Even Jerry Brown’s Prop 30 relied on large-scale financing from unions and businesses that wanted to stay on Brown’s good side. “It’s a big state with a lot of voters,” Carlyle Hall told me.

Gonzalez-Fletcher and Newsom will be remembered, just like Orange County’s former Treasurer-Tax Collector Robert L. “Bob” ...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown looks at his watch as he waits to start a news conference on July 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Brown is the democratic gubernatorial candidate.

W ith Kamala Harris out of the picture, the once-sleepy California gubernatorial race is suddenly buzzing. Donors are opening ...

Jerry Brown has always used his current office as a platform for the next election. He has gone from secretary of state to governor, running for president and the U.S. Senate, then mayor and ...

Jerry Brown closed a cosmic circle this month when he inducted actor Robert Redford into the California Hall of Fame. Forty-six years earlier, Redford had played a fictional version of Brown in ...

Jerry Brown spoke to supporters and thanked them for their help in nominating him as the Democratic candidate for governor in the California Democratic primary election.

Jerry’s sister, Kathleen Brown, was the California treasurer in the early 1990’s and the Democratic nominee for governor in 1994. Mr. Brown, however, was never viewed as an ordinary politician.

Politics Jerry Brown’s Tough-Love Miracle: How He Turned Around California The 75-year-old governor rescued the Golden State from financial ruin - and is reshaping a national progressive agenda ...

5 Takeaways From California Gov. Jerry Brown’s Last Bill Signing Session After four terms as governor, in the 1970s and ’80s and in this decade, Jerry Brown has signed his last bills.

To watch Jerry Brown is to marvel at just how many political lives he can squeeze into his years on stage. The California governor who delivered his State of the State speech Thursday from the ...