Gov. Brown

• Guv Brown Tax Increase Initiative “when it may well make things worse.”
      Jerry, In An Even Bigger Hole, to Keep Digging The big new budget deficit figure shows Gov. Brown’s budget strategy can’t [...]
• Safety Concerns Grow Over Governors Realignment Plan
  
• Transform Society at Age 74? If Deng Could Do It, So Can Jerry
      Transform Society at Age 74? If Deng Could Do It, So Can Jerry By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 5/8/12 Is Jerry Brown too [...]
• Jerry Brown Caught Lying While Trying to Steal $9 Billion a Year From You
      BLOG: Jerry Brown’s tax bait-and-switch Written by Gordon M. Webster, Business Journal,  5/3/12 Gov. Jerry Brown has a dirty little secret. He [...]
• Gov. Brown punts on jobs creation
      Gov. Brown punts on jobs creation By Joseph Perkins, Cal Watchdog,  4/30/12 California Gov. Jerry Brown appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” [...]
• FPPC Chair Wants to Fund Agency With George Soros/Al Gore $$?
      FPPC chair backs away from mandatory disclosure of blogger payments By John Hrabe, Cal Watchdog,  4/30/12 Following widespread criticism from online pundits [...]
• CA Depression: Added 885K to jobless rolls in a decade
      California added 885K to jobless rolls in a decade Sacramento Business Journal, 4/30/12 California has seen a far greater rise in unemployment [...]
• Greenhut: How Big Government Is Killing California
      How Big Government Is Killing California When you’ve lost the entrepreneurs, free-spirits, and dreamers, you’ve lost the Golden State. Steven Greenhut, Reason, [...]
• Brown needs to cut moonbeams, not welfare
      Brown needs to cut moonbeams, not welfare By Wayne Lusvardi, CalWatchdog,  4/20/12 California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown recently issued a phony challenge [...]
• CA declares land war on families
      California declares land war on families http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/04/18/california-declares-land-war-on-families/?utm_source=CalWatchdog+April+18%2C+2012&utm_campaign=CALWATCHDOG+EBLAST&utm_medium=email By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 4/18/12 Everyone knows that California has water wars.  But it also has [...]
• Governor wants to trim 718 unnecessary reports–Why Didn’t Arnold Do That?
      Governor wants to trim 718 unnecessary reports Sacramento Business Journal by Melissa Wiese, 4/18/12 California Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been busy [...]
• Man Up? You First, Governor
      Man Up? You First, Governor By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles,  4/16/12 Bulk your macho man up with his favorite protein shake from the [...]
• Guv Brown Admits: Deficit Higher than $9.2 Billion (Truth: It is $35 Billion TODAY)
      Jerry Brown tells Legislature to ‘man up,’ make cuts Sacramento Bee, 4/13/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “The Democratic governor, [...]
• Grimes: New High-Speed Rail biz plan crashes into reality
      New High-Speed Rail biz plan crashes into reality By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog,  4/14/12 What a train wreck. Barreling down the tracks in [...]
• State Deficit to Go Up by Millions Court Declares. “Professional” Guv Jerry Caught Violating Another State Contract
    Judge leaning toward furlough back pay for California state engineers, scientists Sacramento Bee, 4/12/12 Roughly 13,000 state workers could receive [...]
• Coupal: Brown Says “We’re All Millionaires Now”
      We’re All Millionaires Now By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association,  4/8/12 Thanks to Jerry Brown, we’re all millionaires now. The governor has [...]
• Putting high-speed rail on fast track may just slow down train
  Great news for road safety—Jerry Brown no longer supports high speed rail.  Now he supports a $68 billion choo choo [...]
• Jerry Lies About “New Costs” for Slush Fund High Speed Rail—Forget to Mention NO Longer High Speed or Lack of Riders
      California lawmakers skeptical of lowered price tag for high-speed rail By David Siders, Sacramento Bee, 4/1/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Brown Uses Settlement $$ Owed Citizens for Special Interest Waste
      NRG Settlement Funds California’s ‘Electric Expressway’ EV Charger Network $120 million will buy thousands of chargers ordered by Governor Brown that [...]
• CA Worst State for Employment—Texas, North Dakota Best.
    Texas, North Dakota are rare states with private-sector employment gains The Business Journals by G. Scott Thomas, 3/26/12 Texas has posted the [...]
• Seiler: Jerry Brown Wants CA to have Nations Top Tax Rate of 13.3%
    Jerry Brown: ‘Governor 13.3%’ John Seiler, Cal Watchdog, 3/26/12 A Wall Street Journal editorial headline today branded Gov. Jerrry Brown: “Governor 13.3%.” [...]
• Brown Confused About His Tax Increases—So is the Public
    Stories Don’t Match on Compromise Tax Hike By Joe Mathews, nbclosangles,3/26/12 In the ongoing story about the last-minute, compromise tax-hike initiative that [...]
• LA Times Skelton: Brown Tax Plan is Misleading
      Brown not shooting straight on tax plan Mark Lacter , LA Observed,  3/22/12 The governor keeps insisting that his proposal to temporarily [...]
• Greenhut: Hope for sparing parks from Jerry Brown budget ax
      Hope for sparing parks from budget ax Steve Greenhut, Calwatchdog,  3/19/12 For a state that prides itself on innovation and alternative ideas, [...]
• Analyst Sees $2 Billion Less In Brown Tax 2.0
      Analyst Sees $2 Billion Less In Brown Tax 2.0 Posted by John MyersKQED, 3/16/12 Governor Jerry Brown is no doubt happy that [...]
• Guv Brown calls Catholic Leaders, Bishops, “crazy”—He is a “CINO”
      Brown Assaults Religious Liberty John Seiler, Cal Watchdog,  3/11/12 Gov. Jerry Brown likes to brag how he attended a Catholic Jesuit [...]
• Brown’s Tax Is Ahead, But Why Not By More?
  Brown’s Tax Is Ahead, But Why Not By More? Posted by John Myers, KQED, 3/7/12 A brand new statewide poll shows Governor [...]
• CA slipping toward bankruptcy, again
      California slipping toward bankruptcy, again By Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner,  3/5/12 California is going broke. Again. The state controller has estimated that [...]
• CA Recovery? Sacramento County home prices hit low
  Sacramento County home prices hit low Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• California home prices down due to distressed properties –Depression Continues
  California home prices down due to distressed properties Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• 80% of murderers eligible for parole released by Guv Brown
    80 percent of murderers eligible for parole released Nannette Miranda, KABC,  2/10/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “The state parole [...]
• Obama ADDS Over $500 Million to CA Deficit
    Obama administration rejects California’s Medi-Cal copays Sacramento Bee, 2/6/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “Vanessa Cajina, legislative advocate [...]
• Spain Shows Guv Brown How Choo Choo Train Can Bankrupt CA as Well
  Minimal impact on cities, farms helped Spain avoid high-speed rail opposition Tim Sheehan, California Watch, 1/22/12 LA ESTACIÓN, SPAIN – [...]
• Grappling with the $11billion water bond–created for and by politicians
  Grappling with the water bond John Howard, Capitol Weekly, 2/2/12 “Steinberg said it was conceivable that the bond could be reduced [...]
• Facebook seen filing $5B IPO plans –Guv Hoped for $90 Billion–to get Tax $$
  Facebook seen filing $5B IPO plans Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, 2/1/12 Facebook Inc. will reportedly file for a [...]
• Jerry Brown As Insurance Commissioner? To Force Special Interest $$$
        Jerry Brown As Insurance Commissioner? by Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 1/30/12 Wait. We know that Jerry [...]
• Senator Joel Anderson: Governor, Get Serious About Corruption
  Governor, Get Serious Anderson urges Governor to clean house at Caltrans and asks AG to investigate department’s alleged malfeasance and cover-up Senator [...]
• Indian Tribes Betting Big On Jerry Brown–Getting Taxes on Us, NOT Them
  Indian Tribes Betting Big On Jerry Brown Gaming tribes open checkbooks for governor’s tax initiative By [...]
• Wells Fargo economist says ‘true’ CA housing recovery could be decade away
      Wells Fargo economist says ‘true’ housing recovery could be decade away San Francisco Business Times [...]
