Jerry Brown's career, Jerry Brown, Jerry Brown News: As governor from 1959 to 1967, Pat Brown was a builder dramatically - roads, water supply, the higher education system of the state. His son, Jerry, came to the same office in 1975 and declared the "era of limits."
The new governor to slow the construction of roads and questioned the need to fill vacancies of judges. symbolic sense, it replaced the state limousine to Plymouth, and is regularly called the book by EF Schumacher "Small is beautiful".
But Jerry Brown came from the liberal roots, and his election has revived the agenda that the Republican Governor Ronald Reagan was disrupted for eight years.
In two terms, Brown has compiled a report that was both liberal and conservative on spending, taxes, crime and labor. This record, which falls under the control again, he and Republican Meg Whitman approach the end of their race for governor.
In an echo of his "era of limits" speech 35 years ago, Brown has promised to limit spending for government operations "living within our means." Neither he nor Whitman, who made a similar promise, made way to achieve this goal without disrupting essential services.
Brown's record
As governor, Brown signed a law protecting the coast and farmland and expanding protection against discrimination based on sex. Two measures in 1975 possession homosexuals and reduction of crime, the legalization of marijuana and fined $ 100.
Brown also approved the union rights for teachers and state employees and signed the first law of collective bargaining of land for agricultural workers.
But before leaving his post in 1983, Brown was confronted with his liberal allies by reducing funding for schools and social service programs and support the constitutional amendment for a balanced federal budget.
The same governor who vetoed a bill that the death penalty in 1977 and signed into law, which applies to California prisons soar over the next three decades.
And the governor, who condemned the proposal 13 in the sharp decline in property tax as a "fraud" and "Pandora's box" has taken action after going in June 1978, expressing "tax cutter born again. " Five months later, archconservative sponsor ofProposition 13, Howard Jarvis, supported Brown for reelection Brown trumpeted approval during the current campaign for governor.
Brown is sometimes referred to shipping policy ", paddling a little to the left and right, and you paddle in a straight line."
His critics said Brown, of course, largely driven by political winds, or the latest intellectual fashion. His support for alternative energy sources and, later, state-sponsored satellite columnist Mike Royko application to reproduce his "Governor Moonbeam", the nickname stuck, even after Royko apology.
Just do not understand?
sympathetic observers say an independent spirit of Brown and a willingness to challenge the established concepts were taken to indecision or opportunism.
"There are many curious ... Jerry, the importance of finding life," said Bill Lockyer State Treasurer, who was a Democratic legislator from San Leandro during Governor Brown, then to him as the attorney general the State. "Everybody does it sometimes seems they are going in different directions."
Mark Poche, now a judge in Santa Clara County, met Brown in 1955 as an adviser freshman dorm of the future governor of Santa Clara University. After the election, Brown, Posh has been his top legislative assistant for two years before Brown was appointed to the bench.
And as a student and as governor, Brown was interested in ideas, insofar as you think it is working on a thesis, "Pausch said. In Sacramento, we'll go into the wee hours , workers in these things. ... The timing meant little to him. "
In addition, none of the classical concepts such as filling judicial vacancies, "said Justice Anthony Kline, Legal Secretary Brown from 1975 to 1980.