Mark Z. Barabak: Newsom gets no California love for his political ambitions. Maybe he should try elsewhere
Bill Clinton was a man of large appetite and no small ambition when he served as Arkansas governor, a job he assumed at the age of 32. So it was hardly a surprise when, 14 years later, Clinton launched a bid for president. There was skepticism at the time and some carping of the too-big-for-his-britches variety. But that soon faded with the growing excitement of the 1992 election and the ...
by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
Nov 11, 2023
3 minutes
Bill Clinton was a man of large appetite and no small ambition when he served as Arkansas governor, a job he assumed at the age of 32.
So it was hardly a surprise when, 14 years later, Clinton launched a bid for president.
There was skepticism at the time and some carping of the too-big-for-his-britches variety. But that soon faded with the growing excitement of the 1992 election and the opening of Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters, as Skip Rutherford, an old confidant, recalled.
Gavin Newsom can
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