By Brown’s own account, he has succeeded in balancing the budget (thanks largely to a voter-approved temporary tax hike), reducing prison overcrowding, reforming school finance and workers’ compensation, and pushing landmark water and high-speed-rail projects. It is, however, still much too early to declare Brown 2.0 a success. We don’t know what will happen to the substantial new spending on schools and “realignment” when the temporary taxes expire. School reform is too new to judge, and no one knows how Brown’s pet water and bullet-train projects will be financed. We still don’t know, in other words, whether he has discovered the secret to governing California – or even if there is one. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/20/5833766/dan-walters-has-jerry-brown-found.html#storylink=cpy
The success of all the large states depend, first, on how they manage their relationship with the federal government. In this case, both California and Texas lost a big battle, the Hoover Senate is now in control of their federal taxes. So Jerry Brown got us caught in a big Medicaid increase and a bunch of yahoo states get first dibs on our taxes. ANd California is going first, the Hoovers and Texas waiting to see the fiasco. One big strike against.
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