Talk:Jerry Brown

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IMHO, Wilson's defeat of Kathleen belongs on Wilson's page, or Kathleen's if she gets one, not on Moonbeam's. Gentgeen 11:43, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Jerry Brown hasn't changed his party affiliation, but the election laws in California prohibit local politicians, like mayors, from running as members of a political party; therefore, it is inapproapate to refer to them as Democrat Mayor of Foo, or Republican Bar County Supervisor. Brown recenlty (earlier this month) filed the paperwork to run in the Democratic Party Primary for State Attorney General in 2006. Gentgeen 10:40, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

There are a lot of jurisdictions that provide for "nonpartisan" elections. All it means is that the ballot does not list the party name. State or local law can't prevent you from being a member of a party or from saying that you are a member of a party (it would violate the First Amendment). Even though officials might be elected on "birdless" (nonpartisan) ballots, it's never incorrect to refer to their party affiliation, if they have one. In fact, officially nonpartisan elections at the city level are often the most partisan races. Acsenray 20:20, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Added in some more of J.B.'s academic credentials and included the fact that he had spent time training to be a Jesuit. Synthesis

Contents 1 References 2 What's with the gossipy gay innuendos 3 Quotations 4 Is this a joke? 5 California Uber Alles

[edit] References

We ought to cite sources; since there is a ready-made bibliography, can someone confirm these books were used as sources in the article so they can be converted into references? Thanks. Johnleemk | Talk 12:39, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

why did someone try to strike the Barzhagi reference in the article "personal life"? Is this another example of a politician, or his staff, trying to "clean up' his wikipedia page? 01:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What's with the gossipy gay innuendos

I mean you got Edgar J. Hoover a major misses getting an expurgated page and jerry gets all the slander and a whole 4 line sentence of gossip about his sexual preference...shhhh..

There is no information to substantiate the "15 year relationship" of JB and Anne Gust yet presented. i just ask for the truth. Hank chapot 02:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quotations

The list of quotations is getting rathre long, so we should problably move it over to Wikiquotes, leaving just a few here for flavor. -Will Beback 06:50, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I took the entire quotation section from just before your revert of 24 October 2006 to create Jerry Brown at Wikiquote. Argyriou (talk) 19:50, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: I reposted some of the Brown quotes that are most interesting to the quotes section. It looks like they are better cited and more verifiable than some of the quotes on the page right now. The quotes that were not as well cited have been moved over to wikiquotes.

RE: Referring to comments made by User: Will Bebeck

1st of all, you moved my quotes that I put there in the first place which were all cited. 2nd, it isn't plagiarism if it is all in quotation marks and is cited correctly, unlike many of the quotes that were up there. It didn't come from the any campaign site. 3rd, I left up Jerry Brown quotes that were not negative and ones where he said items. It's wrong to remove content on your basis. If it is cited, it should be allowed to stay. You can try dispute the quote on the page but you shouldn't delete it if it is all factual. What you are doing is censoring information. Topps2010 00:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)Topps2010

You first removed the quotations from Jerry Brown, then replaced then with a set of uniformly negative quotations from other people.[1] That isn't acceptable. NPOV applies. -Will Beback 00:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this a joke?

After law school, Brown worked as a law clerk for Mathew Tobriner, a justice for the Supreme Court of California, and studied in Mexico and Latin America

Where do you think Mexico is located?

[edit] California Uber Alles

Shouldn't the famous Dead Kennedys song be mentioned here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.127.213.240 (talk) 17:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

Is yer fingers broked or sumthin? —XSG 05:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Haha Naw I'm just not good with Wikipedia. lol Brian951378246 23:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)