Can Jerry Brown Cut California Down to Size?

摘要

He's a master of political reincarnation. Can Jerry Brown, first elected governor of California in 1974 at the age of 36, double back to Sacramento and revive a state economy with the lowest bond rating in the U.S. and an unemployment rate clocking in at 12.6 percent?rnWith the state facing its third year of multibillion-dollar budget deficits-the gap for the fiscal year starting on July 1 is $19.1 billion-California's gubernatorial election is shaping up to be a referendum on who has the best strategy for fixing the Golden State's $1.8 trillion economy. The 72-year-old Brown, the state's attorney general and a Democrat, faces no serious challengers within his own party.