Don Kates voices support for Jerry Brown

[gunsmith]

This is important enough to warrant a new thread, Mr Kates is one the the good guys for the RKBA movement

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2010/03/don_kates_on_th_1.php

Don writes:

"I have been asked to comment on the up-coming California
gubernatorial election: Of the Republican candidate, an immensely
wealthy woman named Meg Whitman, I know nothing except that she is the
former Chief Executive Officer of eBay and that she is alleged to be
anti-gun by some people who claim to know and that the allegation is not
surprising to anyone.

SPECIFICS: Whitman has no interest in meeting with gun groups to solicit
their support; Whitman has supported Barbara Boxer; Whitman supports
"environmental" lawsuits that are anti-hunting but makes no attempt to
gain the aid of gun groups on environmental issues.

In contrast, I do know Jerry Brown. We went to law school together
though we were not big buddies. And when I contacted him about
supporting the pro-Second Amendment position in the McDonald case, he
filed an influential pro-Second Amendment brief with the US Supreme
Court. I know that he personally made the decision to do this,
overruling his staff; and he wrote the brief himself. (He is an able
lawyer.) When he was assailed by anti-gun forces, his response was that
the 2d Amendment is a "civil rights issue.""

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"he filed an influential pro-Second Amendment brief with the US Supreme Court." That remains to be seen. OTOH, earned the sobriquet, "Governor Moonbeam" when he was in office. I know, I was there. Brown strongly opposed the death penalty and vetoed it as Governor, fortunately the legislature overrode his veto. In 1980 he ran for President and his slogan was "Protect the Earth, serve the people, and explore the universe." Three main planks of his platform were a call for a constitutional convention to ratify the Balanced Budget Amendment, a promise to increase funds for the space program, and, in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, opposition to nuclear power. Brown screwed up the Norman Hsu affair, as attorney general, and failed to defend the voter approved Proposition 8. While he might be good for the 2nd Amendment, he's a fool or a criminal on everything else. We can do better than this nutjob, I hope. God Almighty, I don't like Meg, but what choice is this?

Posted by: RKV at March 17, 2010 09:55 PM

I am a One Issue Voter and a life-long Republican. Unless Meg Whitman does some serious sucking up, Jerry Brown gets my vote in November.

[geronimotwo]

unfortunatly you only get the sucking up until she is voted in.