By Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield
SACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly radio address, Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield (D-San Fernando Valley) discusses the California budget deficit and Governor Jerry Brown’s recently revised budget proposal. Blu…
May 18 is the birthday of James H. Budd, California’s 19th governor, who served from January 1895 to January 1899. He was the last Democrat to hold the office until Cuthbert Olsen was elected in 1938.
A Stockton resident and lawyer, the “genial and jovial” Budd ran on an anti-Southern Pacific, trim-the-fat in government platform. A brigadier general in the National Guard, he shunned railroad travel in his campaign, earning the nickname, “Buckboard Jim.”
As governor, he had a sign in his office that read: “Jim is in.”
During his four years as governor Budd convinced the Legislature to create the Bureau of [....]