In 2005, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger surprised many fellow Republicans when he appointed Susan Kennedy — a former aide to Governor Gray Davis and one-time executive director of the California Democratic Party — as his chief of staff. The Los Angeles Times has called Kennedy “the most enduring force in state government of the last decade.” She joins us in-studio, as part of our “First Person” series of interviews with the leaders, innovators and others who make the Bay Area unique.
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