Reporting from Sacramento -- Gavin Newsom taunted rival Jerry Brown on Saturday by framing the Democratic race for governor as a choice between "a stroll down memory lane" with a man who held the job in the 1970s or a "sprint into the future" with San Francisco's mayor.

Newsom avoided mentioning Brown's name in remarks to several thousand Democrats at a party gathering. But it was lost on no one that he was jabbing the 71-year-old attorney general who hopes to reclaim the job of governor that he first won in 1974.

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