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He also disagreed with a recommendation from the county’s probation department that suggested no jail time should be levied and stated Becker’s level of remorse was “unknown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy District Attorney Jason Malinsky during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Becker has shown no remorse for his crimes despite ample opportunity and a public forum to do so,” Malinsky wrote, noting that Becker said the verdict was politically motivated and felt that justice was not served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not the words of a remorseful man who has learned the lesson from his actions and intends to put himself on a path of reconciliation and reform,” Malinsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the sentencing hearing on Friday, Becker made a statement to the court in which he apologized to the residents of Santa Clara for the “ordeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to first apologize to the people of Santa Clara for this long ordeal. And additionally, I want to respect what the jury’s decision was, despite my other disagreements. I respect the jury’s decision. I respect this court. And I just want that to be known,” Becker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala said Becker’s statement helped guide his decision on the sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hoping to hear an apology, which I did hear. I am going to let you serve that sentence in an alternative way other than sitting in a jail. If you hadn’t apologized, you would have been remanded today,” Alcala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superior Court Judge Javier Alcala during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya, one of Becker’s attorneys, noted in his pre-sentencing memo that the court could meet its objectives of “protecting society, punishing the defendant, and deterring others from criminal conduct by demonstrating its consequences” by sentencing Becker to probation only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Becker is now a convicted felon. 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The memo also highlighted Becker’s personal struggles, some due to the “collateral consequences” of his conviction, including permanent damage to his reputation, the loss of his political career and the loss of his income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additional punitive punishment of time in jail is not warranted or necessary, is disproportionate to the underlying conduct, and is a departure from efforts to achieve uniformity in sentencing,” Montoya wrote. “A jail sentence will only serve to set Mr. Becker back and, more significantly, deprive him of caring for his mother who is currently very sick and undergoing treatment for a stage 3 cancer diagnosis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara City Councilmembers Sudhanshu ‘Suds’ Jain (left) and Kevin Park make statements during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several family members, friends and former colleagues of Becker’s wrote letters to Alcala asserting that they know Becker to be “of high moral character,” as well as an “honest and very kind and caring person” and a “good person who made a bad decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the court hearing, Santa Clara Councilmembers Suds Jain and Kevin Park spoke in support of leniency for Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain called Becker, his friend, and said he admired his commitment to the job of being a council member who worked hard to stay well-informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider him to be a very dedicated public servant,” Jain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without naming any specific people, Park claimed Becker has been “under attack” for a long time and has faced a lot of harassment ever since running for office in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034591\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker leaves the courtroom after receiving his sentence at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He is one of the hardest working people I know. He wanted to do this job, he wanted to do this as legitimately as possible,” Park said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing on Friday, Rosen said the case boiled down to what people should and do expect from their elected officials and said that those who take oaths of office and then abuse that power “mock” their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government officials should be role models for all citizens to respect and follow the law,” he said. “If public officials do not respect and follow the law, who will?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker and his lead attorney, Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya, declined to comment after the sentencing, other than to say they would appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he thought the sentence was “appropriate” in comments he made outside the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were asking for was a significant jail sentence. The judge gave a jail sentence and allowed Mr. Becker to serve it on weekend work, and that’s within the discretion of the court,” Rosen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_009-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey F. Rosen makes a statement following former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker’s sentencing hearing at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Becker was convicted of a misdemeanor for violating his duty as an elected official to keep a \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/unsportsmanlike-conduct-santa-clara-city-council_0.pdf\">civil grand jury report confidential (PDF)\u003c/a> until its public release and with felony perjury for lying to a grand jury about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016866/santa-clara-vice-mayor-anthony-becker-convicted-of-perjury\">announced his resignation\u003c/a> one day after his conviction in a Morgan Hill courtroom, just weeks before his first term in office was set to expire. He did not win a second term in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/santaclara\">2024 election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 civil grand jury report at the center of the case, titled Unsportsmanlike Conduct, accused Becker and four other council members of having unethical and inappropriately close relationships with top lobbyists and officials from the San Francisco 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s ownership has spent millions of dollars over the past three election cycles to support some candidates, including Becker, and oppose others, including Mayor Lisa Gillmor, who has butted heads with the team over a host of issues related to the management of publicly owned Levi’s Stadium, where the 49ers play their home games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Jason Malinsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a pre-sentencing memo in January that Becker deserves “a significant jail sentence that reflects the seriousness of his crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malinsky based his recommendation on what he called the “aggravated” and “self-serving” nature of Becker’s crimes, which he said eroded public trust in government and elected officials. He also disagreed with a recommendation from the county’s probation department that suggested no jail time should be levied and stated Becker’s level of remorse was “unknown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_002-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy District Attorney Jason Malinsky during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Becker has shown no remorse for his crimes despite ample opportunity and a public forum to do so,” Malinsky wrote, noting that Becker said the verdict was politically motivated and felt that justice was not served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not the words of a remorseful man who has learned the lesson from his actions and intends to put himself on a path of reconciliation and reform,” Malinsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the sentencing hearing on Friday, Becker made a statement to the court in which he apologized to the residents of Santa Clara for the “ordeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to first apologize to the people of Santa Clara for this long ordeal. And additionally, I want to respect what the jury’s decision was, despite my other disagreements. I respect the jury’s decision. I respect this court. And I just want that to be known,” Becker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala said Becker’s statement helped guide his decision on the sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hoping to hear an apology, which I did hear. I am going to let you serve that sentence in an alternative way other than sitting in a jail. If you hadn’t apologized, you would have been remanded today,” Alcala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_024_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superior Court Judge Javier Alcala during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya, one of Becker’s attorneys, noted in his pre-sentencing memo that the court could meet its objectives of “protecting society, punishing the defendant, and deterring others from criminal conduct by demonstrating its consequences” by sentencing Becker to probation only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Becker is now a convicted felon. Society garners no further protection by imposing\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>a jail sentence on Mr. Becker,” Montoya wrote. “Becker’s conduct did not subject anyone to physical violence, deprive anyone of a loved one, deprive anyone of their property, or deprive anyone of large amounts of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also took issue with what he characterized as the prosecution’s unwillingness to “make an offer to resolve the matter” ahead of the trial through a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_025_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Montoya emphasized that Becker had no prior record and was allowed to be under his own supervision while the trial proceeded because he was not a danger to anyone else. The memo also highlighted Becker’s personal struggles, some due to the “collateral consequences” of his conviction, including permanent damage to his reputation, the loss of his political career and the loss of his income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additional punitive punishment of time in jail is not warranted or necessary, is disproportionate to the underlying conduct, and is a departure from efforts to achieve uniformity in sentencing,” Montoya wrote. “A jail sentence will only serve to set Mr. Becker back and, more significantly, deprive him of caring for his mother who is currently very sick and undergoing treatment for a stage 3 cancer diagnosis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara City Councilmembers Sudhanshu ‘Suds’ Jain (left) and Kevin Park make statements during the sentencing hearing following the perjury trial of former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several family members, friends and former colleagues of Becker’s wrote letters to Alcala asserting that they know Becker to be “of high moral character,” as well as an “honest and very kind and caring person” and a “good person who made a bad decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the court hearing, Santa Clara Councilmembers Suds Jain and Kevin Park spoke in support of leniency for Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain called Becker, his friend, and said he admired his commitment to the job of being a council member who worked hard to stay well-informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider him to be a very dedicated public servant,” Jain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without naming any specific people, Park claimed Becker has been “under attack” for a long time and has faced a lot of harassment ever since running for office in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034591\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2025.04.04_MIDDLETON_ANTHONYBECKER_008-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker leaves the courtroom after receiving his sentence at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He is one of the hardest working people I know. 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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345802/trump-tariffs-liberation-day\">President Trump announced his latest tariffs\u003c/a> on Wednesday, he also ignited an economic mystery. Just where in the world did those numbers come from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding up a sign on the White House lawn, Trump pointed to a new, 34% tax on imports from China; for the EU, a tax of 20%. Vietnam got 46%; India, 26%. Nigeria? Just 15 percent. Trump claimed that these “reciprocal” tariffs reflect how other countries already tax American products. “That means they do it to us and we do it to them,” he said. “Very simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is not true. These are not reciprocal tariffs. They do not correspond to the tariff rates in other countries. The truth behind where these tariffs came from is far more interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night, the administration revealed how they calculated the new tariffs, which are the highest taxes on foreign products that America has seen in generations. (For a sense of that era, listen to the \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Xu7WphFFwtQpWmnZ5dn4f?si=bftF4o2PQoaysSOZ21jFJw\">Planet Money episode on the Smoot-Hawley tariffs\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buried in that math, finally, is a straightforward answer to a question that Trump has long refused to straightforwardly answer: How much will his tariffs raise prices?