Alex Massie Alex Massie

Winning with Governor Moonbeam

Surprise: there’s some good news coming out of California! Governor Jerry Brown, enjoying his second tour in office, has taken to slapping down the kind of mollyocddling absurdities much favoured by that state’s woeful state legislature. Better still than a flourished veto pen are Governor Moonbeam’s reasons for despising the stuff sent to him by the legislature. To wit:

If only more politicians in this country – in this government too – could be as sensible as this. Not every human problem deserves a law. Quite so.

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