George Skelton: It's an easy A for Jerry Brown for his final two terms as governor of California
by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2018
4 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - It's time to grade Gov. Jerry Brown, who's packing his thousands of books and leaving the Capitol campus for good.
No need to think twice. He earned an A for his final two terms as governor.
For his 34 years in five elective offices, including a record 16 as governor? He deserves an A for all that too. Give it to him for durability alone.
"Perhaps Gov. Jerry Brown's most important contribution...was to restore public confidence in state government," Mark Baldassare, president of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, wrote last week.
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