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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>LIVE NPR updates on this story can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/trump-shooting\">here\u003c/a>. LIVE AP updates can be found \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:50 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> appeared to be the target of an assassination attempt as he spoke during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, two law enforcement officials said. The former president, his ear covered in blood from what he said was a gunshot, was quickly pulled away by Secret Service agents and his campaign said he was “fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local prosecutor said the suspected gunman and at least one attendee are dead. The Secret Service said two spectators were critically injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posting on his Truth Social media site about two and a half hours after the shooting, Trump said a bullet “pierced the upper part of my right ear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” he said in the post. “Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack, by a shooter who law enforcement officials say was then killed by the Secret Service, was the first attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. It comes amid a deeply polarized political atmosphere, just four months from the presidential elections and days before Trump is to be officially named the Republican nominee at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/republican-national-convention\">his party’s convention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. “He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Secret Service said the suspected shooter fired from “an elevated position outside of the rally venue.” Trump is “safe and being evaluated,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no place in America for this type of violence,” President Joe Biden, who is running against Trump as the presumptive Democratic nominee, said in remarks. “It’s sick. It’s sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. They said the shooter was not an attendee at the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officials said the shooter was engaged by members of the U.S. Secret Service counterassault team. The heavily armed tactical team travels everywhere with the president and major party nominees and is meant to confront any active threats while other agents focus on safeguarding and evacuating the person at the center of protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993932\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement recovered an AR-style rifle at the scene, according to a third person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still not clear yet whether Trump was struck by gunfire or was injured as he was pulled to the ground by agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department oversees the Secret Service, said officials were engaged with the Biden and Trump campaigns and “taking every possible measure to ensure their safety and security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">A rally disrupted by gunfire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers during his last rally before the Republican National Convention opens Monday when the apparent shots began just after 6:10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two minutes from the moment of the first shot for Trump to be placed in a waiting SUV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Trump was talking, a popping sound was heard, and the former president put his right hand up to his right ear, as people in the stands behind him appeared to be shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is shown covered by US Secret Service agents after an incident during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the first pop rang out, Trump said, “Oh,” and grabbed his ear as two more pops could be heard and he crouched down. More shots are heard then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone could be heard saying near the microphone at Trump’s lectern, “Get down, get down, get down, get down!” as agents tackled the former president. They piled atop him to shield him with their bodies, as is their training protocol, as other agents took up positions on stage to search for the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Screams were heard in the crowd of several thousand people. A woman is heard screaming louder than the rest. Afterward, voices were heard saying “shooter’s down” several times, before someone asks “are we good to move?” and “are we clear?” Then, someone ordered, “Let’s move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could be heard on the video saying at least twice, “Let me get my shoes, let me get my shoes,” with another voice heard saying, “I’ve got you sir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump got to his feet moments later and could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his face. There appeared to be blood on his face. He then pumped his fist in the air and appeared to mouth the word “Fight” twice his crowd of supporters, prompting loud cheers and then chants of “USA. USA. USA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His motorcade left the venue moments later. Video showed Trump turning back to the crowd and raising a fist right before he is put into a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporters covering the rally heard five or six shots ring out and many ducked for cover, hiding under tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement officers tend to a man at republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the first two or three bangs, people in the crowd looked startled, but not panicked. An AP reporter at the scene reported the noise sounded like firecrackers at first or perhaps a car backfiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then there were more shots. Panic set in as people realized what was happening. Shouts of “Get down!” rang through the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was clear the situation had been contained and that Trump would not be returning to speak, attendees started filing out of the venue. One man in an electric wheelchair got stuck on the field when his chair’s battery died. Others tried to help him move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police soon told the people remaining to leave the venue and U.S. Secret Service agents told reporters to get “out now. This is a live crime scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two firefighters from nearby Steubenville, Ohio, who were at the rally told the AP that they helped people who appeared injured and heard bullets hitting broadcast speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bullets rattled around the grandstand, one hit the speaker tower and then chaos broke. We hit the ground and then the police converged into the grandstands, said Chris Takach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I heard is a couple of cracks,” Dave Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan said he saw one of the speakers get hit and bullets rattling and, “we hit the deck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said once Secret Service and other authorities converged on Trump, he and Takach assisted two people who may have been shot in the grandstand and cleared a path to get them out of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a sad day for America,” Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993977\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Secret Service member and members of the crowd are seen at republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After we heard the shots got fired, then the hydraulic line was spraying all around, you could see the hydraulic fluid coming out of it. And then the speaker tower started to fall down,” Sullivan said. “Then we heard another shot that, you could hear, you knew something was, it was bullets. It wasn’t firecrackers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t super loud shots,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear it landing, ammunition landing, on metal,” Takach added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they took cover behind a farm tractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan said they were concerned for Trump and saw him stand up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got up and he gave a motion he was OK,” Sullivan said, raising a fist as Trump had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Political violence again shakes America\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The perils of campaigning took on a new urgency after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California in 1968, and again in 1972 when Arthur Bremer shot and seriously hurt George Wallace, who was running as an independent on a campaign platform that has sometimes been compared to Trump’s. That led to increased protection of candidates, even as the threats persisted, notably against Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidents, particularly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, have even greater layers of security. Trump is a rarity as both a former president and a current candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993979\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986-800x461.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986-1020x588.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986-160x92.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members duck in the crowd during a shooting attempt at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump at Butler Farm Show Inc. on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biden was briefed on the incident, the White House said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” he said in the post. “Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack, by a shooter who law enforcement officials say was then killed by the Secret Service, was the first attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. It comes amid a deeply polarized political atmosphere, just four months from the presidential elections and days before Trump is to be officially named the Republican nominee at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/republican-national-convention\">his party’s convention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. “He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922001-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Secret Service said the suspected shooter fired from “an elevated position outside of the rally venue.” Trump is “safe and being evaluated,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no place in America for this type of violence,” President Joe Biden, who is running against Trump as the presumptive Democratic nominee, said in remarks. “It’s sick. It’s sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. They said the shooter was not an attendee at the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officials said the shooter was engaged by members of the U.S. Secret Service counterassault team. The heavily armed tactical team travels everywhere with the president and major party nominees and is meant to confront any active threats while other agents focus on safeguarding and evacuating the person at the center of protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993932\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161922155-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement recovered an AR-style rifle at the scene, according to a third person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still