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The coming campaign will pressure Jerry Brown to explain these legacies from his last tenure as governor. If he is elected, Brown must either change his legacy and chart a Chris Christie-like course of tax cuts, smaller government and confronting the public employee unions, or continue to preach the vision he started and the policies that will ultimately make California what Detroit has become.

Libertarian-leaning "Reason Foundation" reports that that California's unfunded pension liability "unsustainable and unaffordable" and "translates to roughly $36,000 for each California household."

In 1999, Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill that retroactively allowed some state employees to retire at age 50 with a pension as high as 90 percent of the last year's salary.

"Wasn't my fault," Brown told cheering Democrats at a recent convention.

GUESS FLYSPECK BROWN FORGOT ABOUT THIS (/SNIX) The Cali government's "money machine" to buy votes was engineered in the 1970s when California's legislature cleared the way for public-employee unions to organize and bargain.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a crucial bill in 1978 that gave public workers, already protected under civil service, collective bargaining rights on top of that. Such legislation created far more than mere bargaining power. It also gave the unions access to dues money that could be deployed to reward friends in the legislature as well as beating back reform efforts at the ballot box.

I hope Whitman zeroes in on all that.

"I hope Whitman zeroes in on all that."

Someone once told me that voting for the worst Republican is still better than voting for the best Deemocrat, but after Schwartzenegger, I'm still having a really hard time with that concept.

I always vote, but I don't always check off every box for every office, or for every issue. It may be dumb, but I just can't help it.

Every election anymore, my nose always starts bleeding from my pinching it so hard as I try to vote for some of these really scummy Republicans to try to keep Democrat bogiemen out of the government!!!

“GUESS FLYSPECK BROWN FORGOT ABOUT THIS (/SNIX) The Cali government’s “money machine” to buy votes was engineered in the 1970s when California’s legislature cleared the way for public-employee unions to organize and bargain.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a crucial bill in 1978 that gave public workers, already protected under civil service, collective bargaining rights on top of that. Such legislation created far more than mere bargaining power. It also gave the unions access to dues money that could be deployed to reward friends in the legislature as well as beating back reform efforts at the ballot box.

I hope Whitman zeroes in on all that.”

Hopefully, Whitman will zero in on setting up the unions to control our state and Moonbeam’s hatred of Prop 13 before it was voted in.