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"content": "\u003cp>The decision by Oakland’s new school board to rescind a school closure plan has renewed hope in the reparations movement to improve the outcomes of Oakland Unified School District’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movement remains in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">Reparations for Black Students\u003c/a> resolution, an initiative to provide more resources for almost 8,000 Black students. For some observers, the resolution acknowledged the inequitable education students have received for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution created a task force to monitor academic performance and, among other things, provide anti-racism training to district teachers and staff. Early versions of the resolution included a ban on school closures where more than 30% of the students are Black, a line item that was opposed by the school district and Chris Learned, the state trustee who oversaw the district’s finances. It was ultimately removed from the final resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two decades, the school district has been under state receivership because of a $100 million bailout in 2003. To address budget shortfalls, the school board voted in January 2022 to close what it deemed were underperforming schools with low enrollment. The vote sparked protests, which included a hunger strike, a 125-day occupation of Parker Elementary School after the district closed it, and a State Department of Justice inquiry into claims that the plan continued a trend of discrimination against the district’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942027 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A group of protesters hold signs against school closures as they march on a city street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents, youth and supporters protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. The rally was one of several events last year in support of the Reparations for Black Students campaign. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The closures derailed the reparations effort to hold the school district accountable for improving the education of Black students. But the reversal, which was approved during a special meeting in January, has activists and community members cautiously optimistic about OUSD’s future. The action was made possible by newly elected board members who opposed the previous board’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a> continues to study and develop proposals for the entire state, a look into Oakland’s effort reveals just how difficult reparations can be to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now finally positioned to start doing things differently,” said Mike Hutchinson, the school board’s new president. “We have to embed this work in the district so it becomes a core part of what we do, and I think we are starting to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Cázares, the current trustee, will have to sign off for the reversal to be permanent. The Alameda County Office of Education must also approve. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/19/ousd-oakland-school-closures-hutchinson-alameda-county-castro/\">As \u003cem>The Oaklandside\u003c/em>’s Ashley McBride reported\u003c/a>, “the board’s decision could also threaten a separate influx of state cash the district was expecting as a result of closing schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if the decision is confirmed by the state, it will save five elementary schools that serve predominantly students of color — Brookfield, Grass Valley, Horace Mann, Carl B. Munck, Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Hillcrest Elementary School, which would also continue to serve kindergarten through eighth grade. The majority of students at Grass Valley and Carl B. Munck are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air,” said Pecolia Manigo, chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force, the body created to implement the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing fight against systemic racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jordan Rancifer was captivated by the stories of anti-Black racism in Oakland’s public schools that he heard in the Oakland High School auditorium in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It piqued my interest because it’s like, damn, I’m not the only one having these racial experiences in OUSD,” he recalled in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was one of a series of community listening sessions held by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/programs/j4os/\">Justice for Oakland Students coalition\u003c/a>. Students described being called racist slurs by peers. They said they felt ignored when they brought concerns to school administrators, and alienated by curricula that neglected Black experiences. Parents described years of limited enrollment in programs meant to support Black students and funding that always seemed to quickly run out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942014\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942014 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man with a black hoodie and shoulder-length black twists looks at the camera while standing on a sidewalk in an urban street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Rancifer poses for a photo on Grand Avenue in Oakland on April 15, 2022. Rancifer spoke at the listening sessions that led to the Reparations for Black Students resolution when he was a senior at Oakland Technical High School. Now he’s studying political science at Cal State East Bay. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rancifer was then a senior struggling in math at Oakland Technical High School. He shared his experience in a room full of teachers, students and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like, as a Black man, I was being helped or noticed,” said Rancifer, now 23 and studying political science at Cal State East Bay. “They just kind of let me fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link\">20.5% of district enrollment\u003c/a> — roughly 10,000 out of 50,000 students — in the 2021–2022 academic year, according to OUSD’s dashboard. Two decades ago, Black students accounted for nearly half. Since then, the district has shuttered 16 majority Black schools, fracturing school communities and separating students from friends and familiar teachers. At the listening sessions, speakers said the closures contributed to the exodus of Black families from district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The listening sessions laid the foundation for the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution promised to address the declining enrollment and poor outcomes of Black students, and set its sights on ending the achievement gap, also called the opportunity gap, by 2026.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Pecolia Manigo, chair, Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\"]‘Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air.’[/pullquote]In September 2021, the district created the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlZalR3MLPd6M4XK5_ORtdu8oK0d26Ox/view\">Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\u003c/a>, a 25-member volunteer body to carry out the resolution. By that time, Rancifer was in college. His mother, Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, an Oakland teacher and vice president of the Oakland teachers union, became the task force secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that makes me so excited about our work is being able to bring Black folks into a safe space, and for them to know that they’re not alone in their experiences and that other folks are experiencing the same thing, but that they can also come up with the solutions,” said Manigo, who is also executive director of the Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network, an Oakland-based nonprofit that empowers parents to advocate for their children in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo and Hutchinson, things were going smoothly for months after the task force began its work. The volunteer group of Black parents, educators, district employees and community activists met regularly on Zoom, gathering virtually to view colorful slide decks put together by Manigo, mother of two OUSD students and one OUSD graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD receives special state funding for students from lower-income families and foster youth, many of whom are Black. The task force aims to track how OUSD invests that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been trying to improve the outcomes for Black students for decades. OUSD founded the African American Male Achievement program in 2010 and what is now known as the African American Female Excellence program in 2015. Data shows the programs improved graduation rates and lowered rates of suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impact of other, more diffuse efforts like curriculum changes and diversifying staff is harder to trace. The task force set out to build a system to quantify the impact of district interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to say whether something is effective or not effective, and whether it’s helping to close opportunity gaps or not … we knew that that was a big challenge,” said Manigo, who was unsuccessful in her bid for a school board seat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo, the school closure plan, announced four months after the task force began its work, revealed that the district was unwilling “to understand the implications of the lived experience and wisdom that so many of us had been putting before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure plan felt like a betrayal. “By saying reparations, there is an immediate demand to stop the harm,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942012 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a purple top and short cropped hair smiles at the camera as she stands in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pecolia Manigo poses in Maxwell Park in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2022. Manigo is the chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead of focusing on improving outcomes for Black students, conflict grew among members of the task force who found themselves on opposing sides of the closure debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a highly polarized political context and I think our minds are pretty trained to put a stake in the ground and not move from that,” said Dr. Dexter Moore Jr., the superintendent’s representative on the task force. “It put a wedge in the work. No question about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last March, a report presented by Moore to the school board on behalf of the district superintendent showed that a year after the reparations resolution was passed, many of the worrying trends affecting Black students continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students were being suspended at more than twice the district average, and more than half of Black students were chronically absent, which Moore attributed in part to the impact of a surge in COVID-19 cases at the time. Between the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">Black student enrollment dropped by more than 400 students\u003c/a>, continuing the decades-long pattern of Black students leaving the district, according to OUSD data. Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, district superintendent, instructed the task force to pause indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force initially refused to stop holding meetings, but momentum waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went from 25 folks being able to meet in the very early days and having really great conversations looking over different indicators and putting metrics to those things, to then eventually 15, 16, 17, to slowly but surely many individuals just stepping back,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force stopped holding public meetings in April. Not enough members were regularly attending to have a quorum. Ten months later, meetings have yet to resume. But developments since the new year might signal a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson has nominated board members Clifford Thompson and VanCedric Williams, co-author of the reparations resolution, to new positions as board liaisons to the task force. He hopes Thompson and Williams will help the task force rebuild its membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg\" alt='A Black man with clean shaven head and wearing a blue hoodie that reads \"Protect West Oakland Mural\" smiles at the camera with people in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, an outspoken opponent of school closures in Oakland, became the president of Oakland’s school board in January. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manigo feels frustrated that so much time was lost fighting the district, especially in a year with a massive state budget surplus. Instead of galvanizing energy around petitioning the state for more funding for Oakland schools, Manigo said community organizers like her spent the year fighting with the district to keep schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was lost was the opportunity to really tell the Oakland story, to give lawmakers and the larger community hope that we really can create a district where all students are valued, where racially just schools are real,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That model could be important, because what Black students are up against in Oakland is similar to what Black students face throughout the state. \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">California remains the sixth most segregated state in the country for Black students (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the interim report published by the state reparations task force in June. “In California’s highly segregated schools, schools attended by white and Asian children receive more funding and resources than schools with predominantly Black and Latino children,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a reality with deep roots. \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1855/1855.PDF\">In 1855, California passed a law that withheld state funds from schools that taught Black and Chinese children (PDF).\u003c/a> Although California taxed Black residents to pay for public schools, the money was only used for the education of white children.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941976,news_11941469\"]Systemic racism continues to affect Black students. According to statewide data, in 2021–2022 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA/ps_NTI5Mjg%5E?_gl=1*1dpu79i*_ga*MTI4MDk1MjYxOS4xNjc1NzEyMjg0*_ga_475QR6J62K*MTY3NTcxMjI4NC4xLjEuMTY3NTcxMzM5NC42MC4wLjA.