Gov. Jerry Brown strikes defiant tone: California will launch its own damn satellite

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. He limited campaign contributions to $100.

He tried that populist tactic long before Sanders.

He was criticized for proposing a flat tax (mostly to help fight tax write-offs and loopholes), and I admit that I didn't like that idea either at the time.

I still like Jerry Brown a lot! He did remarkably well against Bill Clinton despite very little advertising, and the media was biased against him too (at least that's how I felt). There hasn't really been a dramatic shift in politics between then and now.

EDIT: Many African American voters didn't support Sanders, much like they didn't support Jerry Brown in 1992. I won't pretend to understand it with supreme confidence, but I suspect that many AA's are suspicious of Democrats who talk too much about the increasing harm to the working class. Maybe an African American version of such a candidate would work?

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/09/opinion/the-myth-of-the-black-vote.html

Jerry Brown, the former California Governor, never exceeded 10 percent among blacks in the South. In Connecticut, however, he won 30 percent of the black vote. In New York he improved that showing somewhat, to 37 percent.

http://africanamericanvoterrep.org/aavrep-poll/

Seventy-one percent (71%) of black voters indicate support for Hillary Clinton, compared to Bernie Sanders, who garners 16% of the vote.