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Political Breakdown KQED
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Join hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos as they unpack the day in politics with a California perspective. Featuring interviews with reporters and other insiders involved in the craft of politics—including elected officials, candidates, pollsters, campaign managers, fundraisers, and other political players—Political Breakdown pulls back the curtain to offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics works today.
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She Heads the Most Trusted Source of Political Data in California
California Target Book is a goldmine of information for campaigns, journalists, and political insiders. For three decades, Target Book has provided non-partisan research on voter registration, campaign contributions, candidate profiles and more. Scott and Marisa talk with publisher Marva Diaz, the first woman and first Latino to have that position.
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The Politics and Policy Around Newsom’s Vatican Climate Summit Trip
Governor Gavin Newsom will be heading to Rome next month as one of several state and local officials invited from around the world to speak at the Pope’s Vatican Climate Summit. The governor will focus on how the changing climate is affecting California’s ability to cope with droughts, wildfires and floods. Scott is joined by Marisa and Guy to talk about the politics and policy of Newsom’s trip.
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California Moves To Create a “Sanctuary” for Arizona Women Seeking Abortions
A bill to ban non-disclosure agreements while outside groups negotiate legislation failed in committee, creating some interesting alliances in the process. Meanwhile, a bill to allow licensed doctors from Arizona to perform abortions in California moves forward. Scott, Marisa and Guy discuss it all in this week's roundtable.
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UC Regent John Pérez on the Gaza Protests Roiling College Campuses
As protests over the war in Gaza roil college campuses from New York to California, Marisa and Scott sit down with UC Regent John Pérez, who has served on the board overseeing the University of California system since 2014 and was recently appointed to another 12 year term. Pérez was also Speaker of the State Assembly from 2010 to 2014.
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Voters Under 35 Have A Lot At Stake in November. Here’s What They’re Thinking About
As part of KQED's Youth Takeover Week, we’ll hear from young voters and what they care about most. From the war in Gaza to climate change, student debt and how they might vote in November. In addition to hearing from young Bay Area voters, Scott talks with Erin Heys, policy director and senior researcher for the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans and Saa’un Bell with Power California, which focuses on young people of color and LGBTQ voters throughout the state.
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Writer Mark Leibovich on Newsom, Biden, Trump and the “D.C. Carnival”
Writer Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic is known as a shrewd observer of presidents, Congressional leaders, insurgents and insiders, capturing it all in books like “This Town," which describes what he calls “the carnival that D.C. has become.” He just wrote a profile of Gov. Gavin Newsom, and he joins Scott to talk about this strange and unsettled moment in U.S. politics.
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Customer Reviews
Insightful podcast
Smart, sharp, timely and on point. Marisa, Scott and guests do the work to get you what you need and want. I’m a fan.
Your Mom has been voting longer than you, I assume
My first time listening to your show, I learn that journalist of your generation think that their mother doesn’t know anything about politics. Please note that people my age and my mother’s age are the bulk of voters in America. We live and breathe politics for the sake of the generation inheriting this world. You don’t need to dumb down your explanations of ballot measures for us.
Shasta County
Do not disrespectfully talk about the choices we’ve been making in Shasta County. We choose to go a different route, and it has already began to change our county for the good.