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Newsjock

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Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:48 PM Jun 2012

Biden calls Jerry Brown 'smartest guy in American politics'

Source: Sacramento Bee

... Vice President Joe Biden arrived before 3 p.m. - a bit earlier than expected - at a fundraiser at the Sutter Club, near the state Capitol in downtown Sacramento.

Pool was ushered into the hall about 3:17 p.m., just in time to hear Gov. Jerry Brown at the podium ahead of Biden. Biden started speaking about three minutes later to a crowd of about 130 people.

"Nothing has changed," Biden said of Brown, who was governor before from 1975 to 1983. Biden said he met Brown in San Francisco in the 1970s. He said, "He was the smartest guy in American politics then. He's still the smartest guy in American politics."

"He speaks his mind," Biden said, and the crowd laughed when he said, "I like guys like that."

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/joe-biden-calls-jerry-brown-smartest-guy-in-american-politics.html

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