Friends with Benefits - Part 7 --OK, Jerry Brown is Old, Now What?

Last night's gubernatorial debate at UC Davis was quite informative.  The state budget and the causes for the massive deficit were front and center as they should be.  Unfortunately, the three journalists asking the questions are all from Sacramento, so they did ask the agricultural water question but NOT the high-cost rail question.  They did zero in on pensions and we have followed the civil service benefit topic in some detail here.

While Brown tried to play the tough guy act on pension reform, it's really impossible to believe him given where his cash is coming from.  Whitman got off the best line of the night by saying:

"My view is putting Jerry Brown in charge of negotiating with the labor unions around pensions, around how many people we have in the state government, is like putting Count Dracula in charge of the blood bank," Whitman said.

You can read the full SacBee article here.  You can give blood at the Red Cross on Trousdale or on April 15, 2011.  Election day is the first Tuesday in November which is the 2nd.

Comments

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Looks like we can solve all our pension/fiscal problems if they open "card rooms" in Burlingame, as appears to be under consideration per this upcoming economic development study session:

http://www.burlingame.org/index.aspx?recordid=2551&page=8

Here's the list of current licensed card rooms in California. Lookout Putnam car dealers, here comes Artichoke Joe's!! :)

http://www.ag.ca.gov/gambling/game/cardroomlist.php

[holyroller]

That land, sitting vacant for 20 plus years has so much potenial, it is a disgrace to all the City of Burlingame Elders, especially the City of Burlingame Managers who have let that area go fallow.