October 17, 2009
The Huffington Post ran an op-ed by SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about former President Bill Clinton's endorsement of California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom. "The intervention of a former president in California politics, so visibly and actively, was unprecedented," Jeffe wrote. Clinton may have been motivated by the fact that Newsom's opponent is Attorney General Jerry Brown, she added. "The bad blood between Clinton and Brown goes back to 1992, when Brown kept beating up on Clinton, the last candidate actually standing in the Democratic presidential race, distracting Clinton's political operation from gearing up for the general election," Jeffe wrote. This column originally ran on USC's Politics and Society Web site.
The Huffington Post ran an op-ed by SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about former President Bill Clinton's endorsement of California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom. "The intervention of a former president in California politics, so visibly and actively, was unprecedented," Jeffe wrote. Clinton may have been motivated by the fact that Newsom's opponent is Attorney General Jerry Brown, she added. "The bad blood between Clinton and Brown goes back to 1992, when Brown kept beating up on Clinton, the last candidate actually standing in the Democratic presidential race, distracting Clinton's political operation from gearing up for the general election," Jeffe wrote. This column originally ran on USC's Politics and Society Web site.