Jerry Brown as Rip Van Winkle?
After surveying the state’s education and budget problems during a meeting with local education officials in Los Angeles last month, Jerry Brown joked: “I feel kind of like Rip van Winkle coming back here after 28 years.”
The crowd laughed, a bit uneasily. For the quip begged the question that many Californians are asking: Is Brown the same man who took office in 1975, at age 36, and served until the end of 1982? Or did his not-exactly-Winkleian sleep – a period that saw him run for president and serve two …
