Governor Moonbeam in the Middle?

I usually like to first read commentators who can write with some sarcasm and humor. Yesterday someone sent me a story from Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post – who doesn’t often fit in those categories. And, though it didn’t fit what I normally like, it did fit into what I like to read most about: leaders showing some backbone to address real problems by moving into the middle.

This story was also somewhat surprising in that it showed Governor Jerry Brown of California, a traditional liberal, making a State of the State address that challenged the parties to eschew some of their sacred cows to fix California’s problems. Of all of the Governors elected last November with the hope of adding new approaches to old problems, Gov. Brown was probably not on the list of bi-partisan problem-solvers. In this speech, it looks like he must have decided that reality trumped ideology.

Ruth Marcus also did a fantastic job of contrasting what the Governor of California charged his government to do with how the President handled the State of the Union. You can read the commentary HERE.

In South Carolina, we certainly could use some leadership from the middle that gives us real solutions instead of the same old campaign rhetoric.