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“the difference between Mondale and Reagan” SFC, Jul. 15, 1984
“I’m advancing ideas” SFE, Jan. 14, 1985
“John the Baptists” World Policy Journal, Jun. 14, 1984
“out of active politics” SFE, Jan. 14, 1985
telephone survey Belden Research, Feb. 1985, EGB, Carton 31, Folder 28
“I blame Jerry Brown” Mosk, Apr. 2, 1998, in Peter J. Belton oral history, “A Senior Staff Attorney Reflects”
her decision to rotate the conference table Cairns, p. 107
“At stake is a choice” LAT, Mar. 2, 1986
“What’s a father to do?” LAT, Oct. 28, 1986
“return to the soil” California Journal, June 1984
“when he feels like getting married” SFC, Oct. 20, 1978
“the strong influence” Barbara to Pat, Jan. 14, 1974, EGB, Carton 28, Folder 19
“I think he was a good governor” California Journal, June 1984
“It is about grasping the immediate” East Bay Express, Mar. 22, 1991
“writing for myself” LAT, Jan. 20, 1987
“the delusions of the self” East Bay Express, Mar. 22, 1991
“the expression on those faces!” Courtesy of Frank Damrell
“the pain on faces” Life magazine, April 1988
“he killed the idea” Collins to Pat, March 1988, EGB, Carton 27, Folder 16
“To make change” Whole Earth Catalog, Winter 1988
“I know in my bones” Op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Dec. 1988
“I’ve got some baggage” LAT, Dec. 18, 1988
“de facto educational apartheid” Education Week, June 19, 1985
“a heroic challenge” ABC News, Feb. 12, 1989, www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBEXNCxKEE
“nuts and bolts” LAT, Jan. 12, 1991
“not for a moment” Jerry to friends, Sep. 6, 1991
“that spirit of democracy” “We the People,” Sep. 6, 1991, www.c-span.org/video/?21224-1/people
“Join with me” Oct. 21, 1991, David Brower Papers, Carton 93, BANC
“to be a catalyst” Whole Life Times, October 1991
“wining and dining” Jerry to the Winter Soldiers, Fall 1992
“beg for money” SFC, Sep. 13, 1991
at a union convention “Brown Campaign Speech,” Mar. 25, 1992, www.c-span.org/video/?25312-1/brown-campaign-speech
“a master of the process” NYT, Apr. 2, 1992
“Jerry is so irritating” NYT, Mar. 9, 1992
“very provocative contradiction” Jan. 14, 1992 interview, in Rolling Stone, Mar. 5, 1992
spent an hour with the New York Post editorial board “Jerry Brown Editorial Meeting with New York Post,” Apr. 2, 1992, archive.org/details/CSPAN3_20160410_140000_Jerry_Brown_Editorial_Meeting_with_New_York_Post
“institutionalized injustice” LAT, May 2 and 3, 1992
“the rich are getting richer” May 30, 1992, American Community Summit, www.c-span.org/video/?26329-1/brown-campaign-speech
“you’ve got a good point” Washington Post, Apr. 17, 1992
“the absolute, the moral principles” New York Post meeting, Apr. 2, 1992
“just ahead of his time” Associated Press profile, Mar. 27, 1992
“an unflinching faith” LAT, Mar. 3, 1992
soaring over the cities Pat to Reagan, an open letter, Pat Brown oral history, OH
“benevolent seraph” LAT, Mar. 3, 1992
“be a missionary” LAT, Mar. 30, 1992
“to play out a destiny” NYT, Apr. 2, 1992
“a lot of ambition” New York Post meeting, Apr. 2, 1992
“We influence, we shape” LAT, Jun. 3, 1992
“I admire his guts” LAT, Jul. 16, 1992
“My father, Pat Brown!” “Gov. Jerry Brown 1992 Convention Remarks,” Jul.15, 1992 www.c-span.org/video/?27116-1/gov-jerry-brown-1992-convention-remarks
18: A Different Shade of Brown
Sources: “Crawford v. Los Angeles Unified School District,” University of Laverne Law Review, Vol. 31; Field Poll; “Undocumented Immigration in California,” PPIC; Census Data; Author interviews with Anne Gust Brown, Kathleen Brown, Kathleen Kelly, Myers, Reese, Rice, Sauter
“I am a proud Californian” “Democratic Issues,” Woman’s National Democratic Club, Apr. 9, 1992, www.c-span.org/video/?25457-1/democratic-issues
“a wonderful girl” Diary, Oct. 11, 1960, EGB, Vol. 26
“Kathy is Pat’s favorite” NYT, May 25, 1992
“the highest calling” LAT, Dec. 19, 1974
“because my name is Brown” LAT, Mar. 10, 1975
“standard of living” Reader’s Digest, March 1976
“I’m twenty-nine and a half” LAT, Jun. 2, 1975
“a constitutional obligation” Crawford v. Board of Education, Supreme Court of California, Jun. 28, 1976
“here I sit” Minutes of Mar. 3, 1977, LAUSD archives, Box 942, UCLA
“honest differences” LAT, Mar. 5, 1977
more and more empty desks LAT, Oct. 9, 1979; Nov. 30, 1979
“chronic bedwetters” Sun Valley Guide, Winter 2007
“a matter of love” SFC, Apr. 5, 1982
“the house radical” Ibid.
