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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach\">years\u003c/a>, Bay Area teachers have said one of their biggest concerns is finding affordable housing close to where they work. For some teachers, the fact that their salaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/better-pay-would-keep-teachers-from-quitting-but-theres-more-to-it/2022/07\">can’t keep up with the increased cost of living\u003c/a> has some considering leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more school districts across California are taking matters into their own hands by getting into the business of building housing for their teachers and staff on empty parking lots, unused office buildings and other excess land. And, in the Bay Area, two districts are turning to bond measures to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two bonds — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/measures#measure-r\">Measure R in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/measures#measure-k\">Measure K in San Mateo County\u003c/a> — would raise $1.15 billion and $153 million, respectively, to pay for upgrades to school district facilities. Both measures include building affordable housing for teachers and staff in their descriptions for what the bond could fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only a handful of school districts across the state have successfully completed construction on new workforce housing. Santa Clara Unified School District was the first district to build housing for its staff, according to the California School Board Association. The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. Another would move a magnet school to a larger campus and use the existing land to build approximately 120 apartments and townhomes. Their third site would build educator housing on what is currently a special education school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed site for educator housing on Lenzen Avenue, currently used as an employee parking lot for the San José Unified School District in San José. If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. But she said she didn’t want to wait any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing teachers across the state, but in this area, at an alarming rate,” she said. “Our kids will suffer if we don’t do something soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What housing questions do you have for KQED? \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\">Let us know\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. 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Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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"content": "\u003cp>A group of downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> residents, including a top city staffer, are beginning a campaign to recall Councilmember Omar Torres, who is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">subject of a police investigation\u003c/a> into alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents in Torres’ District 3 said Friday that they are willing to see through a potentially months-long effort to recall him from office but hope the added pressure will force him to resign immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing this because enough is enough,” Matthew Quevedo, a resident and Mayor Matt Mahan’s deputy chief of staff, said at a news conference in front of City Hall. “We are building a coalition of neighbors, parents and small-business owners to begin this recall process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, who has not been formally charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing, has faced a backlash and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009671/san-jose-mayor-and-council-call-on-councilmember-omar-torres-to-resign-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">calls for his resignation\u003c/a> from all of his council colleagues since details of the police investigation emerged this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit supporting a search warrant and GPS tracking on Torres’ car, police said they are investigating Torres on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and abnormal interest in children, a felony and a misdemeanor, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police first started looking into claims from Torres that he was being extorted by a 21-year-old man from Chicago, Terry Beeks, with whom Torres had an online sexual relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the investigation seemed to turn to focus on Torres after police found texts from Torres to Beeks in 2022 describing the genitalia of an 11-year-old boy and writing that he had performed oral sex on a 17-year-old boy while working at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-term San José Councilmember Omar Torres is facing increasing pressure to resign following a police investigation into text messages he sent referencing sexually explicit acts with a minor. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another text exchange with Beeks about having a sexual encounter, according to the affidavit, Torres asked, “U got any homies under 18.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres’ attorney, Nelson McElmurry, did not deny the authenticity of the texts but previously characterized the conversations as “outrageous fantasy and role play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has been largely absent from public view since the investigation into him was first revealed. He has missed City Council meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of other regional boards and commissions he serves on, leading the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">strip him of his assignments\u003c/a> this week and reassign those duties to other members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was present at the last City Council meeting because I wanted to ask Omar in person for his resignation. But he was not there,” Melissa Reyes, who owns downtown’s Mesquite & Oak restaurant, said at Friday’s press conference. “We need the representation. And he was nowhere to be found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Morris, co-owner of Spicy Roy’s Caribbean Grill downtown, said the criminal investigation has stopped Torres from participating in neighborhood or business association meetings, frustrating people looking to make progress on issues such as homelessness, public safety and parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall in San José, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard repeatedly the frustrations of no representation at council,” said Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff. “I’ve heard the concerns of neighbors attending meetings with a council member whose attorney tried to wave off inappropriate conversations about an 11-year-old child as simply role play and fantasy. This is simply unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council also voted this week to approve an excused absence for Torres from its Oct. 8 meeting for illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElmurry has said previously that the council member does not intend to resign, but in a late addition to the council’s rules committee meeting on Wednesday, Torres submitted a memo requesting approval to be excused from the Oct. 22, 29, and Nov. 5 meetings for a 30-day leave of absence, citing the need to protect his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be taking a temporary leave of absence from the San José City Council, following my doctor’s recommendation … to focus on my mental health,” Torres wrote. “The allegations made against me have significantly impacted my emotional and mental well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his office would remain “fully operational” as his staff continues to serve residents, adding that he is “committed to returning to my duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules committee, however, did not take action on the memo, meaning it will not appear on Tuesday’s agenda to be considered by the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, a first-term council member, is not up for reelection next month, and his current term is set to end in December 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff, acknowledged that it could take until early 2025 to get a special recall election in place for District 3 residents, but he said he’d rather start this effort now in light of Torres’ declination to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo also dismissed the idea that his connection to Mahan could color this effort as a political play. He said he took a vacation day from his work in Mahan’s office to help organize Friday’s press conference and was working on the recall effort separately from his work duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a San Joséan first and foremost, I’m a father. I’m a husband. I’m a resident here in the neighborhood. I’ve been doing community advocacy work for the past 15 years,” Quevedo said. “And so this is my civic duty to get involved in this today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said Friday that they plan to deliver Torres a notice of intent to recall him soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some at the press conference said the criminal investigation just offers another reason to oust a council member they weren’t fond of already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Cohen, a real estate investor in downtown San José and a resident, said he wasn’t happy with Torres’ work before the investigation was revealed, alleging he didn’t do enough to care for the whole district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had good representation for 10 years,” Cohen said, calling the investigation into Torres “one more nail in the coffin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> residents, including a top city staffer, are beginning a campaign to recall Councilmember Omar Torres, who is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">subject of a police investigation\u003c/a> into alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents in Torres’ District 3 said Friday that they are willing to see through a potentially months-long effort to recall him from office but hope the added pressure will force him to resign immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing this because enough is enough,” Matthew Quevedo, a resident and Mayor Matt Mahan’s deputy chief of staff, said at a news conference in front of City Hall. “We are building a coalition of neighbors, parents and small-business owners to begin this recall process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, who has not been formally charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing, has faced a backlash and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009671/san-jose-mayor-and-council-call-on-councilmember-omar-torres-to-resign-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">calls for his resignation\u003c/a> from all of his council colleagues since details of the police investigation emerged this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit supporting a search warrant and GPS tracking on Torres’ car, police said they are investigating Torres on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and abnormal interest in children, a felony and a misdemeanor, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police first started looking into claims from Torres that he was being extorted by a 21-year-old man from Chicago, Terry Beeks, with whom Torres had an online sexual relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the investigation seemed to turn to focus on Torres after police found texts from Torres to Beeks in 2022 describing the genitalia of an 11-year-old boy and writing that he had performed oral sex on a 17-year-old boy while working at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-term San José Councilmember Omar Torres is facing increasing pressure to resign following a police investigation into text messages he sent referencing sexually explicit acts with a minor. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another text exchange with Beeks about having a sexual encounter, according to the affidavit, Torres asked, “U got any homies under 18.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres’ attorney, Nelson McElmurry, did not deny the authenticity of the texts but previously characterized the conversations as “outrageous fantasy and role play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has been largely absent from public view since the investigation into him was first revealed. He has missed City Council meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of other regional boards and commissions he serves on, leading the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">strip him of his assignments\u003c/a> this week and reassign those duties to other members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was present at the last City Council meeting because I wanted to ask Omar in person for his resignation. But he was not there,” Melissa Reyes, who owns downtown’s Mesquite & Oak restaurant, said at Friday’s press conference. “We need the representation. And he was nowhere to be found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Morris, co-owner of Spicy Roy’s Caribbean Grill downtown, said the criminal investigation has stopped Torres from participating in neighborhood or business association meetings, frustrating people looking to make progress on issues such as homelessness, public safety and parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall in San José, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard repeatedly the frustrations of no representation at council,” said Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff. “I’ve heard the concerns of neighbors attending meetings with a council member whose attorney tried to wave off inappropriate conversations about an 11-year-old child as simply role play and fantasy. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009039/election-2024-the-4-things-that-might-surprise-you-on-your-ballot\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estados Unidos elegirá a un nuevo presidente el 5 de noviembre de 2024. Y aparte del cargo de primer mandatario, los votantes deben elegir decenas de otros funcionarios a nivel estatal y local. Si usted vive en California y está registrado para votar, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010236/elecciones-2024-sepa-donde-votar-o-entregar-su-boleta-en-california\">ya debe de haber recibido su boleta (o papeleta) electoral por correo postal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero ojo: la boleta de estas elecciones contienen algunas sorpresas que pueden confundir a cualquiera, incluso hasta los votantes experimentados. Le explicamos qué diferencias hay en la boleta de 2024 para que esté preparado a la hora de votar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Escoga una sección para leer más:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">¿Por qué aparece dos veces la misma contienda por el Senado?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">¿Por qué aparecen fuera de orden las proposiciones estalales?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">Cuando me registré para votar, tuve que escoger un partido político. ¿Debo de votar para ese mismo partido cuando llene mi boleta?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#D\">¿Debo de completar mi boleta al 100%?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Cuando uno llene su boleta, hay algunas cosas complicadas que uno debe de tener en cuenta”, dijo Kim Alexander, presidenta de la organización California Voter Foundation. Ella explica que si alguien se siente confundido a la hora de votar, “El problema no eres tú. Es el proceso electoral, el cual es demasiado misterioso sin tener que serlo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si tiene preguntas específicas sobre las contiendas y los candidatos, le recomendamos que revise \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/guiaelectoral/\">la Guía Electoral de KQED, la cual incluye información detallada de hasta las contiendas más locales, como los concejos municipales y juntas escolares\u003c/a>.[aside postID='elections_1950' label='Guía Electoral 2024: Contiendas nacionales, estatales y del Área de la Bahía' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png' herolink='https://www.kqed.org/guiaelectoral/']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>La razón por la que la contienda por el Senado aparece dos veces en su boleta\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Su boleta le pregunta quién debe de ser el siguiente senador por California en el Senado federal. Y un poco después, aparece la misma pregunta otra vez. Pero ese no es un error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como explica \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/guiaelectoral/california/senador\">la Guía Electoral de KQED\u003c/a>, a finales de 2023. falleció la senadora por California Dianne Feinstein antes de que terminara su mandato. Por eso, el gobernador Gavin Newsom nombró a Laphonza Butler como su reemplazo. Es importante recalcar que el nombramiento de Butler es temporal y su mandato termina en diciembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el Congreso da inicio a su nueva sesión hasta enero de 2025, lo que significa que California necesita escoger a un senador para reemplazar a Butler durante el plazo de diciembre hasta enero. La primera de las dos contiendas por el Senado en su boleta es para elegir a un senador que desempeñe funciones por este corto período de tiempo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda contienda por el Senado que aparece en su boleta es para seleccionar a un senador que representará a California de enero de 2025 hasta enero de 2031, un mandato completo. Si todo esto parece muy confuso, recuerde que los candidatos son los mismos en ambas contiendas: el republicano Steve Garvey y el demócrata Adam Schiff. Cabe mencionar que no es necesario escoger el mismo candidato para ambas contiendas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/guiaelectoral/california/senador\">Lea más sobre la contienda por el Senado federal en la Guía Electoral de KQED.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Las proposiciones estatales están numeradas pero no aparecen en orden numérico\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En su boleta, aparecen 10 proposiciones estatales, las cuales tratan diferentes temas, como control de alquileres, la financiación de iniciativas climáticas y hasta los derechos de los matrimonios de parejas del mismo sexo. Cada una de estas medidas tienen un número específico para que pueda ser identificada por los votantes. Sin embargo, estos números no va del 1 al 10. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010236/elecciones-2024-sepa-donde-votar-o-entregar-su-boleta-en-california\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">The 2024 general election is almost upon us,\u003c/a> and your ballot should have arrived in your mailbox by now. (And if it hasn’t, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008332/where-is-my-ballot-missing-presidential-election-2024\">read our guide to what to do if your ballot has gone missing\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Election Day itself is Tuesday, Nov. 5, you have several options for where to vote before then — especially now that \u003ca href=\"#find\">early voting locations are opening up around the Bay Area\u003c/a> starting Saturday, Oct. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So keep reading if you’re a Bay Area resident wondering where to drop off your completed mail-in ballot, where you can vote early in person or how to find your polling place on Election Day itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re looking for information about what’s on your ballot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">take a look at KQED’s Voter Guide\u003c/a>, which unpacks ballot measures and compares candidates in every race in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">How to find my early voting site or ballot drop-off location\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where-is-my-polling-place\">How to find my polling place for Election Day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#contact-my-county-elections-office\">How to contact my county directly about voting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned you might have made a mistake when filling out your ballot, you can also read our guide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003469/election-2024-how-to-correct-a-mistake-on-your-ballot-correction\">addressing common errors on your ballot (\u003cem>before\u003c/em> you mail it)\u003c/a> — and find out how to get a fresh ballot or vote in person if you really messed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I mail my ballot through the Postal Service?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can mail your completed ballot via the U.S. Postal Service at any regular collection box. The envelope is postage paid, so it doesn’t require a stamp, and it’ll be counted as long as it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections\">postmarked by Election Day (Nov. 5) and arrives at your county registrar’s office by Nov. 12.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know about voting in the 2024 general election right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re planning to mail your ballot on Election Day, be \u003cem>very\u003c/em> sure you don’t miss the last collection time for that specific mailbox (which at many locations is 5 p.m. or earlier). You also shouldn’t drop off your ballot on Election Day at a post office that’s already closed. Doing either will mean your ballot will not be postmarked on Election Day and won’t be counted when it reaches your county’s election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I drop off my ballot in a drop box or at a voting location?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once you complete your mail-in ballot, you can drop it off at an official drop box or voting location instead of mailing it via a U.S. Postal Service collection box. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections\">Ballot drop boxes open on Oct. 8\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">Find your nearest drop box or voting location\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">.\u003c/a>[aside postID='news_12010355, news_12008419,news_12003469,news_12009039,news_12008332' label='More Election Explainers']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few reasons you might prefer to hand-deliver your completed ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Peace of mind:\u003c/strong> There’s a satisfaction that comes with knowing your ballot should now travel straight to your county elections office rather than going through USPS collection and sorting for delivery\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Timing:\u003c/strong> If Election Day is drawing near, using a drop box or a voting location to drop off your ballot directly is the best way to be sure it’ll reach your county elections office in time to be counted\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Assistance:\u003c/strong> If you drop off your ballot at a voting location during operating hours and you have a few lingering questions about your ballot or the process, chances are good that you’ll find someone there to help answer them\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how you deliver it, you can \u003ca href=\"https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/\">sign up to track your ballot’s progress with the “Where’s My Ballot?” online tool\u003c/a> and be reassured it’s on its way to being counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re still waiting to receive your ballot entirely, you can use that same tool to verify it was sent out or use \u003ca href=\"https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/\">voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008332/where-is-my-ballot-missing-presidential-election-2024\">Read more about what to do if your ballot has gone missing.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11841859 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Hand holding ballot drops it in red cardboard ballot box\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45273_002_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_JoshYule_10062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco resident drops off a mail-in ballot at a voting center near City Hall on Oct. 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>I want to vote in person. When is early voting available in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of Oct. 5, in-person voting is available at every county registrar’s office (also known as your county’s elections office) in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices\">Find your county registrar’s office and opening hours.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">early voting locations are open\u003c/a> across the Bay Area starting Oct. 26. \u003ca href=\"#where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">Find where to vote early in your county and when those locations open.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: If you’d like to cast a ballot in person, it’s a good idea to bring the blank ballot you were mailed, as some counties may require you to vote provisionally if you don’t bring it. If you’re issued a new ballot when you vote in person, any ballot you left at home will be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Provisional votes are subject to extra checks — confirming that you’re actually registered to vote in California, or that you didn’t already complete and mail your ballot — and this extra layer of confirmation takes time. That means that although your vote will eventually be counted, it might not be tallied on Election Day itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to register to vote online at \u003ca href=\"https://registertovote.ca.gov/\">registertovote.ca.gov\u003c/a> was Oct. 21, but if you missed it don’t worry: You can still \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/upcoming-elections/pres-prim-march-2024?mc_cid=638980d345&mc_eid=b5c444f6a0\">register in person\u003c/a> at your county elections office or an open voting location after that via \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/same-day-reg/\">same-day registration\u003c/a> (also known as conditional voter registration). This system enables you to fill out and submit your ballot then and there, up until when polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010355/last-chance-to-register-to-vote-california-deadline-election-2024-same-day-conditional-registration\">Read more about registering (or re-registering) to vote in person.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to voter registration, many voting locations also offer replacement ballots, accessible voting machines and language assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"where-early-vote-ballot-dropoff\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>How can I find my early voting site or ballot drop-off?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">state of California lookup tool\u003c/a>, where you will:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Enter your county (adding your city or ZIP code will give more localized results, but it’s optional)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check the “Early Voting” and/or “Drop Off Location” boxes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hit “Search” to see all the early voting and drop-off locations in that area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you vote early in your county, remember that voting hours may differ by location, and some locations may not be open every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"where-is-my-polling-place\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Where can I vote in person on Election Day?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you live in San Francisco, Contra Costa or Solano counties, you are assigned a specific polling place, though Contra Costa County election officials say they can process your ballot no matter where you show up to vote. Voting at the county registrar’s office (at City Hall, in San Francisco’s case) is still an option on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in Alameda, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara or Sonoma counties, you can vote at any voting location, known as Vote Centers, including your county registrar’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov/\">find your voting location through the state’s lookup tool\u003c/a>, although please note that this information may only become available closer to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re hoping to vote in person, be sure to check your mail-in ballot well before Election Day to see where you can vote and whether you’ve been assigned a specific polling place. And again, remember: Even if you live in a county that assigns you a particular polling place, you can still vote at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices\">your county registrar’s office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"contact-my-county-elections-office\">\u003c/a>How can I contact my county directly about voting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, elections officials are encouraging voters to reach out — early — with any questions or concerns. Here’s the contact information for your county:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acvote.org/index\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: For information about voting by mail, registration and polling place lookup, call 510-267-8683.