Jerry Brown was a one term Governor back in the seventies. A lot of us Californians voted for him the first time around, because we had fond memories of his dad, Pat Brown.
Jerry soon proved to be such a radical and incompetent wackjob, we tossed him out in the next election. It took twenty years of immigration from foreign countries and blue states, to build a population dumb enough to elect him again. And again.
It was his attempt to win a Senate seat that failed.