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Jerry Brown passed the California "rainy day fund" in November 2014 on the same ballot on which he was re-elected. Literally re-elected on a budget surplus platform.

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Too bad the surplus came from cutting the emergency preparedness programs that ought to have been funded by a surplus.

Having a budget surplus platform is not at all the same thing as having a budget surplus.

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