Progressive Oakland journalist has a warning about Jerry Brown

"Progressive" Bay Area journalist J. Douglas Allen-Taylor has a new blog focused on Jerry Brown's reign as mayor of Oakland.  Allen-Taylor, who was a reporter during Brown's tenure as mayor, doesn't have many positive things to say about Jerry Brown.  Here is his explanation for starting the blog:

Just like Jerry Brown, too many high-placed Democratic officeholders too often abandon the traditions and philosophies of the Democratic party when carrying out their official duties these days, hoping that progressives will keep quiet in the November elections to keep from giving aid and comfort to conservatives and Republicans.

But if we always keep quiet, how will this pattern ever end?

Oakland is my home town. I love the city and its people too much to keep quiet when its public officials abuse the power we have given them. And so I choose not to hold my tongue about the years of the Jerry Brown Administration in Oakland.

The columns speak for themselves, and no other explanation is necessary.

It is possible that this website might help the campaign of Republican Meg Whitman who, if anything, would be a worse California governor than Jerry Brown, in my opinion. That cannot be helped. Voters should always go into the booth with their eyes open. If Jerry Brown is to be our next governor, at least Californians should not be able to say that we have not been properly warned.

Click here to see the blog.