FILE - First lady Nancy Reagan, center, looks on as President Ronald Reagan is sworn in during ceremonies in the Rotunda ...

California may be home to Hollywood, but the state has a long history of electing non-celebrity, charisma-challenged ...

The governor suspended the landmark environmental law to allow victims of wildfires to rebuild their destroyed properties ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him ...

When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. It ...

It’s the Democrats running Los Angeles who have not been clearing the volatile grass and brush that has built up on the ...

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...

From reality stars to movie stars, these luminaries left the entertainment industry and ventured into the political space ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican political consultant who engineered Ronald Reagan’s winning campaigns for the California ...

Stuart K. Spencer, the California political strategist who guided Ronald Reagan's ascent from Hollywood to the governor's ...

Spencer helped invent the modern political consulting business with its emphasis on TV-centric campaigning. In a Republican Party that turned sharply rightward and more combative, Spencer was a ...