Reply #17: I've nothing against Gavin.

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Nice guy, I met him last year.

I'd support him over all the other candidates except for one thing.

Jerry Brown is running.

He's a visionary, he's a big-picture thinker, he calls bullshit on bullshit.

I like that in him.

"At the podium, Brown was sharply critical of President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein over their support of what he called a "fascistic" and "phony" anti-terrorism bill...

...In a March 1998 opinion piece in The Chronicle, he explained his "disenchantment" with the Democratic Party as his rationale for becoming a nonpartisan voter.

"Both major parties today are for sale and available to any candidate with a sufficient bankroll," he charged.

"The major political parties no longer offer genuine alternatives, just genuine business enterprises," he wrote. "In a real sense, Democrats represent only a softer, fuzzier version of harder-edge Republicans."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/24/MN1B177VN1.DTL&type=politics