The exit of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome from the Democrats gubernatorial race has readied the liberal voters of the state to christen their man, California’s modern-day Manchurian Candidate, Attorney General Jerry Brown.

While the media wrestles with Newsome’s ineptitude, nobody is paying attention to Mr. Brown’s walk down east street toward the general election in 2010 – a “cake walk” for Mr. Brown, as he collects millions of campaign dollars to face the eventual wealthy, self-funded candidates from the Republican Party.

Attorney General Jerry Brown

It’s almost as if someone has pre-determined that Mr. Brown will go this one alone.

Who has the power to tell the Democrats where to get on, and get off?

Aanother thought, how can an unannounced candidate be sitting on $7 million while the young, celebrity up-start from the most liberal ‘City by the Bay’ couldn’t collect enough cash for his banquet hand bills and Prius bumper stickers?

Who turned Mayor Newsome’s spigot off?

I think it is safe to say that someone, or something, has cleared the deck for Jerry Brown.

A role being played to perfection by a modern-day sequel character of Virginia Senator Eleanor Shaw, (played by Meryl Streep), who blackmails all others, so to clear the field for her military hero son to be named the next Vice President of the United States in the 2004 remake of “The Manchurian Candidate”.

While Newsome returns to his daily schedule at City Hall, Jerry Brown continues his “unannounced campaign” for governor. Mr. Brown simply collects major donations from around the country and stores them in his attorney general re-election campaign.

How sweet it must be for the political veteran.

It’s as if some powerful entity has told every corner of the Democrat Party’s politician factory that their candidate will be Jerry Brown and Brown alone. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll do just that.

And just like the Manchurian Candidate, here is an organism with great leverage, attitude and enough power to control the Democrats election process. The ‘Unions’ – the creator of California’s Manchurian Candidate, Jerry Brown.

The unions have cracked a deal with the party king-makers; mandating a primary election of their union hero. Elect the former governor who originally gave the unions their public sector life. Grant this wish for the unions and we’ll make sure your coffers are full, to over-flowing, with future cash collected from the spoils of our victor.

It’s all about what Brown can do for you.

Give us, the unions, the power over the California political, economical and legislative machine, and we’ll make sure the Democrats run this state forever, defeating the evil, nasty private sector and their profits, for the exchange of government control and citizen equality.

You think I am kidding, don’t you.

Consider that the next governor will sit over 20 of the 21 re-negotiated state worker’s contracts. The Union’s Manchurian will oversee the determination of redistricting lines to be drawn for all statewide races and possibly seven, or more, congressional offices that serve the unions’ true hero – Barack Obama.

The next California governor will determine the needed cuts, reductions and any changes involving the state budget system that is currently running another deficit to the tune of $5 billion, after two previous ‘fixes’ in the same fiscal year.

Do you think the unions want to have a say about future taxes, versus across the board cuts and furlough days?

What about those contracts?

Everyone understands that the unions must agree to new contractual benefits for pensions, union dues, holidays and benefits. Do you think it is to their advantage to ‘make sure’ that the Executive Office is under control during these changing times?

And for the future of the state, there is the implementation of Green Technology and Green Jobs.

Since the economy cannot support such expensive experimentations, the legislature will have to craft rules and regulations to mandate that these new ‘jobs of the future’ be subsidized by the state’s budget. When you find government subsidized jobs, you find unions.

It’s just another reason to control the horseshoe in Sacramento.

Unions all across the state – and the country – are writing large checks to Jerry Brown; and he is yet to announce his candidacy. Wouldn’t you be worried that he might opt to stay out of the gubernatorial war at the age of 71? Not if you’re paying to pull the strings.

New York Times’ Daniel Weintraub writes, “By many accounts, Mr. Newsome lacked the will (to raise campaign donations statewide) to do that. Mr. Brown is a different story. His deep and longstanding ties to the party’s interest groups, especially organized labor, allowed him to raise far more money than Mr. Newsome while hardly trying. Once a campaign finance reformer, Mr. Brown has morphed into a campaign finance machine.”

And again, he is un-announced and has not left his attorney general’s office, while $7 million has flooded to his gubernatorial war-chest.

This is easy folks. For Mr. Brown this is a personal parting shot, a chance to hold the office that makes you a household name across the country, attracting the world’s attention as you become a primetime player in national party politics.

For the unions, it’s life or death. Own the governor’s office in Sacramento, and you own the state that drives the economy for the rest of the country.

With Jerry Brown as governor, the money they invest today returns two-fold in the future.

The Union’s Manchurian Candidate; it’s simply what Brown can do for you.