Nora Vargas, former chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, has a podcast.

Vargas abruptly left the board in December 2024 after voters re-elected her to a four-year term. At the time, she cited “personal safety and security reasons” in a statement but she didn’t answer questions or respond to interview requests after that.

Local law enforcement agencies told inewsource that they didn’t get complaints about threats. ABC 10 obtained voicemails and emails from people who did not support Vargas’ efforts to keep immigration agencies out of county jails and limit information-sharing with the feds.

Her departure was so sudden, our Jim Hinch wrote at the time that her staff members only learned the news moments before it became public. He had previously written how many of her cons

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