I don’t know Congresswoman Solis very well but I am a big fan. Growing up just north of her district, I have watched its transformation from a collection of white working class bedroom communities to the sort of Latino and Asian melting pot distinctive to Southern California. With her focus on issues like immigration and […]

Five of my campaign clients had elections yesterday. Four won; one (Joe Alioto, San Francisco supervisorial candidate) is awaiting a final vote count.
Here are the winners:
LAUSD — It was interesting to see many press stories over the past couple months suggesting that Measure Q, a $7 billion school bond, was in trouble because voters would […]

Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, and Gary Toebben, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, join together in endorsing Measure Q:
Rare is the opportunity to reap immediate economic benefits and realize long-term societal gains. This opportunity lies before Los Angeles voters Tuesday in […]

I thought I would highlight some of the endorsements received by my current campaign clients, starting with the most recent.
In endorsing Barack Obama, the New York Times also does an interesting series on previous endorsements going back to Abraham Lincoln.
About Senator Obama, they write:
Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader […]

Former California Assemblyman Rod Wright and current Missouri State Representative Robin Wright-Jones were both running in state senate Democratic primaries in their respective states. In both races, I was brought on by independent expenditure committees to test the viability of their candidacies. Coincidentally, my polls showed that my clients’ preferred candidates were down — in […]

Conservative columnist David Brooks is usually a worthy and insightful adversary. So I was surprised by his attempt in today’s column to portray Senator Obama’s rhetorical skills as a net negative.
The basic argument went something like this:
Sure, he’s a great speaker… “When I first heard this sort of radically optimistic speech in Iowa,” Brooks writes, […]

As often as I disagree with his politics, I can read my pal Dan Schnur’s writing all day and still be hungry for more.
In “The Politics of Hunger,” his latest piece in the New York Times, Dan worries about the enthusiasm gap:
The loss of a congressional seat in Mississippi was only the second most disturbing […]

I get asked all the time who I like, Hillary or Obama. I always answer Richardson. So whether Obama pulls Texas out of his hat today doesn’t matter much to me. But I’m happy to highlight Joe Cutbirth’s examination of Obama’s Texas strategy in today’s Huffington Post because of the light it shines on my […]