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Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown receives applause at his State of the State address before a joint session of the California Legislature on Jan. 21, 2016, in Sacramento.

Gov. Jerry Brown receives applause at his State of the State address before a joint session of the California Legislature on Jan. 21, 2016, in Sacramento.

  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll finds that Jerry Brown enters the sixth year of an unprecedented run as governor with solid job approval ratings from a wide spectrum of California voters.

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown, left, with U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, and followed by former First Lady Laura Bush and former President George W. Bush, wait to pay their respects at Nancy Reagan’s gravesite following funeral services at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on March 11, 2016.

  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown speaks before signing into law Senate Bill 350, legislation aimed at renewable energy, during a ceremony at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Oct. 7, 2015.

  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown and Austin Beutner in a conversation on water in the West at USC on June 9, 2015.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown and his wife Anne make the rounds at the western festival in Colusa California where he helped judge a cooking contest in April 2015.

  (Christopher Megerian / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown conducts a news conference at the Capitol building on Nov. 5, 2014, a day after he was reelected to his fourth term as governor.

  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown holds the new film tax credit bill he signed in front of TLC Chinese IMAX Theatre in Hollywood on Sept. 18, 2014.

  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during the American Federation of Teachers convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center in July 2014.

  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

President Obama walks with Gov. Jerry Brown, left, and farm owners Joe and Maria Del Bosque discussing California’s drought in Los Banos in February 2014.

  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

State Sen. Kevin de Leon, left, shakes hand with Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck after Gov. Jerry Brown, second from left, signed a bill allowing immigrants who crossed the border illegally to obtain California driver licenses in a ceremony outside Los Angeles City Hall on Oct. 3, 2013.

  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown, flanked by California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, left, and Maria Cabildo of the East Los Angeles Community Corporation, signs a homeowner bill of rights at the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles on Jly 11, 2012.

  (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, walk from their loft to the Capitol building for his first day in office on Jan. 4, 2011.

  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown brings a chuckle to his wife Anne Gust Brown and California Chief Justice Tani Cantil–Sakauye as he ad-libs a line during his swearing-in ceremony at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on Jan. 3, 2011.

  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Governor and then-presidential candidate Jerry Brown speaks at a news conference before a fundraising concert featuring his former girlfriend Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles at San Diego Sports Arena on Dec. 21, 1979.

  (George Rose / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown onstage with the Eagles, including Timothy B. Schmit, left, and Glenn Frey during a fundraising concert for his presidential campaign at San Diego Sports Arena on Dec. 21, 1979.

  (George Rose / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

Gov. Jerry Brown, left, and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley discuss California’s water problems in the mayor’s City Hall conference room on Feb. 18, 1977.

  (John Malmin / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Jerry Brown through the years

President Jimmy Carter, left, Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen. Edward Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Carter held off primary challenges from Brown and Kennedy to be renominated for president, but lost the general election to Ronald Reagan.

  (George Rose / Los Angeles Times)

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