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Diving deep into Trump’s tariff math\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is \u003ca href=\"https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations\">the Trump administration’s tariff formula\u003c/a>, as revealed on Wednesday night by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-800x338.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1020x431.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-160x68.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trump administration’s tariff formula. \u003ccite>(Screenshot from ustr.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Behind these Greek letters there’s a blunt but understandable approach. Essentially, the equation is trying to answer the question: How high should we set tariffs in order to get Americans to buy fewer foreign products, and close the trade deficit? This math says, the more of a trade deficit the U.S. has with another country, the higher that tariffs should be on that country’s products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take China for instance. Last year, Americans imported about $439 billion of products from China — chiefly electronics, clothing, and machinery — while exporting only $144 billion. According to this formula, a 67% tax on those Chinese products should correct this trade imbalance. (On Wednesday Trump announced that the actual tariff would only be half of that, or 34%.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how Trump’s math says it would work: The 67% tax should raise the prices of Chinese products in the United States. And those higher prices should discourage Americans from buying Chinese products or products that contain Chinese components.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is contrary to Trump’s previous public statements, where he has variously denied that tariffs would raise prices or has said that he “couldn’t care less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Trump’s math, the tariffs are \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to raise prices. Because those higher prices are the driving force that will close the trade deficit.[aside postID=forum_2010101909269 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/Edward-Fishman-1020x638.png']There are a couple of major assumptions in Trump’s math. The biggest assumption involves how much the tariffs would cause prices to go up. Here, the administration makes an eyebrow-raising admission: It guesses that for every 10% hike in tariffs, there will be a 2.5% increase in prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: Trump’s economists think that about a quarter of his tariffs will be passed onto American consumers in the form of higher prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going back to the China example, here’s how it would all play out. According to Trump’s math, the 67% tariff on Chinese products would cause prices of those products to go up by 16.75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By coincidence, the administration also assumes that for every 10% increase in the price of foreign products, there will be a 40% decrease in how much Americans buy. (This is on the higher but still reasonable end of what mainstream economists believe.) So, faced with 16.75% higher prices, Trump expects Americans to decrease their purchases by four times that amount. Which brings us back to 67%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, a 67% tariff on Chinese products would reduce demand for Chinese products by … also 67%. So if Americans are currently buying $439 billion worth of Chinese products each year, Trump’s economists expect that the new tariffs will reduce that spending by $294 billion — which would close the trade deficit. At least in theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s wrong with Trump’s tariff math?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Certainly these new tariffs are not “reciprocal” tariffs. But the math behind them is not wholly invented or nonsensical, despite what some \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1907660479800991802\">online\u003c/a> have claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, for possibly the first time ever, the administration is explicitly acknowledging some of the basic economic logic of tariffs. Tariffs do raise prices. And higher prices do cause people to buy less stuff. And if Americans buy less foreign stuff, then America’s trade deficit with other countries will narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say that any of Trump’s tariff calculations arrive at the right answer. For one, these are very rough, back-of-the-envelope calculations. As laid out, this formula treats every trading partner, every good and every industry the same. Bananas, oil, clothing, computers or cars — it doesn’t matter what a country sends to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, the formula hinges on a big assumption about how much tariffs will raise prices. Trump’s math assumes that only a quarter of the tariffs would be passed onto American consumers in the form of higher prices. But economists who have studied Trump’s tariffs in 2018 — on steel and aluminum and various products from China — calculate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.princeton.edu/~reddings/pubpapers/JEP-tariffs-2019.pdf\">almost all of those tariffs (PDF)\u003c/a> ended up being passed onto Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from that, Trump’s tariff math also ignores the broader economic consequences of these sweeping new tariffs. They will have an effect on the overall American economy. They will influence exchange rates. And they will likely provoke retaliatory tariffs from other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, will Trump’s new tariffs actually close the trade deficit? Maybe, maybe not. But finally, at least, the administration has shown its work. And according to their calculations, raising prices