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"content": "\u003cp>Five years ago, hundreds of people crowded the halls of the state Capitol, protesting legislation that sought to tighten California’s vaccine rules. Outside, music blasted something about a revolution, and people carried signs that read, “Vaccine mandates violate bodily autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the sea of red-clad protesters emerged a familiar face idolized \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-QfrVFUoD8\">by the anti-vaccine activists\u003c/a>: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the guest of honor in one of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/09/california-legislature-protest-menstrual-blood-ani-vaccine/\">biggest public health showdowns\u003c/a> the state has seen in recent years. Ultimately, he and his followers lost — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">the Legislature passed a law\u003c/a> to clamp down on fraudulent or inappropriate medical exemptions for required childhood vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Kennedy finds himself on a bigger stage with potentially far more influence and power. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated the former environmental lawyer turned controversial vaccine critic to oversee the nation’s health policy as secretary of health and human services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been known to make false, and at times dangerous, claims about medicine and public health. Perhaps most infamously, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/robert-kennedy-jrs-belief-in-autism-vaccine-connection-and-its-political-peril/2014/07/16/f21c01ee-f70b-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html\">linked vaccines to autism\u003c/a> — a claim that has been debunked over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with Kennedy in the running to lead the federal health department, health leaders and advocates in California and across the country are voicing their concerns and preparing to combat a potential wave of medical disinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a vaccine skeptic at the helm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, some say, could lead to more Americans refusing to be vaccinated and potentially putting lives at risk. It could also embolden the anti-vaccine movement in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/richard-pan/\">Dr. Richard Pan\u003c/a>, a pediatrician who, as a state senator, authored the 2019 medical exemption law and a separate law that eliminated personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccines, said having a health secretary who casts doubt on vaccines is “a danger” and “disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagine we’re going to see a lot more direct attacks on individual scientists, individual people. I’m anticipating that I’m probably gonna be hoisted somewhere by those guys as well. I don’t think RFK Jr. has forgotten about me yet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan said he met Kennedy twice when Kennedy traveled to Sacramento to oppose his bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying those laws made Pan the subject of harassment and attacks, and at one point, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234231737.html\">anti-vaccine activist shoved him\u003c/a> while Pan was walking in a Sacramento street. At protests, anti-vaccine activists plastered Pan’s face on posters with the word “LIAR” in red letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, people who rallied against his vaccine bills are celebrating Kennedy’s potential spot in Trump’s cabinet and calling for “justice” via social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of their last quarrels, Pan publicly called for Kennedy to be banned from social media platforms when Kennedy promoted COVID-19 disinformation. In response, Kennedy \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249557493.html\">told the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that Pan’s request for censorship was anti-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Kennedy has taken a more measured approach when responding to questions about vaccines. Following Trump’s win, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMfOnKUfik\">he told NBC News\u003c/a> that he isn’t looking to take vaccines off the market but rather is advocating for informed choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can RFK Jr. do as health secretary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Kennedy is confirmed as head of health and human services, he would oversee a $1.7 trillion budget and about a dozen agencies. He would be responsible for managing pandemic preparedness and would be in charge of issues ranging from health insurance to food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that any controversial changes would likely be met with litigation that could slow or derail Kennedy’s proposals. Still, there are several ways anti-vaccine sentiment in the federal government could undermine public health gains in states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, school immunization mandates are issued by states, and while the federal government cannot directly change those, it could decide to withhold public health funding, such as grants sent to states to help fund vaccination efforts, said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As health secretary, Kennedy would also have the power to appoint members of an advisory committee that makes recommendations on immunization practices to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiss added that the health secretary also has the power to expedite or limit access to new vaccines, which would become especially important in the case of another pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the secretary of health and human services who declares a public health emergency and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization\">issues emergency use authorization\u003c/a> for unapproved vaccines. When COVID-19 shots were first made available to the public in December 2020, they were allowed under this emergency designation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approved the vaccine for people 16 and older nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A secretary hostile to vaccines could block or remove the emergency use authorization. That means the vaccine manufacturer “would have to either apply for full approval at the moment or not sell the vaccine,” Reiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy told NBC that he wouldn’t have “directly blocked” the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines had he been secretary at the time but rather would have made sure that “we have the best science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, at the height of the pandemic, Kennedy helped fuel mistrust of the coronavirus vaccine. In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">he called it the “deadliest vaccine ever made”\u003c/a> in opposition to a Louisiana proposal that would have required school children to be vaccinated against the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California vaccine mandates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the California Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/pertussis.asp\">a law that added a booster of the pertussis vaccine\u003c/a>, which protects against whooping cough, to the immunization schedule for teens to attend school. Catherine Flores Martin, the executive director of California Immunization Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for vaccines, remembers when lawmakers were considering this bill, roughly about 18 people or so showed up in opposition, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2015 and 2019, opposition to vaccine legislation evolved into mass protests of hundreds of people. “It’s gotten wild,” Flores Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of parents still vaccinate their children,” she said. “We hear a lot about hesitancy, but hesitancy doesn’t convert into not vaccinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Richard Pan, former state senator, speaks in a news conference after visiting a Kaiser Permanente warehouse in Downey on Saturday, March 18, 2023. He wrote California laws that tightened childhood vaccine mandates. \u003ccite>(Ringo Chiu, AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 2021–22 school year, 94% of California’s kindergarteners had received the required vaccines, the state’s public health department reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores Martin acknowledges that it has become more challenging to pass vaccine legislation as opposition has become louder in California. She attributes this in part to the growing role of misinformation shared on social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State public health officials did not respond to an interview request by deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Health News' tag='health']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year 2014 was notable in public health for a couple of reasons. That year, whooping cough infections peaked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/pages/immunization/pertussis.aspx\">with more than 11,000 cases reported in the state\u003c/a>, the most ever. Also, in December of that year, a measles outbreak at Disneyland contributed to \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8828106/\">the highest number of measles cases reported in the U.S.