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Economics in San Bernardino

Phil Angelides was campaigning in San Bernardino Thursday, talking with voters about his recently unveiled economic plan. The L.A. Times has a nice piece on a campaign stop in Redlands:

With about 12 weeks before election day, Angelides, the state treasurer, launched a new tax plan Wednesday that offers goodies for the middle class. He wants to roll back college fees, expand tax credits for families, cut taxes for small businesses and offer property tax and rent relief for the poor.

He is using the plan to paint himself as a common man, while characterizing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as being out of touch. On Thursday, he called the governor "clueless" and "from another planet," and told folksy stories about his own middle-class parents.

"This looks just like the place I grew up," Angelides, a millionaire, said as he walked up the steep driveway of a modest hillside home owned by two teachers in San Bernardino.

Angelides also sees the tax plan as a way to focus his campaign on working-class issues. Facing about three dozen people at the San Bernardino house, Angelides said Schwarzenegger has been "grinding down the middle class" and questioned whether the governor had any connection to working people because he "lives behind gates."

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