Current position: Mayor of Oakland
Background: Son of former Gov. Edmond G. Brown. Graduated Yale Law School, 1964. Elected to Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, 1969; California secretary of state, 1970; governor, 1974; re-elected governor, 1978; chairman, state Democratic Party, 1989-91; elected Oakland mayor, 1998; re-elected mayor, 2002.
Platform: Focusing on his political qualifications for state attorney general, since he is a former California governor. Also criticizing his Republican foe as holding opinions on issues such as gun control and abortion that are too conservative for the job.
Current position: State senator from Fresno
Background: Graduated Santa Clara University School of Law, 1975. Elected Assembly, 1994-98; appointed member Little Hoover Commission; elected state Senate, 1998-2002; re-elected, 2002-2006.
Platform: Focusing on criticism of Brown as too liberal for the job, citing Brown's stances on issues such as the death penalty. Also criticizing Brown, Oakland's mayor, for failing to control that city's homicide rate.
Rose Byrd.
'Nuff said.
BUMP for Poochigian!