Jerry Brown is currently California 's attorney general . Comment: My critics have done that so eloquently that I would rather leave it there , '' Brown told me . Brown was first elected governor of California in 1974 . `` I would work very hard to transcend the poison of partisanship , '' he says .
Jerry Brown is currently California 's attorney general . Comment: Brown was first elected governor of California in 1974 . `` I would work very hard to transcend the poison of partisanship , '' he says .