Before we poke our heads in to 2022, let's look back — about 18 years.

This week, we're dropping a special interview between Scott Lewis and host of the San Diego 101 podcast, Maya Srikrishnan.

Scott was featured on the latest SD101 episode, "A Short History of San Diego Politics," along with Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher and San Diego City Councilman Chris Cate.

Lewis has been covering San Diego politics since 2004 — when a whole bunch of political drama boiled over. In this interview, he recounts the so-called "Cheetah-gate" scandal that took down up-and-coming San Diego City Councilmembers, the write-in mayoral campaign of Donna Frye, the Bob Filner scandal and a lot more that didn't make it into the 101 episode.

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