CA Dem Gov Candidate Jerry Brown Is An Oil Baron????
Saturday, April 17th, 2010My ol’ bloggin’ buddy Laer Pearce is working on a book, Crazifornia, about all the wrong-headed political and regulatory stuff that happens in this crazy state. Today he has an Op/Ed in the Washington Times where he releases a wee bit o’ info that will make the Democratic candidate for Governor, former CA Governor Jerry Brown, just a wee bit nervous.
When Jerry Brown recently held his first fundraiser as an official candidate for governor, he chose as the venue the Sacramento apartment where he lived the last time he held that office, after famously declining to live in the governor’s mansion. Faced with multimillionaire Republican opponents, Mr. Brown wants to be seen as just a regular public employee, trying to hold his own against tycoons at the top of America’s wealth disparity. While politically expedient, the image of Jerry Brown as everyman is patently false.
Mr. Brown has a lot of money – how much exactly is not public – and unhappily for his environmentalist and global-warming-alarmist supporters, it’s oil money. Even more unhappily for his campaign managers, it’s money that may have led him to an attack against California’s largest employer and a rewriting of state regulations to feather the family nest.
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