Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Bearstar Strategies

64. The Bearstar Trio

A few years ago on this list we admittedly took the easy way out and decided not to try and choose from among the legendary campaign strategist Ace Smith and his intrepid colleagues Juan Rodriguez and Sean Clegg, now collectively known as Bearstar Strategies. Because how do you choose just one of them? Each has deservedly been on the list many times, and each is an integral part of that kingdom we have referred to many times in these pages as Newsomworld. But it doesn’t end there. There is almost no brand name Dem of any consequence in this state they don’t work with, now and in the future. Last year we opted only for Rodriguez in recognition of his work on a campaign to thwart an oil-industry backed effort to overturn a 2022 law imposing new restrictions on oil and gas wells near homes and schools. But after much consideration this time around – and some verbal jousting in the expansive Capitol Weekly offices – we are again opting to break our own rule and have put the trio on here as a unit.