Vice President Kamala Harris meets with small business owners in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Vice President Kamala Harris was in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday for a fundraiser and a quick meeting with small business owners in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

She met with London Mayor Breed and several local business leaders, which ended in a very brief conversation.

The purpose of the meeting with small business owners in Chinatown was to identify funds that will be used to help small businesses in the next few years.

Trillions of dollars will continue to be made available through the Inflation Reduction Act, the Chip Act and the Infrastructure Act, the Biden administration has said.

Vice President Kamala Harris was in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday for a fundraiser and a quick meeting with small business owners in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Reported by Sergio Quintana.

The round table was held in the San Francisco Library’s Chinatown. Harris’ message was part encouragement, part propaganda speech.

“The work we did in the midst of the pandemic was to make sure our small businesses could stay open,” she said. “But the work has also been about medium- and long-term investment in small business development in America, which in turn means growth in the labor market, growth in jobs.”

It was the Vice President’s second stop in the Bay Area. Her first fundraising job was at a private home in Hillsborough.

It was a brief visit to the bay, the vice president was supposed to be on site for only about eight hours.

While she was in San Francisco, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, was across the bay in his hometown of Oakland at the East Bay Youth Development Center, experimenting with about 100 students, their parents, and teachers.

“When I am here, I see the future. You may not know it yet, but I may be looking at the next Kamala Harris or the next astronaut here,” Emhoff said.

Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the Bay Area on Friday. As a result of the impetuous visit, she raised some campaign money and met with Chinatown business leaders. Her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, was in her hometown of Auckland to speak to NASA. Tom Jensen reports.

He and two Bay Area natives, including a NASA astronaut and a Novato-born scientist, showed students that they, too, could achieve these goals—just as they could.

“And that’s why it’s so important to have the right role models, like our underrepresented youth, so you know there’s a place for you,” said Yvonne Cagle, a retired NASA astronaut.

There was also an Oakaland native who started a company specializing in promoting STEM education. She said she would be there, helping to keep students passionate about science and technology.

“This is my path and my passion is to provide our students with opportunities and internships,” said Catameron Bobino, Founder of Communications at STEM.