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Bay Area residents hail their hometown hero’s spot on the Democratic ticket, though some feel ‘cognitive dissonance’ over her record
The mayor of Oakland rang in Tuesday’s news that Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate with a bit of hometown slang: “Hella proud,” Libby Schaaf tweeted.
The historic selection of the California senator to a major party’s presidential ticket – Harris is the first woman of Black and south-east Asian descent to run for vice-president – was cause for hometown chest-thumping for many in the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading...