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

• Brown campaign platform, 1992 (PDF)

Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

Personal Recollections by Steven Schmidt, 1992 Jerry Brown presidential campaign

(Excerpted from the American Twilight, published by the Green Institute, 2004)

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January-February March 2016

Social Media comments by GreenPolicy360's Siterunner:

>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.

>"It's as if Bernie Sanders has chosen key elements from Jerry Brown's "Take Back America" 1992 campaign platform, position by position...

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

• Big money out of politics with campaign finance limits

• Political reform ... addressing voting, electoral restrictions

• Single-payer health care, a comprehensive program

• Environmental protection, emphasized international cooperation

• Reordered military priorities and security policy, nuclear non-proliferation

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>I look back to being a senior advisor with Jerry, a close collaborator with him on our platform. At the top of our campaign, beginning with the announcement speech on the steps of Independence Hall, and everyday after, 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 environmental 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

>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, 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.

Success of Jerry Brown, and California, Offers Lesson to Democrats

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, California — 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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