0:08 – Mondays with Mitch
Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss Amy Coney Barrett’s final vote in the Senate is today; Mike Pence plans to attend, even though 5 of his staff have COVID and more.
0:34 – COVID updates and listener calls.
John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
1:08 – KPFA News: Proposition 15 would lift California’s cap on property taxes — but only for large owners of commercial and industrial real estate. The argument that the “no” campaign is making is that prop 15 would hurt small businesses. During our debate, we asked for an example business. The no campaign’s representative couldn’t name one. So we asked our reporter, Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) to follow up — to ask prop 15’s supporters and opponents each to give us an example property that would make their case. Here’s what she found.
1:20 – KPFA News: We’ve put reporters on some of the high-stakes local races that are attracting big levels of money and organizing. Today we’re going to take you into Oakland’s City Council District 3, which is mostly West Oakland. It’s a historically-Black neighborhood, rapidly gentrifying, one of the epicenters of the 2008 foreclosure crisis. Last year, it was also the site of an action that drew national attention: “Moms 4 Housing.” A group of unhoused Black Moms took over an empty investor-owned home, occupied it for over two months, and eventually — after sheriffs evicted them — forced the owner to sell the property to a land trust to become permanent affordable housing. Now one of its organizers is trying to unseat the council-member who represents the neighborhood, aiming heavy fire at her votes on policing and tenants’ rights. Ariel Boone (@arielboone) has the story.
1:34 – Debate: San Francisco Prop L Executive pay tax
Yes: Supervisor Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) represents San Francisco’s District 6, and sponsored SF’s Proposition L.
No: Richie Greenberg (@richieSF2016) is a political commentator and the former Republican candidate for San Francisco Mayor in 2018.