I heard about this and thought no way. There is no way the Attorney General for the State of California is moving out of his current home in Downtown Oakland, California because there is too much crime in his neighborhood? Well I was wrong. That is exactly why California Attorney General (and former Oakland Mayor) Jerry Brown is moving. He and his wife are moving to the Oakland Hills. I suppose there was a time when one would think that having the states number one law enforcement official living on your block would mean you'd be pretty safe and secure. Well that's apparently not the case in Jerry Browns world. Read more below.
Brown mulls run for governor in 2010
Attorney general says state's biggest problem is global warming.
By Andy Furillo - Bee Capitol Bureau
Riding high on a global warming action plan he wants to take statewide, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday he's thinking about running for governor when the job opens up again in 2010.
"The thought has certainly crossed my mind, but I haven't really come to any conclusion," Brown said over coffee in a meeting with The Bee's Capitol Bureau staff.
Meanwhile, Brown said, he's moving. He and his wife are in escrow on a house in the Oakland hills, he said, above the flats near downtown where they live in a one-room loft. Helping prompt the move: Ten homicides within five blocks of his residence since he's lived there.
"Some people would feel it's a little dangerous," he said of his current neighborhood.
Listed as perhaps the top Democratic gubernatorial prospect in two polls, Brown said, "I take note of that, but not with any great interest." The door is "open" to him for a possible run, he said, but "I'm not even going to think about it for the next year."
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