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"content": "\u003cp>There are so many questions about California’s November ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana that it’s easy to overlook the most basic question of all: What would the initiative actually do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we’re here to help. So get out your sample or mail-in ballots and follow along as we go through that little \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> summary together. It’s right next to where you vote “yes” or “no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like in the voter guide, we'll throw in a few “pro” and “con” arguments, too. OK, let's get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 legalizes marijuana under state law, for use by adults 21 or older\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting immediately, it would no longer be a crime in California to buy, possess or transport limited amounts of marijuana for personal use. You could cultivate up to six plants in the privacy of your own home -- either indoors or outdoors, as long as it's not visible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can’t sell it, but they can grow it for their own personal use,\" explains Richard Miadich, the lawyer who wrote the initiative and works for the Yes on 64 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says you can smoke or consume marijuana products -- including edibles -- only at a private home, or at a business that gets a license to allow on-site consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot use marijuana, ingest marijuana in any way, in public,\" he says. \"You can’t use it or ingest it anywhere where smoking is prohibited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 imposes state taxes on sales and cultivation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of taxes, in fact. There would be a state excise tax on cultivation of $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaves; and a state excise tax on sales: 15 percent of the retail price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's on top of the regular sales tax that we pay on everything from cars to couches, though medical marijuana patients would be exempt from sales tax. And local governments can throw their own excise tax on top, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[PotTaxation]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers wouldn’t pay the cultivation tax directly. But if you live in a city with a particularly high sales tax rate that chooses to also add a local excise tax, your total taxes might reach 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, is ridiculously high,” says Jamie Kerr, the founder of a storefront medical marijuana dispensary in the city of Shasta Lake and an opponent of Proposition 64. She wants to see California legalize marijuana but says this is the wrong way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That (combined tax rate) exceeds the threshold at which we start to promote the illicit market,” Kerr says, “and that’s a concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to strike the right balance,” counters initiative author Richard Miadich, “of not having a tax that's so high that you perpetuate the illegal market -- which is what of course we want to eliminate by enacting this initiative -- but not have a tax rate that's so low that it encourages overuse by adults, for example.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says the tax rates set by Proposition 64 are just starting points. The Legislature can adjust any rates it decides need to be tweaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 provides for industry licensing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized medical marijuana in 1996, it wasn’t until last year that the governor and Legislature finally created a regulatory framework. The regulations themselves are still being written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state will be in charge of licensing cultivators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of nonmedical marijuana,” Miadich says, “just like it is for medical marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[MedPotReg]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 generally piggybacks on the system created by California’s medical marijuana laws – but not entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr, the dispensary founder, says the initiative eliminates existing protections that prevent large companies from controlling too many links in the supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those protections exist, she says, to allow the current medical marijuana industry “fair and equitable market access, without having to immediately right out of the gate compete with some well-capitalized corporate interests that are wanting to get into this space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says state regulators would have the ability to deny license requests if they would lead to anti-competitive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 establishes standards for marijuana products\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative sets at least one very specific standard: \"For example, there's a limit on the level of THC that can be in a serving size of edible marijuana products,” says Drew Soderborg with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11138463\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at a dispensary in San Francisco holds a cannabis-infused macaroon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at a dispensary in San Francisco holds a cannabis-infused macaroon. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it leaves some other limits up to state regulators. Such as, how big is a serving size? What are the testing requirements? And, the hot-button question of what exactly constitutes drugged driving?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says there's not enough research to set a legal standard for marijuana intoxication, so Proposition 64 gives the state money to do its own research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are using marijuana today and they are driving today,” he says. “So this initiative accepts that that problem exists today and offers solutions for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr calls that irresponsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To roll out the adult use market -- which literally banks on increased usage to generate the revenue that is expected and that is projected -- I think that it’s putting the cart in front of the horse,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 allows local regulation and taxation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 64 passes, local governments would have some powers -- but not others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot ban indoor cultivation for personal use,” says Tim Cromartie with the League of California Cities, “although you can regulate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QHDI4Ys2yphlIGIvowhGGnEEvjoAcmou\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Cromartie says, cities and counties could require residents to obtain permits, pay fees, and let their homes be inspected to prevent fire risk, excess water use or mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And local governments can choose to ban recreational marijuana businesses entirely -- just like they can choose to ban medical marijuana businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you decide to allow them,” Cromartie says, “you can decide under what circumstances -- what’s the local licensing fee gonna be, what kind of inspections or audits are they gonna have to comply with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a local government chooses not to set regulations, the state can unilaterally issue a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal impact: additional tax revenues ranging from high hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually, mostly dedicated to specific purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember all those taxes we talked about earlier? That money would be split several ways, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>reimbursing state agencies for their regulatory costs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>drugged driving research\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>after-school programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>environmental restoration\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s more, but it’s a long list. The official Voter Information Guide analysis, written by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/analysis.htm\">has the details\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal Impact: Reduced criminal justice costs of tens of millions of dollars annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gets to the other major result of legalizing recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 would reduce penalties for many marijuana-related crimes. And it would allow people with crimes on their records to ask a court to reduce their sentences or expunge their records -- with one caveat:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court would have to decide whether or not the individual represents a public safety threat,” says the LAO’s Drew Soderborg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oh, one last thing:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 64 passes, the state and local governments would need to set their standards and regulations by Jan. 1, 2018 -- because that's when they'll need to start issuing licenses. The rest of the initiative would take effect the day after the election -- as long as it's not too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can’t sell it, but they can grow it for their own personal use,\" explains Richard Miadich, the lawyer who wrote the initiative and works for the Yes on 64 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says you can smoke or consume marijuana products -- including edibles -- only at a private home, or at a business that gets a license to allow on-site consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot use marijuana, ingest marijuana in any way, in public,\" he says. \"You can’t use it or ingest it anywhere where smoking is prohibited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 imposes state taxes on sales and cultivation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of taxes, in fact. There would be a state excise tax on cultivation of $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaves; and a state excise tax on sales: 15 percent of the retail price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's on top of the regular sales tax that we pay on everything from cars to couches, though medical marijuana patients would be exempt from sales tax. And local governments can throw their own excise tax on top, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[PotTaxation]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers wouldn’t pay the cultivation tax directly. But if you live in a city with a particularly high sales tax rate that chooses to also add a local excise tax, your total taxes might reach 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, is ridiculously high,” says Jamie Kerr, the founder of a storefront medical marijuana dispensary in the city of Shasta Lake and an opponent of Proposition 64. She wants to see California legalize marijuana but says this is the wrong way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That (combined tax rate) exceeds the threshold at which we start to promote the illicit market,” Kerr says, “and that’s a concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to strike the right balance,” counters initiative author Richard Miadich, “of not having a tax that's so high that you perpetuate the illegal market -- which is what of course we want to eliminate by enacting this initiative -- but not have a tax rate that's so low that it encourages overuse by adults, for example.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says the tax rates set by Proposition 64 are just starting points. The Legislature can adjust any rates it decides need to be tweaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 provides for industry licensing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized medical marijuana in 1996, it wasn’t until last year that the governor and Legislature finally created a regulatory framework. The regulations themselves are still being written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state will be in charge of licensing cultivators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of nonmedical marijuana,” Miadich says, “just like it is for medical marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[MedPotReg]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 generally piggybacks on the system created by California’s medical marijuana laws – but not entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr, the dispensary founder, says the initiative eliminates existing protections that prevent large companies from controlling too many links in the supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those protections exist, she says, to allow the current medical marijuana industry “fair and equitable market access, without having to immediately right out of the gate compete with some well-capitalized corporate interests that are wanting to get into this space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says state regulators would have the ability to deny license requests if they would lead to anti-competitive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 establishes standards for marijuana products\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative sets at least one very specific standard: \"For example, there's a limit on the level of THC that can be in a serving size of edible marijuana products,” says Drew Soderborg with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11138463\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at a dispensary in San Francisco holds a cannabis-infused macaroon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at a dispensary in San Francisco holds a cannabis-infused macaroon. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it leaves some other limits up to state regulators. Such as, how big is a serving size? What are the testing requirements? And, the hot-button question of what exactly constitutes drugged driving?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says there's not enough research to set a legal standard for marijuana intoxication, so Proposition 64 gives the state money to do its own research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are using marijuana today and they are driving today,” he says. “So this initiative accepts that that problem exists today and offers solutions for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr calls that irresponsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To roll out the adult use market -- which literally banks on increased usage to generate the revenue that is expected and that is projected -- I think that it’s putting the cart in front of the horse,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 allows local regulation and taxation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 64 passes, local governments would have some powers -- but not others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot ban indoor cultivation for personal use,” says Tim Cromartie with the League of California Cities, “although you can regulate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Cromartie says, cities and counties could require residents to obtain permits, pay fees, and let their homes be inspected to prevent fire risk, excess water use or mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And local governments can choose to ban recreational marijuana businesses entirely -- just like they can choose to ban medical marijuana businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you decide to allow them,” Cromartie says, “you can decide under what circumstances -- what’s the local licensing fee gonna be, what kind of inspections or audits are they gonna have to comply with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a local government chooses not to set regulations, the state can unilaterally issue a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal impact: additional tax revenues ranging from high hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually, mostly dedicated to specific purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember all those taxes we talked about earlier? 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The commander of OPD's criminal investigations division participated in the arrest, according to Watson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Louis Walterhouse was an OPD trainee for part of 2014, according to state salary data from \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Transparent California\u003c/a>. The database indicates he became a sworn Oakland police officer in 2014 and continued in the position through 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[T]he arrest of the officer last evening is not connected to the sexual misconduct case involving Oakland police officers and Celeste Guap,\" Watson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"bvVUbpAWD60HG3nMRf5szevTRVa8ysXM\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three current and former Oakland officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\">have been criminally charged\u003c/a> in \u003cem>that\u003c/em> case -- involving now 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, who is also known as Celeste Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Brian Bunton faces a felony conspiracy to obstruct justice charge for allegedly tipping off Abuslin to a prostitution sting in exchange for sex. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289146776\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part I: Huron\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Loud music and the smell of roasted corn on the cob fill the air at the Friday night street festival in the small Fresno County town of Huron. Kids play on a bounce house slide, while adults sell everything from used bikes and shoes to melons and tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jazmin Vargas, 22, is selling an idea: that Huron residents should bank on a newly regulated industry in California -- medical marijuana. She asks a young man to sign a petition in support of a city ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're in need of people’s support for this to happen, for the council members to let it pass,” she says. “So if you’d like to support us, feel more than welcome to give your signature.” The young man agrees to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\">state regulations\u003c/a>, medical marijuana dispensaries must have a local permit from the city or county in which they wish to operate before applying for a state license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This permitting process is something cities in the Central Valley are grappling with in advance of November’s election, when voters will decide whether to pass \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> to legalize recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas grew up in this farming town an hour southwest of Fresno. She started picking watermelons at 15. In fact, most people in this town of 7,000 work in the fields or at a local tomato cannery. But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. So do Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a medical marijuana company, Purple Hearts Holistic Alternative Therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vargas met Chavez and Valencia, she was thrilled they wanted to start a business in Huron. She became their volunteer champion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s helped us get embedded in the community,” says Chavez. “She’s been the angel on our shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says they focused on Huron because it needs new businesses that offer more than seasonal work. “You have a population that is hoping for something to hang onto. And it’s tough when you don’t see anything beyond the mountains around you. It’s hard to get over that, to realize there’s a world out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also wanted to build on the momentum of Huron’s sister city, Coalinga, Chavez says. In July, Coalinga sold its unused prison for about $4 million to a company that makes cannabis extracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11137022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11137022\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-960x707.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez, who has a master’s degree in public administration, and Valencia, a driver for a medical marijuana collective, have also done their part to attract community support. Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. I don’t need that!\" says Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state. \u003ccite>(Christian Parley/Courtesy Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, that doesn't mean outsiders aren't eyeing the cheap real estate and ready labor force. “There are no other opportunities that exist around the state like they exist here,” says dispensary owner Keith Stephenson of Purple Heart Patient Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he found a vacant 1-million-square-foot facility in Hanford, he jumped on it. “I’m a small business,” Stephenson says, “so in the grand scheme of things I’m attempting to scale my business and survive in the emerging paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson’s plan is to use 200,000 square feet to grow marijuana inside the former tire plant. He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. But council members, local law enforcement officials and residents raised a flurry of concerns about crime, addiction and resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Hanford Mayor Justin Mendes says, despite opposition from some vocal residents, the idea is getting some traction. “A lot of people here are in the farming world,” he says, “and they say if you’re gonna grow it and ship it to folks in San Francisco -- they eat our grapes, they eat our almonds, let them use our marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. So do Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a medical marijuana company, Purple Hearts Holistic Alternative Therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vargas met Chavez and Valencia, she was thrilled they wanted to start a business in Huron. She became their volunteer champion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s helped us get embedded in the community,” says Chavez. “She’s been the angel on our shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says they focused on Huron because it needs new businesses that offer more than seasonal work. “You have a population that is hoping for something to hang onto. And it’s tough when you don’t see anything beyond the mountains around you. It’s hard to get over that, to realize there’s a world out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also wanted to build on the momentum of Huron’s sister city, Coalinga, Chavez says. 