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Senior political writer, San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle Host, "It's All Political" podcast 2021 Polk Award, #WebbyAward '21 Best Pod Doc

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
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11 months
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus sings National Anthem as ⁦ @SenFeinstein ⁩ lies in state at San Francisco City Hall
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Breaking : @BernieSanders just arrived at @warriors game. Says "let's turn this thing around." @SFGate @sfchronicle
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4 years
Sharks' Logan Couture says he was 'sucker punched' for favoring Republicans. (*He is not a U.S. citizen and can't vote.)
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4 years
One of the more powerful moments of the speech was one where nothing was said.
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4 years
Biden observes a moment of silence for the 400,000 Americans who have died during the pandemic
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4 years
It's official: Cindy McCain, wife of 2008 GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, endorses @JoeBiden
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Cindy McCain
4 years
My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden .
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5 years
. @AndrewYang -- the only presidential candidate who has not run for office before -- delivered one of the most engaging speeches @DNC #DNC19 . Talked about the need to address the future of work in the US
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If you’re wondering why the DNC looks 1/4 full on TV it’s because 3/4 of us are outside funneling into one entrance after an earlier protest jammed everything up
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Joe Garofoli
6 years
An African-American woman has NEVER served in a House leadership position in EITHER party. Rep. Barbara Lee wants to change that
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5 years
Watergate star witness John Dean tells @sfchronicle he knows what's needed to impeach Donald Trump: A John Dean. He will be in East Bay Tuesday for @RepSwalwell #impeachment town hall
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1 year
Oakland @RepBarbaraLee sends letter to @MLB commish saying that "the A’s and MLB have in fact not been acting in good faith. As a federal legislator, I believe such actions are inconsistent with federal policy goals related to the MLB’s exemption from antitrust scrutiny." Uh-oh!
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3 years
"Kevin McCarthy is a joke, and he should not have the Speaker’s gavel. And I’m gonna do everything I can to make sure that that nightmare never happens.” New @DNC chair Jaime Harrison on @GOPLeader on a new "It's All Political." Listen 🎧: @harrisonjaime
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6 years
. @TheRealJohnHCox pushes for repeal of CA gas tax hike at Bay Area rally
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8 years
What @RepMcClintock will see from the podium at his #townhallmeeting in Mariposa tonite @IndivisibleTeam
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8 years
Those attending @RepMcClintock #townhallmeeting wear stickers showing local zip code they live in @IndivisibleTeam
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3 years
“I’m aiming all my fire at him. The other folks who are running, I see as teammates. We all want to recall Newsom.” Recall challenger ⁦ @KevinKileyCA ⁩ appeals to S.F.'s few Republicans in rally
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5 years
California @RepCarbajal endorses @BetoORourke says “His dedication to both active service members and veterans is exactly the type of leadership we need in a Commander in Chief.”
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8 years
"Not usually a protestor but geez" ...sign at @RepMcClintock #townhallmeeting in Mariposa @IndivisibleTeam
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6 years
The political class in this state," @TheRealJohnHCox tells largely Democrat powerbroker group in SF "have made this state virtually unaffordable and unlivable for the average forgotten, hard-working Californian."
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5 years
1,300 at ⁦ @PeteButtigieg ⁩ rally at Regency in San Francisco campaign says
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5 years
Meet @PeteButtigieg top campaign asset: 'Do I have a great husband or what?' @Chas10Buttigieg . Watch video of Chasten's intro of his husband in SF @eqca @HRC @alicelgbtdems @harveymilkclub
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Joe Garofoli
7 years
So why is the head of the House Intel Commission briefing POTUS, whose campaign is under investigation by FBI?
