Articles by CALmatters

It wouldn’t be election season without a bunch of big-money interests trying to tell you how to vote. This year, with hundreds of millions of dollars rolling into initiative campaigns over housing and health care, California has hit a new record. The $111 million campaign against Proposition 8 on kidney dialysis clinics amounts to the most money poured into a single side of a ballot measure in the United States—at least since electronic record-keeping began in 2002, and possibly ever. Here are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTELy6PdwvU Candidates Ed Hernandez and Eleni Kounalakis are vying to become California’s next lieutenant governor. The “lite gov,” in the parlance, chairs the California State Lands Commission and the California Commission for Economic Development, sits on the University of California Board of Regents and California State University Board of Trustees and, most importantly, steps in if the governor cannot serve or leaves the state. Kounalakis and Hernandez are b...

Job Posting: U.S. House of Representatives Starting Salary: $174,000 Job Description For the 116th time in history, the entire U.S. House of Representatives is hiring for all 435 positions. Politically ambitious Californians have applied for one of 53 positions in the state’s congressional delegation. Duties include: * Attend floor sessions and vote on bills * Occasionally write bills * Help investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election * Help investigate the FBI’s investigat...