Post by Logan on Jan 18, 2016 23:48:25 GMT -6
In his 14th year as California's governor and barred from running again, Jerry Brown is not showing the slightest sign of lame duck syndrome.
In fact, the governor seems to be acquiring more political muscle with age. He's more focused, patient and selective than when he served two entertaining-but-undisciplined terms in the 1970s and early '80s.
The latest example of the governor's muscle-flexing came last week.
Backers of a ballot initiative to extend his 2012 "soak the rich" income tax increase beyond 2018 had proposed not putting any of the added revenue into Brown's rainy-day fund.
Continued at www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-cap-brown-20160118-column.html#nt=outfit .
In fact, the governor seems to be acquiring more political muscle with age. He's more focused, patient and selective than when he served two entertaining-but-undisciplined terms in the 1970s and early '80s.
The latest example of the governor's muscle-flexing came last week.
Backers of a ballot initiative to extend his 2012 "soak the rich" income tax increase beyond 2018 had proposed not putting any of the added revenue into Brown's rainy-day fund.
Continued at www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-cap-brown-20160118-column.html#nt=outfit .