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#BREAKING : Nunes: Trump transition members were under surveillance during Obama administration
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4 years
Few newspapers have outdoors writers anymore, but @sfchronicle was blessed with Tom Stienstra for 40 years. He hangs it up today. Props to Tom and here is his list of his 10 life-and-death moments in 40 years in the outdoors via @sfchronicle
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Joe Garofoli
8 years
CA Delegate Shari Clark sporting these kicks ($99) at Delegation party #gopconvention #sanduskyrocks
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7 years
New #Resistance tactic: Don't just call Congress, call your sheriff abt #immigration @ACLU @fshakir @1beautifulwall
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3 years
“Polls don’t vote. People vote.” ⁦ @GavinNewsom ⁩ on new PPIC poll that showed recall failing
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5 years
BREAKING: @KamalaHarris expands California staff as primary battle heats up
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8 years
Check out this video of #WomensMarch final act: leaving their signs on Trump hotel
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5 years
“When was the last time you heard a politician say ‘fourth industrial revolution'? Just now. And I'm barely a politician.” @AndrewYang only candidate to talk about artificial intelligence @DNC #DNC19
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5 years
I said 'San Fran.'" ⁦ @Chas10Buttigieg ⁩ apologies to San Francisco audience for speaking the unspeakable (on social media) the last time he was in town. Then intros his husband ⁦ @PeteButtigieg
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Joe Garofoli
9 years
28,000 member United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5 in California endorses @BernieSanders
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Joe Garofoli
2 years
Voters got rid of #ChesaBoudin —and may soon face a #recall hangover "San Franciscans will wake up with the same police department, the same gap in income equality, the same housing crisis, the same root causes of crime, and the same mayor." @sfchronicle
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Joe Garofoli
6 years
Breaking: Jessica Patterson - a 38 year old Latina from Simi Valley is the new leader of the ⁦ @CAGOP
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Joe Garofoli
4 years
. @RepKatiePorter tells @sfchronicle that we need "real time oversight" on federal coronavirus relief money -- that means on you, Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin. Listen to Porter here -- live from her minivan - on new episode of my "It's All Political" podcast
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9 years
Unusual to hear at a #GOPDebate - @RandPaul talks about how "the war on drugs has disproportionately affected African-Americans."
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6 years
“I’ve got more years of experience in government than" @realDonaldTrump 37-yr old Mayor @PeteButtigieg tells @Postmates .Says Dems need a Millennial Midwestern mayor in 2020. New Podcast w Mayor Pete on #SCOTUS packing, ending Electoral College here
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Joe Garofoli
4 years
Tough hit on Susan Collins ---- @ProjectLincoln 's latest.....
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7 years
Free appearance by @PodSaveAmerica dudes @jonlovett @jonfavs @TVietor08 at @UCBerkeley before sold out show at Fox Theater in #Oakland
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
BREAKING: It's official now: @SenFeinstein is endorsing @JoeBiden for president over @KamalaHarris
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5 years
The most popular Democrat among California Latinos: @BernieSanders -- says @LatinoDecisions and @LatinoCommFdn poll #RealAmericaForum
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3 years
BREAKING: @BarackObama will do a direct-to-camera ad for @GavinNewsom dropping Thursday, according to the Newsom campaign
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
“I’m not a happy camper." #Oakland @RepBarbaraLee says the #DNC rules for determining who can participate in its presidential debates are “systematically discriminatory” against people of color. #CoryBooker #YangGang
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4 years
“President Lincoln should be celebrated, not canceled.” GOP gov candidate ⁦ @Kevin_Faulconer ⁩ says at Lincoln HS in SF
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8 years
The view from @BernieSanders seat
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5 years
.⁦ @KatieHill4CA ⁩ makes surprise appearance at #CADem19 , apologies to supporters for letting them down. “I know that my actions are in large part what led me to be here.” Gets standing ovation, chants of “Katie!” Party chair ⁦ @rustyhicks ⁩ pledges his support
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5 years
“Much cleaner. Much more modern.” ⁦ @MikeBloomberg ⁩ on how BART compares to NYC subway after he rides from SF to Oakland
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
You've made hundreds of millions of dollars, Mr. Nutting. Now please sell the team and let someone who wants to invest in it -- AND WIN -- own it ..... @Pirates valued at $1.275 billion h/t @DKPghSports @Dejan_Kovacevic
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
On #ChrisHughes call to break up #Facebook @PeteButtigieg says: “I think he made a very convincing case about how no one person should have the kind of power that not just one company but a lot of these tech companies have.”
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2 months
Scenes from the floor of #RNC2024 , Day 3
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
. @BetoORourke goes deep on why he loves @TheClash and why the song #Clampdown is so integral to his campaign on the new episode of my "It's All Political" podcast
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Barbara Lee calls for a $50/hour federal minimum wage. It is now $7.25 an hour.
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
.⁦ @SenSanders ⁩ has landed at the labor caucus #CADem2019
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5 years
A view of the venue when ⁦ @TomSteyer ⁩ holds his solo #ClimateChange forum tonight in #Oakland at the California Ballroom
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5 years
During San Francisco appearance @AndrewYang reveals what @JoeBiden told him during commercial debate at first #DemDebate via @sfchronicle
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Joe Garofoli
6 years
"You're a millionaire who is funded by billionaires." Check out the segment that @FoxNews declines to air where a Dutch historian rips Tucker Carlson --and Carlson replies with an f-bomb and insults
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6 years
Watch Fox News host Tucker Carlson call one of his guests a 'tiny brain...moron' during an interview. NowThis has obtained the full segment with historian Rutger Bregman that Fox News is refusing to air.
