Equality California
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Nov 5, 2026
Brian NicholasCORRESPONDENT
Yes, I'm here at the Abbey actually.
Brian NicholasCORRESPONDENT
It's pretty energized crowd tonight and actually I'm here with Abbey who's one of the programs and legislative affair manager at Equality California.
Brian NicholasCORRESPONDENT
I'm actually with her.
AbbySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Want
Brian NicholasCORRESPONDENT
to introduce yourself Abbey?
AbbySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hi, my name's Abby.
AbbySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm with Equality California.
AbbySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ plus civil rights organization.
Paul MitchellGUEST
What's interesting about Prop 40 to me, and I hope I'm not too much on a soapbox on this, is that i believe that we should tax billionaires i believe the californians two-thirds of them in polling want to tax billionaires um however i think that everybody who is of that mindset was done a disservice by the folks who put these things on this thing on the ballot because they spent 10 million dollars to put something on the ballot without having the coalitions so you've got democratic line groups that support billionaires tax like the teachers association opposing it you've got they put it into this healthcare thing and didn't do that even with a coalition so now the healthcare groups like the teachers and the clinics are opposed to it planned parenthood which is full disclosure my wife is the ceo planned parenthood they opposed it and in the end that campaign didn't have money to actually advocate for it and they had a flawed ballot measure and just the icing on the cake for me was the way they spent their money at the end this is a personal gripe they spent 10 of their last dollars on social media attacking planned parenthood and attacking my wife i'm like why are you doing this and then they put up billboards in san francisco attacking gavin newsom Like, in what world is that advocating for a billionaire's tax? So if you support the idea of taxing billionaires, you should be really peeved at these advocates who put up a poorly constructed measure, didn't do the work to create the alliances with all the progressive groups.
Paul MitchellGUEST
When the Equality California, the state's leading LGBTQ organization, is opposing your ballot measure to tax billionaires, something's wrong.
Antonia CereijidoHOST
Okay, let's turn to the mayor's race.
Antonia CereijidoHOST
When do you think we'll see an official call?
Paul MitchellGUEST
So I wanted to start with maps that had had kind of a vetting from the commission process.
Paul MitchellGUEST
And so some of the most critical line drawing we did down in Los Angeles in the area where Seema lives down in Long Beach, was kind of a cut and paste from the final days of the commission process, maps that Equality California were advocating for, the environmental groups were advocating for, because we knew that those maps created additional democratic opportunities.
Paul MitchellGUEST
And then there were other things that we looked at, like the Sacramento area, a portion of Sacramento that's very close to kind of downtown that's super democratic.
Paul MitchellGUEST
And then to the east of us in Placer County gets to be more and more conservative.
Paul MitchellGUEST
Yeah, the Kevin Kiley redistricting.
Seema MehtaGUEST
Paul mentioned the seat of Long Beach, which is where I live.
Seema MehtaGUEST
And this is a mailer I just got from Equality California boosting Robert Garcia, who's, you know, an incumbent congressman.
Seema MehtaGUEST
But he redrew his district.
Donna KandelGUEST
Former Superintendent Dr. Daley has endorsed me.
Donna KandelGUEST
I've been endorsed by statewide organization Equality California.
Donna KandelGUEST
I'm one of only seven pro-equality allies in the state to get that endorsement.
Dave CongaltonHOST
And in turn, are you endorsing anybody else running in the other Lucia Marsh School Board races?
Sunny AnguloGUEST
[lips smack] My open letter was...
Sunny AnguloGUEST
So sh- because of outside money that he was able to get from Chevron, um, that they funneled through Equality California, uh, to this PAC, there was like a super PAC that did a real- some really nasty hit pieces against Jane.
Jeff HuntHOST
Mm-hmm.
Sunny AnguloGUEST
Scott also did hit pieces against Jane from his own campaign, and they were very sexist.
John DuranGUEST
You can just be like anybody, anybody else.
John DuranGUEST
[upbeat music] After Life Lobby closed, we then created Equality California.
John DuranGUEST
We're one of the co-founders of Equality California.
John DuranGUEST
And of course, one of our big bills was marriage equality.
Kris FitzgeraldHOST
Mm-hmm.
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John DuranGUEST
Yeah
Kris FitzgeraldHOST
... and everything you've done
John DuranGUEST
To go on and create the Life Lobby, and create Equality California-