Pete Wilson on California Governance, Then and Now
Joe Mathews admitted that, even as a born-and-raised Californian, he had but a “newspaper context paragraph understanding” of Pete Wilson’s governorship until recently. “Not all of those newspaper paragraphs were kind or necessarily accurate,” Mathews said, adding that those who watched Wilson’s years in office closely – and even fought against him during those years – found him to be, contrary to the newspaper-paragraph take, a successful governor. As one senior official in the California Teachers Association told Mathews, “Deals stuck, important issues were resolved, and he left the state …