and closing the trade deficit is what these tariffs are designed to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There are a couple of major assumptions in Trump’s math. The biggest assumption involves how much the tariffs would cause prices to go up. Here, the administration makes an eyebrow-raising admission: It guesses that for every 10% hike in tariffs, there will be a 2.5% increase in prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: Trump’s economists think that about a quarter of his tariffs will be passed onto American consumers in the form of higher prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going back to the China example, here’s how it would all play out. According to Trump’s math, the 67% tariff on Chinese products would cause prices of those products to go up by 16.75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By coincidence, the administration also assumes that for every 10% increase in the price of foreign products, there will be a 40% decrease in how much Americans buy. (This is on the higher but still reasonable end of what mainstream economists believe.) So, faced with 16.75% higher prices, Trump expects Americans to decrease their purchases by four times that amount. Which brings us back to 67%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, a 67% tariff on Chinese products would reduce demand for Chinese products by … also 67%. So if Americans are currently buying $439 billion worth of Chinese products each year, Trump’s economists expect that the new tariffs will reduce that spending by $294 billion — which would close the trade deficit. At least in theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s wrong with Trump’s tariff math?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Certainly these new tariffs are not “reciprocal” tariffs. But the math behind them is not wholly invented or nonsensical, despite what some \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1907660479800991802\">online\u003c/a> have claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, for possibly the first time ever, the administration is explicitly acknowledging some of the basic economic logic of tariffs. Tariffs do raise prices. And higher prices do cause people to buy less stuff. And if Americans buy less foreign stuff, then America’s trade deficit with other countries will narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say that any of Trump’s tariff calculations arrive at the right answer. For one, these are very rough, back-of-the-envelope calculations. As laid out, this formula treats every trading partner, every good and every industry the same. Bananas, oil, clothing, computers or cars — it doesn’t matter what a country sends to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, the formula hinges on a big assumption about how much tariffs will raise prices. Trump’s math assumes that only a quarter of the tariffs would be passed onto American consumers in the form of higher prices. But economists who have studied Trump’s tariffs in 2018 — on steel and aluminum and various products from China — calculate that \u003ca href=\"https://www.princeton.edu/~reddings/pubpapers/JEP-tariffs-2019.pdf\">almost all of those tariffs (PDF)\u003c/a> ended up being passed onto Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from that, Trump’s tariff math also ignores the broader economic consequences of these sweeping new tariffs. They will have an effect on the overall American economy. They will influence exchange rates. And they will likely provoke retaliatory tariffs from other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, will Trump’s new tariffs actually close the trade deficit? Maybe, maybe not. But finally, at least, the administration has shown its work. And according to their calculations, raising prices and closing the trade deficit is what these tariffs are designed to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far from the halls of power in Washington, the forested hamlet of Mount Shasta has long tied its economic fate to a functioning federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even in a county where President Donald Trump’s cuts could hit the region’s economy hard, some are welcoming them. Nearly 60% of voters there supported the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past two months have been a whirlwind for rural towns across California like Mount Shasta, population 3,200, where federal lands abound and outdoor recreation drives the local economy. Probationary federal workers were abruptly fired, then reinstated under court order, as further reductions in force loom. Local organizations scrambled when the federal government froze some grant funds for wildfire preparation, trail maintenance and other work, then some saw the money trickle in again but with no guarantee it’ll continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club and other nonprofits are suing the Trump administration to reverse Forest Service firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business owners and officials in forest towns, overwhelmingly dependent on recreation and tourism, are anxious about whether there will be enough federal workers to keep trails open, campgrounds clean and visitors coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some forest towns, like Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada, are trying to backfill some anticipated federal losses with their own dollars. But that would be a tough undertaking for many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a poor, rural county,” said Siskiyou County Supervisor Ed Valenzuela, who represents Mount Shasta. “Federal funding, it’s not like that money is going to be replicated anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rural California relies on federal funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He has cause for concern. The namesake mountain towers above the small town, drawing in thousands of visitors to climb and ski. In surrounding Siskiyou County, over 60% of the land is owned and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. As much as 6% of the county workforce is employed by the federal government, according to Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s second only to neighboring Lassen County. Both are among the most Trump-supporting counties in the state. In Siskiyou County, nearly 60% voted for the president in November.[aside postID=news_12026245 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ap25023755326447-1020x681.jpeg']Estimates from state labor agencies show other small, forested counties in Northern California and the Sierra Nevada also have high shares of federal employment. By contrast, though federal agencies employ far more people at offices in urban counties, they’re only responsible for 1–2% of the workforces there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are magnified in a small community,” said Tonya Dowse, executive director of the Siskiyou Economic Development Council, a nonprofit that receives several federal grants to help small businesses, farmers and towns including Mount Shasta. “Small reductions are felt to a greater extent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal land makes up the majority of many rural counties, which are already dealing with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/03/rural-counties/\">likely loss of millions of federal dollars\u003c/a> that prop up their school systems and public works departments. Rural hospitals are \u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/15/medicaids-role-in-small-towns-and-rural-areas/\">generally more reliant\u003c/a> on the massive low-income health program Medicaid. Their populations are older and poorer, making the Social Security Administration and federally funded safety net programs critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the rural Siskiyou County community of Happy Camp on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have not been forthcoming about exactly how many workers have been fired and reinstated in recent weeks, and locals say they’re unsure themselves. The Forest Service in February cut at least 3,400 probationary employees nationwide. The Washington Post reported last week that the administration plans new cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/\">between 8% to 50% across federal agencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Forest Service, who would not provide a name, would say only that probationary employees who were fired in February were placed in March under a “phased plan for return-to-duty.” Thomas Stokesberry, a spokesperson for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, directed a separate request for a breakdown of staffing cuts to the regional Forest Service press office, which did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mount Shasta, everyone seems to know someone who is affected. John Redmond, a bar owner who is also the mayor, said his regulars who work at the local Forest Service district office haven’t been spending as much since they were fired or heard of cuts. Timothy Keating, a longtime mountain guide, said he depends on a fully staffed Forest Service to approve his operating permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street, an outdoor goods store manager named Michelle is also worried about economic fallout. She wouldn’t give her last name out of fear of drawing attention to her husband, a federal employee who she said was anxious about losing his job in the next round of reductions in force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of federal workers make up our middle class,” she said. “This can really hurt our local tax base and spending levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s cuts will hit a divided county\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yet others welcome cuts, even if they’ll hit the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the town of Mount Shasta is liberal, its streets of Subarus, crystal shops and bed-and-breakfasts welcoming out-of-town mountaineers give way quickly to vast stretches of the county where ranchers and loggers have long clashed with environmentalists and chafed at state and federal regulations.[aside postID=news_12028454 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177324845-1020x680.jpg']Longtime resentment over Forest Service management and the decline of the timber industry have split the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Mount Shasta cheered when then-President Joe Biden, in his last days in office in January, designated a new national monument on Forest Service lands outside the town, increasing federal protections there. Other Siskiyou County residents, including Supervisor W. Jess Harris, celebrated when Trump indicated last month he may revoke the designation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris acknowledges the county relies on the federal government for both services and jobs — but he said it doesn’t have to be that way. He hopes federal cuts will reduce grants to environmental nonprofits that he says have hampered private industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations like those that restrict logging to protect the spotted owl, listed as a threatened species, have “effectively damaged all of our natural resource industries,” he said. “Our area’s just a prime example of what happens when you kill the industry and become reliant on the government jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Dorsey, chair of the local Republican Party, said he welcomes reducing federal spending and doesn’t believe the cuts will be drastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea is to sit back and wait and see where the cuts are going to be made, and do we actually need those programs anymore?” he said. “We have too many -ologists all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local politicians are caught in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick, a Republican from Alturas, represents 11 rural counties across Northern California, including Siskiyou. She said she’s worried about the economic ripple effects of job losses in small towns, and about funding delays in local wildfire mitigation projects, when now is the season to make those preparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Heather Hadwick speaks before lawmakers during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Feb. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s personal, too. Hadwick’s husband manages a local office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and she’s seen firsthand how “his people are stressed.” But her district, which she said already holds deep distrust of the government, voted for cuts and spending reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be uncomfortable for a while and it’s going to hurt, I know some of those programs that I care about deeply are going to be affected,” she said. “My district is very conservative, and I am very conservative … I’m going to trust in my president and trust what he’s doing is best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With both federal uncertainty and local polarization, some are hesitant to speak publicly against the cuts. The leader of one nonprofit in Siskiyou County detailed to CalMatters how the group had a Forest Service grant temporarily frozen, delaying the hiring of contractors. But after meeting with the rest of the organization the leader asked to withdraw their comments, stressing the need to remain “apolitical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other forest towns are preparing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In bluer parts of California, some forest towns are trying to mount a small resistance. Council members in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.townoftruckee.