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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:20 PM Mar 2016

OUR Governor re: Trump (xpost from GD)

“’If Trump were ever elected, we’d have to build a wall around California to defend ourselves from the rest of this country,’ Brown told labor organizers at a dinner in Sacramento. ‘By the way that is a joke. We don’t like walls, we like bridges"

(VIDEO) http://bipartisan.report/2016/03/15/governor-says-wed-have-to-build-a-wall-around-california-if-trump-wins-video/

h/t kpete

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OUR Governor re: Trump (xpost from GD) (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
And make the rest of the country pay for it! KamaAina Mar 2016 #1
I like our governor. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #2
I like him too dana_b Mar 2016 #3
I'm an old fart and voted for him then. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #5
I would have liked him better then. KamaAina Mar 2016 #6
Sometimes we feel like an island of sanity in a sea of crazycakes Little_Wing Mar 2016 #4
As long as we make the rest of the country pay for it! KamaAina Mar 2016 #7
Or Donald Trump Little_Wing Mar 2016 #8
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. And make the rest of the country pay for it!
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:21 PM
Mar 2016


There is historical precedent here; during the Dust Bowl era, CHPs turned back Okies driving in on Route 66.
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
6. I would have liked him better then.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 11:46 PM
Mar 2016

Jerry Brown Release 2.0 favors repaying debt to Wall Street bankers (racked up by Ahh-nuld ) over restoring our social safety net, even with a budget surplus.

Little_Wing

(417 posts)
4. Sometimes we feel like an island of sanity in a sea of crazycakes
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 08:12 PM
Mar 2016

I've been envisioning a wall snaking from Mexico to the Canadian border along the eastern edges of Washington, Oregon & Cali. Now that would be a sensible barrier. Thanks, Gov. Moonbeam, for letting me know I'm not the only one!

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
7. As long as we make the rest of the country pay for it!
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 11:47 PM
Mar 2016

And could we snake it around Vegas, or at least Reno?

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