Christina Bellantoni
Bio:
Christina Bellantoni is the associate politics editor for Roll Call. She joined the team in October 2010.
Bellantoni worked as a senior reporter-blogger at Talking Points Memo's Washington bureau covering the White House and Washington at large from October 2009 through October 2010. She helped launch a major expansion for TPM, getting the political news site into the White House Correspondents Association and the White House press pool. Bellantoni covered national politics and the health care debate as TPM experienced record growth.
Before joining TPM, Bellantoni was a White House correspondent for The Washington Times, a post she took after covering the 2008 Democratic presidential campaigns. She joined the Times in December 2003, covering state and Congressional politics before moving to the national political beat for the 2008 campaign.
Bellantoni moved to Washington after covering local politics in California.
Bellantoni, a San Jose native, graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Mass Communications in 2001. Her first journalism job was for the San Jose Business Journal in 1998, working in the research department to put together data for the "Book of Lists."
She won two national journalism awards for Best Scoop in 2001 for her story in Silicon Valley Biz Ink revealing the San Jose Sharks were up for sale. Her stories for the Palo Alto Daily News in 2002 and 2003 won several Bay Area journalism awards.
She lives in D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood with her husband, journalist Thomas M. Anderson, and their cat, Nephron.
Bellantoni no longer works for Roll Call.
Stories by Christina Bellantoni:
June 19, 2011
President Barack Obama has a solid approval rating among liberal activists attending the Netroots Nation convention. At the RightOnline conference, it was a different story.
June 18, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS — Many of the more than 2,200 liberal activists and bloggers gathered here for Netroots Nation are frustrated. They will vote for President Barack Obama over any Republican on Nov. 6, 2012. But, they say, they don’t have to be happy about it.
June 17, 2011
Morgan Griffith was the first Republican to ever serve as Majority Leader in the Virginia House of Delegates, and he loved every second of it. Now, as a freshman Member of Congress, Griffith is "dead last" to speak at hearings, and he has virtually no say in his party's agenda.
June 16, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS — Ex-Sen. Russ Feingold on Thursday night sharply criticized Democrats for forming super PACs that can take unlimited corporate cash, flatly calling the entities “wrong.”
June 15, 2011
The Texas House passed a new Congressional map this week, moving the proposal for the state's newly drawn 36 House districts to the state Senate.
June 10, 2011
Republican presidential hopefuls are not facing an easy task as they attempt to woo tea party activists for 2012.
June 8, 2011
Republican-friendly outside group American Crossroads on Wednesday sharply criticized Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) for being “negative.”
May 27, 2011
You've got questions, @rollcall has answers.
May 25, 2011
You've got questions, @rollcall has answers.
May 19, 2011
You’ve got questions, @rollcall has answers.
May 19, 2011
You’ve got questions, @rollcall has answers.
May 18, 2011
Democrats evaluating the 2012 map are confident President Barack Obama can win enough battleground states to earn a second term, but via a far less aggressive path than what he forged in 2008.
May 18, 2011
Think it’s funny that some voters doubt President Barack Obama’s citizenship? Then his 2012 re-election campaign has just the thing for you.
May 18, 2011
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn appears likely to face Republican businessman Craig Huey in a July 12 runoff for the 36th district special election.
May 14, 2011
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday night that after "deep personal reflection" and prayer, he has decided against a second White House bid.
May 13, 2011
Rep. Paul Ryan says he wants to talk with his family before deciding if he’ll seek the newly open Senate seat in Wisconsin in 2012.
May 12, 2011
Democrats are taking direct aim at the perceived frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, going after Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper before he gives a major speech on health care.
May 5, 2011
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty used the first Republican presidential debate — and the absence of major contenders — to showcase his credentials, deflect criticism of unpopular positions and introduce himself to voters.
May 4, 2011
Big-dollar donors in Washington, D.C., are being asked to open their wallets for President Barack Obama on May 16.
May 1, 2011
President Barack Obama announced late Sunday that U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden earlier in the day in Pakistan, nearly 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
April 30, 2011
The Motion Picture Association of America knows its audience.
April 30, 2011
Jon Huntsman is looking for employment. The former Utah governor's stead as ambassador to China officially ended Saturday, and he celebrated the occasion by attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
April 29, 2011
President Barack Obama spoke privately Friday afternoon with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, seeing the Democratic Congresswoman for the first time since she was shot in Tucson, Ariz.
April 28, 2011
You’ve got questions, @rollcall has answers. Our Q&A with Emily Heil.
April 27, 2011
President Barack Obama told his top donors Wednesday night that releasing the long-form version of his birth certificate illustrated the serious nature of his job. As Obama wooed donors in New York City in an attempt to keep that job, the president joked the day had been “fun,” adding a quip: “Nobody checked my ID at the door.”
