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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 119 - When leaders go against the will of the people

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today Shaun unpacks and explains three stories from San Francisco, Austin, and Baltimore where leaders are going against the will of the people. Listen and take our action steps to fight back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On BBC A

0:02.0

I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me

0:06.0

I'm pregnant

0:08.0

judges go easy I'm pregnant women

0:10.0

I've been old my electricity that's all

0:12.0

don't think I should even be in here.

0:14.0

A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.

0:18.0

You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

0:26.0

Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC eye player today I want to tell you three quick

0:31.5

stories of how people in power, governors, even mayors,

0:35.2

are trying to thwart the local will of the people in some deeply problematic ways.

0:41.2

The governor of Texas, a lifelong conservative, is talking about sending in state troopers

0:46.8

and even the National Guard to clear homeless people out of Austin, Texas, something that the mayor and city council

0:55.3

was saying they don't want. Just weeks before our San Francisco was scheduled to

1:00.0

elect a new district attorney, the mayor there appointed the woman she had

1:04.8

endorsed as interim district attorney, horribly putting her thumb on the scale of

1:10.6

the election. And I'll close with a story from Baltimore

1:14.0

where Democrats in Maryland

1:17.0

helped elect a Republican governor

1:20.0

and are about to pay a major price for it

1:22.0

if something doesn't change.

1:24.0

This is Sean King and you are listening to

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