The post previously scheduled for today has been delayed upon your humble blogger receiving word that Governor Jerry Brown, the 2nd, 14th, 34th and 39th Governor of California, has filed a workers’ compensation claim before the Sacramento Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, demanding all benefits and claiming 132a discrimination against the State of California.

Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, has vowed to personally represent the State of California against what she called “Jerry’s baseless claims.”  When asked about her experience in workers’ compensation matters, Ms. Harris noted that she is vaguely familiar with Employment Law, but as a regular reader of a workers’ compensation defense blog which she declined to name absent a sizable re-election campaign contribution, she feels perfectly competent to obtain what she called a “don’t take anything” order.

Governor Brown’s Application for Adjudication of Claim, which this blog was able to secure for its readers, claims injury to the psyche, carpal tunnel syndrome from signing various workers’ compensation bills into law, and a vague, hand-written injury which closely resembles the words “it hurts all over.”  The 132a petition appears to be based on failure to alleviate his stress claim, which entails all Sacramento workers referring to him as “the Big J.”

A copy of the application is available to download here.

His attorney’s office, the Sacramento branch of Whey, Cheatum, and Howe (EAMS No. 81154141), declined to comment except to mention that the attorney has not yet met with Governor Brown, but expects to call out his name randomly at the next hearing and hope that his client has appeared.

As your humble blogger becomes aware of more facts in this case, so will you.  For now, we can expect California politics to come to a stand-still as further details become available to the general public.