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5 years
“I don’t think Kevin McCarthy helped California at all….and that’s one reason that Kevin McCarthy’s Republican delegation in California was cut in half” in the midterms. That's what Rep @tedlieu told @TalKopan on the new "It's All Political" podcast
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3 years
"Ask people that are in San Francisco whose cars are broken into after five minutes of being left alone. Is everybody reporting? Of course not. They know nothing’s happening." AG hopeful Anne Marie @SchubertForAG on why Californians quit reporting thefts
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Joe Garofoli
8 years
All kinds of protesters are at final day of #gopconvention @ovillalon
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Joe Garofoli
4 years
Want to know where #Trumpism is headed: Watch California's Kevin McCarthy. Today's news that House GOP won't formally lobby against impeachment is another sign that "my Kevin" is walking --- tiptoeing? -- away from Trump @GOPLeader @madrid_mike
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7 years
"If we can abolish slavery we can have #MedicareForAll " @OurRevolution leader Nina Turner tells @BernieSanders rally
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Joe Garofoli
4 years
. @BernieSanders backers in California aren't lining up behind @JoeBiden just because Bernie is out. They want Biden to come to them @sfberniecrats @RL_Miller @LatinoDecisions @ChuckRocha @Rafael_Navar @RoseAnnDeMoro
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2 years
From ⁦ @CAGOP ⁩ young republicans party #cagop2022
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
The second-highest-ranking state official in California -- Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis exclusively explains WHY she is endorsing @PeteButtigieg on a new episode of my @sfchronicle "It's All Political" podcast
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
“Don’t make this election about what he’s doing. Make it about what we’re doing.” ⁦ @CoryBooker ⁩ is on fire during speech in San Francisco
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6 years
. @TomSteyer is building one of the most powerful lists in Democratic politics -- his @Need2Impeach list of 5 million people. He explains whether he is going to share it on the new episode of my "It's All Political" podcast Listen here: @sfchronicle
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
A presidential campaign first?⁦ @BetoORourke ⁩ visits a #marijuana dispensary in #Oakland and here’s his plan to legalize marijuana and help those hurt by drug war
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4 years
Quite rich to hear Kimberly Guilfoyle railing on cosmopolitan elites...
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8 years
Trump replaced Reagan's 'tear down that wall 'with the cynical bigotry of 'build that wall.” @GavinNewsom
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6 years
Breaking: California Republicans elect Millennial Latina Jessica ⁦ @millanpatterson ⁩ as new leader, vows “new chapter” ⁦ @GOP ⁩ ⁦ @GROWelect ⁩ ⁦ @CAGOP ⁩ ⁦ @Timodc
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Joe Garofoli
8 years
Don't believe anything you hear about an "overflow" crowd @realDonaldTrump rally in Fresno. LOT of empty seats
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Joe Garofoli
21 days
.⁦ @AaronPeskin ⁩ and ⁦ @KamalaHarris ⁩ were elementary school classmates in Berkeley 55 years ago and were reunited at Harris’ fundraiser Sunday in San Francisco
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
.⁦⁦ @BernieSanders ⁩ takes TWO swipes at ⁦ @JoeBiden ⁩ . One for not showing up at #CADEM2019 and says “We cannot go back to the old ways.”
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4 years
In the history of unwatchable debates, this is becoming the most unwatchable....
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Joe Garofoli
5 years
As he visits San Francisco Sunday, here's how @BernieSanders has changed since 2016 -- and how the Democratic Party has, too @RoKhanna @JaneKim @MichaelCeraso @uiowa @AdamGreen @RoseAnnDeMoro @BernieSanders @sfberniecrats
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Joe Garofoli
10 months
Some sad professional news here. The Chronicle is no longer producing podcasts. So this is the last episode of “It’s All Political,” which later evolved into “It’s All Political on Fifth and Mission.”
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4 years
Big -- if symbolic -- deal that @RoKhanna is voting against Democratic Party platform bc it doesn't include #MedicareforAll . A reminder: Khanna is co-chair of the California delegation, the party's largest
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Ro Khanna
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Universal health care was part of the Democratic party platform until 1980. The 2020 platform proposes lowering the Medicare age to 60, worse than 2016. Moving away from a profit-based health care system is the moral issue of our time. I'm voting NO.
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6 years
The ⁦ @TheRealJohnHCox ⁩ bus tour stops at a Costco in Santa Clarita. #captiveaudience
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Joe Garofoli
6 years
Have not seen this many people —1,514– at a ⁦ @CAGOP ⁩ convention in forever. Definitely a buzz here as Republicans about to pick a new party leader
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360 view of Kaiser Center audience for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. VP announcement Tuesday in Oakland as the program started
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