{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcapitol-weekly-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Ftalking-top-100-with-john-myers-JQ3v0feX","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Talking Top 100, with John Myers","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/88b9bdb8-501e-48e4-bfa1-adafa53a2e93/fd8e06cd-03cf-4a7c-bd62-5590c4c77c92/avatars-o7jhxvfwl9xwx4bl-7xtlua-original.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/4e16c118-fa86-4dfb-9947-4d52e7b13035\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Talking Top 100, with John Myers\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Last night we published the 16th edition of Capitol Weekly's Top 100 - our annual analysis of the unelected political power structure in California. We look at the mostly behind the scenes players who influence policy, elections and governance, including Capitol staff, lobbyists, Agency staff, donors, business leaders, activists, Labor leaders - and even journalists.\n\nHosts Rich Ehisen and Tim Foster are joined by former KQED reporter and LA Times Bureau Chief John Myers, who left journalism for communications two years ago, but still keeps a watchful eye on Golden State politics. Few political observers are more respected than Myers - one of the many reasons he was a mainstay of the Top 100 List for more than a dozen years. (His kids nicknamed his Top 100 portrait 'Old Squinty.') Myers, Ehisen and Foster discuss the broad themes that underlie the 2024 list, look at the new faces, and talk about the names on the inaugural Top 100 Hall of Fame.\n\n1:52 Live tweeting the California Budget\n4:18 The Top 100 Hall of Fame\n5:37 George Skelton\n9:23 Donna Lucas\n11:07 Gale Kaufman\n15:58 Steve Maviglio\n19:49 Aaron Read\n23:32 Themes of the 2024 Top 100\n25:43 The executive branch and organized Labor\n30:59 Jennifer Barrera\n31:00 Rob Lapsley\n32:06 Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher\n32:41 Tia Orr\n32:48 Yvonne Wheeler\n33:50 Oscar Lopez\n35:04 Danny Curtin\n36:38 Janus Norman\n37:05 Tony Bui, Laiza Negrete and Ramona Prieto\n40:14 Taryn Luna\n41:22 Chris Cadelago\n41:30 Ashley Zavala\n47:47 Who is NOT on the list - and why?\n49:56 John Latimer\n50:00 Liz Snow\n50:06 Myesha Jackson\n50:22 Building the list\n59:03 Susannah Delano\n1:01:39 Venn Diagram\n1:04:34 Last Thoughts\n"}