Governors of California (in the last fifty years)

Jerry Brown is in his 3rd term as governor. He was elected first in 74 then re-elected in 78.

voted for his dad for his role in developing a decent public university system that decades of conservative assholes have fucked up

Yeah I fucked up, I meant nonconsecutive times holding office, not actual terms

I dont really know anything about this, and def a big reason for starting this poll was to learn something
If I had to choose now I'd prob go with Jerry's third term bcz he seemed kinda not crazy and that was very soothing to me in 2011

sarahell otm. pat brown had the good fortune to govern during optimistic boom times, but he used the opportunity well.

he's been the only governor in the last 40 years that isn't totally horrible

he's definitely a better governor than mayor

Pat vs. Jerry yup. The rest are monsters/bozos

Lol I'm starting to glimose maybe a reason why this has never been done...

Real question is who's third

Think I'd take Arnold over Gray Davis

schwarzenegger was not that bad ... i voted for him twice!

i'm finally reading nixonland and the stuff about reagan's tenure as governor is pretty scathing.

His governorship was floundering. He proposed a budget that cut every department by 10 percent, which made as much sense as trying to lose 10 percent of one’s body weight by extracting tissue from every organ; he didn’t even know that much of the budget was set by statute. He never came within a mile of the goal. Then he passed the largest tax increase in the history of a U.S. state. Meanwhile a cabal of aides, including Lyn Nofziger and Edwin Meese, plotted to overthrow his chief of staff by bugging hotel rooms to try to uncover evidence of gay sex. They were so indiscreet about it that Drew Pearson reported speculation "whether the magic charm of Governor Ronald Reagan can survive the discovery that a homosexual ring has been operating in his office." Reagan was in way over his head. "Can anyone tell me what’s in my legislative program?" he once plaintively asked aides in the middle of a press conference. It hardly mattered to those who wanted to see him president.

would anyone vote for someone other than Reagan as the worst?

pete wilson: prop 187, three strikes law, removed moratorium on death penalty

in 1991, Wilson vetoed AB 101, a bill written to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the state

just saying

For some reason I thought the death penalty thing was Deukmejian and not Wilson.

Schwarzenegger fucked up higher education

nah the uc regents did that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QCr3nL78qWs#t=34

reagan sounds like david lynch there

pete wilson: prop 187, three strikes law, removed moratorium on death penalty

Pete Wilson also behind California electricity deregulation which allowed Enron, etc. to run amok. I'm also angry that his name is on my UC graduation diploma.

Deukmejian might be third by default.

The Gray Davis recall remains one of the more shameful circuses in CA history (and I can't hang with Arnold > Davis - that's bananas)

Reagan also signed the most permissive abortion bill in the United States to date (later he blamed doctors for misinterpreting it).

Wilson def the worst

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Wilson or Reagan the worst. voted nu-Brown who has been doing an excellent job. I tremble to think what will happen after this term.

Newsom will coat the state capitol in hair gel

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PB deserves it for this alone:

http://i.imgur.com/OwaJ9e9.jpg

if Governor Nixon had saved us President Nixon, I'll take him.

Governor Pat Brown: Well, let me just tell you this—

President Kennedy: I’ll tell you this—you just reduced him to the nut house.

Brown: Listen: you gave me instructions and I follow your orders! (Unclear.)

President Kennedy: (chuckling) I understand. But God, that last farewell speech of his...

Brown: Wasn’t that terrible?

President Kennedy: Well, no, but it shows...(Needle skips.) What’s going to happen out there?

Brown: I don’t see how he can ever recover. (He lost) the leaders.

President Kennedy: Yeah.

Brown: (Former senator) Goodwin Knight walked out on him; (California conservative leader) Joe Shell told me he walked out on him. This is a peculiar fellow. I really think he’s psychotic. He’s an able man, but he’s nuts.

President Kennedy: Yeah.

Brown: Like a lot of these paranoics.

if Governor Nixon had saved us President Nixon, I'll take him.

Man became president by serving on the board of Pepsi-Cola all those years. Hell, as governor, he may have leveled Watts and been elected with a majority of the popular vote.

Ok who are these reaganites

http://i.imgur.com/OeYm9a5.jpg

what a world

http://i.imgur.com/vfzyf1l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8YkVtPcl.jpg

the silent (almost) majority

I don't agree w him about everything but man I am so glad an experienced, non-idiot, forward-thinking policy wonk is governor:

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gov-Jerry-Brown-proposing-tax-break-for-the-poor-6263435.php