MORE ON: Jerry Brown

Give credit to Matt Lauer. In moderating the freewheeling discussion between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman at today's Women's Conference in Long Beach, The Today Show host turned what could have been a rehash of the same old talking points into a tart yet measured back-and-forth that... + read more

Standing on stage at USC on Friday, a fired-up Jerry Brown told his college-aged audience that “green jobs” are California’s future. “We don’t need Saudi Arabian oil or Texas gas,” he said, speaking to a crowd hyped up in anticipation of President Obama... + read more

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have both struggled to define their position on immigration during an election year in which the Latino vote is critical and tough laws in a neighboring state have made headlines. Whitman arguably has had a more difficult road, trying to find a middle ground between... + read more

Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown agree that serious reforms are needed to wrangle California’s notoriously unwieldy, consistently overdue budget. While they overlap in a few areas – both agree cuts are needed in the pension system, for example – their approaches are as different as the... + read more

From someone in Jerry Brown's office caught privately calling Meg Whitman a "whore" for allegedly trading pension protection for endorsements to an anonymous Team Whitman aide mocking Brown with a Humpty Dumpty-style nursery rhyme, it's clear there's no love lost between the... + read more

The following documents hint at the connections Gov. Jerry Brown had with his close confidants on his 'Special List.' + read more