What if Gov. Jerry Brown was flooded with opposition letters

[NotEnufGarage]

In the case of Jerry Brown, the volume of letters isn't as important as the content of a single letter.

A single well written legal opinion by a constitutional attorney, such as Alan Gura, written to Jerry Brown on the legal points of each new law and why it won't pass constitutional muster would have a much greater impact.

Jerry is after his legacy at this point. He wants to go down in history as the Governor who built the peripheral canal, or it's replacement, and high speed rail. He does not want to remebered as the Governor who signed a bunch of laws that all got challenenged and overturned in court and ended up costing the state millions of dollars in staff hours and opponents legal fees.

If the right attorney explains the weakness of the legislative efforts, he won't sign them. If his veto is overriden, that's not on him, but would probably help any lawsuit against unconstitutional law since I would imagine many in the courts regard the California Legislature as a collection of idealogues who have no idea what the word Constituion even means.

[njineermike]

In the case of Jerry Brown, the volume of letters isn't as important as the content of a single letter.

A single well written legal opinion by a constitutional attorney, such as Alan Gura, written to Jerry Brown on the legal points of each new law and why it won't pass constitutional muster would have a much greater impact.

Jerry is after his legacy at this point. He wants to go down in history as the Governor who built the peripheral canal, or it's replacement, and high speed rail. He does not want to remebered as the Governor who signed a bunch of laws that all got challenenged and overturned in court and ended up costing the state millions of dollars in staff hours and opponents legal fees.

If the right attorney explains the weakness of the legislative efforts, he won't sign them. If his veto is overriden, that's not on him, but would probably help any lawsuit against unconstitutional law since I would imagine many in the courts regard the California Legislature as a collection of idealogues who have no idea what the word Constituion even means.

This. 1000000% this. They DO NOT CARE what the constitution of even THIS state says, or about what our rights are.

[Wiz-of-Awd]

Brown doesn't care about our 2A rights. I bet he doesn't really care about gun crime either as long as it isn't happening to him. When he looks at the proposed new gun laws all he sees is dollar signs. If every bullet sold gave him an extra penny he won't be able to get his pen out fast enough.

It will just be a loan, that will be "collected with interest" in court.

A.W.D.

[NorCalMik]

Continue to write him. His office of constituent affairs will track all these letters for or against each bill or by policy area. This is a good indicator of the activated citizens on any given topic.

[Damn True]

Wayne Gretzky once said:

You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don't Take

If you write, it might help. If you don't write....it definitely won't help.