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Arnold took staffers from the Gray Davis administration. So is it so far fetched that Jerry Brown would be comfortable with staffers from Arnolds administration?
"While it’s far too early to predict how the Brown Administration will deal with the state’s systemic budget deficit, the appointment of Matosantos – who has worked in the state finance department since April 2008 – raises all sorts of questions. Most notably: how can Brown promise to “reform” a budgetary process by hiring one of that process’s most important bureaucrats?
“The new Brown administration is the old Schwarzenegger Administration,” said one Assembly Republican staffer. “I have a feeling he’s tapping Schwarzenegger’s folks because they have been good at going out and creating a panic to raise taxes.”
Matosantos, a Democrat, is a native of Puerto Rico. She holds just a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. She first went to work in state government in 1999, as a 24-year-old consultant to the state Senate Committees on Health and Human Services as well as Budget and Fiscal Review. In 2004 she moved to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Program and Fiscal Affairs, where she worked as assistant secretary. Two years later she took over as associate secretary of legislative affairs for HHS – a job that paid $106,800."
So the tax and spend attitude of Arnold was to be expected--Democrats are like that and his administration was filled with them. Now we get an honest Democrat.
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"While it’s far too early to predict how the Brown Administration will deal with the state’s systemic budget deficit, the appointment of Matosantos – who has worked in the state finance department since April 2008 – raises all sorts of questions. Most notably: how can Brown promise to “reform” a budgetary process by hiring one of that process’s most important bureaucrats?
“The new Brown administration is the old Schwarzenegger Administration,” said one Assembly Republican staffer. “I have a feeling he’s tapping Schwarzenegger’s folks because they have been good at going out and creating a panic to raise taxes.”
Matosantos, a Democrat, is a native of Puerto Rico. She holds just a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. She first went to work in state government in 1999, as a 24-year-old consultant to the state Senate Committees on Health and Human Services as well as Budget and Fiscal Review. In 2004 she moved to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Program and Fiscal Affairs, where she worked as assistant secretary. Two years later she took over as associate secretary of legislative affairs for HHS – a job that paid $106,800."
So the tax and spend attitude of Arnold was to be expected--Democrats are like that and his administration was filled with them. Now we get an honest Democrat.
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