Jerry Brown has a long, varied, and colorful history in California politics. Most anyone, friend or foe, would say he’s a maverick. He definitely does things in his own way and doesn’t much care what the crowd is doing. How many politicians would go from being governor of a state to mayor of a [...]
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Go Jerry Go. Jerry Brown declares for California governor
“Insider’s knowledge with an outsider’s mind” is what we need, says this former California governor, former Mayor of Oakland, and current Secretary of State. The race will be him vs. the odious Meg Whitman who thinks starting eBay somehow qualifies her to be governor even though she has no political experience at all.
Brown is [...]
If the left does not make an effort to organize populist anger then the right will grab it by default
The Blue Voice ponders Jerry Brown, radical politics on both sides of the spectrum, civil liberties, and more in a thoughtful post.
They quote from an interview Jerry Brown did with The Progressive in 1995. Brown makes a crucial point, that militia anger is based on real grievances. The Blue Voice thinks Brown misses the dangerous [...]
Jerry Brown orders mortgage foreclosure consultants to post $100,000 bond or face prosecution
From the California Attorney General
Threatening possible criminal and civil prosecution, Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today ordered 386 mortgage foreclosure consultants to post $100,000 bonds and register with his office.
He also ordered more than two dozen companies to justify suspicious loan modification claims made in “slick advertising,” online and through the mail.
Brown has sent [...]
