Oct 5, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Kelly Calkin heads Calkin Public Affairs, a Sacramento-based firm that advises some of the biggest names in California politics. Calkin has a different background from many of his public affairs…
Okay, well, as we always know, sometimes it's a feast or famine thing when it comes to who had the worst week in California politics.
We're going to start down south this time because beforehand, Tim and I talked about this.
And a lot of times this would have been our number one, but it just tells you how dicey things are this week for some people in California politics.
Our third place person this week is Anaheim Mayor Ashley Aiken, who's been in the news a lot of late, mostly over things going on with the potential sale of the Anaheim Angels, excuse me, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
But her chief of staff, there are lots of stories in this last week about several allegations from her chief of staff accusing her of being inebriated.
what in the midst of doing city business uh accused her of making racist and homophobic slurs at people um quite a bit of stuff she also
referred to god as her imaginary friend and i've heard i'm not really sure what the context was there but
I mean, she lost the endorsement for her reelection campaign from one of the city's police unions.
Okay, well, as we always know, sometimes it's a feast or famine thing when it comes to who had the worst week in California politics.
We're going to start down south this time because beforehand, Tim and I talked about this.
And a lot of times this would have been our number one, but it just tells you how dicey things are this week for some people in California politics.
Our third place person this week is Anaheim Mayor Ashley Aiken, who's been in the news a lot of late, mostly over things going on with the potential sale of the Anaheim Angels, excuse me, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
But her chief of staff, there are lots of stories in this last week about several allegations from her chief of staff accusing her of being inebriated.
what in the midst of doing city business uh accused her of making racist and homophobic slurs at people um quite a bit of stuff she also
referred to god as her imaginary friend and i've heard i'm not really sure what the context was there but
I mean, she lost the endorsement for her reelection campaign from one of the city's police unions.
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