RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Brown takes to You Tube to tell Californians about '$16 Billion hole'

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Brown takes to You Tube to tell Californians about '$16 Billion hole'

By Randy Economy

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SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will release his revised budget proposal at a press conference in Sacramento on Monday, followed by a press conference later in the day in Los Angeles.

But the California Governor took to You Tube on Saturday morning to announce a $16 Billion shortfall for the next fiscal year.

"We are still recovering from the worst recession since the 1930's," Brown says in the You Tube clip entitled "Address to the People of California: Governor Brown discusses 2012-2013 Budget."

"Tax receipts are coming in lower than expected," and "we are facing a $16 Billion hole, up from $9 billion we thought in January," Brown states in the two and a half minute clip.

"This means we will have to go much further and make cuts far greater than I asked for in the beginning of the year," Brown said. He also asks voters to support a plan that would tax the "highest earning Californians to pay three percent more in their income tax for the next seven years, and would increase sales taxes one quarter of one percent for the next four years," Brown said.

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”