This is down right scary

[caduckgunner]

if this ***** decided to run for governor, she will easily win :mad: I know there has been talk about it before, but this is the first article I have seen about it since "The One" was elected.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-feinstein17-2009jan17,0,1425807.story

[Midian]

She would like to resurrect the federal assault weapons ban she regards as one of her proudest achievements. The ban expired in 2004, when Republicans controlled Congress. But such an effort could put Obama and Democratic leaders in a difficult spot, given their efforts to appeal to a broader swath of voters. During his campaign, Obama largely shied away from the gun debate.


This could be a problem since Fienstein is up to her neck in war profiteering through he husband's business interests, so hopefully that could be used as leverage. However, the rules don't always seem to apply to democrats, do they?

On the entertainment side, we can be sure that Antonio Viva La Raza from LA is certainly going to throw his hat in the ring as well. He's witless. He's such a pompous minor league clown, watching him would actually be fun.

McClinktock made the most sense the last time around since he seemed to be the only guy that supported the whole stop spending money the state doesn't have platform.

But solely on the RTKBA issue, Fienstein'll be a huge huge pain in a55, that's for sure.

[JDay]

If she gets elected Governor I will have a reason to leave this state sooner.

[Window_Seat]

It's either her or Gaggin' Nuisance (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/MNKQVE80K.DTL). Either way, it's a no win.

Erik;

[bwiese]

Feinstein will not run for Governor. She's secure in the Senate. Why work?

It's down to two blah nonentities for the Republicans - Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner. (I'ver heard Poizner hasn't even wanted to talk to NRA folks... quite unusual for a prospective governor to not "hear things out".)
Similar "ugh" hopes for Whitman.

On the Dem side we have AG Jerry Brown, with Newsom in the backfield and perhaps someone from LA. I think Brown will probably have it locked up given money, stature, and SF problems (gang member juvies released to commit murders vs JB's fairly consistent law & order stance.)

[motorhead]

aaaaah! scarier than penis eating bacteria! even her picture is scary. her as gov. is the stuff of nightmares.
i'd be o.k. with gerry again. (never thought i'd say that) newsome became too dispised during the gay marriage battle. he'll never do anything outside of the gay bay.

[rayra]

Heard some of POizner's talk on teh radio the other day. He's at least saying the right things on finance. And more importantly he's actually DONE the right things financially, worked to reduce the staffing and expenses and waste of his dept long ago. About the only dept head in state govt to actually do so.
And considering how almost none of the others will even contemplate any cuts to their dept expenses EVEN NOW, that makes Poizner an early standout.

Hell, where's that list of CA govt douchebags that just flatly stated they would NOT adhere to the Governors' plan for work cutbaks / unpaid furloughs? At least 4-5 senior dept heads said tehy wouldn't do it. And Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown was one of them. Said he REFUSED to cut costs.

Last year's budget is still unresolved, despite now being 6-1/2 MONTHS overdue. And the 10min / 4pg State of teh State speech the Governator sneaked in Thurs morning is usually a platform for NEXT year's budget proposals. Nothing was said. All he talked about was teh current / old crisis.

By the time the next Governor campagin kicks off we'll be in complete fiscal meltdown with blood in the streets* and someone like Poizner with a real and demonstrated track record of fiscal restraint will go far.

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* didja see the headline yesterday about the Comptroller stating that not only will state tax refunds go out as IOUs in Feb., but that they'd also be suspending welfare checks? Going to be riots. Blood in the streets.

[rayra]

Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown. That's some 'stature' alright.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/2394/mayorjerrybrownmayorgavmq5.jpg

[BigDogatPlay]

Senator Feinstein was handed the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee for at least the next two years, and her term is not up until 2012. I can't imagine that as chair of the Intelligence Committee she would have the time required to come back home and campaign for Governor. Besides, the chair of that committee is one of the two or three biggest jewels in the Senate crown.

Aside from that, she's going to be 76 on her next birthday in June. Is "young and hip" California honestly going to warm up to a scary looking grandmother?

[Model17]

He's witless.

He's the perfect man for the job.

[bwiese]

Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown. That's some 'stature' alright.

WTF do you know?

[Dark&Good]

If it's the dream of her life...

[rayra]

WTF do you know?

Is that seriously your retort?
I'm old enough to have lived in this state and experienced what Jerry Brown did and failed to do his LAST time as Governor. To know about his opposition to the death penalty and his appointment of that horrific idiot Rose Byrd as the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court. That crazy ***** commuted something like 80+ death sentences and got her crazy *** thrown out of office by CA voters for it, 20yrs ago. Hell she spawned from YOUR court jurisdiction - how is it that you seem unfamiliar with her or this greivous gaff on Jerry Brown's part?
I know that Gov Jerry Brown signed farm laborer supporting legislation which he still pays lip service to today - which is ironic as hell as it's all illegal aliens today and when he signed that bill and paraded around with Cesar Chavez, Chavez himself LOATHED illegal mexican labor.
I know that Jerry Brown looked like a goddamned idiot when he was trotting around with Linda Rondstadt
He sucked up to organized labor and student protesters against the VietNam War, as well as pushing the very environmental / energy regs that strangle this state even today.
Jerry Brown EARNED that 'Moonbeam' nickname when it was bestowed upon him in the 70s.

I know that Jerry Brown has been on the Public teat almost his entire adult life and I for one (amongst many) have had enough of him.

I know that for almost his entire political life, Jerry Brown has been on the wrong side of every conservative issue I give a damn about.
And I know that based upon their track record and ideological grotesqueness I'm not interested in another Democrat getting elected for anything, much less Gov of CA.

If you're going to keep pimping Jerry Brown for Governor, you really need to do better a better job than saying 'WTF do you know'.

[rayra]

you know what bwiese, 'wtf do you know', right back -

what's Jerry Brown's position on the billions of dollars this state squanders on illegal aliens?
what's Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown's position on the legalization of drugs?
what's Jerry Brown's position on fiscal restraint - oh wait, we know that one already - in the midst of the biggest fiscal crisis this state's EVER been in, Jerry Borwn this week told the Governor 'screw you, I'm not going to cut my department's expenses one iota'.
what's Jerry Brown's position on socialist health care?
what's Jerry Brown's position on CA having a worse bond rating than Puerto Rico?

A quiet terms as Mayor - for which he shucked his lifelong Democrat Party affiliation to run for - and a lunge for AG might give Jerry Brown the imprimatur of a 'law and order' candidate, but that is nowhere near enough to offset 30yrs+ of outright and destructive liberalism in everything else he's done.

[yellowfin]

Rayra, I think the reason why bweise props him up is that he is the vastly lesser of two or more evils. Of all of those positions, his prospective opponents are equally to fault on all of them AND many others. Lesser of evils by perhaps just a couple percentage points, but still lesser. Now is it a convincing case that he is? I don't know. I can only say that's what he's going for with that.