[Lizavetta]

it raised more than a few eyebrows among those who had followed Brown's colorful and often unseemly political career.

You know, I really really really hate it when politicians are described as 'colorful' and 'unseemly' instead of the more accurate 'corrupt'.

Hey, wait a minute.....Dan Walters just called Willie Brown 'colorful'.....isn't that RACIST?? Off with his head!

[drypowder]

I'm not a CalPers member but this is Bad, a VERY BAD idea. This proposal rings of the idea that Bill Clinton had when he floated a trial balloon to use pension funds across the nation to run govermnet programs and to loan pension fund $ to struggling privately supported social intities. Fortunately that didn't fly but if this kind of money manipulation starts small, as in a Democratic socialist controlled state like Kalifornia, it may well go national before too long. Analogy of Willie Brown being in charge of the CalPers pension funds would be like watching a den of starving wolves pounce on one little chicken.

[NativeNewYorker]

Willie Brown : PERS

DIRT ex-POTUS : Cat house