Gov. Moonbeam is our only hope! Jerry Brown for AG!

This is not a vote for Jerry Brown but a vote against Rocky Delgadillo. Jerry has a chance at being a good, pragmatic liberal AG. Rocky has a good chance at screwing with California for personal political gain.

In 2001, Rocky Delgadillo squeaked by into the City Attorney’s office in Los Angeles. His opponent for the open seat was Mike Feuer, a popular Westside City Councilman. Mike is as principled of a man as there is – I promise to tell you more later. Rocky was a policy wonk in Mayor Riordan’s administration – one of many Democrats that worked for the popular Republican.

Mike led in most polls right up until election day. But a few weeks before the election, billboards supporting Rocky started popping up around Los Angeles, especially in heavily Latino communities. If I remember correctly, nearly $500,000 worth of billboard in one month that weren’t paid for by Rocky. It was an independent expenditure campaign by the billboard industry. Why did they support Rocky? Because he wasn’t Mike Feuer!

On the City Council, Mike was the author of an ordinance that forbids billboards for alcohol and (at the time) tobacco being erected within a reasonable distance to schools and churches. This ordinance hurt the billboard industry right in the pocketbook, so they opened it against Mike big time.

Since then, I knew I wouldn’t like Rocky. But it’s gotten worse since working with Los Angeles’ poorest residents. While the City Attorney is responsible for prosecuting slumlord, many notice that some of LA’s worst slumlords have gotten a pass. Why? Who knows, but they also happen to be donors to Rocky’s campaign warchest.

Jerry Brown has become a good mayor. Many of the things he did as Governor were good, too. And as long as he holds himself up to his father as a standard, we know he will never stoop as low as Delgadillo will – and has.

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