Connections

The City Maven Radio Hour is a weekly public affairs program streaming live every Thursday at 11 a.m. on LATalkRadio.com.

Join Brendan and City Hall reporter Alice Walton for in-depth interviews with officeholders, journalists, candidates, academics and other dynamic opinion leaders. Sound a little too inside baseball for you? Don’t worry—they make politics fun! Some of their 2011 interviews included:

• State Controller John Chiang
• L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
• L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel
• LAUSD Supts. John Deasy &
  Ray Cortinez
• CA Assemblymembers
  Bob Blumenfield, Mike Feuer,
  Cameron Smyth, Warren Furutani,
  Felipe Fuentes, Ed Reyes
• L.A. City Councilmembers
  Bernard Parks, Jose Huizar,
  Paul Krekorian, Bill Rosendahl,
  Jan Perry, Richard Alarcon,
  Tony Cardenas
• L.A. Times journalists:
  George Skelton, Michael Finnegan,
  Kate Linthicum, Ari Bloomekatz
• L.A. Daily News journalists:
  Rick Orlov, Mariel Garza,
  Dakota Smith, Kerry Cavanaugh
• Political Pundits:
  Jack Pitney, Dick Rosengarten,
  Joe Mathews, Ron Kaye,
  Joel Fox, Debra Saunders,
  Dave Bryan, Dan Schnur
• And more!

solutions showcase

• Association Management Since April 2009, HuffmanPA has guided the advocacy, public policy development, and strategic communications for the Chambers of Commerce Alliance of Ventura & Santa Barbara Counties. This group is considered the most influential alliance of its kind, and HuffmanPA is credited with its growth and revitalization.
• Community Relations When PacFed Benefit Administrators sought to raise their profile among opinion leaders and decision makers, HuffmanPA crafted a set of strategies to impress PacFed’s existing client base and open new doors for new prospects, along the way establishing relationships with influential officeholders.
  
  
  
• Issue Advocacy After two Texas oil companies qualified a ballot initiative to essentially repeal California’s landmark greenhouse gas emissions law, HuffmanPA was assigned primarily to lobby business groups to stay out. Much to the surprise of political observers, many prominent business remained neutral and others even opposed the controversial initiative after hearing persuasive arguments presented by HuffmanPA. Prop. 23 was soundly defeated, 60-40%.
• Public Policy Development HuffmanPA was retained by the Southern California Water Committee to update their legislative agenda and government affairs programs and played a key role in transforming its annual event into a widely attended and highly profitable festivity. Today, SCWC’s legislative program ensures that the organization stays on top of timely issues and has significantly increased the organization’s value to its members.