not clear yet whether Trump was struck by gunfire or was injured as he was pulled to the ground by agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department oversees the Secret Service, said officials were engaged with the Biden and Trump campaigns and “taking every possible measure to ensure their safety and security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">A rally disrupted by gunfire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers during his last rally before the Republican National Convention opens Monday when the apparent shots began just after 6:10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two minutes from the moment of the first shot for Trump to be placed in a waiting SUV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Trump was talking, a popping sound was heard, and the former president put his right hand up to his right ear, as people in the stands behind him appeared to be shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161923076-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is shown covered by US Secret Service agents after an incident during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the first pop rang out, Trump said, “Oh,” and grabbed his ear as two more pops could be heard and he crouched down. More shots are heard then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone could be heard saying near the microphone at Trump’s lectern, “Get down, get down, get down, get down!” as agents tackled the former president. They piled atop him to shield him with their bodies, as is their training protocol, as other agents took up positions on stage to search for the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Screams were heard in the crowd of several thousand people. A woman is heard screaming louder than the rest. Afterward, voices were heard saying “shooter’s down” several times, before someone asks “are we good to move?” and “are we clear?” Then, someone ordered, “Let’s move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could be heard on the video saying at least twice, “Let me get my shoes, let me get my shoes,” with another voice heard saying, “I’ve got you sir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump got to his feet moments later and could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his face. There appeared to be blood on his face. He then pumped his fist in the air and appeared to mouth the word “Fight” twice his crowd of supporters, prompting loud cheers and then chants of “USA. USA. USA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His motorcade left the venue moments later. Video showed Trump turning back to the crowd and raising a fist right before he is put into a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporters covering the rally heard five or six shots ring out and many ducked for cover, hiding under tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925454-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement officers tend to a man at republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the first two or three bangs, people in the crowd looked startled, but not panicked. An AP reporter at the scene reported the noise sounded like firecrackers at first or perhaps a car backfiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then there were more shots. Panic set in as people realized what was happening. Shouts of “Get down!” rang through the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was clear the situation had been contained and that Trump would not be returning to speak, attendees started filing out of the venue. One man in an electric wheelchair got stuck on the field when his chair’s battery died. Others tried to help him move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police soon told the people remaining to leave the venue and U.S. Secret Service agents told reporters to get “out now. This is a live crime scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two firefighters from nearby Steubenville, Ohio, who were at the rally told the AP that they helped people who appeared injured and heard bullets hitting broadcast speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bullets rattled around the grandstand, one hit the speaker tower and then chaos broke. We hit the ground and then the police converged into the grandstands, said Chris Takach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I heard is a couple of cracks,” Dave Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan said he saw one of the speakers get hit and bullets rattling and, “we hit the deck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said once Secret Service and other authorities converged on Trump, he and Takach assisted two people who may have been shot in the grandstand and cleared a path to get them out of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a sad day for America,” Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993977\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161925664-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Secret Service member and members of the crowd are seen at republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After we heard the shots got fired, then the hydraulic line was spraying all around, you could see the hydraulic fluid coming out of it. And then the speaker tower started to fall down,” Sullivan said. “Then we heard another shot that, you could hear, you knew something was, it was bullets. It wasn’t firecrackers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t super loud shots,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear it landing, ammunition landing, on metal,” Takach added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they took cover behind a farm tractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan said they were concerned for Trump and saw him stand up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got up and he gave a motion he was OK,” Sullivan said, raising a fist as Trump had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Political violence again shakes America\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The perils of campaigning took on a new urgency after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California in 1968, and again in 1972 when Arthur Bremer shot and seriously hurt George Wallace, who was running as an independent on a campaign platform that has sometimes been compared to Trump’s. That led to increased protection of candidates, even as the threats persisted, notably against Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidents, particularly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, have even greater layers of security. Trump is a rarity as both a former president and a current candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993979\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986-800x461.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986-1020x588.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161929986-160x92.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members duck in the crowd during a shooting attempt at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump at Butler Farm Show Inc. on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biden was briefed on the incident, the White House said. He received an updated briefing from Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the United States Secretary Service, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told reporters after 8 p.m. that he hadn’t been able to reach Trump yet but was briefed that the former president was “doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope I get to speak to him tonight,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump Jr. posted a photo on X of Trump, his fist raised and his face bloody in front of an American flag, with the words: “He’ll never stop fighting to Save America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the three men on Trump’s shortlist for vice president, all quickly sent out statements expressing concern for the former president, with Rubio sharing an image taken as Trump was escorted off stage with his fist in the air and a streak of blood on his face along with the words “God protected President Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said in a statement on X that he had been briefed on the situation and Pennsylvania state police were on hand at the rally site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violence targeted at any political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable. It has no place in Pennsylvania or the United States,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area reactions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bay Area elected leaders were quick to denounce all forms of political violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Eric Swalwell posted on social media that “Political violence is NEVER the answer…” saying “what happened today is absolutely despicable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on X, formerly known as Twitter, Congressman Ro Khanna wrote: “I am absolutely appalled by the gun shots fired at Donald Trump. Violence is never acceptable in our democracy. I pray he was not seriously hurt and for our deeply divided nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mired in a stream of multibillion dollar budget deficits, the California Legislature on Wednesday turned to voters for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers voted to place a pair of $10 billion bonds on the November ballot. If approved, the money would pay for the building of new schools and help communities prepare for the impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was swimming in money \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-california-gavin-newsom-5aa5ab19800a5e91c209ff1268ac40bc\">just a few years ago\u003c/a> as budget surpluses totaled well over $100 billion through the pandemic. But the state \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-budget-deficit-229cca6cef2165c15ab1841db9f75fe0\">had to slash spending\u003c/a> to cover deficits totaling more than $78 billion over the past two years as revenues declined amid rising inflation and an economic slowdown in the state’s pivotal technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money from the bonds would backfill some of those cuts, plus pay for a slew of priority projects up and down the state for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the money isn’t free. The climate bond alone will cost taxpayers more than $19 billion to pay off, with annual payments of $650 million per year, putting more pressure on the state’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Gov. Gavin Newsom meeting with President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic governors in Washington, Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire signed the bills into law as acting governor, capping a raucous evening session of the Legislature that was disrupted multiple times by Israel-Hamas war protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asking voters for permission to borrow large sums of money is always risky, particularly when doing it multiple times in the same election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the two statewide ballots, voters will likely be asked to approve hundreds of local borrowing proposals — including a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/us-news/california-general-news-bce8b8f7064347cfd9c056c0b73971fb\">massive $20 billion housing bond\u003c/a> for the nine counties that surround the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent history suggests voters are tiring of these bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, despite a history of approving statewide school bonds, voters \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/c2392907a555d4f39bd7a82\">rejected a $15 billion education borrowing proposal\u003c/a> — what would have been the largest in state history. 