Better Look Around

"For all the regard in which the elder Brown is held as a builder, the most recent Times/USC poll demonstrates that historian Martin Schiesl was correct when he said Pat's 'final legacy was a generous and highly positive view of governmental power,' a belief that state government 'could ease some of the distressing aspects of modern society, provide all Californians with a measure of dignity and assure for them a decent and durable standard of living.'
"It is that legacy the majority of Californians still take to heart. Pat Brown's son needs to keep in mind that he was elected because voters believed he would vindicate the faith they still share with his father."

In the Los Angeles Times, Tim Rutten compares Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and Sr.