Governor Moonbeam is back! Yeah!

[county worker]

[Dawson Leery]

1. K/R

[Historic NY]

2. Wonder if he is going to get the old Plymouths out again?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Makes me nostalgic for '75.

Jerry & everybody was so much younger, but this should be fun anyway.

[Stardust]

4. Was that his nickname back then? I like it...

[Cetacea]

5. It really hurt him back in '92.

But it rocks now!

[11cents]

6. Yay and meh.

It's not like he's been gone from the perspective of us Oaklanders; he was mayor here for two terms. In any other circumstance, I'd find the return of Jerry Brown profoundly depressing. He's no prize, and non-Californians tend to think he's much more leftwards than he is. He's actually rather conservative and always has been. But so happy to see Meg Whitman get crushed -- and to have someone in the office who is at least experienced and competent.

[Raine]

8. Yeah I feel the same way

I'll certainly take him over witless. I wish he was more the way his image is but still the victory is sweet after witless spent so much. :-)

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. Serve the people, explore the universe, protect the earth' (Version of Brown's 1980 campaign sloga...

I'll never forget how Johnny Carson delivered that line just before he said, 'They call him Governor Moonbeam'.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

"'How Jerry Brown Became 'Governor Moonbeam' By JESSE McKINLEY March 6, 2010

...The nickname was coined by Mike Royko, the famed Chicago columnist, who in 1976 said that Mr. Brown appeared to be attracting 'the moonbeam vote,' which in Chicago political parlance meant young, idealistic and nontraditional. ...

... the nickname accompanied Governor Brown as he declared his fascination with outer space, proposed that California launch its own space satellite and made headlines dating the rock star Linda Ronstadt. The nickname became a whipping stick for Mr. Royko. And he flailed away as Mr. Brown was trying to convince fellow Democrats that he�d be a good presidential candidate. (His 1980 campaign slogan was 'protect the earth, serve the people and explore the universe.'..."