Flip-Flopping on Proposition 8
May 13th, 2010Flip-Flopping on Proposition 8
Steve Cooley Now Says AG should defend Prop. 8, but Just Three Months ago, Praised Jerry Brown
for Not Defending Measure to Protect Marriage
One of the most contemptuous things an arrogant career politician like Steve Cooley can do is flip-flop openly, and expect voters not to notice. But we here at Cooley’s Contempt will document his flip-flops, every time.
Today, we’ve caught Cooley in a major flip-flop. Campaigning for the first time as a Republican, Cooley told the San Diego News Room Monday while campaigning in San Diego that the Attorney General should defend voter-approved measures, and that Jerry Brown was wrong not to defend Proposition 8.
But just three months ago, interviewed by liberal L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison, contemptuous Cooley struck a different tone, saying:
Morrison: Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown decided not to defend Proposition 8 in federal court,
even though voters passed it. Do you think that's within his purview?
Cooley: I think that an attorney general who believes that the initiative process or the
legislative process has resulted in a law that is unconstitutional [has the] prerogative
to refuse to defend it.
Morrison: Have you thought about whether you would have done the same thing?
Cooley: It's something that would bear a lot of further study, but I think there is a
rational basis for what he's done.
Of course, since Cooley opposed Proposition 8, we can take a pretty good guess on where he really stands. Just don’t expect to get the truth from a candidate so contemptuous of voters that he would openly flip-flop on a core duty of the Attorney General in less than three months.