\">only 30% of Black students met English language arts standards and less than 16% met the standard in math\u003c/a>, placing Black students behind all other racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2023–2024 budget attempted to address some of this inequity, but \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/critics-say-newsoms-proposal-for-low-performing-students-fails-black-students/684148\">the budget proposal drew criticism\u003c/a> from advocates who say they want to see more funding and support specifically for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has played out in Oakland’s school district is not an anomaly when it comes to reparations, said Dr. Cheryl Grills, a state task force member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sometimes harder to implement things in the spirit in which they were intended than it is to get the win on the books,” said Grills, professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state task force, which \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento\u003c/a>, is expected to publish its plan for repairing almost 200 years of anti-Black racism in the state in June. To address racial disparities in public education, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-agenda-consolidated-prelim-props.pdf\">preliminary policy proposals (PDF)\u003c/a> being considered include an increase in funding to schools through the local control funding formula, which determines how much money schools receive from the state. The preliminary proposals include repealing or amending Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that prohibits state and local government affirmative action programs in the areas of public employment, public education and public contracting. “Proposition 209 is widely viewed as an impediment to the adoption of remedial measures,” the task force stated in the proposal document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No part of a reparations plan will become law without the support of the governor and the state Legislature. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The decision by Oakland’s new school board to rescind a school closure plan has renewed hope in the reparations movement to improve the outcomes of Oakland Unified School District’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movement remains in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">Reparations for Black Students\u003c/a> resolution, an initiative to provide more resources for almost 8,000 Black students. For some observers, the resolution acknowledged the inequitable education students have received for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution created a task force to monitor academic performance and, among other things, provide anti-racism training to district teachers and staff. Early versions of the resolution included a ban on school closures where more than 30% of the students are Black, a line item that was opposed by the school district and Chris Learned, the state trustee who oversaw the district’s finances. It was ultimately removed from the final resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two decades, the school district has been under state receivership because of a $100 million bailout in 2003. To address budget shortfalls, the school board voted in January 2022 to close what it deemed were underperforming schools with low enrollment. The vote sparked protests, which included a hunger strike, a 125-day occupation of Parker Elementary School after the district closed it, and a State Department of Justice inquiry into claims that the plan continued a trend of discrimination against the district’s Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942027 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A group of protesters hold signs against school closures as they march on a city street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53519_20220204-IMG_2625-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents, youth and supporters protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. The rally was one of several events last year in support of the Reparations for Black Students campaign. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The closures derailed the reparations effort to hold the school district accountable for improving the education of Black students. But the reversal, which was approved during a special meeting in January, has activists and community members cautiously optimistic about OUSD’s future. The action was made possible by newly elected board members who opposed the previous board’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a> continues to study and develop proposals for the entire state, a look into Oakland’s effort reveals just how difficult reparations can be to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now finally positioned to start doing things differently,” said Mike Hutchinson, the school board’s new president. “We have to embed this work in the district so it becomes a core part of what we do, and I think we are starting to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Cázares, the current trustee, will have to sign off for the reversal to be permanent. The Alameda County Office of Education must also approve. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/19/ousd-oakland-school-closures-hutchinson-alameda-county-castro/\">As \u003cem>The Oaklandside\u003c/em>’s Ashley McBride reported\u003c/a>, “the board’s decision could also threaten a separate influx of state cash the district was expecting as a result of closing schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if the decision is confirmed by the state, it will save five elementary schools that serve predominantly students of color — Brookfield, Grass Valley, Horace Mann, Carl B. Munck, Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Hillcrest Elementary School, which would also continue to serve kindergarten through eighth grade. The majority of students at Grass Valley and Carl B. Munck are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the board make that decision as soon as it did has really given the system a breath of fresh air,” said Pecolia Manigo, chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force, the body created to implement the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing fight against systemic racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jordan Rancifer was captivated by the stories of anti-Black racism in Oakland’s public schools that he heard in the Oakland High School auditorium in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It piqued my interest because it’s like, damn, I’m not the only one having these racial experiences in OUSD,” he recalled in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was one of a series of community listening sessions held by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandkidsfirst.org/programs/j4os/\">Justice for Oakland Students coalition\u003c/a>. Students described being called racist slurs by peers. They said they felt ignored when they brought concerns to school administrators, and alienated by curricula that neglected Black experiences. Parents described years of limited enrollment in programs meant to support Black students and funding that always seemed to quickly run out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942014\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942014 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man with a black hoodie and shoulder-length black twists looks at the camera while standing on a sidewalk in an urban street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62640_Jordan-Photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Rancifer poses for a photo on Grand Avenue in Oakland on April 15, 2022. Rancifer spoke at the listening sessions that led to the Reparations for Black Students resolution when he was a senior at Oakland Technical High School. Now he’s studying political science at Cal State East Bay. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rancifer was then a senior struggling in math at Oakland Technical High School. He shared his experience in a room full of teachers, students and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like, as a Black man, I was being helped or noticed,” said Rancifer, now 23 and studying political science at Cal State East Bay. “They just kind of let me fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?:embed=y&:showAppBanner=false&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link\">20.5% of district enrollment\u003c/a> — roughly 10,000 out of 50,000 students — in the 2021–2022 academic year, according to OUSD’s dashboard. Two decades ago, Black students accounted for nearly half. Since then, the district has shuttered 16 majority Black schools, fracturing school communities and separating students from friends and familiar teachers. At the listening sessions, speakers said the closures contributed to the exodus of Black families from district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The listening sessions laid the foundation for the reparations resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution promised to address the declining enrollment and poor outcomes of Black students, and set its sights on ending the achievement gap, also called the opportunity gap, by 2026.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In September 2021, the district created the \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlZalR3MLPd6M4XK5_ORtdu8oK0d26Ox/view\">Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force\u003c/a>, a 25-member volunteer body to carry out the resolution. By that time, Rancifer was in college. His mother, Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, an Oakland teacher and vice president of the Oakland teachers union, became the task force secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that makes me so excited about our work is being able to bring Black folks into a safe space, and for them to know that they’re not alone in their experiences and that other folks are experiencing the same thing, but that they can also come up with the solutions,” said Manigo, who is also executive director of the Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network, an Oakland-based nonprofit that empowers parents to advocate for their children in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo and Hutchinson, things were going smoothly for months after the task force began its work. The volunteer group of Black parents, educators, district employees and community activists met regularly on Zoom, gathering virtually to view colorful slide decks put together by Manigo, mother of two OUSD students and one OUSD graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD receives special state funding for students from lower-income families and foster youth, many of whom are Black. The task force aims to track how OUSD invests that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has been trying to improve the outcomes for Black students for decades. OUSD founded the African American Male Achievement program in 2010 and what is now known as the African American Female Excellence program in 2015. Data shows the programs improved graduation rates and lowered rates of suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impact of other, more diffuse efforts like curriculum changes and diversifying staff is harder to trace. The task force set out to build a system to quantify the impact of district interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to say whether something is effective or not effective, and whether it’s helping to close opportunity gaps or not … we knew that that was a big challenge,” said Manigo, who was unsuccessful in her bid for a school board seat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Manigo, the school closure plan, announced four months after the task force began its work, revealed that the district was unwilling “to understand the implications of the lived experience and wisdom that so many of us had been putting before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure plan felt like a betrayal. “By saying reparations, there is an immediate demand to stop the harm,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942012 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a purple top and short cropped hair smiles at the camera as she stands in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62641_Manigo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pecolia Manigo poses in Maxwell Park in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2022. Manigo is the chair of the Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead of focusing on improving outcomes for Black students, conflict grew among members of the task force who found themselves on opposing sides of the closure debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a highly polarized political context and I think our minds are pretty trained to put a stake in the ground and not move from that,” said Dr. Dexter Moore Jr., the superintendent’s representative on the task force. “It put a wedge in the work. No question about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last March, a report presented by Moore to the school board on behalf of the district superintendent showed that a year after the reparations resolution was passed, many of the worrying trends affecting Black students continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students were being suspended at more than twice the district average, and more than half of Black students were chronically absent, which Moore attributed in part to the impact of a surge in COVID-19 cases at the time. Between the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">Black student enrollment dropped by more than 400 students\u003c/a>, continuing the decades-long pattern of Black students leaving the district, according to OUSD data. Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, district superintendent, instructed the task force to pause indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force initially refused to stop holding meetings, but momentum waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went from 25 folks being able to meet in the very early days and having really great conversations looking over different indicators and putting metrics to those things, to then eventually 15, 16, 17, to slowly but surely many individuals just stepping back,” Manigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force stopped holding public meetings in April. Not enough members were regularly attending to have a quorum. Ten months later, meetings have yet to resume. But developments since the new year might signal a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson has nominated board members Clifford Thompson and VanCedric Williams, co-author of the reparations resolution, to new positions as board liaisons to the task force. He hopes Thompson and Williams will help the task force rebuild its membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg\" alt='A Black man with clean shaven head and wearing a blue hoodie that reads \"Protect West Oakland Mural\" smiles at the camera with people in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62639_Hutchinson-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, an outspoken opponent of school closures in Oakland, became the president of Oakland’s school board in January. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manigo feels frustrated that so much time was lost fighting the district, especially in a year with a massive state budget surplus. Instead of galvanizing energy around petitioning the state for more funding for Oakland schools, Manigo said community organizers like her spent the year fighting with the district to keep schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was lost was the opportunity to really tell the Oakland story, to give lawmakers and the larger community hope that we really can create a district where all students are valued, where racially just schools are real,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That model could be important, because what Black students are up against in Oakland is similar to what Black students face throughout the state. \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">California remains the sixth most segregated state in the country for Black students (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the interim report published by the state reparations task force in June. “In California’s highly segregated schools, schools attended by white and Asian children receive more funding and resources than schools with predominantly Black and Latino children,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a reality with deep roots. \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1855/1855.PDF\">In 1855, California passed a law that withheld state funds from schools that taught Black and Chinese children (PDF).\u003c/a> Although California taxed Black residents to pay for public schools, the money was only used for the education of white children.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Systemic racism continues to affect Black students. According to statewide data, in 2021–2022 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA/ps_NTI5Mjg%5E?_gl=1*1dpu79i*_ga*MTI4MDk1MjYxOS4xNjc1NzEyMjg0*_ga_475QR6J62K*MTY3NTcxMjI4NC4xLjEuMTY3NTcxMzM5NC42MC4wLjA.\">only 30% of Black students met English language arts standards and less than 16% met the standard in math\u003c/a>, placing Black students behind all other racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2023–2024 budget attempted to address some of this inequity, but \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/critics-say-newsoms-proposal-for-low-performing-students-fails-black-students/684148\">the budget proposal drew criticism\u003c/a> from advocates who say they want to see more funding and support specifically for Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has played out in Oakland’s school district is not an anomaly when it comes to reparations, said Dr. Cheryl Grills, a state task force member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sometimes harder to implement things in the spirit in which they were intended than it is to get the win on the books,” said Grills, professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state task force, which \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento\u003c/a>, is expected to publish its plan for repairing almost 200 years of anti-Black racism in the state in June. To address racial disparities in public education, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-agenda-consolidated-prelim-props.pdf\">preliminary policy proposals (PDF)\u003c/a> being considered include an increase in funding to schools through the local control funding formula, which determines how much money schools receive from the state. The preliminary proposals include repealing or amending Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that prohibits state and local government affirmative action programs in the areas of public employment, public education and public contracting. “Proposition 209 is widely viewed as an impediment to the adoption of remedial measures,” the task force stated in the proposal document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No part of a reparations plan will become law without the support of the governor and the state Legislature. Like the reparations push in Oakland, it will require consistent public pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a historic moment that could happen in California,” Manigo said. “And I believe that the time is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The event is meant to “stand in peaceful contrast to the violent insurrection and assault on our democracy which occurred two years ago,” Newsom’s campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His second term officially began Monday. The planned outdoor ceremony Friday comes amid a series of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-winter-storm-updates-383927771f2a2c75a683c8f520b776de\">massive storms\u003c/a> that brought heavy rain, snow and intense winds across the state. The deluge prompted Newsom to declare a state of emergency and offered a reminder of the bread-and-butter work of governing the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom seeks to put California at the center of the national political conversation, he’ll also be challenged to lay out a vision for his second term. He’ll face headwinds in the form of a budget deficit, an unmitigated homelessness crisis and drought that may persist despite the storms. And he’ll go to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-legislature-sacramento-gavin-newsom-f67b8f4a8e0d7a978d4bf34ada1ea256\">battle with the oil industry\u003c/a> as he pushes lawmakers to impose fines on company profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom began his first term in 2019 with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-gavin-newsom-801183607f36492c807cc62dd9210a0c\">Trump as a clear foil\u003c/a> in Washington. With Biden now in the White House, Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-florida-donald-trump-ron-desantis-gavin-newsom-893f7924da60ee2adf7eee9e7bb133ae\">pivoted his fire toward fellow governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas\u003c/a>, both Republicans. He’s chided fellow Democrats for not being aggressive enough in standing up to Republicans and has taken the fight to GOP states himself — even launching ads in other states that trash GOP policies and promote California as a safe place for people to seek abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Newsom and DeSantis are widely seen as future presidential contenders, though perhaps not against each other. Newsom has committed to supporting Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-5a8fd26a4a9ffa9b47c5de52fface72d\">if the president seeks a second term, as he currently plans to do\u003c/a>. DeSantis, meanwhile, has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-politics-florida-charlie-crist-5bba0f85d72f5e6efb88ce98d7eae54d\">not ruled out a 2024 run\u003c/a> — even as Trump seeks a return to the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their competing visions of governance — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-newsom-deSantis-a0f6748248d91b25122244e4ccd17815\">including how best to promote “freedom”\u003c/a> — showcase the political polarization that’s taken hold across the nation. In his own inaugural address Tuesday, DeSantis touched on national issues like immigration and inflation, and decried “wokeness.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It has been nearly eight years since Bill Lockyer held elected office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than four decades, he climbed the ranks of state politics — Assembly member, Senate leader, attorney general, treasurer — before ending a campaign for controller amid turmoil in his marriage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/98491/california-treasurer-bill-lockyer-retiring-from-politics\">retiring at the start of 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, \u003ca href=\"https://billlockyer.org/\">Lockyer\u003c/a> still has more than $1 million in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1445566\">campaign account\u003c/a> for the 2026 lieutenant governor race. Every month, he pays $2,500 to consultant Michelle Maravich, who said she helps maintain his donor list, manage meetings and appearances, and provide advice on occasional contributions to other candidates as the 81-year-old Democrat contemplates a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He misses the public arena and obviously still wants to be of service,” Maravich said. “I haven’t seen him lose a step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer’s seven-figure war chest is among the largest of nearly 100 accounts belonging to state political candidates with leftover campaign cash, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12221572/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation/12221572\">CalMatters analysis of California campaign finance records\u003c/a>. Collectively, they hold about $35 million — funds that never got spent on the campaigns for which they were raised — ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1417455\">$13.1 million that former Gov. Jerry Brown didn’t need\u003c/a> to win reelection in 2014, to $9.62 in the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1367107\">account for a failed Assembly run\u003c/a> that same year run by investment manager Thomas Krouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters counted campaign funds for the Legislature and state constitutional offices that politicians are sitting on years after leaving their positions; that are in committees for past races; or for which the candidate did not end up running. These 96 accounts rarely raise new money, and in some cases, politicians have carried the same leftover contributions through election cycle after election cycle, transferring the money to new committees for positions they never actually sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total does not include committees for candidates who ran in 2022. Those who lost in the June 7 primary have not yet had to file paperwork declaring what they did with any leftover campaign cash, while the deadline is still three months away for candidates who made it to the Nov. 8 general election to decide their next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the politicians holding onto past campaign contributions are simply waiting to figure out their next race, at which point they may tap into those eligible funds. Others are using the money to keep a foothold in the public arena, slowly spending down what’s left on political donations, charitable contributions and administrative expenses. Many of the accounts hold massive debts and must remain open if the candidates ever plan to raise cash to pay off outstanding loans and bills. And some of the money is merely sitting idle, in accounts where nothing much goes in or out, save interest and annual state filing fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97358\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Assemblyman-Henry-Perea-and-Assemblyman-Mike-Gatto.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in dark suits with ties shake hands in the California Assembly.\" width=\"328\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Assemblymember Mike Gatto, May 16, 2013. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Prime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps the lack of activity reflects my innate frugality,” said \u003ca href=\"https://mikegatto.com/\">Mike Gatto\u003c/a>, a Democrat who served in the Assembly from 2010 through 2016 and has almost $2.1 million in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1445004\">lieutenant governor 2026 account\u003c/a>, some of it from an abandoned campaign for state treasurer in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first half of 2022, the most recent period for which Gatto has filed a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2702092&amendid=0\">campaign finance report (PDF)\u003c/a>, he contributed about $2,500 to other candidates and earned nearly the same amount in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto said he typically raises money for candidates by turning to his donor list, rather than giving away his own leftover campaign cash, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.prweb.com/releases/former_california_assembly_member_mike_gatto_joins_the_a_mark_foundation_board_of_directors/prweb18458682.htm\">he sits on the board of a family foundation that provides funding to charitable organizations\u003c/a>. He is keeping his residual campaign funds for what he anticipates will be a return to politics in his retirement, after he finishes raising his three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope there’s more in my future. I believe I can contribute to this beautiful state that we all call home,” said Gatto, who founded a \u003ca href=\"http://www.actiumllp.com/mike-gatto/\">law firm\u003c/a> after leaving the Assembly. “I believe there’s a lot more freedom for people to run for office in their golden years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Avoiding surplus funds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once a politician leaves office or loses an election, a regulatory countdown begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a candidate wants to use any of the spare cash from a prior campaign to fund a future political venture, state law allows 90 days to set up a new account and transfer the money. Miss that window and the funds are designated “\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/LegalDiv/Regulations/Index/Chapter9-5/18951.Surplus-Funds%2CDefined.pdf\">surplus (PDF)\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surplus cash can be used to pay down debts, refund donors, expense administrative costs, support political parties or contribute to a “bona fide” charity. But it cannot fund a campaign for state office in California, whether the candidate’s own or someone else’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoiding that dreaded surplus designation is why so many former politicians always seem to be running for something — at least on paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-called-job-dull-but-lieutenant-13272318.php\">“dull” job of lieutenant governor\u003c/a>, as Gov. Gavin Newsom once put it, is an especially popular choice. There are currently \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/list.aspx?view=intention&electNav=120\">21 open lieutenant governor committees for the 2026 primary\u003c/a>, including for both Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Fewer than half are actively fundraising.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By passing cash from one account to another each election cycle, some former politicians can hang onto campaign contributions for years — even decades — after they hold state office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1452790\">2026 treasurer campaign\u003c/a> controlled by former Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FbianNunez\">Fabian Núñez\u003c/a>, for example, is sitting on nearly $2 million. That’s what remains of the $2.1 million the account received from Núñez’s \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1408606\">treasurer 2022 committee\u003c/a> in late August. That account, in turn, got its cash from a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1366750\">Fabian Núñez for Treasurer 2018\u003c/a> committee, which was funded by a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1324832\">treasurer 2014 account\u003c/a>, which was funded by a committee for a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1313595&session=2021\">2010 state Senate campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This daisy chain of electoral accounts, connected by transfers made within those crucial 90 days after the end of each election cycle, reaches back to its ultimate source: the former speaker’s \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1271581&session=2021\">2006 Assembly committee\u003c/a>, which was shored up with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-09-me-nunez9-story.html\">then-controversial influx of cash\u003c/a> from the state Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Núñez has not campaigned for office since he was termed out of the Assembly in 2008. Through a colleague at the \u003ca href=\"https://actumllc.com/people/fabian-nunez/\">consulting and lobbying firm Actum\u003c/a>, where he is a managing partner, Núñez agreed to an interview for this story, but never followed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t the only former elected official to play this game of financial hot potato. Besides Lockyer and Gatto, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1448870&session=2021\">Jerome Horton\u003c/a>, who served in the Assembly and on the Board of Equalization; former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1447836\">Jean Fuller\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1407076&session=2021\">Jeff Denham\u003c/a>, who spent two terms in the Senate before he was elected to Congress; and others all have kept their electoral funds active by transferring the money from one account to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblymember Dario Frommer, who did not respond to multiple interview requests, still has $593,000 sitting in a committee for a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1455363\">2026 controller campaign\u003c/a>, all of it raised before he termed out of the Assembly in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maintaining political influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former legislators hoarding leftover political funds may be an odd artifact of California law, but the rules are a significant improvement over the old days when politicians “were buying cars with the money, they were taking the money with them” upon retirement and they were using the money to expense “vacations that had nothing to do with legislation,” said Bob Stern, who served as the first general counsel to the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the state campaign finance regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 1980s, \u003ca href=\"https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3100&context=mlr\">state lawmakers passed\u003c/a> a series of\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-25-mn-1045-story.html\"> gradual restrictions\u003c/a> on what candidates could do with spare campaign cash. For the last two decades, spending has had to be plausibly tied to a “political or governmental purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936350\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man with dark hair looks past the camera with a concerned facial expression..