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Sandi Brockway's avatar

Rose Bird did not serve under Pat Brown. Later, Jerry Brown would become Mayor of Oakland and get very tough on crime.

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John R. Grout's avatar

You did not read what I said. I said IF Pat Brown had served a term or terms that Ronald Reagan served in our history. Rose Bird is the central figure in the mental health catastrophe we are suffering. She is the central figure in a lot of what is wrong with California… not by coincidence, because she was a radical who affected normality.

Barack Obama took lessons to become that… his buddy the “former” Weather Underground terrorist took him from neighborhood organizer that consorted with violent racist African-American leaders (like the pastor of the church he still belonged to in 2008) to POTUS. He fooled a whole bunch of Democrats all of the time, but he didn’t fool Republicans… any more than Rose Bird did.

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Sandi Brockway's avatar

John. I know exactly Who Rose Bird is, and still find it difficult to make the connection of Pat in 1966, to her more than 10 years later, much after Raygun had began this great dismantling, which, BTW, he stayed committed to throughout his presidency. Bird was a reckless idiot, but using her as sole central instigator and scapegoat fails to see the bigger picture. Please see my post about Reagan's great belief in the philanthropic sector, privatization, and the gutting of america.

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