San Francisco Chronicle: When he was California’s governor in the 1970s, Jerry Brown won plaudits – and mockery in some quarters – for being one of the first politicians to champion renewable sources of energy like solar and wind. Now Brown is pitching a new round of clean-energy goals as part of his current run for governor – and himself as a wizened political veteran who knows how to slice through the bureaucracy to make them happen and bring what he estimated to be 500,000 jobs to California over the next …