Bad, bad, bad leroy brown. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. Content[edit] The song is about a man from the South Side of Chicago who, due to his size and attitude, has a reputation as the "baddest man in the whole damn town. " One day, in a bar, he makes a pass at a pretty, married woman, whose jealous husband proceeds to beat Leroy brutally in the ensuing fight. Inspiration[edit] His inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the Army: He told a variation of this story on the Helen Reddy show in July 1973: This is a song about a guy I was in the army with... Croce explained the chorus reference to Leroy Brown being "meaner than a junkyard dog": Yeah, I spent about a year and a half driving those $29 cars, so I drove around a lot looking for a universal joint for a '57 Chevy panel truck or a transmission for a '51 Dodge.
Pro wrestlers Junkyard Dog and Bad Leroy Brown are said to have gotten their ring name from this song. On Croce's last album, I Got A Name, one Leroy Brown is credited as one of the background vocalists. Meet Jerry Brown | Jerry Brown 2010. Edmund G. Brown Jr., known as Jerry, was born in San Francisco on April 7, 1938. He attended both public and parochial schools, graduating from St. Ignatius High School in 1955. He completed freshman year at the University of Santa Clara before entering Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit seminary in August 1956. In 1960, he left the Society of Jesus and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley.
He received his B.A. degree in Classics the next year and then entered Yale Law School, where he graduated in 1964. Following law school, Brown worked as a law clerk at the California Supreme Court, traveled and studied in Mexico and Latin America and then took up residence in Los Angeles, working for the prestigious law firm, Tuttle & Taylor.
Brown was elected Governor in 1974 and reelected in 1978, by a margin of 21%. During Governor Brown's tenure, California created 1.9 million new jobs, almost double the national rate. Candidate Brown In One-On-One With Schmidt At Google - News Stor. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Speaking before a crowd in Mountain View Friday morning, Attorney General Jerry Brown said he would rely on wisdom and insight rather than excessive spending in his bid as California's next democratic governor. Brown announced his decision to formally enter the governor's race last month. He is expected to square off in the general election against the winner of the Republican primary, likely either former eBay CEO Meg Whitman or State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.
At a gathering at Google Friday morning, Brown said his plan to win will involve a deliberate, well-paced campaign focusing on a marginal group of undecided voters who he said will ultimately decide who the next governor is. "I've been hard at work at this, work at the fund-raising, work at developing a campaign team, holding down expenses," Brown said. Brown addressed issues including education, taxes, renewable energy and prison reform, in a nearly hour-long talk with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown: Governor Bid Announcement Coming Tuesday.
California Attorney General and former two-term governor, Jerry Brown plans to announce Tuesday that he's running as a Democratic candidate for governor again, CNN reports. Brown, who served two terms as California Governor from 1975-1983, would return to the gubernatorial race with least $12 million in campaign funds and the support of some major Hollywood moguls. Brown told CNN last year that his first tenure as governor may have been marred by over-ambition on ideas such as "promoting alternative energy production, encouraging diversity in government hiring, and reigning in government spending," that were unorthodox at the time.
Brown's ideas earned him the moniker "Governor Moonbeam. " According to a poll conducted in mid-January by the Public Policy Institute and the Field Poll, Brown already leads the top Republican candidates -- Meg Whitman by 5 to 10 points, and Steve Poizner by 15 to 17 points. See Jerry Run. Again. | The American Prospect. The first rule of Jerry Brown's campaign for governor is that he doesn't talk about his campaign for governor. So far, this is working. If the 2010 election for governor of California were held this year, Brown would win. Easy. As of this writing, he leads in all the polls, both in the Democratic primary (against San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose campaign is leaking staff and money) and in possible general-election matchups (against former Rep. Tom Campbell, a Republican who is probably too liberal to be nominated by his party, and former tech executives Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, who lack charisma and deep political experience).
All of which makes Jerry Brown California's governor in waiting. Emphasis on the waiting. While his opponents have been campaigning for more than six months, the front-runner won't admit he's a candidate. Such a routine makes all the sense in the world -- if his goal is to maintain his current political advantage. This reticence surprised me at first. Jerry Brown Seeking Third Term as California Governor, 27 Years. SAN FRANCISCO – Jerry Brown, who was first elected governor of California when he was 36, wants another try at the job – 27 years after he left office. The enigmatic Brown, who will turn 72 in April, announced Tuesday that he is officially in the race to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. If elected to serve a third term, Brown would become California's oldest governor. Brown, now the state's attorney general, continued to demonstrate his penchant for the unorthodox by announcing his entry into the race in a video posted on his Web site without the usual fanfare of campaign speeches.
"Our state is in serious trouble and the next governor must have the preparation and the knowledge and the know-how to get California working again," Brown said, looking earnestly at the camera. Despite not having formally entered the race until now, the expectation that he would be a candidate cleared the field of major Democratic challengers, leaving him virtually uncontested for the June primary. Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown of California. Political independents poised to help pick winners in GOP primar.
How Jerry Brown Became ‘Governor Moonbeam’ Jerry Brown Governor - Jerry Brown 2012. January 14, 2010, 9:00 AM Only this time, the state is almost literally ungovernable. He can't wait. By Phil Bronstein More from this author In 1983, Jerry Brown left office as governor of California having introduced environmental initiatives, innovative mass-transit plans, and a school system that worked. He was only forty-five, which left plenty of time to hang with Mother Teresa, date Linda Ronstadt, and wage solid campaigns for half a dozen political jobs, including two decent runs for president. Today he's seventy-one, bald, and a cranky Zen Stoic. And now he's running for governor. Everything, of course, is different this time. Brown has already vaporized his Democratic opposition, the luxuriantly gelled and once-promising cover boy, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom.
Still, why is he doing this? Earlier this year Brown himself called me to plant a possible story about Newsom selling a condo for a suspiciously high price in a distressed market.