Brown is making a good start, but these are small potatoes. Unless he goes after entitlements and the education budget, he is going to fail.
It's more of the old rope-a-dope routine of threatening to cut essential services (fire, police etc.) the voters will never stand for while ignoring truly wasteful programs. Abolishing the entire California Air Resources department would be a good first step, followed by a major overhaul of public employee compensation and pension programs to put them in line with the private sector's. It won't happen of course.