>> Senator Kamala Harris, the Democrats' vice presidential candidate, was San Francisco's district attorney for seven years — from 2004–2011. >> The San Francisco Bay Area — like much of California — is known as something of a left-wing bubble, with progressive ideology, drug abuse and sexual deviancy all considered part of the area's character. >> San Francisco was given the nickname "gay capital of America" [back in the 1960s.](https://www.kqed.org/arts/13478809/free-love-for-some-in-the-lgbt-underground-newspapers-of-1967)