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PolitiCal Roundup: Jerry Brown said to punt on taxes, roll over on dogs

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Governor, please govern, George Skelton implores Jerry Brown. In his column in Monday’s Times, Skelton faults Brown for insisting voters decide tax questions at the ballot box. Voters, says Skelton, already decided on Brown as decider.

If the cost of public-employee pension plans is unsustainable, negotiate new ones, says the Times’ editorial board, lauding Los Angeles city leaders for doing just that.

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From the Sacramento Bee, a glimpse of what severe budget cuts could mean: isolation and ill health for people such as Bob Benson, 67, who has cerebral palsy and depends on a state adult health program to get out of the house.

This one is bound to be controversial. It turns out the much vaunted political evolution of Gov. Jerry Brown encompasses this breathtaking ideological 180: Once a big-dog person, Brown now declares himself a small-dog person, The Times’ Michael Mishak reports.

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