The only thing Jerry Brown has been successful at is getting elected
Bad schools, bad roads, bad taxes, bad high-speed rail, bad water to agriculture, bad business climate, bad.... Yeah, real successful. What God put here is still marvelous. What Democrats have done is crumbling.
The only thing Jerry Brown has been successful at is changing California into Mexifornia
Sure. That's what the article is about. California becoming a Democrat-controlled state.
Somebody at the times had to stick in "and California" to make it sound like the article was about something more than Brown and the Democrats winning elections and staying in power.
....and driving taxpayers and businesses out of the state.