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cocovote.us/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 925-335-7800 or email voter.services@vote.cccounty.us.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 415-473-6456 or go to the Marin County elections webpage to \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/contact-us\">send a form email\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/396/Elections\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 707-253-4321 or email the elections office at elections@countyofnapa.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 415-554-4375 or email sfvote@sfgov.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcacre.org/elections\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 888-762-8683 or email registrar@smcacre.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx\">\u003cstrong>Santa Clara\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Call toll-free at 866-430-VOTE (8683) or email registrar@rov.sccgov.org.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/rov/default.asp\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Call 707-784-6675 or 888-933-VOTE (8683). You can also email elections@solanocounty.com.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Call 707-565-6800 or toll-free at 800-750-8683.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The state also has a full list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices/\">every county elections office in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She also sits on the California Air Resources Board. Both agencies regulate refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry’s spending on the race is not about policy in Belmont, Hurt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to silence a voice on the air district board,” she said in an interview. “Big Oil is leaning in and trying to change a local election where there are no refineries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 10 years, oil companies with refineries in the Bay Area have spent large amounts on local contests in the cities where they operate. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/05/361875792/chevron-spends-big-and-loses-big-in-a-city-council-race\">2014, Chevron spent $3 million\u003c/a> to support candidates in the Richmond City Council election. An independent expenditure committee funded in large part by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843632/valero-funded-pac-pours-more-than-250000-into-benicia-mayors-race\">Valero spent hundreds of thousands of dollars\u003c/a> on City Council elections in Benicia in 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Belmont, a city of 26,000 people, has no oil refining infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the industry’s apparent interest in the race is Hurt, who was one of 19 air district board members who voted in 2021 in favor of one of the most stringent refinery pollution control rules in California history. Chevron and PBF gave up their legal attack on the new rule earlier this year, leading to a settlement worth tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2024-news/021324-announcement\">air district announced\u003c/a> the deal, the first quote came from Hurt. “The historic penalties and successful defense of our life-saving Rule 6-6 are a win for air quality in the Bay, especially those living in the Richmond and Martinez-area communities,” she said in the agency’s press release in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron refinery in Richmond on Oct. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last month, the oil industry super PAC — officially labeled the Committee for Jobs and the Economy, Sponsored by Energy Companies and Building Trades Unions Representing Working Men and Women — began sending out flyers in support of McCune, describing him as experienced, pragmatic and collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew nothing about the mailers until they started arriving in mailboxes,” McCune said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not request them, did not approve them, and did not pay for them,” he said, emphasizing that he has not received any money, support or endorsements from the political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phone number on the committee’s most recent political filings is the main number for Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a Sacramento-based law firm that has represented Republican and industry-based interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the firm nor the four oil companies funding the committee responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current election marks the first time the committee has filed campaign disclosures with the city of Belmont, according to City Clerk Jozi Plut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune does not champion oil industry interests on his campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.belmont.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/23503/638591407484370000\">statement\u003c/a> filed with the city or his \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/mccune4belmont\">campaign website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think clean air is extremely important and that clean air regulations are a very important part of making it happen,” he said in an email, emphasizing that he and Hurt have not compared policies on energy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune sits on the board of directors for Peninsula Clean Energy, a so-called community choice aggregator that provides electricity from renewable sources to San Mateo County customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There simply isn’t enough new solar and wind generation capacity coming online fast enough to achieve 100% renewable and 100% carbon-free electrical generation as fast as we would like,” he said. “I believe we will get to that future state … but it is taking longer than desired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009333 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsom2024AP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry, air quality and climate change have not been issues in the campaign so far. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/oil\">oil industry\u003c/a> is spending thousands of dollars on a local City Council race in an apparent effort to unseat an incumbent who leads the regional air district’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent expenditure committee funded by Chevron, Phillips 66, Marathon Petroleum and PBF Energy has spent $23,545 supporting Belmont Councilmember Tom McCune, according to campaign disclosure forms filed with the city as of Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the oil industry is known to spend big in election season, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/belmont\">council race\u003c/a> in a small Peninsula city with no significant oil operations might seem an odd target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McCune’s main competitor for the District 4 seat — after Belmont recently transitioned from citywide, at-large elections to district contests — is fellow Councilmember Davina Hurt, the chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District board of directors. She also sits on the California Air Resources Board. Both agencies regulate refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry’s spending on the race is not about policy in Belmont, Hurt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to silence a voice on the air district board,” she said in an interview. “Big Oil is leaning in and trying to change a local election where there are no refineries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 10 years, oil companies with refineries in the Bay Area have spent large amounts on local contests in the cities where they operate. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/05/361875792/chevron-spends-big-and-loses-big-in-a-city-council-race\">2014, Chevron spent $3 million\u003c/a> to support candidates in the Richmond City Council election. An independent expenditure committee funded in large part by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843632/valero-funded-pac-pours-more-than-250000-into-benicia-mayors-race\">Valero spent hundreds of thousands of dollars\u003c/a> on City Council elections in Benicia in 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Belmont, a city of 26,000 people, has no oil refining infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the industry’s apparent interest in the race is Hurt, who was one of 19 air district board members who voted in 2021 in favor of one of the most stringent refinery pollution control rules in California history. Chevron and PBF gave up their legal attack on the new rule earlier this year, leading to a settlement worth tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2024-news/021324-announcement\">air district announced\u003c/a> the deal, the first quote came from Hurt. “The historic penalties and successful defense of our life-saving Rule 6-6 are a win for air quality in the Bay, especially those living in the Richmond and Martinez-area communities,” she said in the agency’s press release in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron refinery in Richmond on Oct. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last month, the oil industry super PAC — officially labeled the Committee for Jobs and the Economy, Sponsored by Energy Companies and Building Trades Unions Representing Working Men and Women — began sending out flyers in support of McCune, describing him as experienced, pragmatic and collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew nothing about the mailers until they started arriving in mailboxes,” McCune said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not request them, did not approve them, and did not pay for them,” he said, emphasizing that he has not received any money, support or endorsements from the political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phone number on the committee’s most recent political filings is the main number for Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a Sacramento-based law firm that has represented Republican and industry-based interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the firm nor the four oil companies funding the committee responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current election marks the first time the committee has filed campaign disclosures with the city of Belmont, according to City Clerk Jozi Plut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune does not champion oil industry interests on his campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.belmont.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/23503/638591407484370000\">statement\u003c/a> filed with the city or his \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/mccune4belmont\">campaign website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think clean air is extremely important and that clean air regulations are a very important part of making it happen,” he said in an email, emphasizing that he and Hurt have not compared policies on energy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune sits on the board of directors for Peninsula Clean Energy, a so-called community choice aggregator that provides electricity from renewable sources to San Mateo County customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There simply isn’t enough new solar and wind generation capacity coming online fast enough to achieve 100% renewable and 100% carbon-free electrical generation as fast as we would like,” he said. “I believe we will get to that future state … but it is taking longer than desired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry, air quality and climate change have not been issues in the campaign so far. The \u003cem>San Mateo Daily Journal’\u003c/em>s report on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/incumbents-face-off-in-belmont-for-a-seat-in-district-4/article_6e3cacf6-7c80-11ef-ac08-7bb1915fd800.html\">debate \u003c/a>between Hurt and McCune focused mainly on housing, traffic congestion, youth sports and economic development. The forum touched on expanding electric vehicle and home electric appliance opportunities, but the candidates’ positions didn’t seem far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurt said that while she and McCune had slight differences on climate policies, a lot of their priorities are similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Belmont City Council race is one of two contests on the Peninsula the oil industry group has poured money into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee, which is also funded by several unions that represent refinery workers, has spent close to $60,000 in support of East Palo Alto Councilmember Lisa Gauthier in her race against East Palo Alto Mayor Antonio Lopez for a seat on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, according to campaign reports filed with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the same committee spent $95,000 backing San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups are increasingly pouring money into local elections, according to Melissa Michelson, a political scientist at Menlo College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a smaller election, the amount of money being spent is much smaller, so your money goes farther,” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transition away from at-large elections to district contests amplifies that trend. That’s especially true in Belmont’s Council District 4, which is home to just 4,505 registered voters in a residential area in the hills near Interstate 280, according to Mark Church, San Mateo County’s chief elections officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For an outside group, it’s such a bargain to get involved because it’s just a few thousand votes,” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The director of California’s mental health commission traveled to London this