FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014, file photo, Gov. Jerry Brown, flanked by Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, of Tulare, left, and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, right, holds up the measure he signed to place a $7.5 billion water plan on the November ballot, in Sacramento, Calif. Brown faces Republican Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official in the November election. Brown, 76, is on the verge of doing what no one else has ever done in California: get elected to a fourth term as governor. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)