Most Californians just don’t seem to get the connection between their worries about the future and the severe budget cuts those universities have already suffered. Nor do the protestors understand that their problems originate not with university presidents and trustees, but in Sacramento and, often, with those same voters. Meanwhile, two of our leading would-be governors, Republicans Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, are competing over who can whack still more out of the state’s austere budget and the taxes to pay for it. The leading (and so far the only) Democrat, Jerry Brown, who hasn’t yet officially declared, isn’t giving any specifics. But as governor from 1975 to 1983, Brown showed more disdain for the University of California than his Republican predecessor Ronald Reagan did, and treated it more badly in his budgets.

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by Peter Schrag, The California Progress Report.

Posted: November 18th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.