Meg Whitman: Fudging the Facts

In her campaign for Governor, billionaire Meg Whitman keeps fudging the facts. When Meg Whitman plays fast an loose with the facts, seek out the truth from the California Accountability Project.

Villaraigosa Out? Not so fast…

Compared to the large field of the Attorney General race, the Democratic gubernatorial race is about as lively as a coma patient.  Only one candidate – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom – has entered the ring, with two others seriously considering running…or is it only one?  Will it be just Gavin and Jerry Brown? No [...]

Zuma Dogg for California Attorney General?

Did the crowded field to replace Jerry Brown as California’s Attorney General just pick up yet another candidate?  Venice Beach’s own Zuma Dogg – who garnered over 9,000 votes against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – is hinting at a run for the state’s “top cop” position in recent tweets. The Attorney General race on the Democratic [...]

Watch This: California Forward’s “Force for Change”

Video shown at the LWVC Biennial Convention in Long Beach May 2009 with keynote dinner speaker Bob Hertzberg.

Watch This: Smithsonian Call to Action – Voice Your Vision

In honor of Night at the Museum: battle of the Smithsonian – which I took my two boys to this weekend – check out: Smithsonian: Call to Action – Voice Your Vision

How Much Will Newsom ‘Buck the System’ On Twitter?

Sole (announced) Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom is taking his Twitter followers out for a spin. Much has been written on the success Newsom’s found on the microblogging site; amassing a huge number of followers, announcing his campaign via Tweet and doing much of the thumbwork himself. In the next week, I’ll have a piece [...]

Gavin Newsom: The Humphrey Bogart of California Politics

Part of the allure of a candidate like Newsom (and even stick-in-the-mud Barack Obama) is that there’s a certain brash danger that comes with a handsome young leader. The swagger. The knowing smirk. It’s like Humphrey Bogart is running for office; a drink in one hand, a smoke in the other, and a remit envelop in the breast pocket of his suit.

David Plouffe or Mitch Stewart: Who’s more of a pill? (Watch and decide)

Organizing for America, the nationwide undertaking that picks up where the Obama campaign left off, has a video out today encouraging folks to join their Pledge Project in support of President Obama’s budget and program blueprint. The video is in the stlye of Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe’s frequent and popular webcam updates [...]

Young Progressive Majority Hosts Obama In Los Angeles

Usually, I consider myself in the loop about the comings and goings of President Obama in Los Angeles.  After all, I work for the campaign’s State Director for California, Mitchell Schwartz.  People count on me to know this stuff. But somehow I missed the President holding an LA Town Hall with Obama. Oh.  Wait.  Never [...]

Newsom Tweets New Baby, Will @GavinNewsom Be On The Birth Certificate?

The 2008 election cycle elicited amazing new uses of technology in politics. It’s only February ’09, but we’ve now seen where the 2010 election cycle is heading… San Francisco Mayor (and California Gubernatorial explorer) Gavin Newsom Tweeted his impending fatherhood. Economy is important when you only have 140 characters to share something as special as [...]

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