{"id":13907,"date":"2011-10-03T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-03T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:31:45","slug":"must-we-do-this-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/03\/must-we-do-this-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Must We Do This Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Three years before the election, Governor already faces scrutiny about his plans.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>While Jerry Brown was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-me-brown-bills-20111003,0,2594741.story\">busy over the weekend signing bills<\/a> to ban synthetic marijuana and bar a San Francisco measure to ban circumcision, apparently people are pretty excited about replacing him. &nbsp;Or perhaps more accurately, people are excited to talk about people who could replace him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve extremely enjoyed my first year,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I find it &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d call it exhilarating &#8212; but I find it quite engaging and interesting and fully worthy of my total involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There had been speculation when the now 73-year-old Brown was first elected to what actually amounted to a third term that he would not run again.<\/p>\n<p>If he does decide to seek another term it would cause serious damage to any number of folks who want to be governor. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/politics\/ci_19027038\">LA DN<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this came up in the context of an interview with CalBuzz a while back, though from their article, the question seemed to be directed more at how Brown was handling his first year back in the Horseshoe. &nbsp;But, Sacramento being what it is, there are always people eyeing the top spot, and tons more willing to talk about people eyeing it. &nbsp;From every statewide elected official to a the big city mayors, there will be attention on the 2014 race.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that Brown has been in the office less than a year? &nbsp;Welcome to the 24 hour news cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Three years before the election, Governor already faces scrutiny about his plans.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>While Jerry Brown was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-me-brown-bills-20111003,0,2594741.story\">busy over the weekend signing bills<\/a> to ban synthetic marijuana and bar a San Francisco measure to ban circumcision, apparently people are pretty excited about replacing him. &nbsp;Or perhaps more accurately, people are excited to talk about people who could replace him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve extremely enjoyed my first year,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I find it &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d call it exhilarating &#8212; but I find it quite engaging and interesting and fully worthy of my total involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There had been speculation when the now 73-year-old Brown was first elected to what actually amounted to a third term that he would not run again.<\/p>\n<p>If he does decide to seek another term it would cause serious damage to any number of folks who want to be governor. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/politics\/ci_19027038\">LA DN<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this came up in the context of an interview with CalBuzz a while back, though from their article, the question seemed to be directed more at how Brown was handling his first year back in the Horseshoe. &nbsp;But, Sacramento being what it is, there are always people eyeing the top spot, and tons more willing to talk about people eyeing it. &nbsp;From every statewide elected official to a the big city mayors, there will be attention on the 2014 race.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that Brown has been in the office less than a year? &nbsp;Welcome to the 24 hour news cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,204],"tags":[10140,10164,6862],"class_list":["post-13907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-204","tag-10140","tag-10164","tag-6862"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Cj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}