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He now has a union-represented position in a college kitchen and a Social Security number to build his credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It changed my life,” he said in Spanish. “It is giving me many job opportunities, to be better financially and to give a better life to my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opportunities are thanks to a recent federal program that grants temporary legal status to workers involved in certain labor investigations. With some of the nation’s strictest workplace laws but \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/09/workplace-retaliation-california-labor/\">widespread concerns of employer retaliation\u003c/a>, California has issued more than 200 requests to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, asking it to grant legal status to workers who report violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just months after Gamez got his reprieve, the program may be on the chopping block: President-elect Donald Trump and his advisors have\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-deportations-immigration-844f3050ba99552b900ed9f3a1dec22d\"> vowed mass deportations\u003c/a>, a return to workplace immigration raids and the repeal of similar temporary protection programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez’s attorney, Yvonne Medrano, said she’s expecting the program to be axed soon after Trump takes office Jan. 20. Her firm, the Los Angeles-based Bet Tzedek Legal Services, is no longer pursuing new cases under the program after representing workers seeking protections in 15 different workplace investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Removing this protection will return workers to a time when they fear deportation for asking for minimum wage, their paychecks or any other protections they have,” Medrano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013975\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A person in jeans and a t-shirt stands while someone with a vest and gun ties something around them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transfer an immigrant after an early morning raid in Duarte on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other immigration attorneys in California had already stopped filing new applications before Election Day. They said they expect Homeland Security to honor the four-year reprieves that the department has already granted, but are uncertain what happens next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a discretionary program,” said Jessie Hahn, senior counsel for labor and employment policy at the National Immigration Law Center, an advocacy group. “We are not anticipating that if Trump were elected he would continue the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Trump campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about his intentions for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has created another group of immigrants who have been granted temporary permission to be in the United States as the chances of a federal immigration overhaul have grown ever slimmer — making their prospects heavily dependent on the see-saw of each presidential administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, one of several Biden administration efforts to boost the enforcement of labor laws, aims to give state investigators easier access to witnesses who may otherwise fear reprisal for making workplace complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s similar to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/undocumented-students-work/\">gave work permits\u003c/a> and temporary deportation protections to immigrants who had been brought to the U.S. without authorization as children. About 500,000 residents have that form of legal status, but the program has stopped granting new applications after challenges in the federal courts. Trump tried to rescind the program in his last term; Stephen Miller, a close Trump advisor, said he will do so again, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/13/dhs-announces-process-enhancements-supporting-labor-enforcement-investigations\">Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement\u003c/a> is much narrower — 7,700 workers have benefitted since January 2023. Anyone who’s not a U.S. citizen can apply if they can prove they were working for an employer under investigation. First, a state or federal labor agency must submit a letter to Homeland Security saying they need the cooperation of worker witnesses in each investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those granted deferred action are shielded from deportation and allowed to work legally for four years, but there is no path toward permanent residency. Some recipients see it as a way to earn money legally and get better-paying jobs outside the underground economy. Others said it gives them time — and a much quicker path to a work permit — as their other immigration-related cases wind their way through the federal bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys and advocates say while some applicants are seeking reprieves from active deportation cases, most have been living and working without papers undetected, meaning they’ve come forward to federal immigration authorities for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how many of those workers are in California. A Homeland Security spokesperson would not release state-by-state figures, citing “ongoing investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California is an eager participant in the program; Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration says it was the first state to file a letter supporting worker protections. The state is home to nearly 1.5 million workers who are undocumented immigrants, making up \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us\">more than 7% of the workforce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such workers are a frequent focus of the state’s labor investigations, and labor advocates say undocumented workers routinely fear both losing their jobs and being reported to immigration authorities for complaining about workplace violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This fear can prevent them from fully cooperating with labor enforcement agencies in reporting and corroborating violations of the law,” Daniel Lopez, spokesperson for the state Labor Commissioner’s Office, said in a statement. “Ultimately, fewer protections undermine workers and impact responsible employers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, the office, which investigates wage theft, has sent letters supporting deportation protections in 136 workplace investigations covering potentially hundreds of workers. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has sent at least 12 letters. The Agricultural Labor Relations Board, which oversees farmworkers’ rights, has sent 10, and the Civil Rights Department, which investigates workplace discrimination complaints, has sent 60, spokespersons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has even paid to help immigrants get work permits. Last year, Newsom announced \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/farmworker-labor-california/\">$4.5 million to pay\u003c/a> for free legal services to help farmworkers who are involved in labor investigations apply for deferred action. The money, allocated through mid-2026, has so far helped screen more than 500 workers for eligibility and 175 apply for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are as many as 800,000 seasonal and year-round farmworkers in California; at least half are believed to be undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agricultural regions have very limited access to immigration legal services,” said Jason Montiel, spokesperson for the Department of Social Services, which administers the grant to five legal aid groups statewide. “Providing farmworkers direct access to immigration legal services when their labor rights are violated increases the likelihood that they will file labor claims and collaborate with labor agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s spokespersons did not respond to an inquiry about what will happen with the state grant program if federal rules change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Gorney, a supervising attorney with VIDAS Legal Services, which is receiving a state grant, said that she has 12 farmworker clients waiting to be granted deferred action. She had hoped the state would expand the program to include workers in other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still a lot of workers out there who may qualify but really don’t want to come out of the shadows,” she said the morning after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013974\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits in a dark room\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Gamez in his home in Hawthorne on Nov. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez/CalMatters.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gamez’ deferred action was granted in connection with retaliation claims he and his coworkers filed against Century Car Wash in 2018. That year, they had also filed wage theft claims with the state Labor Commissioner’s Office. According to state records, they told the office their managers made them show up earlier and leave later than the businesses’ opening hours, but their time-sheets didn’t match all the hours they worked. The car wash’s co-owners denied the claims, and told the state the time-sheets were accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After demanding payment from his managers, Gamez said he was fired, and told to leave in front of customers. According to state records, he and his coworkers won the wage claims in 2021; a state hearing officer ruled Gamez was owed more than $20,000. But the state is still investigating claims the workers were fired and questioned about their immigration status in retaliation for speaking up. Last year at Gamez’ attorney’s request, the Labor Commissioner’s Office sent a letter to Homeland Security to request deportation protection for the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ongoing investigation … is being conducted by our Retaliation Complaint Investigation unit and requires worker cooperation and testimony,” Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, one of Century Car Wash’s owners deferred to the co-owner, who did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez said his deferred action status kept him calm last week as many immigrants feared for their futures under a second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who received the protection remain afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alejandra Montoya came to the United States five years ago fleeing “problems in the family,” she said, and found work in the Central Valley’s fields. She had a degree in business administration in her native Mexico, and said she never intended to be an undocumented immigrant. But she had a son, and stayed to raise him in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montoya said she enjoys farm work, despite the hard days on her hands and knees picking and bunching carrots for $3.05 per box. On a good day, when the field conditions are forgiving, she can take home $150 or more, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working for a contractor hired by Grimmway Farms, she said she kept her head down, until one day last September when a coworker, Rosa Sanchez, was struck by a truck and killed in the field next to hers. Montoya said workers had raised concerns about that driver and she believed the accident was preventable. Some of the workers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-03/she-was-killed-in-a-carrot-field-with-her-body-nearby-workers-say-they-were-told-to-keep-picking\">told to keep working\u003c/a> around Sanchez’ body, she said. Stunned, and now knowing what else to do, she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was “traumatic,” she said through a translator. “Inhumane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the state’s workplace safety agency issued more than $65,000 of citations against Grimmway, the contractor Esparza Enterprises and another contractor that employed the driver, alleging serious safety violations for allowing employees to work “in close proximity to a Commercial Truck being driven in an unsafe manner,” according to files obtained through a public records request. 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In a statement, Grimmway spokesperson Dana Brennan wrote the company has strict policies prohibiting retaliation against employees or contractors’ employees who report issues at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a confidential, anonymous, bilingual hotline where employees can report ethical concerns,” Brennan wrote. “As we have since we first learned of this tragic accident, we are committed to working with authorities throughout their investigation and extend our deepest sympathies to Ms. Sanchez’s family and her co-workers on this grievous loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a potential witness to the accident, Montoya applied for deferred action with the help of the United Farm Workers, and has since become more active with the organization, encouraging coworkers to apply and speaking at a union convention in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the election, she said she’s both relieved she got her work permit this year and fearful that she’s given her information to federal immigration authorities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just months after Gamez got his reprieve, the program may be on the chopping block: President-elect Donald Trump and his advisors have\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-deportations-immigration-844f3050ba99552b900ed9f3a1dec22d\"> vowed mass deportations\u003c/a>, a return to workplace immigration raids and the repeal of similar temporary protection programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez’s attorney, Yvonne Medrano, said she’s expecting the program to be axed soon after Trump takes office Jan. 20. Her firm, the Los Angeles-based Bet Tzedek Legal Services, is no longer pursuing new cases under the program after representing workers seeking protections in 15 different workplace investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Removing this protection will return workers to a time when they fear deportation for asking for minimum wage, their paychecks or any other protections they have,” Medrano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013975\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM.jpg\" alt=\"A person in jeans and a t-shirt stands while someone with a vest and gun ties something around them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02_060622-ICE-Immigration-AP-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transfer an immigrant after an early morning raid in Duarte on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other immigration attorneys in California had already stopped filing new applications before Election Day. They said they expect Homeland Security to honor the four-year reprieves that the department has already granted, but are uncertain what happens next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a discretionary program,” said Jessie Hahn, senior counsel for labor and employment policy at the National Immigration Law Center, an advocacy group. “We are not anticipating that if Trump were elected he would continue the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Trump campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about his intentions for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has created another group of immigrants who have been granted temporary permission to be in the United States as the chances of a federal immigration overhaul have grown ever slimmer — making their prospects heavily dependent on the see-saw of each presidential administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, one of several Biden administration efforts to boost the enforcement of labor laws, aims to give state investigators easier access to witnesses who may otherwise fear reprisal for making workplace complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s similar to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/undocumented-students-work/\">gave work permits\u003c/a> and temporary deportation protections to immigrants who had been brought to the U.S. without authorization as children. About 500,000 residents have that form of legal status, but the program has stopped granting new applications after challenges in the federal courts. Trump tried to rescind the program in his last term; Stephen Miller, a close Trump advisor, said he will do so again, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/13/dhs-announces-process-enhancements-supporting-labor-enforcement-investigations\">Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement\u003c/a> is much narrower — 7,700 workers have benefitted since January 2023. Anyone who’s not a U.S. citizen can apply if they can prove they were working for an employer under investigation. First, a state or federal labor agency must submit a letter to Homeland Security saying they need the cooperation of worker witnesses in each investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those granted deferred action are shielded from deportation and allowed to work legally for four years, but there is no path toward permanent residency. Some recipients see it as a way to earn money legally and get better-paying jobs outside the underground economy. Others said it gives them time — and a much quicker path to a work permit — as their other immigration-related cases wind their way through the federal bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys and advocates say while some applicants are seeking reprieves from active deportation cases, most have been living and working without papers undetected, meaning they’ve come forward to federal immigration authorities for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how many of those workers are in California. A Homeland Security spokesperson would not release state-by-state figures, citing “ongoing investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California is an eager participant in the program; Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration says it was the first state to file a letter supporting worker protections. The state is home to nearly 1.5 million workers who are undocumented immigrants, making up \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us\">more than 7% of the workforce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such workers are a frequent focus of the state’s labor investigations, and labor advocates say undocumented workers routinely fear both losing their jobs and being reported to immigration authorities for complaining about workplace violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This fear can prevent them from fully cooperating with labor enforcement agencies in reporting and corroborating violations of the law,” Daniel Lopez, spokesperson for the state Labor Commissioner’s Office, said in a statement. “Ultimately, fewer protections undermine workers and impact responsible employers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, the office, which investigates wage theft, has sent letters supporting deportation protections in 136 workplace investigations covering potentially hundreds of workers. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has sent at least 12 letters. The Agricultural Labor Relations Board, which oversees farmworkers’ rights, has sent 10, and the Civil Rights Department, which investigates workplace discrimination complaints, has sent 60, spokespersons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has even paid to help immigrants get work permits. Last year, Newsom announced \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/farmworker-labor-california/\">$4.5 million to pay\u003c/a> for free legal services to help farmworkers who are involved in labor investigations apply for deferred action. The money, allocated through mid-2026, has so far helped screen more than 500 workers for eligibility and 175 apply for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are as many as 800,000 seasonal and year-round farmworkers in California; at least half are believed to be undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agricultural regions have very limited access to immigration legal services,” said Jason Montiel, spokesperson for the Department of Social Services, which administers the grant to five legal aid groups statewide. “Providing farmworkers direct access to immigration legal services when their labor rights are violated increases the likelihood that they will file labor claims and collaborate with labor agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s spokespersons did not respond to an inquiry about what will happen with the state grant program if federal rules change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Gorney, a supervising attorney with VIDAS Legal Services, which is receiving a state grant, said that she has 12 farmworker clients waiting to be granted deferred action. She had hoped the state would expand the program to include workers in other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still a lot of workers out there who may qualify but really don’t want to come out of the shadows,” she said the morning after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013974\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits in a dark room\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/03_110824-Deferred-Action-ZS-CM-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Gamez in his home in Hawthorne on Nov. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez/CalMatters.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gamez’ deferred action was granted in connection with retaliation claims he and his coworkers filed against Century Car Wash in 2018. That year, they had also filed wage theft claims with the state Labor Commissioner’s Office. According to state records, they told the office their managers made them show up earlier and leave later than the businesses’ opening hours, but their time-sheets didn’t match all the hours they worked. The car wash’s co-owners denied the claims, and told the state the time-sheets were accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After demanding payment from his managers, Gamez said he was fired, and told to leave in front of customers. According to state records, he and his coworkers won the wage claims in 2021; a state hearing officer ruled Gamez was owed more than $20,000. But the state is still investigating claims the workers were fired and questioned about their immigration status in retaliation for speaking up. Last year at Gamez’ attorney’s request, the Labor Commissioner’s Office sent a letter to Homeland Security to request deportation protection for the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ongoing investigation … is being conducted by our Retaliation Complaint Investigation unit and requires worker cooperation and testimony,” Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, one of Century Car Wash’s owners deferred to the co-owner, who did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez said his deferred action status kept him calm last week as many immigrants feared for their futures under a second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who received the protection remain afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alejandra Montoya came to the United States five years ago fleeing “problems in the family,” she said, and found work in the Central Valley’s fields. She had a degree in business administration in her native Mexico, and said she never intended to be an undocumented immigrant. But she had a son, and stayed to raise him in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montoya said she enjoys farm work, despite the hard days on her hands and knees picking and bunching carrots for $3.05 per box. On a good day, when the field conditions are forgiving, she can take home $150 or more, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working for a contractor hired by Grimmway Farms, she said she kept her head down, until one day last September when a coworker, Rosa Sanchez, was struck by a truck and killed in the field next to hers. Montoya said workers had raised concerns about that driver and she believed the accident was preventable. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Christmas Eve in 2012, Amika Mota and the firefighters of Madera County Station Five responded to a house fire call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she realized the homeowners had children, Mota and her crew began pulling out gifts and family heirlooms to save the kids’ Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mota, who was a lead engineer in the fire department, later learned that the house belonged to a correctional officer at the Central California Women’s Prison she knew. Firefighting was just one of the jobs Mota performed during her seven years in prison, putting her life on the line for 34 cents an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mota told KQED the work constituted forced labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot choose to not do this work without potentially being punished in prison,” Mota said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in 15 states, including Utah, Nebraska and Alabama, have ended forced labor in prisons, closing legal loopholes that allow states to permit legal slavery as a punishment for crime. Why didn’t a similar measure — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-6\">Proposition 6\u003c/a> — easily pass in California, a state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">hoping to establish itself as a legal bulwark\u003c/a> against the second Trump administration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates perform yard work at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California voters rejected a measure that would have banned the use of forced prison labor as punishment for crimes, with 53.8% voting against Proposition 6 according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no opposition listed to Proposition 6 in the state’s voter guide. Many, including Mota, who now organizes around criminal justice issues, were stunned when initial results on Tuesday revealed Californians were voting against the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really, really devastating that California didn’t have the information they needed to pass this proposition,” said Mota, the executive director of the Sister Warrior Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit that fights for policy change to improve the lives of incarcerated women and trans people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 6 would have changed the state constitution to ban involuntary servitude in any form. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">It came out of recommendations\u003c/a> by the state task force that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">studied reparations for Black Californians\u003c/a> amid a push to eradicate the vestiges of slavery from state constitutions. While still too early to call, about 55% of voters opposed the measure as of Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door, in Nevada, 60% of voters passed a similar measure, removing language from the state’s constitution allowing slavery and indentured servitude as a form of punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative pendulum appears to be shifting to the right in California, moving away from progressive candidates and ideology. Across the state, progressive legislators faced recalls, lost elections and a tough-on-crime measure — Proposition 36 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">passed overwhelmingly\u003c/a>. Proposition 36 made shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and increased penalties on some drug offenses, including fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An outside view of a large prison facility (San Quentin).\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, on June 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 6, unfortunately, is just naturally tied in many ways to Proposition 36. The overcriminalization of our people is going to result in forced labor of our incarcerated population,” Mota said. “It’s hard to separate the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result marks another blow to the movement to provide reparations to Black Californians. The language of Proposition 6 reflected a recommendation from the state’s reparations task force and members of the California Legislative Black Caucus. It won support from colleagues in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 6 aimed to follow in the footsteps of states such as Alabama and Colorado, where voters recently took similar steps to remove a remnant of enslavement from their state constitutions. California’s founding document currently allows involuntary servitude “as punishment to a crime.” In practice, this provision allowed incarcerated people to lose family visits and telephone access for turning down a work assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, created in 2020 to study reparations for African Americans, found the clause to be especially harmful to Black Californians, who account for 28% of the state’s prison population despite making up just 5% of the state’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposal faced initial resistance in Sacramento, including from officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance, who argued that language change could open the door for incarcerated people to demand minimum wage. In 2022, the measure was voted down on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the measure was rewritten to clarify its specific intent to ban the disciplining of an incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 6 was supported by the state Democratic Party and a coalition of criminal justice reform and civil rights groups, such as All of Us or None, who provided the bulk of funding to support the measure. While there was no fundraising against Proposition 6, the state Republican Party and anti-tax groups opposed the idea, arguing if more incarcerated people turned down work assignments, the work would have to be contracted out, adding state costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rushford, president and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, an organization that advocates for increased sentencing and favors work requirements for incarcerated people, said the timing didn’t help the measure’s chances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that want stronger law enforcement showed up, and they saw this on there and said, ‘All right, well, we’re voting against that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Lewis, the executive director of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, said the practice of punishing incarcerated people for missing or refusing work assignments is not uncommon. It happened to him while serving his time at the Correctional Training Facility, commonly referred to as Soledad State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While completing his college degree in prison, Lewis received permission from his supervisor to miss a shift to take an exam. When he returned to work in the laundry unit, he was written up and 30 days were added to his sentence. While Lewis was able to appeal that punishment, he has spoken with countless others whose rehabilitation “was sidetracked or derailed in some instances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you want me to come home as a changed person that’s rehabilitated?” Lewis said. “Or do you want to just stick me in a prison system where I have to do work that does not help me become a better me? That’s an example of what Prop. 6 would have changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california,Learn about the results of the California Propositions' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Propositions-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anti-Recidivism Coalition’s phone number was listed on the state voter information guides to provide more context to voters. Lewis said he fielded many questions from confused voters about what Proposition 6 was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language of the official voter guide “used the term involuntary servitude,” Lewis said. “We should use the word slavery, which is very clear to people,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polling on the initiative conducted in September and October by the Public Policy Institute of California showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/crosstabs-likely-voters-1024.pdf\">it was headed for defeat\u003c/a>. Respondents voiced lower interest in Proposition 6 compared to other measures. Only 41% of respondents indicated support for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When voters lack information, they’re more inclined to vote no, according to Mark Baldassare, PPIC’s survey director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters have to feel like they’re making policy,” Baldassare said. “They want to feel like they know what they’re doing and they’re not going to make mistakes. And sometimes, if they feel like it might be confusing, they’ll take a pass this time and wait till the next time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rushford said some voters believe work requirements for incarcerated people are beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I firmly believe that an inmate’s time spent incarcerated needs to be spent doing something productive to help the inmate prepare to be released from prison and become a productive member of society,” Rushford said. “It makes no sense to claim that that’s some kind of slavery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Baldassare questioned the idea that both Propositions 6 and 36 are part of a sea change in criminal justice issues. He pointed out that, unlike other measures put on the ballot by legislators, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">Proposition 4\u003c/a>, a $10 billion bond to help the state prepare and adapt to climate change, voters understood clearly what that proposition was — and what problems it addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Proposition 36, he said, citizens heard directly from local officials, including four mayors statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s that when the Legislature puts something on the ballot, they need to explain to people why it is that it’s important to change the state constitution, particularly if the wording may be confusing to some people,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mota told KQED the work constituted forced labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot choose to not do this work without potentially being punished in prison,” Mota said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in 15 states, including Utah, Nebraska and Alabama, have ended forced labor in prisons, closing legal loopholes that allow states to permit legal slavery as a punishment for crime. Why didn’t a similar measure — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-6\">Proposition 6\u003c/a> — easily pass in California, a state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">hoping to establish itself as a legal bulwark\u003c/a> against the second Trump administration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates perform yard work at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California voters rejected a measure that would have banned the use of forced prison labor as punishment for crimes, with 53.8% voting against Proposition 6 according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no opposition listed to Proposition 6 in the state’s voter guide. Many, including Mota, who now organizes around criminal justice issues, were stunned when initial results on Tuesday revealed Californians were voting against the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really, really devastating that California didn’t have the information they needed to pass this proposition,” said Mota, the executive director of the Sister Warrior Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit that fights for policy change to improve the lives of incarcerated women and trans people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 6 would have changed the state constitution to ban involuntary servitude in any form. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">It came out of recommendations\u003c/a> by the state task force that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">studied reparations for Black Californians\u003c/a> amid a push to eradicate the vestiges of slavery from state constitutions. While still too early to call, about 55% of voters opposed the measure as of Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door, in Nevada, 60% of voters passed a similar measure, removing language from the state’s constitution allowing slavery and indentured servitude as a form of punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative pendulum appears to be shifting to the right in California, moving away from progressive candidates and ideology. Across the state, progressive legislators faced recalls, lost elections and a tough-on-crime measure — Proposition 36 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">passed overwhelmingly\u003c/a>. Proposition 36 made shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and increased penalties on some drug offenses, including fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An outside view of a large prison facility (San Quentin).