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Apr 12, 2022

Most Attorney General candidates taking the fifth

Most frontrunning incumbents avoid debate stages. Especially in crowded primary fields, debates pose too much risk of wall-to-wall...

Apr 12, 2022

No comment from Rep. Matsui on opioid donations, legislative record & other mega-fined donors

Last issue, SactoPolitico.com exclusively reported a call from Congressional CA-7 Democratic challenger Jimmy Fremgen for the Democratic...

Mar 29, 2022

CA-7 Congressional candidate Jimmy Fremgen Q&A

Congressional redistricting significantly rearranged Sacramento County’s two Congressional districts. Instead of the current city-suburb...

Dec 15, 2021

Year-in-Review: Our 10 best political articles of 2021

Foremost, 2021 will be remembered as the second year of the Covid-19 Pandemic, but it was also an extremely busy year in politics –...

Aug 26, 2021

Supervisor Frost on vax mandates, Sac Bee criticisms

The Sacramento Bee editorial board is no stranger to trafficking in sophomoric insult. In recent years, it has called targets “dimwits”...

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...

Nov 4, 2020

As Opioid Crisis raged, companies gave Matsui $125K

When speaking of the “shame of our campaigns,” no episode in the last decade should disgust more than the federal response to the Opioid...