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=116\">passed a resolution\u003c/a> denouncing possible federal cuts, citing the impact they would have on the region’s ability to prevent wildfires and accommodate tourists visiting the Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar resolutions have passed in a handful of local fire protection districts and in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Mammoth Lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town, population 7,200, balloons to nearly quadruple its size on the weekends, from skiers in winter to backpackers, climbers and tourists in spring, summer and fall. It needs the visitors: Nearly three-quarters of Mammoth Lakes’ revenue comes from a bed tax on hotels and Airbnbs, Mayor Chris Bubser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubser said the city has already hired a new staff member to pick up trash and help maintain local campgrounds in case there aren’t enough Forest Service personnel to do so this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in March, the Mammoth Lakes Town Council agreed to provide $700,000 in bridge funding for a forest-thinning and wildfire resilience project run by a local nonprofit that spans 58,000 acres of mostly national forest land surrounding the town. The project relies on about $17 million in different federal grants, some of which is frozen, she said. But Bubser said she didn’t want the project to get delayed, risking having contractors leave town if they can’t be hired in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How, as a small-town government, are we supposed to plan and execute when the earth is moving beneath us?” she said. “We have to be prepared for any situation. We’re all alone out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/rural-california-federal-cuts/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Estimates from state labor agencies show other small, forested counties in Northern California and the Sierra Nevada also have high shares of federal employment. By contrast, though federal agencies employ far more people at offices in urban counties, they’re only responsible for 1–2% of the workforces there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are magnified in a small community,” said Tonya Dowse, executive director of the Siskiyou Economic Development Council, a nonprofit that receives several federal grants to help small businesses, farmers and towns including Mount Shasta. “Small reductions are felt to a greater extent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal land makes up the majority of many rural counties, which are already dealing with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/03/rural-counties/\">likely loss of millions of federal dollars\u003c/a> that prop up their school systems and public works departments. Rural hospitals are \u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/15/medicaids-role-in-small-towns-and-rural-areas/\">generally more reliant\u003c/a> on the massive low-income health program Medicaid. Their populations are older and poorer, making the Social Security Administration and federally funded safety net programs critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the rural Siskiyou County community of Happy Camp on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have not been forthcoming about exactly how many workers have been fired and reinstated in recent weeks, and locals say they’re unsure themselves. The Forest Service in February cut at least 3,400 probationary employees nationwide. The Washington Post reported last week that the administration plans new cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/\">between 8% to 50% across federal agencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Forest Service, who would not provide a name, would say only that probationary employees who were fired in February were placed in March under a “phased plan for return-to-duty.” Thomas Stokesberry, a spokesperson for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, directed a separate request for a breakdown of staffing cuts to the regional Forest Service press office, which did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mount Shasta, everyone seems to know someone who is affected. John Redmond, a bar owner who is also the mayor, said his regulars who work at the local Forest Service district office haven’t been spending as much since they were fired or heard of cuts. Timothy Keating, a longtime mountain guide, said he depends on a fully staffed Forest Service to approve his operating permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street, an outdoor goods store manager named Michelle is also worried about economic fallout. She wouldn’t give her last name out of fear of drawing attention to her husband, a federal employee who she said was anxious about losing his job in the next round of reductions in force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of federal workers make up our middle class,” she said. “This can really hurt our local tax base and spending levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s cuts will hit a divided county\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yet others welcome cuts, even if they’ll hit the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the town of Mount Shasta is liberal, its streets of Subarus, crystal shops and bed-and-breakfasts welcoming out-of-town mountaineers give way quickly to vast stretches of the county where ranchers and loggers have long clashed with environmentalists and chafed at state and federal regulations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Longtime resentment over Forest Service management and the decline of the timber industry have split the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Mount Shasta cheered when then-President Joe Biden, in his last days in office in January, designated a new national monument on Forest Service lands outside the town, increasing federal protections there. Other Siskiyou County residents, including Supervisor W. Jess Harris, celebrated when Trump indicated last month he may revoke the designation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris acknowledges the county relies on the federal government for both services and jobs — but he said it doesn’t have to be that way. He hopes federal