We Californians must reclaim our position of leadership in the nomination of the president of the United States.Source: Here’s how California can be more than an ATM for presidential candidates...
LOS ANGELES — California is pushing forward with a plan to change the state’s primary date from June to March, a move that could scramble the 2020 presidential nominating contest and swing the early weight of the campaign to the West.Source: How California could jolt the 2020 presidential race...
SAN FRANCISCO >> In a recent speech to Republican donors, John Cox, a candidate for California governor, exuded the kind of optimism that could only come from an underdog. But getting GOP benefactors to believe that won’t be easy.Source: Republicans vying for California governor’s office likely to face skeptical donors...
By Courthouse News Service By , Courthouse News SACRAMENTO (CN) – AB 249, a bill aimed at illuminating dark money in political campaigns, landed in a key California Senate committee Tuesday, and its author said the legislation is “long overdue.Source: Campaign-Finance ‘Dark Money’ Bill Clears Key California Senate Committee...
The Fair Political Practices Commission issued an $8,500 fine on Thursday to Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, for campaign violations during his race in the 2014 election.Source: Merced’s Gray fined for campaign violations, FPPC says...
The state’s campaign finance watchdog voted Thursday to flip its longstanding opinion on contribution limits and allow legislators and other candidates to give unlimited sums of money to help Democratic Sen. Josh Newman fight a recall election.Source: Democrat gets break on campaign finance rule...
With a law extending the election timeline now tied up in court, Senate Democrats’ best hope of a leg up in fighting the recall of Sen. Josh Newman may be California’s political ethics watchdog.Source: California poised to adopt campaign rule that would help Democratic senator...
In March, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla appointed Brian Hatch to the Fair Political Practices Commission, the agency that interprets the Political Reform Act and enforces election law. For 40 years, Hatch was a Capitol lobbyist for firefighters’ unions.Source: Ethics commissioner’s blunder could turn watchdog into a partisan Democratic tool...
A former labor lobbyist who serves on California’s political watchdog agency met privately, talked on the phone and exchanged text messages with a lawyer working for Senate Democrats while advocating for the agency to flip a longstanding legal interpretation of campaign finance law in favor of SenSource: Ethics commissioner had private meetings with Democrats over recall election rules...
There’s a secret society in Silicon Valley. “Imagine an engineer at Google, let’s say he’s a conservative—a red meat conservative. Does he want to go work at the Heritage Foundation? Probably not,” Aaron Ginn, age 29, tells me at a “hacienda-style” D.C.Source: How Conservatives Survive in Silicon Valley...
