0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: our hosts discuss the chaos and countdown to the midterm elections. With Antonia, Brian and Mitch.
0:34 – Voters motivated by climate change
Marianne Lavelle (@mlavelles) is a politics reporter InsideClimateNews (@insideclimate). She joins us to discuss pivotal ballot measures in Colorado, Washington, and how climate change is impacting voters this election cycle.
0:55 – KPFA News: San Luis Obispo County to decide fracking future
Voters in San Luis Obispo County face a measure on the ballot which would stop the expansion of most kinds of oil production there – Measure G. Oil companies have poured about $8 million into stopping it. KPFA’s Vic Bedoian (@VicBedoian) reports.
1:08 – City elections roundup: Oakland and Berkeley
On Berkeley, Frances Dinkelspiel (@Frannydink), co-founder of Berkeleyside joins us to discuss races poised to dramatically alter the City Council in Berkeley. Then, for Oakland Darwin Bond Graham (@DarwinBondGraha), a staff writer with the East Bay Express, with the explainer on the Oakland mayor’s race, City Council and critical ballot measures X, Y, and W.
1:34 – Women are driving campaigns and races in unprecedented numbers – here’s why it matters
Kelly Dittmar (@kdittmar) is a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters.