Leadership style
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 4, 2010He said Californians passed Proposition 25, which ends the two-thirds legislative majority for passing a state budget, while also approving Proposition 26, which calls for a two-thirds vote to pass fees. "The taxpayers gave - and they also took away," he said. "On the one hand, people said, 'by majority give us a budget' and on the other, they said, 'don't pick my pocket.' "What we have to do is win the confidence and trust of the people of California," he said. That, he added, will require competing groups - Republicans, Democrats, labor unions and business - to "push toward a common interest."
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Budget, Leadership style, Taxes, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 4, 2010Brown said he has started reaching out to legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle, but had sobering words for Democrats who control both houses of the Legislature. "My message is: Get ready for hard surfaces and benches as you sit in the kind of austere environment of a very-carefully-put-together state government and budget," he said.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Budget, Campaigns and politics, Leadership style, State legislature, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 4, 2010"Politicians come and politicians go, and the people are looking for things to be better," he said. "And if you can't deliver, they get somebody else to try. "I've been up and I've been down," said Brown. "I'm going to do my darndest to stay up."
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Leadership style, Quotable
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 1, 2010"We're going to vote Democratic tomorrow, all right, and of course when we get there, this is the thing about democracy, we also have to listen to the other side," Brown said to restrained applause.
Source: San Jose Mercury NewsTags: Campaigns and politics, Leadership style, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 31, 2010Brown said the deep recession and California's persistent budget problems mean the next governor will face tough decisions immediately. He said he wants a "grand civic dialogue" that will include people from throughout the state and from all socio-economic backgrounds to talk about what they want California to be. Brown talked about unifying people rather than dividing them because he said every Californian has a stake in pulling the state out of its current tailspin.
Source: Associated PressTags: Budget, Leadership style, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 30, 2010"Thanks for being here, kicking off this last phase of the campaign," the 72-year-old former governor said. "I've done this many times, and I always find it exciting." Brown called campaigning "ever new," even if some of the supporters familiar to him were "not as new as you were 20 years ago." Brown said, "After all this campaigning and all the ads and all that, that you're here at this hour of the morning, thank you very much. I mean it's a renewal of faith and enthusiasm, and that's what we need going forward."
Source: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Leadership style, Quotable
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 30, 2010Brown talked about jobs and the economy before losing his train of thought, saying he wasn't sure what more to say. "I don't like to say the same old, same old," he said. "That's one of the reasons I'm always getting off script. Some candidates feel very secure with messaged discipline. I get very bored with that, because to me life is a continuing discovery." Later, he said, "OK, I think I'll stop there because I might say something I might regret."
Source: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Leadership style, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 27, 2010Whitman has also pledged to take on the state's powerful unions. "It's gonna take someone who treats Californians like a grown up, who tells Californians the way it really is, who puts a positive way forward and has the backbone to take on the entrenched interests in Sacramento," said Whitman.
Source: KGTV (ABC - San Diego)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Labor, Leadership style, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 26, 2010"I started from the beginning saying you've got to stand up to the people who say it can't be done, you've gotta rely on your own expertise, you've gotta deliver the results," she said. "And I think it's interesting that people have said in this campaign, 'You don't have the experience to do that.' Well, I've been bucking that curve since I joined the workforce 30 years ago."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Leadership style, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 22, 2010"We have the money. We got the people. We got the water. We got the ports and the environment. So we have it all," he said. "We just gotta come together as Californians first, not as Republicans or Democrats but as people who care about the future, who care about one another."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Campaigns and politics, Leadership style, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 18, 2010"Meg Whitman likes to tell Californians that she doesn't owe anyone anything, but she owes Governor Schwarzenegger more than she wants to admit. Outsider who will blow up the boxes? We've heard that before. Running the state more like a business? Check. Bus tour? A familiar tune. Why does so much of the Whitman campaign feel like a rerun? Because it is. Arnold Schwarzenegger entered California politics with a cadre of the most expensive Republican consultants he could find, and they fed him a divisive agenda that Californians rejected. He had the good sense to send them packing. They have now de-camped to Whitman's headquarters where they are recycling their empty slogans and shrill accusations. Incredibly, Meg Whitman has already spent more than $14 million on Schwarzenegger's old crew. Schwarzenegger's top strategist Mike Murphy? On the Whitman bus for $90,000 a month. The Governor's former political director, Jeff Randle, is on Whitman's payroll for more than half a million dollars. Schwarzenegger veterans Rob Stutzman, Mitch Zak, John McLaughlin, Stuart Polk, and more than 30 other consultants jumped from Schwarzenegger to Meg Whitman. She even uses the same public speaking coach. Governor Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman both say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. On that, we all agree."
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Leadership style, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 15, 2010I bring, I think, a unique expertise to this. You know, in Silicon Valley, when we have a problem we can’t solve, we figure it out. He and I have quite different backgrounds. I mean, I applaud Governor Schwarzenegger on many dimensions. He did a number of good things, but hadn’t had the experience of running a big, large organization where you have to focus people on doing a small number of things well.
Source: The Caucus (New York Times)Tags: Leadership style, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 15, 2010Well, I’m not a politician. I’ve been in business for 30 years. I am a fiscal conservative — deeply understanding how we can do more for less. That’s what the private sector does. And there is absolutely a way forward here. Look at what Chris Christie has done in New Jersey. He had a worse budget deficit as a percentage than we had — than we have. He has reduced costs, he has streamlined the bureaucracy, and he’s closed the budget deficit. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do in California.
Source: The Caucus (New York Times)Tags: Budget, Leadership style, Assertion of fact, Policy or issue position, Promise
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 15, 2010Well, California’s a huge challenge, no question about it, but to really — the thing we have to do, first and foremost, is we’ve got to get Californians back to work. I’ve got exactly the experience that we need to do that. I mean, I’ve been in the business of creating jobs. My opponent has been in the business of politics for 40 years.
Source: The Caucus (New York Times)Tags: Jobs, Leadership style, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 15, 2010I guess that’s going to be up to the voters in California to decide. I’ve spent, you know, 30 years in leading teams of people, bringing people together. I led a community at eBay that, you know, was 80 million unique visitors a month strong, and so I think I understand what California needs to turn itself around. I know how to bring people together. I know how to create a shared sense of vision and values, and I know how to create confidence in people. And what California lacks right now is confidence.
Source: The Caucus (New York Times)Tags: Leadership style, Assertion of fact
