By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 – 6:50 am
SAN FRANCISCO – Still smarting from the Legislature’s defeat of his tax and jobs plan, Gov. Jerry Brown accused Republican lawmakers Wednesday of an “unconstitutional delegation of power,” saying they are controlled by the anti-tax group Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
“The Republicans in Sacramento have one jockey,” Brown said in a fiery speech to about 1,000 nurses at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.
In recent days, Brown has decried the GOP, rallied labor unions and called for “a war on unemployment” in an uncharacteristic spate of public appeals.
The public appearances – including three speeches in three days – are in sharp contrast to the low profile he kept after previous legislative failures, when budget talks with Republicans stalled in March and collapsed months later.
In the aftermath of that defeat, Brown went hiking.
The quiet approach, Democratic strategist Darry Sragow said, didn’t work.
“Now he’s trying something else,” Sragow said. “Plan B, or maybe Plan C, and that’s to engage, to be more confrontational and more visible, to call the question in public.”
The Democratic governor is likely to ask voters next year to raise taxes, and union support is expected to be critical.
Brown piled blame Wednesday on the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for the Legislature’s defeat of his tax and jobs plan, saying some Republican senators told him they would like to vote for the measure but couldn’t because of the association’s political clout.
Now, after months of failed negotiations with Republicans, Brown said, “At least I know who to talk to.”
Brown is also preparing to upset legislative Democrats, warning he will veto many of the hundreds of bills passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature before it recessed early Saturday.
“I’m going to veto a lot of bills over the next 30 days,” Brown said in Sacramento on Wednesday. “I have to say to some, ‘Fasten your seat belt, because it’s going to be a rough ride. You’ve given me 600 bills, and there’s not 600 problems that we need those solutions for.’ ”
After traveling Monday to Las Vegas to address the Laborers’ International Union of North America, Brown called for public investment in green energy projects and infrastructure at a conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on Tuesday.
“It’s time for a war on unemployment,” Brown said. “Find the jobs, and do so by investing in the renewable energy, the efficiency technologies, the innovative transportation, the land use policies.”
Brown is still trying this year to push forward California’s troubled high-speed rail project, and he plans to propose next year a plan for a peripheral canal or other way to move water through or around the Delta. Both projects are controversial.
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Sorry Moonbeam- close ,but no cigar. The HJTA does not control the state legislature. The HJTA is controlled by a guy named Michael Schroeder who is a lawyer down in Orange County and Jon Fleishman who is a regional vice chair of the California Republican Party.
The HJTA has become an income machine for it’s president and rolls against any and all grassroots candidates. It has become a RINO production mill.
Brown should be happy wityh the HJTA because they support candidates who can be easily bought off to vote for higher taxes and more union control in government such as former Assemblyman Anthony Adams and Current Assemblyman Paul Cook.
If Brown was smart, he would begin to praise the HJTA and just have the unions, Democratic legislators start giving them a lot of money. The HJTA has no principles and will take money from anyone, just like their candidates.
For less than one million dollars, Brown could buy, own and control the HJTA and in return get RINOs to vote for higher taxes under all sorts of scenarios and compromises.
Paul Cook will vote for higher taxes today- all you have to do is promise him that 15 million dollars will go to any kind of support for veterans.
Schroeder, Fleishman and HJTA did what they needed to do make sure Anthony Adams got elected. Adams then in turn, sold out the Taxpayers by becoming the swing vote on the Dems plan to raise our taxes 16 BILLION DOLLARS. In exchange for the $16 BILLION DOLLAR tax increase, Adams was given a $100k year state board position.
So while Brown sees the HJTA as the root of all kinds of conservative evil – the organization really is just a tool for rent for anyone.
If you want your taxes to go up- simply vote for any and all HJTA endorsed candidates. That really is all anyone needs to do to make the taxe hike magic go to work.
Anthony Adams infamous sell out vote has permanently destroyed the Republican Party and has guaran-damn-teed that California will be stuck in a permanent depression.
The dream of green jobs saving California economy is less so retarded and old that I no longer have the energy to laugh it anymore.
Go Green. Go Brown. Go HJTA.
Brown has a stick up his patootie held by Gil, Darryl and their ilk. Which is worse, people trying to save the state or people trying to tax it into irrelevance.
Jerry Brown makes my brain hurt. If someone was to tie that mans hands down while he was talking he wouldn’t be able to get one word out of his mouth. I have never seen someone wave their hands all over the place like a crazy person while talking. Maybe he does that just to try to make people so confused that he may think we actually believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
Which is better for the tax PAYERS, having the the HJTA as a jockey, or having unions as a jockey? Hello?
The politicians still don’t get it. They continue to raise taxes and it’s not working! They need to cut the unnecessary spending and start taking pay cuts at government level. Our cost of living is off the charts, along with gas prices, rent, mortgage, utilities, the whole cost of living and the only ones getting any type of real brake is not the average Joe barely making ends meet it’s yet again the banks, and large companies that the brake doesn’t benefit anyone other than the rich. Reality call there is no middle class left only rich and dirt poor!
This Jarvis sounds like a commie. Has he ever been e-verified?