I know we have a lively Governor’s race right here in Massachusetts, but the Meg Whitman-Jerry Brown battle in California will have national repercussions. Whitman has spent about $100 million of her own money in this fight, and it is starting to get nasty. Brown is selling himself as an “outsider” with an “insiders knowledge”. Can either of these two manage to get control of California’s runaway budget process, or to bring a modicum of common sense to California’s dysfunctional legislature? Great stuff here for all of us who have been following Jerry Brown since the “early” days. Will Linda Ronstadt be anywhere near the Brown campaign?