Sacramento-based Democratic consultant; founder and President of Forza Communications, a public affairs and campaign firm, he blogs at the California Majority Report; press secretary to then-Governor Gray Davis and former Deputy Chief of Staff for Assembly Speakers Karen Bass and Fabian Núñez
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