Jerry Brown wants to be California Attorney General:
“I’d bring creativity and innovation to that office. I have a lot to give,” Brown, 66, said Monday in an interview from London, where he stopped en route to a conference in Croatia. Brown last week quietly filed his required statement of intention to run for attorney general in 2006. The filing, a prerequisite to raising campaign funds, was an unusually stealthy move for a career politician who has been California’s secretary of state, governor, a three-time presidential contender, a U.S. Senate candidate and mayor of Oakland.
This is truly bizarre, but Brown’s an interesting guy who’s come a long wasy since the Gov. Moonbeam days. Likely Republican opponent Rod Pacheco would be my choice, but there’s an element of personal relationship there. When he was in the Assembly, he answered his own phone after 5:00; I really liked that.