Yearly Archives: 2009
-->Stories of the decade in Oregon
The Oregonian’s Political reporter, Jeff Mapes is running down his top 10 political stories of the decade and today he highlights Governor Kulongoski’s reelection.
Kulongoski’s Rebound: At the beginning of 2006, you could get decent odds betting against Kulongoski’s reelection. Kitzhaber was thinking of running again. The unions,… >> More Updates
The surf is not up
In 1995, I interviewed for a job with the California State Senate’s Democratic Caucus. After the 1994 mid-term elections the California State Senate was the only state legislative body controlled by the Democratic Party west of the Mississippi River.
Many pundits and analysts are saying 2010 will be like… >> More Updates
A community based movement
Since March of this year, we have been working with a citizen’s group in Alameda to stop a fundamentally flawed and unfair ballot measure in their community. This measure would give complete control of Alameda Point to a developer, while sticking the community with most of the bill for… >> More Updates
More stadium politics
For those of you who follow this blog, you know I enjoy the politics that surrounds sports stadiums. So I could not let the possibility of a new arena being built in San Francisco for the Golden State Warriors pass without comment.
First this speaks to the inability… >> More Updates
Let the campaign begin
Our client for Governor of Oregon, Bill Bradbury, announced his candidacy for office last week and I want to share with you his redesigned website at: www.bradbury2010.com and some of the new coverage. The announcement ended up being covered by 61 news outlets in at least seven cities and… >> More Updates
A Cautionary Tale
Pundits often wonder why politicians worry so much about keeping sports teams. Mayor Greg Nickels is going to lose his bid for reelection and one of the reasons is the City’s loss of the Supersonics. Now this is not the only reason, the City also bungled its response to… >> More Updates
The most important political news of the week
Unless you are a political geek of the highest order, you probable missed the news that the California State Auditor’s Office has released draft regulations for the drawing of political boundaries for the Legislature and Board of Equalization. Now if you actually want to read them and reach an… >> More Updates
Interesting voter registration numbers
The Oregon voter file has just been released. Of the 46,710 new registrants since the election, 17,449 have registered Democrat, 10,647 have registered Republican and the remaining 18,614 have registered non-affiliated.
Stop
It has been nearly impossible not to watch and follow Governor Mark Sanford’s on-going sex scandal. The coverage led me to think about the difference between his scandal and the recent scandals faced by other politicians.
While the specifics in each individual case are different the one thing that… >> More Updates
A radical suggestion
A recent San Francisco Examiner editorial talks about how independent expenditures have grown out of control in San Francisco.
“Our latest local example of this standoff is an “independent expenditure” campaign-contribution loophole that has more than quintupled its money flow during the past six years.”
Why is this… >> More Updates