Jerry Brown

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While labor unions have lavished money on Brown's campaign, the former two-term governor says he will stand up to special interests if elected. “After a summer in which Meg Whitman decried independent expenditures, it would be interesting to hear whether they also think this independent expenditure is the end of the universe,” said Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for Brown. “He has always been independent-minded and stood up to powerful interests in his own party. As governor, he twice vetoed pay raises for employees.”