PREVIEW: HARRIS: Conversation with Bill Whalen of Hoover Institution regarding Jeane Kirkpatrick's creation of "San Francisco Democrat" in 1984 at the GOP SF Convention -- and what does it mean today for VPOTUS Harris? More tonight
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. My colleague Bill Whelan, the Hoover Institution, observing |
| 0:05.4 | Camilla Harris's record as District Attorney in San Francisco, is Attorney General |
| 0:10.2 | of the State of California and a Senator looking especially at what was |
| 0:16.1 | created 40 years ago in the San Francisco Republican Convention the concept of |
| 0:21.8 | San Francisco Democrat. |
| 0:23.4 | What is it? |
| 0:24.4 | I asked Bill, and does it apply today? |
| 0:28.0 | His answer is very careful. |
| 0:30.8 | Bill Whelan on Gene Cookpatrick's Genius of San Francisco Democrat 1984. |
| 0:37.0 | What is it in 2024? |
| 0:39.0 | More of this later. |
| 0:40.0 | No, it's being thrown around. |
| 0:42.0 | New Gigrich has tossed it around. |
| 0:43.7 | It has media appearances. |
| 0:45.1 | Trump has used it himself. |
| 0:46.2 | J.D. Vance, I think is used it. |
| 0:48.4 | Although curiously enough, J.D. Vance actually lived in the Bay Area as a venture capitalist, |
| 0:52.2 | and maybe he has to tread lightly on |
| 0:53.4 | San Francisco but yeah it's put out there as a pejorative and that's gets to the |
| 0:57.5 | issue of how people perceive California these days John and you know for some people |
| 1:02.0 | California is a land of |
| 1:03.1 | milk and honey and abundant sunshine, but for other people, it's hell on earth |
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