summer courtesy of a state vendor while he was helping to prevent a \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2024-06/all-departments-vote-only-items-05.30.2024-outcomes.pdf\">$360 million budget cut\u003c/a> that would have defunded the company’s contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails and calendars reviewed by KFF Health News show Toby Ewing, executive director of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, made efforts to protect funding for Kooth, a London-based digital mental health company the state hired to develop a virtual tool to help tackle its youth mental health crisis. Ewing pressed key legislative staffers to maintain its contract, even as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers proposed cuts in the face of California’s $45 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ewing and three commissioners — Mara Madrigal-Weiss, the commission chair; Bill Brown; and Steve Carnevale — left for London in June, Ewing wasn’t sure whether he had saved Kooth’s funding. On the second day of their trip, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244584-copy-of-trailer-emails-2\">staff informed him\u003c/a> that lawmakers had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244583-copy-of-trailer-bills-email\">restored the money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244587-more-kooth-lobbying?responsive=1&title=1\">he emailed\u003c/a> Kooth Chief Operating Officer Kate Newhouse suggestions he had shared with Assembly and Senate staff to improve Kooth’s youth teletherapy app. “We expect you to be involved in whatever we dream up,” Ewing wrote to Newhouse in another email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why Kooth picked up a $15,000 tab for state officials to travel to London. It’s also unclear why Ewing pushed to protect its app from a spending cut. The commission is a 16-member independent body appointed by various elected officials to help ensure funds from a millionaires tax are used appropriately and effectively by counties for mental health services. Kooth’s contract is with the Department of Health Care Services, which is separate from the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='health']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Kooth signed a four-year contract worth \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245478-kooth_contract_4260-2220555_final-1-5?responsive=1&title=1\">$271 \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245478-kooth_contract_4260-2220555_final-1-5?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">million \u003c/a>to\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://solunaapp.com/\">create Soluna\u003c/a>, a free mental health app for California users ages 13 to 25. The app, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hellobrightline.com/brightlifekids/\">along with another\u003c/a>, by the company Brightline, for younger users, launched in January to fill a need for young Californians and their families to access professional telehealth free of charge. It’s one component of Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/KidsMentalHealthMasterPlan_8.18.22.pdf\">$4.7 billion\u003c/a> youth mental health plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ewing, who reports to the commission, started in 2015 and earned $175,026 in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/databases/state-pay/article229468549.html\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. He was placed on \u003ca href=\"https://mhsoac.ca.gov/connect/commission-meetings/commission-meeting-september-11-2024/\">paid administrative leave\u003c/a> in September pending an investigation. Commission chief counsel Sandra Gallardo said the commission does not comment on personnel matters. Ewing did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three commission employees filed whistleblower complaints against Ewing in September with the California State Auditor. They spoke with KFF Health News on the condition that their names not be used due to fears of workplace retaliation. They say Ewing’s conduct advancing a private company’s agenda as a public official crossed a line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://mhsoac.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/October-24_Agenda_Teleconference_FINAL.pdf\">The agenda\u003c/a> for Thursday’s commission meeting listed a personnel matter to be discussed in closed session. The whistleblowers said Ewing is the subject of the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrigal-Weiss said she couldn’t comment on Ewing’s actions. However, she said the commission supports virtual mental health resources for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These resources are less expensive and have proven valuable for youth, especially those who struggle to access services in typical brick-and-mortar spaces,” said Madrigal-Weiss, who is also executive director of student wellness and school culture for the San Diego County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Carnevale didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kooth is committed to advancing youth access to behavioral health services, said Caroline Curran of Metis Communications, a public relations firm representing Kooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a leader in youth behavioral health services with over 20 years of experience in the United Kingdom and the United States, we regularly convene sector-leading organizations to facilitate learning through sharing expertise and diverse perspectives on youth behavioral health,” Curran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KFF Health News \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/california-youth-teletherapy-apps-rollout-slow/\">reported in April\u003c/a>, the Kooth and Brightline app rollouts have been slow, with few children using them. In May, Newsom proposed a $140 million budget cut. DHCS Director Michelle Baass said in \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257973\">a hearing\u003c/a> that it was due to low use but that the state expects more users to come on board over time, according to CalMatters’ Digital Democracy tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told lawmakers on May 16 that roughly 20,000 of the state’s more than 12.6 million children and young adults had registered on the apps, and they had been used for only about 2,800 coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D-Van Nuys) asked Baass at the hearing whether “there’s room to get out” of the contract altogether. Senators later \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2024-06/all-departments-vote-only-items-05.30.2024-outcomes.pdf\">voted unanimously\u003c/a> to cut the entire platform budget to save the state $360 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245061-toby-kooth-text_redacted\">texted a colleague\u003c/a> on June 3: “Kooth is freaking out. Is the cut coming from the Admin or the Leg.? Do we know if it’s a done deal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245061-toby-kooth-text_redacted\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1465784&view=activity\">lobbying records\u003c/a> show Kooth has paid around $100,000 this year to the firm Capital Advocacy. At the same time, Ewing’s emails and calendars show that he pushed for Kooth’s funding to be retained. For instance, his June 4 calendar shows he was scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245592-kooth-toby-meeting-2?responsive=1&title=1\">meet with Laura Tully\u003c/a>, an executive from Kooth USA, at a coffee shop near the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, a whistleblower said, Ewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245593-senate-meeting-1?responsive=1&title=1\">met with\u003c/a> key Senate staff members: Scott Ogus, deputy staff director of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, and Marjorie Swartz, a consultant for Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire. They said Ewing also discussed Kooth’s contract that week with Rosielyn Pulmano, a health policy consultant for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Toby kept saying that ‘California has to have a digital strategy,’” recalled the whistleblower, who attended both meetings. “He kept pushing Marjorie and Scott, saying that he would give them ideas to make the platform better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244582-copy-of-toby-kooth-suggestions-email?responsive=1&title=1\">emailed ideas\u003c/a> to the legislative aides on June 10 and 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two weeks later, he and the commissioners left for the seven-day trip to the U.K. According to documents filed with the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245068-london-fppc-801-payment-to-agency-report\">Fair Political Practices Commission\u003c/a>, receipts, and emails reviewed by KFF Health News, Kooth covered the costs of four-star hotels, meals, train tickets, and international flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public disclosure forms show Kooth paid expenses for Ewing, Madrigal-Weiss, and Brown. The forms do not show the company paid for Carnevale’s travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, state officials generally must report travel payments to the FPPC, which Ewing and his fellow commissioners did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kooth postponed a mental health investment \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244589-uk-brain-capital-summit\">conference in London\u003c/a> in June, emails and documents show, but then organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25246512-london-schedule-1\">new events\u003c/a> for the California commissioners to attend instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 23, Newhouse informed Carnevale and Ewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244586-london-trip-postponement?responsive=1&title=1\">in an email\u003c/a> that Kooth needed to postpone the planned June event. Carnevale, a venture capitalist, described the news as “disappointing for all,” especially “because we have already booked trips, including family members of Commissioners who were planning to turn this into a holiday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the disruption, Newhouse told Carnevale that she “would like to think creatively as to whether we could try to arrange a meeting where you can talk about the CYBHI,” referring to Newsom’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, though, from our conversation, that we need to cover the ‘purpose’ of your trip and not sure what is possible or not,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curran, the Kooth spokesperson, said the company “adapted by holding a knowledge exchange between representatives from international policy institutes, research foundations, and nonprofit organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrigal-Weiss defended the trip, which she said included meetings with “members of the government, service providers, education, and finance” who shared ideas on how “to enhance funds for public mental health needs” through private and philanthropic partnerships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the whistleblowers said many of the commissioners back in California were not aware of the trip until their colleagues were halfway across the world. Sami Gallegos, a spokesperson for the California Health and Human Services Agency, said the Department of Health Care Services did not participate in the travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ewing was put on leave before Kooth’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mindspark360_brain-capital-uk-summit-ugcPost-7249487039157420032-wT6q/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios\">rescheduled conference\u003c/a> this month in London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s not unusual for state officials to travel overseas — often on the dime of private entities — it doesn’t look good, said Sean McMorris, a government ethics expert with California Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like undue influence,” McMorris said. “I think a lot of people would view something like this as a way to curry favor. 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For instance, his June 4 calendar shows he was scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245592-kooth-toby-meeting-2?responsive=1&title=1\">meet with Laura Tully\u003c/a>, an executive from Kooth USA, at a coffee shop near the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, a whistleblower said, Ewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25245593-senate-meeting-1?responsive=1&title=1\">met with\u003c/a> key Senate staff members: Scott Ogus, deputy staff director of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, and Marjorie Swartz, a consultant for Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire. 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The forms do not show the company paid for Carnevale’s travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, state officials generally must report travel payments to the FPPC, which Ewing and his fellow commissioners did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kooth postponed a mental health investment \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244589-uk-brain-capital-summit\">conference in London\u003c/a> in June, emails and documents show, but then organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25246512-london-schedule-1\">new events\u003c/a> for the California commissioners to attend instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 23, Newhouse informed Carnevale and Ewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244586-london-trip-postponement?responsive=1&title=1\">in an email\u003c/a> that Kooth needed to postpone the planned June event. 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The lowest-paid jobs in the state include farmworkers, home health care aides and cashiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But arguments by business trade groups that employers would be forced to absorb a more expensive payroll by raising prices and cutting jobs — and exacerbate the state’s cost of living — seem to be sticking in the current election climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters are smart and inflation fatigued,” Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association, said in a statement. “The recent poll showing a majority of voters would vote no on Prop. 32 is encouraging given the devastating impacts it will have on family budgets and on small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some businesses may struggle temporarily to pay for higher wages, most economic studies show minimum wage raises have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007150/californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-sees-no-job-loss-slight-price-hikes\">little to no impact on employment overall\u003c/a>, though they can lead to small price increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California’s fast food industry, where a state law required most employers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001133/california-governor-touts-fast-food-job-growth-with-higher-minimum-wage\">pay at least $20 an hour\u003c/a>, researchers at UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/early-effects-of-californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-large-wage-increases-with-no-effects-on-hours-scheduling-or-benefits/\">Harvard\u003c/a> and other institutions found no job losses, as opponents in the restaurant industry had warned. Menu prices increased, but only by about 15 cents on a $4 hamburger, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://irle.berkeley.edu/publications/working-papers/sectoral-wage-setting-in-california/\">study\u003c/a> published last month by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign opposed to Proposition 32 has scared some voters, said Saru Jayaraman, president of the nonprofit One Fair Wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the doom and gloom that they predicted turned out to be true,” Jayaraman, who is part of the Yes on 32 campaign, said, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985277/impact-of-california-fast-food-worker-wage-increase-still-too-early-to-gauge\">fast food minimum wage increase\u003c/a>. “At some point, we have to realize that this is big business willing to put money into lying to people rather than put money into paying workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 32 passes, large businesses with 26 or more employees must raise their minimum pay immediately to $17 an hour and to $18 by 2025. 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Still, concerns about consumer prices remain top of mind, and a majority of Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-economic-well-being-november-2023/\">believe\u003c/a> the state’s economy could experience a downturn in the next year, according to the PPIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of Democrats said they would vote for Proposition 32 in the most recent PPIC poll, with the highest levels of support in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>Recent episodes involving major U.S. news organizations have stoked fears that outlets are preemptively self-censoring coverage that could offend former President Donald Trump, who remains neck-and-neck in the polls with Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the central media stories in the U.S. right now is the people who run big media companies making accommodations for a second Trump presidency and thinking about how to avoid antagonizing him,” Ben Smith, editor-in-chief and co-founder of the news site Semafor, tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Los Angeles Times editor resigns after owner blocks endorsement of Harris\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Semafor’s Max Tani first broke the news that the owner of the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>, Patrick Soon-Shiong, \u003ca href=\"https://www.semafor.com/article/10/22/2024/los-angeles-times-wont-endorse-for-president\">\u003cu>intervened to block the publication\u003c/u>\u003c/a> of an editorial endorsing Harris. \u003ca href=\"https://djt.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/QuvJhBzYRA?hids=mBWoTxNLy3&_nlid=rMrU4PB2Uf&_nhids=mBWoTxNLy3\">\u003cu>The Trump campaign swiftly shared the Semafor story\u003c/u>\u003c/a> with supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>L.A. Times’ \u003c/em>editorials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/g-s1-29665/la-times-editor-resigns-presidential-endorsement\">\u003cu>editor, Mariel Garza, resigned\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, saying Soon-Shiong’s decision made the paper look “craven and hypocritical.” The newspaper has endorsed Harris, a Californian who lives in Los Angeles, for public office before; the paper’s editorial pages have routinely condemned Trump’s character, policies and record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-09-10/los-angeles-times-elections-endorsements-2024-november\">\u003cu>in endorsing state and local candidates\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, the \u003cem>L.A. Times \u003c/em>editorial page said voters would confront “the most consequential election in a generation” — though, it added, it was “not just talking about the presidential race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publishers and owners have the right to weigh in on endorsements, of course, and often do so. This time, Soon-Shiong says he wanted something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, he wrote that the assignment had been to provide “clear and non-partisan information side-by-side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DrPatSoonShiong/status/1849217132183060705\">Soon-Shiong wrote\u003c/a>. “In addition, the Board was asked to provide their understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Semafor Editor Smith noted that Soon-Shiong, like many media owners, has other business interests that can be directly affected by government actions. As a physician and medical inventor, Soon-Shiong has medical \u003ca href=\"https://www.urologytimes.com/view/dr-soon-shiong-discusses-the-fda-approval-of-n-803-in-nmibc\">\u003cu>products\u003c/u>\u003c/a> subject to review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and \u003ca href=\"https://patents.justia.com/inventor/patrick-soon-shiong\">\u003cu>applies for patents to federal regulators as well\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of exposure to heavily regulated industries, I’d be very surprised if it’s something that media executives are not thinking about,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, according to Stat News, which covers science, health care and medicine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/24/trump-patrick-soon-shiong-health-care/\">\u003cu>Soon-Shiong unsuccessfully sought a senior role\u003c/u>\u003c/a> overseeing U.S. health care at the outset of the Trump administration in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> did not respond to requests for comment beyond Soon-Shiong’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Concerns at NBC over Trump documentary\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-threats-abc-cbs-60-minutes-journalists\">\u003cu>repeatedly threatened\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to strip broadcast licenses from three big television networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — in retribution for moderators fact-checking him and running mate JD Vance during debates and for news coverage that Trump claims is unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not how such federal regulation works: the Federal Communications Commission licenses local television and radio stations. However, the three broadcast networks own 80 local TV stations among them, making those licenses a pressure point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As CNN first reported, CBS News has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/media/cbs-news-trump-60-minutes-legal-threat/index.html\">\u003cu>resisted Trump’s threats of legal action\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to force the release of its full, unedited interview with Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1038.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Soboroff attends Politicon at The Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For the past decade, Donald Trump has been running a campaign against the media straight out of the playbook that authoritarians have used around the world, which is to threaten retaliation against news organizations if they don’t provide him with favorable enough coverage,” says Ian Bassin, an attorney and founder of the not-for-profit advocacy group Protect Democracy. “We are seeing now the seeds of that campaign bearing fruit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three journalists at left-leaning MSNBC told NPR that colleagues were concerned that a documentary produced by NBC News Studios about the effects of Trump’s policies on migrant families separated at the southern U.S. border will not be shown until early December, a month after Election Day. (The staffers asked for anonymity in order to discuss internal network matters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MSNBC star Rachel Maddow has been among the film’s biggest boosters internally. It is based on the reporting of NBC and MSNBC Correspondent Jacob Soboroff and directed by the noted filmmaker Errol Morris. Morris has publicly questioned the network’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is my movie not being shown on NBC prior to the election?” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/errolmorris/status/1842603262266237154\">\u003cu>Morris tweeted earlier this month\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. “It is not a partisan movie. It’s about a policy that was disgusting and should not be allowed to happen again. Make your own inferences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC News executives rejected the idea that political considerations had played any role in its programming decision about the film. MSNBC has shown another film, called \u003cem>From Russia with Lev\u003c/em>, about the allegations against Trump from an ally turned critic, Lev Parnas. Top MSNBC hosts have called Trump a “fascist” repeatedly in recent days, based on caustic characterizations from several of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/23/g-s1-29490/trump-john-kelly-fascist-dictator\">\u003cu>Trump’s former top aides\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, NBC News says it is proud of Soboroff’s film, noting it is based on reporting that previously aired on NBC and MSNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fortunate that even amid this challenging documentary climate, we have been able to obtain significant visibility at several prestigious film festivals and an expanded theatrical run, which qualifies it for major awards, including the Oscars, ahead of its television debut soon,” it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soboroff has been on the network frequently, talking about related matters. NBC News Studios says it could not air the documentary while it is being shown at various film festivals and theaters. MSNBC officials concluded it would be better not to interrupt its intensifying political coverage immediately before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lingering uncertainty over Washington Post endorsement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Washington Post’s \u003c/em>investigative reporters have been in the vanguard of exposing wrongdoing by Trump and his associates while in power. Its editorial section, which is operated separately, has been sharply critical of the former president.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12004928,news_11993255,news_11993392\"]Yet less than two weeks before Election Day, the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em>’s opinion-section staff does not know whether the paper will run an editorial endorsement for president, according to two people at the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> with knowledge. 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During the Trump administration, the Pentagon had to scrap a $10 billion cloud computing contract with Microsoft after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/804480574/amazon-wants-trump-to-testify-about-military-contract-awarded-to-microsoft\">\u003cu>Amazon filed a lawsuit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> alleging it had been passed over to punish Bezos for the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em>’s reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/trump-says-he-s-looking-very-seriously-at-pentagon-cloud-deal\">\u003cu>Trump had said publicly\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that he, personally, had been reviewing the contract, which Amazon had previously been expected to win. Ultimately, four companies, including Amazon and Microsoft, were awarded parts of the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bezos’s new chief executive and publisher at the \u003cem>Post \u003c/em>is Will Lewis, who has conservative bonafides. Lewis held the same role at Rupert Murdoch’s \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>; served as the editor of the London-based \u003cem>Telegraph\u003c/em>, which is closely allied with the Tory party; and was a consultant to Conservative Boris Johnson when Johnson was prime minister. 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Times’ \u003c/em>editorials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/g-s1-29665/la-times-editor-resigns-presidential-endorsement\">\u003cu>editor, Mariel Garza, resigned\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, saying Soon-Shiong’s decision made the paper look “craven and hypocritical.” The newspaper has endorsed Harris, a Californian who lives in Los Angeles, for public office before; the paper’s editorial pages have routinely condemned Trump’s character, policies and record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-09-10/los-angeles-times-elections-endorsements-2024-november\">\u003cu>in endorsing state and local candidates\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, the \u003cem>L.A. Times \u003c/em>editorial page said voters would confront “the most consequential election in a generation” — though, it added, it was “not just talking about the presidential race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publishers and owners have the right to weigh in on endorsements, of course, and often do so. This time, Soon-Shiong says he wanted something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, he wrote that the assignment had been to provide “clear and non-partisan information side-by-side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DrPatSoonShiong/status/1849217132183060705\">Soon-Shiong wrote\u003c/a>. “In addition, the Board was asked to provide their understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Semafor Editor Smith noted that Soon-Shiong, like many media owners, has other business interests that can be directly affected by government actions. As a physician and medical inventor, Soon-Shiong has medical \u003ca href=\"https://www.urologytimes.com/view/dr-soon-shiong-discusses-the-fda-approval-of-n-803-in-nmibc\">\u003cu>products\u003c/u>\u003c/a> subject to review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and \u003ca href=\"https://patents.justia.com/inventor/patrick-soon-shiong\">\u003cu>applies for patents to federal regulators as well\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of exposure to heavily regulated industries, I’d be very surprised if it’s something that media executives are not thinking about,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, according to Stat News, which covers science, health care and medicine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/24/trump-patrick-soon-shiong-health-care/\">\u003cu>Soon-Shiong unsuccessfully sought a senior role\u003c/u>\u003c/a> overseeing U.S. health care at the outset of the Trump administration in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> did not respond to requests for comment beyond Soon-Shiong’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Concerns at NBC over Trump documentary\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-threats-abc-cbs-60-minutes-journalists\">\u003cu>repeatedly threatened\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to strip broadcast licenses from three big television networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — in retribution for moderators fact-checking him and running mate JD Vance during debates and for news coverage that Trump claims is unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not how such federal regulation works: the Federal Communications Commission licenses local television and radio stations. However, the three broadcast networks own 80 local TV stations among them, making those licenses a pressure point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As CNN first reported, CBS News has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/media/cbs-news-trump-60-minutes-legal-threat/index.html\">\u003cu>resisted Trump’s threats of legal action\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to force the release of its full, unedited interview with Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1038.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Soboroff attends Politicon at The Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For the past decade, Donald Trump has been running a campaign against the media straight out of the playbook that authoritarians have used around the world, which is to threaten retaliation against news organizations if they don’t provide him with favorable enough coverage,” says Ian Bassin, an attorney and founder of the not-for-profit advocacy group Protect Democracy. “We are seeing now the seeds of that campaign bearing fruit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three journalists at left-leaning MSNBC told NPR that colleagues were concerned that a documentary produced by NBC News Studios about the effects of Trump’s policies on migrant families separated at the southern U.S. border will not be shown until early December, a month after Election Day. (The staffers asked for anonymity in order to discuss internal network matters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MSNBC star Rachel Maddow has been among the film’s biggest boosters internally. It is based on the reporting of NBC and MSNBC Correspondent Jacob Soboroff and directed by the noted filmmaker Errol Morris. Morris has publicly questioned the network’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is my movie not being shown on NBC prior to the election?” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/errolmorris/status/1842603262266237154\">\u003cu>Morris tweeted earlier this month\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. “It is not a partisan movie. It’s about a policy that was disgusting and should not be allowed to happen again. Make your own inferences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC News executives rejected the idea that political considerations had played any role in its programming decision about the film. MSNBC has shown another film, called \u003cem>From Russia with Lev\u003c/em>, about the allegations against Trump from an ally turned critic, Lev Parnas. Top MSNBC hosts have called Trump a “fascist” repeatedly in recent days, based on caustic characterizations from several of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/23/g-s1-29490/trump-john-kelly-fascist-dictator\">\u003cu>Trump’s former top aides\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, NBC News says it is proud of Soboroff’s film, noting it is based on reporting that previously aired on NBC and MSNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fortunate that even amid this challenging documentary climate, we have been able to obtain significant visibility at several prestigious film festivals and an expanded theatrical run, which qualifies it for major awards, including the Oscars, ahead of its television debut soon,” it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soboroff has been on the network frequently, talking about related matters. NBC News Studios says it could not air the documentary while it is being shown at various film festivals and theaters. MSNBC officials concluded it would be better not to interrupt its intensifying political coverage immediately before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lingering uncertainty over Washington Post endorsement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Washington Post’s \u003c/em>investigative reporters have been in the vanguard of exposing wrongdoing by Trump and his associates while in power. Its editorial section, which is operated separately, has been sharply critical of the former president.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet less than two weeks before Election Day, the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em>’s opinion-section staff does not know whether the paper will run an editorial endorsement for president, according to two people at the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> with knowledge. (They asked for anonymity to talk about internal matters at the paper.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time \u003cem>The Post \u003c/em>did not make an endorsement for president in the general election was 1988, according to a review of archives. The \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> has been endorsing candidates for local office this fall. \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> endorsed Harris on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Post\u003c/em> owner Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and space company Blue Origin, both of which have contracts with the federal government. During the Trump administration, the Pentagon had to scrap a $10 billion cloud computing contract with Microsoft after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/804480574/amazon-wants-trump-to-testify-about-military-contract-awarded-to-microsoft\">\u003cu>Amazon filed a lawsuit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> alleging it had been passed over to punish Bezos for the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em>’s reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/trump-says-he-s-looking-very-seriously-at-pentagon-cloud-deal\">\u003cu>Trump had said publicly\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that he, personally, had been reviewing the contract, which Amazon had previously been expected to win. Ultimately, four companies, including Amazon and Microsoft, were awarded parts of the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bezos’s new chief executive and publisher at the \u003cem>Post \u003c/em>is Will Lewis, who has conservative bonafides. Lewis held the same role at Rupert Murdoch’s \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>; served as the editor of the London-based \u003cem>Telegraph\u003c/em>, which is closely allied with the Tory party; and was a consultant to Conservative Boris Johnson when Johnson was prime minister. Colleagues have told NPR that Bezos selected Lewis in part for his ability to get along with powerful conservative political figures, including Murdoch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate spokespersons for the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Outlets from the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> to perhaps even the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> are engaging in what the historian Timothy Snyder has called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/author/ian-bassin-and-maximillian-potter\">\u003cu>anticipatory obedience\u003c/u>\u003c/a> — pulling back from their obligation, to tell the truth in order to placate the tyrant so he doesn’t come after them,” Protect Democracy’s Bassin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even though Sumaya Kaur Sidibe was just 6 years old when Kamala Harris was inaugurated as vice president, she understood the significance of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kamala Harris is Black and Indian. She was awesome because it felt great to have another Black and Asian person. I’m mixed, and I’m proud of it,” then-6-year-old Sumaya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, The California Report Magazine brought you a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856610/shes-black-and-indian-like-me-what-seeing-kamala-harris-means-to-6-year-old-sumaya-and-her-parents\">story\u003c/a> about Sumaya watching the 2021 inauguration with her two-year-old sister, Jaleela, and her parents, Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe. The Bay Area family whooped and cheered “Ka-ma-la” as the trumpets blared from the television, the kids adding some impromptu harmonica solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep telling them, ‘You know, she’s just like you. She’s Black and Indian,’” Sidibe said in 2021. “That gives the little ones more hope that they can do something like that. I mean, when you look at the history of the United States, there’s never been a woman as a vice president, especially a woman of color. That’s a big, big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and Indian woman sit next to two small children of mixed heritage looking at a screen off-camera.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sidibe-Singh Family watch the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2021: Bongo Sidibe, Jaleela Aissata Singh, Joti Singh and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (left-right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bongo Sidibe and Joti Singh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>“It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both’ ”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years later, the Singh-Sidibe family is not nearly as enthusiastic about Kamala Harris as they were on Inauguration Day 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is now 10, and her sense of her identity has developed as her family has visited relatives in India, where her maternal grandparents came from, and Guinea, where her father was born. Her family uses the term “Blazian” to describe their mixed-race daughters, and she proudly claims both Black and South Asian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Jaleela Aissata Singh, 5, and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe, 10, pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is disappointed Harris hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/14/1211483987/what-would-a-mixed-race-president-mean-for-the-u-s\">talked more about her mixed-race identity\u003c/a> as she tries to tell the nation her story on the campaign trail. She thinks Harris could have pushed back more forcefully against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059200/at-black-journalism-convention-trump-attacks-kamala-harris-racial-identity\">false claims by Donald Trump \u003c/a>that she hasn’t always been Black or that she’s monoracial, with only Indian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump’s] not mixed race, so he doesn’t know how she feels about who she is. That wasn’t cool.” Sumaya said at her home in Oakland recently. “She should have been like, ‘I am mixed race, and I’m proud of it. No one can tell me I’m not or who I am.’ It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both.’ ”\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really don’t understand that you can have two identities that are meshed into one, that you can embody being Black and Indian, that you can have both of those,” added Singh. “I think that was a moment for [Harris] to really speak to that. She’s not embracing and reaching out to the mixed-race community. She’s not like putting that at the forefront: ‘Yes, I’m one of you, and I see you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of mostly women wearing colorful clothing dance on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh leads a dance lesson at the 10th-anniversary celebration of Duniya Dance and Drum Company at Dance Mission Theater in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vijay Rakhra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sidibe-Singh family celebrates the fusion of Black and South Asian identities not only at home but in their professional lives. Singh is trained in Indian dance, Sidibe is a West African drummer. Together, they run the Bay Area-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.duniyadance.com/\">Duniya Dance and Drum Company\u003c/a>, which blends dance forms from Punjab, like bhangra, with Guinean drumming and dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010581\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An Indian woman dressed in orange and black and a Black man dressed in white playing a drum perform on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-2048x1363.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1920x1278.