Not without a little help from his friends. The infamous Adriana Gianturco.
Talk about set backs. Gianturco singlehandedly set back Italian-American relationships 20 years in California and just when the state was recovering from it's battle with Giannini's little nightmare, B of A.
It was like as if they were ashamed of their nation/state and the miraculous creation of infrastructure Jerry's father presided over in the four most important areas of good government... 1. Public Safety, 2.Water, 3.Roads and 4.Schools!!!
That was the "Golden State" that I admired from my little one room elementary school outside Chicago while taking my California Standard Acheivement test in 1955! CA set the standard for the world in that time. Now it's full of pukin Liberal idiots!!! (Like Jerry Brown!)
I know you know all this, tubebender. I'm reiterating it for the uninitiated, of course.