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1992

Governor Jerry Brown and presidential campaign advisor Steve Schmidt at the Democratic Party Platform hearings

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Posted January 2016, social media in response to the Brown campaign's We the People platform and focus on the necessity of 'pushing back' the influence of money-in-politics/pay-to-play/quid pro quo and initiating a "First 100 Days" administration w/ campaign finance reform and lobbying regulation

Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy siterunner: Presidential campaign/1992 -- A Focus on Opposition to Undue Influence of Money-in-Politics

SJS/Siterunner: >We're witnessing a presidential campaign of Senator Sanders with many core themes of the 1992 Jerry Brown campaign for president. In '92, I can look back to being an adv to Jerry and a collaborator w him on our platform. We spoke of money in politics and its 'undue influence' over most every critical element of policy -- from war and peace to health care. I worked my first campaign with Jerry in 1976 and have pushed green issues now as Jerry has for over 40 yrs... Time flies as the saying goes and it feels appropriate that California is still out in front in green politics and policy -- no more 'moonbeam' rap for Jerry. Mike Royko, who coined that term, long ago apologized as Calif w Jerry's vision and leadership continue to very much stay out in front of the modern envir movement. Too bad Jerry's not younger. He'd be a great president.

>Not to sound maudlin but Bernie Sanders does sound like our campaign in 1992 and our message and challenge to the Clinton campaign... what Sanders is saying about quid pro quo, w add-ons about Citizens United and Super PACs, is old, old news to me -- and there's not going to be much change at all in DC as long as the pay-to-play, campaign finance/lobbying system as it is stays in place -- back then the reps of Ds and Clinton campaign told me, and told me to tell the Brown campaign, that they weren't going to "unilaterally disarm" and they were moving to out raise and out do the Rs in the money game and in many ways they have... it's about money in politics.... that's where policy comes from.

>Our 'We the People' platform spoke of political reform across a breadth of issues.... many green ideas we brought forward carry on in the founding US Green Party Platform, which your GreenPolicy siterunner was the key drafter, and Jerry and his ideas and agenda carried on in California. To this day, Governor Brown is out in front with model green and progressive initiatives for change.

>Decades now, day-to-day, Jerry has been hard at work to make a difference and create, with vision, a better world.

>Here's a nod of our green hat to Jerry Brown -- a principled visionary.

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown