Antonio, Billo, Gavino and Jerryo (Karlo not pictured)
Well, not quite, but not since the Marx Brothers were the kings of Vaudeville have four clowns such as these graced the same stage. On Friday, playboy Bill Clinton came to UCLA to pimp (no pun intended) for "Run-Down" Jerry Brown and San Francisco playboy mayor Gavin Newsom, who is running for Lt Governor.
The fourth clown was playboy mayor (of LA) Antonio Villaraigosa, who did the opening act trying to pump up the crowd with his standard stump speech, a variation of what a high school cheerleader might say.
"Are there any Bruins in the crowd?" he yelled at the thousands of students assembled to watch the freak show.
Were there any Trojans in the crowd? Well, at least one-probably in Bill Clinton's wallet.
Clinton earlier that day had appeared in Santa Ana to pimp for Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (no pun intended). In his remarks at UCLA, he made his pitch against California's Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's draconian Global Warming Final Solutions Act (yes, that was the original name) until unemployment had dropped below 5.5% for a full year. He told the gullible students at UCLA that California's future lay in a green, clean energy jobs economy and talked about all the countries that have done so well implementing the Kyoto Treaty protocols.
Brown (no pun intended) told the students that California's great economy was enough to sustain all kinds of goodies including a college education for EVERYBODY- DOCUMENTED OR NOT DOCUMENTED.
And so it went. So what did Gavin Newsom have to say, you ask?
You don't wanna know.
5 comments:
Gavin Newsom is looking more like Mitt Romney every day. Mitt isn't half the man his father was - and if I was old enough to vote in 1968, George Romney would have been my man. Mitt is in Wisconsin today pimping for Scott "Phantom Budget" Walker, whose campaign is funding Gary's Google AdSense income.
Why don't you send that to the Feingold campaign. You know, I've always wanted to be identified as one of those "special interests".
Actually there must have been 100s of Trojans there. At least one in each wallet of a male student.
Remember these are undergrads. No brains, hormones raging.
Where there's a Bruin, there's a Trojan.
If I click on the Feingold link, it costs the Feingold campaign money. If I click on the Republican links, it costs the Republicans money. I'm happy to make money for you, but not at the expense of my cash-strapped favorites.
Incidentally, Feingold has explicitly requested the DNC and all "unaffiliated" organizations to stay out of the race, to refrain from running ads on his behalf, because he wants this to be a Wisconsin race. His opponent has not matched this. Feingold is counting on people in Wisconsin to notice and appreciate the difference.
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