SACRAMENTO — When Gov. Jerry Brown delivers his annual State of the State address next week, he’s expected to cheer California’s good financial fortune, continue to hail the bullet train and stress the need to tackle climate change before it’s too late.
But a new, wide-ranging poll conducted by Stanford’s Hoover Institution in conjunction with the university’s Bill Lane Center for the American West shows Californians have some different ideas about the state’s priorities.
While respondents gave the governor high marks for his handling of the state budget — which was drowning in red ink when he took office in early 2011 — the survey shows that slightly more than half of residents are ready to bag the $68 billion rail line and that tackling the state’s water woes, not global warming, should be California’s top priority.
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