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Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. I don’t need that!\" says Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state. \u003ccite>(Christian Parley/Courtesy Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, that doesn't mean outsiders aren't eyeing the cheap real estate and ready labor force. “There are no other opportunities that exist around the state like they exist here,” says dispensary owner Keith Stephenson of Purple Heart Patient Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he found a vacant 1-million-square-foot facility in Hanford, he jumped on it. “I’m a small business,” Stephenson says, “so in the grand scheme of things I’m attempting to scale my business and survive in the emerging paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson’s plan is to use 200,000 square feet to grow marijuana inside the former tire plant. He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. But council members, local law enforcement officials and residents raised a flurry of concerns about crime, addiction and resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Hanford Mayor Justin Mendes says, despite opposition from some vocal residents, the idea is getting some traction. “A lot of people here are in the farming world,” he says, “and they say if you’re gonna grow it and ship it to folks in San Francisco -- they eat our grapes, they eat our almonds, let them use our marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:40 p.m., Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia's attorney general is conducting a criminal investigation into whether employees at San Francisco-based Wells Fargo bank falsely identified themselves and stole identities in the sales practices scandal that rocked the bank and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/wells-fargo-ceo-john-stumpf-resigns-amid-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">cost its CEO his job\u003c/a>, documents released Wednesday show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A search warrant and supporting affidavit released by the state Department of Justice show that agents sought evidence related to allegations that bank employees created up to 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customers' approval in order to meet sales goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warrant, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, was served Oct. 5 as Attorney General Kamala Harris runs for the U.S. Senate in next month's election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copies obtained by The Associated Press under a public records request show her office sought the names of customers who had accounts opened without their permission, the names of employees who opened the accounts and their managers, and fees associated with the improperly opened accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't comment on an ongoing investigation,\" Kristin Ford, a spokeswoman for the attorney general, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo spokesman Mark Folk said in an email that the bank is cooperating in providing the requested information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k08RLDzv3nlMOpXBNLt8FXLBOQ3e0mjt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department Special Agent Supervisor James Hirt said in a 14-page affidavit seeking the search warrant that \"there is probable cause to believe that employees of Wells Fargo Bank unlawfully accessed the bank's computer system to obtain the PII (personal identifying information) of customers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bank's employees then used the unlawfully obtained customers' PII to commit false impersonation and identity theft by opening unauthorized accounts, credit cards and various other products that resulted in the accumulation of fees and charges for Wells Fargo,\" Hirt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Los Angeles customer was surprised to learn last year that a Wells Fargo employee had opened a $10,000 line of credit linked to his accounts without his authorization, according to the affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another was shocked when she and her husband began receiving notices from the bank on payments they allegedly owed on three life insurance policies they had never purchased. Bank employees repeatedly opened and closed her bank accounts, causing her to bounce checks and pay bank fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>San Francisco is set to become the latest city to consider cutting ties with Wells Fargo in the wake of a growing scandal involving the creation of around 2 million phony bank accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Jane Kim and John Avalos introduced legislation Tuesday calling for the city to end its business with Wells Fargo and urging the city attorney and district attorney to investigate the bank's practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the legislation calls for the city to consider a \"responsible banking ordinance\" and revoke the naming of Wells Fargo Plaza at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim called the bank's sales practices \"outrageous and illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Tke3NnFpeY4PMhMSz6O8KvVBksulq2IN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of standing up for working people who should be valued as the backbone of its business, Wells Fargo decided to defraud its customers,\" Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Big corporations want our business,\" she said. \"It is up to us to use our leverage and power to ensure they are held accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo, which is headquartered in San Francisco, has come under fire in the wake of revelations that sales staff created around 2 million fake accounts in an effort to meet high-pressure sales quotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities and states, including Ohio, Chicago, California and Oregon, have also suspended ties with Wells Fargo due to the scandal, which has led to the firing of 5,300 employees and the resignation of CEO John Stumpf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Treasurer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/sf-kicks-out-wells-fargo-from-banking-program/\">Jose Cisneros announced last month \u003c/a> Wells Fargo would be dropped from the city's \"Bank On\" program, which helps connect low-income residents to low-fee accounts at banks and credit unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will also provide free credit counseling resources for Wells Fargo customers in San Francisco who believe they may have been affected by Wells Fargo's actions, Cisneros said. City residents can call BALANCE credit counseling at (800) 706-6006 for more information.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He said other states will follow suit if California passes Proposition 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are having a very important debate in this country about background checks on guns, but a gun has never killed anybody, unless it's used as a blunt instrument,\" Newsom said. \"A gun needs a component -- and that's the ammunition -- to be deadly. And the reality is today anyone can buy ammunition anywhere. There’s no licensing requirements to buy ammunition. ... Any local grocery store, liquor store, can legally sell unlimited rounds of ammunition. You can get truckloads of ammunition sent to your doorstep online. There's no background checks for the people selling them and there’s no background checks for the people purchasing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871371\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have no problem with people purchasing guns. I have no problem with people purchasing ammunition. I just want the right people purchasing guns and the right people purchasing ammunition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun enthusiasts see Proposition 63 as an attack on their Second Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig DeLuz, spokesman for the Stop 63 campaign and a lobbyist for the Firearms Policy Coalition in Sacramento, said that, for the most part, Proposition 63 will do nothing to crack down on criminals who use guns and instead will punish people who follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the provisions of this bill do not affect anyone who has been convicted of a crime. It does not affect terrorists; it does not affect potential mass shooters; it does not affect criminals. It only affects law-abiding citizens,\" said DeLuz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contends that California has plenty of gun control laws on the books already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"We are getting to the point where we are just piling on, and when you make complying with the law so onerous, then one of two things happen,\" he said. \"One, I decide it's too onerous and expensive for me to comply with the law or I get to a point where I am just going to ignore the law ... and I decide that the defense of myself and my family is more important than following laws that go against the Constitution.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Man's Reasons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Weiss has a different take. His daughter, Veronika Weiss, was a 19-year-old UC Santa Barbara freshman when she -- along with five other UCSB students -- was killed by a mentally disturbed man in 2014. The killer went on a rampage through Isla Vista, the town adjacent to UCSB where most students live, with three guns that he had legally purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11135599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11135599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png\" alt=\"Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \" width=\"800\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-400x377.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1920x1810.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1180x1112.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-960x905.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weiss has been an outspoken advocate for stricter gun control laws ever since -- an issue he felt strongly about even before his daughter was killed. Weiss said he knows that most people who die by gunshot won't be part of a mass killing or even the victim of a mentally ill shooter, like his daughter, but he wants to support laws that will reduce gun deaths overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously, with 33,000 Americans getting shot to death every year, something is terribly wrong with our system. It doesn't happen at this rate in Canada or Australia or Switzerland. Any other developed nation doesn't have the rate of gun violence that we have in America,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Gun Owners Who 'Don't Own Guns'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said Proposition 63's ammunition regulation provision isn't aimed at mass shooters, but at making it harder for a much larger group of criminals to get bullets: Those that acquire guns illegally but can purchase ammunition anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important folks we are trying to bring in under the ammunition background check are people that quote-unquote don’t own a gun, but are legally buying ammunition at Wal-Mart, Big 5 and online. These are the people who are involved in the overwhelming majority of homicides in inner cities all across this country but here in California,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun control laws such as background checks work, said Julie Leftwich, legal director at the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The nonprofit partnered with Newsom to write Proposition 63. It also helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/landmark-california-gun-seizure-law-takes-effect\">push a law, supported by Weiss\u003c/a>, that instated a gun violence restraining order in California allowing police and family members to petition a court to take away someone's firearms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have passed, as a state, over 50 strong gun safety laws (over the past 20 years) and our gun deaths have dropped by 56 percent, which is twice as much as other states,\" Leftwich said. \"We have done a lot and it is making a difference. ... If you look nationally, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradycampaign.org/our-impact/campaigns/background-checks\">Brady background checks\u003c/a> have stopped more than 2.5 million criminals and other prohibited people from buying guns.\"[contextly_sidebar id=\"C8JL8KPxVlzubrlSZ7oDaEeJKV9MxSRC\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said Proposition 63 is mostly common sense: He called ammunition background checks \"smart\" and said they won't hamper recreational gun users. And he called the provision requiring newly convicted felons to get rid of their guns \"kind of a no-brainer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Infringement on Your Rights?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DeLuz has a problem with each and every one of the ballot measure's provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuz said with California's strong laws around buying guns, there's no need for the ammunition background checks -- and he warned it could lead to racial profiling of certain gun users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said requiring gun owners to report when a firearm is lost or stolen will \"make a victim of them once again,\" and could result in a previously law-abiding person being labeled a criminal. Proposition 63 makes it an infraction, or a simple ticket, to fail to report a lost or stolen gun, with increasing penalties if a person repeatedly fails to report missing firearms. Supporters of the measure say it will help police crack down on gun traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while it's been illegal in California to buy or sell magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets since 1994, DeLuz said the provision of Proposition 63 requiring people who have older magazines to get rid of them amounts to confiscation of private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said the provision requiring felons to prove to a court that they have given up a gun before sentencing will burden probation departments that are already stretched thin. He noted that s\u003ca href=\"http://stoptheammograb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/List-of-Opponents-PAC-10.13.16.pdf\">ome law enforcement groups oppose Proposition 63\u003c/a>, though their opposition mostly centers around the fact that the ballot measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article103588977.html\">doesn't exempt law enforcement officers from its requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Buying