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By Tom Blumer, Newsbusters
California
Governor Jerry Brown apparently thinks he's some kind of comedian. I would
suggest that he not quit his current day job, but many readers would probably
prefer he do that.
At a
union-organized joint legislative conference
on Monday, as reported in the
Sacramento Bee, Brown told the following knee-slapper in connection
with the high-speed rail project which is on track (excuse the pun) to become
the mother of all public works boondoggles: "There's a lot of old people
who shouldn't be driving ... They should be sitting in a nice train car working
on their iPad, having a martini." More from the Bee's blog post (I would
not know if it made it to the paper's print edition) follows the jump:
Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown's new push for high-speed rail: Get old
people off the road
Gov.
Jerry Brown has a new argument for high-speed rail: Get senior citizens off the
road.
"There's
a lot of old people who shouldn't be driving," the Democratic governor
joked at a dinner hosted by labor leaders in Sacramento on Monday night.
"They should be sitting in a nice train car working on their iPad, having
a martini."
Brown,
who will turn 76 next month, has other means of transportation, as he is
chauffeured by a California Highway Patrol officer. He has made high-speed rail
a priority of his administration, despite legal setbacks, funding uncertainty
and a fall-off in public support.
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