
KQED
KQED is a NPR member radio station in San Francisco, California that covers news in Northern California.
Twenty five years before she was sworn in as the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, drove with a friend to Los Angeles for the state Democratic Party convention. It was April 1990 and Schaaf, who was about to enroll in law school, was on her way to the first convention where eligible delegates could endorse candidates. “I was so excited to go to that Democratic convention and cast my ballot to endorse Dianne Feinstein for governor,” Schaaf told me. “I wanted us to see the first woman governor of California,...