For me, it’s always been about that work. From the time my mother told me to look after my little sister, I have been a protector. As a prosecutor, my work was protecting vulnerable people, especially women and children, from sexual predators. As California’s attorney general I protected our state from cartels, homeowners from predatory banks, and I made the criminal justice data from the second-biggest justice department in the country open, accessible to reporters and researchers, so we could transparently test our system and see what was most effective. In the Senate, it was getting money
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She grew up a middle-class kid.
