midlifebear
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I 110% agree with your observation. With half the money Whitman has spent on her campaign, she could easily have opened shelters for the homeless living in the back alleys of Santa Monica, provided them with clothing, basic health care, and cleaned them up so they could contribute positively to society by enlisting and monitoring their success in 12-step programs to get them off drugs and alcohol. But . . . no . . . it's more fun to spend your big billies on becoming queen of kaliforinia rather than do something humane and worthwhile.
The first time I voted for ex Governor Brown -- and he won for the first time -- he killed the "new" Governor's Mansion in suburban Sacramento and continued to sleep on a futon in his second-floor rental apartment. It took some doing, but they finally convinced him that riding his bicycle to the Governor's Office every day was dangerous for his health. So, he opted for a Kalifornia Highway Patrol Car to pick him up and take him home -- instead of the State's stretch limo Cadillac bought with tax money to squire about the Governor of Kalifornia. The new mansion had been proposed by the Kalifornia GOP and passed by the Kalifornia Legislature with the idea that Ronnie and Nancy would occupy the space for a third term. At the time, Joan Didion went on a news junket with a bunch of reporters and she noted that the new mansion -- which was then in the final drywall/pre-painting stage -- had enough built-in book shelves for two or three years of Readers Digest Condensed Books.
Brown is a bit eccentric, to say the least. But he's a politician who has generally followed his instincts and actually worked for the people of the State of Kalifornia. Of course, the Kalifornia GOP has a different point of view.
All it's going to take is one 6.4 quake in the general area of farm land protected by levees surrounding Sacramento to break those levees letting San Francisco Bay saltwater splash past the 50 to 100 year-old fresh water irrigation canals and at least 50% of the Golden State will be without fresh water for 5 to 10 years. Whitman has yet to address this very serious threat to the State. Brown has noted it is one of the major issues to be "fixed" ASAP. But that just makes him a tax and spend Democrat in the eyes of the folks who voted for Proposition 8. And Brown's detractors also don't believe in Global Warming.
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