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But he used some of Trump’s most incendiary statements to offer a dark contrast of the choice facing Americans in November, comparing it to the eve of World War II when “fascism spread its hate and destruction throughout Europe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they speak of immigrants poisoning American blood and of mass deportations and detention camps, this is the language of destruction — of 1939,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made those comments about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” during a campaign rally in Iowa last year, later \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-hitler-poison-blood-history-f8c3ff512edd120252596a4743324352\">saying he did not know\u003c/a> that Adolf Hitler had once said something similar. Still, the comments have become a key talking point for the left as they paint Trump’s candidacy as a warning for a dark future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political tone of Newsom’s speech was not surprising given his role as one of the Biden campaign’s top surrogates, which has made him a target of Republicans who have repeatedly held up California as an example of Democrats’ mismanagement. They have pointed to the state’s $46.8 billion budget deficit, high tax rates, large homeless population and the proliferation of property crimes in its largest cities — acts which have been captured in viral social media clips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Newsom’s speech was devoted to pushing back against that narrative, referring to “delusional California bashers” whose “success depends on our failure.” He noted California’s violent crime rate is about half of what it was at its peak in 1992. He said property crime in San Francisco has fallen, as has the overall crime rate across the bay in Oakland — where Newsom recently deployed 120 California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s because, in California, we take public safety seriously — a problem to solve, not just to flog on cable news,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On homelessness, Newsom pointed to the more active role the state has taken under his administration, including spending billions of dollars to create programs that provided 15,300 units of housing and provided shelter for more than 71,000 people. However, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homeless-audit-spending-8c8c8ce6cd9fc6840e180a99fccff588\">state audit\u003c/a> released earlier this year chided his administration for not tracking how effective the state’s homelessness spending — more than $24 billion over five years — has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom defended his decision to sign a law \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homeless-audit-spending-8c8c8ce6cd9fc6840e180a99fccff588\">raising the minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast food workers to $20 an hour, a raise businesses have blamed for increasing customer costs. He also boasted about California’s economy, which, were it an independent country, would rank as the fifth largest in the world—saying California has added 63,000 new millionaires since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here is a simple question for Republicans: If California is a failed state, why are four of the seven most valuable companies in the world based here?” he said, referring to Apple, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-chip-ai-apple-microsoft-51cc2b56e5871111907de6ad9cab59ae\">Nvidia\u003c/a>, and the parent companies of Google and Facebook. “The best minds in the world call California home because they’re liberated from the constraints of conformity and tradition. This is true freedom — to invent and make the world a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101906125,news_11983845,news_11989427\"]Newsom chose to deliver a speech for the smartphone era, opting to upload a prerecorded video across his social media channels instead of giving a formal speech before a packed house of state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor, now in his second term, has never been a big fan of formal speeches, given the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-business-gavin-newsom-childrens-books-9756e47fc0a193a7fed729753be41ca6\">difficulty his dyslexia\u003c/a> gives him while reading from a teleprompter in live time. Last year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-state-of-state-17c6461bf8b241e75b85fcd2966adb1d\">skipped the speech entirely\u003c/a>, instead embarking on a statewide tour to announce a series of major policy proposals in a more informal setting that allowed for questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this prerecorded speech fulfills the governor’s legal mandate, it does not in any real way fulfill his responsibility to Californians who deserve a safe, affordable and opportunity-filled future,” California Republican state Sen. Kelly Seyarto said. “California remains the country’s homeless capital, businesses are closing their doors, and crime continues to rise. The state of this state is simply not good under Newsom’s leadership and any claims to the contrary he makes in his speech will be patently false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Constitution requires the governor to update the Legislature every year “on the condition of the state.” Prior to World War II, California governors would do this by sending a letter to the Legislature. That changed with Gov. Earl Warren — the future chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court — who decided to give a formal speech to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California will make widespread cuts to state government operations, prisons, housing programs and health care workforce development in order to maintain its social safety net as it moves to close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-Budget-Agreement-.pdf\">$297.9 billion spending plan\u003c/a>, announced on Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President Pro Tem \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/mike-mcguire-93\">Mike McGuire\u003c/a> and Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a>, also relies on reserves and pauses some business tax credits to address a remaining revenue gap estimated at $56 billion over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement sets the state on a path for long-term fiscal stability — addressing the current shortfall and strengthening budget resilience down the road,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/06/22/california-leaders-announce-2024-state-budget-agreement/\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “We’re making sure to preserve programs that serve millions of Californians, including key funding for education, health care, expanded behavioral health services, and combatting homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deficit-legislature-newsom/\">passed a budget more than a week ago\u003c/a> to meet a statutory deadline, but it did not represent a final deal with Newsom as they continued to negotiate over whether to repurpose billions of dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/medi-cal-health-care-budget/\">earmarked to increase payments\u003c/a> for health care providers who treat low-income patients and whether to further delay \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/minimum-wage-health-care-deadline/\">minimum wage increases for health care workers\u003c/a>, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-Budget-Agreement-.pdf\">Their agreement\u003c/a> — which the Democratic-controlled Legislature is expected to vote on \u003ca href=\"https://jasonsisney.substack.com/p/governor-and-legislative-leaders-588\">through a series of bills this week\u003c/a> ahead of the July 1 start of the new fiscal year — does claw back the funding intended for Medi-Cal provider rates. It pushes back the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/06/health-care-minimum-wage/\">health care wage hikes\u003c/a> until at least October and potentially until next year, depending on the strength of revenue collections in the coming months. Despite heavy opposition from labor unions, the move could save California hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan makes $16 billion in cuts, including a blanket 7.95% reduction in funding for nearly all state departments and the elimination of thousands of vacant positions, which are collectively expected to save nearly $3.7 billion. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will take an additional $385 million cut at the urging of progressive lawmakers, far higher than what Newsom had originally sought \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/californa-prison-closures-deficit/\">for the shrinking prison system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major reductions include $1.1 billion from various affordable housing programs, $746 million for health care workforce development and $500 million to build student housing. A scholarship program for middle-class college students will lose $110 million annually, about a fifth of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/06/financial-aid-california-budget/\">what the governor had originally sought to cut\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $3 billion in previously promised funding to expand food benefits to undocumented immigrants, increase pay for providers who care for people with developmental disabilities, add new subsidized child care slots and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/05/california-broadband-funding/\">build out broadband internet\u003c/a> will be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11986893,news_11990465,news_11985798\" label=\"Related Stories\"]This will allow the state to protect what Newsom and legislative leaders touted in their announcement as “core programs,” including an expansion of Medi-Cal, California’s health care program for the poor, to all adults regardless of their immigration status, as well as increased funding for behavioral health, welfare grants and supplemental income for seniors. Local governments will receive another \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2022/11/california-homeless-newsom-funding-reversal/\">$1 billion to address homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget deal shrinks a proposed cut to school funding following a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-budget-schools-funding/\">tense negotiation with education groups\u003c/a> during which teachers unions ran a television advertising campaign criticizing Newsom. About $5.5 billion will be delayed until future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-06/floor-report-of-the-2024-25-budget-june-22-2024.pdf\">The Assembly\u003c/a> fought hard to protect the public services that matter most to Californians, and we are delivering a budget that prioritizes affordability and long-term stability,” Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their agreement, Newsom and the Legislature will pursue several additional measures to address the circumstances that led to California’s steep deficit. While the state experienced a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-budget-whiplash/\">historic surplus just two years ago\u003c/a>, a delay in tax collections last year caused by winter storms shielded the extent of California’s weakening fiscal condition until after the governor and lawmakers had already committed to too much new spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget deal proposes legislation, to be taken up in August, that will require the state to set aside a portion of future projected surpluses so that it cannot be spent until the money is collected. It also suggests putting a constitutional amendment before voters in 2026 to grow California’s main reserve account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the state plans to dip into that rainy day fund, pulling out more than $12 billion over the next two years to address the fiscal shortfall. 