"You want somebody to take that job who has no future.”

[Nikki Stone1]

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/26/bn26brown121115/?metro

Brown hints about political future in speech here
By John Marelius
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
12:11 p.m. September 26, 2009

SAN DIEGO — Attorney General Jerry Brown dropped a few broad hints about his political future as he delivered a fiery partisan speech to a grassroots Democratic convention in San Diego Saturday.

The 71-year-old once and possibly future governor, who has been coy about whether he plans to try to return to the job he held a generation ago, lamented how California's chronic budget deficit is likely to get worse as federal stimulus money runs out, temporary tax increases expire and money borrowed from schools and local government has to be repaid.

“People ask, who's going to be the next governor? You have to ask who in their right mind would want to be the next governor?” Brown told the weekend convention, which was sponsored by the San Diego County Democratic Party and the California Democratic Council and held at the Naval Training Center in Point Loma.

Brown jokingly suggested the job is ideally suited for somebody at the end of a political career.

“Anybody who thinks that they're going to be governor and going to have a great future doesn't know what's going on in Sacramento. You want somebody to take that job who has no future.”

Brown also assailed Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, although not by name, for promising to suspend AB 32, California's law to curb greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature environmental initiative...

[Turbineguy]

1. Perhaps California will turn out

to be a republican success story after all i.e.: destroyed.

[lunatica]

2. You mean it's not that already?

Oh Crap!

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Jerry Brown's great.

I wanted him to get the Dem. nomination when he ran back in 1992. Clinton was my second choice. Of course, Brown would probably never have been able to beat Bush.

[anigbrowl]

4. He raises a really good point

Someone who's willing to let history judge a legacy rather than looking at a governorship as a step up the political ladder is much more likely to govern on the merits than on the polls numbers. Of course, what's meritorious is a question with many different answers, depending on who you ask.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. I think he's right on this one and I'll be voting for him.

We've got to defeat the Pugs.

[rvablue]

6. Very, very interesting. The possible subtext of this comment could be that if elected Guv

Brown will once and for all try to bring down the bane of CA's existence: Prop. 13.

It would be political suicide for any politician with loftier aspirations(read: Gavin Newsom), but if Brown is elected and succeeds (unlikely, as the legislature would have to vote to repeal it), it will be the crowning glory of his long career in public service.

[Nikki Stone1]

7. Prop 13 needs to be undone, but I don't know if that's what he meant

I hope he did.

[BlooInBloo]

8. Now that Ahnuld is almost done destroying Cali (great job, Cali voters!)....

Hopefully there's nowhere to go but up.

[Nikki Stone1]

9. He does seem to have been the demolition crew. Along with John and Ken of KFI radio (Clear Channel)

and Howard Jarvis, among many others.

[anigbrowl]

10. Yes, like leaving us with the highest auto environmental standards in the nation. What an asshole

Actually, I think he's done badly on some things and quite well on others. I am tired of seeing all the blame for every CA problem dumped in his lap, when some of the issues go back decades and a lot of other problems originate with a state GOP consisting of total morans, who have way too much power in the legislature thanks to constitutional rules that go back to the 70s.

I am not saying Schwarznegger has been a good governor. I think he's been mediocre. But that's quite a bit better than most people realize. He's mentioned that he'd be happy to go work for Obama on environmental issues and I'd be happy if he did; frankly I think he's sick to the back teeth of the GOP and wants to leave the party. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he resigned membership in the next 18 months.

[BlooInBloo]

11. hahahahaaha!!!

[anigbrowl]

12. Laugh all you like. How many other states sued the Bush EPA to preserve environmental standards?

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/25/bc-california-court-challenge.html