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I can remember seeing Jerry Brown on TV back when I was about nine or ten years old. Even then I thought he was nuts.

http://thenewagenda.net/2010/10/09/jerry-brown%E2%80%99s-contempt-for-women-ca-now%E2%80%99s-endorsement/

It started with a recording that came to light in which Jerry Brown’s campaign called Meg Whitman a “whore.” The use of such sexually derogatory terminology on the campaign trail, even in private, is beyond the pale of what is acceptable discourse. Inexplicably, the day after the story broke the National Organization for Women’s California chapter offered Brown its endorsement.  This is an astounding and confounding turn of events in the eyes of many women.

For example, in his first stint as Governor of California, he showed contempt for mothers across the board. Not only did he threaten to starve poor women and children when he said “welfare mothers” would have to “tighten their belts,” he showed contempt for working mothers with this quote:

More women should be in the home, taking care of their children. Then we’d have fewer social problems. (Source)

Are there any such statements in Meg Whitman’s past? No, her life story demonstrates that she believes in working mothers. She is a working mother.

And then there’s Jerry Brown’s ever-shifting point of view on abortion. The New Agenda doesn’t take a stance on abortion, with good reason, but Jerry Brown does and so does Meg Whitman. So does NOW. All three are pro-choice, but only one of them was once publicly pro-life: Jerry Brown. In a rarely discussed chapter of his life in the late 1980s, ahead of his 1992 run for president, he claimed to have had a life-changing experience working with Mother Theresa, and changed his former support for abortion rights, claiming that:

[I see] the killing of the unborn as crazy.

Brown said at the time that working with the dying “gave me a different perspective on the whole question of abortion.” He also said that “this country and Europe see the need to kill so many unborn does not seem to be justified. It’s just that we’ve organized society to be anti-life.” He followed this rhetoric up with support for freeing Joan Elizabeth Andrews, who was convicted after storming an abortion clinic in which two employees were hurt and property was damaged.

So what gives, CA-NOW? According to their website, they exist to “advance the women & girls of California.” On national NOW’s website, “reproductive rights” rank high on the list of issues they support. Supporting women is their number one issue, however. So how is it that a group with those goals would endorse a personally pro-life male over a publicly pro-choice female?

Patty Bellasalma, CA-NOW’s president, said it was because, “[a]s Governor, Mayor, and Attorney General, Jerry Brown has promoted and defended women’s rights.” She didn’t elaborate. It’s worth pointing out that, as a business woman and CEO of eBay, as a working mother and as a candidate for governor, Meg Whitman promoted and defended her rights as a woman.

Jerry Brown’s record speaks for itself. He has not been a friend to women. Who can forget his attack on Hillary Clinton during a debate with Bill Clinton in 1992?

The website has video of this.

Hillary Clinton wasn’t running for anything at the time. But his attack is a perfect example of how Jerry Brown views women, which is to say as props and tools to be exploited for political gain, perhaps even as collateral damage in his manic quest for power. He has learned over 40 years in politics that he can’t openly say what he thinks about women, or minorities for that matter. His record there is just as appalling and offensive. Here’s his chief of staff during his first term as governor, J. D. Lorenz, on his experience with Brown, which he detailed in his book, Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse:

[A]s Jerry said, “blacks [were] the wrong symbol in the 1970s.” Chicanos were OK – in late 1974, Jerry told Lorenz that he planned “to tilt towards the Mexican-Americans” – but blacks were bad, imagewise. Except blacks were useful in Jerry’s racist fantasy of an integrated work-camp for teenagers: “The black kids can teach the white kids how to fight and the white kids can teach the black kids how to read,” he mused.”

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This whole thing stinks to high hell.  From "nanny-gate" to his staff referring to Whitman as a whore, this is just 2008 all over again in CA.

If CA elects this guy again...they deserve him and I don't want any tax dollars bailing them out due to this fool.

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Dropping the W bomb has changed my view completely of Jerry. He's lost my respect, and therefore my vote. In the debate last night with Meg, his reply to the W word was that these are things that happen in a campaign. Jerry didn't have the guts to call out sexism, and he lacks leadership when he couldn't even say there will be no name calling in his campaign.

It was disturbing when they polled during the debate, asking if the N word was equivalent to the W word, and you know the results, 78% said it was not equivalent. In other words,
it's ok to accept words, like S word, the C word, the B word, and the F bomb when it comes
to female candidates. It's ok to bash, and to bullying women. And they wonder why the younger generation of our children, and grandchildren are becoming more and more like
bullies, and so messed up. It's coming from our leaders, and it is the most pathetic and
disturbing trend we are faced with, and it's got to stop.

I've not decided to vote for Meg, I'll wait another week, before I check the box.

I'll be honest, I doubt very seriously that any candidate can help California with a comeback,
we are so deep in doo doo.





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Building 4112 wrote:

Dropping the W bomb has changed my view completely of Jerry. He's lost my respect, and therefore my vote. In the debate last night with Meg, his reply to the W word was that these are things that happen in a campaign. Jerry didn't have the guts to call out sexism, and he lacks leadership when he couldn't even say there will be no name calling in his campaign.

From LA TIMES:


Moderator Tom Brokaw, the former NBC anchorman, told Brown that the word represents, to many women, the same sort of insult that "the N-word" represents to African Americans.

Brown at first said he did not agree with the comparison — a statement that drew an audible reproach from the crowd — and sought to question the timing of the release of the "5-week-old private conversation … with garbled transmission."


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gov-debate-20101013,0,3061663.story

A better reproach would be for the women of CA not to vote for this sexist loser.



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The Bee did a poll that night of the debate, 78% in the poll agreed with Jerry, that W word was not equivalent to N Word.

I voted early, he didn't get my vote.

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Building 4112 wrote:

The Bee did a poll that night of the debate, 78% in the poll agreed with Jerry, that W word was not equivalent to N Word.

I voted early, he didn't get my vote.

Good for you Building 4112!

How crazy that people thnk that W word is not equivalent to N word! What the heck!



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Sanders wrote:

 

Building 4112 wrote:

The Bee did a poll that night of the debate, 78% in the poll agreed with Jerry, that W word was not equivalent to N Word.

I voted early, he didn't get my vote.

Good for you Building 4112!

How crazy that people thnk that W word is not equivalent to N word! What the heck!

 



Well those 70% of people have NEVER BEEN Called both but I have been both are equally offensive.  I am so POED and if this peice of shyt gets elected I hope they get what they have coming to them.  If you live in CA maybe you ought to move.



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