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	Willie Brown (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brown served as San Francisco mayor from January 8, 1996 (after defeating incumbent Frank Jordan), until January 8, 2004; he could not run for mayor again due to term limits, so he was succeeded by fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom.
		Brown had previously been a member of the California State Assembly from 1964-1995; he was Speaker of the Assembly from 1981-1995.
		Brown's flamboyant style made him so well-known as the consummate politician that when an actor playing a party politician in 1990's The Godfather Part III didn't understand director Francis Ford Coppola's instruction to model his character after Brown, Coppola fired the actor and hired Brown himself to play the role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_Brown_(politician) (552 words)

	Willie Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willie Brown (politician) (born 1934), African-American mayor of San Francisco (1996–2004), Speaker of the Californian State Assembly (1980–1995)
		Willie Brown (musician) (1900–1952), American delta blues guitarist and singer
		Willie Brown (cartoon character), fictional owner of Felix the Cat
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_Brown (131 words)

	ASNE - Keynote Breakfast -- An address by Willie Brown
		Willie Brown served as speaker of the assembly for nearly 15 years, longer than anyone in California history has ever held that position or is likely to do so again.
		Willie Brown was speaker of the assembly through all or part of the gubernatorial terms of Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson.
		Politicians at the national level, at the state level and a lot of times at the local level have not a clue, and the news media organizations are even less focused.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/archive/convention/conv99/williebrown.htm (5082 words)

	Willie Brown: The Early Years
		Willie Brown was born into a sharply segregated world where only the edges have dulled over time.The "Whites" and "Colored" signs are now gone in Mineola, but to this day fls live in small, sometimes ramshackle houses south of the railroad tracks while whites live to the north in suburban-style homes.
		Willie Lewis Brown, father of Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, is third from left standing at attention in a white duck jacket.
		Brown, who has always been physically small, was a natural born lawyer, but he stood about as much chance of becoming a great lawyer in Texas as he did of becoming a fullback for the Texas I,Longhorns.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1504/Richardson/Richardson.html (3663 words)

	Willie Brown: Power, Money and Instinct
		Willie Brown is embraced by Kathleen Brown, who ran for governor, at a party honoring Willie Brown's re-election for an unprecedented seventh term as Speaker of the California State Assembly.
		Willie Brown is a frequent target of scathing editorial cartoons in California newspapers.
		When Brown arrived in Mineola, to his astonishment, he was greeted by the mayor, the city council, the chamber of commerce, along with a judge, a Texas state legislator and about 100 townsfolk.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1603/Richardson/Richardson.html (3484 words)

	Mayor Willie Brown's Life of Public Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The performance was classic Willie Brown, the consummate politician, seizing opportunity, championing the underdog, forcing inclusiveness and showing the force of power and the ability to make things happen that got him elected mayor in December 1995.
		Brown, San Francisco's first Black mayor, should be in Sacramento wielding influence and running the California Assembly, where he was elected to 16 two-year terms by the city's voters.
		Brown, a lawyer by trade but a politician's politician in actuality, has held numerous jobs in his 63 years, including janitor, playground director, fry cook, shoeshine boy and field worker.
	www.black-collegian.com /issues/1997-10/willie.shtml (2267 words)

	all things William
		The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.
		A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
		Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
	allthingswilliam.com /politics.html (2848 words)

	Amazon.com: Willie Brown: A Biography: Books: James Richardson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Willie Brown, the current mayor of San Francisco, served as speaker of the California Assembly longer than anyone in the state's history (1980-95).
		Willie Brown is a politician regarded as both a political reformer and a modern political boss, a sometime political progressive and sometime defender of corporate interests, and a man of humble background who flaunts a flashy lifestyle.
		Willie Brown emerged from a life of gambling and nightlife into a life or politics and nightlife.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520213157?v=glance (2295 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News \| The Last Seduction
		Brown's personal stake was the close to $1 million that four national eye-care chains had sluiced into his campaign coffers over the previous three years.
		Brown's alleged advice, contained in an industry memo leaked to the press at the time, was to adopt weaker statewide restrictions that would pre-empt local ordinances.
		Brown denied the allegations and the FBI never brought charges, so perhaps the best analogy for the Whitney episode is the time in 1965 when a blowout in his white Riviera sent Brown careening toward a guardrail at 90 miles an hour.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/1995-10-18/feature_full.html (5647 words)

	California Legend Shares Secrets of Political Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is one of the most successful politicians in California history, a trailblazer for fls in public office and a legendary master of the deal.
		Brown won a seat in California's assembly in 1964, and a decade later became assembly speaker, a job he kept for nearly 15 years and likened to being "Ayatollah of the legislature."
		Brown insists he is indeed exiting the political stage.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1049351/posts (1437 words)

	CNN.com - A California rarity: Willie Brown loses an election - Feb. 21, 2003
		Brown refused to comment on his defeat, but as it became clear he was not a shoo-in for job despite the support of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, he sought to downplay the personal significance.
		In a city of progressives, Brown and his allies are seen as the establishment, and have become the target of citizen outrage over the dot-com bust.
		Brown -- who was born into a poor fl family without so much as a birth certificate in segregated Mineola, Texas -- could always practice law again, and few lobbyists would be as well-connected.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/21/willie.brown.ap (757 words)

	Willie Brown's Civic Playground : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If Mayor Brown and the Business Improvement District have their way we will be in for a dramatic increase in the homeless population as the Tenderloin is next on the gentrification trail.
		We should all remember that Brown sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud, and now his support is down to 20%, namely the ruling class and their upper middle class lackeys.
		In the 1970s, when Jerry was governor of California, he and Willie Brown and the rest of the Democratic Party promoted that infamous CIA front, the People's Temple, which committed massive election fraud in San Francisco.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2001/05/100522.php (2268 words)

	DA MAYOR - The unOfficial Willie Brown
		Kimiko Burton (daughter of State Senator John Burton) is the perfect example of this - Brown appointed her to the head the office of Public Defender over the more qualified Jeff Adachi.
		Willie looks like he has been asleep at the wheel - but even Willie might be willing to admit that management is not his forte.
		Endorsement by Brown seems to be the kiss of death.
	www.zpub.com /sf/damayor (1092 words)

	Brown Coasts In San Fran Vote - CBS News
		Brown hasn't lost an election since 1964, when he reached the state Assembly by campaigning as an anti-development crusader.
		Brown acknowledged the city's problems but said Ammiano lacks the political skills needed tforce developers to add affordable housing and ease traffic.
		Brown has long supported gay rights issues, and many gay voters said the election would not hinge on sexual orientation.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/12/15/politics/main140391.shtml (636 words)

	Willie Brown Shows How Not to Run a City by Matthew Robinson, Brian C. Anderson, City Journal Autumn 1998
		During the 1995 mayoral race, Brown made undoing Operation Matrix key to his campaign, describing the program, in language that recalled the fever years of the sixties, as "persons in uniforms operating as if they are occupational officers in a conquered land." In one of his first mayoral acts, he junked Matrix.
		While Mayor Brown hasn't yet endorsed the shopping-cart idea, a few months back he floated a notion just as absurd: setting up a mobile car park, replete with showers, toilets, and garbage service, for the 2,000 or so people in the city who live out of their cars—still technically a crime in San Francisco.
		In November 1996, Willie Brown signed local legislation that requires any agency or firm contracting with the city to offer the same benefits it offers to employee spouses to the domestic partners—homosexual or heterosexual—of unmarried employees, on pain of having its operations in the city shut down.
	www.city-journal.org /html/8_4_a2.html (5222 words)

	Willie L. Brown, Jr. Profile -- Academy of Achievement
		When Willie Brown was growing up in the 1940s, the African-Americans of rural East Texas lived in poverty.
		In the summer of 1951, 17 year-old Willie Brown left the world he knew and boarded a train for San Francisco with all his worldly belongings packed in a single cardboard suitcase.
		Willie Brown's genius for political strategy has made him a legend among political insiders, while his fiery oratory, flamboyant lifestyle and exuberant personality have made him a favorite with the voters of San Francisco for over 30 years.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/bro0pro-1 (386 words)

	sfbg.com \| news
		Willie helps Kamala Deputy city attorney Kamala Harris's connection to Mayor Willie Brown isn't something she plays up in her campaign for district attorney.
		Ties to the famed politician – who has run the most corrupt administration in recent San Francisco history – have hurt many candidates seeking local elected office over the past few years.
		When asked about her former romantic liaison with Brown, Harris doesn't deny it – but she's quick to say that hers will be an administration completely "independent" from the influence of Brown or that of any other major political player.
	www.sfbg.com /37/49/x_campaign_watch.html (622 words)

	Biotic Baking Brigade: Communiqués (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brown, his face and shoulders splattered with the glop of cherry, tofu cream and pumpkin, grabbed one attacker and threw a punch, according to 49ers publicist Sam Singer.
		Brown, dazed by the suddenness of the onslaught, bellowed, "Who are you?" as he held onto one assailant, said Kandace Bender, the mayor's spokeswoman.
		Mayor Willie Brown demanded that an example be made of those who pied him, despite his comments last year that Latrell Sprewell may have been justified in beating and choking his coach.
	bioticbakingbrigade.org /communique110798.html (7212 words)

