It is reasonably clear that Jerry Brown (Wikipedia Article) will win the Democratic Primary for California Governor. This is mainly due to the fact that no one is running against him…. Yea, I am that perceptive.
Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman are competing for the Republican nomination.
I must be getting old, because I am starting to see history repeat itself. Or perhaps history merely rhymes and this is an attempt at a refrain, because Jerry Brown was the Governor of California when I was in High School in the late 1970’s. Jerry’s Father Pat Brown was California Governor when I was born.
At the Governor’s mansion, Jerry Brown immediately followed Ronald Reagan. Now there’s some contrast. That was way back when most people thought that an Apple was something to eat, and it was even before a portable computer looked as sleek and streamlined as this:
That’s an Osborn-1 (In production 1981-1983).
Osborn portable computer geeks were easy to spot, because they had unusually well developed arm muscles (on at least one arm) from toting that 30 pound beast, and because they had bug eyes from trying to focus on that dinky little 5” monochrome monitor. Kaypro “portable” computer users were similarly situated. But I digress… Back to the 2010 California Gubernatorial Election:
SacBee.com has a recent summary on the main candidates for California Governor. Copyright “fair use” doctrine prevents posting more than 10%, so hopefully they’ll let me get away with this snapshot and a link to the SacBee.com article:
-See the SacBee.com Comparison Table Here-
Oh, if it were actually easy to tell the story of the differences in people with such a nice neat little table.
Strangely enough, Jerry Brown seems to be enjoying a very brisk level of support from Pro 2nd Amendment folks. And the very opposite seems to be true of Ms. Whitman. In a Brown-Whitman race this unscientific on-line pol gives 93% to Jerry Brown to Whiman’s 7%. Wow. And presumably that is among California gun owners and enthusiasts. While that issue group represents a very small slice of the electorate, I found this (and the underlying reasons) to be very surprising and interesting.
There seems to be a common, mostly unspoken assumption that Meg Whitman will beat Steve Poizner in the primary.
A Great Debate:
Tonight (Monday 03/15/2010) at 5:30 PM, there is on-line coverage of a debate between Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman. It could be interesting. It could be…..
http://stevepoizner.com/debate?tr=y&auid=6067095
This reminds me of that old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times”. We do. And the next Governor of California will.
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In honor of Dan Nguyen-Tan, I’ll include a Scrabble word of the day. Mainly because this word always strikes me as an odd word to see in print and even more odd to hear spoken:
gu·ber·na·to·ri·al
goo-ber-nuh-tawr-ee-uh
l, -tohr-,gyoo-] –adjective
of or pertaining to a state governor or the office of state governor.
