Politico deputy managing editor Ryan Hutchins despatched out the next to the employees:
We’re excited to announce Wes Venteicher as our new California vitality and local weather reporter. Now we have large plans in California, and the vitality and local weather story there’s a central and rising a part of our protection technique for state, nationwide and worldwide readers. Wes could have no scarcity of issues to write down about. He begins simply as Gov. Gavin Newsom presses lawmakers this month to tax “windfall” oil earnings and as California scrambles to satisfy its local weather mandates, together with the phaseout of gas-powered automobiles.
He gained’t be shifting far. Wes joins us from the Sacramento Bee, the place he has spent 4 years constructing state sources and turning out scoops — like when he checked up on Newsom’s promise to take a pay lower early within the pandemic and discovered that he hadn’t, three months later. Then there was the previous transportation official who resigned after Wes reported she had been billing the state for a Sacramento residence and weekly journey from her residence in San Diego. A jail guard’s union canceled its retreat to Las Vegas throughout a Covid surge due to his reporting.
Wes obtained his begin writing about wildlife, fracking and local weather change for the Livingston Enterprise in his residence state of Montana — or as he places it, “overlaying elk, wolves and the varsity board.” He went on to write down for the Chicago Tribune and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Evaluate earlier than becoming a member of the Bee.
In his free time he likes to cook dinner, hike together with his cattle canine, ski and play drums. One other enjoyable truth: In school he was in a rock band known as The Legs.
Wes begins right this moment and can report back to California editor Katy Murphy and California politics editor Ben Fox. Please assist us welcome him to the workforce.