\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240603-SANQUENTINACES-176-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, on June 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 6, unfortunately, is just naturally tied in many ways to Proposition 36. The overcriminalization of our people is going to result in forced labor of our incarcerated population,” Mota said. “It’s hard to separate the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result marks another blow to the movement to provide reparations to Black Californians. The language of Proposition 6 reflected a recommendation from the state’s reparations task force and members of the California Legislative Black Caucus. It won support from colleagues in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 6 aimed to follow in the footsteps of states such as Alabama and Colorado, where voters recently took similar steps to remove a remnant of enslavement from their state constitutions. California’s founding document currently allows involuntary servitude “as punishment to a crime.” In practice, this provision allowed incarcerated people to lose family visits and telephone access for turning down a work assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, created in 2020 to study reparations for African Americans, found the clause to be especially harmful to Black Californians, who account for 28% of the state’s prison population despite making up just 5% of the state’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposal faced initial resistance in Sacramento, including from officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance, who argued that language change could open the door for incarcerated people to demand minimum wage. In 2022, the measure was voted down on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the measure was rewritten to clarify its specific intent to ban the disciplining of an incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 6 was supported by the state Democratic Party and a coalition of criminal justice reform and civil rights groups, such as All of Us or None, who provided the bulk of funding to support the measure. While there was no fundraising against Proposition 6, the state Republican Party and anti-tax groups opposed the idea, arguing if more incarcerated people turned down work assignments, the work would have to be contracted out, adding state costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rushford, president and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, an organization that advocates for increased sentencing and favors work requirements for incarcerated people, said the timing didn’t help the measure’s chances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that want stronger law enforcement showed up, and they saw this on there and said, ‘All right, well, we’re voting against that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Lewis, the executive director of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, said the practice of punishing incarcerated people for missing or refusing work assignments is not uncommon. It happened to him while serving his time at the Correctional Training Facility, commonly referred to as Soledad State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While completing his college degree in prison, Lewis received permission from his supervisor to miss a shift to take an exam. When he returned to work in the laundry unit, he was written up and 30 days were added to his sentence. While Lewis was able to appeal that punishment, he has spoken with countless others whose rehabilitation “was sidetracked or derailed in some instances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you want me to come home as a changed person that’s rehabilitated?” Lewis said. “Or do you want to just stick me in a prison system where I have to do work that does not help me become a better me? That’s an example of what Prop. 6 would have changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But data from VoteCast, a large survey of U.S. voters conducted by The \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> and partners, including KFF, found that about 3 in 10 voters in Arizona, Missouri, and Nevada who supported the abortion rights measures also voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw lots of people who voted in favor of abortion access and still voted for Donald Trump,” said Liz Hamel, director of Public Opinion and Survey Research for KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VoteCast is a survey of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/VoteCastMethodologyStatement-2024-GE_Prefield-Final-10282024.pdf\">more than 115,000 registered voters\u003c/a> in all 50 states conducted between Oct. 28 and Nov. 5. It’s intended to be “the most accurate picture possible of who has voted, and why,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/elections/our-role/ap-votecast/\">according to the AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 4 of the polled voters said abortion was the “single most important” factor to their vote, though that number was higher among Democrats, young women, Black adults and Hispanic adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abortion rights referendums passed in seven states on Tuesday, including Missouri and Arizona, where state bans were overturned. Vice President Kamala Harris made reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, but the VoteCast results reinforce earlier surveys that indicated economic concerns were the foremost issue in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s was the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>. During Trump’s first term as president, he nominated three Supreme Court justices who later joined the 2022 ruling that eliminated women’s constitutional right to abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Islami, 20, voted for Trump in Madison, Wisconsin, where he’s a full-time student. 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Trump won those voters as much in hotly contested states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as in reliably red states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glen Bolger, a Republican campaign strategist, said the 2022 election results demonstrated that Republican candidates are better off talking about the economy and the cost of living than they are about abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Trump voters who supported abortion rights amendments may have decided to take Trump “at his word that he was not going to support a national ban,” Bolger said. In casting their vote for Trump, he said, those supporters may have thought, “Let’s elect him to deal with the cost of living and health care and gasoline and everything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VoteCast survey found stronger support for abortion ballot initiatives from female voters: 72% of women in Nevada, 69% in Arizona, 62% in Missouri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Wallace, 39, of Miami, voted for Harris and in favor of an abortion rights ballot measure in Florida, which fell just short of the 60% threshold needed to amend the state constitution.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12012326,news_12012908,news_12013256\"]“As a grown woman, you’re out, and you’re working, living your life,” said Wallace, an executive secretary who lives in Miami. She said the state’s ban, which criminalizes abortion care before many women know they’re pregnant, amounts to unequal treatment for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pay my taxes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As a grown woman, you’re out, and you’re working, living your life,” said Wallace, an executive secretary who lives in Miami. She said the state’s ban, which criminalizes abortion care before many women know they’re pregnant, amounts to unequal treatment for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pay my taxes. I live good,” she said. “I’m doing everything every other citizen does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Men were more likely to vote against protecting abortion rights. Men voted 67% in Nevada, 64% in Arizona, and 55% in Missouri for the abortion rights ballot initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VoteCast survey found that, overall, voters believed Harris was better able to handle health care. That is consistent with the long-standing view that “Democrats traditionally have the advantage on health care,” Hamel said. Still, Trump outperformed Harris among more than half of voters who said they were very concerned about health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose 7% in 2024 to an average of $25,572 annually, according to KFF’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2024-employer-health-benefits-survey\">2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey\u003c/a>. On average, workers contribute $6,296 annually to the cost of family coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody is impacted by high health care costs, and nobody has a solution to it,” Bolger said. “That’s something voters are very frustrated about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Florence Robbins in Madison, Wisconsin, and Denise Hruby in Miami contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Philhour was ahead as of the last update on election night, but every update since has favored Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bilal Mahmood’s percentage lead over Supervisor Dean Preston shrank very slightly in the latest update, yet he remains roughly 6 percentage points ahead. Still, Mahmood is holding off on declaring victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll take an assessment early next week, but we remain confident in the results holding,” Mahmood told KQED following the Saturday update. “In the messaging, we focused on the issues of housing, public safety and the fentanyl crisis and that clearly resonated with voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials report there are 81,000 ballots left to tally. The next update is expected Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan has pulled ahead in her race for reelection, according to the latest vote tallies released by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/election-2024\">elections\u003c/a> officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s update shows Chan with a lead of more than 250 votes over challenger Marjan Philhour. Numbers released a day earlier showed the two tied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the closing weeks of this campaign we saw an overwhelmingly positive response from District 1 voters and we’re seeing that reflected in tonight’s vote count,” Chan told KQED in a statement. “Obviously there are still many ballots left to count and it remains a close race but we have been gaining ground in each vote count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco’s District 5, which includes parts of the Tenderloin, Fillmore and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods, Bilal Mahmood remains ahead of incumbent Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although election night updates flipped between the two, Mahmood ended the night in the lead and has maintained that position since. He currently has just under 1,300 more votes than Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Preston isn’t throwing in the towel just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ultimate outcome remains to be seen,” Preston said in a statement to KQED. “With about one third of votes including over 1,700 provisional ballots left to count in D5, we hope to have clarity in the upcoming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next update is expected on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story: \u003c/strong>Two progressive San Francisco supervisors are in danger of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013206/progressive-sf-supervisors-anti-incumbency-wave-early-election-returns\">losing their reelection battles\u003c/a> after the latest update from city elections officials shows them locked in close races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-1\">District 1\u003c/a>, Thursday afternoon’s update shows incumbent Supervisor Connie Chan and challenger Marjan Philhour in a tie, with both holding at exactly 11,001 votes after multiple rounds of ranked choice vote counting. That closed the slim 35-vote lead that Philhour had at the end of election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan is one of three progressive incumbents in a close fight for reelection, alongside District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston and District 7’s Myrna Melgar. According to Thursday’s update, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-5\">Preston is trailing Bilal Mahmood\u003c/a> by just over 6.5 percentage points, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-7\">Melgar maintains a nearly 4-point lead\u003c/a> over Matt Boschetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losses by the incumbents would threaten the progressive wing’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787512/after-sf-progressives-win-big-a-shift-in-dynamics-at-city-hall\">majority on the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a>, gained in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know about two of the most closely watched races.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rematch between Chan and Philhour is shaping up to be just as close as their face-off in 2020. In that race, election night updates flipped between the two, and in the end, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846505/progressive-democrat-connie-chan-pulls-ahead-in-sf-supervisor-race\">Chan finished only 125 votes ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 1 covers the Richmond District, the Sea Cliff neighborhood and stretches as far east as the University of San Francisco campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Connie Chan speaks during a press conference outside Spring Valley Science Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 10, 2024, to push for city intervention in SFUSD’s school closure plans. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chan and Philhour share several policy positions. Both oppose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012231/s-f-ready-to-transform-great-highway-into-a-park-prop-k-jumps-out-ahead\">Proposition K\u003c/a>, which would ban cars on a stretch of the Great Highway and has seen some pushback from west-side residents. In their campaigns, both have advocated for increased staffing of local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the two find themselves on opposite sides of the progressive/moderate rift in San Francisco politics. On housing, Philhour has advocated for building more housing at all levels, while Chan has placed particular emphasis on affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mayor London Breed announced earlier this year a plan to more aggressively sweep homeless encampments, Chan pointed out that years of encampment sweeps have not yielded notable results, while Philhour applauded the move as part of ensuring public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour’s campaign follows two unsuccessful bids to represent the Richmond District, where she was born. Prior to losing to Chan in 2020, Philhour was bested by former Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to financing data from San Francisco’s Ethics Commission, Philhour’s campaign raised roughly $80,000 more than Chan’s. A political action committee by Grow SF, a moderate group funded in large part by tech executives, also raised roughly $80,000 to try to unseat Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow SF also created PACs opposing Preston and Melgar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 5\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The election for District 5 supervisor has been perhaps one of the most closely watched in San Francisco, aside from the mayor’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the only democratic socialist currently on the city’s Board of Supervisors, Preston is widely seen as the furthest left member of local government and, in some ways, as one of the faces of San Francisco’s progressive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks during a protest in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2024, against a proposal by San Francisco transit officials to stop oversized vehicles from parking overnight on city streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That profile has also made Preston a prime target for moderate and conservative groups. Moderate tech-led group Grow SF established a political action committee to unseat Preston, which raised nearly $300,000. Elon Musk previously said Preston should be in jail. Every major candidate running against him positioned themselves as a more moderate alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same public profile has provided Preston with strong support. According to financing data from San Francisco’s Ethics Commission, Preston has raised $600,000, more than any other supervisor candidate in the city and roughly $100,000 more than the next closest candidate. Preston also received the endorsement of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997233/nancy-pelosi-endorses-democratic-socialist-dean-preston-for-san-francisco-d5-supervisor\"> former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, the main challenger in the race, has also gained notable endorsements, including Mayor London Breed, the city’s Democratic Party, state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest update from San Francisco elections officials shows Mahmood’s lead continues, with 9,359 votes compared to Preston’s 8,206.