Posted on 04/19/2015 12:07:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Joel Kotkin, the noted liberal critic of California’s far-left government, says that Gov. Jerry Brown is leading California to ruin–and that the state’s business leaders share the blame by failing to speak out. In a new essay at the Daily Beast that summarizes much of his recent criticism, Kotkin says that while Brown’s father Pat brought the state progress and prosperity as governor (1959-1967), Jerry Brown “has waged a kind of Oedipal struggle against his father’s legacy.”
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Again I say hindsight is 20/20. Jerry’s dad should have used a condom! Jerry has done irreparable damage to this beautiful place.
Let’s be fair: It’s not ALL Brown’s fault! ;)
California has been swirling ‘round the bowl since I lived there in the early ‘80’s.
I’m sure others here go back even further in time where CA is concerned.
Such a BEAUTIFUL state with AMAZING natural resources, a great climate, and intelligent, hard-working people.
What a terrible, terrible waste of God-Given opportunity!
This state that I was born and raised in is doomed..my city is going to have to consume water by 36 percent otherwise we will be taxed..this is what this state gets for voting in liberal dictators
You would think this Marxist would love his Workers’ Paradise?
Pray America is waking
Elite Jerks and A**H***s
Let’s be brutally honest and say it up front what is ruining California is illegal immigration. How much are California taxpayers paying every year to provide medical care, food stamps, and other state services including child care, translators, and transportation. I’m guessing billions each year. California has some of the highest income tax rates in the country and is notoriously unfriendly to business. It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out what went wrong in our largest state, and it should serve as a model and reminder to all Americans of what will happen to them if they allow the left to take over their state.
California is dead.
The voters passed Prop 189. Gray Davis(Jerry’s protege)refused to defend it in court and hence it was overturned....that was the sign that Mexifornia was in full bloom
What I find interesting, is if you talk to Liberals, they’ll readily admit the state is in terrible shape, and is being run down even further at the present time. Then you ask them whose fault that is, and they say it’s the Republican’s fault.
I had this exact conversation with someone recently. I mentioned that the Legislature has been in Democrat hands for the last half century plus..., and it’s governor for the last six years has been a Democrat, and I could literally see the eyes glaze over.
He was about to shout, "Stop hating the Black Man in the White House, you racist!"
Elections have consequences.
I think you meant 187. I get your point though. I was living on the east coast at the time and it was big news there too. I think it was the first time many of us realized that we had a problem with illegal immigration on a large scale. Not many Mexicans in New England at that time so we just all assumed it was just a problem for the folks in California, Arizona, and Texas. That’s all changed now.
For what, not axe-murdering the democRATs?
Strangely enough, the state is in terrible shape, but the citizens are not totally brain dead. You mention Proposition 187. That wasn’t the state’s citizens fault. It was the 9th Circuit court of appeals fault. And as you correctly point out, even then if Davis had challenged the 9th in an appeal, it still could have stood up.
Then there was the vote on homosexual marriage. Again, the citizens got it right. Once again the courts over-ruled.
I’ll grant you that the citizens keep voting in Leftists, but the Republican party hasn’t waged a real race in the state since Reagan’s day. That’s no joke.
We don’t see even Republican presidential candidates here. unless they’re attending a fundraiser so they can take tens of millions out of the state to spend elsewhere.
Conservatism doesn’t sell here, because nobody at all is marketing it. I guess that’s a little unfair because there have been top level people pushing it, but the party didn’t support them at all even when they were the nominee.
The result of this is the Democrats buying tons of spots on television, and the Conservative buying perhaps 5% as much if they were lucky.
The Democrats fly in former presidents and leaders from Capital Hill for months on end, fork over tens of millions in cash support, and the Republicans fly in Bush for two hours and give no financial support whatsoever.
I maintain that if a solid Conservative campaigned aggressively in the state on bedrock family issues, and solid economic issues, they win easily.
Sadly, we’ll never see it with the GOPe and RNC leadership we have today.
LOL
Evidently...
He is not a disaster for the California Business Elite.
“...Jerry has done irreparable damage to this beautiful place.”
He and his accomplices in the Rat party. They have cultivated a captive voting base of bums(that can vote), welfare riders, illegals et al, and general losers that CONTINUE to keep the Rats in power. Look at the Los Angeles area. A disaster of long standing. And Brown and his legislature just keep piling on the disaster supported by their “captive” electorate.
Once the greatest state in the country in all categories, now at the bottom.
Yup! Californians re-elect Brown, America re-elects Obama...the trouble is far deeper than two individuals.
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