Writing at Newgeography,com, Joel Kotkin takes a long, mostly negative, look at California Governor Jerry Brown. Hat tip to Instapundit for the link. It's no secret Kotkin doesn't approve of where Brown has taken the state.
Brown's father, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, was a CA governor of an entirely different stripe - he was a builder of university, transportation and water storage infrastructure we still rely on. His son has built little but prisons.
Now Jerry B. is off to Paris to pontificate at the climate summit, to brag about how green CA has become. He is basically turning CA into a plantation economy - Kotkin calls it "feudal" - like many less developed countries. The irony is that if Brown could accept that truth, he would hate it and change. He can't, so he won't.
