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Oh noes for California attorney general Jerry Brown — yes the same one who was governor of California, in the 1970s, and fought (Bill) Clinton all the way to the convention for the ‘92 nomination. Somebody stole two of the wheels off his government car! Or maybe just the tires. Anyway, tragedy. Or not! He somehow got new tires for his government car. He is running for governor again, too. You can support his candidacy, somehow, by clicking something on his Facebook page. [Facebook]
I love it. ‘54 people like this.’
It’s a relief to know that California’s last moped rider is still going strong.
I’m thinking bicycle.
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president…
Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!
How the fuck do you steal tires? You jack up the car and then steal the tires? Seems like so much work. Fumbling with lug nuts and whatnot. I’d rather fumble with truck nuts, personally.
His old flame Linda Rondstadt looks to have a couple of spares he could borrow.
Tires? Where Jerry Brown is going, we don’t need roads.
Today, even though I am california’s “top cop”, 2 of my tires were stolen. F my life.
Because we’re hoodlums, and that’s how we roll.
NO NO. I do NOT WANT to hear about this. I don’t care! DO NOT CARE. Social networking is something for the interns to do while you make actual work. Stop screwing up the world! Aaaaaagh.
If you drive a Camry, you are not “rolling again”. Even Michael Steele knows you aren’t rollin’ in a Camry.
Why just two? Were they stolen for a motorcycle?
He’s even still alive? And Cali AG? I figured Ahnold would have terminated him.
Remember back when Jerry starred in that movie about what it would be like if Warren Beatty were Governor of California and a hip-hop star at the same time? That was epic. So now Mr. Brown wants to get into politics for real, huh? Good for him.
Why does his Facebook pic look like a Salvador Dali painting? You’d think he’d have a couple official head shots laying around he could use.
Ol’ Governor Moonbeam is yet another one of those politicians who WILL NOT GO AWAY!!! Jebus.
Canmon (the Inadequate): But didn’t Governor Moonbeam drive a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light?
x111e7thst:
Beware the suede denim secret police.
Wait, I have to vote for Jerry Brown? Is this a Wonkette endorsement? Pope Cat?
I wanted to vote for Newsom, though, because he will turn Sacramento into an everlasting orgy. But whatever.
BROWN 2010!1! AGAIN!
Jerry Brown is awesome. You people are showing your ignorance again.
That painting is the state’s official portrait, by Don Bachardy. It is the most beloved portrait in the State Capitol, for obvious reasons of being a great modern portrait. Bachardy’s got a bunch of stuff in the National Portrait Gallery.
x111e7thst: That’s exactly what I started singing in my head when I saw the title of the post.
Mellow out or you will pay!
Are people already stockpiling black-market spare Chrysler parts?!? Better lock up my old Cirrus- though I suppose it’s worth more in parts than in one piece.
proudgrampa:Jerry’s one of the good ones. I don’t think anybody runs for mayor of Oakland because he thinks it’ll be an easy job.
Custerwolf: Good one!
Ken Layne: Sorry, Ken, I don’t have the proper appreciation for art. It’s just that he looks like he has a horrid case of rosacea & just saw his mom screwing Newt Gingrich.
I love that dude! He was my favorite president guy when I was in the 8th grade. All had a 1-800 number ‘n shit - that was like equivalent to the internet before they had all these Bluetooth and iPods and whatnot.
Also he fucked like every hot chick (openly) in the whole state when he was governor, so that’s pretty awesome.
Now, hold on there just a second. It’s 2009. Jerry was governor of California in the 70s. I’m too lazy to do the math or look it up on Wikipedia, but my guess is he has passed the point where old politicos are, or should be, taken seriously.
V572625694: You run for Mayor of Oakland if you’re trying to resurrect your political career and it’s the best opportunity to kick start it again. That being said, he didn’t do that bad of a job, especially compared to the Mayor now. He did not go into rehab, sleep with his best friend’s wife, nor have his first wife be a lingerie model and his second wife appear in a threesome in some crappy indie flick.
Doonesbury skewered the fuck out of him in the 1980 primary: “Governor, if we turned off these news cameras, would you cease to exist.” “I don’t want to speculate on that.”
gurukalehuru: Hey, he won the Attorney General gig with almost a 20% margin. So even if he’s not presidential timber anymore, he’s no slouch. Also he got the advantage of never having been taken completely serious (Joe Biden except more hippy).
Hooray For Anything: He did say on 60 Minutes while he was mayor that Oakland was closer to San Francisco than San Francisco was.
Ken Layne: Jerry Brown is one of the reasons I love California. I mean, among other things, to choose Don Bachardy to paint your portrait is just inspired, and represents the very best of the state. Plus it makes for a terrific game of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” in which you can now connect Jerry Brown to Kevin Bacon through Thomas Mann by way of Liza Minelli. Beat that.
One Yield Regular: I just remember Jerry Brown for the whole MedFly/malathion scare and how he got tagged as Governor Moonbeam. I did, however, find his “25 Random Things About Me” that was posted on his Facebook page which includes mention of his belief in meditation.
He’s coming for your uncool niece.
Advocatus_Diaboli: I was singing out loud. Which is not something anyone wants to hear
Canmon (the Inadequate): At 71, even a tie-dyed pinko hippie peacenik like Jerry has to trade the bike for a real car.
That said, I vote for him in the ‘92 primaries, despite my feeling that he would’ve lost to Poppy Bush. From what I read about the last CA gov race, the Dems put up some charisma-challenged triangulating Clintonista DLC-type hack against Der Gröpenfuhrer, who got beat down like homosexual rumors at a Celebrity Scientologist’s PR-office. And since Der Gröpenfuhrer’s governance is not quite as good as his acting, Mr. Moonbeam would probably be a step up!
Hooray For Anything: He’ll make the Medflies die on organic poison gas…
shortsshortsshorts: Yes - your vote for ‘Moonbeam 2010′ has been commanded by His Feline Holiness Pope Cat…. you will comply of face nasty hissing and scratches!
Ah, Jerry B. So lazy, so arrogant, so uninterested in the parts of a politician’s job that don’t involve eating at restaurants with famous people, hearing your own voice on the radio, and yelling at staffers. Such a perfect synthesis of SoCal self-involvement and NorCal superiority. He IS California. I say: Governor for Life!
I am fucking terrified. This well-meaning douche is Cali’s only hope against a future Governor Antonio “Da Biggest Ho” VillaraigrossAss. May God help us all.
Ken Layne: Megadittoes on Brown’s awesomeness. All you supposed liberals should bow down and offer the man obeisance simply for his record on workers rights and defending the little guy.
But you missed the most important part: he was shagging Linda Ronstadt back when she was a hottie.
Lascauxcaveman: Brown is a liberal? Wasn’t he supporting a flat tax (read: make the poors pay more because the rich have clever accountants) back in ‘92?
doloras: Well, he is kind of simpleminded. A real Lib-tard!
Well, I doubt is was one of us. It all seems too manual. If he said his computer was hacked or someone threw an old condom at him, I would think it was someone from ’round these parts.