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Jerry Brown for a Nuclear California?
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On 10.31.2009, the San Francisco Chronicle reported "SF Mayor Newsom bows out of race for governor, making me hugely glad that I've written the last in this series of Examiner.com reports on our mayor's b.s.'n broccoli, faux green campaign:
Newsom for a Nuclear California, which got more Web traffic than anything else I've written here.
Gavin Newsom on Current TV: silent on offshore drilling, oil severance tax, nuclear power, and war, the only review of Newsom's appearance on Current TV.
And, Keeping up with the Californians, on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's and Mayor Gavin Newsom's near twin environmental impostures and electric car enthusiasms.
I'd also written Will 'San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Face of Israel' be the next governor of California? but I'm glad I won't have to write "Gavin Newsom and the oil wars in Africa," or, work on the Newsom for a Nuclear California Anti-campaign website.
Gavin Newsom's Africa connections would have been hard to explain without lots of background, though everyone in San Francisco---who pays attention---knows how awful he's been for African American San Francisco---the 3.5% that hasn't been driven to Oakland by gentrification.
However, this leaves Prison Industrial Jerry Brown as the last Democrat standing, which, says a lot about both the Democratic Party and the State of California these days.
Jerry Brown, former California Governor, Oakland Mayor, KPFA Radio host, presidential candidate, and current California Attorney General, was the instigator of the SF 8 arrest and case, which he inspired San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to put out a $250,000 info reward for, in 2006, even though Newsom was four years old in 1971, when the murder the SF8 are accused of occurred. Last I heard Jerry Brown was suing the feds to block the release of California prisoners because of budget constraints and a California Appeals Court ruling ordering the State to release enough prisoners to reduce inhumane prison overcrowding.
Once upon a time, it could at least be said that Jerry Brown was famously opposed to the death penalty.
However, he was once famously opposed to nuclear power as well, and, that no longer seems to be the case, at least not according to the Associated Press report California gubernatorial hopefuls back nuclear power.
But, Jerry Brown is an elder, 71 years old, and therefore an unlikely candidate for the presidency, in 2016 or 2020, as Gavin Newsom once might have been. Let's just not think, for now, about Ronald Reagan's 70 years when he took up residence on Pennsylvania Avenue.
However, with nuke waste still piling up far beyond intended capacity, in dry cask storage all over the country, and, dumped all over the Mediterranean, we might do well to remember Reagan's famous little joke that, "All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk,"
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