Guest Essay: AB 1177 to open banking options for all
COVID-19 put a spotlight on a troubling reality: Black and Brown Californians work disproportionately as frontline essential workers in...
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Nov. 13, 2022 – Vol. 3, Issue 5
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Jeff Burdick
- Mar 31, 2021
Former FEC Chair Ravel on recall donations, dark money
While sitting on board of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from 2013 to 2017 – including one stint as chair – native Californian Ann...
Delaine Eastin
- Mar 31, 2021
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...
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 11, 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 11, 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
- 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
- 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
- Dec 15, 2020
What’s your favorite political book, movie or TV show?
With the year winding down, The Sacto Politico decided to take a less hard-nosed survey of a party of politics that connects us all. We...
Jeff Burdick
- Dec 15, 2020
S/P Q&A: How underdog State Ballot campaign won
The rule of thumb for winning state ballot initiatives is to spend the most money. Although originally designed to give voters a direct...
Michael J. Seaman
- Nov 16, 2020
Guest Essay: COVID-19 & Calif.’s Unincorporated Areas
More than 6 million people in California live in urbanized unincorporated areas, without an elected mayor or city councils to focus on...
Jeff Burdick
- Nov 5, 2020
Has Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. returned to far-right roots?
Most California election cycles find the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) in the news opposing another statewide ballot effort...
Jeff Burdick
- Nov 5, 2020
2022 Election Spotlight: State Assembly districts 8 & 9
With the 2020 elections over, staunch politicos now turn to the 2022 primaries. Too early, you say? Money never sleeps, and the same...
Jeff Burdick
- Oct 1, 2020
October surprise: Progressives now tops in Dem party
Watershed elections are rare. Even rarer are watersheds of which the chief beneficiaries are unaware. This appears the case for...
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