Nowadays Gov. Moonbeam Only Talks Spending Cuts

Sacramento Since the 1970s, when Moonbeam first was elected governor, commentators, including this one, have remarked on his canoe theory of politics. You paddle a little to the left and a little to the right. Back then, there was more merit to Brown's maxim, given that he stood up for tax-limiting Proposition 13 after its passage even though he opposed it on the ballot. Brown also enforced the death penalty even though he was personally opposed to it. Those were the rightward paddles. But in his latest two terms as governor, Brown has paddled mainly to the left and then