Jerry Brown

...by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Republican Meg Whitman in a dead heat with Democrat Jerry Brown in the race for governor, a big swing from less than two months ago when Rasmussen showed Brown 9...

In this article: Meg Whitman, Tom Campbell, GOP, California, and Attorney General

...angered over state plans to cut their pay by 18 percent sooner rather than later turned to Attorney General Jerry Brown in the hopes he'd agree that the move was illegal. It's the kind of populist move that's got appeal to both sides of the...

In this article: Los Angeles Times

...credit for forcing Wells Fargo & Co. to buy $1.4 billion in troubled securities from small investors? California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and a group of regulators from other states announced separate deals Wednesday requiring the...

In this article: California, Wells Fargo, Credit crunch, Attorney General, and Los Angeles Times

...to only go up and never down, even in the face of a faltering economy and huge budget deficits," Brown wrote to legislative leaders. His opinion did not address a challenge to the commission's 18% cut in legislators' per diem and car...

In this article: Legal opinion, Attorney General, and Los Angeles

...charities and small businesses that bought auction-rate securities based on misleading advice, state Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Wednesday. "This is money in people's pockets that they've been waiting a year and a half to...

In this article: Wells Fargo and California

Attorney General Jerry Brown has taken the first formal steps toward declaring himself a candidate for Governor of California. He is, or soon will be, the deja vu candidate in a race to become the deja vu governor. What kind of governor...

In this article: California and University of Southern California

...and a national scandal involving the housing advocacy group ACORN, Brown is going to find himself in trouble no matter what he does. Brown's office is investigating two conservative filmmakers, James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles,...

In this article: Acorn, Attorney General, Tax, and California

...with five journalists, including a reporter for The Chronicle, without their consent. Officials in Brown's office said they had told him not to record the conversations without the reporters' consent, as required by state law. Gerber...

In this article: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Attorney General, California, California Republican Party, and GOP

...views on critical topics, although he has signaled he will oppose tax increases. Steven Glazer, a political adviser to Brown, said Brown will have time for politics later. "I'm very confident he will make a decision to run, but he's...

In this article: California, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Attorney General, World War II, EBay, and Meg Whitman