Governor Brown Redux: The Iceman Melteth

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

ANAHEIM, Calif.

Jerry Brown doesn’t know who Charlie Sheen is.

“Is he related to the other Sheen?” he asks.

Brown has a vague sense that there was a meltdown with a TV star. But the former Governor Moonbeam is now Governor Laser Beam; the only meltdown he cares about is California’s, with its $26.6 billion budget shortfall.

“There’s only one game in my life,” he tells me, as we split Southwest Airlines peanuts and a turkey and cheese sandwich in a hotel at the corner of Disneyland Drive and Magic Way, where he has come to address a police convention.

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