“And the election of big-spender Jerry Brown will only make things worse.”
California voters made their bed and they can lay in it.
I grew up there under the poor governance of Jerry Brown. He made a huge mess and it took four republican administrations with two fiscally responsible governors, Wilson and the “Duke” to clean it up. It was a half way decent place to be when I left it in 1994. Gray Davis made an absolute disaster out of the place, and of course Arnold turned out to not be of much help and they re-elected him.
So, it doesn’t look to me like they are much interested in any real change out there and elections do have consequences. Until they figure that out, they should have to eat every last crumb of that disaster they vote for themselves.