\u003c/a> in two decades. Most of the cases were among unvaccinated children. The outbreak resulted in hospitalizations, but no deaths were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/IMM-231.pdf\">among the required doses for kids (PDF)\u003c/a> to attend school. So are the polio vaccine and the Hepatitis B vaccine, among others. It was this measles outbreak that led the Legislature in 2015 to remove personal belief and religious exemptions for required shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2019, lawmakers came back and approved a second law that allowed the state’s Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-rejected-6-of-medical-exemptions-for-16556125.php\">to review and revoke inappropriate medical exemptions\u003c/a>. Medical exemptions have to be made by a physician and are reserved for small groups of people, such as those who are allergic to vaccine ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the 2019 law, the rate of kindergarteners with medical exemptions \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2021-22KindergartenSummaryReport.pdf\">decreased to the lowest levels since 2015–16 (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the state’s public health department. However, research shows that because of disruption in routine doctor visits during the pandemic, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2810396\">kindergarteners who were not up to date\u003c/a> on their immunizations ticked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health advocates and experts say that it is now more important than ever to instill confidence in vaccines and proven public health measures. Flores Martin said doctors and health advocates will have to band together and push vaccine education to maintain high immunization rates. The messaging matters, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It could also embolden the anti-vaccine movement in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/richard-pan/\">Dr. Richard Pan\u003c/a>, a pediatrician who, as a state senator, authored the 2019 medical exemption law and a separate law that eliminated personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccines, said having a health secretary who casts doubt on vaccines is “a danger” and “disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagine we’re going to see a lot more direct attacks on individual scientists, individual people. I’m anticipating that I’m probably gonna be hoisted somewhere by those guys as well. I don’t think RFK Jr. has forgotten about me yet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan said he met Kennedy twice when Kennedy traveled to Sacramento to oppose his bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying those laws made Pan the subject of harassment and attacks, and at one point, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234231737.html\">anti-vaccine activist shoved him\u003c/a> while Pan was walking in a Sacramento street. At protests, anti-vaccine activists plastered Pan’s face on posters with the word “LIAR” in red letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, people who rallied against his vaccine bills are celebrating Kennedy’s potential spot in Trump’s cabinet and calling for “justice” via social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of their last quarrels, Pan publicly called for Kennedy to be banned from social media platforms when Kennedy promoted COVID-19 disinformation. In response, Kennedy \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249557493.html\">told the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that Pan’s request for censorship was anti-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Kennedy has taken a more measured approach when responding to questions about vaccines. Following Trump’s win, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMfOnKUfik\">he told NBC News\u003c/a> that he isn’t looking to take vaccines off the market but rather is advocating for informed choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can RFK Jr. do as health secretary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Kennedy is confirmed as head of health and human services, he would oversee a $1.7 trillion budget and about a dozen agencies. He would be responsible for managing pandemic preparedness and would be in charge of issues ranging from health insurance to food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that any controversial changes would likely be met with litigation that could slow or derail Kennedy’s proposals. Still, there are several ways anti-vaccine sentiment in the federal government could undermine public health gains in states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, school immunization mandates are issued by states, and while the federal government cannot directly change those, it could decide to withhold public health funding, such as grants sent to states to help fund vaccination efforts, said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As health secretary, Kennedy would also have the power to appoint members of an advisory committee that makes recommendations on immunization practices to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiss added that the health secretary also has the power to expedite or limit access to new vaccines, which would become especially important in the case of another pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the secretary of health and human services who declares a public health emergency and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization\">issues emergency use authorization\u003c/a> for unapproved vaccines. When COVID-19 shots were first made available to the public in December 2020, they were allowed under this emergency designation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approved the vaccine for people 16 and older nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A secretary hostile to vaccines could block or remove the emergency use authorization. That means the vaccine manufacturer “would have to either apply for full approval at the moment or not sell the vaccine,” Reiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy told NBC that he wouldn’t have “directly blocked” the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines had he been secretary at the time but rather would have made sure that “we have the best science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, at the height of the pandemic, Kennedy helped fuel mistrust of the coronavirus vaccine. In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">he called it the “deadliest vaccine ever made”\u003c/a> in opposition to a Louisiana proposal that would have required school children to be vaccinated against the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California vaccine mandates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the California Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/pertussis.asp\">a law that added a booster of the pertussis vaccine\u003c/a>, which protects against whooping cough, to the immunization schedule for teens to attend school. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ringing in voters’ ears in the final weeks of the presidential campaign was the tagline: “Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the success of that part of its closing argument, the new Trump administration is likely to turn to policy affecting transgender people early in its tenure. The issue is mentioned twice in President-elect Donald Trump’s 20-point \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform\">“Agenda 47” platform\u003c/a>: #16 Cut funding to schools that teach “radical gender ideology”; and #17 “Keep men out of women’s sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about health care for transgender people? The Trump campaign and conservative think tanks offer several indications of how policy could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors is likely, says Jon Schweppe, policy director at the American Principles Project, a conservative political advocacy group that has advocated against transgender policy for years. “With adults, I think the American people are much less enthusiastic about a full ban [on gender affirming care], but with kids, they’re all about it,” Schweppe asserts. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other/dashboard/gender-affirming-care-policy-tracker/\">About half of states\u003c/a> have enacted such a ban, although polls vary on how much or little the broader public supports these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also plans to curb access to gender transition by limiting insurance coverage. To do this, Republicans could take a page from the anti-abortion rights playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely one of our goals is to create a Hyde Amendment for so-called gender-affirming care,” says Schweppe. The Hyde Amendment is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-hyde-amendment-and-coverage-for-abortion-services-under-medicaid-in-the-post-roe-era/#:~:text=Starting%20in%201977%2C%20the%20Hyde,result%20from%20rape%20or%20incest.\">1977 policy\u003c/a> that prohibits federal dollars from paying for abortion with limited exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t believe taxpayer funding should go towards that for minors or for adults. We’ve poll tested that, and we’re pretty confident that the American people agree,” Schweppe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hyde Amendment largely is responsible for how abortion came to operate outside of the usual health insurance system. Patients often pay in cash, either because they don’t have coverage for abortion, or because they don’t want an abortion on their medical record. In response, abortion funds were created to allow people who don’t have insurance coverage or the means to afford an abortion on their own to have access.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investment in ‘a political winner’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the presidential race alone, Republicans spent more than $46 million on the “Kamala is for they/them” message, according to a report by AdImpact shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has shown itself to be a political winner,” says Schweppe. Overall, the party spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ ads during the 2024 campaign. Democrats, in contrast, spent just under $29 million on LGBTQ ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some congressional Republicans are signaling their eagerness to turn anti-trans campaign messaging into lawmaking. Weeks before the new session begins, proposed laws and policies about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196116/capitol-transgender-bathroom-ban-nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride\">bathroom access\u003c/a> have been crafted to take aim at incoming Rep. Sarah McBride D-Del., who will be the first transgender lawmaker in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/gettyimages-2051568476-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic congressional candidate from Delaware Sarah McBride chats with State Sen. Dave Sokola (left) following a press conference on the steps of Delaware Legislative Hall on March 4, 2024, in Dover, Delaware. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Other promises and policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Trump campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-trumps-plan-to-protect-children-from-left-wing-gender-insanity\">released a video\u003c/a> and outline of some policy steps Republicans would take “to protect children from left-wing gender insanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Trump promised to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ban gender-affirming care for youth nationally.