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In 1976, a Chicago newspaper columnist wrote that Jerry Brown would get "the moonbeam vote."
The writer was Mike Royko, who then started referring to the then-38-year-old Brown as "Gov. Moonbeam." Royko was suggesting that Brown was attracting California's New Age crowd.
Linda Ronstadt - Blue bayou - YouTube
In 1976, a Chicago newspaper columnist wrote that Jerry Brown would get "the moonbeam vote."
The writer was Mike Royko, who then started referring to the then-38-year-old Brown as "Gov. Moonbeam." Royko was suggesting that Brown was attracting California's New Age crowd.
History lesson: Why Jerry Brown is called 'Moonbeam' - latimes.com
That's Governor Moonbeam to you, bub...
Linda Ronstadt recalls time with Jerry Brown in new memoir
By Anthony York
September 17, 2013
Linda Ronstadt’s new memoir recounts her decades-long career in music and chronicles her current battle with Parkinson’s disease. But the autobiography of the former Stone Poney’s frontwoman is also peppered with references to her former beau, Gov. Jerry Brown.
Ronstadt recounts a time during the winter of 1979 when she was “keeping company” with the then-41-year-old governor when a series of winter storms threatened to wipe out her Malibu Colony home. “The newspapers had begun to speculate on whether the governor was going to spend state money to protect his girlfriend’s house,” Ronstadt writes. “Precisely because of such speculation, Jerry had already decided not to.” ...
