The Friday Primary Line: Game off in CA (or not)
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Friday, November 6, 2009; 4:40 PM
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and state Attorney General Jerry Brown. AP Photos The recent decision by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to drop his candidacy for governor of California left only state Attorney General Jerry Brown in the race for the Democratic nod, knocking one of the Fix's top 10 primaries off of our Line. But Brown's primary primacy was short-lived as a story in Thursday's San Jose Mercury News said that California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) was still mulling a run for governor and would make a decision in early 2010 based on how the candidates currently in the race propose to deal with the state's budget crisis. Feinstein's waiting-and-watching approach is a sea change from the widely-held expectation in Democratic political circles that she had long ago decided against the race, preferring to stay in Washington and retain her post as chair
