Campaign News

Update: Buzz Patterson’s Dereliction of Duty

Editor’s update: As of 8/17/21, the FEC still reports receiving none of Patterson’s overdue filings covering a year of fundraising in the...

Treasurer: Patterson fails to report $300K in donations

Sacramento Republican candidate for Congress Buzz Patterson has failed to report any of its campaign fundraising and spending as required by

Patterson’s endorsers largely silent on far-right ties

For the past week, The Sacto Politico has reached out to 13 different endorsers of the Patterson campaign. Only three reaffirmed their...

Ex-‘hate group’ strategist trained GOP candidate’s team

In July, Republican Congressional candidate Buzz Patterson hosted a former national strategist from one of the largest purported hate groups

Why we published Patterson scoops

This package exposes a surprising number of far-right connections by a major-party-endorsed candidate for Congress (Buzz Patterson, CA-7).

Watching 2020 political ads. A review.

Styles in political advertising change slowly. Watch most current negative ads, and you’ll likely see the same decades-old...

Why did Sacto media cover extremist rally but not the extremism?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Aug. 1 on the steps of the California’s state capitol, the state GOP-endorsed Congressional candidate Buzz Patterson...