Sonicfrog and I seem to have reached similar conclusions about our governor, he from the Central Valley, I from the LA Basin. We have both been impressed with this Democrat’s willingness to cut the state budget, even standing up to the spendthrifts in his own party, yet remain concerned about his reluctance to take on public employee unions. Not to mention his support of what Joel Kotkin has called, California’s Green Jihad.
Considering the “The Enigma That Is Jerry Brown,” Sonic writes,
Every time [the governor] does something that goes against the partisan grain, I want to stand up and applaud. See the veto of the union / Democrat sponsored card check bill, a corrupt gimme to the union lackeys, and the veto of the sham budget… OK, the first one anyway. I begin to think that, yeah, I think he kind of gets it now. I start getting comfortable with the idea that, yeah, maybe he’s no longer the “Governor Moonbeam” we all were so comfortable criticizing. Maybe he has changed and is going to be more respectable, more like his Dad.
But then he goes and passes / does something completely stupid – like this – or this– or now, the so-called Amazon tax.
Jeez! I’m starting to get whip-lash!
Indeed. Read the whole thing.
Dan (and Sonicfrog),
As a native Californian (Valley Guy, to be precise), I have to wonder if perhaps Jerry hasn’t become one of those crotchety old men who are so sure of the ridiculousness of the younger generations that any decision they make is going to be the right one, “just because you young punks don’t know squat!.”
But that’s just me. I’m an expat living in flyover country. Take it for what it’s worth.
In other words, he’s become that which he made an entire career out of hating.
In which case, “poetic justice” has been served, and despite the fact that my new home is rapidly becoming America’s biggest unflushed toilet, at least here in Chicago, the nihilists don’t make any pretense.
You basically learn to accept that they’re all just two paychecks (or arrests) away from prison.
Moonbeam is riding the beam of light; a pity he’s got a hole in his head. Governor Jerry Brown is one of the reasons California is about to fall into the fiscal abyss of bankruptcy. Expect more businesses to exit the sunshine state for better business friendly states.
As a California native (valley girl),
now an ex pat in Europe, hubby and I own our
own company and doing well. We talk about expanding to
USA. California is the last state we’d consider branching
out to. I remember Moon beams 1st stint in Sacramento,
I guess Cali needs a reminder of failed policy. Sad to say.
The more businesses leave California, the more business available to those that stay. Thank you kindly as we cry on the way to the bank.
Bryan… That almost works…. Except!!! Because businesses leaving = increase in unemployed which = less disposable income per CA citizen, now you have less people who are able to buy your product.