"Brown minimized the pension system’s contribution to the budget shortfall,"

Now there's a surprise.   Rather than risk taking on her primary (and maybe only) base of support, the public employee unions, she continues to ignore the elephant in the budget.  I can hear the nay sayers now, there's nothing you can do, the Supreme Court has said a deal is a deal.  Maybe cutting benefits isn't possible but cutting employees perhaps?  More contract work, charter schools, expanded online education offerings?  Of course, this would also outrage that political base again, so no, just keep asking for money to fill the ever expanding sink hole.