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Politics

I Am Governor Jerry Brown

Jesse Walker | 11.2.2010 11:13 PM

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Fox and the L.A. Times are both projecting a Jerry Brown victory in California. Crank it up.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. jester   15 years ago

    If it's Brown, flush it down.

    1. Cameron Diaz   15 years ago

      +10

  2. MNG   15 years ago

    The comeback kid!

    Who would have thought that the road back to Sacramento would run through Oakland?

    1. I am not the government's ATM   15 years ago

      What's hilarious is he didn't even need to run a campaign here. He just sat back and watched Rosie O'Donnell self destruct.

    2. sevo   15 years ago

      The "comeback kid"?
      How about a worn-out brain-dead lefty that CA urban unionists and welfare recipients elected once again?
      One more dose of governor moonbeam! Wonder how much taxpayer money he'll use to buy votes this time.
      It must be something in the (bottled) water.

    3. yup   15 years ago

      Well, I-80 runs through Oakland to West Sacramento.

  3. Nikki   15 years ago

    HOW?! Voters of Jerry Brown (and Barbara Boxer)...explain yourselves.

    1. DimRat Voters   15 years ago

      We're retarded! Are you happy now!?

  4. NoStar   15 years ago

    Does this mean Linda Ronstadt has to sleep with him again?

    1. Bingo   15 years ago

      He never tapped that.

      1. NoStar   15 years ago

        He never tapped that?????

        Bingo, were you alive in the 70's?

        There was a time when they were constant companions. They even took an African safari vacation together. Johnny Carson commented on the fact that the press was so interested in the couple that every detail of their trip was being reported, down to the color of Ronstadt's sleeping accommodations, "a Brown sleeping bag."

    2. jester   15 years ago

      I'm gonna say it again..

    3. alittlesense   15 years ago

      OK now I have the image of those two "together" if you know what I mean.....ewwwwwwww

  5. Bingo   15 years ago

    Look on the bright side: Brown trying to bring order to California's fiscal meltdown will provide hours of entertainment.

    1. I am not the government's ATM   15 years ago

      Many monkeys fucking a football funny.

    2. zeebs   15 years ago

      For those of us who live here... not as entertaining.

      1. I am not the government's ATM   15 years ago

        I live here zeebs, gotta laugh sometimes or they may find you up in the clock tower.

        1. Gilbert Martin   15 years ago

          "or they may find you up in the clock tower."

          That was in Texas

          1. yup   15 years ago

            It could happen where ever there is a clock tower and a population of people though.

            1. Gilbert Martin   15 years ago

              True enough

          2. I am not the government's ATM   15 years ago

            I know that GM, but the sentiment ... oh never mind

  6. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    Career politicians, yay!

  7. Sidd Finch   15 years ago

    "France has the Tay Ja Vay" - Chris Matthews

    1. jester   15 years ago

      And the French use that overly-subsidized venue of transport. Wouldn't you under the circumstance?

  8. Mad Scientist   15 years ago

    Now it is 1984. Knock, knock at your front door..

  9. Barry D   15 years ago

    Come quietly to the camp
    You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
    Don't you worry, it's only a shower
    For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

    DIE on organic poison gas
    Serpent's egg's already hatched
    You will croak, you little clown

  10. Lucy   15 years ago

    WHEN YOU MESS WITH PRESIDENT BROWN!

  11. Lucy   15 years ago

    WHEN YOU MESS WITH PRESIDENT BROWN!

  12. Cognitive Dissonance   15 years ago

    money buys elections. money buys elections. money buys elections. money buys elections. must regulate money. must regulate money. the corporashunz will access the mainframe and takeover over zion.

  13. Gilbert Martin   15 years ago

    Governor Moonbeam version 2.0

  14. juris imprudent   15 years ago

    When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie...

    Thatsa Jerryatric

  15. Wind Rider   15 years ago

    No on Green and yes on Brown. Now that's just fucked up, I don't care who ya are.

  16. joshua corning   15 years ago

    the good news is that now that California does not have a celebrity in the governors seat the rest of the nation can go back to ignoring California's politics.

    1. Jerry Brown   15 years ago

      Excuse me?!

  17. tgs   15 years ago

    nice work cali,

    Brown, Boxer and Bankruptcy!

  18. tgs   15 years ago

    nice work cali,

    Brown, Boxer and Bankruptcy!

    1. Southerner   15 years ago

      Here's another note of consolation to you from Kevin D. Williamson:

      This election means two things for California: 1. It is now more likely to end up needing a federal bailout, and 2. It is less likely to find Congress receptive to that idea.

      Again, this is the headline I want to see in every commie leftist fish wrapper: "House Republicans to California: Drop Dead."

      1. Paul   15 years ago

        This election means two things for California: 1. It is now more likely to end up needing a federal bailout, and 2. It is less likely to find Congress receptive to that idea.

        I like the cut of your jib.

      2. No Name Guy   15 years ago

        Just what I was thinking.

        California: You built up a epic pile of shit for your public finances. Now, go and sleep in it. When you're ready to clean it up, I hope you enjoy the shoveling, 'cause the rest of us are going to let you do it yourselves.

    2. alittlesense   15 years ago

      or maybe brown boxers and bankruptcy if you get my drift.....

  19. J   15 years ago

    Will he last a full term, or get recalled?

  20. Californian   15 years ago

    You don't have to be so blunt in predicting the demise of our state, you know.

    1. J   15 years ago

      It wasn't predicted, its voters willed it.

  21. BenDU99   15 years ago

    Fuck you California.

  22. Mokers   15 years ago

    Jerry Brown is going to double down on green jobs, and Democrats from all over are going to try and make sure he looks good. With California as a petri dish for all of the Democrats job-exporting policies, it would be bad news for them to let him sink too far.

    1. Douglas Fletcher   15 years ago

      Okay, you can write the check.

  23. J   15 years ago

    Having just moved here recently, it's pretty obvious Californians care far more about appearing to be cutting edge on green technology, than reversing it's economic decline driven by the productive leaving the state.

    1. MagicBeans   15 years ago

      So... if the productive are leaving the state and you just moved there...

      1. J   15 years ago

        For grad school, so you nailed it, I'm not productive.

  24. Zed   15 years ago

    I've loved this song for 30 years, but you motherfuckers at Reason have been wearing its ass out.

  25. Douglas Fletcher   15 years ago

    I think they'd do better with Marion Barry.

  26. Legal Weapon   15 years ago

    Well, he can't do worse than Arnold Gettothechoppanegger a.k.a Der Schei?e F?hrer.

    1. Southerner   15 years ago

      Sez you.

  27. Paul   15 years ago

    Jerry Brown is "taking back California". Taking it back from whom?

    Racist...

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