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...
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Nov. 13, 2022 – Vol. 3, Issue 5
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Jeff Burdick
Mar 10, 2021
Are midterm losses inevitable for Democrats? Maybe not
The deadly Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol represented a historic low for the Republican Party. Despite this, House Minority...
Caity Maple
Mar 10, 2021
Candidate Essay: For Shared Prosperity in Sacramento
When I left home at the age of 16, I remember thinking that I would be back at some point – I was wrong. I found myself bouncing around...
Jeff Burdick
Feb 23, 2021
Punchbowl.News John Bresnahan on California in Congress
Along with two other highly esteemed D.C. correspondents, veteran Capitol Hill reporter John Bresnahan earlier this year launched the...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Jeff Burdick
Feb 5, 2021
Where are extreme Aug. 1 rally speakers today?
On Aug. 1, 2020, on the steps of the California Capitol, the far-right “Rescue America Rally” gathered hundreds of angry Trump supporters...
Jeff Burdick
Feb 5, 2021
Growing Rancho Cordova gets younger, more Progressive
To hear most Democratic residents of Rancho Cordova explain it, Rancho Cordova is a politically conservative to moderate municipality. “I...
Jeff Burdick
Jan 19, 2021
Coming realignment? America’s new political spectrum
However one judges Donald Trump – and in recent polls the vast majority of America views him poorly – most agree he has been the most...
Jeff Burdick
Jan 19, 2021
Sacramento Progressives quietly sent $2.3M outside area
During the 2019-2020 election cycle, Sacramento County residents donated a surprising $2.3 million at the federal level to Progressive...
Jeff Burdick
Jan 19, 2021
As Trump leaves, Sacramento GOP becomes Black Box
Tomorrow on the final day of the Trump Administration, the central committee of the Sacramento County GOP is scheduled to choose its...
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...
Jeff Burdick
Jan 5, 2021
In pandemic, College Democrats adapt, stay active
Last year challenged all Americans, not least among them college students. The pandemic threw their college plans and coursework into...
Jeff Burdick
Jan 5, 2021
Folsom’s Blues: Sliding into swing territory
In the 2020 general election, Sacramento County reached its highest voter participation level (82.6%) since 1964, but outpacing every...
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