• Jerry Brown: Economic Illiterate or Not a Truth Teller? His Budget #’s Don’t Add Up
  Brown’s Budget: Fuzzy Math Again Someone in California government has to take a math class. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/prop-zero/Browns-Budget-Fuzzy-Math-Again-137719958.html By [...]
• Federal Judge Adds $100 Million to CA Deficit
  Federal judge blocks budget cuts to California in-home care program By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee, 1/20/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Democrats/Guv. Brown Demand the Closing of State Parks
  Senate Republicans Veto Override Effort to Fund State Parks Blocked Senator Sam Blakeslee, 1/19/12 Sacramento — Senate Democrats today blocked an [...]
• Brown: Proving The ‘Declinists’ Wrong–Via Higher Taxes and Bigger Gov’t
  Brown: Proving The ‘Declinists’ Wrong By KATY GRIMES, CalWatchdog, 1/18/12 Was it Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State address today? Or [...]
• Think Long Opts to Think Longer. Advantage Brown? Pull $10 Billion Tax Increase
  Think Long Opts to Think Longer. Advantage Brown? Posted by John Myers, KQED, 1/17/12 It seems safe to say that [...]
• CA Gov Brown Shuts Down “Recovery Website As State Faces $21 Billion Budget Deficit, 129 Companies Leave
  CA Gov Brown Shuts Down “Recovery Website As State Faces $21 Billion Budget Deficit, 129 Companies Leave by [...]
• Grimes: CA Ballot-Box Budgeting Scheme Taking Billions From CA
  Ballot-Box Budgeting Scheme Katy Grimes.Cal Watchdog,1/13/12 The latest proposed state budget demonstrates exactly why California doesn’t need the new spending scheme [...]
• Brown to welfare clients: work, or else–sounds like a Republican
  Brown to welfare clients: work, or else By Daniel Weintraub, Healthy Cal, 1/12/12 Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing the most far-reaching [...]
• CA’s other deficit: At $10 billion, The Unemployment Insurance Fund is Insolvent
  California’s other deficit: At $10 billion, it’s big bucks By Greg Lucas, Capitol Weekly 01/12/12 It’s California’s other deficit. The one that doesn’t [...]
• Risky revenues cloud state’s budget plans (Actually phony numbers)
  Risky revenues cloud state’s budget plans By Alisen Boada, Capitol Weekly, 01/12/12 Gov. Brown’s latest budget reflects California’s risky, roller-coaster reliance [...]
• LA: Budgeting and Volatility: The Ultimate Challenge–Billion $$$ Deficit
    Budgeting and Volatility: The Ultimate Challenge Paul Hatfield, 1/12/12 Once again, California is facing a budget crisis. No surprise. What did you expect [...]
• Seiler: Why Jerry Will Kill High-Speed Rail
  Why Jerry Will Kill High-Speed Rail John Seiler, CalWatchdog, 1/11/12 It’s High-Speed Rail fanatic Jerry Brown who himself will kill the [...]
• Browns Phony Budget Numbers Exposed–Real CA Budget is over $252 BILLION
  Brown’s Budget Doesn’t Add Up Katy Grimes: Cal Watchdog, 1/9/12 After Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal was released last week, [...]
• Brown Budget: $137.3 Billion “Official” Spending–Plus $70B MORE
  Surprise! The New State Budget Posted by John Myers, KQED,  1/5/12 The unveiling of a governor’s state budget every January is [...]
• Brown: “Politics Works When Everything Is Good’
  ‘Politics Works When Everything Is Good’ By KATY GRIMES, Cal Watchdog,  12/28/11 Every year when the state budget talks get under [...]
• Brown Ignores Climategate Revelations–Illiterate or Corrupt?
  Brown Ignores Climategate Revelations By JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog, 12/16/11 Like a teenage blogger using an online thesaurus, Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday [...]
• Report: California’s jobless rate to taper slowly
  Report: California’s jobless rate to taper slowly Central Valley Business Times,  12/15/11 •  Worse for the Central Valley •  ‘Economic joints are becoming [...]
• Real Message in Brown’s ‘Open Letter’ against the Families of CA
  Real Message in Brown’s ‘Open Letter’ Steve Greenhut, Cal Watchdog, 12/12/11 Gov. Jerry Brown recently released “An Open Letter to the People [...]