\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, Dec. 3, 2007. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what counts as a legitimate purpose? Charities and political allies, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Núñez has used campaign funds to support the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-parolees-voting-rights-nunez-aca6/\">a nonprofit for which his son, Esteban, is a lobbyist\u003c/a>, and After-School All-Stars, a charity founded by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a personal friend who before leaving office \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-03-la-me-arnold-pardons-20110103-story.html\">commuted Esteban Núñez’s prison sentence\u003c/a> for his role in a stabbing death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Núñez campaign accounts also have poured six-figure sums into \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-1-abortion-rights/\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, the successful \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/election-2022/2022/10/california-ballot-measure-abortion-churches/\">measure to add abortion rights\u003c/a> to the California constitution, and a committee backing the unsuccessful mayoral campaign of Kevin de León, the former state senator and now \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/13/los-angeles-city-council-kevin-de-leon-00073544\">scandal-laden Los Angeles City Council member\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With $3.1 million in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1412227\">lieutenant governor 2026 account\u003c/a>, De León sits on the largest post-incumbency nest egg of any former state legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has doled out nearly $100,000 of that money over the last two years, mostly supporting political allies and causes. Top beneficiaries include an unsuccessful 2020 ballot measure to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-16-affirmative-action/\">restore affirmative action in California\u003c/a>, this year’s successful reelection campaign of Insurance Commissioner \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/insurance-commissioner/ricardo-lara/\">Ricardo Lara\u003c/a> and the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León’s most recent publicly reported contribution was a $25,000 payment filed on Election Day to the Santa Clara County Board of Education campaign of Magdalena Carrasco, his former romantic partner and the mother of his daughter. Carrasco lost her race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León initially responded to an interview request by text message, expressing incredulity about the amount of money reported in his account: “That’s all I have?” he said. “I must have some money missing.” He later said he was being facetious, though neither he nor his spokesperson replied to follow-up requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electoral expenses are another legal way to distribute old campaign dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblymember Ian Calderon, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2019/11/27/ian-calderon-wont-run-again-for-state-assembly/\">stepped down in 2020\u003c/a> to focus on his family, maintains a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1424007\">lieutenant governor 2026 committee\u003c/a> from which he makes monthly $1,500 payments to a campaign consultant: his former chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the line that separates legitimate political purpose and personal expenditure can be blurry, especially for former politicians who have yet to show that they are actually running for the office listed on their campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harder part is when they go on a trip to Hawaii and attend an event,” Stern said. “If they’re not in office anymore, it’s kind of hard to justify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that some former lawmakers haven’t tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Election Day this year, an account set up to fund a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1436709\">2026 lieutenant governor campaign\u003c/a> for former Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/autumn-burke-1973/\">Autumn Burke\u003c/a> reported spending $10,000 on a five-day trip to attend the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article45406533.html\">Independent Voter Project conference in Maui\u003c/a> with a guest. Burke \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmAutumnBurke/status/1488319173495177219?s=20&t=7YNl1fsGuxjiQ3xxhL4KDQ\">left office last February\u003c/a> to join a lobbying firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Calderon nor Burke replied to emails and calls requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Giving up on future campaigns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Politicians with no further plans to run for office — at least, not anytime soon — can still avoid the surplus designation and retain more control over their leftover campaign funds by transferring them to a general purpose committee. Direct contributions to candidates are permitted from these accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/12/colusa-county-welcomes-jerry-brown/\">finishing his second eight-year stint as governor in early 2019\u003c/a>, Brown moved more than $14.7 million from his 2014 reelection campaign to the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1417455\">Committee for California\u003c/a>. It has since spent $855,000 to defeat \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-prop-57-jerry-brown-prison-parole-20161027-story.html\">a 2020 initiative that would have rolled back a parole expansion\u003c/a> pushed by the governor; donated $250,000 to the Oakland Military Institute, a charter school founded by Brown when he was the city’s mayor; and directed $141,000 into the most recent Oakland school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936352\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936352\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly white man with balding hair speaks into a microphone with a blue background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The primary focus is advancing the issues central to Gov. Brown’s gubernatorial terms, including but not limited to climate action, criminal justice reform and public safety, and education,” spokesperson Evan Westrup said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westrup’s consulting firm, Sempervirent Strategies, is paid $10,000 per month by the Committee for California, its largest expenditure during the most recent two-year election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorena Gonzalez, who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/01/california-legislature-labor-gonzalez/\">resigned from the Assembly\u003c/a> in January to become the head of the California Labor Federation, used $1.1 million remaining in accounts for Assembly and secretary of state campaigns to form a new committee in May: \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1448227\">The Future of Workers Action Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Evan McLaughlin, in a text message, declined to provide further information on the goal of the account “beyond the obvious motivation reflected in the committee’s name and the reputation of its sponsor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final, if rarely used, option for campaigns: Give back the unused cash to donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the accounts scrutinized by CalMatters, only a few reported significant refunds to contributors once a race was over, including that of former treasurer John Chiang, who returned more than $100,000 to supporters of his failed \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1385799\">2018 bid for governor\u003c/a> — in December 2021, three-and-a-half years after he lost. A representative for Chiang did not respond to emailed questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Long Beach Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/robertgarcia\">Robert Garcia\u003c/a>, with his eye on higher office, had amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1420194&session=2021\">lieutenant governor 2026 account\u003c/a> by December 2021, when he launched a campaign for Congress. Over the next four months, he returned more than $170,000 in contributions to his supporters, alongside payments to his political consultants and donations to other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Garcia, who will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-10/long-beach-sending-first-openly-gay-immigrant-to-congress\">sworn into Congress\u003c/a> next month, did not respond to multiple interview requests. By November, after another $350 payment to the committee treasurer, his lieutenant governor account had just $73.76 left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters data reporter Jeremia Kimelman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It has been nearly eight years since Bill Lockyer held elected office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than four decades, he climbed the ranks of state politics — Assembly member, Senate leader, attorney general, treasurer — before ending a campaign for controller amid turmoil in his marriage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/98491/california-treasurer-bill-lockyer-retiring-from-politics\">retiring at the start of 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, \u003ca href=\"https://billlockyer.org/\">Lockyer\u003c/a> still has more than $1 million in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1445566\">campaign account\u003c/a> for the 2026 lieutenant governor race. Every month, he pays $2,500 to consultant Michelle Maravich, who said she helps maintain his donor list, manage meetings and appearances, and provide advice on occasional contributions to other candidates as the 81-year-old Democrat contemplates a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He misses the public arena and obviously still wants to be of service,” Maravich said. “I haven’t seen him lose a step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer’s seven-figure war chest is among the largest of nearly 100 accounts belonging to state political candidates with leftover campaign cash, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12221572/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation/12221572\">CalMatters analysis of California campaign finance records\u003c/a>. Collectively, they hold about $35 million — funds that never got spent on the campaigns for which they were raised — ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1417455\">$13.1 million that former Gov. Jerry Brown didn’t need\u003c/a> to win reelection in 2014, to $9.62 in the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1367107\">account for a failed Assembly run\u003c/a> that same year run by investment manager Thomas Krouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters counted campaign funds for the Legislature and state constitutional offices that politicians are sitting on years after leaving their positions; that are in committees for past races; or for which the candidate did not end up running. These 96 accounts rarely raise new money, and in some cases, politicians have carried the same leftover contributions through election cycle after election cycle, transferring the money to new committees for positions they never actually sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total does not include committees for candidates who ran in 2022. Those who lost in the June 7 primary have not yet had to file paperwork declaring what they did with any leftover campaign cash, while the deadline is still three months away for candidates who made it to the Nov. 8 general election to decide their next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the politicians holding onto past campaign contributions are simply waiting to figure out their next race, at which point they may tap into those eligible funds. Others are using the money to keep a foothold in the public arena, slowly spending down what’s left on political donations, charitable contributions and administrative expenses. Many of the accounts hold massive debts and must remain open if the candidates ever plan to raise cash to pay off outstanding loans and bills. And some of the money is merely sitting idle, in accounts where nothing much goes in or out, save interest and annual state filing fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97358\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Assemblyman-Henry-Perea-and-Assemblyman-Mike-Gatto.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in dark suits with ties shake hands in the California Assembly.\" width=\"328\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Assemblymember Mike Gatto, May 16, 2013. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Prime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps the lack of activity reflects my innate frugality,” said \u003ca href=\"https://mikegatto.com/\">Mike Gatto\u003c/a>, a Democrat who served in the Assembly from 2010 through 2016 and has almost $2.1 million in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1445004\">lieutenant governor 2026 account\u003c/a>, some of it from an abandoned campaign for state treasurer in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first half of 2022, the most recent period for which Gatto has filed a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2702092&amendid=0\">campaign finance report (PDF)\u003c/a>, he contributed about $2,500 to other candidates and earned nearly the same amount in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto said he typically raises money for candidates by turning to his donor list, rather than giving away his own leftover campaign cash, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.prweb.com/releases/former_california_assembly_member_mike_gatto_joins_the_a_mark_foundation_board_of_directors/prweb18458682.htm\">he sits on the board of a family foundation that provides funding to charitable organizations\u003c/a>. He is keeping his residual campaign funds for what he anticipates will be a return to politics in his retirement, after he finishes raising his three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope there’s more in my future. I believe I can contribute to this beautiful state that we all call home,” said Gatto, who founded a \u003ca href=\"http://www.actiumllp.com/mike-gatto/\">law firm\u003c/a> after leaving the Assembly. “I believe there’s a lot more freedom for people to run for office in their golden years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Avoiding surplus funds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once a politician leaves office or loses an election, a regulatory countdown begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a candidate wants to use any of the spare cash from a prior campaign to fund a future political venture, state law allows 90 days to set up a new account and transfer the money. Miss that window and the funds are designated “\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/LegalDiv/Regulations/Index/Chapter9-5/18951.Surplus-Funds%2CDefined.pdf\">surplus (PDF)\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surplus cash can be used to pay down debts, refund donors, expense administrative costs, support political parties or contribute to a “bona fide” charity. But it cannot fund a campaign for state office in California, whether the candidate’s own or someone else’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoiding that dreaded surplus designation is why so many former politicians always seem to be running for something — at least on paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-called-job-dull-but-lieutenant-13272318.php\">“dull” job of lieutenant governor\u003c/a>, as Gov. Gavin Newsom once put it, is an especially popular choice. There are currently \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/list.aspx?view=intention&electNav=120\">21 open lieutenant governor committees for the 2026 primary\u003c/a>, including for both Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Fewer than half are actively fundraising.