In possibly pivotal CA-3 House race, can Jones catch Kiley?
As predicted by SactoPolitico for most of the past two years, no midterm Red wave or tsunami ever materialized and control of the U.S....
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Nov. 13, 2022 – Vol. 3, Issue 5
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Jeff Burdick
Nov 5, 2022
UFCW Local 324 President Andrea Zinder on Albertsons-Kroger merger
Andrea Zinder is president of Southern California’s UFCW Local 324, which represents 15,000 grocery workers in Orange and southern Los...
Gov. Newsom: A ‘Solar Tax’ Threatens Your Climate Legacy
Esperanza Vielma, Ambrose Carroll and Francisco Moreno are founders of the Coalition for Environmental Equity and Economics (CEEE) and...
Jeff Burdick
Nov 5, 2022
Analysis: Jury partially out on what early California voting data means
In political analysis, it’s essential to know the difference between tea leaves and dependable empirical data. Unfortunately, this is no...
Ben Testani
Nov 5, 2022
How to Turnout Young Voters Each Fall
A frequent election question received from readers – particularly Democrats – is how more young voters can be engaged and turned out to...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 28, 2022
At CA-3 TV debate, Kiley dodges neo-Nazi question
KCRA moderator Edie Lambert posed the four-word question to GOP Congressional candidate Kevin Kiley almost at the midway point of...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 21, 2022
Campaign money laundering complaint filed in Board of Equalization race
Four weeks ago, SactoPolitico broke the story about the ethically challenged Democratic Board of Equalization incumbent Mike Schaefer...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 21, 2022
In red-hot Jones-Kiley CA-3 House race, does anyone have homestretch advantage?
To describe the CA-3 House race as the most competitive under-the-radar House race in the nation feels an understatement. Every normal...
Mario Guerrero
Oct 21, 2022
Sacramento Stonewall Dems denounce school board candidate’s transgender bathroom comment
Mario Guerrero is president of Stonewall Democrats of Greater Sacramento. Its mission is to advance equal rights for all people,...
Ben Testani
Oct 21, 2022
Voters: Make 3 times a charm for Prop 29 dialysis reforms
Ben Testani is a 24-year-old digital strategist for progressive political causes. Based in Oakland, he also authors the Substack column...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 6, 2022
With democracy in balance, safe House Democrats hold back $200M+ in campaign cash
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in our long-running Shame of Our Campaigns series. Also see end of article for two updates...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 6, 2022
Did US Chamber of Commerce ignore its new endorsement policy with Kiley Congressional nod?
Two months after the violent Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol Insurrection that resulted in five deaths and delayed the electoral vote count...
Jeff Burdick
Sep 22, 2022
Did Incumbent Democrat Schaefer give $30K to buy Republican support?
When scandal engulfs a party’s endorsed candidate, questions naturally arise where that party draws the line for stripping an...
Jeff Burdick
Sep 8, 2022
CA Controller candidate Lanhee Chen on fiscal audits, Taiwan & Kobe Bryant
Lanhee Chen is a GOP fiscal policy expert long associated with the conservative Hoover Institute and familiar to voters from his regular...
Justin Ha
Aug 18, 2022
As Californians & planet sweat, rooftop solar revisions stuck in limbo
The future of rooftop solar in California is uncertain. Efforts to revise the state’s landmark Net Energy Metering (NEM) program that...
Nick Pilch
Aug 18, 2022
In Newsom-DeSantis rivalry, it’ll surprise who’s better on rooftop solar
Nick Pilch is an environmentalist and from 2014-2020 was a Council Member in the Bay Area town of Albany, Calif. This included serving as...
Jeff Burdick
Aug 18, 2022
Central Valley Congressional candidate Tom Patti: 5 Ambiens caused traffic accident
This past weekend, GOP Congressional candidate and current San Joaquin County Supervisor Tom Patti officially completed a one-year...
Jeff Burdick
Aug 18, 2022
Sac Bee again on wrong warpath against extremist-tied Kevin Kiley
The best weapon journalists have against questionable politics is good, thoughtful journalism. But such an arrow is once again missing...
Alex Muegge
Aug 18, 2022
Could a vacancy tax help housing affordability in Sacramento?
This story was originally published by the award-winning newsweekly Sacramento News & Review and is co-published here with permission....
Jeff Burdick
Jul 31, 2022
Midterm roundup: Kiley fundraising off concerns about radical associations
Friday night, South Carolina’s capital newspaper The State reported House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) swung by that state GOP’s...
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