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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Watch This: GOOD Magazine Breaks Down Fundraising for the First Billion Dollar Race for the White House

Fundraising flunkies and compliance junkies:

Check out this great motion piece breaking down the who’s got the bucks and where the cash comes from in the first $1,000,000,000 campaign.

Brought to you by the great folks at GOOD Magazine.

Dodd in Syndication

Because I like this idea, and because he gave me a few minutes of his time at the California Convention, I’m going to go ahead and reprint an email I just received from the Chris Dodd campaign. In a few minutes they’ll be doing a live stream from Iowa, the beginning of D-Span – an [...]

This Never-Before-Seen Footage…

The Third Pillar: Exclusivity In the First Pillar: Frequency, I discussed the need to shoot a lot and release a lot – providing you with the two things that make your program work: footage and viewers. In the Second Pillar: Interactivity, I tackled what to put into your pieces – namely, two-way conversation via video. [...]

Announcing Online: 2008 presidential hopefuls turn to the small screen

Today’s announcement by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson continued the trend of 2008 presidential contenders kicking off their campaigns accompanied by an online video. Like former Governor Tom Vilsack, former Senator John Edwards, and Senators Chris Dodd, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton; Richardson addressed supporters, skeptics and the world through the blossoming medium of political [...]