"They Are Afraid. They Don’t Want to Move"

"Again and again, he said, he has found that approaches that once worked—inviting Republicans to dinner rather than attacking them, offering measured concessions on issues like pension cutbacks and spending, trying to rally public support for what he described as balanced proposals—were no longer effective.
"'He is aghast,' said Jodie Evans, a longtime associate who had recently had dinner with Mr. Brown in Oakland. 'He reports on some of the conversations, like he couldn’t believe the narrowness or lack of comprehending by public officials. He said, "Some of my old tools aren’t going to work."'"

Adam Nagourney in The New York Times reports on Gov. Jerry Brown's attempts at negotiating with the Republican minority in Sacramento.