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Jerry Brown elected governor of California
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November 3, 2010, Wednesday
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CALIFORNIA elected Jerry Brown as governor again yesterday, Fox News projected, showing residents preferred the 72-year-old who ran the state in the 1970s and 1980s over billionaire businesswoman Meg Whitman.
As polls closed on the West Coast, Fox News projected that Brown had won. Other networks have not yet called the race, despite exit polling showing Brown well ahead.
Whitman, former eBay chief executive and a political novice, poured more than US$140 million of her own fortune into her first run for office, but polls ahead of the vote showed that swing constituencies, including women and Latinos, heavily favored Brown.
Brown promised to reinvent the budget process, widely seen as a disaster, and to create green jobs by accelerating the state's push into alternative energy and clean technology.
California's bloom of the 1970s and 80s, when Brown last was a young governor, has withered considerably.
A majority of Californians think the Golden State is heading in the wrong direction, with a deep divide between coastal liberals and interior conservatives along with double-digit unemployment and lingering housing crisis.
Brown has promised to make a quick start later this month by bringing together legislators to hammer out a spending plan, months earlier than usual, in a process that has provoked widespread skepticism.
As polls closed on the West Coast, Fox News projected that Brown had won. Other networks have not yet called the race, despite exit polling showing Brown well ahead.
Whitman, former eBay chief executive and a political novice, poured more than US$140 million of her own fortune into her first run for office, but polls ahead of the vote showed that swing constituencies, including women and Latinos, heavily favored Brown.
Brown promised to reinvent the budget process, widely seen as a disaster, and to create green jobs by accelerating the state's push into alternative energy and clean technology.
California's bloom of the 1970s and 80s, when Brown last was a young governor, has withered considerably.
A majority of Californians think the Golden State is heading in the wrong direction, with a deep divide between coastal liberals and interior conservatives along with double-digit unemployment and lingering housing crisis.
Brown has promised to make a quick start later this month by bringing together legislators to hammer out a spending plan, months earlier than usual, in a process that has provoked widespread skepticism.
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