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Ace Smith

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2018-08-13
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  1. “When I was a junior, my father ran for district attorney of San Francisco. And that was a fascinating era. It was an odd era”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “True, true. But you actually wanted to write, which is what you learned to do as a journalist, and which is one of the great Points I have with millennials, but that's another discussion for another day.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “That's correct. The reason why I got my degree in English lit was I believed if someplace is going to give me a degree for reading books, that's a pretty darn good deal. Yeah. And so that's why a hard”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “People don't realize this enough about you, but you started Working as a journalist. I remember being in here in 1989 digging around on the Daily Race and coming across the Your columns, yeah, yeah, many times.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I took some poly psych courses when I was a freshman, and I realized that it didn't at that time, I'm probably being unfair, it didn't have much to do with all the politics I had experienced.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “But I remember being shocked. I was in San Francisco. It was Election Day, and I was in San Francisco being San Francisco, right? 80, 90% Democratic precincts. I couldn't drag people out to vote. And that was an eye-opener that it wasn't just about having the vote. That's amazing.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “That was one of my first campaigns, yes. And we used to walk down the Montgomery House headquarters at the Basic Market Street. We used to walk down there, do stuff envelopes, do things like they used to do in the old days, and then walked a lot of precincts for the man.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Yes, it was. It was always a topic conversation. And my father, who grew up in, both my parents came from. Outside San Francisco, which is the great San Francisco tradition, know in San Francisco is from San Francisco. And made their way. And my father worked his way through college and went to Bolt Hall, worked for Pat Brown, and became very quickly involved in everything political.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “It happened very organically. If you can show me a little kid, say two or three years old that can say Averlunds. And so there's no little kid who could ever say my name. And so I just became ace from the time I could walk.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Exactly. And for goodness sakes, they realized two things. If your last name is Smith, you better have an interesting first name. And they were staunch Democrats. My father got his first job working for Pat Brown. Pat Brown of California.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “My parents were staunch Democrats and ethically told the story of the first few times they dated they were afraid to ask the other one whether they were a Democrat because they knew if they. That was it. That was it.”

    2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source