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And now mysteriously the park is not being included in the current bond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as federal officials announced this week that restaurateur Nick Bovis, an alleged co-conspirator with Nuru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818263/owner-of-lefty-odouls-restaurant-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-counts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony charges and agreed to cooperate with an ongoing federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Struggle to Renovate Portsmouth Square\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During a Tuesday meeting before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor London Breed presented a plan that had been months in the making: the multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://onesanfrancisco.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Agenda%20Item%205%20-%20November%202020%20Health%20and%20Recovery%20Bond%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Health and Recovery bond\u003c/a> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This money was originally slated to be a parks bond, totaling $255 million. But in November 2019, Breed asked the city's Capital Planning Committee to explore replacing it with a “mental health bond.” If the new proposal is passed by the voters later this year, this bond would provide funding for housing and homelessness, infrastructure improvements and projects to improve open-air spaces and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one item that was absent from the bond for stakeholders and residents of Chinatown: Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the current city budget situation, we don’t know when the city will put another bond package together,” said Erika Gee with the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the city’s finances, it’s really important that this park is included in the bond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-1020x743.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown residents look over plans for the square renovations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chinatown’s 'Living Room'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portsmouth Square sits at the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, on the eastern edge of Chinatown. It's home to several \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/893/Portsmouth-Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notable moments in San Francisco history\u003c/a> — including the first raising of the American flag in the city in 1846. For decades, the park has served as an essential meeting place for the community and has been referred to as Chinatown’s “living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when plans began to coalesce around redesigning the park in 2017, the community had a lot to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were over five community design workshops, which is extraordinarily high in the park world,” said attorney Allan Low, who serves as vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission. “Over 100 people attended, which shows high community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After numerous neighborhood meetings, a design plan was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks, which then made it one of the department’s “core projects,” according to Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, so good, Low said: The community had decided on a design, the Parks Department approved it and things were moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the project hit a snag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43209_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-e1589588548641.jpg\" alt=\"Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Bridge Too Far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The preferred design from the community required the removal of a pedestrian walkway over part of Portsmouth Square. The bridge extends across Kearny Street, connecting the park with the Chinese Cultural Center and the towering Financial District Hilton hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1970s, the city Department of Public Works issued an encroachment permit to a company called Justice Investors, one of the companies that owns and manages the Hilton. This permit granted it “air rights” to the bridge, allowing the company to build and manage the walkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, dozens of District 3 residents signed a petition to revoke the permit and submitted it to Public Works — and then-Director Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Allan Low, vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission\"]'The dates don’t line up to the justification given by the Department of Public Works.'[/pullquote]“The matter was fully heard, briefed, argued. Public testimony opened, public testimony closed, in October 2018,” Low said. “To date, there has been no decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works officials said “discretionary actions” — in this case keeping or revoking the permit — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Low said that explanation doesn’t make sense and questions why an environment review wasn’t started until a full year after the October 2018 hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dates don’t line up to the justification given by the Department of Public Works,” Low said. “If it is true that the decision wasn’t issued because of environmental review, they should have said so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There currently is an analysis underway as part of a larger environmental impact review of the site. City officials expect the review to be completed in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sarah Madland, director of policy and public affairs for the Recreation and Parks Department, said it’s impossible to know if revoking the bridge permit would have made the project move forward sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madland said that the timeline for Portsmouth Square, including a complex environmental review involving property not maintained by the city, is not atypical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what happened with the permit in the past, the project is on track and all stakeholders are on board, Madland said. That includes Hilton, which Madland said has committed to the project through multiple conversations, and the hotel’s support is documented in the environmental review submission from late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he raised concerns with the city attorney’s office about Nuru’s involvement in the Portsmouth Square project shortly after the former Public Works director’s arrest. The city attorney’s office did not confirm if an investigation involving the park project is taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru was arrested by the FBI in late January under suspicion of fraud, including allegations that he and restaurant owner Nick Bovis attempted to bribe a San Francisco International Airport official. Since then, numerous reports have detailed the allegations against Nuru, including that he and Bovis used a series of charities to funnel funds to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/lefty-odouls-charity-used-city-contractor-donations-to-pay-for-public-works-party/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly finance\u003c/a> Public Works parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office currently has an investigation open into public corruption at City Hall and has issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2020/02/27/city-attorney-issues-14-more-subpoenas-in-widening-public-corruption-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple subpoenas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru's defense attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A design plan for the renovation of Portsmouth Square was selected in July, 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks - but little tangible progress has been made since then.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A design plan for the renovation of Portsmouth Square was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks - but little tangible progress has been made since then. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What's Next for Portsmouth Square?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After years of planning, an ongoing environmental review slated to end in 2021 and nearly $2 million racked up in consulting fees so far, according to both Peskin and Low, the future of Portsmouth Square feels murky — especially since the project has been left out of the 2020 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor's office said that the Board of Supervisors could theoretically add the Portsmouth Square project to the bond by either adding more money to the total bond package or changing the existing fund allocations to make space for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Portsmouth Square is essential to the quality of life for residents and visitors alike,” Peskin said. “And I am deeply committed to ensuring that the necessary funds for its redesign to bring it into the 21st century will be included.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said on Friday that negotiations have begun to add the project to the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 14, the Hilton's owners still hold the permit to the bridge and there has been no ruling made by the Department of Public Works to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Plans years in the making to renovate a park and community square in San Francisco’s Chinatown appear to have again stalled, concerning neighborhood advocates for the redesign who say that it may now never be funded after the project was dropped from a multimillion-dollar city bond package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent saga over redesigning the historic Portsmouth Square involves an apparent holdup between city departments and private ownership of a pedestrian bridge over the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor who represents the district has raised more startling concerns, calling for the city attorney to investigate in light of public corruption charges leveled against former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I smell a rat,” District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin said. “For almost two years, Mohammed refused to move on it, and then of course in January of this year, he was arrested by the FBI ... And now mysteriously the park is not being included in the current bond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as federal officials announced this week that restaurateur Nick Bovis, an alleged co-conspirator with Nuru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818263/owner-of-lefty-odouls-restaurant-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-counts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony charges and agreed to cooperate with an ongoing federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Struggle to Renovate Portsmouth Square\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During a Tuesday meeting before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor London Breed presented a plan that had been months in the making: the multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://onesanfrancisco.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Agenda%20Item%205%20-%20November%202020%20Health%20and%20Recovery%20Bond%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Health and Recovery bond\u003c/a> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This money was originally slated to be a parks bond, totaling $255 million. But in November 2019, Breed asked the city's Capital Planning Committee to explore replacing it with a “mental health bond.” If the new proposal is passed by the voters later this year, this bond would provide funding for housing and homelessness, infrastructure improvements and projects to improve open-air spaces and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one item that was absent from the bond for stakeholders and residents of Chinatown: Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the current city budget situation, we don’t know when the city will put another bond package together,” said Erika Gee with the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the city’s finances, it’s really important that this park is included in the bond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-1020x743.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown residents look over plans for the square renovations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chinatown’s 'Living Room'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portsmouth Square sits at the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, on the eastern edge of Chinatown. It's home to several \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/893/Portsmouth-Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notable moments in San Francisco history\u003c/a> — including the first raising of the American flag in the city in 1846. For decades, the park has served as an essential meeting place for the community and has been referred to as Chinatown’s “living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when plans began to coalesce around redesigning the park in 2017, the community had a lot to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were over five community design workshops, which is extraordinarily high in the park world,” said attorney Allan Low, who serves as vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission. “Over 100 people attended, which shows high community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After numerous neighborhood meetings, a design plan was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks, which then made it one of the department’s “core projects,” according to Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, so good, Low said: The community had decided on a design, the Parks Department approved it and things were moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the project hit a snag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43209_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-e1589588548641.jpg\" alt=\"Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Bridge Too Far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The preferred design from the community required the removal of a pedestrian walkway over part of Portsmouth Square. The bridge extends across Kearny Street, connecting the park with the Chinese Cultural Center and the towering Financial District Hilton hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1970s, the city Department of Public Works issued an encroachment permit to a company called Justice Investors, one of the companies that owns and manages the Hilton. This permit granted it “air rights” to the bridge, allowing the company to build and manage the walkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, dozens of District 3 residents signed a petition to revoke the permit and submitted it to Public Works — and then-Director Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alongside the beachgoers denied, the indignant gun shop owners and the house-bound pastors, Gov. Gavin Newsom now has yet another ticked-off challenger to face in court: an extremely disappointed bride-to-be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest filing to challenge the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Monica Six, an Orange County resident, is suing California’s Democratic governor for civil rights violations after his executive order “caused her significant financial hardship as well as ruined her idyllic wedding plans to get married in a special anniversary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In suing the state, Six is in crowded company. The state of California, and Newsom in particular, are facing down more than a dozen lawsuits over their response to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ca href=\"#tracker\">Find details on all of them in the tracker below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courtroom backlash is no surprise. The restrictions that the governor’s March 19 stay-at-home order have imposed on California civic and economic life are without precedent in state history. Many public health experts, both inside and outside the administration, say such drastic measures are necessary to tamp down the coronavirus pandemic and keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drastic measures they are. Beyond canceled weddings, it has spelled financial calamity for households, business owners, nonprofits and city governments across the state. They have also tested the limits of executive power and the negotiability of many constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the lawsuits against Newsom challenge the broad restrictions imposed by the shelter-in-place orders. Others contest the governor’s offer of state assistance to undocumented immigrants, his targeted closure of beaches in Orange County, the refusal to list gun shops as essential services and the arrest of two protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the state is taking flak from an array of aggrieved Californians — gondoliers, conservative politicians and a Butte County musician reduced to playing his saxophone over Zoom are among the plaintiffs — there is a common denominator for most of these lawsuits: Her name is Harmeet Dhillon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than a dozen shutdown lawsuits against Newsom thus far, the San Francisco attorney and Republican Party bigwig is representing plaintiffs in nine of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, Dhillon said, “went from ‘let’s flatten the curve for two weeks’ to ‘let’s put everyone under house arrest until we find a cure.’ ” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,500 Californians have died of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Dhillon said she does not make light of that tragedy, but does not believe it justifies shuttering society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not shut down our highways because people die in car accidents,” she said. “We do not ban commerce because people die of lung disease after buying cigarettes. There’s a whole range of health issues that we manage with an acceptable level of risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11817690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Damore, a former Google employee who wrote a controversial diversity memo, appears alongside attorney Harmeet Dhillon during a press conference on Jan. 8, 2018, in San Francisco, announcing a lawsuit against his former employer. \u003ccite>(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public health experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/this-coronavirus-is-unlike-anything-in-our-lifetime-and-we-have-to-stop-comparing-it-to-the-flu\">argue\u003c/a> that because the coronavirus is so contagious, unlike car accidents and lung cancer, “managing” the risk of an overwhelmed medical system requires tighter restrictions on social control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study published with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w26992?utm_campaign=Economic%20Studies&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87636981&utm_source=hs_email\">National Bureau of Economic Research\u003c/a> estimated that the state’s shelter-in-place order resulted in 1,661 fewer deaths, which, the authors reasoned, works out to “about 400 job losses per life saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon has long played the role of counter-puncher to the progressive ambitions of state Democrats, who now hold every state constitutional office and a big supermajority in the Legislature. When lawmakers passed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/11/california-trump-tax-return-law-struck-down/\">a bill requiring President Trump\u003c/a> to publish his taxes in order to appear on the ballot, it was Dhillon, the Republican Party’s national committeewoman from California, who filed suit on behalf of the California GOP. Last year, she \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/10/california-trump-taxes-illegal-votes-fraud-tax-return-conservatives-lawsuit/\">sued Secretary of State Alex Padilla\u003c/a> for, she argued, failing to do enough to exclude non-citizens from county voter rolls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Dhillon has cobbled together a small phalanx of California Republicans to help her wage war against the liberal powers that be. Mark Meuser, who ran for secretary of state in 2018 on an anti-voter-fraud plank, is on her team. In a handful of the pandemic-era cases she’s joined by Bill Essayli — a young former prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/2018/05/im-not-running-for-president-how-the-california-republican-party-tries-to-put-on-a-new-face-in-the-era-of-trump/\">who unsuccessfully ran for Assembly\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when she isn’t suing the state, Dhillon’s name has a way of popping up whenever a new culture war flashpoint breaks out in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall when software engineer James Damore sued Google after being fired for \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf\">circulating a memo\u003c/a> asserting that the underrepresentation of women in tech had a biological basis? Or the student groups who took \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/24/lawsuit-filed-against-uc-berkeley-for-canceling-ann-coulter-speech/\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> to court for canceling a planned talk by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter, citing security concerns? Or the Trump supporters in San Jose who got roughed up by counter protesters and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Trump-fans-assaulted-outside-San-Jose-rally-sue-8378730.php\">sued the police\u003c/a>? Or the Orange County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/11/abortion-law-california-settlement-nifla-becerra-daleiden-sekulow/\">anti-abortion activist\u003c/a> who sued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DaleidenCMPvGinde.pdf\">former Planned Parenthood doctor\u003c/a> for badmouthing him during a TEDx talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon is the plaintiffs’ lawyer in each of these cases. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon is in fact a regular on the conservative media circuit. She’s a contributor to Fox News and a frequent guest on that network’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and the “Ingraham Angle,” whose host, Laura Ingraham, Dhillon has cited as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/19/problematic-women-ladies-know-your-first-amendment-rights/\">long-time mentor\u003c/a>.” At the Conservative Political Action Conference last year, Dhillon earned what might be the most coveted of all endorsements on the American right: “She’s a great lawyer,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4783817/user-clip-donald-trump-hayden-williams-cpac-speech&fbclid=IwAR3JAUiQUeswjWY2e9tuV8-ruobH2fb6lz4BbBoqz274XayhQAwVgaelkzc\">President Trump said to Hayden Williams\u003c/a>, a conservative activist who was physically assaulted on UC Berkeley’s campus. “Sue the college, the university, and maybe sue the state.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t. “Not yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in India, Dhillon grew up in North Carolina before going to Dartmouth College where, like many members of the American right’s intelligentsia, she edited the Dartmouth Review. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going to the University of Virginia law school and working at various firms in New York and London, she opened her own office in San Francisco in 2006. Though her views have skewed right all her life, with a practice in the Bay Area, she has not always seamlessly fit in with the rest of her party. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the one, there’s the fact that she is a Sikh woman of color in a party dominated by white men. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the height of the War on Terror, she sat on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Northern California chapter, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/S-F-GOP-leader-slammed-by-Republicans-4254447.php\">chagrin of some GOP stalwarts\u003c/a>. When she ran for state Senate in San Francisco in 2012, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Republicans-seek-inroads-in-liberal-San-Francisco-3416932.php\">made an effort\u003c/a> to steer clear of incendiary social issues like abortion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t hear much aversion to controversy from her these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, more shutdown lawsuits against Newsom may soon be on the way. Dhillon said her office has been inundated with requests from potential clients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some quality control. We don’t just crank these out like sausages, even if it seems that way.” she said. “People are getting fed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Harmeet Dhillon, lawyer\"]‘We have some quality control. We don’t just crank these out like sausages, even if it seems that way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the cases brought by Dhillon are paid for by a nonprofit she founded, the Center for American Liberty. Dhillon said her law office is one of many hired by the center and that her office in turn works with other clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the center, which pays for her office’s legal services, comes from individual donors whose contributions to the nonprofit are tax exempt. Dhillon said that she is probably the top donor and that “more than 50 percent” of the center’s money comes from her seed funding and three other major donors, whom she would not name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filings with the IRS show that the center, under its prior name Publius Lex, received less than $50,000 in contributions in 2018 and was therefore not required to itemize its contributors. The filing for 2019 has not yet been made available. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic began, Dhillon said that the nonprofit has received tens of thousands of dollars in donations, but that the legal bill incurred by repeatedly suing the state “significantly exceeds” that figure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t been paid a penny for these cases yet,” she insisted. “I’m not sure I will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the lawsuits filed against California’s shelter-in-place order are funded in part by conservative-leaning nonprofits. One of the challenges to Gov. Newsom’s allocation of state funds to undocumented immigrants is supported by Judicial Watch, Inc., a longtime legal antagonist of Bill and Hillary Clinton, which recently sued the U.S. Department of Justice for information regarding ties between former Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other nonprofit backers of the cases filed against California include the National Center for Law & Policy, which made headlines in 2015 when it sued the Escondido public school district for treating its students as “religious ‘guinea pigs” by \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-yoga-legal-fight-20150612-story.html\">subjecting them to yoga classes\u003c/a>, and Freedom X, a Los Angeles-based organization that lists combating “intellectual McCarthyism” and “creeping Sharia” as its main campaigns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits against California’s shelter-in-place orders are only just beginning to wind their way through the legal system. As both the state and counties begin to relax their various shelter-in-place orders, the complaints may be irrelevant before they reach a judicial conclusion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none have had much luck so far. Of those that have requested the court to freeze the state orders while the case plays itself out, none have been granted and — so far — four have been explicitly denied. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t surprising, said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School\"]‘Simply put, these lawsuits are very likely to lose, as most of these challenges around the country have failed’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, these lawsuits are very likely to lose, as most of these challenges around the country have failed,” he said in an email. “The government has broad powers to take emergency actions to stop the spread of communicable diseases. This includes the power to order quarantine or shelter in place, to order closure of businesses, and to limit assemblies, including for religious purposes. So long as the government’s action is reasonably related to stopping the spread of COVID-19, the government is likely to prevail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said she is playing the long game. A few state judges have slapped down her petitions to put the statewide order on hold — she said their rationales were “fairly lacking in analysis.” But where she loses, she may appeal to a higher court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she looks to court rulings in \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5823881/kansas-religious-gathering-people-limits/\">Kansas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-stay-at-home-order-pritzker-extension-judge-blocks/\">Illinois\u003c/a>, where judges have pushed back against public health decrees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I hope to find a judge in California who has a similarly broad view of the Constitution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tracker\">\u003c/a>This lawsuit tracker is reported by Ben Christopher and created by web developer John Osborn D’Agostino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://calmatters-covid-19-lawsuit-tracker.netlify.app/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When lawmakers passed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/11/california-trump-tax-return-law-struck-down/\">a bill requiring President Trump\u003c/a> to publish his taxes in order to appear on the ballot, it was Dhillon, the Republican Party’s national committeewoman from California, who filed suit on behalf of the California GOP. Last year, she \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/10/california-trump-taxes-illegal-votes-fraud-tax-return-conservatives-lawsuit/\">sued Secretary of State Alex Padilla\u003c/a> for, she argued, failing to do enough to exclude non-citizens from county voter rolls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Dhillon has cobbled together a small phalanx of California Republicans to help her wage war against the liberal powers that be. Mark Meuser, who ran for secretary of state in 2018 on an anti-voter-fraud plank, is on her team. 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The San Francisco company is now scrambling to get out of bankruptcy before July so it can qualify for coverage from a wildfire insurance fund that California created last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although PG&E will no longer have to pay any money into California's general fund, it's still being punished by regulators in the form of nearly $1.9 billion that it won't be able to collect through higher electricity rates and other fees passed on to the roughly 16 million people who rely on PG&E – the nation's largest utility – for power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators also are restricting some of the $425 million in tax savings the utility may realize from the $1.9 billion penalty, requiring it to be passed along to customers instead of funneled to its shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']Clifford Rechtschaffen, the commissioner who recommended suspending the $200 million fine, acknowledged that waiving the penalty was \"deeply dissatisfying.\" But he said it was justified because of the extraordinary circumstances caused by the COVID-19 outbreak rattling the stock market. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turbulence could make it more difficult for PG&E to raise money it needs to pay $25.5 billion in bankruptcy settlements, including a $13.5 billion fund set up for wildfire victims. 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PG&E is paying a $4 million fine in Butte County for those crimes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing PG&E's admission of guilt for the Butte County fire, Rechtschaffen called PG&E's appeal of the $200 million fine \"deeply disappointing\" and \"disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E had no comment on Rechtschaffen's rebuke but said it remains \"deeply sorry\" for causing the wildfires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We share the same objectives as the commission and other state leaders — namely in reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities, even in a rapidly changing environment,\" the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The CPUC basically let P&GE off the hook for the most severe violations imaginable, violations leading to the avoidable deaths of 126 people,\" wrote Mark Toney, executive director of the Utility Reform Network. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the Commission to cave in to PG&E's demands for a free pass not only sends the wrong message to the company, it sends the wrong message to the public the CPUC is supposed to protect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite avoiding the $200 million payment to the state of California, PG&E has continued to run up legal bills and other bankruptcy costs that are expected to exceed $1.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get out of bankruptcy, PG&E needs the approval of a federal judge and state regulators. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the statewide shelter-in-place order shuttered many restaurants in the Bay Area, Annabelle Lenderink panicked. She manages Star Route Farms, which grows a variety of vegetables in West Marin and the Coachella Valley. Nearly all of the restaurant sales the 40-acre farm depends on evaporated overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just really gone, you know, nothing,” Lenderink said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, local restaurants buy 80% of the lettuce, vegetables and herbs that Star Route grows. The rest goes to farmers’ markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farms like Star Route, which depend heavily on sales to restaurants, have been forced to find new sales outlets overnight. Some are leaving crops on the vine to rot rather than spend time and money harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them lost up to 100% of their sales outlets almost overnight,” said Evan Wiig, director of membership and communications at the Community Alliance with Family Farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic upended farmers’ expected sales at outlets up and down the state. The fact that farmers deal with perishable products compounds the problem, Wiig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Nick-building-boxes-e1588799674722-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Star Route Farms employees packs produce into boxes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Annabelle Lenderink/Star Route Farms)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just put a cork in it and hope for a better time,” Wiig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Iacopi, owner of Iacopi Farms outside Pescadero, grew up farming and never looked back. He grows peas and beans, both dry and fresh, on 200 acres. He dry farms half of that, meaning there is no irrigation. Sales to San Francisco restaurants like Delfina and Lazy Bear accounted for about 50% of his business before the COVID-19 crisis forced those businesses to dramatically reduce their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time of year, Iacopi expects to sell 300 boxes of English peas, favas and sugar snaps to restaurants each week. This year, he’s selling about 40 boxes a week. Farmers markets have held steady, but he depends on restaurants to move his product in big volumes. “When you have a bumper crop and no place to distribute them, it’s kind of a slap in the face,” Iacopi said. For now, he is only harvesting what he thinks he can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest is just rotting on the plants,” Iacopi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, Will Brokaw grows avocados, kiwis, guavas and a variety of citrus on two ranches, one Santa Paula and one in Soledad. His restaurant business dropped by 90%, and while farmers market sales have picked up, he estimates the farm has lost about 50% of its revenue since mid-March. Now, he is deciding whether to harvest lemons and mandarins or leave them on the tree to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To deal with the reduction in restaurant sales, Star Route Farms made a swift transition to assembling produce boxes and distributing them to between 16 and 18 sites per week. A16, a restaurant with locations in San Francisco and Oakland, is among the usual restaurant clients now selling Star Route Farms produce boxes to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support from the University of San Francisco, which owns the farm, eased the transition. The university distributes produce boxes on its campus and built \u003ca href=\"https://www.starroutefarmsllc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a website \u003c/a>so Star Route could process online orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the restaurants that normally buy produce for their kitchens started selling the boxes, too, and Lenderink told her customers at farmers markets about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is old hat for farms who have been doing this for a long time,” Lenderink said. She restructured the focus of the farm around packing and distributing produce boxes rather than preparing and planting the fields for the summer season. While it has been a lot of work to pivot to an entirely new business model in a matter of weeks, Lenderink doesn’t see another option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the alternative?” Lenderink said, “No business at all?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"resource\" label=\"coronavirus resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers without institutional support, however, have had a harder time. Mike Iacopi didn’t have the capacity to start packing hundreds of produce boxes a week, or an effective means to develop a customer base overnight. Iacopi doesn’t think the trade off is worth it, something Evan Wiig of the Community Alliance With Family Farmers says many farmers are feeling, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re still going to end up doing 10 times as much work for half the revenue,” Wiig said. “So that’s a huge burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic hit just as farms had to make decisions about how much to plant. 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The organization is also seeking delays or changes in 11 separate state requirements for testing wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is at stake is much greater than the viability of local production, tens of thousands of well-paid employees, hundreds of service and supply companies, lost state and local tax revenues, but also a destabilizing of California's energy supply,\" CIPA CEO Rock Zierman wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6879741/CalGEM-2020-Relief-Letter-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an April 3 letter\u003c/a> to state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of environmental groups that got wind of the association's requests are calling on California officials to proceed with plans to strengthen the California Geologic Energy Management Division, the agency that oversees oil and gas drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We urge CalGEM to reject CIPA's attempt to exploit the ongoing pandemic to loosen regulations intended to keep the public safe, protect the environment and hold oil companies financially and legally responsible for damage caused by their operations,\" more than a dozen environmentalists wrote in a letter to State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, as part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795344/newsom-zeroes-in-on-education-gaps-homelessness-and-wildfires-in-state-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial 2020-21 state budget\u003c/a>, has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/2021/FY2021_ORG3480_BCP3875.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adding 128 analysts, engineers and geologists to CalGEM\u003c/a> over the next three years. Oil producers would have to pay $24 million to fund the expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's annual revision of his initial spending plan, due on or before May 14, is expected to change significantly because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 outbreak and its resulting shelter-at-home orders have shuttered thousands of businesses and led more than 3 million Californians to file for unemployment benefits. The abrupt economic crash has slashed tax revenue for state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's proposal to increase CalGEM staffing comes at a terrible time for a key part of California's energy sector, according to state Senate Minority Leader Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, the price of oil is at its lowest in history, and the industry is struggling to continue operating,\" said Grove, who represents Kern County, the epicenter of California's oil-drilling sector, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says adding millions of dollars in fees would destroy the state's oil producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jobs will be lost, the livelihoods of families will be affected, and one day, all Californians will wake up and realize the importance of this industry to our everyday lives,\" Grove said. \"This latest proposal is absurd.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter orders have led to big drops in demand for gasoline and jet fuel, forcing refineries throughout the state to cut production and sending the price of a gallon in California to its lowest average in more than three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend has improved air quality but hurt the state's oil industry and workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon Petroleum has idled its Martinez refinery. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810439/coronavirus-prompts-martinez-refinery-to-cut-back-sell-hydrogen-plants%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PBF Energy\u003c/a> is selling hydrogen plants at its facility in the same city for hundreds of millions of dollars. 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It's also asking state regulators to delay some requirements on testing idle wells as well as new rules for existing steam injection wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade group's letters have prompted intense pushback from environmentalists who for years have called for stronger regulatory enforcement from the agency formerly known as the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, or DOGGR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The simple truth is that CalGEM is currently dangerously understaffed,\" a coalition of 60 climate, health and environmental justice groups called the Last Chance Alliance wrote \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6879754/20-04-14-Group-Letter-Opposing-Removal-of.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in their own letter\u003c/a> to Newsom earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alliance says CalGEM needs the added staff to conduct basic industry oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The coronavirus outbreak and economic disruption is all the more reason to add these positions,\" the group's letter states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration said in its January budget proposal that at current staffing levels, CalGEM is unable to perform required inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"CalGEM seeks to maintain and expand an active field presence and oversee safer and more effective regulation of the state's oil and gas operations, yet is inadequately staffed to witness 100% of the operations requiring technical oversight,\" the governor's proposal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal says the extra staff would improve the department's ability to monitor uncontrolled petroleum releases, known as surface expressions, like ones in Kern County's Cymric Oil Field that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777971/top-state-lawmakers-question-chevron-oil-spill-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a multimillion dollar fine against Chevron\u003c/a> last year and a state legislative \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797767/with-some-oil-drilling-on-hold-lawmaker-wants-state-to-do-more-to-prevent-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing\u003c/a> several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute over CalGEM staffing levels comes weeks after the agency resumed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810791/after-9-month-pause-california-issuing-fracking-permits-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granting permits for hydraulic fracturing\u003c/a> following a nine-month pause. 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