“a Magellan Avenue kid” Washington Post, Feb. 25, 1994
“don’t have time for newcomers” “Letters Home,” LAT, Dec. 29, 1985
“you will be governor” Pat to Kathleen, Jul. 27, 1988, EGB, Carton 27, Folder 12
“everywhere I go” LAT, Apr. 30, 1989
“different shade of Brown” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 1, 1979
“Kathleen is more natural” NYT, May 25, 1992
“Everybody likes Kathy” Ibid.
“the best of both” LAT, Mar. 13, 1989
“on the national ticket” LAT, Dec. 30, 1990
“He never asked me” LAT, Jan. 4, 1991
“great day to be a girl” LAT, Jun. 4, 1992
“kind of scary” Vanity Fair, June 1994
“a fair princess” Economist, Jan. 9, 1993
“I am incredibly proud” LAT, Jul.12, 1992
“Family transcends politics” Ibid.
“Jerry’s brilliant” NYT, Apr. 30, 1994
“He’s my brother” Ibid.
“rooted in the values” Jun. 21, 1994, calvoter.org/archive/94general/cand/governor/brow/browspeech5.html
“you lack the courage” Oct. 14, 1994, www.c-span.org/video/?60854-1/california-gubernatorial-debate
percentage of foreign-born residents “Immigrants in California,” PPIC, Jan. 2017; U.S. Census Bureau and American Community Survey
“Immigration and immigrants add immeasurable value” LAT, Sep. 30, 1993
remained disproportionately white Caroline J. Tolbert and Rodney E. Haro, “Race/Ethnicity and Direct Democracy: An Analysis of California’s Illegal Immigration Initiative.” Journal of Politics 58 (3):806–18
“going to reverberate” C-SPAN, Nov. 7, 1994
“a fight for California” LAT, Nov. 13, 1994
“remember who you represent” Ibid.
“a mystical feeling” Vanity Fair, June 1994
“There was pressure” LAT, Dec. 31, 1994
“touched so many lives” TRIB, Feb. 20, 1996
Kathleen Kelly recalled SFC, Feb. 22, 1996
“Expanding and building” Ibid.
19: Oakland Ecopolis
Sources: Beth Bagwell, Oakland, The Story of a City (Novato: Presidio Press, 1982); Self, American Babylon; Stephen Talbot, The Celebrity and the City (2001); Matthew Fox, Confessions, Revised and Updated; Author interviews with Damrell, Grell, Kathleen Kelly, Tagami, Tramutola
four-year-old Gertrude Stein moved to Oakland Lois Rather, Gertrude Stein and California (Oakland: Rather Press, 1974)
“promote better government” Incorporation, “We the People,” CA Secretary of State
“take America back” TRIB, Oct. 8, 1993
“the diversity of America” Terrain magazine, February 1995
“some form of common life” SFE, Apr. 25, 1993
“we need cooperative caring” NYT, Aug. 10, 1995
“take apart the conventional wisdom” California Journal, April 1994
“an excellent opportunity” SFC, Jul. 1, 1995
With Gore Vidal “We the People,” July 1996, “Gore Vidal on Jerry Brown,” posted by quuzellmynxits, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMfg-JGaSQ
“what I know how to do” “Moving toward the abyss,” Salon, Jun. 3, 1996
“I’m ready for community” ITA conference, Santa Clara, Jun. 10, 1995
“enjoy running for office” California Journal, April 1994
“softer, fuzzier version” TRIB, Aug. 29, 2003
“his time has passed” TRIB, Nov. 21, 1996
he contacted Ernest J. Yanarella Ernest J. Yanarella, “How Green Is Jerry Brown?” www.terrain.org/essays/9/yanarella.htm
“at stake right here” TRIB, Oct. 29, 1997
“a tight little club” Horizon magazine, Feb. 1998
“have some impact” April 1999, General Assembly of Bay Area Governments, in Whole Earth Catalog, Summer 1999
“people voted for change” TRIB, Jun. 3, 1998
“being down on the field” Diablo magazine, January 2001
“test of Democratic leadership” July 12, 1988, convention transcript, CA Labor Federation proceedings, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
“catalyst for change” Inaugural Address, Jan. 4, 1999
“gun put in their back” The Celebrity and the City, 2001
“a specific dead body” Mayor’s Blog, Jun. 22, 2005
“be able to produce” City Journal, Autumn 1999
“make laws and unmake them” CA Labor Federation, Jul. 21, 1988
“focused on potholes” Whole Earth Catalog, Summer 1999
“Suburbs are cheaper, cleaner, safer” Ibid.