in Bulk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said it would drive up the price of bullets for law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\u003ccite>James Cloud\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times when people purchase ammunition they purchase it in bulk because it's cheaper -- like toilet paper,\" DeLuz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime recreational shooter James Cloud, who was practicing at Jackson Arms shooting range in South San Francisco recently, agreed. He said it's easy to go through thousands of rounds of bullets in a single afternoon and that buying them online is the cheapest option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun stores and ranges \"are going to charge way more, double or triple,\" he said. Cloud said it's already confusing trying to navigate the patchwork of state and local laws in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nuts,\" he said. \"It's out of control, because you know what it is? I think the laws are definitely not targeting criminals now, not at all. They get their guns out of state or they are going to go to Mexico. These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeLuz also accused Newsom of using the ballot measure to help raise money and his political profile in advance of the 2018 governor's race. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's taking an issue that specifically affects constitutional rights, that has to do with protecting people's safety, and he's using it as a political tool,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Parent's Worst Fear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the issues Proposition 63 tackles were already broached by several laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this summer. But Newsom said Proposition 63 is still crucial to ensure Californians' safety because it is stronger than the laws passed in Sacramento and, if passed by voters, cannot be undone by lawmakers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he's tackling this issue because he cares deeply about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been to more homicides than most people because I was mayor of a city. I have seen firsthand the devastation of gun violence. I've got four kids. Last year, more preschoolers were gunned down than police officers in the line of duty,\" he said. \"When I drop my kids off at school I have parents, literally, on my mother's grave, that have asked me about gun violence because they are scared to death about dropping their kids off at school. I can't stand these aspects of guns and gun violence, and I can't stand this gun lobby.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Depending on whom you ask, it's a question of either common sense or constitutional rights: Should ammunition be treated like guns are, with background checks for buyers and limits on who can sell?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of several questions facing voters within Proposition 63, a gun control measure sponsored by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. The initiative would also require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement; set up a process for convicted felons to give up their guns; and fully ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288988967&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288988967'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the ballot measure would require state officials to continue to share the names of people prohibited from having guns with the FBI and require that gun stores conduct background checks of their employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom sees ammunition regulation as perhaps the measure's most consequential provision. He said other states will follow suit if California passes Proposition 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are having a very important debate in this country about background checks on guns, but a gun has never killed anybody, unless it's used as a blunt instrument,\" Newsom said. \"A gun needs a component -- and that's the ammunition -- to be deadly. And the reality is today anyone can buy ammunition anywhere. There’s no licensing requirements to buy ammunition. ... Any local grocery store, liquor store, can legally sell unlimited rounds of ammunition. You can get truckloads of ammunition sent to your doorstep online. There's no background checks for the people selling them and there’s no background checks for the people purchasing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871371\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have no problem with people purchasing guns. I have no problem with people purchasing ammunition. I just want the right people purchasing guns and the right people purchasing ammunition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun enthusiasts see Proposition 63 as an attack on their Second Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig DeLuz, spokesman for the Stop 63 campaign and a lobbyist for the Firearms Policy Coalition in Sacramento, said that, for the most part, Proposition 63 will do nothing to crack down on criminals who use guns and instead will punish people who follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the provisions of this bill do not affect anyone who has been convicted of a crime. It does not affect terrorists; it does not affect potential mass shooters; it does not affect criminals. It only affects law-abiding citizens,\" said DeLuz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contends that California has plenty of gun control laws on the books already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"We are getting to the point where we are just piling on, and when you make complying with the law so onerous, then one of two things happen,\" he said. \"One, I decide it's too onerous and expensive for me to comply with the law or I get to a point where I am just going to ignore the law ... and I decide that the defense of myself and my family is more important than following laws that go against the Constitution.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Man's Reasons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Weiss has a different take. His daughter, Veronika Weiss, was a 19-year-old UC Santa Barbara freshman when she -- along with five other UCSB students -- was killed by a mentally disturbed man in 2014. The killer went on a rampage through Isla Vista, the town adjacent to UCSB where most students live, with three guns that he had legally purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11135599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11135599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png\" alt=\"Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \" width=\"800\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-400x377.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1920x1810.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1180x1112.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-960x905.