Both Parties Neglect Cities, Brown Charges : Politics: Democratic candidate also ridicules Quayle during California trip. Clinton attacks Bush’s ‘family policy’ in New Jersey.

Former California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. on Friday attacked both Democrats and Republicans for their failure to respond to urban woes with the same level of financial assistance they were willing to spend on other national problems.

Speaking at a rally at Oakland City Plaza, Brown lashed out at his presidential rivals, saying they are unwilling to do what is necessary to offer aid to the nation’s troubled cities.

“When it was time for tax breaks, when it was time for pay raises, when it was time to bail out the S&Ls;, when it was time for foreign aid, they talked tens of billions,” Brown told about 500 supporters gathered in the downtown city park. “When it’s time to invest in American cities like Oakland and San Francisco and Los Angeles, it’s crumb time.”

Brown spent the day at campaign stops in Pomona, Oakland and San Diego in an effort to stanch a string of defeats in Democratic primaries and caucuses by winning his home state’s June 2 primary.

In a blistering blast at his rivals, Brown argued that neither President Bush, who has clinched the GOP nomination, nor Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, the anticipated winner of the Democratic race, have been willing to propose programs--backed by requisite funding--to alleviate conditions in the nation’s inner cities. He suggested that such a failure was responsible, in part, for the riots in Los Angeles.

“To people who say money doesn’t solve the problem, you say, ‘Give me some of yours and we’ll see about that,’ ” Brown said.

Clinton spent the day campaigning in New Jersey, which also holds its primary on June 2. Addressing an audience of students and local residents at a high school in Livingston, N.J., Clinton repeated his charge that Bush, for all his rhetoric about family values, has failed to craft an agenda to aid troubled families.

“It’s all very well for all these politicians to go around talking about family values, but if you really care about family values, you have to show that you value family,” Clinton said, echoing his comments from a speech on Thursday. “And we are the only advanced nation in the world that has no family policy.”

The “family values” issue interjected itself into the presidential campaign earlier this week when Vice President Dan Quayle complained that the television show “Murphy Brown” was sending the wrong message to the nation by glamorizing a woman having a baby out of wedlock.

The former California governor, in his Oakland speech, ridiculed Quayle for his comment, blasting the vice president as a “caricature of himself” and saying that he represented a political elite that is increasingly out of touch with the public.

“Dan Quayle, you know that he lives in a public housing project,” Brown said, getting a big laugh. “It’s a taxpayer (financed) vice presidential mansion.”

He added: “These are the people who live in a complete fantasy world of privilege, of affluence and special attention while they go around and lecture people who live in neighborhoods where there aren’t decent jobs, where there are gang dealers and there are crimes, and those people like Quayle don’t do a thing about it,” he said.

Noting that the vice president was born into a wealthy family, Brown said: ‘If everyone in the city of Oakland could have had the same inheritance of Mr. Quayle, you would see a burst of family values like you never saw before.”

While attending the rally, Brown picked up the endorsement of Local 250 of the Hospital Workers Union. The local’s endorsement came in defiance of the national union leadership, which has endorsed Clinton.

As is typical at Brown rallies, the occasion was informal, with a blues band performing and campaign workers passing around coffee cans for small donations.

In his speech, Brown reiterated his campaign theme that jobs are being shipped out of the country as political leaders hold fund-raising parties to get themselves elected.

“Clinton, Bush, McGillicuddy, it doesn’t make any difference unless we stand up to the multinational companies that are destroying the living family wage of millions of American citizens,” Brown said.

He said the growing appeal of Texas tycoon Ross Perot’s independent candidacy reflects voter unease with both Clinton and Bush.

“(Voters) know the empty rhetoric of Bush and Clinton adds up to nothing,” Brown said.

He told the group that a vote for him would not be wasted. “We’ll speak out at the (Democratic) convention,” Brown said. “Give us the delegates to go to the convention and we’ll speak for you.”