Sort of like Jerry Brown being Oakland mayor. I was too young to follow Brown's career as CA governor, but I am impressed that he's run for mayor after being governor and a pretty successful presidential candidate (with a national reputation).

It's hard to call running for mayor of a big city humble, but in one sense it is. And here Brown has a chance to do real good for people (assuming that's the goal of politics) while still getting his voice out there nationally.

I honestly don't know if he's a good mayor for Oakland, but on paper this looks great and it reflects my overall point--you don't need to run for president to have meaningful influence, and it's in a sense uncreative to run for president, so why does Nader have to go and muck things up (assuming he does run)? There are many models of successful public service.