Jerry Brown’s first term, 1975. He began the downward spiral.
I think it was when we passed a proposition which changed our legislature from a part time legislature who were paid a stipend to a to a fulltime well paid legislature who regarded it as a career and a stepping stone to higher office, and began all sorts of expensive programs and high taxes to pay for those programs to keep themselves in office. We did this foolish thing because we thought California was so big that we needed a full time legislature. Of course, Rosie and the Supremes were very destructive as well. However, I should not be saying “we,” I left the state about 1998.
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Jerry Brown’s first term, 1975. He began the downward spiral.
Absolutely correct. Governor Pat Brown, Jerry’s dad, had a rule in politics, you don’t mess with a man’s guns or his cars. Jerry ignored that and just kept going left.
Hey that's not fair, his daddy deserves some credit too!