At the same time... GOVERNOR MOONBEAM is going to make Joe Byden look like a GENIUS!
(firing up the popcorn popper)
You might already know this, but this is for those on this thread who don’t.... WHY DID JERRY BROWN GET THE MONICKER — Mr. Moonbeam ?
Well, as governor in the 70’s , Brown proposed the establishment of a state space academy and the purchasing of a satellite that would be launched into orbit to provide emergency communications for the state — a proposal similar to one that would indeed eventually be adopted by the state.
In 1978 in a Rolling Stone interview Linda Ronstadt called her then boyfriend, Jerry Brown, her “Little Moonbeam”.
After this an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, then at the Chicago Sun-Times, nicknamed Brown “Governor Moonbeam” because of the latter idea.
The name stuck.
See here :
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html