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his campaign, Mahmood has tried to position himself as a less extreme alternative to Preston. Mahmood has said he supports safe drug consumption sites but also is in favor of more arrests of drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has also criticized the mayor’s increased homeless encampment sweeps. District 5 notably contains the Tenderloin neighborhood, seen as the epicenter of the city’s twin crises: homelessness and drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood previously ran an unsuccessful campaign for state Assembly but landed in third place in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latest update, 5 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Updated vote tallies released in San Francisco Sunday afternoon show Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan continuing to grow her lead with 3 percentage points, or 976 votes, over challenger Marjan Philhour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Philhour said with ballots still left to count, she plans to wait for the final results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco’s District 5, the race has tightened slightly from Saturday with Bilal Mahmood 5.4 percentage points, or 1,339 votes, ahead of incumbent Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco elections officials said as of Sunday afternoon about 42,000 ballots remain to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Second update, 6 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> The gap between Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan and her opponent grew slightly larger in the updated vote tallies released by San Francisco elections officials Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan now leads challenger Marjan Philhour by roughly 2 percentage points, or roughly 550 votes. Philhour was ahead as of the last update on election night, but every update since has favored Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bilal Mahmood’s percentage lead over Supervisor Dean Preston shrank very slightly in the latest update, yet he remains roughly 6 percentage points ahead. Still, Mahmood is holding off on declaring victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll take an assessment early next week, but we remain confident in the results holding,” Mahmood told KQED following the Saturday update. “In the messaging, we focused on the issues of housing, public safety and the fentanyl crisis and that clearly resonated with voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials report there are 81,000 ballots left to tally. The next update is expected Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First update, 6 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan has pulled ahead in her race for reelection, according to the latest vote tallies released by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/election-2024\">elections\u003c/a> officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s update shows Chan with a lead of more than 250 votes over challenger Marjan Philhour. Numbers released a day earlier showed the two tied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the closing weeks of this campaign we saw an overwhelmingly positive response from District 1 voters and we’re seeing that reflected in tonight’s vote count,” Chan told KQED in a statement. “Obviously there are still many ballots left to count and it remains a close race but we have been gaining ground in each vote count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco’s District 5, which includes parts of the Tenderloin, Fillmore and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods, Bilal Mahmood remains ahead of incumbent Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although election night updates flipped between the two, Mahmood ended the night in the lead and has maintained that position since. He currently has just under 1,300 more votes than Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Preston isn’t throwing in the towel just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ultimate outcome remains to be seen,” Preston said in a statement to KQED. “With about one third of votes including over 1,700 provisional ballots left to count in D5, we hope to have clarity in the upcoming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next update is expected on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story: \u003c/strong>Two progressive San Francisco supervisors are in danger of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013206/progressive-sf-supervisors-anti-incumbency-wave-early-election-returns\">losing their reelection battles\u003c/a> after the latest update from city elections officials shows them locked in close races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-1\">District 1\u003c/a>, Thursday afternoon’s update shows incumbent Supervisor Connie Chan and challenger Marjan Philhour in a tie, with both holding at exactly 11,001 votes after multiple rounds of ranked choice vote counting. That closed the slim 35-vote lead that Philhour had at the end of election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan is one of three progressive incumbents in a close fight for reelection, alongside District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston and District 7’s Myrna Melgar. According to Thursday’s update, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-5\">Preston is trailing Bilal Mahmood\u003c/a> by just over 6.5 percentage points, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-7\">Melgar maintains a nearly 4-point lead\u003c/a> over Matt Boschetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In that race, election night updates flipped between the two, and in the end, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846505/progressive-democrat-connie-chan-pulls-ahead-in-sf-supervisor-race\">Chan finished only 125 votes ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 1 covers the Richmond District, the Sea Cliff neighborhood and stretches as far east as the University of San Francisco campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Connie Chan speaks during a press conference outside Spring Valley Science Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 10, 2024, to push for city intervention in SFUSD’s school closure plans. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chan and Philhour share several policy positions. Both oppose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012231/s-f-ready-to-transform-great-highway-into-a-park-prop-k-jumps-out-ahead\">Proposition K\u003c/a>, which would ban cars on a stretch of the Great Highway and has seen some pushback from west-side residents. In their campaigns, both have advocated for increased staffing of local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the two find themselves on opposite sides of the progressive/moderate rift in San Francisco politics. On housing, Philhour has advocated for building more housing at all levels, while Chan has placed particular emphasis on affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mayor London Breed announced earlier this year a plan to more aggressively sweep homeless encampments, Chan pointed out that years of encampment sweeps have not yielded notable results, while Philhour applauded the move as part of ensuring public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour’s campaign follows two unsuccessful bids to represent the Richmond District, where she was born. Prior to losing to Chan in 2020, Philhour was bested by former Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to financing data from San Francisco’s Ethics Commission, Philhour’s campaign raised roughly $80,000 more than Chan’s. A political action committee by Grow SF, a moderate group funded in large part by tech executives, also raised roughly $80,000 to try to unseat Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow SF also created PACs opposing Preston and Melgar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>District 5\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The election for District 5 supervisor has been perhaps one of the most closely watched in San Francisco, aside from the mayor’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the only democratic socialist currently on the city’s Board of Supervisors, Preston is widely seen as the furthest left member of local government and, in some ways, as one of the faces of San Francisco’s progressive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241001-RVPARKINGVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks during a protest in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2024, against a proposal by San Francisco transit officials to stop oversized vehicles from parking overnight on city streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That profile has also made Preston a prime target for moderate and conservative groups. 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It also will phase out incentives for capturing methane emissions from dairy farms to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dairies-digesters-methane-c4c39b3519fce4219d76d17332e4aa8a\">turn into fuel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups have criticized the program for stimulating the production of biofuels, which are derived from sources including plants and animal waste, when they say the state should focus more on supporting power for electric vehicles. They argue the proposal fails to adequately address those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry, state lawmakers and others have said the agency hasn’t been transparent about how the proposed updates could increase gas prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency staff released a cost-benefit analysis last year estimating the initial proposal could have led to an increase in gas prices by 47 cents per gallon by 2025. But the staff has not repeated the analysis since later updating the proposal and the agency contends it cannot accurately predict gas prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to ask drivers to pay a lot, which is what this program proposal is going to do, I think you need to be able to make the case that it’s worth paying for,” said Danny Cullenward, a climate economist with the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. “What concerns me most about this is I think a lot of the things that are being credited do not actually help the climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas prices could increase by as high as 85 cents per gallon by 2030 and $1.50 per gallon by 2035 under the proposal, according to an estimate from Cullenward. Cullenward said his figures and the estimates initially released by board staff are not an apples-to-apples comparison, in part because his projection uses 2023 dollars and the board staff used 2021 dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Tom Lackey, a Republican representing Palmdale in Southern California, said at the meeting that his constituents cannot afford an increase in gas prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On behalf of the people of the 34th Assembly District, I ask you to not approve this rulemaking and find other alternatives that won’t cost us quite that much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board says the program will ultimately lower the cost of sustainable transportation fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency first approved the low carbon fuel standard in 2009, the first of its kind in the nation. 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Our work literally saved lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the updated results released Friday by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, the recall held a sizable advantage — 65.3% to 36.1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oakland’s city charter, once the election is certified and Thao’s office is declared vacant, the city council president fills the office while a special election is held within 120 days. In an interview with KQED, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor said he would run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oaklanders have spoken with a very strong voice regarding what they need from city leadership, and they clearly have not been getting it from the current administration,” said Taylor, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931400/sheng-thao-oaklands-next-mayor\">finished second to Thao\u003c/a> two years ago. “The same commitment I have to the city I’m from that drove me to run in 2022 is what’s compelling me to step up in the special election once the results are certified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Nov. 6 statement \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Nikkiforallofus/status/1854297936013971470\">posted to social media platform X\u003c/a>, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said she was already working with the city attorney to plan for a smooth transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council would declare the results no later than its next regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 17, according to Bas. At that point, Thao will step down, the mayor’s spokesperson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once she is out, Bas will become interim mayor until the special election unless she is declared winner of a county supervisor race that, as of Saturday morning, still hasn’t been called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bas were to win that seat, a new council president would be elected in January, and that person would serve as interim mayor. If she loses, the city council could still choose a new council president in January. After Friday’s results, Bas trailed John Bauters, an Emeryville city council member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall organizers blamed the city’s challenges, including crime, shuttering businesses and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">multimillion-dollar budget deficit,\u003c/a> on what they described as Thao’s incompetence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">An FBI raid of Thao’s home\u003c/a> in June cast a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992073/oakland-fbi-raids-and-straw-donor-probe-spur-allegations-of-corruption\">dark cloud over her administration\u003c/a>. Agents also served search warrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">on members of the Duong family\u003c/a>, owners of the city’s recycling provider, California Waste Solutions. Thao claimed she was innocent and that federal officials had told her attorney she was not \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991658/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-to-make-first-public-comments-since-fbi-raids\">the focus of their investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935131/its-about-bringing-people-together-oakland-mayor-elect-sheng-thao-on-her-vision-for-the-town\">in office for roughly a year\u003c/a> when the recall launched in January. In the weeks leading up to the election, Thao pushed back, saying that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009615/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-makes-her-case-against-a-recall\">inherited many of the city’s problems\u003c/a> and that crime was down, pointing to city data showing a more than 30% reduction in homicides compared to this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda,Alameda County: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s campaign also focused heavily on hedge fund manager Philip Dreyfuss, whose political contributions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">made up the bulk of recall funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao accused Dreyfuss in an open letter of trying to “buy our city government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is not for sale,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that messaging failed to resonate with residents frustrated about public safety and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">slow 911 response times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She says, ‘Oh, the crime is down.’ But it’s not really down. Especially when they’re breaking into my things around my house,” Oakland resident Cassandra Odiase told KQED at a Fruitvale Avenue grocery store less than a week before the election. “We’re not reporting it because we know the police [are] not coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Influential voices like the Oakland chapter of the NAACP and Thao’s predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010129/former-mayor-libby-schaaf-endorses-recall-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">former Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a>, came out in support of the recall weeks before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have come to believe, just based on this last year, that she is not capable of growing into the job,” Schaaf said in an interview with KQED’s Scott Shafer. “I am voting to recall Mayor Thao because Oakland can’t afford another two years of continued damage to our fiscal solvency and our public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seneca Scott, a local activist who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2022, and former Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, who was critical of Thao’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">fire Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong\u003c/a> while serving on the city’s police commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976748/oakland-mayors-announcement-of-3-5-million-public-safety-grant-disrupted-by-protesters-seeking-her-recall\">led the push\u003c/a>. Harbin-Forte’s sister, Gail Harbin, eventually took over after Harbin-Forte began running for city attorney.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s campaign also focused heavily on hedge fund manager Philip Dreyfuss, whose political contributions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">made up the bulk of recall funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao accused Dreyfuss in an open letter of trying to “buy our city government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is not for sale,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that messaging failed to resonate with residents frustrated about public safety and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">slow 911 response times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She says, ‘Oh, the crime is down.’ But it’s not really down. Especially when they’re breaking into my things around my house,” Oakland resident Cassandra Odiase told KQED at a Fruitvale Avenue grocery store less than a week before the election. “We’re not reporting it because we know the police [are] not coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Influential voices like the Oakland chapter of the NAACP and Thao’s predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010129/former-mayor-libby-schaaf-endorses-recall-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">former Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a>, came out in support of the recall weeks before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have come to believe, just based on this last year, that she is not capable of growing into the job,” Schaaf said in an interview with KQED’s Scott Shafer. “I am voting to recall Mayor Thao because Oakland can’t afford another two years of continued damage to our fiscal solvency and our public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seneca Scott, a local activist who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2022, and former Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, who was critical of Thao’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">fire Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong\u003c/a> while serving on the city’s police commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976748/oakland-mayors-announcement-of-3-5-million-public-safety-grant-disrupted-by-protesters-seeking-her-recall\">led the push\u003c/a>. Harbin-Forte’s sister, Gail Harbin, eventually took over after Harbin-Forte began running for city attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>East Bay voters recalled Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results released Friday by the county registrar of voters showed that 65.2% of voters rejected Price. She is the second progressive prosecutor ousted in two years in the Bay Area, following former San Francisco District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">Chesa Boudin in 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price will leave her post immediately after the vote is certified, and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will appoint an interim DA to oversee the sprawling office, which includes some 150 attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person appointed by the supervisors would serve for two years. Voters will then select a new DA in 2026 to finish out the remainder of Price’s term, which ends in 2028. (Thanks to a 2022 state law, Price is serving an irregular six-year term. The next regular DA term, beginning January 2029, will go back to being a four-year term.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County elections officials must complete official results by Dec. 5. The Secretary of State will certify results on Dec. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County voters “understood what we were talking about, understood that people were being hurt. And they went, and they voted,” Brenda Grisham, who helped lead the recall effort, told supporters on election night. “We see victory. And we are so glad that we have made the step to make Alameda County a safer place for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price had remained defiant in the days after the election, saying county elections officials still had hundreds of thousands more ballots to tally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still so many more ballots to be counted, and in areas that I know we did well in getting our message out,” Price said in a statement on Wednesday. “I am optimistic that when all the votes are counted, we will be able to continue the hard work of transforming our criminal justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to recall her is the latest salvo in a wave of pushback against reform-focused prosecutors in California. On Tuesday, Los Angeles voters rejected progressive DA George Gascón’s bid for reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters on Tuesday also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012656/proposition-36-californias-newest-tough-on-crime-measure-appears-headed-for-victory\">overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36\u003c/a>, a tough-on-crime measure enhancing penalties for repeat offenders who have been convicted of low-level thefts and drug possession — a move that rolls back key parts of a decade-old criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A civil rights attorney with no previous experience in the district attorney’s office, Price was elected in 2022 with 53% of the vote, beating out assistant DA Terry Wiley, a 30-year veteran of the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Price promised to reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system by focusing on restorative justice and alternatives to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman and Asian man celebrate in front of microphones,\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-PRICE-RECALL-GC-01-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham and Carl Chan, leaders of the campaign to recall Alameda County DA Pamela Price, celebrate after hearing early election results during a watch party on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The effort to recall Price formally kicked off six months after she took office and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009700/whos-paying-for-the-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-these-charts-break-it-down\">primarily funded\u003c/a> by donors with connections to the real estate and the tech industries. The recall was endorsed by all 13 of the county’s law enforcement unions and the union representing Alameda County prosecutors. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007542/recall-targeting-alameda-county-da-is-endorsed-by-east-bay-congressman\">East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin)\u003c/a>, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Price earlier this week, and Nancy O’Malley, Price’s predecessor, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010885/bad-blood-between-alameda-county-das-boils-over-ahead-of-recall-vote\">supported the effort\u003c/a>, as did the editorial boards of the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.[aside postID=news_12009700 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-11_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall supporters blamed Price for a rise in crime in the county in 2023 and disputed Oakland Police Department data showing crime dropping in 2024. They accused her of incompetence and corruption, pointing to hundreds of misdemeanor cases her deputies failed to prosecute and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990321/lawsuit-claims-alameda-county-da-is-biased-against-asians-how-will-it-impact-the-recall\">allegations of anti-Asian discrimination\u003c/a> and extortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort also garnered support from family members of some crime victims who expressed frustration with what they saw as overly lenient sentences and a lack of support from the office’s victim-witness advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday night, some of those families packed into a recall campaign party in San Leandro hosted by Save Alameda For Everyone, the group behind the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want her to leave the office so we can get a little bit more justice for the victims,” said Erika Galavis, the aunt of two Berkeley teenage brothers killed at a house party in North Oakland in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galavis said she got involved in the recall campaign after Price neglected to press charges against two of the suspects in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, she’s not doing her job as a DA. Right now, she’s letting a lot of criminals go,” Galavis said. “You can sense that there is a chaos within the DA’s office internally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Price said recall supporters were upset that she won the 2022 election, accusing them of trying to overturn the will of voters. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008868/east-bay-politicians-speak-out-against-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\">That argument was bolstered\u003c/a> by longtime East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee and state Sen. Nancy Skinner, who said recalls were “undemocratic and a waste of public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, whose supporters included the ACLU of Northern California and a host of other local progressive groups, insisted that law enforcement groups and the former DA have been threatened by her willingness to bring misconduct charges against police officers and by her ongoing investigation into misconduct by former county prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not surprised by this outcome. I am disappointed, but I’m not surprised,” Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the same issues Price has been blamed for also happened under the leadership of former DA Nancy O’Malley, who is white, he said. “And she wasn’t blamed for it. She wasn’t persecuted for it in the press.”[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda,Alameda County: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s because Pamela Price is Black,” Woods said of the recall effort against her. “I think that’s because she ran on a progressive platform. I think that’s because she tried to approach something differently. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Alejandra Lopez saw swing states that had gone for Joe Biden in 2020 leaning red for Donald Trump on Tuesday night, it felt like déjà vu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really distraught. Honestly, I really would have never thought I would see him having a second term in office,” said Lopez, who is a second-year political science student at Cal Poly Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lopez, the stakes were personal. Both of her parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico who have lived in the U.S. for almost 20 years. Trump has pledged to enact mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump won for the first time in 2016, Lopez was 11 years old. She remembers feeling scared that her parents — or even she, a U.S. citizen — would be deported and crying all day in class. Now, she feels more angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angry that he was elected into office again, that he has promised the same thing again, and that people keep perpetuating it and moving it forward, not recognizing how harmful it can be,” she said. “You look back, and you see that time and time again, he’s just rephrased the same hate that he’s spewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California children and their families, including immigrants, transgender students and Black and Latino students, among others, are feeling similar fear and uncertainty, after the election of a candidate who has threatened to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, and to cut school funding to states that protect transgender students and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education leaders and advocates said the fear is palpable and justifiable, but they also urged TK-12 schools, colleges and universities to make sure students and families know about policies to protect their rights, some of which were enacted during the first Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://childrenspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ChildIsaChild_Immigrant-2024-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 million\u003c/a> California children — about 1 in 10 — have an undocumented immigrant parent, the state estimates. Many more have undocumented family members. About \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ml/t3immdemgraphics.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">165,000\u003c/a> California students are recent immigrants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we thought teaching was hard yesterday, wait for today’s questions like, ‘Is Trump going to send me back to the gangs?’ and ‘Is he going to deport my mother/father/brother/cousin?’” wrote teacher Larry Ferlazzo on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xilonin Cruz-González, deputy director of the advocacy organization Californians Together, said schools must reach out now to immigrant families to ensure they feel welcome and safe in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though it feels scary, especially for immigrant families, because of the rhetoric we’ve heard through the election cycle and we anticipate we will continue to hear, it’s important to remember, especially in California, we have legal protections for immigrant students,” Cruz-González said. “We have federal protections that require us to make sure our schools are safe and welcoming for all students. And we have California laws, especially AB 699, that was passed in 2017, that requires school districts to ensure that our immigrant students are welcomed into our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court established in 1982, in the case Plyler vs. Doe, that all children have a right to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ab_699_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 699 (PDF)\u003c/a> was passed in response to the previous Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and the fear it caused among immigrant families in California. The bill instructs schools not to collect information about families’ immigration status unless required by law, and requires schools to pass policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey Bird was a newcomer teacher, working with recent immigrant students in 2016 when Trump was first elected. She said she had Syrian refugee students in tears that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They felt like their humanity was on the ballot, and they lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird now works with Teach Plus California, coaching teachers throughout the state on how best to teach English learners. She said teachers are “heartbroken” for their students after Tuesday’s election and eager to share information with their students about their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One teacher told me, ‘I’ll let myself grieve for the remainder of the week, but then I feel like my mama bear mode has been activated because I feel like I have to protect my students,’” Bird said. “So she was asking, ‘How can I protect them? What are my rights? What are their rights?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Stanton-Trehan, a senior attorney at Disability Rights California who represents students with disabilities, said she saw many students with disabilities and students of color struggle during the last Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really concerned about my clients who have disabilities, who are students of color, who are transgender,” said Stanton-Trehan. “In California, we may have a state that is protecting those students to some degree. We have laws that protect them here that are not dependent upon the way the federal government interprets the law, but that’s a lot of burden to put on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the lessons of that first term, however, are in the power of people standing up to such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s definitely more than ever a time to really center those students and their needs and, really, their voices too,” Stanton-Trehan said. “They’re the next generation, and they’re living through this as well. They’re the ones at the forefront. If there’s any silver lining, it’s perhaps how galvanizing this can be for young people to say enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta has said that his team is preparing to protect immigrants, transgender students and others, with possible litigation against Trump’s expected policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fortunately, and unfortunately, we have four years of Trump 1.0 under our belts. We know what to expect, and we won’t be caught flat-footed,” said a Bonta spokesperson. “California’s Legislature has enacted strong protections for the rights of all students in California, and the Department of Justice will ensure those protections are enforced across the state. We are paying attention to what Trump and his advisers have said about their plans for a second administration, and we will be prepared to defend California’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.C. Berkeley political science professor Dan Schnur said Gov. Gavin Newsom has battled Trump before, but faces a new reality with Harris’ loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom’s challenge is going to be balancing what’s best for him as governor and what’s best for him as a potential presidential candidate,” Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Trump recognizes, Schnur said, “how much he can benefit politically with his base by beating up on California. The question is how he decides how much of that political benefit can be realized by threats and how much can be realized through follow-up on those threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s campaign promise of shutting down the U.S. Department of Education is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move “is a long, long, long shot,” Schnur said “Even if Republicans do win a House majority, he’s going to have a lot of members here who are reluctant to cast that vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s railing against transgender people and false claims that children receive gender reassignment surgeries at public schools may keep political traction, Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that debate is much more likely to be central to his agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ youth were a major focus of this election season up and down the ballot, according to Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director for LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Equality California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump attacked transgender women playing sports and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Local school board candidates promoted policies that outed transgender students to their parents, in opposition to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-signs-bill-to-end-parental-notification-policies-at-schools-but-opponents-say-its-not-over-yet/715767\">a new state law\u003c/a>. Anti-bullying policies at local school districts that specifically name LGBTQ youth have become a flash point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has laws on the books that protect these communities, and Salinas noted that voters supported Proposition 3, which enshrines the right to same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think being in California does provide a peace of mind,” Salinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California will be working with other organizations to ensure that there are no gaps in protecting LGBTQ+ youth in California, and that state laws that do support them are implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, sent messages out to parents prior to or during Election Day, highlighting protections for students and offering mental health support for students experiencing anxiety or fear after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union representing teachers in LAUSD, United Teachers Los Angeles, issued a statement saying that\u003cstrong> “\u003c/strong>Ensuring that students and their families are informed and safe will always be our top priority. We are committed to ensuring that every LAUSD student, especially BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ students, has access to the education, resources, and support they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some colleges and universities sent similar messages to students. Santa Monica College sent a message to students before the election to offer counseling and “debriefing” spaces for all students, but particularly for LGBTQ students, undocumented students and “racially minoritized communities.” In a Nov. 6 message, San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney encouraged students to seek support from campus counseling services as well as groups including the Dream Resource Center and the Queer & Trans Resource Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher education officials in California are well aware they could face legal and funding challenges from the Trump administration on such issues as enrolling undocumented students, free speech and diversity, equity and inclusion. In a rare move Wednesday, the leaders of California’s three public higher education systems shared a joint statement emphasizing that their campuses are welcoming to students and staff from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following the presidential election results, we understand that there is a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety within California’s higher education community,” reads the statement, which was signed by Michael Drake, president of the University of California; Mildred García, chancellor of the California State University; and Sonya Christian, chancellor of California Community Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges remain steadfast and committed to our values of diversity and inclusivity,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ju Hong, director of the UCLA Dream Resource Center, said Trump’s call for mass deportation is stoking fear among undocumented students and students who are citizens but have family members who are undocumented.