CalWatchdog Morning Read – January 25

by CalWatchdog Staff | January 25, 2017 8:14 am

Good morning! Happy Hump Day. In case you missed it, Jerry Brown teetered between conciliatory and defiant in his annual State of the State address on Tuesday.  

The popular Democratic governor echoed other Democratic leaders in the state by taking shots at Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans and their proposed, yet sometimes vague, agenda.

On the day Trump pushed through two controversial oil projects opposed by environmentalists, with a repeal of the Affordable Care Act slowly working through Congress and with federal action on immigration looming on the horizon, Brown pointed to the battle lines drawn between the state and the federal government.

“While no one knows what the new leaders will actually do, there are signs that are disturbing,” Brown said. “We have seen the bald assertion of ‘alternative facts.’ We have heard the blatant attacks on science. Familiar signposts of our democracy – truth, civility, working together – have been obscured or swept aside.”

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Endnotes:
  1. CalWatchdog: http://calwatchdog.com/2017/01/24/browns-state-state-address-conciliatory-defiant/
  2. The Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article128494604.html#storylink=cpy
  3. The San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-faulconer-border-20170125-story.html
  4. Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-lawmakers-to-weigh-whether-1485287978-htmlstory.html
  5. Politico: http://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2017/01/xavier-becerra-confirmed-as-california-attorney-general-108964

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