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe perform “Half and Halves,” a show about the history of mixed Punjabi-Mexican families in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul K. Benjamin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya and Jaleela grew up watching rehearsals, and Sumaya performed in some of the company’s shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a really powerful way for the kids to also understand and be able to embody both of the cultures where they come from and learn about these stories that are part of their ancestral stories,” Singh said. “They understand they’re not just one or the other. They don’t have to choose. They get to have both of these really, really rich cultures, and that’s a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man stands to the left side of a stage holding a drum while an Indian woman and a younger mixed race girl dance wearing purple, green and yellow clothing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh (center) dances with her daughter Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (right) as Bongo Sidibe drums (left) at a performance at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in 2022. The show, called Ghadar Geet, highlights the early 20th-century history of the Ghadar Party, which fought for India’s independence from its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amal Bisharat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Representation is not enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many Indian Americans \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ajainb/status/1847057088339726751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1847057088339726751%7Ctwgr%5Ecc8e4e0b97076a50d6a5c076c188598689ca1e59%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Fwatch-indian-americans-rolls-out-bollywood-inspired-video-to-support-kamala-harris%2Farticleshow%2F114332395.cms\">support Harris\u003c/a>, Singh is among a group of South Asian progressives who say she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-5131223/some-indian-american-democrats-see-themselves-in-harris-others-see-the-limits\">doesn’t reflect their priorities\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>The conflict in Gaza is the issue that’s really dampened the Sidibe-Singh family’s enthusiasm for the Harris campaign. They’ve taken their kids to protests. Signs reading ‘Asians for a Liberated Palestine’ and ‘Black Power for Palestinian Resistance’ hang in their front window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young mixed race girls stand and sit playing the drums next to an Indian woman and Black man.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family practices drumming in their backyard in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s my main concern,” Sidibe said. “Is she going to try to help stop the war in Palestine? Is she going to stop sending weapons to Israel?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his opposition to Donald Trump, Sidibe is unsure he’ll vote for Harris. Singh has decided to vote third party instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting messages about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000525/water-at-22-oakland-schools-tested-high-for-lead-its-no-surprise-parents-and-teachers-say\">lead being in the water at schools\u003c/a> [in Oakland]. It’s just so infuriating that on our local level, we’re dealing with these issues, and we have to read every day about how our president, our vice president, our Congress is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel,” Singh said. “I don’t have any faith that [Harris] is going to change that. People have just given her their vote so easily without even holding her accountable for these things. ‘But she’s not Donald Trump.’ That’s not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Kamala Harris is Black and Indian and from Oakland, just like her kids, representation only goes so far, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to peel away layers and look deeper,” she said. “Honestly, if we had a candidate that was closer to my values but was a white man, I would vote for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sumaya, she’s just frustrated that, as a 10-year-old, she doesn’t get to cast a ballot. But if she could, she would vote for Harris over Trump and hand Harris a list of priorities to tackle as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Peace and human rights. Human rights are like free health care for everybody. Food and shelter for everybody,” she said. “No one [should be] discriminated against just because they’re them. And [the president should be] inspiring or encouraging people to show who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even though Sumaya Kaur Sidibe was just 6 years old when Kamala Harris was inaugurated as vice president, she understood the significance of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kamala Harris is Black and Indian. She was awesome because it felt great to have another Black and Asian person. I’m mixed, and I’m proud of it,” then-6-year-old Sumaya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, The California Report Magazine brought you a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856610/shes-black-and-indian-like-me-what-seeing-kamala-harris-means-to-6-year-old-sumaya-and-her-parents\">story\u003c/a> about Sumaya watching the 2021 inauguration with her two-year-old sister, Jaleela, and her parents, Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe. The Bay Area family whooped and cheered “Ka-ma-la” as the trumpets blared from the television, the kids adding some impromptu harmonica solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep telling them, ‘You know, she’s just like you. She’s Black and Indian,’” Sidibe said in 2021. “That gives the little ones more hope that they can do something like that. I mean, when you look at the history of the United States, there’s never been a woman as a vice president, especially a woman of color. That’s a big, big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and Indian woman sit next to two small children of mixed heritage looking at a screen off-camera.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/PXL_20210120_165110631-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sidibe-Singh Family watch the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2021: Bongo Sidibe, Jaleela Aissata Singh, Joti Singh and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (left-right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bongo Sidibe and Joti Singh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>“It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both’ ”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years later, the Singh-Sidibe family is not nearly as enthusiastic about Kamala Harris as they were on Inauguration Day 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is now 10, and her sense of her identity has developed as her family has visited relatives in India, where her maternal grandparents came from, and Guinea, where her father was born. Her family uses the term “Blazian” to describe their mixed-race daughters, and she proudly claims both Black and South Asian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Jaleela Aissata Singh, 5, and Sumaya Kaur Sidibe, 10, pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya is disappointed Harris hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/14/1211483987/what-would-a-mixed-race-president-mean-for-the-u-s\">talked more about her mixed-race identity\u003c/a> as she tries to tell the nation her story on the campaign trail. She thinks Harris could have pushed back more forcefully against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059200/at-black-journalism-convention-trump-attacks-kamala-harris-racial-identity\">false claims by Donald Trump \u003c/a>that she hasn’t always been Black or that she’s monoracial, with only Indian heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump’s] not mixed race, so he doesn’t know how she feels about who she is. That wasn’t cool.” Sumaya said at her home in Oakland recently. “She should have been like, ‘I am mixed race, and I’m proud of it. No one can tell me I’m not or who I am.’ It would have been really great for her to say, ‘I’m both.’ ”\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really don’t understand that you can have two identities that are meshed into one, that you can embody being Black and Indian, that you can have both of those,” added Singh. “I think that was a moment for [Harris] to really speak to that. She’s not embracing and reaching out to the mixed-race community. She’s not like putting that at the forefront: ‘Yes, I’m one of you, and I see you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of mostly women wearing colorful clothing dance on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Vijay-Rakhra-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh leads a dance lesson at the 10th-anniversary celebration of Duniya Dance and Drum Company at Dance Mission Theater in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vijay Rakhra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sidibe-Singh family celebrates the fusion of Black and South Asian identities not only at home but in their professional lives. Singh is trained in Indian dance, Sidibe is a West African drummer. Together, they run the Bay Area-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.duniyadance.com/\">Duniya Dance and Drum Company\u003c/a>, which blends dance forms from Punjab, like bhangra, with Guinean drumming and dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010581\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An Indian woman dressed in orange and black and a Black man dressed in white playing a drum perform on a stage.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-2048x1363.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Paul-K-Benjamin-1920x1278.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe perform “Half and Halves,” a show about the history of mixed Punjabi-Mexican families in California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul K. Benjamin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sumaya and Jaleela grew up watching rehearsals, and Sumaya performed in some of the company’s shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a really powerful way for the kids to also understand and be able to embody both of the cultures where they come from and learn about these stories that are part of their ancestral stories,” Singh said. “They understand they’re not just one or the other. They don’t have to choose. They get to have both of these really, really rich cultures, and that’s a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man stands to the left side of a stage holding a drum while an Indian woman and a younger mixed race girl dance wearing purple, green and yellow clothing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Amal-Bisharat-4-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joti Singh (center) dances with her daughter Sumaya Kaur Sidibe (right) as Bongo Sidibe drums (left) at a performance at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in 2022. The show, called Ghadar Geet, highlights the early 20th-century history of the Ghadar Party, which fought for India’s independence from its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amal Bisharat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Representation is not enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many Indian Americans \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ajainb/status/1847057088339726751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1847057088339726751%7Ctwgr%5Ecc8e4e0b97076a50d6a5c076c188598689ca1e59%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Fwatch-indian-americans-rolls-out-bollywood-inspired-video-to-support-kamala-harris%2Farticleshow%2F114332395.cms\">support Harris\u003c/a>, Singh is among a group of South Asian progressives who say she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-5131223/some-indian-american-democrats-see-themselves-in-harris-others-see-the-limits\">doesn’t reflect their priorities\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>The conflict in Gaza is the issue that’s really dampened the Sidibe-Singh family’s enthusiasm for the Harris campaign. They’ve taken their kids to protests. Signs reading ‘Asians for a Liberated Palestine’ and ‘Black Power for Palestinian Resistance’ hang in their front window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young mixed race girls stand and sit playing the drums next to an Indian woman and Black man.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-30_QED-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family practices drumming in their backyard in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s my main concern,” Sidibe said. “Is she going to try to help stop the war in Palestine? Is she going to stop sending weapons to Israel?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his opposition to Donald Trump, Sidibe is unsure he’ll vote for Harris. Singh has decided to vote third party instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting messages about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000525/water-at-22-oakland-schools-tested-high-for-lead-its-no-surprise-parents-and-teachers-say\">lead being in the water at schools\u003c/a> [in Oakland]. It’s just so infuriating that on our local level, we’re dealing with these issues, and we have to read every day about how our president, our vice president, our Congress is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel,” Singh said. “I don’t have any faith that [Harris] is going to change that. People have just given her their vote so easily without even holding her accountable for these things. ‘But she’s not Donald Trump.’ That’s not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009593\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241014_MIXEDREVISITED_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Singh-Sidibe family pose for a portrait at their home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Kamala Harris is Black and Indian and from Oakland, just like her kids, representation only goes so far, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to peel away layers and look deeper,” she said. “Honestly, if we had a candidate that was closer to my values but was a white man, I would vote for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sumaya, she’s just frustrated that, as a 10-year-old, she doesn’t get to cast a ballot. But if she could, she would vote for Harris over Trump and hand Harris a list of priorities to tackle as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In January 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/\">seven of the 11 California Republicans in Congress\u003c/a> refused to certify the 2020 presidential election results, boosting former President Donald Trump’s false claim that he lost in a rigged vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as Trump attempts a return to the White House, only a third of California’s Republican U.S. representatives have pledged to certify the results this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only four of the 12 GOP incumbents — who are all seeking another term — have promised to uphold the election results. Of the three GOP challengers in California’s most competitive districts, two — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009870/dave-min-scott-baugh-vie-for-competitive-orange-county-house-seat\">Scott Baugh in Orange County\u003c/a> and Kevin Lincoln in the Central Valley — made the same pledge in response to a CalMatters inquiry. And in California’s U.S. Senate race, GOP candidate Steve Garvey made the commitment in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/senate-debate-california/\">February\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refusal to commit by most GOP congressional candidates comes as Trump and his allies are already casting doubt on the outcome of the November election, stoking fear among election officials of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-workers-2024-threats-security-police-trump-kamala-biden-steal-c4f27414a5a90b67983b0349a370dd13\">disruptions and violence\u003c/a>. Trump has peddled unsubstantiated claims about widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/politics/republicans-noncitizen-voting-elections-trump/index.html\">voting by non-citizens\u003c/a>, argued that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/fact-check-trump-election-lies-2024/index.html\">only win if the Democrats cheat\u003c/a> and questioned the constitutionality of Democrats replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote by Congress to count all electoral votes that are already certified by each state is the final step in electing a president. Usually a formality, it was anything but after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Early the next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/\">147 Republican members of Congress\u003c/a> voted to object to the counting of Electoral College votes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/07/954380156/here-are-the-republicans-who-objected-to-the-electoral-college-count\">either Arizona or Pennsylvania, or both\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 44 California Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate at the time voted to certify the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of California’s current Republican members of Congress were in office, but only Rep. Young Kim — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-13/orange-county-house-election-results-young-kim-wins\">flipped her northern Orange County seat in 2020\u003c/a> — voted to certify the results without casting doubt on the election outcome. “The constitution does not give Congress the authority to overturn elections. To take such action would undermine the authority of the states,” she said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youngkim.house.gov/2021/01/05/young-kim-statement-joint-session-congress/\">statement \u003c/a>in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told CalMatters she plans to uphold the results of this election as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12010969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Kim talking to Republicans at the California GOP Convention in Indian Wells in 2019. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Tom McClintock was the only other California Republican to vote to certify the election. But \u003ca href=\"https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/columns/respecting-an-imperfect-system\">he said\u003c/a> it was because he believed Congress did not have the constitutional authority to reject the electoral votes — not because he didn’t have concerns about how the election was conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2020, however, McClintock was one of four California Republicans in Congress to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163550/20201211132250339_Texas%20v.%20Pennsylvania%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20126%20Representatives%20--%20corrected.pdf\">challenge the election outcome in Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, arguing that mail balloting “invites fraud and incubates suspicion of fraud” and claiming that “ballot harvesters” collected ballots with “no chain of custody.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-usa-mules-idUSL2N2XJ0OQ/\">Multiple fact checks\u003c/a> found \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-false-claims-debunked-2020-election-jan-6-riot-2022-01-06/\">no evidence\u003c/a> that there was widespread ballot harvesting or voter fraud during the 2020 election, and courts rejected more than 50 lawsuits Trump and his allies brought to challenge the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock told CalMatters he will vote to uphold the electoral votes for the upcoming election. “Congress’ only role in the matter is to witness the counting of the ballots. Period,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4573\">Electoral Count Reform Act\u003c/a>, which made it more difficult for Congress to object to election results and clarified the vote-counting process. All California Republican incumbents who were in office at the time voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with that new guardrail, political experts say efforts to overturn the election are to be expected now. That’s a stark departure from a decade ago, said Kim Nalder, a political science professor at California State University in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really kind of horrifying that we’ve normalized this abnormal sort of situation,” she said. “We can’t survive with this level of distrust in our basic institutions, and I don’t know what will give to change that, but something has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran lobbyist Chris Micheli said the presidential election results could be challenged again, partly because of how close\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/21/harris-trump-post-schar-school-poll/\"> polls say the race is in seven battleground states\u003c/a>. Both Harris and Trump are preparing legal teams in the case of a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a dark period of American history, both what transpired on Jan. 6, but also earlier that prior December, when members of Congress voted against certifying the election of the clear victor in the presidential election,” Micheli said. “Those votes raised the ire of a lot of voters, particularly in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Republican Party is confident that the election results will be certified, spokesperson Ellie Hockenbury said in a statement to CalMatters. Still, the party is preparing for issues that may arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make sure we didn’t leave anything to chance,” she said, the national and state GOP “have invested heavily in an \u003ca href=\"https://cagop.org/election-integrity/\">Election Integrity operation\u003c/a> to ensure that all concerns are addressed in real-time and that Californians can cast a ballot with confidence that it will be received and counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Republican Party is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/donald-trump-california-republicans/\">firmly behind Trump\u003c/a>, who — despite losing to Biden 63% to 34% in 2020 — still won \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president\">more votes in California than any other state\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2024/\">new Public Policy Institute of California poll\u003c/a> released Wednesday night, Harris leads Trump 59% to 33% among likely voters. But in the swing congressional districts, likely voters are generally evenly divided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ken Calvert, who represents the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/us-house/#district-41\">41st District in Riverside County\u003c/a>, is the only California Republican member of Congress to commit to certifying the presidential election results this time after objecting four years ago. 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David Valadao and Michelle Steel missed the vote in 2021. Steel said she \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/01/07/heres-how-california-representatives-voted-on-certifying-bidens-election-and-who-is-calling-for-trumps-removal/\">had tested positive for COVID-19\u003c/a>, while Valadao \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/david-valadao-covid-coronavirus/9265460/\">had not been sworn in yet\u003c/a> because he also tested positive. However, Valadao said\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepDavidValadao/status/1346872202298355715\"> on social media\u003c/a> he would have voted to certify the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three incumbents who took office in 2023 will face that decision for the first time if they win re-election. But not everyone is answering the question: Rep. John Duarte — a Modesto farmer \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/us-house/#district-13\">facing a fierce challenge\u003c/a> from Democrat Adam Gray — is the only one to state his position publicly, telling The Sacramento Bee he would vote to certify the presidential election. (Duarte did not respond to a CalMatters inquiry.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reps. Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong, Doug LaMalfa, Darrell Issa and Mike Garcia, as well as Obernolte and Valadao, also did not respond to CalMatters inquiries. Matt Gunderson, a candidate for the toss-up 49th District in San Diego County, did not respond to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are reluctant to speak publicly about the issue because they’re concerned about losing votes from Trump supporters, strategists say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It puts Republicans in competitive districts in a difficult position,” said Jon Fleischman, former executive director of the California Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, they’re going to vote to certify the election results, but they don’t really want to inflame the conservative grassroots side either because they need them for their Get Out the Vote. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Early the next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/politics/congress-electoral-college-count-tracker/\">147 Republican members of Congress\u003c/a> voted to object to the counting of Electoral College votes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/07/954380156/here-are-the-republicans-who-objected-to-the-electoral-college-count\">either Arizona or Pennsylvania, or both\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 44 California Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate at the time voted to certify the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of California’s current Republican members of Congress were in office, but only Rep. 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To take such action would undermine the authority of the states,” she said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youngkim.house.gov/2021/01/05/young-kim-statement-joint-session-congress/\">statement \u003c/a>in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told CalMatters she plans to uphold the results of this election as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12010969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/DSCF0776_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Kim talking to Republicans at the California GOP Convention in Indian Wells in 2019. 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But \u003ca href=\"https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/columns/respecting-an-imperfect-system\">he said\u003c/a> it was because he believed Congress did not have the constitutional authority to reject the electoral votes — not because he didn’t have concerns about how the election was conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2020, however, McClintock was one of four California Republicans in Congress to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163550/20201211132250339_Texas%20v.%20Pennsylvania%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20126%20Representatives%20--%20corrected.pdf\">challenge the election outcome in Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, arguing that mail balloting “invites fraud and incubates suspicion of fraud” and claiming that “ballot harvesters” collected ballots with “no chain of custody.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-usa-mules-idUSL2N2XJ0OQ/\">Multiple fact checks\u003c/a> found \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-false-claims-debunked-2020-election-jan-6-riot-2022-01-06/\">no evidence\u003c/a> that there was widespread ballot harvesting or voter fraud during the 2020 election, and courts rejected more than 50 lawsuits Trump and his allies brought to challenge the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock told CalMatters he will vote to uphold the electoral votes for the upcoming election. “Congress’ only role in the matter is to witness the counting of the ballots. 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In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2024/\">new Public Policy Institute of California poll\u003c/a> released Wednesday night, Harris leads Trump 59% to 33% among likely voters. But in the swing congressional districts, likely voters are generally evenly divided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ken Calvert, who represents the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/us-house/#district-41\">41st District in Riverside County\u003c/a>, is the only California Republican member of Congress to commit to certifying the presidential election results this time after objecting four years ago. He also joined in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163550/20201211132250339_Texas%20v.%20Pennsylvania%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20126%20Representatives%20--%20corrected.pdf\">court brief\u003c/a> challenging Pennsylvania’s results in 2020 and advocated for a “thorough investigation” of \u003ca href=\"https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-statement-counting-electoral-college-votes\">voter fraud allegations\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calvert’s campaign did not say why his position has shifted from four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jay Obernolte, who voted to object to the count, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2022/01/05/what-southern-california-house-republicans-say-about-jan-6-riot-one-year-later/amp/\">told Southern California News Group\u003c/a> in 2022 that he still had “serious constitutional reservations about the things that happened in those two states” — Arizona and Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reps. 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