"You want somebody to take that job who has no future.”

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Brown hints about political future in speech here
By John Marelius
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
12:11 p.m. September 26, 2009

SAN DIEGO — Attorney General Jerry Brown dropped a few broad hints about his political future as he delivered a fiery partisan speech to a grassroots Democratic convention in San Diego Saturday.

The 71-year-old once and possibly future governor, who has been coy about whether he plans to try to return to the job he held a generation ago, lamented how California's chronic budget deficit is likely to get worse as federal stimulus money runs out, temporary tax increases expire and money borrowed from schools and local government has to be repaid.

“People ask, who's going to be the next governor? You have to ask who in their right mind would want to be the next governor?” Brown told the weekend convention, which was sponsored by the San Diego County Democratic Party and the California Democratic Council and held at the Naval Training Center in Point Loma.

Brown jokingly suggested the job is ideally suited for somebody at the end of a political career.

“Anybody who thinks that they're going to be governor and going to have a great future doesn't know what's going on in Sacramento. You want somebody to take that job who has no future.”

Brown also assailed Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, although not by name, for promising to suspend AB 32, California's law to curb greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature environmental initiative...