We are just seven weeks away from California’s June 7 primary, with races for governor and U.S. Senator topping the ballot.

Over the next few weeks, before you get your absentee ballot in the mail, we will be having conversations here with many of the leading candidates.

 This series begins today with one of the challengers to Governor Gavin Newsom. The candidate is Micheal Shellenberger, a journalist and author who lives in Berkeley and ran for governor as a Democrat in 2018, when he finished 9th with about half of one percent of the vote. He is running again, this time as an independent, not a Democrat. He’s best known as a proponent of clean nuclear energy and a new approach to environmentalism and for arguing that progressive policies are making
California’s homelessness crisis worse, not better.

For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell, as well as Doug Sovern, KCBS Radio political reporter and host of this segment, spoke with Michael S.