"The James Carville of California"
Garry South has more than 40 years’ experience at very high levels in government, politics and business consulting. He has worked for both the federal government and state governments in three different states, including as Special Assistant to a U.S. Cabinet Secretary, Senior Political Advisor to a Governor, Communications Director to another Governor, Chief of Staff to a Lieutenant Governor and Public Information Director of a State Legislature.
Latest from Garry South
Can a Republican mayor beat California Gov. Gavin Newsom?
Sacramento bee
January 25, 2021
For almost three decades, California Republicans have nurtured political fantasies about what I call their “great white hopes” — big-city Republican mayors that they believe would make peachy-keen candidates for statewide office. After all, they were elected and re-elected as chief executives of maj...
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Some lessons for Newsom and Democrats from the last recall effort
Cal Matters
December 14, 2020
Gov. Gray Davis made history on Oct. 7, 2003, by becoming only the second governor in the lifetime of the U.S. to be recalled by voters. The only other was a governor of faraway North Dakota in 1921.
With Gov. Gavin Newsom now under threat of recall himself, Democrats would do well to remember th...
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Trumped by Trump, Mike Pence heads to obscurity
Capitol Weekly
November 23, 2020
The biggest casualty of the 2020 election was, of course, Donald Trump, who became only the fifth president since the 1800s to be booted out of office after one term — and the first in 28 years. But the second most prominent victim may turn out to be Trump’s sidekick, Vice President Mike Pence.
It’...
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‘Defund the police’ won’t work. Here’s how to put cops under community control
The Sacramento Bee
June 16, 2020
In our many collective decades of covering and engaging in local, state and national politics, we have been frustrated by the failure of city councils, boards of supervisors, state legislatures and Congress to effectively eradicate abusive behavior by the minority of law enforcement officers who are...
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