California Governor Jerry Brown again?
He is announcing a statewide run sometime today.
Jerry Brown's liberalism used to nauseate Republicans so much that his pop politics and granola-crunching approach to the universe always seemed to be a joke.
Not anymore.
Then again, this is a different Jerry Brown ... well, maybe.
After tackling the city of Oakland as its mayor and re-ascending as State Attorney General, there is something about Jerry Brown at 71 that comes across as conventional.
CNN reported that Brown will announce a run for governor of California today.
This is a much different Jerry Brown who ran for President, U.S. Senate and served as governor until 1983.
After two terms as mayor of Oakland and now as Attorney General, Brown's political pedigree is varied enough to make this comeback believeable.
Also, Brown always was a populist -- and become a more defined populist over the past ten years. His choice to return to the other city by the bay lent a more practical and, at times, even conservative face to the liberal who departed from establishment politics in disgust in the 1980s.
Already ahead in the polls, having amassed a war chest of $12 million and looking comfortable in his skin as a 71 year old. Not bad for a fellow who first won a California gubernatorial race in 1974 at the age of 36.
This run for elected office is bound to fascinate and intrigue both the media and voters, especially if he can connect with tea party members.
Can anyone imagine Jerry Brown not relating to tea party activists?
CNN reported a recent poll from the Public Policy Institute showing the former governor leading his most formidable GOP rival Meg Whitman by about five points, while an more recent Rasmussen poll showed them tied with 43 percent of the vote each.
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