With less than two weeks before he must enter the race for governor, state Attorney General Jerry Brown told college-age Democrats on Saturday to stay tuned for news about his presumed bid.Right. Governor Moonbeam. Governor Moonbeam needs another crack at Caliphornia.
Brown, 71, has been acting rather coy for more than year about his plans, but he gave his first extensive comments about how he would run California since becoming the Democrats' presumed nominee. "I've done pretty well not doing anything," Brown told a gathering of California Young Democrats when asked if he was running for governor. "We used to have a lot of people running for the Democratic nomination. They're not there anymore, right?"
Nobody wants to get in the barrel when it's about to go over the falls...
Brown's aggressive fundraising and name recognition have been enough to drive potential rivals -- such as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- out of the contest for the Democratic nomination.
Newsom and Villaraigosa as the face of Caliphornia's future don't really look that different from Governor Moonbeam, the face of Caliphornia's past. But likely the state will continue happily voting Democrat until nobody can afford to live there anymore. Then they'll all move to other states, where they'll continue voting Democrat.
But his $12 million campaign account is much smaller than his potential Republican opponents.
I understand the Caliphornia hinterlands used to be inhabited by people who believed in Cause & Effect, but the coastal areas always outvoted them.
Meg Whitman, the billionaire former chief executive of eBay, has given her campaign $39 million so far and is poised to spend more than $100 million. Steve Poizner, a multimillionaire who developed GPS chips for cell phones, has said he will add to the $19 million he already has given his campaign. Brown said facing such a well-funded opponent is one of the reasons he has held off announcing his intentions.