Gov. Jerry Brown once again seeks to sell Californians on big projects

Gov. Jerry Brown once again seeks to sell Californians on big projects
- January 23, 2012
- Mark Petracca, political science associate professor, is quoted in the Sacramento Bee January 22, 2012
From the Sacramento Bee:
Before leaving Southern California last week, after urging greater infrastructure
spending in a "land of dreams," Gov. Jerry Brown recalled how long he has made that
case and how wary of his ideas people can be.... Governor again three decades later,
Brown is promoting high-speed rail and a multibillion-dollar water project, versions
of which he advocated, ultimately unsuccessfully, when he was governor before. He's
also campaigning to raise taxes. In a series of appearances in Southern California
following his State of the State address, he made repeated references to his father,
the late Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, a legendary builder of state infrastructure....
Mark Petracca, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine,
said Friday that Brown "must be extraordinarily frustrated." For "somebody with very
big ideas," Petracca said, "it's hard to motivate people to think in those terms when
there's not only so much mockery around that, but where people's lives, you know,
they want to make sure they can pay the next month's mortgage."
For the full story, please visit http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/22/4205134/gov-jerry-brown-once-again-seek....
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