	Sega Graffiti
		The Bay Area based electronic-games maker was previously attacked by politician Willie Brown’s office for allowing the game to be published at all, because part of the game’s focus is to successfully spray graffiti art.
		San Francisco’s Mayor Willie Brown has intensified the city’s attack on vandalism in recent months by appointing a citywide graffiti crimes coordinator, and staging a "graffiti summit" in which graffiti art was dubbed "Public Enemy #1".
		Brown’s office attempted to convince Sega to move the contest out of the city, but to no avail.
	www.gignews.com /segagraffiti.htm (995 words)

	Once upon a time, California politics was all about Willie \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a room, in a city, or in the state capitol, Willie Brown was always the center of attention.
		A master politician who raised prodigious amounts of money and doled it out to loyal Democrats, Brown became the second most powerful man in the state, some said the most powerful.
		In 1995, Brown returned home to San Francisco, handily winning the mayor's race against an incumbent who days before the election foolishly took two Los Angeles deejays up on an offer to be photographed while showering.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0109/p01s03-uspo.html (1121 words)

	Willie Brown rides again - San Francisco mayor - includes related articles on other black mayors Ebony - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		DURING his final term as Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown was asked what he planned to do after an incredible 31 years in the legislature.
		During his 31 years in the legislature, Brown represented his beloved San Francisco, where he has been a leading lawyer and activist for almost half a century.
		What Brown downplays and what is especially noteworthy is the fact that Blacks make up only about 10 percent of San Francisco's population.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n7_v51/ai_18205134 (443 words)

	Brown's formative years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From Willie Brown - A Biography by James Richardson, senior writer for the Sacramento Bee.
		It was the beginning of a stormy relationship between Wilkens and Francois and, by extension, between Wilkens and Willie Brown.
		In recent years, protective of his politician nephew, Collins consistently told reporters that Willie Brown had no involvememt in the gambling business in those wide-open days.
	www.brasscheck.com /stadium/brownhis.html (525 words)

	00.7.letters.html
		Second, to brand Willie Brown the "local incarnation of globalization" is preposterous.
		Willie Brown is a supremely competent politician who has been plying his trade for 30 or more years.
		Hill says "The leadership of organized labor caved in and endorsed Brown a full year and a half before the election, despite heated opposition from the rank-and-file." The truth is that our endorsement was done not by the Officers of the SF Labor Council or even by the Executive Committee of the Council.
	www.populist.com /00.7.letters.html (2422 words)

	Willie Brown takes next step (printable version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The public is fascinated by the likes of that veteran politician, and he’s given no indication he’ll step out of the civic limelight.
		In his colorful style, Brown held office consistently since 1964, and only term limits (his baby, ironically) could turn him out of the mayor’s office.
		At 69, Brown plans to revive his law practice, give speeches and build a public policy group.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=61268 (217 words)

	Willie Brown Wins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Despite the strong anti-tobacco lobby smear campaign aimed at Willie Brown during the election, then even more so in the run off, Brown wins the office of Mayor of San Francisco with 57% of the vote.
		Alioto, whose one claim to fame in running, was that she took on the tobacco lobby and won.
		Brown did it against all the smears, and I hope this sends a message to anti-smoking extremists around the nation."
	www.forces.org /articles/pressrel/files/12-13-95.htm (378 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		SACRAMENTO -- Willie Brown, who for years was demonized as the autocratic liberal who stymied Kern County's Republican politicians, has become a registered lobbyist, and one of his first clients is the city of Bakersfield.
		Brown, the flamboyant and controversial former Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor, has been retained to help get a bill passed that will give the city more clout in turf battles with nearby cities and the county.
		Willie Brown: Yeah, well a lot of the KKK use to be Democrats.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=williebrown (4112 words)

	SF 2003: Willie Brown's Muni Fare Hike & Unionbusting : Indybay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Willie Brown's last GOOD RIDDANCE YEAR, let us have the biggest, loudest fightback this city has ever seen against the worst mayor in San Francisco history, who sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud and now has only 20% support.
		And, of course, there is the internal waste, starting first and foremost with the police department, which Willie Brown has increased from 1800 to 2200, with absolutely no increase in public safety whatsoever.
		Besides the police and special assistants, all the appointed cronies of Willie Brown can be and should be fired, including but not limited to the police chief, who continues to defend all the horrors perpetrated by the police department.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2002/12/25/15543201.php (749 words)

	Friday lunches at Le Central were legendary / Window table, boss dice, power talk
		Today is a Tuesday masquerading as Friday, the traditional day that Herb Caen, Willie Brown, Wilkes Bashford, Harry de Wildt and Matthew Kelly broke bread together in the window of the Bush Street restaurant.
		Brown is told the governor is on the line.
		Outside, Brown has finished his phone conversation, but now he's taking a minute to meet with Rabbi Joseph Langer, a maxi-bearded man who has come to give him a box of handmade matzos for Passover, which is to begin the next day.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/04/02/MN134545.DTL (1414 words)

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