Jerry Brown speaking up

Finally. I realize that the guy doesn't want to waste campaign money so early in the process - and after all, he is running unopposed - but it's only early March and those Meg Whitman's ads are just sooooooo lame. Yet another super-rich former CEO who thinks she can fool enough voters into believing that what the state really needs is a governor with experience running a successful business. Sounds good, but running a business and running a state don't have all that much in common. Yet in the absence of any retorts from the Democrats, Whitman is attracting some interest. From AP:

[Brown] said CEOs are used to hand-picking their employees, but a governor must confront an independent and sometimes hostile state Legislature and deal with public employee unions and courts that are constantly second-guessing their decisions. "The political process is about civic engagement, not autocratic executive decision-making in the corporate suite. The two have virtually nothing in common," he said in an interview with The Associated Press at his campaign headquarters in a converted warehouse in Oakland.

Brown calls Whitman's plan to cut 40,000 government jobs "Consultant-Created Fairy Tales."