Saikat Chakrabarti

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, I'm somewhat concerned.

You know, I'm pretty concerned.

I think something that I wish that I was seeing from our Democratic leaders right now was actually putting more of a spotlight on this.

I mean, the stuff you're doing, right?

Because we don't want it to be a surprise when we suddenly see Republicans denying election results, when we see Republicans showing up and, you know,

actually taking over ballot boxes and this has been going on for years there have been republicans taking over a board of elections all over the country so i want to see our democratic representatives actually like highlighting what's going on but of course the best way to actually get over whatever meddling occurs is we have to win with a big margin we have to win the bigger the margin is the harder it is to throw any sort of wrench until it works

I can't make fun of anyone's name.

My name is Tricot Chakrabarty.

Well, so in this race, I'd say State Senator Scott Wiener, he's sort of the main one to beat.

And he and I differ hugely, especially when it comes to the genocide that's going on in Gaza.

I mean, State Senator Wiener has long been an opponent of the Palestinian rights movement in San Francisco.

He's authored multiple pieces of legislation to try to silence criticism of Israel, to try to equate

criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.

He's gotten people fired.

I mean, he got the state, the university president, Sonoma State, fired for meeting with BDS activists activists like years ago.

And so, you know, because I'm running in this race, like he's now starting to pretend like he's gotten different on this issue and we can get more into that.

But but he's the he's different.

You know, we differ.