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California: Eric Jaye

Tue, 08/19/2008 - 12:12

Newsom gubernatorial exploratory committee confirms super strategist Garry South joining team

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

SAN FRANCISCO - Famed California political strategist Garry South has joined Mayor Gavin Newsom's 2010 gubernatorial exploratory committee, a spokesman for the committee announced this morning.

South is largely credited for helping former Gov. Gray Davis win election to the state's top electoral post in 1998 and for his re-election four years later.

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Fri, 07/18/2008 - 18:17

Democratic heavyweight Clemons to run Newsom's gubernatorial exploratory committee

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

[img_assist|nid=1338|title=San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=left|width=420|height=306]In a move that will no doubt send tremors through the California political world - or at the very least among what is expected to be a crowded candidate field - a spokesman for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom confirmed late Friday that Democratic heavyweight strategist Nick Clemons has agreed to head the mayor's gubernatorial exploratory committee.

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 17:48

Exploratory effort signals Newsom ready to bring SF civil rights, eco agendas to state

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

A spokesman for Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial exploratory committee said Wednesday that should the 40-year-old political wunderkind run for California's top electoral post, he will do so implementing an issues-based campaign and will avoid wading into the muck of personality politics.

Eric Jaye, an influential San Francisco-based Democratic strategist and a spokesman for the exploratory committee, said that Newsom is very aware of the deeo field of Democratic candidates he may face in the effort to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010.

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