Jerry Brown rallies Colusa County crowd in final event
Free of the strictures of a competitive campaign – and any need to visit bigger media markets the weekend before Election Day – Gov. Jerry Brown addressed a small crowd Saturday near where his ancestors settled, ate part of a hot dog and steeped himself in what amounted to an early victory celebration.
“We haven’t had that many rallies,” Brown said, wearing hiking boots and addressing a few hundred supporters in a park. “But I don’t think we’ve needed them.”
In a meandering, nearly 25-minute-long address, the third-term governor read from a letter his paternal great-grandfather, August Schuckman, wrote in 1852 about difficulties crossing the Great Plains to California.
“The spirit of August Schuckman is still here,” Brown said. “It’s still in Williams, it’s still affecting California by all his descendants, which now number in hundreds. And I think it is well to keep in mind as we look to the future, to understand what we owe to those who’ve got us this far, and what we owe to those who are going to come after us.”
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