Oakland has endured Jerry Brown for almost eight years, and has been harmed in the process. Now he wants to inflict on the State of California what he has inflicted upon Oakland. He is contemplating running for the Attorney General office. Why are bad politicians perpetual, perennial, everlasting? You get the picture. What makes them think they can con, feign, bluff, pretend and do all the nothing they do and still come back at us to be elected over and over again? Maybe it is because they simply have no respect for the voters since they have done so little and actually harmed the system they have been in and no one gave a hue and cry to get them out.

Another politician, former US Representative James Traficant, now in prison for fraud and various crimes is so disrespectful of the people he was elected to serve and the US citizenry that he is in prison, and from prison he is putting together a exploratory committee to raise money to run for president from prison.

Bad politicians, whether they have been imprisoned, as some should be, or out deceiving the electorate, as most bad politicians do, never stop coming and conning the people. They always think that they can con one more time; they can get over one more time; they can be elected one more time.

Oakland's lame duck and just plain lame mayor, Jerry Brown, is making preparations to run for Attorney General in this "great state" of California, an accolade that has become a joke in the light of the recall circus occurring in California. What would make Brown, a 65-year old political has-been, think that he should harm that position and the State by his presence in it? He has contributed nothing to the City of Oakland, now he wants to contribute that same nothing to the Attorney General's office. Why not do Oakland, the State, and the nation a favor and go quietly into retirement? There are plenty young, qualified candidates who can function competently in that position; California needs no old politician who has nothing to offer in that position. Brown would just be blocking the pathway of a young person. He has had his day in the sun; why not now set with the sun instead of weighing the state down with the noise and hot ari he has heaped upon Oakland?

Politicians like Brown who are incompetent but can talk a good show sometimes believe their own rhetoric and think they have something citizens want. When we look at what Brown has done to Oakland in these seven years he has haunted this city, California would do well to allow or force this bad penny into retirement. For with the advent and possibility of an Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor, it would be a further joke to have an Attorney General Jerry Brown. Enough is enough, and California has had enough of Brown.

With the soon departure of Brown from Oakland, Oaklanders may be able to get back to trying to make this city what it should be. That will take reversing some of the self-serving Jerry Brown policies and acts. He vulgarly used this city to further his political ambitions and aspirations, adding nothing to Oakland in the process; instead he has been a $120,000 a year drain on this city's economy. And his conies and associates are also on the payroll, costing the city additional amounts with sexual harassment charges and by filling positions in which they are nonfunctioning, yet they are paid high salaries. Brown and his associates have used this city as a launching pad to his next political assault on the Californian citizenry.

This mayor has flown politically backward from governorship of the largest state in the union, the fifth largest economy in the world, to the mayoral position of a small 400,000 citizen city. That makes no political sense for this city, while it makes some sense for him, since he simply wants to stay in the public's eye, feed at the public's trough, as he focuses on his next venture. When coming to Oakland, he promised to focus on education, crime, downtown revitalization, etc.

Instead, he and his political associate, State Senator Don Perata, have worked in concert and have turned the Oakland Schools over to the State in a type of receivership for the next 10 or more years. Jerry Brown went beyond the elected Oakland School Board and the elected County School Board directly to the State, where he has political clout with the now under recall Gray Davis, to get a charter school, which Brown's own appointees to the Oakland School Board and much of this community said is a racist concept and one that takes needed money away from the District. His special military academy school gets much more money per student than Oakland's regular school students get. He focused on Oakland's education system as he promised but made it worst than it was! But he was not alone in his focus: State Senator Don Perata, his hoped for successor, now a fading noise in the wind candidate, conspired to do violence to this city as they fattened themselves.

Second, Brown said he would reduce crime. He fired a perfectly good Black Police Chief, the first this city had seen. He placed instead, his own choice--albeit Black, but not a man for the job. He added more police as most conservative politicians mistakenly think is the answer to crime. And since that time, crime has gone steadily up; murders increased; and Brown blamed everything he could think to blame: the parole board for allowing paroled ex-offenders back into Oakland, parents for not doing enough with their children, (and he is a father of no child but self-imbued with such child-rearing knowledge that he knows) etc. Given a moment and a microphone in front of his mouth, Brown blamed anyone, except Jerry Brown.

Third, he promised to revitalize downtown Oakland, but his definition of revitalize and the general community's definition were different. Brown meant he was going to bring more San Francisco style whites to live in downtown, as if having more whites from San Francisco or whites generally has value to anyone except him. But the downtown is as it was when he arrived, except for those projects that were in the pipeline before he took office and more whites walking their dogs all over the place.

Using great foresight, Brown's brain trust sunk over $300,000 into the old Fox Theater, sprucing it up merely to say to any proposed/would be buyer that it is available for sale. And with that genius at work, the theater remains unsold and an eyesore in the downtown a year and a half after that investment.

Fourth, he has almost viciously used Oakland as his political stump spot to sell Jerry Brown nationally. Unequivocally he has sold himself, and that seems to be the only reason for his hiatus in Oakland. And while selling himself, he garnered a thorough media thrashing for this black city with its white geekish mayor ridding herd over it! That is the vulgarity of his tenure in this city.

Fifth, at this late date in his tenure, unemployment in Oakland is at 11%. That historial problem of unemployment is still a problem after his second term in office. What Brown has done is talked, but talk is only good if that is the business a person is in. An Oakland mayor's business is not talk.

Sixth, he and his conies have nested in Oakland as a way station to other destinations, but while here, they have cost this city heavily through sexual abuse charges the city paid for, and their payroll costs are for no work being done. Brown doesn't even go to City Council meetings on a regular basis, but he travels to Cuba and elsewhere in the name of the city, at the city's expense, but always selling Jerry Brown.

His French man in black, a special assistant who has lived with the mayor in his loft commune and has been with him since his days as governor, has also traveled at the city's expense to hither and yond. While at one of those hither and yond locations he engaged in sexual harassment of a city employee.

These are some of the noted contributions Jerry Springer/Brown brought to Oakland and nested here for salaries and media gain, while he considered his next political destination.

So looking over the horizon, he has espied the Attorney General's office, assuming the people of California will pay him and his shadow man in black an eight year salary to do what he and they do best--talk a political office, instead of work that office. What he has done for Oakland, he should not be allowed to do for the state in the Attorney General's office. The best thing Brown can do is act his age and retire, sparing California an affliction of Jerry Brown and his aged ego. []

Simond Griote