Steve Lawrence of the Associated Press explains why many DC political consulting firms are opening offices in California:
Groups supporting or opposing the eight initiatives on the Nov. 8 ballot, all of which were rejected by voters, spent more than $14.1 million on consultants, according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance statements filed with […]

No, Madrazo isn’t making a sudden move to the PAN or the New Alliance. But he has gone from Democrat to Republican in his choice of American political consultants.
In 1999, I was working for Stan Greenberg and James Carville as we helped Francisco Labastida beat Madrazo, an old PRIsta of the worst kind, in […]

Dan Eggen of the Washington Post reports that the career lawyers in the Justice Department decided that the DeLay redistricting plan hurt Latinos and African-Americans but were rolled:
Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo […]