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Guest Essay: AB 1177 to open banking options for all

Apr 14, 2021

Guest Essay: AB 1177 to open banking options for all

COVID-19 put a spotlight on a troubling reality: Black and Brown Californians work disproportionately as frontline essential workers in...

Former FEC Chair Ravel on recall donations, dark money

Jeff Burdick

Mar 31, 2021

Former FEC Chair Ravel on recall donations, dark money

While sitting on board of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from 2013 to 2017 – including one stint as chair – native Californian Ann...

Candidate essay: Let’s build a better Calif. Dem. Party

Delaine Eastin

Mar 31, 2021

Candidate essay: Let’s build a better Calif. Dem. Party

Editor’s note: Between now and April 21, more than 3,000 delegates to the California Democratic Party will have the chance to vote by...

Candidate Essay: Proven Leadership in Challenging Times

Rusty Hicks

Mar 31, 2021

Candidate Essay: Proven Leadership in Challenging Times

Editor’s note: Between now and April 21, more than 3,000 delegates to the California Democratic Party will have the chance to vote by...

GOP slips more in latest California registration stats

Jeff Burdick

Mar 31, 2021

GOP slips more in latest California registration stats

There is Red versus Blue in politics. Then there is just going into the red as a party. Despite the California GOP believing the recall...

Calif. GOP chair, Asm. Kiley rallied with extremists

Jeff Burdick

Mar 10, 2021

Calif. GOP chair, Asm. Kiley rallied with extremists

Sunday afternoon, the drive to collect 1.5 million verified signatures and trigger a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a...

Local effect of new Chamber of Commerce endorsing rules

Jeff Burdick

Mar 10, 2021

Local effect of new Chamber of Commerce endorsing rules

Quietly last Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce posted a memo online announcing changes moving forward to its criteria for supporting...

Matsui, Bera letting public foot opioid settlements

Jeff Burdick

Feb 23, 2021

Matsui, Bera letting public foot opioid settlements

The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post recently reported that four major opioid makers and distributors are close to finalizing a...

Fine(d) Bedfellows, Part 2: Where we go from here

Jeff Burdick

Feb 23, 2021

Fine(d) Bedfellows, Part 2: Where we go from here

This is the second of two articles in a series. Click here for part one. Last issue, a Sacto Politico study detailed the tens of millions...

California Progressives step back in ADEM elections

Jeff Burdick

Feb 23, 2021

California Progressives step back in ADEM elections

Earlier this month, the California Democratic Party completed its 2021 election of district-level delegates to the state party central...

Fine(d) Bedfellows Pt. 1: Worst corporations donate big

Jeff Burdick

Feb 5, 2021

Fine(d) Bedfellows Pt. 1: Worst corporations donate big

This article is part one of two, and part of Sacto Politico’s ongoing “Shame of Our Campaigns” series. For other articles in the series,...

Sacramento’s riot of heated rhetoric included Sac Bee

Jeff Burdick

Jan 19, 2021

Sacramento’s riot of heated rhetoric included Sac Bee

Many thanks to the Sacramento News & Review (SNR) last week running most of my OpEd about inflammatory local rhetoric that blemished the...

What’s your favorite political book, movie or TV show?

Jeff Burdick

Dec 15, 2020

What’s your favorite political book, movie or TV show?

With the year winding down, The Sacto Politico decided to take a less hard-nosed survey of a party of politics that connects us all. We...

S/P Q&A: How underdog State Ballot campaign won

Jeff Burdick

Dec 15, 2020

S/P Q&A: How underdog State Ballot campaign won

The rule of thumb for winning state ballot initiatives is to spend the most money. Although originally designed to give voters a direct...

Guest Essay: COVID-19 & Calif.’s Unincorporated Areas

Michael J. Seaman

Nov 16, 2020

Guest Essay: COVID-19 & Calif.’s Unincorporated Areas

More than 6 million people in California live in urbanized unincorporated areas, without an elected mayor or city councils to focus on...

Has Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. returned to far-right roots?

Jeff Burdick

Nov 4, 2020

Has Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. returned to far-right roots?

Most California election cycles find the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) in the news opposing another statewide ballot effort...

2022 Election Spotlight: State Assembly districts 8 & 9

Jeff Burdick

Nov 4, 2020

2022 Election Spotlight: State Assembly districts 8 & 9

With the 2020 elections over, staunch politicos now turn to the 2022 primaries. Too early, you say? Money never sleeps, and the same...

October surprise: Progressives now tops in Dem party

Jeff Burdick

Oct 1, 2020

October surprise: Progressives now tops in Dem party

Watershed elections are rare. Even rarer are watersheds of which the chief beneficiaries are unaware. This appears the case for...