• Chapman Forecast More CA Stagnation
  Chapman Forecast More CA Stagnation By JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog,  12/06/11 The economic recovery is continuing, but remains weak. That is the [...]
• Brown’s Open Letter Seeking Higher Taxes–WITH Greenhut Translation
  Brown’s Open Letter Seeking Higher Taxes By STEVEN GREENHUT, Cal Watchdog,  12/05/11 Gov. Jerry Brown today released “An Open Letter To The [...]
• Cost of Doing Business: Study Ranks Most Expensive Cities in CA for Business
  The Cost of Doing Business: Study Ranks Most Expensive Cities in CA for Business California City News,  11/30/11 The 17th annual Kosmont-Rose [...]
• Gov. Brown’s Costly Appointments
  Gov. Brown’s Costly Appointments Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 11/23/11 The Governor’s office announced yesterday that he has made several new appointments to [...]
• California’s oil industry speaks loud enough for Jerry Brown to listen.–Language? Jobs and Revenues
  The Green and the Black California’s oil industry speaks loud enough for Jerry Brown to listen. City Journal,11/18/11    It took some doing, [...]
• The Most Dangerous Politician in the Country?
  The Most Dangerous Politician in the Country? Posted By Dr. Mercola, 11/15/11 Three controversial bills put into place by California Governor Jerry [...]
• Brown Ripoffs Rural property owners–Like a Good Democrat
  Brown’s Victory: Agreement Reached on Higher Fire Fee for Homeowners in Rural Counties California County News,  11/14/11 After much back and forth, [...]
• Brown About to Create Policies That will Increase Gang Warfare in State Prisons
  Reform could transfer hundreds of inmates out of isolation units Michael Montgomery and Sarah Terry-Cobo, California Watch, 10/27/11 Hundreds of California prisoners [...]
• Pension “Reform”: Brown Wants bad teachers to be in Classroom Till Age 67!
  Pension reform’s impact on teachers Brown would raise new teachers’ retirement age to 67 By John Fensterwald – Educated Guess, 10/28/11 Under Gov. [...]
• Trying to Understand Jerry Brown’s Veto of Calif. Nursing Board
  Trying to Understand Jerry Brown’s Veto of Calif. Nursing Board by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 10/17/11 California Gov. Jerry Brown last week vetoed [...]
• Brown Paddles Left, Right on Bills
  Brown Paddles Left, Right on Bills Posted by John Myers, KQED, 10/10/11 It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand [...]
• Brown Vetoes San Fran Car Tax–Saves Citizens $65 Million
  No Vehicle License Fee Increase for SF Drivers By Katharine Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen,  10/04/11 Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Tuesday that [...]
• Unions Get Too Crazy Even for Jerry Brown
  Too Crazy Even for Jerry Brown Steve Greenhut, Cal Watchdog, 10/06/11 Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed union-backed legislation that would promote the unionization [...]
• Seiler: Brown’s Phony Reg ‘Reduction’
  Brown’s Phony Reg ‘Reduction’ John Seiler,Cal Watchdog, 9/28/11 Jerry Brown snookered a Mercury News reporter — and a lot of other people [...]
• Jerry Brown: Taxes R’ Me
  Jerry Brown: No New Taxes Without Voter Approval. Well, Except for These Golden State Liberty, 9/27/11 Has any campaign promise in recent [...]
• Grimes: Brown’s Government Expansion Project
  Brown’s Government Expansion Project By KATY GRIMES, Cal Watchdog, 9/26/11 Many in the state say that Gov. Jerry Brown has demonstrated a [...]
• Time to Grow Up, Jerry
  Time to Grow Up, Jerry nbclosangeles, 9/21/11 If you’re looking for dark comedy, take a look at the front page of Wednesday’s [...]
• Jerry Brown Can Be a Hero==to the Unions or the People?
  Jerry Brown Can Be a Hero By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association,  9/19/11 As part of his ongoing campaign to raise [...]
• Seiler: Brown’s Moonbeam Jobs Scheme
  Brown’s Moonbeam Jobs Scheme John Seiler:, Cal Watchdog, 9/15/11 Gov. Jerry Brown lately has gotten in touch with his Inner Moonbeam, launching [...]