Arnold schwarzenegger may be less than halfway through his final term as California's governor, but the slow dance to replace him is already under way. One figure looms above all others. Jerry Brown is not, you understand, running a campaign just yet. But he has begun to raise money and muse publicly on the state's future. He begins a sentence with: "Were I to be governor". As he himself puts it, he would not be behaving any differently if he were in the race.rnMr Brown has the best surname in California politics. His father, Pat Brown, was the state's chief post-war architect, overseeing an extraordinary boom in freeways, aqueducts and universities. The son has already served two terms as governor, beginning in 1975 and 1979, and two as mayor of Oakland. He was California's secretary of state and is now its attorney-general. He also found time to study Buddhism and Spanish, work with Mother Teresa and run for president three times.
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