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban Medicare and Medicaid insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for patients of all ages and withhold federal funds from hospitals that provide the care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Enact consequences for schools and teachers that affirm transgender youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Trump also wants a Justice Department investigation into how drug companies and hospitals are providing gender-affirming care, and he will seek to pass a federal law saying Title 9 prohibits transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Matt Sharp of the Christian conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom says he’s hopeful that the Trump administration will enact policies establishing that “differences between men and women matter, and that states and schools and other places will be allowed to go back to common sense and to recognize those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even supporters of access to gender-affirming care agree that restrictions are likely coming when Trump takes office. “It’s very clear that they have a coherent, anti-trans agenda that they’re going to pursue, so we’re preparing along multiple fronts,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/harper-seldin\">Harper Seldin\u003c/a>, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trans people saw all those ads, too, Seldin says. “Without in any way speculating on what that did or did not do to the ultimate result [of the election], I do think it creates a climate of fear for trans people,” he says. “I think it also creates a lot of permission for a climate of hate for people who are opposed to trans people. It really positions transgender people as the enemy of the regular American polity — and trans people are people, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A family with two adults and achild on one of the adults' shoulders see from behind, holding a sign that reads "Protect Trans Kids"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People outside the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 6, 2022, protesting attacks against transgender kids. \u003ccite>(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender young people in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although Trump’s policy goals when it comes to trans people would affect adults in some ways, the focus of a lot of conservative activism on this issue has centered on kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major American medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Endocrine Society support access to gender-affirming care for youth, which can range from using a child’s preferred pronouns to using puberty blocking medications and sex hormones. (Surgery is very rare for minors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/su/su7304a9.htm?s_cid=su7304a9_w\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3% of high school students describe themselves as transgender, although not all of them necessarily want medical interventions related to that identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC found trans students “experienced a higher prevalence of violence, poor mental health, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and unstable housing.” The report goes on to note that “having supportive families and peers, feeling connected to family and school, having affirmed name and pronouns used consistently by others, and having a sense of pride of identity are protective factors for transgender students that buffer the effects of minority stressors and promote better mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trevor Project, which runs a 24/7 crisis line for LGBTQ youth and answers calls from the 988 crisis line for this population, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5127347/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-a-study-shows\">published an analysis\u003c/a> finding that transgender youth were more likely to attempt suicide after their home state passed a ban on gender affirming care for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the election, there was a 700% increase in calls to the crisis line, which marked the largest surge in daily contact ever, the Trevor Project wrote to NPR in a statement. Even though the volume has done down since Nov 6, “volume remains higher than normal as LGBTQ+ young people continue to reach out, overwhelmingly, to discuss concerns about the 2024 election results,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schweppe, of the American Principles Project, dismisses that data point, claiming research on suicide risk in this population is exaggerated. “We are diametrically opposed to what their goals are,” he says of the Trevor Project, whose work he described as indoctrination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if children may be suffering from gender dysphoria, he says, “we should be trying to help them identify with their with their biological sex, try to feel help them feel comfortable with their bodies, not tell them that their bodies are wrong, that the way God made them is wrong,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes in \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected\">a policy statement\u003c/a> that conversion or reparative therapies “have been proven to be not only unsuccessful but also deleterious and are considered outside the mainstream of traditional medical practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The shifting legal landscape\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 4, before the next Trump presidential term begins in January, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth is constitutional, and by extension, the bans in 25 other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp of the Alliance Defending Freedom says he hopes that the high court will decide on the substance of the case. “Ultimately, we hope that it will rule in favor of these state laws and allow them to go into effect,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seldin of the ACLU, which represents the Tennessee transgender kids and families who brought the case, says it’s hard to predict what will happen after oral arguments, but that they’re prepared to “be flexible with what we need to do to meet the moment.” He says LGBTQ advocates are equally determined to keep fighting for the rights of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the justices do hold that the bans are unconstitutional, conservative advocacy groups like the American Principles Project plan to “pursue other avenues to effectively shut down these gender clinics,” Schweppe says. 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Patients often pay in cash, either because they don’t have coverage for abortion, or because they don’t want an abortion on their medical record. In response, abortion funds were created to allow people who don’t have insurance coverage or the means to afford an abortion on their own to have access.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investment in ‘a political winner’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the presidential race alone, Republicans spent more than $46 million on the “Kamala is for they/them” message, according to a report by AdImpact shared with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has shown itself to be a political winner,” says Schweppe. Overall, the party spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ ads during the 2024 campaign. Democrats, in contrast, spent just under $29 million on LGBTQ ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some congressional Republicans are signaling their eagerness to turn anti-trans campaign messaging into lawmaking. Weeks before the new session begins, proposed laws and policies about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196116/capitol-transgender-bathroom-ban-nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride\">bathroom access\u003c/a> have been crafted to take aim at incoming Rep. 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Dave Sokola (left) following a press conference on the steps of Delaware Legislative Hall on March 4, 2024, in Dover, Delaware. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Other promises and policies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Trump campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-trumps-plan-to-protect-children-from-left-wing-gender-insanity\">released a video\u003c/a> and outline of some policy steps Republicans would take “to protect children from left-wing gender insanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Trump promised to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ban gender-affirming care for youth nationally.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban Medicare and Medicaid insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for patients of all ages and withhold federal funds from hospitals that provide the care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Enact consequences for schools and teachers that affirm transgender youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Trump also wants a Justice Department investigation into how drug companies and hospitals are providing gender-affirming care, and he will seek to pass a federal law saying Title 9 prohibits transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Matt Sharp of the Christian conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom says he’s hopeful that the Trump administration will enact policies establishing that “differences between men and women matter, and that states and schools and other places will be allowed to go back to common sense and to recognize those differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even supporters of access to gender-affirming care agree that restrictions are likely coming when Trump takes office. “It’s very clear that they have a coherent, anti-trans agenda that they’re going to pursue, so we’re preparing along multiple fronts,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/harper-seldin\">Harper Seldin\u003c/a>, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trans people saw all those ads, too, Seldin says. “Without in any way speculating on what that did or did not do to the ultimate result [of the election], I do think it creates a climate of fear for trans people,” he says. “I think it also creates a lot of permission for a climate of hate for people who are opposed to trans people. It really positions transgender people as the enemy of the regular American polity — and trans people are people, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A family with two adults and achild on one of the adults' shoulders see from behind, holding a sign that reads "Protect Trans Kids"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS54556_GettyImages-1385208037-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People outside the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 6, 2022, protesting attacks against transgender kids. \u003ccite>(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transgender young people in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although Trump’s policy goals when it comes to trans people would affect adults in some ways, the focus of a lot of conservative activism on this issue has centered on kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major American medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Endocrine Society