(Jerry) Brown says door is 'open' to make another run for governor

[Newsjock]

Source: The Sacramento Bee

By Andy Furillo / The Sacramento Bee

SACRAMENTO -- Riding high on a global-warming action plan he wants to take statewide, state Attorney General Jerry Brown says he's thinking about running for governor when the job opens up again in 2010.

"The thought has certainly crossed my mind, but I haven't really come to any conclusion," Brown said in a meeting Wednesday with the Sacramento Bee's Capitol Bureau staff.

Listed as perhaps the top Democratic gubernatorial prospect in two polls, Brown said, "I take note of that, but not with any great interest." The door is "open" to him for a possible run, he said, but "I'm not even going to think about it for the next year."

"I've had conversations with people," the 69-year-old two-term former governor and three-time presidential candidate said at the meeting. "But I've thought about it, and I've decided I'm not going to think about it in any serious way certainly for the next year."

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/120635.html

[VP505]

1. Moonbeam wants

to think about a run for Governor again? Wow, that ought to stir things up a bit, LOL.

[David__77]

2. He won't get my vote in the primary.

We need someone new and not someone who has such sour relations with key components of the progressive coalition. He turned a lot of people off as Oakland mayor. He's not a good leader for the California Democrats of this era.

[Trillo]

4. Feel free to fill us in with details,

rather than your generalized statement: "turned a lot of people off as Oakland mayor."

[David__77]

5. Here's is a link...

http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a2.html

It's not an anti-Brown piece, but it points out some the ways he alienated many progressives in Oakland.

[Trillo]

6. Thanks for the link, I think I understand.

This is what I got from the article:

• He's an authoritarian.
  
• He's illogical (draws the strawman that gentrification = lack of crime (if only our houses and biz district are pretty = we won't have gangs shooting the place up))
  
• He's a hypocrite (campaigning under one label, once in office, doing something else)
  
• He's heartless (pushing out the asian educator)
  
• He seems to support public funding of private 'Charter' schools, where once again his rhetoric and politicspeak (non-autoritarian school structure is apparently okay) doesn't match creative actions (military style charter academy)
  

This is a much different picture than I've ever seen painted of Jerry Brown.

Anyone else want to post a contrasting picture?

[David__77]

7. It's just enough to make someone wary.

That, and then other things that I have a hard time forgetting, like his double reversal on the question of abortion rights. If we go back even further he waffled on Proposition 13, the property tax limitation measure that did so much damage to public services and heralded the "conservative revolution" a couple years later. Brown supported it.

He's done good things, and done some at least questionable things. I guess I just want a consistent progressive voice, and preferably a newer one, to be the symbolic head of California Democrats. I voted for Brown as attorney general in the general election. I would vote for him for governor in the general election. But I do suppotr his primary campaigns.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. Pop Quiz: Which Democratic candidate for CA constitutional office got the most votes last year?

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2006_general/complete_sov.pdf

[onehandle]

3. The Gropenator isn't going to be Governor for life?

Who will the dumbest people in California vote for when Ahnold is out?

[Cha]

10. Whomever..

stephen speilberg pushes?

[bemildred]

8. Works for me.

I don't see how he could be even half as bad as any of the weasels we have had since.

[goodhue]

9. excellent