Four decades ago, Jerry Brown proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to bolster his bid for the White House, but failed. Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying the same strategy.
, California’s iconic property tax limit measure, went before voters in June 1978, the state’s governor, Jerry Brown, denounced it.Two months later, after voters overwhelming endorsed the measure, Brown did a 180-degree pirouette, declaring himself a “born-again tax cutter.”
Facing re-election to a second term later that year, Brown sponsored a state tax cut to obey, he said, the popular mandate. “A constitutional convention to propose an amendment to balance the budget is unprecedented, but so is the political paralysis that prevents necessary action,” Brown said, blaming deficit spending for a sharp increase in inflation “as destructive to our social well-being as an invading army.”
It was carefully orchestrated political theater, clearly aimed at carving out a platform for Brown’s second run at the presidency in 1980 by portraying incumbent President Jimmy Carter as a spendthrift out of touch with popular support for austerity and tax cuts.
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