cuts will reduce grants to environmental nonprofits that he says have hampered private industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations like those that restrict logging to protect the spotted owl, listed as a threatened species, have “effectively damaged all of our natural resource industries,” he said. “Our area’s just a prime example of what happens when you kill the industry and become reliant on the government jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Dorsey, chair of the local Republican Party, said he welcomes reducing federal spending and doesn’t believe the cuts will be drastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea is to sit back and wait and see where the cuts are going to be made, and do we actually need those programs anymore?” he said. “We have too many -ologists all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other local politicians are caught in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick, a Republican from Alturas, represents 11 rural counties across Northern California, including Siskiyou. She said she’s worried about the economic ripple effects of job losses in small towns, and about funding delays in local wildfire mitigation projects, when now is the season to make those preparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/022025_Capitol-Session_FG_CM_28-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Heather Hadwick speaks before lawmakers during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Feb. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s personal, too. Hadwick’s husband manages a local office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and she’s seen firsthand how “his people are stressed.” But her district, which she said already holds deep distrust of the government, voted for cuts and spending reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be uncomfortable for a while and it’s going to hurt, I know some of those programs that I care about deeply are going to be affected,” she said. “My district is very conservative, and I am very conservative … I’m going to trust in my president and trust what he’s doing is best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With both federal uncertainty and local polarization, some are hesitant to speak publicly against the cuts. The leader of one nonprofit in Siskiyou County detailed to CalMatters how the group had a Forest Service grant temporarily frozen, delaying the hiring of contractors. But after meeting with the rest of the organization the leader asked to withdraw their comments, stressing the need to remain “apolitical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other forest towns are preparing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In bluer parts of California, some forest towns are trying to mount a small resistance. Council members in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.townoftruckee.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=116\">passed a resolution\u003c/a> denouncing possible federal cuts, citing the impact they would have on the region’s ability to prevent wildfires and accommodate tourists visiting the Tahoe National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar resolutions have passed in a handful of local fire protection districts and in the eastern Sierra Nevada town of Mammoth Lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town, population 7,200, balloons to nearly quadruple its size on the weekends, from skiers in winter to backpackers, climbers and tourists in spring, summer and fall. It needs the visitors: Nearly three-quarters of Mammoth Lakes’ revenue comes from a bed tax on hotels and Airbnbs, Mayor Chris Bubser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubser said the city has already hired a new staff member to pick up trash and help maintain local campgrounds in case there aren’t enough Forest Service personnel to do so this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in March, the Mammoth Lakes Town Council agreed to provide $700,000 in bridge funding for a forest-thinning and wildfire resilience project run by a local nonprofit that spans 58,000 acres of mostly national forest land surrounding the town. The project relies on about $17 million in different federal grants, some of which is frozen, she said. But Bubser said she didn’t want the project to get delayed, risking having contractors leave town if they can’t be hired in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How, as a small-town government, are we supposed to plan and execute when the earth is moving beneath us?” she said. “We have to be prepared for any situation. We’re all alone out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/rural-california-federal-cuts/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Next week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030375/san-jose-district-3-special-election-whos-running-and-how-to-vote\">special election\u003c/a> for the District 3 seat on the San José City Council could help shape the balance of power at City Hall — and the future of Mayor Matt Mahan’s ambitious policy agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031808/homelessness-trust-center-san-jose-district-3-special-election\">Seven candidates are on the ballot\u003c/a> in Tuesday’s election, which was scheduled after former Councilmember Omar Torres \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013122/san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-resigns-arrested\">resigned in November\u003c/a>. He was arrested on the same day and charged with child molestation. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, a runoff between the top two finishers will be held on June 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5602068054&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Salas, an engineering executive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">was appointed\u003c/a> to fill the seat until a new council member was elected, giving Mahan a clear majority of allies on the council. On the campaign trail and in interviews with KQED, the candidates expressed stark differences in their opinions of Mahan’s most controversial proposals, specifically his plans to prioritize city homelessness dollars for short-term housing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">arrest unhoused people\u003c/a> who refuse multiple offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really turning into a referendum on the mayor’s agenda,” said Bob Staedler, a land-use consultant and finalist for District 3’s interim appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San José’s system of governance, the mayor does not have the power to sign or veto legislation but must instead find five other votes to build a majority coalition on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Mahan has at least five Council members who appear aligned with his plans, particularly on homelessness, in Salas, Michael Mulcahy, Bien Doan, Pam Foley and George Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-1920x1182.