Mayor Tubbs: The 26 Year-Old Trying to Steer Stockton

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🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In November 2016, Mayor Michael Tubbs was elected to lead Stockton, Califronia by a 70% margin. The mayoral wunderkind joined Chuck Todd to talk about his ambitions for the city, and what he'd like to see from the state's governor.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.0	Meet the press.
0:09.0	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.0	My guess today is Mayor Michael Tubbs.
0:15.0	At age 26, he's one of the youngest mayors in the country.
0:18.0	He was elected last November to take the lead on his hometown of Stockton, California.
0:23.0	A city once described by Forbes Magazine as, quote,
0:26.0	the most miserable city in America,
0:30.0	Mayor Tubbs upset an incumbent mayor in the November election.
0:35.0	And he's now the man in charge of trying to get rid of that moniker of
0:40.0	miserable city in America.
0:41.0	Mr. Mayor, welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:44.0	So let me start with your, a native of Stockton, California.
0:47.0	And just to paint a picture of where Stockton is,
0:49.0	and if you look at it on a map, we're looking at it in Sacramento, the Bay Area,
0:53.0	and you drew a triangle.
0:56.0	Stockton would be sort of the right point of that triangle.
0:59.0	You'd have one dot on the Bay Area, one dot on Sacramento,
1:03.0	in the San Joaquin Valley.
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