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'Building bridges': How Bass became a leading VP contender

by Associated Press
| July 31, 2020 12:03 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's leaders were deadlocked and on the verge of financial catastrophe in 2008. Five negotiators, including Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, couldn't agree on a budget that would guide the nation's most populous state through the Great Recession.

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