At the CalMatters Ideas Festival, two political experts discuss the impact of a new generation of Latino voters on California elections.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.CalMatters senior editor David Lesher moderates a discussion with political consultant Mike Madrid and Julián Castro, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, at the CalMatters Ideas Festival at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacramento on June 6, 2024.
“I remember the ads they ran with the grainy footage that said ‘They keep coming,’” recalled the newly-named CEO of the Latino Community Foundation and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development at a CalMatters Ideas Festival panel in Sacramento Thursday. Widely seen as a turning point in California politics, the measure — endorsed by then-Republican-Gov. Pete Wilson and others — helped flip California blue.
The November election is another symptom of the political polarization that has taken shape for decades, according to former U.S. Rep. Doug Ose, a Sacramento Republican, and Democrat
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