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 Why Jerry Brown Wants to Be California’s Next GovernorPosted on Mar 2, 2010
We’ve known for years that Jerry Brown would run to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010, but the former two-term governor waited until Tuesday to make it official. In his announcement video, Brown promised not to raise taxes without voter approval, to transfer power from Sacramento to local governments and to generally restore California to its former glory. Brown also took a stab at Schwarzenegger and his main rival, Republican Meg Whitman: “Some people say that if you’ve been around the process, you can’t handle the job, that we need to go out and find an outsider who knows virtually nothing about state government. Well, we tried that, and it doesn’t work. We found out that not knowing is not good.” Brown, 71, is currently California’s attorney general. He was previously the mayor of Oakland and served as governor from 1975 to 1983. Brown’s father also was a California governor, and his sister unsuccessfully sought the office. —PZS Sources: San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Jerry Brown, Wikipedia, the Economist |
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By Gino, March 2, 2010 at 7:43 pm Link to this comment
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Whoa. People are actually advocating raising taxes without voter consent?
Are you living in a hole? Have you no idea of the near unanimous consensus from writers/economists/people with functioning gray matter about how bad the idea is to raise taxes in an economic downturn?
Report thisBy yours truly, March 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm Link to this comment
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Just what California needs, another no tax increase governor. Let’s see, candidate Jerry Brown says no tax increases without voter approval. What about the people who die for want of health care because of budget constraints? Won’t these deaths also call for voter approval? And since they’re the ones who’ll be dying, won’t the cut-off of health care for the poverty stricken require their informed consent? As for the poor folks who actually die on account of the cut-off of their health care….
Cause of death: Cuts in state budget for health
care
Due to: Governor Jerry Brown’s putting more
Report thisimportance on not increasing taxes on the
super-rich than on the lives of
California’s poor.
By PatrickHenry, March 2, 2010 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment
Finally an honest politician who has been around the block and successful in his endeavors.
I voted for him in 1976 in the Maryland Democratic primary (he won) and its too bad I don’t live I California anymore or I would vote for him again.
He was a notable governor but the fruit fly fiasco sealed his fate, no doubt exacerbated by the GOP who likely released them.
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