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weiss has been an outspoken advocate for stricter gun control laws ever since -- an issue he felt strongly about even before his daughter was killed. Weiss said he knows that most people who die by gunshot won't be part of a mass killing or even the victim of a mentally ill shooter, like his daughter, but he wants to support laws that will reduce gun deaths overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously, with 33,000 Americans getting shot to death every year, something is terribly wrong with our system. It doesn't happen at this rate in Canada or Australia or Switzerland. Any other developed nation doesn't have the rate of gun violence that we have in America,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Gun Owners Who 'Don't Own Guns'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said Proposition 63's ammunition regulation provision isn't aimed at mass shooters, but at making it harder for a much larger group of criminals to get bullets: Those that acquire guns illegally but can purchase ammunition anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important folks we are trying to bring in under the ammunition background check are people that quote-unquote don’t own a gun, but are legally buying ammunition at Wal-Mart, Big 5 and online. These are the people who are involved in the overwhelming majority of homicides in inner cities all across this country but here in California,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun control laws such as background checks work, said Julie Leftwich, legal director at the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The nonprofit partnered with Newsom to write Proposition 63. It also helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/landmark-california-gun-seizure-law-takes-effect\">push a law, supported by Weiss\u003c/a>, that instated a gun violence restraining order in California allowing police and family members to petition a court to take away someone's firearms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have passed, as a state, over 50 strong gun safety laws (over the past 20 years) and our gun deaths have dropped by 56 percent, which is twice as much as other states,\" Leftwich said. \"We have done a lot and it is making a difference. ... If you look nationally, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradycampaign.org/our-impact/campaigns/background-checks\">Brady background checks\u003c/a> have stopped more than 2.5 million criminals and other prohibited people from buying guns.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said Proposition 63 is mostly common sense: He called ammunition background checks \"smart\" and said they won't hamper recreational gun users. And he called the provision requiring newly convicted felons to get rid of their guns \"kind of a no-brainer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Infringement on Your Rights?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DeLuz has a problem with each and every one of the ballot measure's provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuz said with California's strong laws around buying guns, there's no need for the ammunition background checks -- and he warned it could lead to racial profiling of certain gun users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said requiring gun owners to report when a firearm is lost or stolen will \"make a victim of them once again,\" and could result in a previously law-abiding person being labeled a criminal. Proposition 63 makes it an infraction, or a simple ticket, to fail to report a lost or stolen gun, with increasing penalties if a person repeatedly fails to report missing firearms. Supporters of the measure say it will help police crack down on gun traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while it's been illegal in California to buy or sell magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets since 1994, DeLuz said the provision of Proposition 63 requiring people who have older magazines to get rid of them amounts to confiscation of private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said the provision requiring felons to prove to a court that they have given up a gun before sentencing will burden probation departments that are already stretched thin. He noted that s\u003ca href=\"http://stoptheammograb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/List-of-Opponents-PAC-10.13.16.pdf\">ome law enforcement groups oppose Proposition 63\u003c/a>, though their opposition mostly centers around the fact that the ballot measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article103588977.html\">doesn't exempt law enforcement officers from its requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Buying in Bulk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said it would drive up the price of bullets for law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\u003ccite>James Cloud\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times when people purchase ammunition they purchase it in bulk because it's cheaper -- like toilet paper,\" DeLuz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime recreational shooter James Cloud, who was practicing at Jackson Arms shooting range in South San Francisco recently, agreed. He said it's easy to go through thousands of rounds of bullets in a single afternoon and that buying them online is the cheapest option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun stores and ranges \"are going to charge way more, double or triple,\" he said. Cloud said it's already confusing trying to navigate the patchwork of state and local laws in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nuts,\" he said. \"It's out of control, because you know what it is? I think the laws are definitely not targeting criminals now, not at all. They get their guns out of state or they are going to go to Mexico. These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeLuz also accused Newsom of using the ballot measure to help raise money and his political profile in advance of the 2018 governor's race. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's taking an issue that specifically affects constitutional rights, that has to do with protecting people's safety, and he's using it as a political tool,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Parent's Worst Fear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the issues Proposition 63 tackles were already broached by several laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this summer. But Newsom said Proposition 63 is still crucial to ensure Californians' safety because it is stronger than the laws passed in Sacramento and, if passed by voters, cannot be undone by lawmakers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he's tackling this issue because he cares deeply about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#note\">Editor's Note:\u003c/a> This story contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our election series \"All Politics is Local,\" we're looking at some of the races voters will find lower down on their ballots. We hear plenty about the presidential election. These races are less publicized, but no less important.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of recent voter participation data in San Francisco confirms conventional wisdom: judicial races are some of the most obscure on the ballot, with voters more likely to skip the choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no surprise to Mindy Romero, who heads the \u003ca href=\"http://ccep.