Matt has more than 25 years of experience working on complex, controversial and high-profile issues for public and private sector clients, as well as candidates for elected office. He is an adept communicator, an award-winning writer and a battle-tested public affairs professional with substantial domestic and international experience.
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The dust has settled on Measure EE, the 16-cent per square foot property tax rushed onto a June 4 ballot by the LAUSD board and its union. Following last week’s election results, politicians, pundits and school boards across the state are pondering EE’s meaning – trying to determine whether the parcel tax’s defeat was a […]
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Six candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – squared off on Saturday at the University of Southern California in the first of what will be many debates to help Californians decide who should (and should not) be our state’s next governor.
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“What’s Next?” interviews one of our favorite principals, California political and public affairs strategist Matt Klink. We asked Matt to share his insights into California’s recent electoral behavior and what it might suggest for the future of business and government regulation in our society.
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Julie Soderlund, a communications specialist who worked for former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carly Fiorina and other Republican causes in a career spent largely in Sacramento, died Thursday evening after a nine-month battle with melanoma. She was 38. Soderlund was known at the Capitol as a cheerful, skilled and respected communicator, working in Schwarzenegger’s press […]
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Having their name engraved on a firm’s shingle is a career pinnacle that many consultants dream about. So once achieved, why leave? Especially if you’re leaving to take a job with a boss and HR manager to answer to, and procedures to file for vacation time.
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Join the GW community to hear two GW professors share their expertise and speak about the current state of the 2016 Presidential campaign.The event will feature panelists Dr. Lara Brown, Political Management Program Director and Dan Schnur, lecturer in the Graduate School of Political Management and Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics […]
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The simplest messages in politics are usually the most powerful, with a politician on the wrong side of that simplicity scrambling to explain the unexplainable. For California Republicans, the messages don’t come any simpler, or potentially devastating on election day, than “no new taxes.”
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