About damn time Jerry...
Meg Whitman would be an unmitigated disaster, but she has tons of money, as does her rival Steve Poizner. Frankly either of them would be a disaster.
Brown speaks fairly pragmatically in his announcement.
Strange but true, Democrat Brown was a focus during the Prop 13 campaign because he ran a surplus
"As incomes and property values rose, Sacramento's tax revenue soared—but the parsimonious Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, neither spent those funds nor rebated them. With the state sitting on a $5 billion surplus, frustrated Californians grumped to the polls and passed Proposition 13, which rolled back and then froze property taxes—effectively destroying the funding base of local governments and school districts, which thereafter depended largely on Sacramento for their revenue. Ranked fifth among the states in per-pupil spending during the 1950s and '60s, California sank to the mid-40s by the 1990s
You can be fiscally responsible and still spend on good programs. We'll see if Brown can win, and if he does if he can deliver.
Forwarded without endorsement. Well, except that I (for one) am happy we have him in the race to choose from, and "Mayor Football Bat" (tm Greg Dewar) is not on the list.