“They all want an autograph” The Celebrity and the City, 2001
“to shake things up” SFC, May 13, 2000
“Every single project” State of the City address, April 1999
“They’ll call it gentrification” The Celebrity and the City, 2001
“what’s wrong with that?” Nation, Mar. 18, 2002
his own divinity school Fox, Confessions, Revised and Updated
“take some risk” “The State of Our Cities,” Milken Institute Global Conference, April 1, 2003
“he pelts questions at me” San Francisco Business Times, Nov. 20, 2005
“It was a big mistake” Ibid.
“It’s a scandal” LAT, Aug. 4, 2003
“there is tension” “Making Government Work,” Temple University, May 8, 2000
“deep intellectual exchange” Jerry to David Brower, Nov. 8, 1999, Brower Papers, BANC
“in friendship pursuing truth” SFC, Aug. 29, 2000
“I find it interesting” NYT, Sep. 17, 2000
Jerry wrote in a eulogy Whole Earth Review, Spring 2003, www.wtp.org
“the inspiration to learn” interview with Shane Goldmacher, LAT, Oct. 7, 2009
“right was right” “Jerry Brown Speaks to AFSCME 2620- Part 2,” San Jose, Aug. 27, 2009, posted by 2620afscme, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVlOVn_VCw
“my most lasting achievement” TRIB, Feb. 10, 2003
half a million dollars “We the People” Form 990, California Secretary of State
“a tsunami coming at us” Hannity and Colmes, Aug. 7, 2003
“voter rebellion” “Global Viewpoint,” New Perspectives Quarterly, Oct. 8, 2003
“the steady hand” TRIB, May 11, 2002
“she created the order” TRIB, May 14, 2002
“nothing in my past” The Celebrity and the City, 2001
“not everybody’s favorite” East Bay Express, Mar. 19, 2003
“eight-year-old with an ant farm” TRIB, Jul. 2, 2003
Oakland Tribune columnist TRIB, Nov. 1, 2000
“for a good cause” Mayor’s Blog, Apr. 15, 2005
“fourth day of marriage” Mayor’s Blog, Jun. 22, 2005
20: Son of Sacramento
Sources: Author interviews: Anne Gust Brown, Damrell, Matosantos, Nichols, Quinn, Starr, Tagami
“my first glimpse” “Jerry Brown Inaugural and Behind Scenes,” Jan. 8, 2007, posted by NewWestNotes, www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO479saDweU
“it’s about tradition” LA Weekly, Jan. 24, 2007
“his vocation” LAT, Jun. 6, 2012
“It’s been fascinating” Ibid.
“life that we’re leading” LAT, Oct. 22, 2010
“pretty invaluable” Jerry to CA Dept. of Justice employees, Dec. 2006
“a broad title” East Bay Times, Jan. 5, 2007
“panoramic view” East Bay Times, Apr. 20, 2016
“global warming legislation” Jerry to CA Dept. of Justice employees
“the Party of California” LAT, Nov. 16, 2003
“totally unique threat” Sacramento Bee, Aug. 23, 2007
“crossed my mind” Sacramento Bee, Aug. 23, 2007
“the historic character” Associated Press, April 9, 2009
“a meat grinder” AFSCME 2620, Aug. 27, 2009, in San Jose
“drawn to the task” “Jerry Brown Talks at Google,” Mountain View, Apr. 9, 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ndAoifYyE
“civic engagement” “Jerry Brown Speech at Green:Net 2010,” Apr. 29, 2010, archive.org/details/JerryBrownSpeechatGreen-Net2010-sV-gbcSEvGQ
“common sense” LAT, Oct. 22, 2010
“I cannot win” Gubernatorial debate, CSU Fresno, Oct. 2, 2010
“kick you out” Ibid.
