the limelight with Linda Ronstadt, then his girlfriend, tended
> to the poor with Mother Teresa, and fought The Man with his nonprofit
> political action committee We the People -- is suddenly siding with
> (gulp) the establishment?
>
> It certainly sounds that way.
>
> "The attorney general owes a duty of loyalty to his client, and his
> client is the governor and people of California," Mr. Brown said
> Friday in his Oakland campaign office. "And as attorney general, I'll
> have no hesitation in carrying out that law, whether it is capital
> punishment, bars on same-sex marriage or collective bargaining or
> anything else."
>
>
>
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