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Lukewarm Los Angeles Times endorses Jerry Brown
Democrat candidate Jerry Brown speaks at the first of three debates in the California governors race at the University of California in Davis September 28, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Hector Amezcua/Pool
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Los Angeles Times has chosen sides in California's gubernatorial race -- though it wasn't overly enthusiastic about its endorsement.
The newspaper is backing Democratic candidate Jerry Brown over his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, in the November 2 election. But the Times writes that both candidates "fall well short of our current needs."
"We will have to wait for the governor with the talent and courage to shake the state loose from the structural dead-ends into which voters continue to push it," the Times writes.
Brown, the Times argues, has a "nonlinear, unscripted style (that) sometimes leaves his listeners wondering what exactly they're going to get." He also "jumps far too quickly at the chance to echo populist sentiment," the Times writes.
Brown is "not the ideal candidate for California, but what he does bring is the reality-based, seen-it-all-before wisdom of a political veteran."
Whitman, on the other hand, offers "disappointing and empty policy approaches and her assertion that having no experience in government is the best experience" and is "a stranger to the political and governmental landscape."
"But Brown offers a different kind of leadership, and although it might not be our first choice, it will do," the Times argues. "Rather than the dynamic leader of new ideas from the 1970s, Brown comes to us now as a sort of grizzled mechanic of the state's failing machinery. He knows which parts can hold out a few more weeks, which rattles can be ignored and how much tension the timing belt can handle before it fails."
Several Hollywood heavyweights are throwing a reception for Jerry Brown next week. The October 14 event is being chaired by Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
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Senator Reid & Barbara Boxer have a unacceptable immigration record as he has said–YES–to Federal funding for Sanctuary Cities, Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Dream Act (a De Facto Amnesty); another Guest Worker program; (previous Guest Worker programs resulted in Amnesty); allowing illegal aliens to participate in our struggling Social Security. Voted–NO– on just English for government agencies All these very negative actions have cost US Taxpayers billions of dollars, which is taken from their paychecks. Reid voted–NO–to making E-Verify mandatory as a business requirement; or limiting welfare to illegal aliens that is another massive cost, estimated to be just the federal level of $113 billion dollars yearly. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) voted faithfully the same to Senator Reid. Then the majority speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says that arresting and detaining–ALL–illegal immigrants was Un-American, an administering to the same party line issues as all Liberal-Democrat members. His voting records and other Democrats is costing taxpayers billions, including the $ 60.Billion in remittance money leaving this nation, to other countries.
The quantity of money spent to educate illegal alien children; the colleges that pander to illegal students, emergency health care treatment (much cannot be classified as an emergency) prison incarceration and then wide scope of state, county and city public entitlements. The dollar amount cannot be even estimated, as the US government as even local authorities keep these figures shadowed and out of the public view.
In conclusion–this smear on Meg Whitman in my book, has been instigated by Union goons, as a favor to Jerry Brown; with policy payback to come? Interesting thought? If E-verify had been in operation permanently in every business in the USA nine years ago, this maid called Nicci would have been detected and she would have been fired. Sen. Harry Reid must accept full blame for that, as he is responsible for weakening E-verify to a voluntary program.
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