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She read from a statement and did not take questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao, who faces a recall election and mounting pressure from some community leaders to resign, had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991429/after-oakland-fbi-raids-and-juneteenth-shooting-where-is-mayor-sheng-thao\">silent\u003c/a> in the days since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Thursday morning’s FBI raids\u003c/a>, which came just hours after over a dozen people were shot following a Juneteenth celebration near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Monday that she will continue to lead Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is going to distract me from building on the progress that we have made in the last 18 months. I am going to focus on doing what I came here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao was already under scrutiny before the FBI raid. 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The next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">federal agents raided\u003c/a> Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, throwing the embattled leader into further turmoil as she faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">upcoming recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI also searched the waterfront offices of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider, as well as two Oakland Hills homes linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the politically connected family\u003c/a> that owns and operates the company, which political watchdogs have accused of funneling illegal campaign contributions to Thao and other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of terrible things [are] happening in Oakland right about now,” Jackson told KQED on Friday morning. “It’s so sad because Oakland, to me, is just a great place to live. It’s a wonderful place and just didn’t deserve all this negative press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the raids, Thao has remained silent — even on the Juneteenth shootings — causing political strategists, city residents and political opponents to raise speculation about her future in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are more than 24 hours since residents saw FBI agents moving boxes out of the mayor’s house, and she still hasn’t spoken,” said Justin Berton, a media strategist and the former director of communications for Mayor Libby Schaaf. “That suggests to me she’s not going to release a statement. Rather, she’s considering how to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted for comment on Friday afternoon, Anthony Brass, a San Francisco-based attorney representing Thao, said the mayor is willing to cooperate fully with federal investigators — and that she will continue to do her job. He said Thao will address the public next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has nothing to hide,” he said in a text message to KQED. “It’s unfortunate that she has had to endure the bad optics of having this search warrant executed on her home. She would have cooperated with this investigation without the need for this search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She will continue to do the work Oakland expects from their mayor and provide the federal government with whatever information they are seeking. We have no information that she is or will be the target of this or any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s problems were mounting before the FBI raid. Donations to her campaign, among others, came under investigation by state and local political watchdog agencies, which alleged Cal Waste was illegally funneling them. She had come under scrutiny in recent months over concerns about crime and the departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and the signatures collected by opponents seeking to recall her in a November election were verified on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recall was going to be a steep climb politically in the first place,” Berton said. “But if she’s facing a recall and carrying an FBI investigation on her back too, that just became Mt. Everest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Pelissero, the director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, told KQED that it would be hard for a public official like Thao to govern after an FBI raid because there would be a lack of public confidence in their ability to serve in the public interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And long before there’s even a trial, there’s the risk that the trust in the mayor and trust and in the city government of Oakland will be impacted,” he said. “From an ethical perspective, the appearance of serious charges pending because of the raid is going to undermine the ability of the mayor to carry out her duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for Thao’s resignation have come from the recall campaign, some community leaders and the Oakland branch of the NAACP, which said Thao “cannot focus on the needs of the residents of Oakland while she addresses the major challenges posed by the FBI raid and investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Harbin-Forte, a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge and president of Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not going to survive this recall,” Harbin-Forte said. “You can’t govern a city and be distracted by these investigations that are going on. It’s going to be a distraction, and we need someone who can give Oakland [their] full-time attention. We’re hoping that she will consider resigning and not delay the inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she were to do that, she would send the message that she can put Oaklanders first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who also believes Thao should resign, said the mayor’s absence is concerning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the mayor? Is she even around?” Jackson said. “No one seems to have heard from her, and she hasn’t made a sound about anything that’s been going on. … It feels kind of bad that we really don’t have the leadership in the city of Oakland that we really need and desperately need at these trying times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unclear whether Thao has done any official city business since the raids, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland said in a statement on Friday that City Administrator Jestin Johnson is responsible for day-to-day administrative and fiscal operations to carry out the mayor’s policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was appointed by Thao in May 2023, noted in an email sent Thursday to city workers that Oakland has had challenging moments since he began working for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, like every day, our community needs, and rightfully expects, the high-quality public services we provide,” Johnson wrote. “Through every challenge we face together, we demonstrate our dedication to that service. All City services are being provided, and the mission continues. I know that our community can continue to expect our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Thursday, Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas expressed sympathy for the victims and their families after the shooting following Wednesday’s Juneteenth celebration, which gave way to a raucous sideshow where fights broke out before gunfire sent partygoers running for cover. She said her focus was on ensuring Oakland’s government continues to serve residents without interruption, a point echoed by other officials and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loren Taylor, former City Council member and founder of Empower Oakland, an organization focused on neutralizing the impact of wealthy special interest groups in the city’s politics, expressed frustration that Oakland hasn’t been able to solve public safety issues and now faces a potential public corruption case, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then to compound that with the other news that is crowding out everything, which is the raid on the mayor’s house and other places across the city, that throws even more confusion, doubt and skepticism on Oakland,” said Taylor, who lost the 2022 Oakland mayor’s race to Thao by \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Oakland,_California_(2022)\">677 votes\u003c/a>. “I know that the entire city is feeling it. When are we going to get a break?”\u003c/p>\n",
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He said Thao will address the public next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has nothing to hide,” he said in a text message to KQED. “It’s unfortunate that she has had to endure the bad optics of having this search warrant executed on her home. She would have cooperated with this investigation without the need for this search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She will continue to do the work Oakland expects from their mayor and provide the federal government with whatever information they are seeking. We have no information that she is or will be the target of this or any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s problems were mounting before the FBI raid. Donations to her campaign, among others, came under investigation by state and local political watchdog agencies, which alleged Cal Waste was illegally funneling them. She had come under scrutiny in recent months over concerns about crime and the departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and the signatures collected by opponents seeking to recall her in a November election were verified on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recall was going to be a steep climb politically in the first place,” Berton said. “But if she’s facing a recall and carrying an FBI investigation on her back too, that just became Mt. 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It’s going to be a distraction, and we need someone who can give Oakland [their] full-time attention. We’re hoping that she will consider resigning and not delay the inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she were to do that, she would send the message that she can put Oaklanders first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who also believes Thao should resign, said the mayor’s absence is concerning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the mayor? Is she even around?” Jackson said. “No one seems to have heard from her, and she hasn’t made a sound about anything that’s been going on. … It feels kind of bad that we really don’t have the leadership in the city of Oakland that we really need and desperately need at these trying times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unclear whether Thao has done any official city business since the raids, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland said in a statement on Friday that City Administrator Jestin Johnson is responsible for day-to-day administrative and fiscal operations to carry out the mayor’s policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was appointed by Thao in May 2023, noted in an email sent Thursday to city workers that Oakland has had challenging moments since he began working for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, like every day, our community needs, and rightfully expects, the high-quality public services we provide,” Johnson wrote. “Through every challenge we face together, we demonstrate our dedication to that service. All City services are being provided, and the mission continues. I know that our community can continue to expect our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Thursday, Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas expressed sympathy for the victims and their families after the shooting following Wednesday’s Juneteenth celebration, which gave way to a raucous sideshow where fights broke out before gunfire sent partygoers running for cover. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI raid of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s\u003c/a> home on Thursday morning coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">searches at three other properties\u003c/a> around the city — all of them linked to one powerful, politically connected family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known for their recycling company, which serves as the city’s exclusive zero waste contractor, the Duong family is also heavily involved in Oakland’s business and political realms, with deep ties to Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waterfront offices of their company, California Waste Solutions, were raided along with the homes of CEO David Duong and his son Andy. Although the FBI has not disclosed what it is investigating, such search warrants require law enforcement agents to show they have probable cause to believe there is evidence of a federal crime at the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the family and its company have faced allegations of ethics violations in the past, drawing the attention of political watchdogs for their close relationships with political figures and accusations that they funneled tens of thousands of dollars through straw donors to political campaigns, including Thao’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know about the Duongs and their company so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Duongs arrived in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to David, he and 15 family members came to San Francisco after fleeing the Vietnam War by small boat, spending two years in a refugee camp in the Philippines before eventually landing in the city in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told KQED in 2017 that when they first arrived, he and his siblings would take walks around the Financial District, sorting recyclables out of people’s trash waiting to be collected on city streets — the start of the family business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few years, the family saved enough to buy a small recycling plant in West Oakland, and in 1992, they started Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the continuing leadership of David and his siblings Kristina and Victor, who are also the majority stockholders of the company, Cal Waste has grown to the largest waste management company in Northern California, according to its website, with multiple plants and over 300 employees in Oakland and San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2015, the company has had the “exclusive right to provide Oakland residents residential recycling collection services,” according to a City Council ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Duongs have become powerful political players in Oakland. They’ve also found themselves in some hot water with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A campaign finance investigation into the company\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into Andy Duong, David Duong’s son and a purchasing agent and public relations officer for the family company, along with Cal Waste, accusing him and the company of using the names of others to donate to local campaign committees illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the FPPC and Oakland Public Ethics Commission published a 30-page probable cause report alleging that Cal Waste was the “true source” of at least 93 donations between 2016 and 2018 that were filed under different peoples’ names in a “campaign contribution laundering scheme,” totaling over $76,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the donations, totaling $9,900, were to Thao’s 2018 campaign for City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded that probable cause exists to believe Andy and Cal Waste, or alternately, just Andy, violated the state’s Political Reform Act, which prohibits using the name of another to make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation looked at donations made between 2016 and 2018, during which time the city of Oakland prohibited campaign contributions from any contractors providing services that require City Council approval. At the time, Cal Waste was involved in ongoing negotiations with the city to purchase and lease land for recycling facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC investigation is pending, according to the commission’s case portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning letter from the FPPC in July 2023, addressed to David Duong and Duong Family Investments, states that the company failed to disclose its status as a major donor committee during two reporting periods in 2018, as well as “late contributions” of more than $1,000 made to a candidate committee within 90 days of an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency representative told KQED that “a warning letter from the FPPC Enforcement Division is a finding of a violation of the Political Reform Act. The penalty for violations can range from a warning letter up to $5,000 per violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the July 2023 warning letter, an individual or entity that donates more than $10,000 is considered a major donor committee. Duong Family Investments surpassed that threshold in February 2018 and made additional contributions in the latter half of the year, neither of which were reported in a timely manner, the FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Waste slapped with overcharging lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste first got into legal heat with Oakland in 2017, when the city filed a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged residents for bringing recycling bins to multi-family dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste countersued, accusing the city of miscalculating how many housing units it would service and hurting the company’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, the lawsuit and countersuit were settled, with Cal Waste agreeing to correct its service charges and refund all of residents’ previous overpayments. The city paid the company $1.7 million and gave it $1.5 million of cost reductions for its obligations under the city contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding an expensive — and lavish — business trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Duong is also president of the Vietnamese American Business Association, housed in the same office building as Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business group co-sponsored a 2023 trip to Vietnam for Oakland officials — including Thao — to the tune of $12,000 per person, according to reporting from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. The costs included business class flights, five-star hotel stays and meals and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also helped plan the trip’s itinerary, which aimed to promote Oakland’s trade relations with Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the office building at 1211 Embarcadero was among the locations searched by FBI agents on Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco media team could not disclose which suites within the building were raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the five top Vietnamese American Business Association leadership positions are held by Duongs — including all three of Cal Waste’s primary owners, David, Victor, and Krista, along with Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another legal battle and more campaign donations in San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste has a pending lawsuit against the city of San José, where it also has a contract to collect curbside recycling for about a third of the city’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sued San José in April 2023, claiming the city was not doing enough to help prevent residents from putting extra trash in their recycling bins, forcing the recycler to “collect and process massive amounts of garbage at an extra cost to [Cal Waste] of tens of millions of dollars,” court filings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misplaced garbage made it “impossible” to meet required recycling minimums, leading to millions of dollars worth of diversion penalties on the company, the lawsuit said. It also claims the city is discriminating against Cal Waste because it is an immigrant-owned business and treating it differently than other non-minority waste contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has refuted the claims, contending it has done extensive work to support Cal Waste and educate residents on proper trash and recycling disposal. It also has increased the company’s annual compensation and offered financial incentives worth millions, but Cal Waste’s “historically deficient performance” has continued, the city said in a recent court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC’s probe into Andy Duong and Cal Waste also includes several donations made to campaign committees in San José, including two funding City Council incumbent Tam Nguyen and Santa Clara County supervisor candidate Don Rocha in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha, a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, is a former San José City Councilmember. He told KQED he was not aware of a laundering scheme by the Duongs to donate to his campaign for supervisor in 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was never conveyed to me or discussed with me or presented to me,” Rocha said. “I would not have accepted those checks.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said he knows Victor Duong through his work in the public sector.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve worked at (San José) city hall on and off for 30 years. Anybody who has worked that long is going to run into him, especially if you work in city government,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said the FPPC previously asked him for a list of who donated to his campaign for supervisor and inquired about some of them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And that was where it ended,” Rocha said, noting he hasn’t heard from the FPPC since.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nguyen declined to comment when reached.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing political donations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the open FPPC investigation, the family is still very much involved with political campaigns. This year, David Duong has donated more than $41,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $9,100 to the Democratic Party of Virginia. 