<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher. He had a chance to do something decent for Oakland as mayor, and he pissed it away on special projects that did nothing for the city but which lined his incompetent friends' pockets. I think the guy is nuts actually. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="midDA97C8FA-37A7-41B7-9B90-E47A905E16BE@panix.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05brown.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05brown.html?_r=1&oref=slogin></a> This Time, Jerry Brown Wants to Be a Lawman <hr width="90%" size="4"> <center><img src="cid:part1.00020906.01000303@comcast.net"> </center> 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." [...] <pre wrap=""> <hr width="90%" size="4"> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>