No sooner had Democrats swept California than they set to fighting among themselves. The main antagonists: Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, ham-fisted leader of California's Democratic professionals, and former National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, a Beverly Hills tax lawyer who drives a silver Rolls-Royce but thinks in proletarian terms. The stakes: the Democratic nomination for Governor, if Pat Brown decides not to run, in 1966.
Unruh would like very much to get that nomination. Ziffren does not want it for himself, but he is determined that it go to someone who looks more kindly...
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