There’s yet another hat in the ring in the race to succeed East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Lee is running for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, and how the race for her spot in Congress is heating up and getting crowded. This had looked like an easy run for BART Board member Lateefah Simon, a rising star in Democratic circles who announced early and lined up many major endorsements, quickly raising an impressive amount of money in what looked like a successful effort to clear the field and avoid a competitive race.

But not so fast. First, Oakland businessman Tim Sanchez announced he would run against Simon for Lee’s job, trying to become the Bay Area’s first Latino member of Congress, and now there’s a third significant Democrat jumping into the fray. 

For more, KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern, along with anchors Bret Burkhart and Nikki Medoro spoke with Dr. Jennifer Tran Oakland, daughter of Vietnamese refugees, an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay, with a degree from UC San Diego and a PhD from USC, and president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce.