by Chris Nava, VP for Political Action
Polling conducted in the aftermath of the Massachusetts election by Gallup, Hart Research, and pollster Scott Rasmussen and others shows a sampling of  state of voter’s views on the future of health care reform. How we interpret the poll results has everything to do with how we see the [...]

We did it! Senator Kehoe’s committee has moved the Leno Single-Payer Health Care bill (SB 810) to the floor.
Read more in The New York Times.
Get background from the new Health Care Reform Background page on California issues.

It is hard to overstate the implications of the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Most observers are predicting that corporations will now have no limits on their ability to inject funds into campaigns, not by contributing them to candidates, but rather by advertising for or against candidates. It should be [...]

Air America, the only national liberal voice available to free radio listeners, has gone off the air. In an announcement posted to its website yesterday, the service said it would file for bankruptcy “to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.”
The closure ends a six-year run and leaves yet another gap in the progressive [...]

Yesterday, we observed that Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts resulted from co-opting the change agenda from Democrats. (We should also note that he ran an aggressive, constant campaign, while Martha Coakley took it easy and lost her lead.) The general feeling seems to be that most independents and even some Democrats are voting for change, [...]

All Democrats are surprised and saddened by the loss of Martha Coakley to Scott Brown in Massachusetts. While the pundits point to this, along with recent governor’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey, as an indication that Democrats are on the decline, there may be another explanation. Brown ran as an outsider, minimizing his Republican [...]

EDC members present at the January 16 meeting voted unanimously to elect Chris Nava as Vice President for Political Action. Nava had been serving as interim vice president since the resignation of Bob Fuhrmann. Nava also gained 20 “aye” votes from members who could not attend the meeting and voted by absentee ballot.
Nava served as [...]

EDC members Erin Emblem and Jason Everitt are among the “35 community leaders under 35″ in San Diego News Network, an online news outlet. Nominations for the list were submitted by SDNN readers, nonprofit leaders and elected officials in the San Diego region. SDNN says they developed the list “to acknowledge the work of some [...]