There's a rumor floating around that could have major ramifications for quite a few progressive AAPI candidates. According to the SFGate, Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier could be setting her sights on a run for the State's Attorney General.

As the various candidates for California Attorney General continue do all the behind scenes work of building their campaigns, here's a fairly high-profile endorsement that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has just picked up. From the San Francisco Examiner: 

San Francisco Attorney General Kamala Harris, who is running to the state's top attorney has just penned a post on Huffington Post, entitled, "Saving Public Resources and Protecting Our Most Important Resource: Children." Check it out. 

Education, public safety, and the economy: three vastly complex issue areas that time and again are proven to be inextricably linked.

Under the nation’s first African American President and U.S. Attorney General, a much welcomed reinvigoration of our federal government’s commitment to civil rights is underway.  As a civil rights advocate, I applaud the DOJ’s refocusing on civil rights and urge that the DOJ’s Civil Rights division, which was established in 1957 during the era of massive civil rights changes, reprioritize its original mission of fighting racial discrimination.