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By passing cash from one account to another each election cycle, some former politicians can hang onto campaign contributions for years — even decades — after they hold state office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1452790\">2026 treasurer campaign\u003c/a> controlled by former Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FbianNunez\">Fabian Núñez\u003c/a>, for example, is sitting on nearly $2 million. That’s what remains of the $2.1 million the account received from Núñez’s \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1408606\">treasurer 2022 committee\u003c/a> in late August. That account, in turn, got its cash from a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1366750\">Fabian Núñez for Treasurer 2018\u003c/a> committee, which was funded by a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1324832\">treasurer 2014 account\u003c/a>, which was funded by a committee for a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1313595&session=2021\">2010 state Senate campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This daisy chain of electoral accounts, connected by transfers made within those crucial 90 days after the end of each election cycle, reaches back to its ultimate source: the former speaker’s \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1271581&session=2021\">2006 Assembly committee\u003c/a>, which was shored up with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-09-me-nunez9-story.html\">then-controversial influx of cash\u003c/a> from the state Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Núñez has not campaigned for office since he was termed out of the Assembly in 2008. Through a colleague at the \u003ca href=\"https://actumllc.com/people/fabian-nunez/\">consulting and lobbying firm Actum\u003c/a>, where he is a managing partner, Núñez agreed to an interview for this story, but never followed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t the only former elected official to play this game of financial hot potato. Besides Lockyer and Gatto, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1448870&session=2021\">Jerome Horton\u003c/a>, who served in the Assembly and on the Board of Equalization; former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1447836\">Jean Fuller\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1407076&session=2021\">Jeff Denham\u003c/a>, who spent two terms in the Senate before he was elected to Congress; and others all have kept their electoral funds active by transferring the money from one account to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblymember Dario Frommer, who did not respond to multiple interview requests, still has $593,000 sitting in a committee for a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1455363\">2026 controller campaign\u003c/a>, all of it raised before he termed out of the Assembly in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maintaining political influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former legislators hoarding leftover political funds may be an odd artifact of California law, but the rules are a significant improvement over the old days when politicians “were buying cars with the money, they were taking the money with them” upon retirement and they were using the money to expense “vacations that had nothing to do with legislation,” said Bob Stern, who served as the first general counsel to the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the state campaign finance regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 1980s, \u003ca href=\"https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3100&context=mlr\">state lawmakers passed\u003c/a> a series of\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-25-mn-1045-story.html\"> gradual restrictions\u003c/a> on what candidates could do with spare campaign cash. For the last two decades, spending has had to be plausibly tied to a “political or governmental purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936350\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man with dark hair looks past the camera with a concerned facial expression..\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1409532843-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, Dec. 3, 2007. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what counts as a legitimate purpose? Charities and political allies, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Núñez has used campaign funds to support the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-parolees-voting-rights-nunez-aca6/\">a nonprofit for which his son, Esteban, is a lobbyist\u003c/a>, and After-School All-Stars, a charity founded by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a personal friend who before leaving office \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-03-la-me-arnold-pardons-20110103-story.html\">commuted Esteban Núñez’s prison sentence\u003c/a> for his role in a stabbing death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Núñez campaign accounts also have poured six-figure sums into \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-1-abortion-rights/\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, the successful \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/election-2022/2022/10/california-ballot-measure-abortion-churches/\">measure to add abortion rights\u003c/a> to the California constitution, and a committee backing the unsuccessful mayoral campaign of Kevin de León, the former state senator and now \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/13/los-angeles-city-council-kevin-de-leon-00073544\">scandal-laden Los Angeles City Council member\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With $3.1 million in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1412227\">lieutenant governor 2026 account\u003c/a>, De León sits on the largest post-incumbency nest egg of any former state legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has doled out nearly $100,000 of that money over the last two years, mostly supporting political allies and causes. Top beneficiaries include an unsuccessful 2020 ballot measure to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-16-affirmative-action/\">restore affirmative action in California\u003c/a>, this year’s successful reelection campaign of Insurance Commissioner \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/insurance-commissioner/ricardo-lara/\">Ricardo Lara\u003c/a> and the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León’s most recent publicly reported contribution was a $25,000 payment filed on Election Day to the Santa Clara County Board of Education campaign of Magdalena Carrasco, his former romantic partner and the mother of his daughter. Carrasco lost her race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León initially responded to an interview request by text message, expressing incredulity about the amount of money reported in his account: “That’s all I have?” he said. “I must have some money missing.” He later said he was being facetious, though neither he nor his spokesperson replied to follow-up requests for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electoral expenses are another legal way to distribute old campaign dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblymember Ian Calderon, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2019/11/27/ian-calderon-wont-run-again-for-state-assembly/\">stepped down in 2020\u003c/a> to focus on his family, maintains a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1424007\">lieutenant governor 2026 committee\u003c/a> from which he makes monthly $1,500 payments to a campaign consultant: his former chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the line that separates legitimate political purpose and personal expenditure can be blurry, especially for former politicians who have yet to show that they are actually running for the office listed on their campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harder part is when they go on a trip to Hawaii and attend an event,” Stern said. “If they’re not in office anymore, it’s kind of hard to justify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that some former lawmakers haven’t tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Election Day this year, an account set up to fund a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1436709\">2026 lieutenant governor campaign\u003c/a> for former Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/autumn-burke-1973/\">Autumn Burke\u003c/a> reported spending $10,000 on a five-day trip to attend the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article45406533.html\">Independent Voter Project conference in Maui\u003c/a> with a guest. Burke \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmAutumnBurke/status/1488319173495177219?s=20&t=7YNl1fsGuxjiQ3xxhL4KDQ\">left office last February\u003c/a> to join a lobbying firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Calderon nor Burke replied to emails and calls requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Giving up on future campaigns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Politicians with no further plans to run for office — at least, not anytime soon — can still avoid the surplus designation and retain more control over their leftover campaign funds by transferring them to a general purpose committee. Direct contributions to candidates are permitted from these accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/12/colusa-county-welcomes-jerry-brown/\">finishing his second eight-year stint as governor in early 2019\u003c/a>, Brown moved more than $14.7 million from his 2014 reelection campaign to the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1417455\">Committee for California\u003c/a>. It has since spent $855,000 to defeat \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-prop-57-jerry-brown-prison-parole-20161027-story.html\">a 2020 initiative that would have rolled back a parole expansion\u003c/a> pushed by the governor; donated $250,000 to the Oakland Military Institute, a charter school founded by Brown when he was the city’s mayor; and directed $141,000 into the most recent Oakland school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936352\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936352\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly white man with balding hair speaks into a microphone with a blue background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1193389282-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Gov. 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A representative for Chiang did not respond to emailed questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Long Beach Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/robertgarcia\">Robert Garcia\u003c/a>, with his eye on higher office, had amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars in a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1420194&session=2021\">lieutenant governor 2026 account\u003c/a> by December 2021, when he launched a campaign for Congress. Over the next four months, he returned more than $170,000 in contributions to his supporters, alongside payments to his political consultants and donations to other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Garcia, who will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-10/long-beach-sending-first-openly-gay-immigrant-to-congress\">sworn into Congress\u003c/a> next month, did not respond to multiple interview requests. By November, after another $350 payment to the committee treasurer, his lieutenant governor account had just $73.76 left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters data reporter Jeremia Kimelman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the polls closed Tuesday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told his caucus they would soon be in the majority. But the GOP celebration was put on ice as that so-called “red wave” failed to materialize, leaving McCarthy’s future in doubt. While his party is likely to control the House of Representatives, he won’t have much room to maneuver as speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A narrow margin for McCarthy means he’ll be much, much more dependent on Trump’s strongest supporters because he won’t have any other options for putting together a voting majority on the issue and on the legislation that he wants,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communications at the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11874105,news_11873509,news_11895797\"]Schnur added that although Republicans failed to win a sweeping victory, McCarthy has positioned himself to fulfill his longtime dream of becoming speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike some speakers in the past, he’s less of a policy specialist or ideologue, but is much more a relationship builder, and it clearly has served him well within the Republican caucus,” Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Brulte, who served with McCarthy in the state Assembly, said if there’s one thing McCarthy knows how to do, it’s avoid arguments within his caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kevin understands that politics is a team sport and you have to keep the team together,” said Brulte. “When you keep the team together, you can bank wins. And it’s much more difficult to keep the team together today than it was a few years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Politics over policy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats agree that McCarthy is more a creature of \u003ci>politics\u003c/i> than a master of \u003ci>policy\u003c/i>. GOP consultant Mike Madrid, who also worked with McCarthy in Sacramento, said that as speaker, McCarthy is likely to have one goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans are not interested in advancing any sort of a policy agenda,” Madrid said. “I think it’s going to be more performative than policy and substance. I think they simply need to be masters at obstructing and slowing things down. And I think Kevin’s probably quite capable of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club earlier this year, McCarthy warned Attorney General Merrick Garland to prepare for oversight hearings if Republicans control the House. That’s one promise Madrid is sure McCarthy will keep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you’re going to see Hunter Biden [the president’s son] brought up before investigative committees. I think you’ll probably see an effort to impeach the president, Joe Biden. I think you’ll probably see an effort to impeach Merrick Garland,” Madrid said. It’s the same playbook McCarthy embraced with hearings into the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy acknowledged that the hearings were intended to drag down Clinton’s approval rating and raise questions about her leadership before the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1135110341.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1135110341-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"two white men get off a private plane\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1135110341-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1135110341-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1135110341-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1135110341.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy departs Air Force One with then-President Donald Trump at the Los Angeles International Airport in 2019. \u003ccite>(Michael Kovac/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The transition from Nancy Pelosi to Kevin McCarthy as speaker is enough to give some whiplash.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can’t imagine a much more different approach to leadership, not just ideologically but programmatically, between Pelosi and McCarthy in the same role,” said Schnur.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to think of anything that Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy have in common. They’re bipeds. They have opposable thumbs. They both serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and come from the state of California. That pretty much covers it,” he joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Sandalow with the University of California’s Washington Center says it might be tough for McCarthy to keep his members together — especially do-or-die Trump loyalists, and a growing number of members who embrace QAnon conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a group of maybe three dozen Freedom Caucus members who are willing to go sort of off the deep end on conservative issues. They want to shut down government, not raise the debt ceiling. McCarthy has never been one of those, and that’s been a problem for him,” said Sandalow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandalow said the challenge for McCarthy, especially with a small majority, is that he lacks trust with the far right wing of his caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nancy Pelosi has the credibility to go to the left and say, ‘I, my heart’s with you. Trust me on this.’ Kevin McCarthy does not have that credibility with the right,” Sandalow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of trust stems from things like McCarthy’s comments on the House floor after the January 6 attack on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The violence, the destruction and chaos we saw earlier today were unacceptable and un-American,” McCarthy said after the House returned to session. ”It was the saddest day I ever had serving as a member of this institution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Praising members “who helped hold the line,” McCarthy said, “both Democrats and Republicans showed courage, calm and resolve” during the attack on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"U.S. Rep Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo\"]‘I think that Kevin McCarthy will do whatever the fringe element of the Republican caucus wants him to do. So it’s going to be a bit of a ‘Gong Show,’ I’m afraid.’[/pullquote]McCarthy quickly pivoted, heading down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and make amends. Retiring California U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier said it showed that McCarthy will have very little independence as speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that Kevin McCarthy will do whatever the fringe element of the Republican caucus wants him to do. So it’s going to be a bit of a ‘Gong Show,’ I’m afraid,” Speier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speaker, Nancy Pelosi has directed federal aid to California for things like protecting the San Francisco Bay Delta or supporting public transportation. Speier isn’t sure McCarthy will do the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California will potentially be hurt unless there is a magnifying glass on what he does relative to protecting the interests of the state,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A lack of visibility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike Pelosi, who is extremely visible in her home district, McCarthy in recent years has been much less present for things like town hall meetings with constituents. And, said political science professor Ivy Cargile from CSU Bakersfield, McCarthy hasn’t shown much interest in helping Kern County address its many problems, like poverty and health care disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have lots of problems with even access to clean water. Unfortunately, the air quality in the area is also very bad. I personally have not seen Mr. McCarthy discuss these issues,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Cargile thinks McCarthy will work to mitigate the impact California’s environmental regulations have on Kern County’s oil and agriculture industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oil and gas are huge in the area. And so I’m sure that there are hopes that he might be able to, to help out with the continuing of the power of oil and gas in the area — and if not, perhaps maybe even expanding it, is my assumption,” Cargile said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the small majority McCarthy is facing, he might need to cut deals with Democrats to get things done. Dan Schnur said that could have an unanticipated outcome: more bipartisanship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a really good people person,” Schnur said. “He’s very smart at reading a room and reading an individual. And as a result, he’s actually like Biden. 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An NPR investigation found that sponsors of GOP bills in Arizona and Missouri met or appeared with prominent election deniers, and the influence of election misinformation can be seen in their other proposed election reforms – including limiting mail-in ballots and ending the use of voting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asides with specific hand-picked posts:\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11927742\"]Election Day holiday bills from each party show their different visions for the future of American elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats favor reforms like mail-in voting and automatic absentee balloting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Florida State Representative Geraldine Thompson, who said she wants to make voting easier for people who are weighing the demands of work and civic duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to go to work,” Thompson said. “And so I think making Election Day a holiday will allow more people to participate in our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson sponsored a bill to make Election Day a holiday in her state — the bill contained additional reforms like pre-paid postage on mail-in ballots. In New Mexico, another voting holiday bill went even further, lowering the voting age to 16 in local elections, re-enfranchising people with felony convictions, and making voter registration automatic through the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Mexico State Senator Peter Wirth sponsored that bill, which was killed by a filibuster. He told NPR the bill’s hearing was “contentious,” and that it seemed like word had been sent out that the bill’s provisions to expand voting access were “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican bills to give voters the day off don’t make it part of a list of reforms to expand voting options. Instead, they often seek to limit voting access to in-person, Election Day ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Keshel is a prominent election denier who travels the country touting a ten-point plan for voting policy, and he shared one of those points on the right-wing Stew Peters Show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So go ahead and tell the left that we want to turn Election Day into a national holiday and see how they are going to oppose that. But for us we are going to be able to press the measures we need – like restricting mail-in ballots, restricting early voting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These proposed restrictions are based on misinformation lingering from former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Election deniers, including some Republican politicians and their supporters, claim almost any voting expansion — like mail-in voting and drop boxes — is prone to fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keshel’s philosophy shows up in legislation in Arizona, Missouri, and Washington. He and other election deniers have met or appeared with three of the Republicans who have sponsored bills to make Election Day a holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Representative Ann Kelley sponsored a Missouri bill to make Election Day a holiday. She told NPR by email she wanted to have more people available to staff elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some counties,” Kelley wrote, “it is difficult to even find a place to vote, so this would potentially open up school buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley’s bill would have done much more than close schools and give workers the day off. The proposed legislation includes ending electronic voting entirely, a ban on sending unsolicited absentee ballot request forms, and additional provisions for Missouri’s voter ID law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Election Day holiday bills came with similar restrictions. An Arizona bill would have repealed the authorization for voting locations to be used as early voting sites, and limited voting centers to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And proposals linked to a bill in Washington would have added a new photo ID provision and limited early voting to just two weekends, rather than an 18-day voting period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Alvarez is professor of political science at Caltech and he’s been studying the idea of an Election Day holiday and other reforms to make voting more convenient since the aftermath of the 2000 election. His research is focused on voter behavior and which reforms increase turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez told NPR the idea for a voting holiday has been around for a while, mostly put forward by Democrats seeking to expand access for voters. 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He told NPR the bill’s hearing was “contentious,” and that it seemed like word had been sent out that the bill’s provisions to expand voting access were “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican bills to give voters the day off don’t make it part of a list of reforms to expand voting options. Instead, they often seek to limit voting access to in-person, Election Day ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Keshel is a prominent election denier who travels the country touting a ten-point plan for voting policy, and he shared one of those points on the right-wing Stew Peters Show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So go ahead and tell the left that we want to turn Election Day into a national holiday and see how they are going to oppose that. But for us we are going to be able to press the measures we need – like restricting mail-in ballots, restricting early voting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These proposed restrictions are based on misinformation lingering from former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Election deniers, including some Republican politicians and their supporters, claim almost any voting expansion — like mail-in voting and drop boxes — is prone to fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keshel’s philosophy shows up in legislation in Arizona, Missouri, and Washington. He and other election deniers have met or appeared with three of the Republicans who have sponsored bills to make Election Day a holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Representative Ann Kelley sponsored a Missouri bill to make Election Day a holiday. She told NPR by email she wanted to have more people available to staff elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some counties,” Kelley wrote, “it is difficult to even find a place to vote, so this would potentially open up school buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley’s bill would have done much more than close schools and give workers the day off. The proposed legislation includes ending electronic voting entirely, a ban on sending unsolicited absentee ballot request forms, and additional provisions for Missouri’s voter ID law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Election Day holiday bills came with similar restrictions. An Arizona bill would have repealed the authorization for voting locations to be used as early voting sites, and limited voting centers to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And proposals linked to a bill in Washington would have added a new photo ID provision and limited early voting to just two weekends, rather than an 18-day voting period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Alvarez is professor of political science at Caltech and he’s been studying the idea of an Election Day holiday and other reforms to make voting more convenient since the aftermath of the 2000 election. His research is focused on voter behavior and which reforms increase turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez told NPR the idea for a voting holiday has been around for a while, mostly put forward by Democrats seeking to expand access for voters. 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"content": "\u003cp>Election Day is Tuesday, but with early voting, the more accepted use of mail voting and the prospect of razor-thin races, it’s really Election Season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tuesday only marks the beginning of the next phase in that season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gird for many of these elections to go on for days, if not weeks. This is all perfectly normal when there are close elections. It doesn’t mean that there is fraud — despite the lies about his 2020 loss that former President Donald Trump has pushed and so many candidates he’s backed have promulgated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans need a net gain of just five seats to take back the House. They’re in the driver’s seat and widely expected to reach that and then some. But the full extent of a GOP wave, if there is one, or whether Democrats pull off the surprise and hold the House, won’t be known for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these races are expected to be close and will take a while to count all the vote. There are lots of competitive seats in California, for example. California polls don’t close until 11 p.m. ET, so don’t expect many of those to be known on election night. In past years, that’s been the case, and it’s taken a long time to know results — days and weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Senate, all eyes are going to be on four states — Pennsylvania and Georgia in the East and Arizona and Nevada in the West. In Georgia, there’s a libertarian on the ballot, who very likely will serve as a place for protest vote — meaning neither the Democrat nor Republican in the race might surpass the 50% threshold required to win the election outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, the election would go to a Dec. 6 runoff, which means control of the Senate quite possibly won’t be known for a month after Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Election results often require patience. This one is no different.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931340\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"people wait line to vote at a polling place\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-800x490.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-1020x624.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-1536x940.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to vote Saturday at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. \u003ccite>(Sean Rayford/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent years have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1128695831/united-states-2022-patterns-mail-early-voting\">a rise in mail voting\u003c/a>, and states have different rules for when those mail ballots are due. States have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-table-16-when-absentee-mail-ballot-processing-and-counting-can-begin.aspx?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_emailThreeThings\">different procedures\u003c/a> for when those ballots can be taken out of their envelopes to be processed and tallied, and this can lengthen the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s look at five states, all with crucial Senate races, where there could be delays and confusion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pennsylvania \u003c/strong>is one of the places we’re expecting to see a pretty dramatic shift on Election Night. Vote tallying should be faster this year than in 2020, considering there will be fewer mail-in ballots likely, but those mail ballots will still take longer and will lead to confusion. Beware a “Red Mirage” and a later “\u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-2022-election-results-vote-count-timing-20221020.html\">Blue Shift\u003c/a>.” Lots of mail-in ballots will be reported early, and we know that Democrats have been far more likely to say they will be voting early or by mail. That could initially make it look like a Democratic lead, but then in-person ballot results will come in, likely showing Republicans pulling ahead in a close race. Then the rest of the mail ballot results will trickle in later in the evening because they take longer to tabulate and will likely favor Democrats and shift things even more. And Philadelphia simply takes a very long time to report its results. This is what always happens. It is not nefarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wisconsin\u003c/strong> doesn’t allow election officials to begin processing mail ballots until polls open on Election Day. Also, if Milwaukee (high concentration of Black voters) and Dane (University of Wisconsin, younger and more liberal voters) take a longer time to report, then you could see another Red Mirage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arizona \u003c/strong>saw a slow trickle in Trump’s favor in 2020 as the hours went on. But others years have seen the opposite. It’s unclear which way the shift will go this year, but there will probably be one. The 2020 presidential was called at almost 3 a.m. ET, but the vote counting continued for days and Biden’s lead, though it held up, continued to shrink. Ultimately, the state was decided by just 0.3 percentage points, and Arizona has recently switched to automatic recounts for any contest that’s separated by 0.5% or less. Arizona has been ground zero for election denialism with counts and recounts and an attempt at putting a fake slate of electors up in favor of Trump. So in addition to the close vote, the challenges and noise that will happen around the legitimacy of the vote could cause even more chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Georgia \u003c/strong>has seen a huge population shift in Atlanta and the surrounding suburbs that have tilted the political hue bluer in recent years. And those suburbs report their results later than rural counties — so again there could be another Red Mirage here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nevada\u003c/strong> is a similar story to Georgia. It’s a growth state, and most of that boom has been in Las Vegas, which is in Clark County, the largest population center in the state and where almost 70% of all the state’s votes came from in 2020. Clark and Washoe (Reno), which went for Biden in 2020, count more slowly than the more rural counties that will overwhelmingly favor Republicans. Also, post-pandemic, Nevada is one state that has moved toward mail voting. People still have the option to vote in person, but every resident in the state was mailed a ballot unless they chose to opt out of receiving one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind also that election officials first report unofficial results. Certified results come days, if not weeks, later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal challenges and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-recount-thresholds.aspx\">recounts\u003c/a> can also lengthen the time before a winner is determined. Expect that this will go on a while, so patience will be needed in this impatient time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Be+patient%3A+This+election+is+probably+going+to+go+on+a+while&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Election Day is Tuesday, but with early voting, the more accepted use of mail voting and the prospect of razor-thin races, it’s really Election Season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tuesday only marks the beginning of the next phase in that season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gird for many of these elections to go on for days, if not weeks. This is all perfectly normal when there are close elections. It doesn’t mean that there is fraud — despite the lies about his 2020 loss that former President Donald Trump has pushed and so many candidates he’s backed have promulgated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans need a net gain of just five seats to take back the House. They’re in the driver’s seat and widely expected to reach that and then some. But the full extent of a GOP wave, if there is one, or whether Democrats pull off the surprise and hold the House, won’t be known for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these races are expected to be close and will take a while to count all the vote. There are lots of competitive seats in California, for example. California polls don’t close until 11 p.m. ET, so don’t expect many of those to be known on election night. In past years, that’s been the case, and it’s taken a long time to know results — days and weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Senate, all eyes are going to be on four states — Pennsylvania and Georgia in the East and Arizona and Nevada in the West. In Georgia, there’s a libertarian on the ballot, who very likely will serve as a place for protest vote — meaning neither the Democrat nor Republican in the race might surpass the 50% threshold required to win the election outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, the election would go to a Dec. 6 runoff, which means control of the Senate quite possibly won’t be known for a month after Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Election results often require patience. This one is no different.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931340\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"people wait line to vote at a polling place\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-800x490.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-1020x624.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85-1536x940.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/gettyimages-1244529992_custom-8b1ed49be13526df00c585d337c136b726d3bba4-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to vote Saturday at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. \u003ccite>(Sean Rayford/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent years have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1128695831/united-states-2022-patterns-mail-early-voting\">a rise in mail voting\u003c/a>, and states have different rules for when those mail ballots are due. States have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-table-16-when-absentee-mail-ballot-processing-and-counting-can-begin.aspx?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_emailThreeThings\">different procedures\u003c/a> for when those ballots can be taken out of their envelopes to be processed and tallied, and this can lengthen the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s look at five states, all with crucial Senate races, where there could be delays and confusion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pennsylvania \u003c/strong>is one of the places we’re expecting to see a pretty dramatic shift on Election Night. Vote tallying should be faster this year than in 2020, considering there will be fewer mail-in ballots likely, but those mail ballots will still take longer and will lead to confusion. Beware a “Red Mirage” and a later “\u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-2022-election-results-vote-count-timing-20221020.html\">Blue Shift\u003c/a>.” Lots of mail-in ballots will be reported early, and we know that Democrats have been far more likely to say they will be voting early or by mail. That could initially make it look like a Democratic lead, but then in-person ballot results will come in, likely showing Republicans pulling ahead in a close race. Then the rest of the mail ballot results will trickle in later in the evening because they take longer to tabulate and will likely favor Democrats and shift things even more. And Philadelphia simply takes a very long time to report its results. This is what always happens. It is not nefarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wisconsin\u003c/strong> doesn’t allow election officials to begin processing mail ballots until polls open on Election Day. Also, if Milwaukee (high concentration of Black voters) and Dane (University of Wisconsin, younger and more liberal voters) take a longer time to report, then you could see another Red Mirage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arizona \u003c/strong>saw a slow trickle in Trump’s favor in 2020 as the hours went on. But others years have seen the opposite. It’s unclear which way the shift will go this year, but there will probably be one. The 2020 presidential was called at almost 3 a.m. ET, but the vote counting continued for days and Biden’s lead, though it held up, continued to shrink. Ultimately, the state was decided by just 0.3 percentage points, and Arizona has recently switched to automatic recounts for any contest that’s separated by 0.5% or less. Arizona has been ground zero for election denialism with counts and recounts and an attempt at putting a fake slate of electors up in favor of Trump. So in addition to the close vote, the challenges and noise that will happen around the legitimacy of the vote could cause even more chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Georgia \u003c/strong>has seen a huge population shift in Atlanta and the surrounding suburbs that have tilted the political hue bluer in recent years. And those suburbs report their results later than rural counties — so again there could be another Red Mirage here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nevada\u003c/strong> is a similar story to Georgia. It’s a growth state, and most of that boom has been in Las Vegas, which is in Clark County, the largest population center in the state and where almost 70% of all the state’s votes came from in 2020. Clark and Washoe (Reno), which went for Biden in 2020, count more slowly than the more rural counties that will overwhelmingly favor Republicans. Also, post-pandemic, Nevada is one state that has moved toward mail voting. People still have the option to vote in person, but every resident in the state was mailed a ballot unless they chose to opt out of receiving one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind also that election officials first report unofficial results. Certified results come days, if not weeks, later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal challenges and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-recount-thresholds.aspx\">recounts\u003c/a> can also lengthen the time before a winner is determined. Expect that this will go on a while, so patience will be needed in this impatient time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Be+patient%3A+This+election+is+probably+going+to+go+on+a+while&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s the home stretch in the race for Oakland’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten candidates have been making their final pitches to voters, addressing some of the city’s ongoing issues — which are detailed in \u003ca href=\"https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/pn7DqNK8c99egH39YZ0FpENJSYjgDq5Qj8jl1xbGz0w8dLNjT-3pRWYxwaPxuyxFNqKtTDTm9OYjVauA.3gow6b_LGUNOej5J?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=JDp3t45MQSmH02CXJCHtfw.1667417570063.10c1e7fb2f5a1d82eb7d85bd392fffe6&_x_zm_rhtaid=727\">a recent poll\u003c/a> by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. The findings show that 97% of 604 likely voters surveyed think homelessness and gun violence are among the top problems the city faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same poll also shows the likely front-runners: City Councilmembers Sheng Thao and Loren Taylor, and Ignacio de la Fuente, a former councilmember. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda#oakland-mayor\">Find more information about all the candidates here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland voters are using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930836/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ranked-choice-voting\">ranked choice voting\u003c/a> to choose their next mayor. When the system first rolled out during the 2010 mayoral race, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/44028/why-politicos-hate-ranked-choice-voting\">it helped Oakland City Councilmember Jean Quan\u003c/a> beat former state Sen. Don Perata. Two candidates, Taylor and Treva Reid, also a current councilmember, have teamed up, urging voters to choose them as their top two picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as Election Day approaches, KQED’s Brian Watt talked with some voters to find out more about the candidates and issues that are motivating them. Here’s a snapshot of their conversations.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Linda Handy, 72, Maxwell Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931206\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931206 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a teal button down shift stands right of frame looking into the camera. A sunny day illuminates an out of focus house and yard behind her. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Handy poses for a portrait in Oakland on Oct. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retiring soon from a long tenure as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Peralta Community College District, Handy said she isn’t drawn to the name recognition that some mayoral candidates appear to have cultivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she is focused on the candidates who have several years of experience in public service. For her, the choice for mayor is between Greg Hodge, who served on the Oakland Unified school board in the early 2000s, and Ignacio de la Fuente, whose service on the City Council goes back to 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘You’ve got three City Council members sitting there, saying, If I move from this seat as a councilmember to the end seat as the mayor, things are going to be different. Sometimes you need to find out the direction to the bathrooms in the office that you’re in before you want to move on to the next top office. They haven’t cut their teeth in their roles [on the] City Council. We need someone who is knowledgeable.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/one-oakland-voter-on-how-shes-choosing-the-next-ma\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Miya Saika Chen, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931208\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits right of frame looking left, smiling. She appears to be at a window sill looking out, while wearing a wool cardigan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miya Chen poses for a photo at Alkali Rye — Oakland’s Beverage Shop, a business co-owned by her brother Kori Saika Chen, in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen, a lifelong Oakland resident, worked for three years for Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents District 2 and is the current City Council president (and who is running for reelection in her district). Seeing closely how city government works, Chen said public safety and homelessness are among the top issues for her this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m inspired by leaders who are really thoughtful and thinking about not just Band-Aid solutions for the problems we have right here. I’m thinking about my parents being able to walk around at night. I want a safe city. But I don’t want political leaders to just tell me what I want to hear. I want thoughtful safety solutions that think through and address the root causes of the problems that we have here and prevent a lot of this stuff from happening in the first place on our streets.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/oakland-voter-with-city-government-experience-weig\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Romero Wesson, 21, downtown Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931209\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931209 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands center frame looking left. Behind him, a white building and small courtyard. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romero Messon stands outside Oakland City Hall on Nov. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wesson, who grew up near the Eastmont Town Center, said he’s committed to Black leadership and is supporting Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid. A member of the city’s Youth Commission, he added he’s invested in making sure young people are prioritized in policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘If we look at a lot of the movements in Oakland, a lot of them are youth-led charges and movements. It’s really indescribable what I can see Oakland doing when it partners with the young people — instead of being on opposing sides of the young people. So once adults get out of ‘adult-ism,’ which is oppression of youth, once they really step out of themselves and see youth are capable, we can make some real change.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-romero-wesson\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eurydice Manning, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931212\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931212 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits left of frame looking right. She sits at a small pink table and wears a black button down top with bright red cherries on it. Behind her is a bakery display. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eurydice Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, at her shop in Jack London Square in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before the pandemic hit, Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, opened a second shop in the Jack London Square area. She said she had to furlough many of her employees while balancing demands at home: raising her daughter, who was navigating kindergarten over Zoom. Still, she said she continued fighting to keep her businesses running — and that spirit persists as she reflects on the politics of reproductive rights and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927521/questions-raised-about-whether-proposition-1-will-actually-expand-abortion-rights\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which would enshrine abortion access in California’s constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘At this point, a lot of other personal things are on the line. This is an all-female staff — not by choice, but by gravitation of how people feel comfortable in the spaces they want to be in, and it’s just one of those human rights that you just don’t question. When something gets taken away from you, you have to think about what that would look like without something that’s necessary to the lives of the people that I’m working with.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-eurydice-manning-owner\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kaliyah Tillman, 18, East Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931213\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits center frame wearing a green tshirt. She sits with sunlight on her face but the room behind her is covered in shadow. Out of focus shelves can be seen behind her but not much else can be made out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaliyah Tillman at the East Oakland Youth Development Center on Oct. 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman, an intern at the East Oakland Youth Development Center, has a few tattoos on her left arm: the Gemini sign; “2004” for the year she was born; and angel wings honoring her older brother, Corey Clay, and her cousin, Aaron Pryor. Both were shot and killed in recent years. So as she gets ready to vote for the first time, she’s thinking about the issue of gun violence; the city saw one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">biggest spikes in homicides\u003c/a> in the Bay Area over the past couple years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m not sure what they can do, because I’m not going to say that they need to take more accountability. But I just feel like they put this picture on it as, well, “This is Oakland and this is how Oakland is.” I don’t feel like that’s how Oakland is. It has a lot more good things about it. I know that there’s a lot of bad things going on. But instead of just saying Oakland is a tragic place right now, say, Oakland is going through a hard time.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-a-first-time-voter-in-alameda-county\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s the home stretch in the race for Oakland’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten candidates have been making their final pitches to voters, addressing some of the city’s ongoing issues — which are detailed in \u003ca href=\"https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/pn7DqNK8c99egH39YZ0FpENJSYjgDq5Qj8jl1xbGz0w8dLNjT-3pRWYxwaPxuyxFNqKtTDTm9OYjVauA.3gow6b_LGUNOej5J?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=JDp3t45MQSmH02CXJCHtfw.1667417570063.10c1e7fb2f5a1d82eb7d85bd392fffe6&_x_zm_rhtaid=727\">a recent poll\u003c/a> by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. The findings show that 97% of 604 likely voters surveyed think homelessness and gun violence are among the top problems the city faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same poll also shows the likely front-runners: City Councilmembers Sheng Thao and Loren Taylor, and Ignacio de la Fuente, a former councilmember. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda#oakland-mayor\">Find more information about all the candidates here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland voters are using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930836/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ranked-choice-voting\">ranked choice voting\u003c/a> to choose their next mayor. When the system first rolled out during the 2010 mayoral race, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/44028/why-politicos-hate-ranked-choice-voting\">it helped Oakland City Councilmember Jean Quan\u003c/a> beat former state Sen. Don Perata. Two candidates, Taylor and Treva Reid, also a current councilmember, have teamed up, urging voters to choose them as their top two picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as Election Day approaches, KQED’s Brian Watt talked with some voters to find out more about the candidates and issues that are motivating them. Here’s a snapshot of their conversations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Linda Handy, 72, Maxwell Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931206\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931206 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a teal button down shift stands right of frame looking into the camera. A sunny day illuminates an out of focus house and yard behind her. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59682_002_KQED_OaklandVoterLindaHandy_10262022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Handy poses for a portrait in Oakland on Oct. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retiring soon from a long tenure as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Peralta Community College District, Handy said she isn’t drawn to the name recognition that some mayoral candidates appear to have cultivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she is focused on the candidates who have several years of experience in public service. For her, the choice for mayor is between Greg Hodge, who served on the Oakland Unified school board in the early 2000s, and Ignacio de la Fuente, whose service on the City Council goes back to 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘You’ve got three City Council members sitting there, saying, If I move from this seat as a councilmember to the end seat as the mayor, things are going to be different. Sometimes you need to find out the direction to the bathrooms in the office that you’re in before you want to move on to the next top office. They haven’t cut their teeth in their roles [on the] City Council. We need someone who is knowledgeable.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/one-oakland-voter-on-how-shes-choosing-the-next-ma\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Miya Saika Chen, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931208\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits right of frame looking left, smiling. She appears to be at a window sill looking out, while wearing a wool cardigan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59739_004_KQED_MiyaChenOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miya Chen poses for a photo at Alkali Rye — Oakland’s Beverage Shop, a business co-owned by her brother Kori Saika Chen, in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen, a lifelong Oakland resident, worked for three years for Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents District 2 and is the current City Council president (and who is running for reelection in her district). Seeing closely how city government works, Chen said public safety and homelessness are among the top issues for her this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I’m inspired by leaders who are really thoughtful and thinking about not just Band-Aid solutions for the problems we have right here. I’m thinking about my parents being able to walk around at night. I want a safe city. But I don’t want political leaders to just tell me what I want to hear. I want thoughtful safety solutions that think through and address the root causes of the problems that we have here and prevent a lot of this stuff from happening in the first place on our streets.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/oakland-voter-with-city-government-experience-weig\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Romero Wesson, 21, downtown Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931209\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931209 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands center frame looking left. Behind him, a white building and small courtyard. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59775_001_KQED_RomeroMessonOaklandVoter_11022022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romero Messon stands outside Oakland City Hall on Nov. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wesson, who grew up near the Eastmont Town Center, said he’s committed to Black leadership and is supporting Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid. A member of the city’s Youth Commission, he added he’s invested in making sure young people are prioritized in policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘If we look at a lot of the movements in Oakland, a lot of them are youth-led charges and movements. It’s really indescribable what I can see Oakland doing when it partners with the young people — instead of being on opposing sides of the young people. So once adults get out of ‘adult-ism,’ which is oppression of youth, once they really step out of themselves and see youth are capable, we can make some real change.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-romero-wesson\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eurydice Manning, 41, Lake Merritt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931212\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931212 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits left of frame looking right. She sits at a small pink table and wears a black button down top with bright red cherries on it. Behind her is a bakery display. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59753_001_KQED_EurydiceManningOaklandVoter_11012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eurydice Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, at her shop in Jack London Square in Oakland on Nov. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before the pandemic hit, Manning, owner of James and the Giant Cupcake, opened a second shop in the Jack London Square area. She said she had to furlough many of her employees while balancing demands at home: raising her daughter, who was navigating kindergarten over Zoom. Still, she said she continued fighting to keep her businesses running — and that spirit persists as she reflects on the politics of reproductive rights and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927521/questions-raised-about-whether-proposition-1-will-actually-expand-abortion-rights\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which would enshrine abortion access in California’s constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘At this point, a lot of other personal things are on the line. This is an all-female staff — not by choice, but by gravitation of how people feel comfortable in the spaces they want to be in, and it’s just one of those human rights that you just don’t question. When something gets taken away from you, you have to think about what that would look like without something that’s necessary to the lives of the people that I’m working with.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/talking-with-oakland-voters-eurydice-manning-owner\">\u003cem>Listen here for the full radio interview.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kaliyah Tillman, 18, East Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931213\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931213 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59649_005_KQED_OaklandVoterKaliyahTillman_10252022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits center frame wearing a green tshirt. She sits with sunlight on her face but the room behind her is covered in shadow. 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