{"id":592028,"date":"2026-02-15T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/592028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:48:12","slug":"san-diego-politics-show-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/592028\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Politics Show: Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In the second episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1fSibdeARbZItaIYgy3e2w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Politics Show<\/a>, presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/03\/san-diego-politics-show-episode-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times of San Diego<\/a>, we dive into some of City Hall\u2019s biggest fights and California\u2019s biggest elections.<\/p>\n<p>For this week\u2019s extended interview, I talked to Chris Cate, the president and CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. His lobbying effort against a proposed tax on short-term vacation rentals helped kill the effort at a City Council committee. At the same time, the Chamber ended up in a <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/02\/06\/sacramento-report-san-diego-business-executives-visited-sacramento-labor-leaders-wanted-none-of-it\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP-E2lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFTZnJKUGZlaXpxWUJLekc5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHje_pjRlcqWsneQoOER2wbnxPTc3O1Z5YkLw7e5oI27uqLhiBJvhCFrAaTih_aem_1yx8hN6Zawv_EUSUpb4ZeQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dispute with labor groups<\/a> over job postings on the Chamber\u2019s website for a company that runs detention centers.<\/p>\n<p>For the panel segment, show host Matt Strabone led a discussion with me and Sara Libby, the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s politics editor, on how the races for the 48th Congressional District and California governor are shaping up.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a watch and subscribe to our YouTube page \u2014 we\u2019ll be up with a new episode every other Sunday from here until the June primary.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second episode of the San Diego Politics Show, presented by Times of San Diego, we dive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":592029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[243616,5229,110507,1582,276,93619,85479,7330,93113,3549,85480,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-592028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-48th-congressional-district","tag-america","tag-ammar-campa-najjar","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-governor","tag-chris-cate","tag-darrell-issa","tag-marni-von-wilpert","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-regional-chamber-of-commerce","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116075436991803229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}