Dan Morain has been a journalist in California for more than 40 years, focusing on state policy, politics and justice-related issues. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 27 years and was a columnist and editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee. He wrote his first story about Kamala Harris in 1994 when he was a Sacramento-based reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and covered her 2010 run for California attorney general and her tenure in that position and as U.S. senator.