“due to Anne” LAT, Oct. 22, 2010
“The new comes out of the random” “Jerry Brown Talks at Google,” Apr. 9, 2010
“this beautiful Fox theater” “Election Night!” Nov. 2, 2010, posted by Brown for Governor, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMGsAd0edgc
21: Second Chances
Sources: Author interviews with Anne Gust Brown, Cummins, Diana Dooley, Matosantos, Quinn
“those pillars” “The California Report,” KQED, May 2, 2014
“I can be president” Anthony York Q&A, LAT, Sep. 2012
“a ‘purer’ view” Atlantic, June 2013
“I have a group of people” York interview, Sep. 2012
“an extra pair of hands” KCRA, May 22, 2013
“running on time” Capitol Weekly, Nov. 24, 2010
“corral him” “She Shares” conversation, Jun. 5, 2013, posted by CalChannel, www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxI9dQAfQC8gpud5Iaiwwg
“like a vacation” Ibid.
“a caste system” “Gov Jerry Brown on UC Budget at UC Regents - 1/17/2013,” Jan. 17, 2013, posted by L4NER619, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R6UW2ri9Mc
“chess game” Google forum, Mountain View, April 9, 2010
“safety, fear, religion” Sacramento Bee editorial board, Sep. 12, 2016
“screw things up” California Prison Industry Authority forum, San Diego, Sep. 1, 2017
“souls in purgatory” California Legislative Black Caucus MLK Breakfast, Jan. 12, 2017
“a little humility” San Diego, Sep. 1, 2017
not “yeasty” enough Yale Law School reunion, “AW ’14 Panel 2: Picking Judges,” Oct. 25, 2014, vimeo.com/110354435
“send a message” “Gov. Jerry Brown Prop 30 Speech Highlights & Reactions at UCLA,” Oct. 16, 2012, posted by UCLA Daily Bruin, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBSYkyU6xqU
Latino share of the vote California Civic Engagement Project study, January 2016
graduation speech “Governor Jerry Brown’s address to political science graduates,” UC Berkeley, May 20, 2013, posted by thedailycal, www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJKaTFff1Do
22: Fiat Lux Redux
Sources: “University Eligibility for the Public High School Class of 2015,” RTI International; “Improving College Pathways,” PPIC, November 2017; “Higher Education in California,” PPIC, September 2017; Transcripts, v
ideo, and minutes of Regents meetings; Author interviews with Dan Dooley, Johnson, Kirst, Myers, Taylor
“dream big” SFC, May 17, 2009
out of poverty Census Bureau report, Sept. 2017; PPIC Poverty Fact Sheet, 2017
$15-an-hour minimum wage “Gov. Jerry Brown Signs the $15-per-hour Minimum Wage Bill,” Apr. 4, 2016, posted by Los Angeles Times, www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjduaZw_UeU
the poverty rate “Poverty in California,” PPIC, Oct. 2017
with a bachelor’s degree “Higher Education in California,” PPIC, Sep. 2017
percentages of Latinos graduating “Statistical Picture of Latinos in California,” CA Senate Office of Research, Jan. 2014
fewer than a third “Improving College Pathways in California,” PPIC, Nov. 2017
“a little humility” Jerry to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Aug. 28, 2009
“a good test” American Federation of Teachers conference, Jul. 11, 2014, posted by AFTHQ, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyVfFCnhS0&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
“districts might screw up” Berggruen Institute fifth anniversary, May 5, 2016, vimeo.com/165498026
had the requisite grades RTI International study, Jul. 2017
“engine of growth” Google forum, Apr. 9, 2010
“long-term game plan” Anthony York Q&A, LAT, Sep. 2012
“That left a scar” “Gov Jerry Brown on UC Budget at UC Regents - 1/17/2013,” posted by L4NER619, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R6UW2ri9Mc
“We’re dealing with California” Ibid.
“Let’s get real” “Gov Jerry Brown comments at UC Regents meeting 1-16-2013,” posted by L4NER619, www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXq9cIhpROg
“the five percent” “California Gov. Brown Talks About Politics & Budget at UC Regents: Nov. 14, 2013,” posted by danieljbmitchell, www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdiqL2ntJzU&t=1s
“I love learning” Regents meeting, Jan. 17, 2013
single largest increase Transcript of Regents meeting, Mar. 16, 2017
the greatest role in economic upward mobility “California’s Upward-Mobility Machine,” NYT, May 25, 2017, Sep. 16, 2015
“a very powerful university” Regents meeting, Jan. 17, 2013
23: Past as Prologue
On January 5, 2015, she took the microphone Governor’s inauguration, “Gov Jerry Brown Inauguration 1-5-2015,” posted by L4NER619, www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGgRDCYWKTQ
“a trendsetter” “Governor Jerry Brown Interviewed by UC Campus Newspapers,” Daily Californian, Oct. 22, 2012, soundcloud.com/hardandsoft/jerry-brown-interview-with-uc