support access to gender-affirming care for youth, which can range from using a child’s preferred pronouns to using puberty blocking medications and sex hormones. (Surgery is very rare for minors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/su/su7304a9.htm?s_cid=su7304a9_w\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3% of high school students describe themselves as transgender, although not all of them necessarily want medical interventions related to that identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC found trans students “experienced a higher prevalence of violence, poor mental health, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and unstable housing.” The report goes on to note that “having supportive families and peers, feeling connected to family and school, having affirmed name and pronouns used consistently by others, and having a sense of pride of identity are protective factors for transgender students that buffer the effects of minority stressors and promote better mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trevor Project, which runs a 24/7 crisis line for LGBTQ youth and answers calls from the 988 crisis line for this population, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5127347/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-a-study-shows\">published an analysis\u003c/a> finding that transgender youth were more likely to attempt suicide after their home state passed a ban on gender affirming care for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the election, there was a 700% increase in calls to the crisis line, which marked the largest surge in daily contact ever, the Trevor Project wrote to NPR in a statement. Even though the volume has done down since Nov 6, “volume remains higher than normal as LGBTQ+ young people continue to reach out, overwhelmingly, to discuss concerns about the 2024 election results,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schweppe, of the American Principles Project, dismisses that data point, claiming research on suicide risk in this population is exaggerated. “We are diametrically opposed to what their goals are,” he says of the Trevor Project, whose work he described as indoctrination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if children may be suffering from gender dysphoria, he says, “we should be trying to help them identify with their with their biological sex, try to feel help them feel comfortable with their bodies, not tell them that their bodies are wrong, that the way God made them is wrong,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes in \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected\">a policy statement\u003c/a> that conversion or reparative therapies “have been proven to be not only unsuccessful but also deleterious and are considered outside the mainstream of traditional medical practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The shifting legal landscape\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 4, before the next Trump presidential term begins in January, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth is constitutional, and by extension, the bans in 25 other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp of the Alliance Defending Freedom says he hopes that the high court will decide on the substance of the case. “Ultimately, we hope that it will rule in favor of these state laws and allow them to go into effect,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seldin of the ACLU, which represents the Tennessee transgender kids and families who brought the case, says it’s hard to predict what will happen after oral arguments, but that they’re prepared to “be flexible with what we need to do to meet the moment.” He says LGBTQ advocates are equally determined to keep fighting for the rights of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the justices do hold that the bans are unconstitutional, conservative advocacy groups like the American Principles Project plan to “pursue other avenues to effectively shut down these gender clinics,” Schweppe says. 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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump gained ground across \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/19/us/politics/voter-turnout-election-trump-harris.html\">nearly every California county\u003c/a> this election cycle, even while losing the state overall. Pollsters expected blowout results for Vice President Kamala Harris from female voters, but exit polls suggest women turned out for Harris in much smaller numbers than expected, according to CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the liberal Bay Area, KQED heard from many people, especially moms, who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/\">wrestling with what message Trump’s victory sends their daughters\u003c/a>. But other mothers, even those who voted for Democrats in the past, now support Trump. They like his policies on kitchen table issues, such as the economy, and described feeling a growing discomfort with what they perceive as the extreme social policies on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations with these women about their journeys reveal complex voter sentiment. Their transitions underscore how responses to concrete local events like growing antisemitism or vaccine policies can realign political allegiances. The women remind us that voters are not monolithic but dynamic individuals whose choices are shaped by lived experiences, shifting narratives and a hope for a safer, more transparent society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Democrat’s transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sara Dudley, a Jewish lawyer and mother of an 11-year-old in Sacramento, still considered herself a staunch Democrat as recently as last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was blue no matter who,” she said of her long allegiance and activism on issues like climate change, worker protections and LGBTQ rights. But then came the Sacramento City Council push for a Gaza cease-fire resolution proposed by leaders in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article286837715.html\">region’s Jewish and Muslim communities\u003c/a>. At that meeting, Dudley said protesters shouted antisemitic slurs at her and created a threatening atmosphere. Twelve people were arrested, and Mayor Darrell Steinberg cleared the chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders eventually passed the cease-fire resolution and championed it as an example of the community coming together — Steinberg said at the time that “we are not at war with each other here in Sacramento.” But Dudley saw this as another example of rising antisemitism in California and thought the Democratic party leadership response was not only indifferent but permissive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expected my elected officials to condemn this behavior, but they were silent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley was also disappointed by media coverage of the event, which led her to explore more conservative sources of information, which began to reshape how she saw the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about foreign policy — it’s about what’s happening here in California, in our schools and in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From her perspective, Republican representatives at all levels of government are attacking antisemitism more aggressively and “supporting Israel unconditionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These events drew her to the GOP, but it was Trump’s aggressive positions on border security and energy independence that further swayed her. Suddenly, Trump’s call for more domestic energy production started to make more sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re not developing that fossil fuel here in America with good paying union jobs, where are we getting our fossil fuel and gas from?” she said, adding that she trusts Trump to combat terrorism, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republican plank is actually really important for national security. As a mother, I’m concerned with my son’s health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Policy over personality’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marilee Saurenman, a social worker and mother of three in a suburb east of Los Angeles, said she feels cautiously optimistic about the incoming administration. “It was policy over personality,” she said, explaining her decision to support Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her mind, she separated his controversial rhetoric — which she didn’t like — from his campaign promises, which she did. Saurenman identifies as a biracial feminist, but Harris failed to win her support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t feel that Vice President Harris was really feeling the entire pulse of the nation,” she said. “Just because you’re a female is not a good enough reason for me to vote for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was specifically disappointed in Harris’s handling of border security during her vice presidency. “As a mother, I want my children to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saurenman said her values have shifted increasingly right over the last decade, influenced by her pro-life stance and perception that conservatives are more focused on issues that are important to her, like family, education and safety. For example, she would like her school district to provide more transparency over what topics and framing of history will be taught to her children so she can opt in or out of lesson plans that do not align with her Catholic values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she feels quickly judged by liberals for her support of Trump, cast as a person who is uneducated or supports criminals, which she finds “really upsetting.” In the future, she hopes people can listen more and share ideas constructively. “Although you may not agree with me, we can have mutual respect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four years, she hopes the country will be less polarized, and parents will be more involved in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A stand for parental rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alayna Nord, a mother of two adolescents in a Los Angeles suburb, voted for Trump in the last three elections. She said his core motivations match hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Christian values first and foremost,” Nord said. “And, I would say the biggest thing on my list is parental rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was put off when California passed a new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1955\">law\u003c/a> that prevents schools from disclosing information about a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Proponents of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5041437/california-bans-school-rules-requiring-parents-notification-of-childs-pronoun-change\">legislation\u003c/a> said it will help protect LGBTQ+ students who live in hostile households. But opponents said it sidesteps parental involvement.