Reply #4: Umm, Jerry Brown attacked Clinton on the left and in person [View All]

[andym]

Brown claimed that the Democrats and Republicans were the same: corrupted by big money from corporate interests. He wanted to "take back America." And he funded his campaign at the grassroots level solely with donations of at most 100 per donor through an 800 number.

Brown very strongly criticized Clinton for being "politics as usual."

At one point, it was even personal, after some of the stories that would later become Whitewater came out, Brown used them in a debate with Clinton. Supposedly this almost led to a physical confrontation.

BTW, Brown was a fiscal conservative whose platform was both progressive and not progressive. His flat tax proposal comes to mind as the main example of the latter.