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Jerry Brown, my California state’s Democratic governor, is a crushing disappointment.
We
voted for him over the former Ebay CEO, rightwing Republican Meg
Whitman, who promised to fire 40,000 public workers and end welfare,
mainly because Brown trailed nostalgic clouds of progressive glory. A
one-time governor himself, he banked on us remembering that he is also
the semi-hippie son of a much-loved 1960s two-term governor, his dad Pat
Brown. Since Jerry’s election, using the flim-flam Houdini magic of
“slimming down the deficit”, he has behaved like Mitt Romney – or Meg
Whitman – or any other business CEO slashing and burning at the most
vulnerable in programs for the poor, disabled, community-college
students and just about all of us who are not rich. READ MORE
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