Willie Brown
Attorney and former Speaker of the California State AssemblyWikipedia
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Sep 21, 2026
Benny JohnsonHOST
Oh, stop doing my girl dirty.
Benny JohnsonHOST
That's Willie Brown's job.
Benny JohnsonHOST
Not you.
Benny JohnsonHOST
You're not Willie Brown.
Benny JohnsonHOST
So here comes Gavin Newsom rigging the election.
Benny JohnsonHOST
Remember, they rigged it against Hillary Clinton in 2008.
ShabnamHOST
Wow, okay.
Jack GarrityGUEST
Willie Brown, who was the congressman from Oakland, who was Kamala Harris's mentor.
Jack GarrityGUEST
The Reverend Cecil B. Williams, who was the head of the Glide Church, is a very famous evangelical type church.
Jack GarrityGUEST
And he was the mediator for Jonestown.
speaker_0NARRATOR
san francisco 2013 willie brown former mayor former state assemblyman the man who oversaw construction of the downtown transit terminal sits down to write a newspaper column about that terminal running roughly 300 million dollars past its budget he does not apologize he does not blame contractors or weather or the unforeseeable he explains the method Nobody involved ever believed the original estimate, he says.
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There was never a real number for the terminal or for the subway before it or the Bay Bridge before that.
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The first budget is a down payment on the eventual price.
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The building is beautiful.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Those two facts are not going to reconcile.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And a book honest enough to quote Willie Brown at full length is honest enough to have known that.
speaker_0NARRATOR
What I am left with is the shape of the trade, and it is not a comfortable shape.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The honest world, the one where every forecast carries its real base rate and every committee sees the true figure before voting, is a world with fewer catastrophes in it and fewer harbors worth photographing.
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
That's another former San Francisco mayor.
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
I'm Willie Brown, period.
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
I was
Willie BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
part of...
VinnieHOST
And I'm on a date and I go to the bathroom and I come back and the person I'm with says, above all the people in this place.
VinnieHOST
You and Mayor Willie Brown can be heard like cutting through all the other restaurant noise.
VinnieHOST
And so there's absolute fact that certain people, certain voices.
VinnieHOST
It's just something about the mayor.
VinnieHOST
You know, Mayor Willie Brown is the mayor here for many years.
speaker_3ADVERTISER
if
VinnieHOST
the
VinnieHOST
I'm at one of the, the restaurant no longer exists, but I'm at one of those restaurants, the nice ones.
VinnieHOST
And I'm on a date and I go to the bathroom and I come back and the person I'm with says, above all the people in this place, You and Mayor Willie Brown can be heard like cutting through all the the other restaurant noise.
VinnieHOST
And so there's absolute fact that certain people, certain voices.
VinnieHOST
It's just something about the mayor.
speaker_13ADVERTISER
You know, Mayor Willie Brown is the mayor here for many
VinnieHOST
years.
VinnieHOST
if the inner restaurant, you know, the noise, clank, clinkety clank, all the stuff and cutting through or me and this guy.
Sean ThompsonHOST
That's not why you did it, scumbag.
Sean ThompsonHOST
You did it for the same reason Kamala Harris would wear perfume and unbutton her shirt when she was on the way to Willie Brown's office.
Sean ThompsonHOST
You were fluffing the...
speaker_18NARRATOR
50 basis points, the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by 50 basis points to a new range of four and three quarters to five percent.
Joe PagsHOST
'Cause Kamala Harris looks like she's completely disconnected from reality to me, but I'm somebody who's always been on the conservative side, so I've always seen her as sort of somebody who rose in ways that she shouldn't have and didn't deserve the shot as it, as it happened.
Lindy LiGUEST
Willy Brown.
Lindy LiGUEST
Willy Brown.
Joe PagsHOST
Sh- shall we talk about how she got there? Lindy Li, by the way, LindyLi.substack.com.
Joe PagsHOST
Go and check her out on, um, Manecht.
Sean ThompsonHOST
First of all, the office whore, who's good at nothing but...
Sean ThompsonHOST
Willie Brown.
Sean ThompsonHOST
Oh, she was good at Willie Brown.
Sean ThompsonHOST
Terrible at finding her underwear in his Riviera.
Sean ThompsonHOST
Hey,
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
Parts of the Democratic Party became critical when she became speaker and tried to become speaker and then was speaker, you know, because she had to represent a caucus from all over the country.
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
And I talked to Willie Brown, former Mayor Willie Brown, about that ability of Nancy Pelosi to speak to different constituencies.
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
Everybody thought she was so liberal from San Francisco, but you're saying she wasn't.
Scott SchaeferCORRESPONDENT
She was she had a foot in both camps a little
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