no evidence that brown raised taxes, and margaret you first. why would jerrybrown why would jerry brown reignite despite the cleverness of this mad man ad, this brilliant ad by meg wittmann. got all the money in the world. hired the smartest don draper she could get her hands on. why would jerry brown make a fight now with the most popular democrat in the country. well, jerry brown is one of those candidates who can t be handled and he does stick his foot in his mouth. and arch willie brown, bill clinton must be one of the most popular democrats in california. and nobody thinks back to at impeachment. that s ancient history. yeah i know. and for jerp,ry brown to bri it up, about such a popular democrat, is is lunacy, really. now bill clinton was never going to come and campaign for jerry brown. there were a lot of wounds in that campaign, including jerry brown attacking hillary clinton.
recognizable, most powerful, most popular democrats in the whole country. and in 1994, at the height of his power, he lost to a guy that nobody had ever heard of, called george pataki. and that was a republican wave year in 1994. and this wasn t a federal election. this was just in new york state. so the beltway actually didn t lose its mind very much over mario cuomo, losing that election. so he doesn t get a check mark there, but that s mostly because the beltway was losing its mind about everything else that was happening in 1994. he gets some of those check marks, but not beltway losing its mind and i don t think anybody cried. four years later, this was a great one, 1998 in vermont, this was pat leahy s senate seat from vermont. but the big shocker here was in the republican primary for that seat. 1998, a guy named jack mcmullen was a zillionary who moved from massachusetts to vermont, expecting that basically his welcome gift for arriving in the