Jerry Brown Calls in the Union Troops

Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, our state's Attorney General and former governor, wants to go outside the law and invite the unions to fund his campaign:

Faced with the daunting prospect of being significantly outspent by his Republican opponent, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown spoke to a labor group Tuesday and urged them to go on the offensive.

"We're going to attack whenever we can, but I'd rather have you attack," Brown said at a gathering of the California delegation of the Laborers' International Union of North America in Sacramento. "I'd rather be the nice guy in this race. We'll leave [the attacks] to ... the Democratic Party and others."

Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for GOP candidate Meg Whitman, said Brown's pitch was unseemly and perhaps even illegal.

"I think this is pretty clear evidence that Jerry Brown is actively seeking independent support to prop up his campaign from the unions attacking Meg Whitman," Bounds said. "And more importantly, I think, it's Jerry Brown in his own words laying out a very cynical campaign strategy that's playing fast and loose with the campaign rules in California."

I don't see Brown prosecuting himself for campaign funding violations, so Whitman will have to continue pouring her own money into the race while Brown gets his union thugs to support him.

The other big race in the state will be for Barbara "Dumb-as-a-Box-of-Rocks" Boxer's Senate seat. That race is looking increasingly bad for Boxer (from the Sacramento Bee):

Boxer's going to have a fight on her hands.