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">California Civic Engagement Project\u003c/a> at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters want to feel comfortable and confident in their vote on all of the decisions on the ballot, and particularly it seems that the judicial races are difficult,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judicial races in San Francisco received the least amount of votes the last time the city elected a Superior Court judge two years ago. Just over a third of registered voters selected a candidate in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288859127\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's partially due to the races being nonpartisan and the apolitical nature of the judiciary, Romero said. Judges are ethically bound to remain objective on any issue that could come before them, and that can leave voters in a quandary on which candidate to pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every once in a while, voters get a stark reminder on the power Superior Court judges wield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/aaron-persky/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Persky\u003c/a>'s sentence of former Stanford student Brock Turner to a six-month jail term for sexual assault stirred national controversy this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics blasted Persky's sentence -- the charges could have landed the champion swimmer in prison for 14 years -- and seized on the case as a potent example of unfairness in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Persky is up for re-election this November, he's running unopposed so his name won't appear on local ballots. He could face a special \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/25/judging-the-judges-recalls-may-become-easier-but-is-that-better-for-california/\" target=\"_blank\">recall\u003c/a> election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the scandal, Persky \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/judge-aaron-persky-brock-turner-case/\" target=\"_blank\">transferred\u003c/a> to Santa Clara's civil division, so he'll no longer hear sexual assault or other criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But judges presiding over civil cases have extreme discretion, too, as San Franciscans were reminded late last year. After nine of the city's police officers swapped some violently racist, homophobic and sexist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">text messages,\u003c/a> Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">handed down a ruling\u003c/a> that kept the officers employed and on the city's payroll. Now, as Goldsmith retires, the city is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/05/s-f-city-attorney-appeals-ruling-on-police-texting-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">appealing\u003c/a> his interpretation of state law, and voters will select his replacement from two candidates steeped in city policing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Paul Henderson and Victor Hwang are former San Francisco prosecutors. Now Hwang is a civil rights attorney who moonlights as a city police commissioner. In addition to grappling with the policy implications of scandals emerging from the SFPD, he would have heard disciplinary charges against the officers involved in the racist texting scandal. But before the former police chief's recommendation that those officers be fired reached the commission, they challenged the discipline in Superior Court, with attorneys paid for by the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a police commissioner, wearing that hat, we have been shielded away from that litigation,\" Hwang said. \"I have not looked at any of the papers, and I can’t comment on the judge’s decision on that case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think anytime there’s an allegation of misconduct on the part of SFPD, we want to take quick and decisive action from the commission,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson is deputy chief of staff and public safety director for Mayor Ed Lee, who, along with other city and Police Department leaders, wanted the officers involved in the text messaging scandal fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s just not acceptable and cannot be acceptable,\" Henderson said of the bigoted texts. \"We cannot have a fair Police Department with communications like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he wants to make the courts more accessible to marginalized communities, and his experience as a black man informs his sense of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I’m successful in this race, I will not be able to ignore that, yes, I’m still an African-American man that is from this community,\" he said. \"I have had experiences, positive and negative with a whole host of agencies and individuals that don't necessarily define how I make my decisions, but they’re absolutely relevant to who I am as a person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates say they embrace the accountability that judicial elections bring to the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think this is a unique opportunity for voters to elect a judge,\" Hwang said, \"and I think part of our message is trying to convince them to vote down-ballot in this very high-profile presidential election cycle. I think it’s important, and what I have emphasized over and over to voters is forget the politics, this is not a political race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Romero said elections are an imperfect way to keep judges accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if you believe in accountability and you believe that voters should weigh in, because voters often report that they don’t have enough information to feel comfortable about a judicial race, then are you really having accountability?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conscientious voters could look at endorsements, she said, since they can't assess judges by party affiliation. And Romero suggested another option for voters to get more information: Follow the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To challenge a judge and to get re-elected in a contested race, you do need a lot of money,\" she said. \"We know that elected officials generally have to be concerned about their donors and who got them there, who supported them along the way, and is it always realistic for us to assume that judges, once elected, can completely rule out donors and other folks that supported them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang raised $239,386 between January and late September, according to California Secretary of State \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign finance data\u003c/a>. Henderson collected $129,053 over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates' donor rolls include a spectrum of attorneys and other members of the Bay Area's legal community, and both have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/two-judicial-candidates-expected-head-november-ballot/\" target=\"_blank\">standout large donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang appears to have amassed some support on the San Francisco left, including donations from prominent progressives like state Senate candidate Jane Kim.* Henderson netted donations from two candidates for the city's next chief of police, the president of the Police Commission and the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson also received $1,000 from the San Francisco Police Officers Association's political action committee and $250 from Paul Chignell, the POA's legal defense administrator -- parties involved in funding the legal defense that kept SFPD officers who sent bigoted texts on the city's payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang and Henderson both acknowledge an uphill battle in educating voters on their race, often fielding a basic question: Judges have to run?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I welcome those conversations because people only ask questions for the things that they care about,\" Henderson said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"name\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>*This story has been updated to correctly identify donors to Victor Hwang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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