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Governor Jerry Brown and presidential campaign advisor Steve Schmidt at the Democratic Party Platform hearings, 1992

A Memoir (excerpt): Personal Recollections from the 1992 Jerry Brown 'insurgent' presidential campaign

GreenPolicy Siterunner: "It's as if Bernie Sanders has chosen key elements from Jerry Brown's "Take Back America" '92 campaign platform --

We'll see what happens now as the Sanders' Independent-Democrat campaign challenges Hillary Clinton."

Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

January 2016 / Reflecting on the Jerry Brown presidential campaign of 1992

>Today with the Sanders' campaign, we're witnessing a presidential campaign with many of the core themes of the 1992 Jerry Brown campaign for president.

>I look back to being an advisor 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.

>>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 substantive change in DC as long as the pay-to-play, campaign finance/lobbying system as it is remains in place -- re pushing back money in politics reform proposals in '92, the reps of the Ds national org 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.

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Constructive Politics: Building a Political Vision over Time

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

>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 continues 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.

Key themes of the Brown 1992 campaign carry forward in the 2016 Sanders campaign

● Big money out of politics with campaign finance limits

● Political reform ... addressing voting, electoral restrictions

● Putting forward single-payer health care

● Environmental protection, emphasized international cooperation

● Reordered military priorties and security policy

NYT: Success of Jerry Brown, and California, Offers Lesson to National Democrats

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/us/politics/california-jerry-brown-democrats-primary-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.html

May 2016

By Adam Nagourney, New York Times political reporter

GreenPolicy Siterunner: In 1992, Adam Nagourney covered the Brown v Clinton presidential campaign. As an advisor to Brown, I had many opportunities to interact w/ Adam and react to his campaign news coverage for USA Today. Adam was an exceptional reporter then and still is today in 2016 as a NYT senior political reporter and Los Angeles Bureau Chief...

SACRAMENTO — When Bernie Sanders held a rally at an outdoor stadium here the other night, more than 15,000 people turned out in a display of cheering, chanting, singing and cartwheels.

Gov. Jerry Brown, the state’s most prominent Democrat, was not there, but he might as well have been. Mr. Sanders’s speech was replete with the kind of to-the-barricades flourishes that have long been part of Mr. Brown’s campaign language.

“The political establishment is getting nervous,” Mr. Sanders said. “The corporate establishment is getting nervous. And they should be nervous. Because real change is coming.”

As the Democratic presidential primary nears in California, it is easy to find in Mr. Sanders the kind of populist appeal that has long animated Mr. Brown, who ran for president in 1992 on a “We the People” pledge to accept no contribution over $100...

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Looking back at the influence of the 1992 Brown campaign platform on the drafting of the founding US Green party platform

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform

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Spoiling for a Fight: Third-party Politics in America

By Micah Sifry / https://personaldemocracy.com/micah-sifry

File:Spoiling for a Fight Third-party Politics in America by Micah Sifry Routledge Publishers 2003 - published Kindle edition 2013.pdf

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