--- description: Kathleen Brown, the daughter of one Governor and the sister of another, won a solid victory in California's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Sitting GOP Governor Pete... title: CALIFORNIA . . . GUBERNATORIAL DREAMING image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # CALIFORNIA . . . GUBERNATORIAL DREAMING by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 7, 1994 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 7, 1994 4:00 AM CUT Kathleen Brown, the daughter of one Governor and the sister of another, won a solid victory in California’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. Sitting GOP Governor Pete Wilson won his own party’s nomination handily, but he faces a tough run for another seat. If the election were held today, say the pollsters, Brown would unseat the implacable Wilson. Eight other states held primaries yesterday. The most notable: Fred Grandy, who overcame his reputation as the clownish “Gopher” on “The Love Boat” to win a seat in Congress, lost his bid for the governorship of Iowa. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6917850/california-gubernatorial-dreaming/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6917850/california-gubernatorial-dreaming/"},"headline":"CALIFORNIA . . . GUBERNATORIAL DREAMING","datePublished":"1994-06-07T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T18:57:47.880Z","description":"Kathleen Brown, the daughter of one Governor and the sister of another, won a solid victory in California's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Sitting GOP Governor Pete...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6917850/california-gubernatorial-dreaming/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6917850/california-gubernatorial-dreaming/","name":"CALIFORNIA . . . GUBERNATORIAL DREAMING"}}]}] ```