San Jose Adult Entertainment: Jerry Brown snared in his Tapegate trap
… I’ve known since I moved to California that it’s illegal under state law to tape a phone conversation without getting permission,” Democratic political consultant Garry South said. “What I don’t know is how the dynamic inside the attorney general’s office contributed to this fiasco.”
Two: Now that South’s former client, Ess Eff Mayor Gavin Newsom, has dropped out of the governor’s race, Brown is likely to be the Democratic nominee.
Three: Brown and his deputies have demonstrated one standard for themselves, but a different standard for others.
In September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Brown to investigate the community activist group ACORN – in light of secretly videotaped conservations between ACORN staffers and conservative activists James O’Keefe III, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, who posed as a pimp and prostitute looking for ACORN’s help in getting housing while breaking the law.