this nixon going to china and liberal democrat doing what no republican predecessor has done or does he know it is just political paludim because not only the legislature and governor can solve the problem. i am glad he said it and i recall in 1978 when california passed proposition 13, tax cut governor jerry brown opposed it . he saw what the people wanted he jumped on and implimited it. it may be that he does understand how serious the problem is and that he is the person who is elected to fix it . i will only serve one term and i will do what is right. we can hope that that is the case. but the record of last year and not good. all of the intrusive laws and one of the reasons that california has a budget deficit is because businesss
areas a your issue notwithstanding is we set up something, it goes higher. if we get republicans in there in next year in 2011, with the firmness they have shown their resolve, and then we change presidents in 2013, and maybe get the senate, i think we can make a really major tax reform that will put a true flat rate tax much along the line that jerry brown had when he was running for president against bill clinton and the democratic primary. neil: we talk to jerry brown so they might do it again. what do you make of it? of course he will. he is a really, really good person and he was a great governor when he was governor before. i have all the hopes in the world that jerry brown will do a great job. without him, and i know people don t remember, but without him, it would have been very hard to pass proposition 13. and get it in. he did a good job there. we have got rid of the
inheritance tax under jerry brown and index personal income tax. if he is true to his roots, he will be conservative on taxes and economics, a little strange on other subjects but he is pro-growth. i forgot about the proposition 13 thing. he did a great job running against clinton with the 13% gn flat tax. the first one to run against the income tax. he was phenomenal. i have a lot of hope. by the way, i like meg whitman a lot, too, so it s not as if i was against meg whitman. i thought she was great as well. the californians can do a lot. they re also getting, by the way i don t know if you are aware of this, neil, but they have a redistricting commission. so the democrats are not going tog jerriman andey gerr
on tv on the attack back in 92 during a primary debate. here s the ad. jerry brown s good old days. but what really happened? cnn, not me. cnn says his assertion about his tax record was just plain wrong. jerry brown went out there and took credit for the fact that the people of california voted for proposition 13, which lowered taxes, which he opposed and now he s going around and taking credit for it. he raised taxes as governor of california. he had a surplus he took office and a deficit when he left. he doesn t tell people the truth. well, and then brown, the guy running for governor, took the war of words to a new level when he assailed the ad by invoking clinton s impeachment ordeal. let s listen. meg witman, she stops at nothing. she s even got clinton lying about me. that s right. no, did you see that?
he s saving, though, some of his harshest comments for, guess who, bill clinton? the whitman s camp new commercial shows bill clinton ck in 1992 when he and brown were both running for the democratic nomination for president. back then, clinton accused brown of raising taxes in his first go-round as governor of california. here s the ad. jerry brown s good old days. but what really happen? cnn, not me, cnn says his assertion about his tax record was, quote, just plain wrong. jerry brown went o there and took credit for the fact that the people of california voted for proposition 13, which lored taxes, which he opposed. now he s going around and taking credit for it. he raised taxes as governor of california. he had a surplus when he took office and a deficit when he left. he doesn t tell the people the truth. you heard clint mention thenn cnnhe report in td that meg whitman is running. you should know that one of our former correspondents, brooks