Democratic political consultant
Los Angeles-based lawyer and Democratic political consultant; former Campaign Director for the Assembly Democratic Caucus (1996)
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Darry Sragow
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FROM Darry Sragow
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High Stakes… Low Interest… California voters may not care enough to go to the polls tomorrow. A very low turnout’s expected. But outside interests have cared enough to spend tens of millions of dollars.
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Can California's Political Parties Survive Super PAC's? Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor to the McCain-Palin ticket in 2008, says, "The California Republican Party has collapsed." In "the Number One richest state for politics in America, the donor community has defunded" the state GOP, which is "an unworthy and unsafe investment," Schmidt says . Former Republican state finance chairman Jeff Miller and strategist Tony Russo have gone outside the party to form a "center-right" Super PAC to support candidates that favor business in the Assembly and Senate. Even moderate Democrats will do.
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Third Party Makes California Ballot next year’s California ballot will include the first presidential candidate ever nominated on line. We’ll hear about the party called Americans Elect—with big money and big plans to challenge Democrats and Republicans.
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Governor Brown Says, 'Thanks, but No Thanks' Governor Brown today vetoed the budget passed yesterday by the Democratic majority in Sacramento, issuing an explanation on YouTube. Last year, voters passed Proposition 25 , providing that legislators would not get paid if they failed to meet the constitutional budget deadline of midnight last night. For the first time in 25 years, they made it. But what happens now that Brown has cast his veto? State Controller John Chiang, a Democrat, signs the checks.
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GOP Tries to Trade Environmental Regulations for Tax-Cut Vote The latest Field Poll says 58 percent of California voters approved Governor Brown's plan for closing the $26 billion state budget gap. He wants half made up with spending cuts and half by extending expired taxes on income, sales and vehicles — but only if voters approve in a special election. Democrats have enough votes to give him the cuts, but Republicans are required to put the tax extensions on the ballot in June. The GOP's official position is "No." But today's Los Angeles Times reports that five Republicans are negotiating with the Governor, asking him for some major concessions.
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Will Jerry Brown Disappoint His Biggest Supporters? Jerry Brown has taken a week off to rest from a long campaign, during which he made no promises about what he’ll do as Governor, except that he won’t raise taxes unless there’s a mandate from the people of California. With a likely deficit of $19 billion, that’s led to a lot of deep thinking by political pros.
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The Billionaire Who Fell To Earth: Whitman Drops in Polls With California’s next election less than a month away, the political picture is changing…fast. In March, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman had a 50-point lead in the Republican primary for governor. Now Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has whittled that down to just 9 points.
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Democrats Try to Shake Things Up in a Tough Election Year At this weekend's party convention in downtown Los Angeles, California Democrats tried to frame this year's elections as a battle of wills between Wall Street and Main Street, with Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown urging party activists to generate Tea Party-style passion. That's according to Carla Marinucci, political reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle . We speak with her and with veteran Democratic political consultant Darry Sragow.
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Proposition 93: Should Politicians Get Longer Terms? Term limits are beloved by California voters, but most good-government types say they're so short that lawmakers can't stay long enough on the job to learn how to do it. Prop 93 would reduce the time they can stay in Sacramento, but that's not all it would do.
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California Election Results and Analysis Bipartisanship is the California way. That's what Governor Schwarzenegger said after yesterday's huge re-election victory and the success of the infrastructure bonds he and Democratic leaders put on the ballot. US Senator Diane Feinstein won in a walk, and Jerry Brown will be back in the statewide political picture, this time as Attorney General . Schwarzenegger bucked the national Democratic tide with a huge re-election win just one year after the crushing defeat of his special election measures, but will his plans for healthcare, prison reform and the water supply be conducive to more cooperation or will they accentuate the partisan differences that still exist in Sacramento?
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