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101907711,news_11181738,news_12006150\"]Hong said there’s also concern that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program could get terminated by the courts during Trump’s presidency. Hong himself is a DACA recipient. If the program gets terminated, he wouldn’t be able to keep his job and would be at risk of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong called on UC leaders, including the system’s board of regents, to support immigrant students and staff, both with public statements of support and by advocating for more funding for programs like the Dream Resource Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully they think through what are some creative ways to proactively support immigrant students on and off campus,” Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin R. Johnson, professor and former dean of the UC Davis School of Law, said he is concerned that the election of Trump to a second presidency could deter undocumented students from attending public universities, even in California, where they are eligible for in-state tuition and where all three public college and university systems have legal services for undocumented students and family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that over the next few months, we will see a great deal of fear and consternation in the immigrant community, including the immigrant student community,” Johnson said. “I fear that the general tenor and thrust of President Trump and some others about immigrants can chill undocumented students from attending a public university and be worried that any appearance in public places could lead to their removal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>EdSource’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/zstavely\">Zaidee Stavely\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/dlambert\">Diana Lambert\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/bmarquez\">Betty Márquez Rosales\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/egallegos\">Emma Gallegos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/mburke\">Michael Burke\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/adipierro\">Amy DiPierro\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/mseshadri\">Mallika Seshadri\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/tpeele\">Thomas Peele\u003c/a> contributed to this story that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/california-education-leaders-try-to-reassure-students-of-protections-against-trump-policies/721853\">originally appeared in EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Now, she feels more angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angry that he was elected into office again, that he has promised the same thing again, and that people keep perpetuating it and moving it forward, not recognizing how harmful it can be,” she said. “You look back, and you see that time and time again, he’s just rephrased the same hate that he’s spewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California children and their families, including immigrants, transgender students and Black and Latino students, among others, are feeling similar fear and uncertainty, after the election of a candidate who has threatened to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, and to cut school funding to states that protect transgender students and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in their schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California education leaders and advocates said the fear is palpable and justifiable, but they also urged TK-12 schools, colleges and universities to make sure students and families know about policies to protect their rights, some of which were enacted during the first Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://childrenspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ChildIsaChild_Immigrant-2024-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 million\u003c/a> California children — about 1 in 10 — have an undocumented immigrant parent, the state estimates. Many more have undocumented family members. About \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ml/t3immdemgraphics.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">165,000\u003c/a> California students are recent immigrants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we thought teaching was hard yesterday, wait for today’s questions like, ‘Is Trump going to send me back to the gangs?’ and ‘Is he going to deport my mother/father/brother/cousin?’” wrote teacher Larry Ferlazzo on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xilonin Cruz-González, deputy director of the advocacy organization Californians Together, said schools must reach out now to immigrant families to ensure they feel welcome and safe in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though it feels scary, especially for immigrant families, because of the rhetoric we’ve heard through the election cycle and we anticipate we will continue to hear, it’s important to remember, especially in California, we have legal protections for immigrant students,” Cruz-González said. “We have federal protections that require us to make sure our schools are safe and welcoming for all students. And we have California laws, especially AB 699, that was passed in 2017, that requires school districts to ensure that our immigrant students are welcomed into our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court established in 1982, in the case Plyler vs. Doe, that all children have a right to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ab_699_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 699 (PDF)\u003c/a> was passed in response to the previous Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and the fear it caused among immigrant families in California. The bill instructs schools not to collect information about families’ immigration status unless required by law, and requires schools to pass policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey Bird was a newcomer teacher, working with recent immigrant students in 2016 when Trump was first elected. She said she had Syrian refugee students in tears that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They felt like their humanity was on the ballot, and they lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird now works with Teach Plus California, coaching teachers throughout the state on how best to teach English learners. She said teachers are “heartbroken” for their students after Tuesday’s election and eager to share information with their students about their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One teacher told me, ‘I’ll let myself grieve for the remainder of the week, but then I feel like my mama bear mode has been activated because I feel like I have to protect my students,’” Bird said. “So she was asking, ‘How can I protect them? What are my rights? What are their rights?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Stanton-Trehan, a senior attorney at Disability Rights California who represents students with disabilities, said she saw many students with disabilities and students of color struggle during the last Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really concerned about my clients who have disabilities, who are students of color, who are transgender,” said Stanton-Trehan. “In California, we may have a state that is protecting those students to some degree. We have laws that protect them here that are not dependent upon the way the federal government interprets the law, but that’s a lot of burden to put on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the lessons of that first term, however, are in the power of people standing up to such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s definitely more than ever a time to really center those students and their needs and, really, their voices too,” Stanton-Trehan said. “They’re the next generation, and they’re living through this as well. They’re the ones at the forefront. If there’s any silver lining, it’s perhaps how galvanizing this can be for young people to say enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta has said that his team is preparing to protect immigrants, transgender students and others, with possible litigation against Trump’s expected policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fortunately, and unfortunately, we have four years of Trump 1.0 under our belts. We know what to expect, and we won’t be caught flat-footed,” said a Bonta spokesperson. “California’s Legislature has enacted strong protections for the rights of all students in California, and the Department of Justice will ensure those protections are enforced across the state. We are paying attention to what Trump and his advisers have said about their plans for a second administration, and we will be prepared to defend California’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.C. Berkeley political science professor Dan Schnur said Gov. Gavin Newsom has battled Trump before, but faces a new reality with Harris’ loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom’s challenge is going to be balancing what’s best for him as governor and what’s best for him as a potential presidential candidate,” Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Trump recognizes, Schnur said, “how much he can benefit politically with his base by beating up on California. The question is how he decides how much of that political benefit can be realized by threats and how much can be realized through follow-up on those threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s campaign promise of shutting down the U.S. Department of Education is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move “is a long, long, long shot,” Schnur said “Even if Republicans do win a House majority, he’s going to have a lot of members here who are reluctant to cast that vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s railing against transgender people and false claims that children receive gender reassignment surgeries at public schools may keep political traction, Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that debate is much more likely to be central to his agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ youth were a major focus of this election season up and down the ballot, according to Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director for LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Equality California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump attacked transgender women playing sports and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Local school board candidates promoted policies that outed transgender students to their parents, in opposition to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-signs-bill-to-end-parental-notification-policies-at-schools-but-opponents-say-its-not-over-yet/715767\">a new state law\u003c/a>. Anti-bullying policies at local school districts that specifically name LGBTQ youth have become a flash point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has laws on the books that protect these communities, and Salinas noted that voters supported Proposition 3, which enshrines the right to same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think being in California does provide a peace of mind,” Salinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California will be working with other organizations to ensure that there are no gaps in protecting LGBTQ+ youth in California, and that state laws that do support them are implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, sent messages out to parents prior to or during Election Day, highlighting protections for students and offering mental health support for students experiencing anxiety or fear after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union representing teachers in LAUSD, United Teachers Los Angeles, issued a statement saying that\u003cstrong> “\u003c/strong>Ensuring that students and their families are informed and safe will always be our top priority. We are committed to ensuring that every LAUSD student, especially BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ students, has access to the education, resources, and support they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some colleges and universities sent similar messages to students. Santa Monica College sent a message to students before the election to offer counseling and “debriefing” spaces for all students, but particularly for LGBTQ students, undocumented students and “racially minoritized communities.” In a Nov. 6 message, San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney encouraged students to seek support from campus counseling services as well as groups including the Dream Resource Center and the Queer & Trans Resource Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher education officials in California are well aware they could face legal and funding challenges from the Trump administration on such issues as enrolling undocumented students, free speech and diversity, equity and inclusion. In a rare move Wednesday, the leaders of California’s three public higher education systems shared a joint statement emphasizing that their campuses are welcoming to students and staff from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following the presidential election results, we understand that there is a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety within California’s higher education community,” reads the statement, which was signed by Michael Drake, president of the University of California; Mildred García, chancellor of the California State University; and Sonya Christian, chancellor of California Community Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges remain steadfast and committed to our values of diversity and inclusivity,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ju Hong, director of the UCLA Dream Resource Center, said Trump’s call for mass deportation is stoking fear among undocumented students and students who are citizens but have family members who are undocumented.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In his first public appearance as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">mayor-elect of San Francisco\u003c/a>, philanthropist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> promised to bring more accountability to City Hall and said he’s searching for the people he will tap to lead his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s victory marked a significant shift for San Francisco, which hadn’t elected a mayor without government experience in nearly a century. It lays bare voters’ desire for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013206/progressive-sf-supervisors-anti-incumbency-wave-early-election-returns\">change in City Hall\u003c/a> — but exactly what will be different remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your call for accountable leadership, service and change have been heard,” Lurie told a group of reporters and supporters on Friday morning after Mayor London Breed conceded the night before. “I entered this race not as a politician but as a dad who couldn’t explain to my kids what they were seeing in our streets. In our house, when you love something as much as we love San Francisco, you fight for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie offered few specifics on his plans for leading the city amid a series of major challenges, including a significant budget deficit, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993902/san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-agree-bold-action-is-needed-on-housing-what-are-their-proposals\">housing affordability crisis\u003c/a> and an incoming presidential administration that’s likely to be hostile to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nonprofit founder and heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Lurie ran a steady campaign against what he often called “City Hall insiders” he blamed for problems in areas like homelessness and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie listen as he gives an acceptance speech at St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The message appeared to resonate with voters. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#mayor\">won about 56% of votes\u003c/a> after ranked-choice tallies, compared to Breed’s 44%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all of Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">campaigning on an “outsider” platform\u003c/a>, it wasn’t his lack of government experience that voters were attracted to, said James Taylor, a professor and political scientist at the University of San Francisco. Rather, he said, Lurie rose to the top after his opponents failed to grasp the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Lurie was the last guy at the party. There was nobody else to dance with,” Taylor said. “London Breed lost because people did not feel good under her leadership, not because she was wrong on policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ShengThaoPamelaPrice-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, many of Lurie’s policies and approaches to solving priority issues such as homelessness, housing production and public safety aligned with Breed, a fellow moderate Democrat. That includes increasing shelter capacity to enforce sit-lie laws, boosting staffing at the police department, and increasing housing production at all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do any of that, he’ll have to work with a Board of Supervisors and the city’s winding bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie is going to experience a very rude awakening,” Taylor said. “The bureaucracy of San Francisco is so layered, and even though the city has a strong mayor arrangement, it takes personality and relationships. Bureaucrats who have been around for 30 years can survive mayoral changes — and that’s the element that I think Lurie is going to deal with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also ran the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive campaign in the city’s history\u003c/a>, totaling nearly $16 million — almost $9 million of which came from his own inherited wealth. His record-breaking financing helped distribute his message widely in mailers, TV commercials and social media ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and other opponents attacked Lurie for his lack of experience and ability to self-finance his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks with supporters after an acceptance speech at St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It has been really one of the most sad and horrible things I’ve seen in politics in San Francisco, that someone would take their wealth and just basically buy this office,” Breed told reporters at her election night party on Tuesday. “It’s really unfortunate and pretty disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said he does not anticipate taking the mayor’s salary and told reporters on Friday that he will put his assets into a trust upon entering office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come January, Lurie will face the real test, including balancing a nearly $800 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998404/breed-signs-15-9-billion-sf-budget-that-boosts-police-funding-cuts-from-public-health\">budget deficit\u003c/a> and building tens of thousands of state-mandated housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor-elect said he plans to sit down one-on-one with department heads in the coming weeks while he’s also building his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people in my administration are going to reflect the diversity of this great city,” he said, adding that he is looking both locally and globally at potential cabinet members. “We are going to have a world-class administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for details about how he plans to run the city as it likely faces new challenges under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">second Trump administration\u003c/a>, the mayor-elect said he would have San Franciscans’ backs. But he avoided sharing specifics on exactly how he plans to prepare for potential threats to San Francisco as a sanctuary city with a deep-blue electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under my watch, San Francisco will stand up for the rights of all of our neighbors. We will never turn a blind eye to racism, bigotry, or anti-Asian hate,” he said. “I have serious disagreements with President Donald Trump, but I will never let those disagreements get in the way of the problems facing San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In his first public appearance as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">mayor-elect of San Francisco\u003c/a>, philanthropist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> promised to bring more accountability to City Hall and said he’s searching for the people he will tap to lead his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s victory marked a significant shift for San Francisco, which hadn’t elected a mayor without government experience in nearly a century. It lays bare voters’ desire for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013206/progressive-sf-supervisors-anti-incumbency-wave-early-election-returns\">change in City Hall\u003c/a> — but exactly what will be different remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your call for accountable leadership, service and change have been heard,” Lurie told a group of reporters and supporters on Friday morning after Mayor London Breed conceded the night before. “I entered this race not as a politician but as a dad who couldn’t explain to my kids what they were seeing in our streets. In our house, when you love something as much as we love San Francisco, you fight for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie offered few specifics on his plans for leading the city amid a series of major challenges, including a significant budget deficit, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993902/san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-agree-bold-action-is-needed-on-housing-what-are-their-proposals\">housing affordability crisis\u003c/a> and an incoming presidential administration that’s likely to be hostile to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nonprofit founder and heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Lurie ran a steady campaign against what he often called “City Hall insiders” he blamed for problems in areas like homelessness and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LURIEVICTORYPRESSER-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie listen as he gives an acceptance speech at St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The message appeared to resonate with voters. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/races#mayor\">won about 56% of votes\u003c/a> after ranked-choice tallies, compared to Breed’s 44%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all of Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">campaigning on an “outsider” platform\u003c/a>, it wasn’t his lack of government experience that voters were attracted to, said James Taylor, a professor and political scientist at the University of San Francisco. Rather, he said, Lurie rose to the top after his opponents failed to grasp the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Lurie was the last guy at the party. There was nobody else to dance with,” Taylor said. “London Breed lost because people did not feel good under her leadership, not because she was wrong on policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, many of Lurie’s policies and approaches to solving priority issues such as homelessness, housing production and public safety aligned with Breed, a fellow moderate Democrat. That includes increasing shelter capacity to enforce sit-lie laws, boosting staffing at the police department, and increasing housing production at all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do any of that, he’ll have to work with a Board of Supervisors and the city’s winding bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie is going to experience a very rude awakening,” Taylor said. “The bureaucracy of San Francisco is so layered, and even though the city has a strong mayor arrangement, it takes personality and relationships. Bureaucrats who have been around for 30 years can survive mayoral changes — and that’s the element that I think Lurie is going to deal with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also ran the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive campaign in the city’s history\u003c/a>, totaling nearly $16 million — almost $9 million of which came from his own inherited wealth. His record-breaking financing helped distribute his message widely in mailers, TV commercials and social media ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and other opponents attacked Lurie for his lack of experience and ability to self-finance his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-22-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks with supporters after an acceptance speech at St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It has been really one of the most sad and horrible things I’ve seen in politics in San Francisco, that someone would take their wealth and just basically buy this office,” Breed told reporters at her election night party on Tuesday. “It’s really unfortunate and pretty disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said he does not anticipate taking the mayor’s salary and told reporters on Friday that he will put his assets into a trust upon entering office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come January, Lurie will face the real test, including balancing a nearly $800 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998404/breed-signs-15-9-billion-sf-budget-that-boosts-police-funding-cuts-from-public-health\">budget deficit\u003c/a> and building tens of thousands of state-mandated housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor-elect said he plans to sit down one-on-one with department heads in the coming weeks while he’s also building his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people in my administration are going to reflect the diversity of this great city,” he said, adding that he is looking both locally and globally at potential cabinet members. “We are going to have a world-class administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for details about how he plans to run the city as it likely faces new challenges under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">second Trump administration\u003c/a>, the mayor-elect said he would have San Franciscans’ backs. But he avoided sharing specifics on exactly how he plans to prepare for potential threats to San Francisco as a sanctuary city with a deep-blue electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under my watch, San Francisco will stand up for the rights of all of our neighbors. We will never turn a blind eye to racism, bigotry, or anti-Asian hate,” he said. “I have serious disagreements with President Donald Trump, but I will never let those disagreements get in the way of the problems facing San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A veteran member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors said he’s frustrated with the snail-like pace of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda\">county’s vote reporting\u003c/a>, delaying results in two highly anticipated recall elections and other contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Keith Carson, who is about to retire from the board after eight terms, said he shares voters’ unhappiness with the county registrar’s tally, which so far has worked its way through roughly a third of ballots cast in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\">Tuesday’s general election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many have contacted my office to express their dismay/anger regarding the small number of votes that have been counted to date, while all of our surrounding counties are posting a greater number of results,” Carson said in a statement on Friday. “I share your dismay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson’s remarks came after the registrar’s office posted an update Thursday evening that reported just 4,589 new votes tabulated since the final election night report at 1:03 a.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That update brought the total number of ballots tallied so far to 238,035, according to the office. Assuming an 80% turnout among Alameda County’s 962,000 registered voters, which would align with recent presidential elections, that would mean the registrar still has a backlog of about 530,000 ballots to process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-NIGHT-THAO-PARTY-CC-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Sheng Thao fields questions from press at the election watch and recall party at Fluid510 in Oakland on election night, Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Camille Cohen for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those ballots hold the answer to a number of closely watched contests, including recall votes for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013194/recalls-oakland-mayor-alameda-county-da-take-commanding-leads\">District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> and dozens of legislative, mayoral, city council and ballot measure races across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday evening’s results showed both recalls winning with about 65% of the vote. They would pass with a majority vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the public is interested in getting results very quickly,” registrar Tim Dupuis said in an interview on Friday, adding that he expects the process to speed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we typically see is a slow start, and then we ramp up,” Dupuis said. He said his office’s main challenge is the 460,000 mail-in ballots received on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darius Lynch fills out his ballot at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It takes time to get those ballots queued up so that we can get them through our tally system,” he said. “You have to check the signatures. You have to sort them, you have to open them. You have to extract the ballot from the envelope. You have to stage it so that our tally system is ready for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his statement, Carson questioned whether Dupuis had hired enough workers for the vote count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Months ago, in public meetings, I asked the registrar if he had a sufficient workforce and resources in order to carry out the November election,” Carson said. “His response was ‘yes.’ Unfortunately, that appears not to be the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTION-DAY-ALLEN-TEMPLE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis said his department is more focused on getting all votes processed by the state’s 30-day deadline for counties to certify election results than on delivering fast results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the issue really is the balance between having enough staff to get the selection certified within the time allotted versus trying to have the results as quickly as possible,” he said. “If the concern is to increase the speed at which we are able to post and get final results out, especially given the large number of vote-by-mail ballots, there’s a number of things that we could look at. We could look at more staffing, we could look at more equipment, we could look at more state-of-the-art facilities. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dupuis’ office has gained \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/11/04/why-are-people-always-getting-mad-at-the-alameda-county-registrar-of-voters/\">a reputation\u003c/a> for slow and sometimes inefficient operations, Alameda County is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013450/bay-area-voters-heres-when-you-can-expect-updated-election-results\">not alone\u003c/a> in its long, drawn-out vote reporting this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa, Marin and Napa counties, for instance, have not reported updated results since their final election night reports. Two other counties, San Mateo and Sonoma, say they’ve processed fewer than 10,000 ballots since election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other end of the spectrum, Santa Clara County processed twice the number of votes Alameda County did on election night — 468,395 versus 233,246. Dupuis credited Santa Clara’s performance to having more staff and twice as much high-speed sorting capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis said his department is more focused on getting all votes processed by the state’s 30-day deadline for counties to certify election results than on delivering fast results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the issue really is the balance between having enough staff to get the selection certified within the time allotted versus trying to have the results as quickly as possible,” he said. “If the concern is to increase the speed at which we are able to post and get final results out, especially given the large number of vote-by-mail ballots, there’s a number of things that we could look at. We could look at more staffing, we could look at more equipment, we could look at more state-of-the-art facilities. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dupuis’ office has gained \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/11/04/why-are-people-always-getting-mad-at-the-alameda-county-registrar-of-voters/\">a reputation\u003c/a> for slow and sometimes inefficient operations, Alameda County is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013450/bay-area-voters-heres-when-you-can-expect-updated-election-results\">not alone\u003c/a> in its long, drawn-out vote reporting this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa, Marin and Napa counties, for instance, have not reported updated results since their final election night reports. Two other counties, San Mateo and Sonoma, say they’ve processed fewer than 10,000 ballots since election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other end of the spectrum, Santa Clara County processed twice the number of votes Alameda County did on election night — 468,395 versus 233,246. Dupuis credited Santa Clara’s performance to having more staff and twice as much high-speed sorting capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Elected officials and legal teams across California are mobilizing this week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">former President Donald Trump\u003c/a> won back the White House on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near-constant battles with the Golden State, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/california-vs-trump-lawsuits/\">which sued him on average about every 12 days\u003c/a>, marked Trump’s first administration, on a wide range of issues including immigration and environmental protection. In the second Trump administration, the state is poised to play a leading role in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant groups, the LGBTQ community and others are anxious about their future under Trump, whose campaign rhetoric often targeted them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference at San Francisco’s Crissy Field on Thursday, standing next to a “Progress will prevail” sign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013588/ag-bonta-pledges-to-protect-california-values-from-trump-presidency\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> said he’s spent months talking with his department and attorneys general across the country in preparation of a potential second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have thought through all of the possibilities of the attacks on our values, our people, our state, and we expect certain litigation to come or certain actions to come from the federal government and certain litigation that we will take in response,” Bonta said. “There’s a lot of different scenarios on a lot of different topics, from immigration to the environment to civil rights to gun safety … the list goes on, but we are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, Bonta’s predecessor Xavier Becerra brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741446/fastest-litigant-in-the-west-californias-on-verge-of-suing-trump-more-than-texas-ever-sued-obama\">over 100 lawsuits\u003c/a> against his administration — far more than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Rob Bonta takes questions from the media as he announces charges made against suspects involved in an organized retail crime ring during a news conference in Los Angeles on March 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many were successful. Becerra prevented Trump from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/11/550218405/california-sues-trump-administration-over-decision-to-rescind-daca\">repealing an Obama-era protection\u003c/a> against deportation for immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy and upheld California’s right to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-files-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-2\">set its own vehicle emissions standards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy will be the same this time around, Bonta said.[aside postID=news_12013588 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241107-ATTORNEYGENERALBONTA-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“We believe he’ll be taking unlawful actions and that we will find appropriate relief and remedies in court where we always have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">preparing to bolster that legal effort\u003c/a> against what he called an incoming “attack” on the state’s freedoms. On Thursday, Newsom called a special legislative session meant to gird the state for an incoming federal administration that has clashed with California on many fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the priorities for the special session, which would begin in early December, will be legislation to provide additional funding for the state’s Department of Justice and other agencies to be ready to sue the Trump administration as well as defend against potential incoming federal lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/11/06/trump-immigration-policies/\">Trump repeatedly called\u003c/a> for mass, militarized deportation of immigrants who lack legal status. California — a sanctuary state — is home to millions of immigrants, and local advocates and lawyers are gearing up for a turbulent next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center in San Francisco, said that in the days since the election, his team has already seen a drop-off in the number of people coming in for basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is disconnecting our folks from just being able to receive basic services, whether it’s case management, whether it’s food, whether it’s rental assistance,” Medina said. “That’s a huge concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941173/sf-supervisors-split-on-details-of-citys-sanctuary-policy-shielding-immigrants-from-deportation\">a sanctuary city\u003c/a> within a sanctuary state, which Medina said will help protect the city’s immigrant community under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11293483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11293483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/ap_17025826671102-4248d9fac27dea825d965cbaa5629bfed9e79f3f-1-e1731091489399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator yells at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco to protest President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves to tighten the nation’s immigration controls on Jan. 25, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that both our city agencies and city attorneys will do everything they can to help defend everyone that lives here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Trump’s promise of mass deportations has attorneys worried about their clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can really do a lot of harm to a lot of the families that we help here, whether it’s blocking benefits with work permits, blocking benefits with asylum, with temporary protected status eligibility categories,” said Gilberto Nicolas Gonzalez, one of the lawyers on staff at La Raza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next couple of months, Gonzalez said, his team is preparing strategies to deal with an increase in detainments and court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really just trying to plan ahead,” he said. “But as of right now, we’re really uncertain and a lot of our clients are kind of in fear and in shambles right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area LGBTQ advocates are also voicing their anxiety about the future under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow flags line the plaza in front of the San Francisco City Hall on June 26, 2013, following the rulings brought down by the Supreme Court on same sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final weeks of his campaign, Trump narrowed his attacks on transgender people, often using demeaning and offensive language to portray a threat to national identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will get … transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports,” Trump said at an inflammatory \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-madison-square-garden-new-york-election-fcfe75be7f8281fde7bffa3adb3bba5d\">Madison Square Garden rally\u003c/a> at the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also promised to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates said that even in Democratic bulwarks, people need to be ready for the fallout from a Trump presidency that aims to roll back transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people are thinking, ‘I’m in California, I’m safe.’ And besides the fact that that neglects our trans siblings living all across the United States, we are going to see real effects here outside of policy,” said Chase Overholt, director of development at Positive Images, a Sonoma County-based LGBTQ community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/NewsomTrump2018AP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt said he’s worried that Trump’s presidency will lead to a rise in anti-trans and homophobic rhetoric and action. When Trump was first elected in 2016, Overholt said many businesses that displayed pride flags in downtown Santa Rosa were vandalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare for Trump’s second term, Overholt said his team is upping on-site security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hardening our center at Positive Images to make sure that when communities are there, they can trust that they’re in a safe space physically,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overholt encouraged folks who are worried about access to health care and other resources to prepare now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make sure that your legal documents are in order. If you are a trans person who is interested in a legal name change or a gender indicator change, you should file that paperwork tomorrow,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positive Images is teaming up with other local organizations like the NAACP, Latino Service Providers and legal aid groups in order to provide resources to its residents and training to “repair some of the trauma or harm that’s been done and protect against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be difficult,” Overholt said. “But there is still queer joy to be had. There is still Black joy to be had. And we need to center that so that we can, frankly, stay alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">Gilare Zada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">Brian Krans\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We believe he’ll be taking unlawful actions and that we will find appropriate relief and remedies in court where we always have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">preparing to bolster that legal effort\u003c/a> against what he called an incoming “attack” on the state’s freedoms. On Thursday, Newsom called a special legislative session meant to gird the state for an incoming federal administration that has clashed with California on many fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsomAP3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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California — a sanctuary state — is home to millions of immigrants, and local advocates and lawyers are gearing up for a turbulent next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center in San Francisco, said that in the days since the election, his team has already seen a drop-off in the number of people coming in for basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is disconnecting our folks from just being able to receive basic services, whether it’s case management, whether it’s food, whether it’s rental assistance,” Medina said. “That’s a huge concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941173/sf-supervisors-split-on-details-of-citys-sanctuary-policy-shielding-immigrants-from-deportation\">a sanctuary city\u003c/a> within a sanctuary state, which Medina said will help protect the city’s immigrant community under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11293483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11293483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/ap_17025826671102-4248d9fac27dea825d965cbaa5629bfed9e79f3f-1-e1731091489399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator yells at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco to protest President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves to tighten the nation’s immigration controls on Jan. 25, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that both our city agencies and city attorneys will do everything they can to help defend everyone that lives here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Trump’s promise of mass deportations has attorneys worried about their clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can really do a lot of harm to a lot of the families that we help here, whether it’s blocking benefits with work 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>, a philanthropist and heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who campaigned against City Hall “insiders,” will be San Francisco’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LondonBreed/status/1854683524269564310\">conceded the race\u003c/a> on Thursday afternoon as Lurie maintained his solid lead in the latest update from San Francisco elections officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, this job is bigger than any one person, and what matters is that we keep moving this City forward. Today, I called Daniel Lurie and congratulated him on his victory in this election,” Breed said in her concession statement. “Over the coming weeks, my staff and I will work to ensure a smooth transition as he takes on the honor of serving as Mayor of San Francisco. I know we are both committed to improving this City we love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012353/daniel-lurie-leads-as-early-results-for-san-franciscos-mayors-race-come-in\">Early voting returns showed Lurie\u003c/a> leading in first-choice votes above Breed. In the latest tally announced Thursday, accounting for fourteen rounds of ranked choice vote counting, Lurie held his lead with 56% of votes compared with Breed’s 43% share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s update included 250,000 votes counted, with Lurie taking 69,005 first-place votes to Breed’s 60,818.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie. Mayor Breed conceded the race on Thursday afternoon as Lurie maintained his solid lead in the latest update from San Francisco elections officials. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The results show Lurie successfully harnessed voters’ frustration with local government on the campaign trail, promising to rid City Hall of corrupt insiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m deeply grateful to my incredible family, campaign team and every San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service, and change,” Lurie said in a statement. “No matter who you supported in this election, we stand united in the fight for San Francisco’s future and a safer and more affordable city for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the city’s top insider, he’ll have to show voters what a different approach could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hope is alive and well in San Francisco,” Lurie said to his supporters at an election night party on Tuesday. “But hope alone is not enough. Strong values are not enough. They have to be drivers of actions and results. Our challenge and opportunity is to show how the government can deliver on its promise of a safer and more affordable city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running the city of San Francisco would be Lurie’s first job in government — a fact that his opponents repeatedly attacked him for in debates and public forums. Breed described his lack of experience as “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Lurie will have to put his promises to the test. That includes overseeing the city’s projected budget shortfall of $799 million over the next two years and pulling the city out of an economic slump. He vowed to speed up the production of affordable housing — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993902/san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-agree-bold-action-is-needed-on-housing-what-are-their-proposals\">longstanding challenge in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which is one of the most expensive California cities to build in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also campaigned heavily on fully staffing the police department and improving public safety, an issue voters expressed frustration over after a spike in retail theft and violent attacks during the pandemic, but which they have shown little satisfaction with even as crime rates have dropped significantly more recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ability to make progress around homelessness, another top issue in this election, will also be under tight scrutiny. Lurie vowed to increase shelter bed options and enforce so-called sit-lie laws applying to people in public spaces now that the Supreme Court has ruled that cities can clear tent encampments even if there are no alternative places for them to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed expanded shelter capacity by nearly 70% during her tenure, and still, the city is far from meeting the number of beds and supportive housing needed for people to stay off the streets long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will face all of these challenges as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">President-elect Donald Trump\u003c/a> begins his second, non-consecutive term, which could have major implications for a deep-blue city like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had to fend off dozens of legal challenges from Trump’s first administration, according to City Attorney David Chiu, who is anticipating more battles ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given Trump’s disdain for the rule of law and the plans laid out in Project 2025, we need to prepare ourselves once again,” Chiu told KQED. “I’m hopeful that whoever our next mayor is will understand the gravity of this moment and the threat to so many San Franciscans, given what Donald Trump has said throughout his political career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, some of Lurie’s other opponents from the campaign trail lined up their support for the new mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s make sure as San Franciscans that we get behind our next Mayor. It is the right thing to do,” former interim Mayor and Supervisor Mark Farrell wrote in a campaign email on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a rollercoaster campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012419/sf-mayoral-candidate-mark-farrell-pay-largest-ethics-fine-citys-history\">studded with allegations of campaign ethics violations\u003c/a>, Farrell conceded after early returns on Tuesday night showed he was behind Lurie, Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s pledge ourselves to cheering for their success while holding them accountable to make sure that San Francisco reaches the potential that we know it can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, who ran as the sole progressive in the race where all leading candidates were Democrats, was in third place after the update. 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