Catharine Baker on Losing an Election, Overcoming Cancer, and Reaching Across the Aisle

A Sacramento police officer was killed in the line of duty Wednesday night. Marisa and Scott discuss how that might affect the conversation on the death penalty. Then, former Bay Area Assemblywoman Catharine Baker discusses why that “R” next to hear name on the ballot doomed her re-election, battling cancer her senior year of college, and why bipartisanship was the only way to get stuff done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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