Dustin Gardiner

San Francisco

Co-Author at California Playbook Newsletter

California politics reporter, Playbook co-author @POLITICO. Priors: @sfchronicle, @azcentral. Board: @SF_PressClub. Fan of trails & mountains. 🏔🏳️‍🌈DMs open.

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Articles

A house divided by housing

1 day ago | politico.com | Jeremy B. White |Dustin Gardiner |Lindsey Holden

California lawmakers are fighting over housing policies that proponents say are needed to increase the state's housing supply more quickly. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP HOUSING STALEMATE: Nothing unites — and divides — California Democrats quite like housing. Everyone agrees homes and rent are too expensive. (Indeed, housing and homelessness were resoundingly the top issues for California voters in a recent POLITICO poll).
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.
‘There’s a reckoning to be had’: San Francisco Dems move to push the national party to the center.

3 days ago | politico.com | Dustin Gardiner

Local party leaders are advancing an ideology they call “new pragmatism.” Local Democratic Party leaders in San Francisco are attempting to lead a national conversation around what it takes for Democrats to win, rejecting what they deride as performative politics and virtue signaling on the left.
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.
California’s frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds

6 days ago | politico.com | Dustin Gardiner

A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments. Skid Row in Los Angeles, shown in June 2024.<br/> | Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — California voters have grown so frustrated with the blue state’s failure to reduce homelessness that well over a third of the electorate now supports local laws that allow police to arrest people camping outside if they refuse shelter.
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 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.