Editor’s Note: This podcast was originally published on July 22, 2016, but is being republished here in the wake of California politician John Burton’s death yesterday.
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By Robert Scheer
John Burton has served in California government for over three decades: in the State Assembly, State Senate and in the US House of Representatives. He now chairs the California Democratic Party, and in their conversation, Burton tells Robert Scheer why he believes California democrats became and stayed more progressive than the rest of the country. He talks about the difficulty over the past several decades of campaign finance reform actually taking hold. And he discusses the current election and why he thinks Trump supporters and Bernie Sanders actually have a great deal in common.
Credits
Guest:
John Burton – California Democratic Party
Host:
Robert Scheer
Producers:
Joshua Scheer, Rebecca Mooney
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Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, publisher of ScheerPost and award-winning journalist and author of a dozen books, has a reputation for strong social and political writing over his nearly 60 years as a journalist. His award-winning journalism has appeared in publications nationwide—he was Vietnam correspondent and editor of Ramparts magazine, national correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times—and his in-depth interviews with Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and others made headlines. He co-hosted KCRW’s political program Left, Right and Center and now hosts Scheer Intelligence, an independent ScheerPost podcast with people who discuss the day’s most important issues.