CA Prop 19 may have failed, but CA Prop 25 passed!

[MooseNSquirrel]

Why do people keep saying Brown was a disaster his first time around?

Nothing I have read seems to indicate this.

 

[Drako]

Why do people keep saying Brown was a disaster his first time around?

Nothing I have read seems to indicate this.

As Greenman just posted, in 1978, Brown signed legislation that allows collective bargaining for public employees. Since then, the public employee unions pretty much run the state. The pension plans for the public employees is running the stat into the ground.

 

[JeepinEd]

As Greenman just posted, in 1978, Brown signed legislation that allows collective bargaining for public employees. Since then, the public employee unions pretty much run the state. The pension plans for the public employees is running the stat into the ground.

Before Brown became governor, CA was on a roll, building up it's infrastructure (roads, freeways aqueducts, dams, etc.). A large portion of it was paid for by car taxes. When Brown took office, he stopped all these projects, some of which were literally under construction, and diverted the money to his own social programs. He also blocked the construction of privately funded power plants. I could go on and on....

 

[sandorski]

Wow, hope for California yet.

 

[Drako]

Before Brown became governor, CA was on a roll, building up it's infrastructure (roads, freeways aqueducts, dams, etc.). A large portion of it was paid for by car taxes. When Brown took office, he stopped all these projects, some of which were literally under construction, and diverted the money to his own social programs. He also blocked the construction of privately funded power plants. I could go on and on....

Agreed.

But to me, his biggest F up was the public employee unions. AFSCME, SEIU, etc are a scourge on the state.