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 [...]

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 [...]

Twitter Updates for 2009-05-11

Oh, Jerry! RT @rubles01: Couldn’t even get off the pullup machine before Jerry Brown changed the weights on me. Impatient much Mr. AG? # Teaser for Modern Warfare 2: http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/ # Only logical that POTUS wants Trek screening at the White House http://tinyurl.com/pw47q2 # Back in The OC to rap with McLevin about clean tech [...]

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 [...]

SF Chronicle: For Brown and Newsom, Age Is Just a Number (of Facebook friends)

A line of differentiation is appearing in the California Gubernatorial Primary. It’s a generational line. Emboldened by the hip young cat who brushed off claims of inexperience and won the White House, the exploratory campaign of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (Born: 1967) is making no bones about casting their main opponent – Attorney General [...]

25 Random Things About Jerry Brown

California Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown is the latest person to succumb to the 25 Random Things craze that’s sweeping across Facebook. How did I know this?  I saw a Tweet on the JerryBrown2010 Twitter profile. 6. My official portrait as Governor was quite controversial and the legislature refused to hang it. My [...]

Antonio Villaraigosa (Re)Launches Campaign Site (Not for Governor)

Next month, voters in Los Angeles will go to the polls and re-elect Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for a second term. Sorry to burst your bubble, Zuma Dogg. With all that campaigning left ahead of him, the Mayor has decided to tap these newfangled internets and do some of that online organizing that worked so well [...]

A Note About the Re-Runs

If you’re a reader or subscriber and are wondering why I’m posting clips from 2006 campaigns, here’s why: At some point a while back, I decided to take YouTube up on it’s increased file size allowances and re-upload a number of clips from back in the day,  when there was a 100 MB limit. I’m [...]

Funny Money – Rick Jacobs’ Courage Campaign Passes Counterfeit “Arnold Bucks”

Here’s the latest creative effort from our good friends at the Courage Campaign Issues Committee, calling attention to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sending Californinans IOU’s instead of much needed aid or tax refunds. Many Californians are so overwhelmed by this paralyzing crisis that they’ve just tuned it out. As a result, Arnold is not being held [...]

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