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Los Angeles, CA
Note: Karen Bass currently serves as the mayor of the city of Los Angeles, making her the first black woman to ever hold this position.
Karen Bass represented California's 37th congressional district as a U.S. Representative from 2011. Before this role, she had spent six years in the California State Assembly, serving as Speaker during her last two years. Despite having gained more national recognition as a potential Vice Presidential candidate for President Joe Biden, Bass was a prominent figure in both Californian and national politics for a considerable time and was familiar to audiences of major news networks such as CNN and MSNBC.
Criminal Justice & Voter Suppression In Georgia
In the edited video of a brief conversation with Rep. Karen Bass, the congresswoman expressed the amount of effort that she was putting into seeing the George Floyd Criminal Justice Reform Bill (HR7120) pass the senate, although technically her “job is done” as Bass put it she’s “deeply involved in informal talks with Republican members… to get them to see the need for significant police reform”
Representative Bass also took the opportunity to mention the recent voter suppression bill as it was being passed while the interview was being conducted. The “pragmatic” congresswoman even acknowledged that this recent move by Republican leaders could lead to more support for getting rid of the filibuster.
The Moment For Anye & Icon City News
This marks the first time that rapper turned independent journalist Anye Elite a/k/a Aigner Ellis interviews an elected officeholder. Early in the video Elite/Ellis acknowledges his nervousness about speaking with such a high-profile politician.
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