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They’ve also found themselves in some hot water with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A campaign finance investigation into the company\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into Andy Duong, David Duong’s son and a purchasing agent and public relations officer for the family company, along with Cal Waste, accusing him and the company of using the names of others to donate to local campaign committees illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the FPPC and Oakland Public Ethics Commission published a 30-page probable cause report alleging that Cal Waste was the “true source” of at least 93 donations between 2016 and 2018 that were filed under different peoples’ names in a “campaign contribution laundering scheme,” totaling over $76,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the donations, totaling $9,900, were to Thao’s 2018 campaign for City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded that probable cause exists to believe Andy and Cal Waste, or alternately, just Andy, violated the state’s Political Reform Act, which prohibits using the name of another to make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation looked at donations made between 2016 and 2018, during which time the city of Oakland prohibited campaign contributions from any contractors providing services that require City Council approval. At the time, Cal Waste was involved in ongoing negotiations with the city to purchase and lease land for recycling facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC investigation is pending, according to the commission’s case portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning letter from the FPPC in July 2023, addressed to David Duong and Duong Family Investments, states that the company failed to disclose its status as a major donor committee during two reporting periods in 2018, as well as “late contributions” of more than $1,000 made to a candidate committee within 90 days of an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency representative told KQED that “a warning letter from the FPPC Enforcement Division is a finding of a violation of the Political Reform Act. The penalty for violations can range from a warning letter up to $5,000 per violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the July 2023 warning letter, an individual or entity that donates more than $10,000 is considered a major donor committee. Duong Family Investments surpassed that threshold in February 2018 and made additional contributions in the latter half of the year, neither of which were reported in a timely manner, the FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Waste slapped with overcharging lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste first got into legal heat with Oakland in 2017, when the city filed a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged residents for bringing recycling bins to multi-family dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste countersued, accusing the city of miscalculating how many housing units it would service and hurting the company’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, the lawsuit and countersuit were settled, with Cal Waste agreeing to correct its service charges and refund all of residents’ previous overpayments. The city paid the company $1.7 million and gave it $1.5 million of cost reductions for its obligations under the city contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding an expensive — and lavish — business trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Duong is also president of the Vietnamese American Business Association, housed in the same office building as Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business group co-sponsored a 2023 trip to Vietnam for Oakland officials — including Thao — to the tune of $12,000 per person, according to reporting from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. The costs included business class flights, five-star hotel stays and meals and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also helped plan the trip’s itinerary, which aimed to promote Oakland’s trade relations with Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the office building at 1211 Embarcadero was among the locations searched by FBI agents on Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco media team could not disclose which suites within the building were raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the five top Vietnamese American Business Association leadership positions are held by Duongs — including all three of Cal Waste’s primary owners, David, Victor, and Krista, along with Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another legal battle and more campaign donations in San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste has a pending lawsuit against the city of San José, where it also has a contract to collect curbside recycling for about a third of the city’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sued San José in April 2023, claiming the city was not doing enough to help prevent residents from putting extra trash in their recycling bins, forcing the recycler to “collect and process massive amounts of garbage at an extra cost to [Cal Waste] of tens of millions of dollars,” court filings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misplaced garbage made it “impossible” to meet required recycling minimums, leading to millions of dollars worth of diversion penalties on the company, the lawsuit said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Thao has yet to comment on the development. She had been scheduled to be at a 10 a.m. press conference in San Francisco about affordable housing; the organizers said they did not receive any advance notice that the mayor would not attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a sad day for the City of Oakland,” former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987400/former-oakland-police-chief-announces-run-for-city-council\">running for City Council\u003c/a>, said in a statement. “Oakland is a city in crisis. Crime, violence, shootings, uncontrolled homelessness, unmitigated encampments, the budget deficit and more. The biggest obstacle to overcoming these crises are the failures of leadership in City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI also searched separate homes on View Crest Court and Skyline Boulevard in the Oakland Hills on Thursday morning, \u003cem>the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes are believed to be owned by members of a family that owns Cal Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider. The \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> also reported that Cal Waste’s offices were searched Thursday morning. \u003cem>Oaklandside\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/09/15/accusations-of-political-money-laundering-under-investigation-in-oakland/\">previously reported\u003c/a> that the company was investigated for campaign contributions to Thao and other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is rough, to say the least,” said PJ Johnston, political strategist and former press secretary for former Mayor Willie Brown, who faced numerous FBI investigations during his tenure. “At the initial stages of an FBI investigation, it’s all bad publicity, and you are almost helpless in your ability to fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Public Ethics Commission is also investigating the Oakland mayor in relation to donations to her campaign. She had come under scrutiny in recent months over concerns about crime and the departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and she will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">face a recall vote\u003c/a> in November after her opponents collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is evidence that emerges that she acted improperly, that on its own is a fairly decisive problem,” Johnston said. “But even if there isn’t anything serious against her, she still faces weeks, months of horrible publicity — all of which helps recall advocates and hurts her ability to lead the city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao has “very little chance of survival,” according to Eric Jaye, the president of California-based political consulting firm Storefront Political Media, because the FBI investigation and the attached media blitz are unlikely to be resolved before November.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:50 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state charges against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/david-depape\">David DePape\u003c/a>, who is on trial for a second time for breaking into the home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband, are now in the hands of 12 jurors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the defense could give its closing arguments on Tuesday, Judge Harry Dorfman barred Gypsy Taub, DePape’s ex-wife, from attending the proceedings or even being on the second floor of the San Francisco courthouse where lawyers, reporters and the jury gathered outside the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s rare that I order someone excluded from the courtroom,” Dorfman said. “The line for me is when a member of the public attempts to influence a member of the jury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Dorfman’s order, graffiti was found in the women’s bathroom nearest the courtroom, which contained a website address DePape’s family set up last year, proclaiming his innocence. On Monday, Taub handed out printed pieces of paper with the link to the website, as well as her phone number and email address. She even told reporters she was running the site to cast doubt on the state’s evidence in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting at noon Tuesday, the jury began deliberating DePape’s fate on five charges: burglary, felony false imprisonment of an elder, threatening a public official, kidnapping and intimidating a witness. Dorfman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989279/sf-judge-tosses-3-state-charges-against-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband\">dismissed three other charges \u003c/a>— attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse — after the defense successfully argued DePape had already been tried for those crimes in federal court, where he was convicted and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced last month to 30 years in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their closing arguments, both the prosecution and defense painted DePape, 44, as someone who went too far down the rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracy theories, leaving him to believe the government to be corrupt and that Hollywood was tied up in a large pedophile ring. Taub, who has also embraced conspiracy theories, heavily influenced his actions and “inflicted immeasurable harm to his mental state,” DePape’s defense had argued in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by his belief in those theories, DePape went to the Pelosis’ San Francisco home after 2 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2022, in search of the House speaker. He used a hammer to smash in the downstairs patio door and his 6-foot-4, 300-pound body to push open a heavy wood door, bursting through the doors of the couple’s third-floor bedroom where only Paul Pelosi was asleep, according to court testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9675-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public defender Adam Lipson gives his closing arguments in the state trial of David DePape in San Francisco Superior Court on June 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Where’s Nancy?” Paul Pelosi testified that DePape said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors again played the 911 call Paul Pelosi made over the speaker phone in their bedroom bathroom, with Assistant District Attorney Phoebe Maffei telling the jury it would make more sense now that they had all the details of those early morning hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My name is David,” DePape said on the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is David?” the 911 operator said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” Paul Pelosi said. “He says he’s a friend, but he’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors repeatedly played body camera video from two Capitol Police officers who responded to the home following Paul Pelosi’s call to 911 to find him and DePape standing next to each other, trying to gain control of a claw hammer in DePape’s hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drop the hammer,” one officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nope,” DePape replied before striking Pelosi multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors heard from investigators and received transcripts of DePape’s testimony from his federal trial, where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">jury found him guilty in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maffei said DePape spent months planning a “rampage” with a list of targets and showed up to the Pelosi home “prepared for a lengthy standoff.” DePape wanted to confront Pelosi and interrogate her about “Russiagate,” an online conspiracy theory regarding the investigation into Russian interference in U.S. elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape brought a sledgehammer to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home with one purpose, Maffei said: “He wanted to break her kneecaps, so she would be wheeled onto the floor of Congress. So people would know there are consequences.”[aside postID=news_11989279 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9258_qut-1020x574.jpg']DePape also had two GoPro cameras with him, “so his hands could be free while he maimed her and filmed her,” which he could then post online, acting as fodder for people like him researching conspiracy theories, Maffei said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing, San Francisco Public Defender Adam Lipson told the jury that DePape was guilty of a few of the charges, including first-degree residential burglary and dissuading a witness, and guilty of at least attempting to falsely imprison Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue, at least to the defense, was the charge of threatening the family of a public official. Lipson argued that the threats DePape issued to Paul Pelosi — like saying he couldn’t stop him from going onto his next targets — had nothing to do with his wife’s position in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi or her official duties,” Lipson said. “They don’t have the intent in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipson also argued that DePape wasn’t holding Paul Pelosi hostage to get something from his wife, claiming the video he wanted to make of Pelosi confessing to lies he said she had told about Russiagate wasn’t a thing of value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her rebuttal, Maffei said there was great value to someone who said he was “impassioned about the lies coming out of Washington, D.C.” in getting the speaker of the House to admit to crimes in her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_9672-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch depicts Gypsy Taub being escorted out of the courtroom in the state trial of David DePape in San Francisco Superior Court on June 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This plan all along had been to get to Nancy Pelosi,” Maffei said. “He fully expected to be knocking out her kneecaps to get the confession he wanted. That makes clear the value of the video he wanted to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maffei said the evidence presented at trial showed DePape’s plan wasn’t a good one, but it was a “thoroughly thought-through plan” that included targeting Pelosi, actor Tom Hanks, former Vice President Mike Pence, a professor in San Francisco and even Taub, his ex-wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Taub told KQED that she and DePape had been divorced for nine years, and DePape had been living in friend’s garages while working odd jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before being banned from the second floor of the Hall of Justice, Taub — who is known around the Bay Area for her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/80769/live-at-2-p-m-san-francisco-supervisors-consider-nudity-ban-tiny-apartments\">nudist protests at City Hall\u003c/a> — danced in the courthouse hallway, twirling in circles with headphones in her ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Patricia Lee, a former public information officer for Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, is suing the county and Price, alleging Price made anti-Asian remarks and fired her in retaliation for speaking up about violations of public transparency laws. The \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_nkrX_dIyAhf4HjIzvEdzF74z1c50nX/view?usp=sharing\">lawsuit was filed\u003c/a> Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/03/04/courts/pamela-price-racial-discrimination-whistleblower-retaliation-claims/\">\u003cem>The Berkeley Scanner\u003c/em>\u003c/a> first reported Lee’s allegations in March. The lawsuit builds on previous claims of anti-Asian bias in Price’s administration. Her office denies any anti-Asian bias, but the lawsuit means the narrative likely isn’t going away anytime soon. That’s bad news for Price as she faces a recall election this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context:\u003c/strong> Price has been criticized by some for her handling of two homicide cases with Asian victims in November 2021. Kevin Nishita, a security guard for a TV news crew, was killed during a robbery, and toddler Jasper Wu was killed by a stray bullet during an alleged gang-related shootout on Interstate 880 in Oakland. When Price took office in January 2023, her deputies removed special circumstances enhancements from both cases, eliminating the possibility of sentences of death or life without parole. The move was consistent with Price’s campaign stance. To some, the change made it seem like Asian victims were less important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claims of bias from within the office have added fuel to these fears. In a May 2023 letter of resignation, former Deputy DA Rebecca Warren claimed Price’s chief assistant made racist statements about Somoans. Warren also characterized an email from Price regarding Wu’s death as condescending to Chinese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view:\u003c/strong> Price resubmitted charges for the three defendants in Nishita’s case in February. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alcoda.org/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-resubmits-charges-against-three-defendants-in-the-kevin-nishita-murder-case/\">press release\u003c/a>, her office highlighted the long sentences — 189, 151 and 78 years, respectively — the defendants would face if convicted of all counts. It was a pivot from her insistence on the campaign trail that long sentences don’t make communities safer — a stance backed by \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/2KJL-SAE8\">U.S. Department of Justice research\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, Price attended a town hall in Oakland’s Chinatown to meet with residents and listen to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the midst of shouting and controversy and people having signs, we’re still having a conversation,” Price said, sitting alongside Trevelyon Jones, Oakland Police Department’s interim assistant chief. “Tell us what the issues are. We’re in the midst of a crisis, and yet we are all working to find solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The big picture:\u003c/strong> The racial dynamics at play here are hard to ignore. There is a long history of tension between Black and Asian communities in America (and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opinion/asian-black-americans-community.html\">long history of solidarity)\u003c/a>. Price is the county’s first Black district attorney, and she took office amidst a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes. Concerns the justice system wasn’t taking the anti-Asian violence seriously enough \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915634/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges\">contributed to District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s recall in San Francisco in 2022\u003c/a>. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regardless of the outcome of Lee’s lawsuit, the larger narrative it fits into is something Price will continue to contend with.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next:\u003c/strong> The county and the DA will likely ask the court to dismiss Lee’s case, but if that doesn’t work, they’ll have to decide whether to fight or settle. Settlement would wrap the issue quickly but could imply some admission of guilt, something recall supporters would not let go quietly. Taking the case to trial would drag out the controversy for months, ensuring this narrative would haunt Price throughout her campaign against the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After the collapse of an early debate amid a contentious start to the San Francisco mayoral race, the first debate is finally here — and it’s shaping up to be the local political event of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by City Arts & Lectures at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in Civic Center, the Wednesday night event is already sold out to watch in person with 1,600 people set to attend. Hundreds more have signed up to watch virtually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and the November election, debates aplenty will pop up in neighborhoods across the city, giving voters the chance to see Mayor London Breed, former Mayor Mark Farrell, Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí argue their visions for San Francisco. However, the first holds a particular power: a candidate’s debut performance can sway people to donate in large numbers or volunteer. It can also lead to vital endorsements, said Jim Ross, a political consultant who led Gov. Gavin Newsom’s successful 2003 mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the first opportunity for the public to get a sense of how the candidates perform in a tense situation, the opening debate can shape the idea of a candidate in people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key thing about a debate like this one coming up is not the debate itself, but the story that comes out of it,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Farrell announces his run for San Francisco mayor during a press conference at the San Francisco Baseball Academy in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The high stakes explain the acrimony over the first proposed debate organized by TogetherSF, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986393/first-sf-mayoral-debate-continues-to-crumble-as-third-candidate-may-drop-out\">which imploded over allegations that the political group’s CEO was working for Farrell in secret\u003c/a>. Breed and Peskin both backed out of the May 20 event, citing concerns over the group’s impartiality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These first debates can be so defining,” Ross said. “If it were the fifth debate or sixth debate, I don’t think anybody would have cared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s still early in the mayor’s race — the deadline to declare candidacy was just Tuesday — it’s clear Farrell’s campaign has emerged as a threat to Breed. A May poll from moderate-leaning Democratic group GrowSF shows the mayor and Farrell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986162/anybody-could-win-san-francisco-mayoral-race-poll-suggests-with-many-voters-undecided\">in a statistical dead heat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin poses for photos after a rally to announce his campaign for mayor of San Francisco in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually, the power of incumbency gives politicians holding office a comfortable lead. These are not ordinary times, as San Franciscans’ concerns over crime, drug use and homelessness have tarnished Breed’s image. A \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll from February showed 71% of San Franciscans did not approve of Breed’s job performance as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for Breed to catch up, and winning significant endorsements will be key.[aside postID=news_11983671 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DCCC01-1020x680.jpg']Jane Natoli, organizing director of the pro-development group San Francisco YIMBY, is buying popcorn, gluten-free snacks and non-alcoholic drinks for a virtual watch party at the group’s regular meeting space in South of Market (though she won’t begrudge her members for bringing libations). Her members are watching with an eye toward making their endorsements, which carry weight among younger voters and people with urbanist values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every candidate except for Peskin — whose stance on new housing has irked the pro-development crowd — has met with SF YIMBY members to discuss their housing plans, but Natoli thinks there’s added value in the debate format. She’s particularly interested to hear if the candidates will commit to building more developments, more densely, on the city’s suburban west side to solve the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, everyone’s tiptoed around that a little bit. Where are they going to stand? How are they going to differentiate themselves?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin recently \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/06/confederacy-of-nimbys-cheer-peskin-criticize-melgar-on-housing/\">drew accolades from neighbors opposed to dense housing on the west side\u003c/a>, according to Mission Local, which may emerge as an attack from other candidates on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Ahsha Safaí speaks with Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for Political Breakdown at KQED headquarters in San Francisco on May 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nancy Tung, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, warned voters to ask themselves a few key questions when candidates profess grand ideas to move the city forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How reasonable are the plans that they’ve laid out? Is that type of plan workable within the city bureaucracy? Is there funding for that?” she said. “It’s easier said than done, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple campaigns told KQED they’re deep in debate prep. Four of the candidates are regular public speakers in political life — at this point, they’re more focused on compressing their answers down to the one-minute allotment than they are on learning to speak more eloquently about their records. The night will be moderated by Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>’ San Francisco bureau chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates’ messaging on the campaign trail so far offers several clues to what could play out onstage on Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have shown they’re fond of critiquing each other’s resumes: Lurie may lump all the elected officials together and call them “insiders” who have ruined the city. Farrell, Peskin and Lurie may argue that Breed has had years to enact her vision and failed. Peskin might be attacked for his penchant for yelling at staffers in overnight phone calls. Farrell may draw fire \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2024/06/farrell-complains-about-cuts-in-child-care-measure-that-he-tried-to-kill/\">for flipping to support a 2018 childcare tax measure that he previously opposed\u003c/a>. 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In that respect, he said, Breed’s history of growing up impoverished in San Francisco’s Fillmore district may still stand out when people hear from her live, despite San Franciscans’ wavering fondness for the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“London Breed is a living, breathing contrast to everybody else in this race,” he said. “You have one woman of color, an African American woman. And I think her ability to stand out, to talk from her experience growing up in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the first opportunity for the public to get a sense of how the candidates perform in a tense situation, the opening debate can shape the idea of a candidate in people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key thing about a debate like this one coming up is not the debate itself, but the story that comes out of it,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240213-MarkFarrell-32-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Farrell announces his run for San Francisco mayor during a press conference at the San Francisco Baseball Academy in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The high stakes explain the acrimony over the first proposed debate organized by TogetherSF, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986393/first-sf-mayoral-debate-continues-to-crumble-as-third-candidate-may-drop-out\">which imploded over allegations that the political group’s CEO was working for Farrell in secret\u003c/a>. Breed and Peskin both backed out of the May 20 event, citing concerns over the group’s impartiality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These first debates can be so defining,” Ross said. “If it were the fifth debate or sixth debate, I don’t think anybody would have cared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s still early in the mayor’s race — the deadline to declare candidacy was just Tuesday — it’s clear Farrell’s campaign has emerged as a threat to Breed. A May poll from moderate-leaning Democratic group GrowSF shows the mayor and Farrell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986162/anybody-could-win-san-francisco-mayoral-race-poll-suggests-with-many-voters-undecided\">in a statistical dead heat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-056-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin poses for photos after a rally to announce his campaign for mayor of San Francisco in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually, the power of incumbency gives politicians holding office a comfortable lead. These are not ordinary times, as San Franciscans’ concerns over crime, drug use and homelessness have tarnished Breed’s image. A \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll from February showed 71% of San Franciscans did not approve of Breed’s job performance as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for Breed to catch up, and winning significant endorsements will be key.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jane Natoli, organizing director of the pro-development group San Francisco YIMBY, is buying popcorn, gluten-free snacks and non-alcoholic drinks for a virtual watch party at the group’s regular meeting space in South of Market (though she won’t begrudge her members for bringing libations). Her members are watching with an eye toward making their endorsements, which carry weight among younger voters and people with urbanist values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every candidate except for Peskin — whose stance on new housing has irked the pro-development crowd — has met with SF YIMBY members to discuss their housing plans, but Natoli thinks there’s added value in the debate format. She’s particularly interested to hear if the candidates will commit to building more developments, more densely, on the city’s suburban west side to solve the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, everyone’s tiptoed around that a little bit. Where are they going to stand? How are they going to differentiate themselves?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin recently \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/06/confederacy-of-nimbys-cheer-peskin-criticize-melgar-on-housing/\">drew accolades from neighbors opposed to dense housing on the west side\u003c/a>, according to Mission Local, which may emerge as an attack from other candidates on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240516-PoliticalBreakdownAhshaSafai-16-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Ahsha Safaí speaks with Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for Political Breakdown at KQED headquarters in San Francisco on May 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nancy Tung, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, warned voters to ask themselves a few key questions when candidates profess grand ideas to move the city forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How reasonable are the plans that they’ve laid out? Is that type of plan workable within the city bureaucracy? Is there funding for that?” she said. “It’s easier said than done, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple campaigns told KQED they’re deep in debate prep. Four of the candidates are regular public speakers in political life — at this point, they’re more focused on compressing their answers down to the one-minute allotment than they are on learning to speak more eloquently about their records. The night will be moderated by Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>’ San Francisco bureau chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates’ messaging on the campaign trail so far offers several clues to what could play out onstage on Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have shown they’re fond of critiquing each other’s resumes: Lurie may lump all the elected officials together and call them “insiders” who have ruined the city. Farrell, Peskin and Lurie may argue that Breed has had years to enact her vision and failed. Peskin might be attacked for his penchant for yelling at staffers in overnight phone calls. Farrell may draw fire \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2024/06/farrell-complains-about-cuts-in-child-care-measure-that-he-tried-to-kill/\">for flipping to support a 2018 childcare tax measure that he previously opposed\u003c/a>. And the rest of the candidates may hammer on Lurie’s lack of government experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-DANIEL-LURIE-ON-PB-MD-05_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-DANIEL-LURIE-ON-PB-MD-05_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-DANIEL-LURIE-ON-PB-MD-05_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-DANIEL-LURIE-ON-PB-MD-05_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-DANIEL-LURIE-ON-PB-MD-05_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-DANIEL-LURIE-ON-PB-MD-05_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie at KQED on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ross said the candidates will try to create a contrast between themselves and their opponents. 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