Katie Porter's Policy Platform: Women, Moms, and Gas Prices

• 54:25Katie Porter's main platform plank: it's time for women to lead, ignoring budget shortfalls, homelessness, crime, and fire prevention.
• 54:35The mayor of Los Angeles, the largest city in the state, is already a woman of color, and women already dominate the LA City Council.
• 55:41Policy number two: it's time for moms to lead.
• 56:17Tim notes that Karen Bass, the LA mayor, is herself a mom and a woman, undermining Porter's platform novelty.
• 57:20Beverly Hills just elected a man to replace a female mayor who was also a mother.
• 58:20Katie Porter drives a minivan and should understand gas prices, but proposes California's low carbon fuel standard as the solution.
• 59:19Tim challenges Porter's claim that respiratory health is improving despite young people dying of lung cancer who've never smoked.
• 1:00:01Tim sarcastically suggests Porter's answer to gas prices is essentially that voters don't need to drive far.
• 1:00:13Tim expresses skepticism that any candidate actually understands their own policies or can fix anything once in office.
• 1:00:37Porter blames Trump's war in Iran for current gas prices.

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