Former commies say the darnedest things!

Jim Sanders of the SacBee offers a profile of what might be California's leftiest assemblypersonage, Jackie Goldberg, entitled "Berkeley free-speech leader now speaks her mind in Assembly".

We learn many fun and interesting things from this profile:
- as a child, she appeared on Art Linkletter's "Art Linkletter's House Party" TV show which featured a "kids say the darnedest things" segment
- "[she] can cook a mean sweet-potato and short-rib tzimmes (stew)"
- she's a Trekkie and likes CSI
- she was "a leader in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley"
- she receives praise from, among others, "Dion Aroner, a Berkeley Democrat and former lawmaker who in college roomed with Goldberg at Delta Phi Epsilon sorority at UC Berkeley", Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and Assemblywoman Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach
- and:

Never shy about confrontation, Goldberg, a union supporter, was arrested for civil disobedience during the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s and several times since then, including five years ago, when she was taken into custody while protesting in support of striking Los Angeles janitors.

However, oddly and wackily enough, what we don't learn was covered in 1965's "Thirteenth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities--California":

...Jacqueline Goldberg, the sister of Arthur Goldberg, came from Los Angeles to attend the university at Berkeley. She soon became the head of U.C. Women for Peace, a front organization,and was its delegate to a Moscow meeting in 1963. She was also active in the American-Russian Institute at San Francisco, cited by the Attorney General of the United States as a Communist-dominated organization, and is now a member of the Policy Committee for the next World Communist Youth Festival which is scheduled to be held in Algeria. She was a member of both the executive and steering committees of FSM ["Free Speech Movement"], and was arrested during the invasion of Sproul Hall...

That wacky SacBee! I wonder if ombud *at* sacbee.com still works?

Previously:
Jackie Goldberg's "socialist" leanings
Jackie Goldberg, 200 page textbooks, and the Marxist dialectic

Comments

This is a prime example of how the left had made the transition from its old class war story, to the 'new' left racial conflict approach, circa 1965. The right has to see this coming, that the left will chooose its issues so as to be in a position to say that all opposed are racists turning into nazis, etc. The greater issue must at just that point, be brought up; whether socialism is not mass murder for its own sake. Then the Goldbergs have to stew for a while, and think of something else, than how to imitate Castro.