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Subject: Brown predicts Clinton won't be nominee
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 12:23:43 PDT
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	ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) -- Hoping to win the lion's share of New York's
delegates as a birthday present, Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown pressed his
insurgent message Monday at a rally on the steps of the state capital.
	Later, he was to address supporters outside Brooklyn's borough hall.
	The former California governor, who turns 54 on Tuesday, the day of
the crucial New York primary, said a brokered convention is a 
``possibility'' and predicted Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton would not be
nominated.
	Arriving an hour late for a noontime rally, Brown continued to
present himself as an alternative to the ``corruption'' of politicians
in Congress and the White House.
	``I'm not saying the Democrats would do the best possible job,''
Brown told reporters. ``I'm saying the system is corrupt -- it's
corrupted by the $1,000 donations, the insiders, the lobbyists, the
complacency, and the only way to break it open is for someone who is not
dependent, not beholden on the same insider pattern of control, to take
over.''
	``I'm predicting a very close outcome'' on Tuesday, Brown said. Asked
if he expected a deadlocked national convention, he said ``there is some
possibility of that. I don't think Clinton is going to get it.''
	Brown greeted sign-holding supporters of Paul Tsongas at the rally,
saying ``we need to bring everyone together,'' but called the former
Massachussetts senator another product of the system.
	``Tsongas is still a part of that same system. He's different than
Clinton but he still derives his money in the same way,'' said Brown,
who earlier in the day appeared with Clinton on NBC's ``Today'' show and
taped a ``Donahue'' program for an afternoon broadcast.
	``Tsongas is relatively isolated. I have literally hundreds of
thousands of people who have called the 800 number, who have made a
small donation or who will volunteer,'' he said.
	Echoing statements he has made during televised debates and on the
stump, Brown defended his flat tax plan from attacks by those who say it
will increase the tax burden on the poor and damage the Social Security
system.
	``The truth of the matter is, my tax proposal will lower every
person's tax from the income side, and a tax on business will distribute
the burden fairly. And is it didn't, I wouldn't enact it,'' he said.
	``And if I saw any threat at all to Social Security, I would not
enact it ... We're here to protect poor people and the middle class and
change direction. Any proposal of mine that had a contrary effect, I
would change it. I would modify it.''
	Despite mild weather and sunny skies, the rally, which had little
advance publicity, drew a smaller crowd than the one held in Albany two
weeks ago. When it was announced at 1:05 p.m. that Brown would not
arrive for another half hour, about half of the audience walked away.
	``My candidacy is not about Jerry Brown. It's about rendering
judgement on a bankrupt, failing system,'' he said. ``I have the record.
I was governor of the largest state. I know what to do. ...
	``I have a background in Catholic social doctrine, and that says it's
not about profit only -- although it's about that -- it's about the moral
idea of the living family wage, social and econmic justice,'' he said.
	Brown invoked the images of John F. Kennedy in calling for high-tech,
high-speed railways.
	``President Kennedy promised you he would put a man on the moon by
the end of the decade,'' he said. ``I will promise you that by the end
of the decade, I will move people from Manhattan to the end of Long
Island in 20 minutes on a clean, American built transportation system we
can be proud of.''
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