Riding high on a global warming action plan he wants to take statewide, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday he's thinking about running for governor when the job opens up again in 2010.
"The thought has certainly crossed my mind, but I haven't really come to any conclusion," Brown said over coffee in a meeting with The Bee's Capitol Bureau staff.
Meanwhile, Brown said, he's moving. He and his wife are in escrow on a house in the Oakland hills, he said, above the flats near downtown where they live in a one-room loft. Helping prompt the move: Ten homicides within five blocks of his residence since he's lived there.
"Some people would feel it's a little dangerous," he said of his current neighborhood.
Listed as perhaps the top Democratic gubernatorial prospect in two polls, Brown said, "I take note of that, but not with any great interest." The door is "open" to him for a possible run, he said, but "I'm not even going to think about it for the next year."....The attorney general's comments came a day after he forged an agreement to settle a global warming lawsuit his office filed against San Bernardino County. Under the terms of the settlement, the county will amend its general plan to take inventory of its greenhouse gas sources and seek to reduce emissions linked to discretionary land-use policies and its own internal operations.
...Brown has promised to use both the "persuasive and coercive" powers of the attorney general's office to examine development projects and county operations all over California, in an effort to attack global warming "from the bottom up."
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Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown mulls run for governor in 2010
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