Capitol Weekly Podcast: Dan Morain

Veteran political journalist Dan Morain joins to chat about Steve Poizner, California’s former insurance commissioner who announced this week he wants to get his old job back — only this time by running as an independent, not a Republican.

Will the multimillionaire Poizner, by shedding the party label, be able to shake the curse that has befuddled GOP statewide office-seekers in California? Or, will his rightward turn in the GOP’s bruising 2010 gubernatorial primary come back to haunt him?

We talk about all that, along with SEIU’s latest political endorsements and Dan’s brand new job at the indie journalism project, CALmatters.

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