(AUDIO) Let’s Talk About This Election
After months of training your brain to not register the garish yard signs screaming at you from every street corner, we’ve just about arrived at Election Day, thank goodness. Let this be over!
On Tuesday, Humboldt will head to the polls — if they haven’t already conveniently sent back the ballot they should’ve received in the mail, that is — to fulfill their civic duty by voting in the June primary. So, to get you primed for this blessed occasion, on today’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up we speak to Tom Wheeler, local political nerd and executive director of the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), and Hank Sims, editor in chief of the Lost Coast Outpost (LoCO), about the various races we’re tasked with making decisions on this cycle. We’re talkin’ supervisor races! District Attorney! Yes, even Auditor-Controller! More! We lay out the stakes and then force Wheeler and Sims to give us their predictions on how this thing will play out. Believe it or not, this is fun for some people!
Click the audio player above or click over to Apple Podcasts to hear Sims and Wheeler gab it up with LoCO’s Stephanie McGeary and Andrew Goff. And also feel free scroll our list of past guests below if that seems beneficial in some way to you.
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- #70 Arcata City Councilmember Sarah Schaefer
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- #41 Teacher/Rapper Zach “Zigzilla” Lehner
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- #37 AHHA President Nezzie Wade
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- #33 Absynth Quartet Drummer Mike “Tofu” Schwartz
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