[aside label='More politics Coverage' tag='politics']“I feel that when parents are involved, you get better results on most issues, including things that are as sensitive as gender dysphoria,” Nord asserted, citing the constitution as a safeguard for parents to steer “our children and make decisions for them without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concerns extend beyond gender identity to vaccine mandates. She is one of the California parents who is upset by the vaccine requirements for California public schools. She was further inflamed when public health officials pushed the COVID-19 vaccine as a way to save lives. “The pandemic opened my eyes to agendas that I don’t feel are aligned with my values,” said Nord, stressing her support for what she described as medical freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is persuaded by Robert F. 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Conroy threw out more than 25 counts against seven of the eight defendants — and charges against one of the defendants entirely — due to lack of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he declined defense attorneys’ motion to downgrade the felony conspiracy charges, saying there had not been enough discussion about how the Golden Gate Bridge Authority and potential other alleged victims in the case would be compensated for their losses due to the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The elephant in the room here is that there is a request for at least $160,000 in restitution,” Conroy said, referring to the Golden Gate Bridge Authority’s estimate of lost revenue from toll payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight activists face the most serious charges — including felony conspiracy — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\">out of the 26 who were arrested\u003c/a> in connection with the protest that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">shut down traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a>. Their actions were part of a multi-city effort to disrupt local and global economies and put pressure on the U.S. government to halt support for Israel’s war in Gaza, which it launched after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 7:30 a.m. on April 15, the protesters chained themselves to stopped vehicles and each other across the southbound lanes of the bridge, according to a statement from the California Highway Patrol. 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They have likely spent more than the bridge authority is asking for just to prosecute this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco public defender’s office agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court’s, and the DA’s, dismissal of the vast majority of the charges against Golden Gate Bridge protesters today is a huge vindication of our position that the DA drastically overcharged these cases,” Deputy Public Defender Nuha Abusamra, one of the attorneys defending the protesters, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office dropped 12 of its false imprisonment counts earlier in the hearing without providing evidence. An additional 11 were dismissed by Conroy, who said that the evidence provided lacked necessary information related to the time and place of the alleged imprisonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also dropped a misdemeanor charge against all but one of the defendants who alleged they failed to comply with a peace officer, saying there was no evidence provided through law enforcement officers’ testimony that seven of the defendants were told directly to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still possible that the felony charges could be downgraded as the case plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants have been ordered to appear for an arraignment on Dec. 6, where the defense said it plans to ask the judge for a restitution hearing to get a true estimation of the money requested by any victims. The district attorney’s office could not give an exact amount for the bridge authority’s losses, which defense attorneys called speculative. The figure also does not factor in whether individuals who were allegedly falsely imprisoned will seek monetary relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After requesting the restitution hearing, defense attorneys plan to reintroduce their motion to recategorize the felony conspiracy charges to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not interested in continuing to utilize these court resources, city and county resources. Folks want to get back on the street and demand a ceasefire, demand an end to genocide,” Wozniak said. “The district attorney wanted a holding order today, and that’s what happened, but we’re going to continue fighting this case. We’re going to show that there is not much restitution that needs to be paid and get this case dismissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Near-final ballot returns show Oakland’s City Council president slightly ahead in her bid for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, setting her up for a win that would throw into question \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">who will lead the city\u003c/a> after Mayor Sheng Thao’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As council president, Nikki Fortunato Bas is set to become interim mayor once \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">Thao’s recall\u003c/a> is certified next month. But if she wins a seat on the Board of Supervisors, she would be sworn in just weeks later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bas stopped short of declaring victory over Emeryville Councilmember John Bauters on Wednesday night after the latest ballot returns, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Nikkiforallofus/status/1859402441072181610\">posting on X\u003c/a> that it “appears” voters have selected her as their next supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One year ago, I answered the call from community-based advocates and Labor leaders to advance a vision of an equitable, prosperous and healthy future for every Alameda County family,” Bas wrote. “I will bring an unflagging commitment and engage the community to serve every resident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/races#supervisor-5th-district\">leads the District 5 race by 415 votes\u003c/a>, and Alameda County Registrar Tim Dupuis estimates that about 4,800 ballots are outstanding across the entire county. Those ballots all have signature errors — like mismatching signatures or lack of a signature at all — that must be cured before they can be counted, Dupuis said, and those that are won’t be added to the online tally until Dec. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao listens to City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas speak in front of city hall during a city-led “Welcome Back Wednesday” event to promote the recovery of the city’s downtown area on April 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how many of these 4,836 votes are within that district, and we also don’t know how those folks ended up voting,” he told KQED. “We’ll just have to see what comes in by Dec. 3. That’s just how this works, every vote counts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, Oakland elected officials will be waiting with bated breath to see if they’ll have to select a new interim leader to inherit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">a serious budget crisis\u003c/a>, weather political fracturing and lead a fairly novice council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city charter said that when a mayor vacates the office, the council president will serve until the city holds a special election, which will take place mid-April. But if Bas vacates her seat, the council will have to select a new president from its ranks in January. As council president, that person would step in as interim mayor to lead the city until voters choose a representative to serve out Thao’s term, which ends in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes for choosing a new council president and president pro tempore will be high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Bas, the council would be under entirely new leadership since current President Pro Tem Dan Kalb and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan both chose not to run for another term. And Oakland has big decisions to make before the spring, most notably getting the city back on a fiscally responsible path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015103 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials raised a red flag this week, telling the council that Oakland is at risk of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">financial insolvency\u003c/a> if there aren’t major budget reductions by the end of the calendar year. Spending at its current rate, the city is set to add $93 million to its already significant deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim mayor will also have to take over Thao’s role in orchestrating the stalled sale of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, which the city’s year-end budget is significantly reliant on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the outstanding votes in Alameda County are enough to swing Bas’ race, leaving her on the City Council, is unknown. Dupuis said the ballots span the county’s five districts, and it isn’t clear how many are District 5 residents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One year ago, I answered the call from community-based advocates and Labor leaders to advance a vision of an equitable, prosperous and healthy future for every Alameda County family,” Bas wrote. “I will bring an unflagging commitment and engage the community to serve every resident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/races#supervisor-5th-district\">leads the District 5 race by 415 votes\u003c/a>, and Alameda County Registrar Tim Dupuis estimates that about 4,800 ballots are outstanding across the entire county. Those ballots all have signature errors — like mismatching signatures or lack of a signature at all — that must be cured before they can be counted, Dupuis said, and those that are won’t be added to the online tally until Dec. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao listens to City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas speak in front of city hall during a city-led “Welcome Back Wednesday” event to promote the recovery of the city’s downtown area on April 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how many of these 4,836 votes are within that district, and we also don’t know how those folks ended up voting,” he told KQED. “We’ll just have to see what comes in by Dec. 3. That’s just how this works, every vote counts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, Oakland elected officials will be waiting with bated breath to see if they’ll have to select a new interim leader to inherit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">a serious budget crisis\u003c/a>, weather political fracturing and lead a fairly novice council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city charter said that when a mayor vacates the office, the council president will serve until the city holds a special election, which will take place mid-April. But if Bas vacates her seat, the council will have to select a new president from its ranks in January. As council president, that person would step in as interim mayor to lead the city until voters choose a representative to serve out Thao’s term, which ends in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes for choosing a new council president and president pro tempore will be high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Bas, the council would be under entirely new leadership since current President Pro Tem Dan Kalb and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan both chose not to run for another term. And Oakland has big decisions to make before the spring, most notably getting the city back on a fiscally responsible path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials raised a red flag this week, telling the council that Oakland is at risk of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">financial insolvency\u003c/a> if there aren’t major budget reductions by the end of the calendar year. Spending at its current rate, the city is set to add $93 million to its already significant deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim mayor will also have to take over Thao’s role in orchestrating the stalled sale of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, which the city’s year-end budget is significantly reliant on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the outstanding votes in Alameda County are enough to swing Bas’ race, leaving her on the City Council, is unknown. Dupuis said the ballots span the county’s five districts, and it isn’t clear how many are District 5 residents. There’s also a chance some people won’t cure their ballots before the Dec. 3 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elections office reaches out to voters whose ballots have errors via phone, email and paper mail, urging them to submit signature verification statements by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, “people are very interested in having their vote counted for a particular race, and sometimes they may feel that the election is over, and they don’t get around to doing it,” Dupuis told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the race’s margin remains close, Alameda County has no threshold for triggering an automatic recount. Instead, anyone can request a recount — as long as they pay for it. If that’s the case, Dupuis said the person would have to reach out to the registrar within five days of election certification. Then, his office would meet with the requester to discuss whether they want a hand or machine count and how they plan to fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, a requested recount in the Oakland mayoral election that narrowly put Thao into office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935550/oakland-mayoral-recount-forfeited-after-supporters-fall-short-of-covering-cost\">was called off\u003c/a> after its supporters couldn’t foot the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter what, Dupuis said, the county will post final unofficial results on the evening of Dec. 3, and he will certify elections on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is at risk of financial insolvency if it does not significantly slash its spending by the end of the calendar year, a top city official warned this week, raising the stakes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">a budget crisis that has threatened major cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire warning came at a special City Council meeting on Tuesday, where council members were told that Oakland is looking at a $93 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that ends in June if the city continues to spend at its current rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant preexisting structural issue as an organization…. Now is the time that we have to take action to solve it,” City Administrator Jestin Johnson said. “We must take action over the course of the next month and a half to preserve our solvency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few days, the fiscal crisis raised the specter of bankruptcy after a draft of the city’s latest financial report was erroneously posted Friday, mentioning the Chapter 9 process as a possibility. Oakland officials now say the city is not discussing bankruptcy, and the city has removed the language from its report — and clarified that the discussion is “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s money problems are real\u003c/a> and must be addressed quickly. Here’s what that could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where does Oakland stand?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the city overspent by more than $27.5 million and had to dip into emergency reserves to pay its bills. City policy requires that these reserves stay above 7.5% of the city’s general purpose fund. If it isn’t restored by the end of this fiscal year, Oakland will have to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a resolution adopted in 2023 on the use of one-time revenues to plug budget holes, Oakland defines a fiscal emergency as the “last and most severe stage of a government entity’s financial solvency problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unusual, unanticipated and seemingly insurmountable event or hardship of the city, one such as a natural disaster, ‘acts of god’ or war, public emergency or other unforeseen catastrophic event requiring the use of Emergency Reserves to sustain the most basic operations,” the definition continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman said the City Council will need to identify roughly $115 million in cuts to balance this year’s budget and replenish the emergency fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an irrecoverable financial state, the council will need to make these decisions before the end of December, according to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with the Coliseum sale?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland already triggered a contingency budget plan that made some fairly drastic cuts in September after the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended its deal to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. Revenue from that sale to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group was budgeted to fill this year’s shortfall, but now, the funds won’t be available until May at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contingency, which Johnson previously described as pulling the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">emergency brake\u003c/a>” on spending, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class, halted unfinalized contracts and grant agreements and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not made the significant public safety cuts included in the contingency plan yet, but Johnson said that since the police and fire departments are the city’s biggest spenders, that will become unavoidable. The Fire Department is expected to exceed its budget by $34 million this fiscal year, and the Police Department is on track to overspend by $52 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of whether that sale could fall through altogether. AASEG sent the city a first payment of $5 million upon signing the deal in July but has missed originally scheduled payments since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">revised sale agreement\u003c/a> with AASEG pushed back the payment schedule and consolidated it so that the deal would close within the fiscal year, but it also delayed a payment expected in September, triggering the contingency. Under the new schedule, the second payment was due Nov. 7. That $10 million still has not been received by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland said this is because AASEG is also buying the Oakland A’s 50% stake in the Coliseum, which can only be sold with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ approval. That body has delayed setting a time to vote on approving the deal, and it is unclear if it will happen before the end of the year. Supervisor David Haubert told ABC 7 News on Nov. 12 that he is pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/alameda-county-board-supervisors-delay-approval-oakland-coliseum-sale/15541600/\">vote within weeks\u003c/a>, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So why are people talking about bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The draft of Oakland’s first-quarter fiscal report that the city posted Friday said the quarter’s spending indicated that immediate action was needed to “avoid the Chapter 9 process,” referring to filing for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the report was quickly replaced by a new version without mention of Chapter 9, Johnson very clearly told council members on Tuesday that they needed to take swift and strong budget action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted looming federal changes under the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> administration that could hurt Oakland’s budget, including a potential reduction of federal funds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009791/california-congressman-fights-to-protect-head-start-amid-project-2025-concerns\">programs like Head Start\u003c/a> and Community Development Block Grants, as well as impacts to the local economy and the city’s spending costs if President-elect Trump’s tariff plan is executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump carries out planned mass deportations, it could have even more dire consequences, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economic impacts of a tenth of that action will make the other things I mentioned look small,” he said. “None of that is factored in. There are downside impacts that we have to consider as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1978\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is this precedented?