Posted on 04/14/2009 1:32:56 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Democratic State Attorney General Jerry Brown, standing Tuesday at the side of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, declared his support for the Republican governor's budget reform measures Props. 1A-1F on the May 19 special election ballot.
The two state officials were surrounded by fire and police chiefs from Alameda County at an Alameda fire station for the announcement by the Attorney General and former two-term governor -- who is strongly considered likely to run for a third gubernatorial term in the 2010 election.
The move comes just days after Brown expressed what was described in a Calbuzz interview as "tepid" support for 1A, and took no position at all on the rest of the ballot measures, saying he hadn't yet read them.
And in a recent interview with the Spin Cycle SF Chronicle blog, the Attorney General expressed his opposition to new taxes in California, saying California is "one of the highest tax states around..so we've got to be competitive. We can't drive all the jobs out and tax the few people who stay."
But on Tuesday, Brown was welcomed by Schwarzenegger as the "top cop in California," as well as "a good friend and a great supporter of our administration" -- and the Democrat was forceful in his support for the budget measures. Prop 1A would establish a spending cap and rainy day fund which Schwarzenegger says would narrow California's $42 billion budget deficit.
"If these don't pass, it's going to make the next governor's job that much tougher,'' said Brown, who called Prop. 1A "a crucial proposition..because the state needs the money and the state needs the spending cap.''
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
MoonBeam & aRnold
Together again.
Surprise surprise.
“Prop 1A would establish a spending cap and rainy day fund”
The big lie. Spending cap? BS!
WOW....I was against them....but now that moonbeam is for them...I’ve changed my mind. /not
And it doesn't even do that. There are hummer-sized loopholes -- No surprise!
Many are still here, some under different screennames.
Even they can no longer defend the indefensible.
Nobody was buying what they were selling.
Did they ever part? ;-)
Let’s see, the teachers’ union supports these propositions, and now ol’ Lord of the Medflies does, too. That’s a NO vote for me.
No surprise here. Both Dems, both anti-American, both tax and spend loving criminals.
Nobody was buying what they were selling.
I don't by that for a minute.
What they were selling was fear. I'd suspect that nearly half of California FReepers voted for Arnold because of Bustamante.
"Even they can no longer defend the indefensible. Nobody was buying what they were selling. "
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