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Healthcare is always a major policy issue in Sacramento, and even more so now with massive federal spending cuts coming next year. Which makes people like SEIU Senior Government Relations Advocate Tiffany Whiten even more influential than usual.
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Pappas’s business partner Erin Niemela has been on this list for years, but for some inexplicable reason we have not deigned to have Emily here as well. Full disclosure – we did include her in a list
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The campaign waged by SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan to impose a one-time tax on billionaires to backfill federal health care spending cuts has undoubtedly fired up progressives statewide. But it also brings to mind a quote attributed to
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California has its share and yours of carbon reduction mandates. But imposing mandates is one thing; actually meeting them is another thing entirely. There is a small army of people across a wide range of agencies and industries
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At times it is easy to think only of Jodi Hicks when talking about Planned Parenthood of California. But she is far from the only one carrying PPCA’s flag into battle. These days much of the heavy
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California’s historic Proposition 13 was a long time ago – 1978 to be exact – and the man behind it, Howard Jarvis, is long gone. But his spirit lives on in Jon Coupal, head of the Howard Jarvis
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It is not every day that political icons get taken down in the way that labor leader César Chávez was in March. The stories that New York Times reporters Sarah Hurtes and Manny Fernandez produced on the yearslong
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Tratten is one of the most versatile and effective lobbyists and political strategist out there. She also consistently flies under the radar for some reason, so we’re going to have to change that. She has been the Political
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Like most lobbyists, Eloy Garcia prefers to keep a low profile. But don’t let the softspoken Garcia’s demeanor fool you – he is a force for his clients. A former partner at lobbying heavyweight KP Public Affairs he
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Izzy Gardon is not your typical gubernatorial Communications Director. Oh, he has all the usual skills the position demands: He is whip smart, a solid messaging tactician and understands the power of the internet better than just about