Reply #51: The Bay Area is Brown's area too...

[LooseWilly]

Since he was mayor of Oakland.

Brown was fairly pragmatic, but he was also damned lucky as mayor... having been there for a good portion of the dot com boom... one of the only real points I can recall when prosperity actually started lapping at the shores of Oakland (an oversight which was quickly remedied...)

All the while though, I remember hearing Newsom going on the radio to address issues and problems in SF, while Jerry reduced public appearances (unless you saw him walking to work on the streets, and count that) as things unravelled for Oakland.

Not that I blame Brown for what went down in Oakland... and things only got worse once he left... but Newsom always seemed more engaged.