What's up with Jerry Brown?

Now I'm a Conservative Republican and I didn't vote for this guy because quite frankly, I think 2 terms was enough for him. But whatever, he's our governor again and I will respect that. Jerry Brown has set himself apart from other liberal politicians in the sense that this man recognized California has a spending problem. That however, didn't stop him from trying to raise or extend my states already outrageously high taxes. He got the budget cuts he wanted and on the side California got an income tax, a sales tax and a vehicle tax cut(albeit a small one but still) because the GOP legislators wouldn't go along with his tax proposals.

However, he has gone in a direction I never thought possible, pension reform. This man wants to raise California's retirement age from 55 to 67 and make public employees at every level of government in the state(both local and state) pay more for their benefits.

Now I'm not a Jerry Brown supporter, and I never will, but I'm not gonna lie, this man has impressed me and I believe Obama can learn a thing or two from the budget and pension battles that are going down here in the Golden State. Even some key GOP law makers in the state are supporting Brown on this.

Yeah I know, more of a "my two cents" story than a question but I wanna know; what do the rest of you think?

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/10/gov-j...

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/10...