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Oakland were to file for bankruptcy, it would be the fourth major California city to do so and the third in Northern California. In the throes of the Great Recession, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864150/forum-on-the-road-vallejos-bankruptcy-10-years-later\">Vallejo filed for bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>, and Stockton wasn’t far behind in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those cities have worked their way back to fiscal health, and now Stockton’s budget is larger than Oakland’s. But according to former Stockton Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tubbs\">Michael Tubbs\u003c/a>, it has been a long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to work together and make really hard, painful, difficult decisions that the city is still recovering from,” said Tubbs, who joined the City Council in 2013 and served as mayor while the city was exiting bankruptcy, from 2017 to 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s for certain is that those would be painful cuts, and there will be sort of a baseline level of service delivery that will be very meager,” he continued. “And that is not what the citizens deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens in a municipal bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a city files for bankruptcy, it has to enter into a settlement agreement with all of its claimants — the people or entities to whom the city owes or pays money. These include bondholders, bargaining units, individuals or companies who have pending litigation with the city and capital market creditors, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy judge must approve all of the settlements as part of the city’s plan of adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Tubbs said, city officials have to make significant budget reductions, which he called “draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, 29, stands in front of City Hall. Soon his staff will move out to make way for new lofts and other downtown developments. Tubbs says the key to revitalizing the city is lifting people out of poverty.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, then Stockton’s mayor, in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could get cut?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This includes service reductions pretty much across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to close down libraries, cut parks and recreation programs, we weren’t able to do maintenance,” Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton also had to lay off city staff, including roughly a third of public safety officers, Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw longer response times. We saw a triage situation where officers weren’t able to respond to all crimes and had to really prioritize violent crimes,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vallejo declared bankruptcy, it had to close three of its eight fire stations, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/156621232/what-happens-when-a-city-declares-bankruptcy#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20the%20city,medical%20emergency%20or%20a%20fire.\">interview\u003c/a> with then-City Manager Phil Batchelor on NPR’s \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders are especially concerned with cuts to the fire and police departments. The city already has a struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">911 dispatch system\u003c/a>, and multiple council members pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">five-alarm fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> last month would have been nearly impossible to fight with the contingency budget’s cuts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other side effects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said bankruptcy also carries a stigma. Fewer businesses want to come into the city, and residents are less trusting of the government — and, therefore, less likely to pass tax measures that would increase its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, he said, “Every time there’s a tax measure, it’s a fight. The tax measure we ran to fund our bankruptcy [recovery] didn’t get 90% of the vote. I think it passed like 53% to 52%. It becomes very difficult to earn back trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery is possible, though. Stockton now has one of the most solvent budgets in the state and has instituted policies that protect it from dipping into dangerous spending again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said the keys are not spending one-time funds on long-term costs — one of the largest criticisms of the Coliseum deal — along with having a reserve equal to a third of the city’s budget and creating a tool that provides a long-range forecast of how new spending would affect cash flow long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (left) and Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington address the press at the Keller Fire in Oakland on Oct. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What will happen in Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are lots of unknowns surrounding what the next few make-or-break weeks will look like for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan set an agenda item for December to consider moving up to $30 million from the city’s self-insurance liability fund to its general purpose fund reserve to patch the leftover deficit and avoid a fiscal emergency. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas seemed to show support for the move, but Councilmember Dan Kalb said he wouldn’t feel comfortable moving a full $30 million for that purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be big leadership changes before the end of the year. After Mayor Sheng Thao was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> this month, Bas is set to take over as interim mayor until a special election is held. This could be thrown into question, though, since she is awaiting final results in a race for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">Alameda County Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that is still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is elected supervisor, she could theoretically serve as interim mayor for a few weeks, but once sworn onto the board in January, the city will have to appoint a different interim leader at this critical time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland officials and Tubbs expressed that there’s still time for the city to back off of its fiscal cliff — if it navigates the situation urgently and carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is too important of a city for California to be left bankrupt,” Tubbs said. “We have to get this right in Oakland…. It’s a place of culture. It’s a place of activism. It’s a place where justice is found. It’s a place of creativity. It’s a place of diversity. It’s a place that is so important, particularly at this moment. So we have to make sure that it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland is at risk of financial insolvency if it does not significantly slash its spending by the end of the calendar year, a top city official warned this week, raising the stakes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">a budget crisis that has threatened major cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire warning came at a special City Council meeting on Tuesday, where council members were told that Oakland is looking at a $93 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that ends in June if the city continues to spend at its current rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant preexisting structural issue as an organization…. Now is the time that we have to take action to solve it,” City Administrator Jestin Johnson said. “We must take action over the course of the next month and a half to preserve our solvency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few days, the fiscal crisis raised the specter of bankruptcy after a draft of the city’s latest financial report was erroneously posted Friday, mentioning the Chapter 9 process as a possibility. Oakland officials now say the city is not discussing bankruptcy, and the city has removed the language from its report — and clarified that the discussion is “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s money problems are real\u003c/a> and must be addressed quickly. Here’s what that could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where does Oakland stand?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the city overspent by more than $27.5 million and had to dip into emergency reserves to pay its bills. City policy requires that these reserves stay above 7.5% of the city’s general purpose fund. If it isn’t restored by the end of this fiscal year, Oakland will have to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a resolution adopted in 2023 on the use of one-time revenues to plug budget holes, Oakland defines a fiscal emergency as the “last and most severe stage of a government entity’s financial solvency problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unusual, unanticipated and seemingly insurmountable event or hardship of the city, one such as a natural disaster, ‘acts of god’ or war, public emergency or other unforeseen catastrophic event requiring the use of Emergency Reserves to sustain the most basic operations,” the definition continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman said the City Council will need to identify roughly $115 million in cuts to balance this year’s budget and replenish the emergency fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an irrecoverable financial state, the council will need to make these decisions before the end of December, according to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with the Coliseum sale?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland already triggered a contingency budget plan that made some fairly drastic cuts in September after the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended its deal to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. Revenue from that sale to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group was budgeted to fill this year’s shortfall, but now, the funds won’t be available until May at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contingency, which Johnson previously described as pulling the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">emergency brake\u003c/a>” on spending, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class, halted unfinalized contracts and grant agreements and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not made the significant public safety cuts included in the contingency plan yet, but Johnson said that since the police and fire departments are the city’s biggest spenders, that will become unavoidable. The Fire Department is expected to exceed its budget by $34 million this fiscal year, and the Police Department is on track to overspend by $52 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of whether that sale could fall through altogether. AASEG sent the city a first payment of $5 million upon signing the deal in July but has missed originally scheduled payments since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">revised sale agreement\u003c/a> with AASEG pushed back the payment schedule and consolidated it so that the deal would close within the fiscal year, but it also delayed a payment expected in September, triggering the contingency. Under the new schedule, the second payment was due Nov. 7. That $10 million still has not been received by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland said this is because AASEG is also buying the Oakland A’s 50% stake in the Coliseum, which can only be sold with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ approval. That body has delayed setting a time to vote on approving the deal, and it is unclear if it will happen before the end of the year. Supervisor David Haubert told ABC 7 News on Nov. 12 that he is pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/alameda-county-board-supervisors-delay-approval-oakland-coliseum-sale/15541600/\">vote within weeks\u003c/a>, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So why are people talking about bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The draft of Oakland’s first-quarter fiscal report that the city posted Friday said the quarter’s spending indicated that immediate action was needed to “avoid the Chapter 9 process,” referring to filing for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the report was quickly replaced by a new version without mention of Chapter 9, Johnson very clearly told council members on Tuesday that they needed to take swift and strong budget action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted looming federal changes under the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> administration that could hurt Oakland’s budget, including a potential reduction of federal funds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009791/california-congressman-fights-to-protect-head-start-amid-project-2025-concerns\">programs like Head Start\u003c/a> and Community Development Block Grants, as well as impacts to the local economy and the city’s spending costs if President-elect Trump’s tariff plan is executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump carries out planned mass deportations, it could have even more dire consequences, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economic impacts of a tenth of that action will make the other things I mentioned look small,” he said. “None of that is factored in. There are downside impacts that we have to consider as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1978\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is this precedented?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Oakland were to file for bankruptcy, it would be the fourth major California city to do so and the third in Northern California. In the throes of the Great Recession, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864150/forum-on-the-road-vallejos-bankruptcy-10-years-later\">Vallejo filed for bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>, and Stockton wasn’t far behind in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those cities have worked their way back to fiscal health, and now Stockton’s budget is larger than Oakland’s. But according to former Stockton Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tubbs\">Michael Tubbs\u003c/a>, it has been a long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to work together and make really hard, painful, difficult decisions that the city is still recovering from,” said Tubbs, who joined the City Council in 2013 and served as mayor while the city was exiting bankruptcy, from 2017 to 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s for certain is that those would be painful cuts, and there will be sort of a baseline level of service delivery that will be very meager,” he continued. “And that is not what the citizens deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens in a municipal bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a city files for bankruptcy, it has to enter into a settlement agreement with all of its claimants — the people or entities to whom the city owes or pays money. These include bondholders, bargaining units, individuals or companies who have pending litigation with the city and capital market creditors, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy judge must approve all of the settlements as part of the city’s plan of adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Tubbs said, city officials have to make significant budget reductions, which he called “draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, 29, stands in front of City Hall. Soon his staff will move out to make way for new lofts and other downtown developments. Tubbs says the key to revitalizing the city is lifting people out of poverty.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, then Stockton’s mayor, in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could get cut?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This includes service reductions pretty much across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to close down libraries, cut parks and recreation programs, we weren’t able to do maintenance,” Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton also had to lay off city staff, including roughly a third of public safety officers, Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw longer response times. We saw a triage situation where officers weren’t able to respond to all crimes and had to really prioritize violent crimes,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vallejo declared bankruptcy, it had to close three of its eight fire stations, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/156621232/what-happens-when-a-city-declares-bankruptcy#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20the%20city,medical%20emergency%20or%20a%20fire.\">interview\u003c/a> with then-City Manager Phil Batchelor on NPR’s \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders are especially concerned with cuts to the fire and police departments. The city already has a struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">911 dispatch system\u003c/a>, and multiple council members pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">five-alarm fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> last month would have been nearly impossible to fight with the contingency budget’s cuts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other side effects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said bankruptcy also carries a stigma. Fewer businesses want to come into the city, and residents are less trusting of the government — and, therefore, less likely to pass tax measures that would increase its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, he said, “Every time there’s a tax measure, it’s a fight. The tax measure we ran to fund our bankruptcy [recovery] didn’t get 90% of the vote. I think it passed like 53% to 52%. It becomes very difficult to earn back trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery is possible, though. Stockton now has one of the most solvent budgets in the state and has instituted policies that protect it from dipping into dangerous spending again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said the keys are not spending one-time funds on long-term costs — one of the largest criticisms of the Coliseum deal — along with having a reserve equal to a third of the city’s budget and creating a tool that provides a long-range forecast of how new spending would affect cash flow long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (left) and Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington address the press at the Keller Fire in Oakland on Oct. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What will happen in Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are lots of unknowns surrounding what the next few make-or-break weeks will look like for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan set an agenda item for December to consider moving up to $30 million from the city’s self-insurance liability fund to its general purpose fund reserve to patch the leftover deficit and avoid a fiscal emergency. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas seemed to show support for the move, but Councilmember Dan Kalb said he wouldn’t feel comfortable moving a full $30 million for that purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be big leadership changes before the end of the year. After Mayor Sheng Thao was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> this month, Bas is set to take over as interim mayor until a special election is held. This could be thrown into question, though, since she is awaiting final results in a race for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">Alameda County Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that is still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is elected supervisor, she could theoretically serve as interim mayor for a few weeks, but once sworn onto the board in January, the city will have to appoint a different interim leader at this critical time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland officials and Tubbs expressed that there’s still time for the city to back off of its fiscal cliff — if it navigates the situation urgently and carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is too important of a city for California to be left bankrupt,” Tubbs said. “We have to get this right in Oakland…. It’s a place of culture. It’s a place of activism. It’s a place where justice is found. It’s a place of creativity. It’s a place of diversity. It’s a place that is so important, particularly at this moment. So we have to make sure that it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California has a notoriously slow ballot counting process — one that Kim Alexander describes as “a pig in the python.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This giant wad of ballots that all arrive at once, that all have to move through the process, and you can’t speed it up,” said Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. “You have to do every single step, otherwise you lose the integrity of the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help voters understand and trust that process, Alexander’s group launched a tracker this election that monitors the vote count in California’s close contests between Election Day and certification of county results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the Close Count Transparency Project, the tracker — which debuted as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/content/close-count-transparency-project#2022\">pilot program in 2022\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/content/close-count-transparency-project\">provides daily updates\u003c/a> on the results of 11 competitive U.S. House races and seven state legislative races, as well as the statewide vote count status. 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