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LC Podcast #4: Adam Rust on the California Gubernatorial Recall

Jason Briggeman, Adam Rust Aug 30, 2021

The Liberal Currents Podcast

LC Podcast #4: Adam Rust on the California Gubernatorial Recall

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The candidates in California’s gubernatorial recall election are entertaining and frightening, but the process itself is the freak show (and the state is on fire). Adam Rust reports from smoky San Jose for the fourth episode of The Liberal Currents Podcast.

Featured image is California Wildfires: The Holy Fire At Lake Elsinore On August 9, 2018 by Kevin Key.

Authors

Jason Briggeman is senior editor for Liberal Currents. Previously he taught economics at Austin Community College.

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Adam Rust is a Kansas native who now lives in San Francisco Bay Area where he practices law. His writings on law, legal culture, and politics have appeared in Liberal Currents, where he is a contributing editor, and Balls and Strikes.

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