Cut through the clutter with clear, impactful communications.

Latigo Strategies is a Sacramento-based public affairs firm dedicated to delivering effective, efficient and impactful communications services to drive forward our clients’ policy priorities. We use strong, thoughtful and consistent messaging to cut through the clutter in California’s complex networks of policy, politics, businesses and NGOs.

By working closely and collaboratively with our clients, we deliver smart strategies and leverage our deep-rooted knowledge of California’s public affairs landscape to effectively reach the right people with messages that resonate. Pairing succinct, digestible communications with targeted engagement strategies, we move the needle for our clients.

Reach out to learn more about how Latigo Strategies can build a public affairs strategy to help your team achieve success.

Latigo [ lat-i-goh ] noun

1. a leather strap on a saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch, fixing the saddle to a horse.

2. a public affairs firm leveraging communications strategies to strengthen your advocacy campaign and secure success.

Our Services

  • We create tailored and effective communications strategies, working with clients to confirm objectives, prioritize target audiences, identify existing and potential allies, refine messaging, and determine specific methods and tactics to consider in a strategic communications plan.

  • Leveraging long-standing relationships with the Capitol Press Corps, along with state and national journalists, we work directly with the media to tell clients’ stories and set the public narrative. Our approach is to develop the most effective messages and messengers for our clients, link spokespeople with reporters willing and ready to hear from them, and tell a compelling story that leads to success.

  • Working with clients, we develop targeted messaging platforms that tell stories in succinct, impactful language and serve as a foundation for their work. The message platforms include topline messages and proof points that help guide efforts and provide parameters for content development, such as press releases, op-eds, talking points, FAQs, collateral material and social media.

  • Lobbying and communications are at a turning point. Delivering a unified, coherent message and a tailored strategy to engage with your legislative targets and allies is essential to success. We work directly with lobbyists and government relations teams to incorporate a clear and cohesive communications strategy that works hand-in-hand to bolster our clients’ legislative strategies.

  • To amplify and enhance your earned media and direct communications, we work with clients to harness the power of digital media channels and targeted email campaigns to deliver key messages to support our overall strategy. By developing an editorial calendar based on anticipated opportunities, while leaving room for timely messages, we leverage client-owned digital accounts to directly deliver key messages to targets on the platforms they prefer to receive their information.

Our Team

Matt Mahon
President and CEO

Matt Mahon has spent more than 15 years influencing public policy from both inside and outside the Capitol. He specializes in helping clients navigate political and regulatory arenas to manage complex and controversial issues in a broad array of policy areas, including energy, agriculture, aging and tourism.

Working with Sacramento-based and global advocacy firms, Matt has helped move the needle on issues driving local and national news. He excels at working with clients to develop and deliver targeted messages in California’s political theater.

During his time in the Capitol, Matt led communications for Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes, working to build and lead the caucus communications team and provide strategic counsel to legislators as a senior staff member to caucus leadership. He began his career with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2006 re-election campaign.

Matt currently sits on the board of the Sacramento Press Club and is a recent graduate of the Leadership Sacramento program. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Government-Journalism from California State University, Sacramento.

Matt lives with his wife and two children in Wilton where they operate a small cattle ranch and raise rescue dogs.