Steve Glazer said he will be an advocate for fiscal responsibility and education in Assembly District 16.

Two-term Orinda councilman and gubernatorial adviser Steve Glazer will file Tuesday as the first official 2014 candidate in the 16th Assembly District.

Steve Glazer — the Orinda mayor who is of Gov. Jerry Brown’s top political advisors and one the masterminds of his 2010 election — is running for Assembly in the Contra Costa/Alameda County seat that state Rep. Joan Buchanan is termed out of in 2014.

Gov. Jerry Brown's political adviser, Steve Glazer, will run for a state Assembly seat in 2014, Glazer announced this morning.

Steve Glazer, who managed Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2010 campaign, announced his own candidacy for state Assembly on Tuesday.

Steve Glazer waited alone backstage in San Diego as Gov. Jerry Brown finished speaking at the California Democratic Party's annual convention last weekend. Then together they slipped from the convention hall to a private, high-dollar fundraiser at a nearby hotel.

If it is true, as Brown once said, that Glazer's "No. 1 goal is to get me not to say things that I might otherwise say," the governor's political strategist had reason to be pleased as they flew home.

The Democratic governor, in the most obligatory of speeches, said almost nothing about his proposal to increase the state sales tax and income taxes on California's highest earners, ignoring growing tension among Democrats about competing tax plans.

"Our judgment," Glazer said, was that "a speech isn't going to change their minds."

When Steven Glazer first met Jerry Brown, Mr. Glazer was a student at San Diego State University and Mr. Brown was running for re-election as governor of California. More than 30 years later, Mr. Brown is again running for governor. And this time, Mr. Glazer is managing his campaign.

Their enduring relationship is a testament both to Mr. Glazer’s devotion to Mr. Brown and to Mr. Brown’s penchant for trusting only a handful of close advisers.