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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.

Jun 18

Lessons Learned from Measure EE: Not a Blank Check

By Matt Klink

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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Apr 29

Ex-Schwarzenegger communications aide Julie Soderlund dies at 38

By Matt Klink

​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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Mar 31

A Conversation on the 2016 Presidential Campaign

By Matt Klink

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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