Gov. Jerry Brown to GOP: 'Get out of the way'
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday took to the national airwaves to weigh in on the presidential election, arguing that President Obama had laid a foundation for economic recovery and that the country would be better off if Republicans would get out of the way.
Maybe I know too much about this stuff, but were in a recovery, a slow recovery, and it'll keep recovering with any luck, Brown said on CNNs State of the Union. And if the Republicans would get out of the way and let, you know, the stimulus and the investment go forward, such as the Democrats have proposed, we'll be better off.
Brown, who campaigned for governor as a political mediator, has taken a harder public line against the GOP since failing to win a single Republican vote last year for his plan to place taxes on the ballot. Now, he is taking his case directly to voters, having qualified a November ballot measure, Proposition 30, to raise taxes to help close the states deficit.
On Sunday, he said California voters face a choice not unlike the one they face in the presidential contest: investment or retrenchment. This is just math now, Brown said, echoing former President Bill Clintons emphasis on arithmetic during his speech at last weeks Democratic National Convention.
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