AFTER PRINCE: Sacramento’s own Lisa Ling 
as political “first lady” of Philip Levine. Busy lives broke off 2005 engagement with future Miami Beach mayor…He lost 2018 Florida gubernatorial Democratic Primary to Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, whose Miami Beach escapade tops Ling’s future titillating CNN “This is Life with Lisa Ling” segments butt for “Sexual Healing” where Lisa bared all…
FEEDING FED UP AMERICA: HBO Max “Take Out with Lisa Ling” six episodes immerse viewers into ubiquity of Asian US restaurants. With Helen Cho 
and David Shadrick Smith as exec producers Ling streams “It’s time to reexamine those roots” gnawing as immigrant refugee, essential worker, “superheroes” soldiers. Among Golden State stops – Little Saigon, LA, historic Locke (see also Locke) with late Connie King’s toilet bowl garden, Ling’s grandparents owning former Hop Sing Palace restaurant in Folsom. SacBee reported legendary State Capitol’s political hangout Frank Fat’s on #TakeOutwithLisaLing menu…
#TAKEOUT EMPATHY: Act Blue Northern California associate Lisa Tran reminisced on twitter about childhood waiting for mom to pick her up after watching Lisa Ling’s nail salon #LittleSaigon segment. “My aunts sharing their lunches with me, meeting their amazing, amazing customers, and even pretending to be a nail tech (to pass time),” said the ex-state senate aide to Tom Umberg of 34th SD in Long Beach/Orange County…
LA-DA-SUSHI: Elliott Yoshio Hulse, 
ex-State Assembly aide to Mike Morrell for San Bernadino County (40th AD, 9% APA as of 2010) and now World Bank President’s aide, tweeted, “First time I’ve seen East LA Japanese American families on #TakeOutWithLisaLing screen. Mom would be proud. Growing up, house parties with enchiladas and sushi were a way of life.”
NAILS & FOOD: VietMex American Garden Grove Councilor Kim Bernice Nguyen, 
also running for Orange County Supervisor, tweeted about Lisa Ling’s “yummy” Vietnamese sampler with Tam N. Nguyen inside his Advance Beauty College of 40,000 graduates since 1987. He and mother Kien Nguyen 
“told an emotional story while showing the Vietnamese Community’s resiliency in such a beautiful way!”…