Last night's gubernatorial debate at UC Davis was quite informative. The state budget and the causes for the massive deficit were front and center as they should be. Unfortunately, the three journalists asking the questions are all from Sacramento, so they did ask the agricultural water question but NOT the high-cost rail question. They did zero in on pensions and we have followed the civil service benefit topic in some detail here.
While Brown tried to play the tough guy act on pension reform, it's really impossible to believe him given where his cash is coming from. Whitman got off the best line of the night by saying:


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