Karen Bass is one of Joe Biden’s lowest-profile VP contenders. But in L.A., she’s known as a community-driven operator whose limited national exposure is part of her effectiveness
to be photographed, and only recently have the national media begun to pay her serious attention.
In response, Bass invited a group of African American and Latino activists to gather in someone’s living room, where they laid out a vision for what they called then the Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, now known as the Community Coalition. It was a grassroots effort to tap the collective wisdom of residents and empower them to advocate for their neighborhoods.
Shutting down a liquor store might not seem like a political thing. But for Bass, politics is an extension of her early community activism. In Sacramento and, now, Washington, D.C., her legislative agenda has been heavy on issues that plague low-income Black and brown neighborhoods: inadequate health care, too few job opportunities, too many children in foster care.
But before governing comes campaigning. And in this era of confrontational politics, amid protests that characterize compromise as weakness, would Bass be considered radical enough to draw young activist voters to this very old Democrat ticket?credit Bass for an across-the-aisle approach to getting work done. As California Assembly speaker in 2009, she was both revered and reviled for the sacrifices she exacted from legislative colleagues to close a $42 billion recession-induced budget gap.
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