{"id":299617,"date":"2026-05-04T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299617\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:12:19","slug":"sac-city-council-races-gubernatorial-candidate-steve-hilton-comedian-paula-poundstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299617\/","title":{"rendered":"Sac City Council Races | Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton | Comedian Paula Poundstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                Sac City Council Races | Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton | Comedian Paula Poundstone&#13;<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111924cityhall-19p.jpg\" title=\"Sacramento City Hall is pictured on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.\" alt=\"Sacramento City Hall is pictured on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.\" class=\"border\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption small\">Sacramento City Hall is pictured on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credit small\">Gerardo Zavala\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Sac City Council Races <\/p>\n<p>Ballots are being mailed out to voters ahead of the June primary elections, covering everything from statewide races to multiple seats on the Sacramento City Council. Three councilmembers\u00a0 \u2014 for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/articles\/2026\/04\/29\/who-and-what-to-know-about-sacramentos-district-1-city-council-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> District 1<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/articles\/2026\/04\/21\/who-and-what-to-know-about-sacramentos-district-5-city-council-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> District 5<\/a> and District 7 \u2014 are facing challengers, while a fourth is running unopposed. CapRadio Local Government Reporter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/about\/bios\/riley-palmer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Riley Palmer<\/a> joins Insight to talk about these races, and the ongoing issues that the council faces.<\/p>\n<p>Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re continuing our series of conversations with the candidates for\u00a0 governor. <a href=\"https:\/\/stevehiltonforgovernor.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Hilton<\/a> is an entrepreneur and former Fox News commentator, who became a U.S. citizen in 2021 and has called the Bay Area home for more than decade. The Republican also received a key endorsement from President Trump. Hilton joins us about his vision for California.<\/p>\n<p>Insight has reached out to all gubernatorial candidates. You can find our ongoing interviews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/govrace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Paula Poundstone <\/p>\n<p>For longtime public radio listeners the name<a href=\"https:\/\/paulapoundstone.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Paula Poundstone<\/a> will no doubt be familiar. Paula has been gracing CapRadio&#8217;s airwaves as perhaps the most well-known panelist on \u201cWait Wait Don\u2019t Tell Me\u201d for almost as long as it&#8217;s been running. And that is just the tip of the iceberg of a career that has seen her perform standup around the world and on late night TV from Carson to Colbert, and start a beloved podcast called \u201cNobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.\u201d Senior Producer Andrew Garcia sat down with the comedian ahead of her standup show in Sacramento this<a href=\"https:\/\/paulapoundstone.com\/tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Thursday at the Crest Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Sac City Council Races | Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton | Comedian Paula Poundstone&#13; &#13; Sacramento City Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[701,702,126891,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-299617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-capital-public-radio","tag-cpr","tag-sac-city-council-races-gubernatorial-candidate-steve-hilton-comedian-paula-poundstone","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}