Blake Jones

Kuna, Sacramento

California Education and Budget Reporter at POLITICO

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Articles

This primary ain’t big enough for the two of us

1 day ago | politico.com | Nicole Norman |Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Melanie Mason

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco addresses supporters of President Donald Trump during a rally in Coachella, California on October 12, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images THE BUZZ: GRAND OLD SHOWDOWN — Steve Hilton’s now-official campaign for the governor’s mansion has locked him and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — the only other major Republican in the race — in a battle for the heart of the California GOP.
Scoop: SF Dems force the age question

3 days ago | politico.com | Dustin Gardiner |Blake Jones

Democratic Party leaders in San Francisco have proposed a resolution calling for a potential mandatory retirement age for elected and appointed public officials. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY: SANCTUARY STATE — Most California voters think the state should keep paying for undocumented patients’ health care, a POLITICO-Citrin Center poll found. But their support is conditional, our colleagues Rachel Bluth and Emma Anderson report.
Show us the money, Porter!

6 days ago | politico.com | Melanie Mason |Dustin Gardiner |Blake Jones

Tents and objects accumulate at a homeless encampment on the side of the CA-105 freeway on Friday, July 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. | Damian Dovarganes/AP DRIVING THE DAY: BREAKING CAMP — More than a third of California voters support local laws allowing police to arrest people camping outside if they refuse shelter, according to a first-of-its kind poll from POLITICO and UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center.
Biz holds Bonta at arm’s length

1 week ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner

Dustin Gardiner is co-author of POLITICO's California Playbook. As California Playbook co-author, Dustin takes readers inside the lively arena of Golden State politics. He specializes in coverage of the San Francisco mayor and its board of supervisors. Dustin has also helped lead reporting on the state’s congressional swing districts and its ongoing battle to address the housing crisis. He has covered state and national politics from California, Arizona and D.C. for 16 years.
Newsom toughens his tariff talk

1 week ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Lindsey Holden

GOING NUTS: A denim-clad Gavin Newsom spent his morning at an almond farm in the Turlock area offering one of his sharpest broadsides against Donald Trump’s tariffs, casting them as “one of the most self-destructive things that we’ve experienced in modern American history.”He and Attorney General Rob Bonta’s newly announced lawsuit against the import taxes, he said, was necessary to mitigate economic carnage on California’s marquee tech and farming industries.
Newsom goes to the mat on Trump's tariffs

1 week ago | politico.com | Dustin Gardiner |Blake Jones

Dustin Gardiner is co-author of POLITICO's California Playbook. As California Playbook co-author, Dustin takes readers inside the lively arena of Golden State politics. He specializes in coverage of the San Francisco mayor and its board of supervisors. Dustin has also helped lead reporting on the state’s congressional swing districts and its ongoing battle to address the housing crisis. He has covered state and national politics from California, Arizona and D.C. for 16 years.
How Barbara Lee wins - or loses

1 week ago | politico.com | Jeremy B. White |Dustin Gardiner |Blake Jones

Dustin Gardiner is co-author of POLITICO's California Playbook. As California Playbook co-author, Dustin takes readers inside the lively arena of Golden State politics. He specializes in coverage of the San Francisco mayor and its board of supervisors. Dustin has also helped lead reporting on the state’s congressional swing districts and its ongoing battle to address the housing crisis. He has covered state and national politics from California, Arizona and D.C. for 16 years.
Bernie returns to a bruised progressive movement

1 week ago | politico.com | Melanie Mason |Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner

Melanie Mason is a senior political reporter covering California politics at POLITICO. She leads coverage of Los Angeles politics including the mayoralty of Karen Bass. She is also an expert in the state’s congressional swing districts and has closely chronicled its top elected officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom to Rep. Katie Porter and Rep. Adam Schiff. She has over 13years experience reporting on the people and institutions that shape the state from bureaus in Sacramento to D.C. and Los Angeles.
Todd Gloria hugs the middle

1 week ago | politico.com | Dustin Gardiner |Blake Jones

Progressive-leaning San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has embraced more moderate policies to deal with voters' frustrations about street conditions in California's second-largest city. | Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images THE BUZZ: MAYORAL PIVOT — Unlike other blue-city mayors ousted by frustrated voters since the pandemic, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has kept his day job. He’s escaped their fate, in part, by shifting to the political center on crime and homelessness.
California cities teeter on tariff see-saw

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner

Dustin Gardiner is co-author of POLITICO's California Playbook. As California Playbook co-author, Dustin takes readers inside the lively arena of Golden State politics. He specializes in coverage of the San Francisco mayor and its board of supervisors. Dustin has also helped lead reporting on the state’s congressional swing districts and its ongoing battle to address the housing crisis. He has covered state and national politics from California, Arizona and D.C. for 16 years.