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New San José Councilmember Carl Salas, right, speaks to reporters with Mayor Matt Mahan after the council voted 6-4 to appoint Salas to the vacant District 3 seat. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If Salas is succeeded by a candidate who opposes some or all of Mahan’s platform, more power could shift to council members seen as swing votes, particularly District 1 representative Rosemary Kamei. Last month, Kamei voted to give Mahan’s budget, which included his plans on homelessness, initial approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidate in the District 3 race most closely aligned with the mayor’s agenda is Matthew Quevedo, who has worked as Mahan’s deputy chief of staff and received his endorsement. Quevedo is the only candidate who has voiced clear support for Mahan’s plan to have people experiencing homelessness face arrest if they refuse three offers of shelter within 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless a candidate wins the District 3 election outright in April, the new council member will take office after the council is expected to take a final vote on the shelter-or-arrest plan in June. Debates over the city’s strategy to reduce homelessness are likely to be an annual point of contention for the foreseeable future.[aside postID=news_12030375 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-1-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']Quevedo has campaigned on being a reliable sixth vote for Mahan’s long-term vision of redirecting transfer tax dollars raised through Measure E away from permanent affordable housing and toward short-term housing and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building six votes for that and getting people off the streets is of utmost importance,” Quevedo said. “On solutions like interim housing and getting people off the streets more immediately, I would be a proud vote and a proud majority vote on making that happen faster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo said he would not agree with Mahan on every vote. He pointed to the council’s unanimous approval in February of digital billboards in downtown, which Quevedo and the rest of the District 3 candidates opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sharpest critiques of Mahan’s plans have come from Gabby Chavez-Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, who called the mayor’s homelessness enforcement proposal jarring at a candidate forum sponsored by \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em> in March and said it made her “question what city I live in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez-Lopez said she campaigned in 2020 to pass Measure E, which taxes property sales of $2 million or more and raises around $50 million annually. In his budget plan, Mahan wants to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">permanently direct\u003c/a> nearly all of the Measure E revenue to pay for temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12034347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-1920x1240.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Council District 3 candidate, Gabby Chavez-Lopez, speaks at a candidates forum at the San José Women’s Club in San José on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were telling [voters] that it was for permanent supportive housing and prevention,” Chavez-Lopez said. “So for me, in a time when trust is at an all-time low, why are we going back on that commitment to voters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Tordillos, chair of the San José Planning Commission, said he could support spending more Measure E dollars in the short term to fulfill the council’s commitment to building out tiny home villages and parking lots for people living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He opposes a permanent funding shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, we need to make sure that we’re getting back to a balanced allocation of Measure E dollars between both shelter spending as well as affordable housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Tordillos and Chavez-Lopez are endorsed by the Santa Clara County Democratic Party, which has typically lined up on opposite sides of Mahan in city elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Council District 3 candidate, Irene Smith, speaks to voters, following a candidates forum, at the San José Women’s Club in San José on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Irene Smith, a financial analyst and neighborhood activist, said she would push to fund larger congregate shelter developments instead of the tiny home models preferred by Mahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re waiting for the housing to be built, whatever it is — tiny homes, permanent supportive housing, group homes — let’s offer [unhoused] people an incrementally better way of living right now,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Duran, a former lieutenant with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, said his focus would be on opening mental health and drug treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While City Hall insiders will be closely monitoring the outcome of Tuesday’s election, the expected low voter turnout could make it difficult to draw any clear conclusions on how the electorate is viewing the policies advanced by Mahan and the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, just 8% of registered voters in the district had cast a ballot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Next week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030375/san-jose-district-3-special-election-whos-running-and-how-to-vote\">special election\u003c/a> for the District 3 seat on the San José City Council could help shape the balance of power at City Hall — and the future of Mayor Matt Mahan’s ambitious policy agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031808/homelessness-trust-center-san-jose-district-3-special-election\">Seven candidates are on the ballot\u003c/a> in Tuesday’s election, which was scheduled after former Councilmember Omar Torres \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013122/san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-resigns-arrested\">resigned in November\u003c/a>. He was arrested on the same day and charged with child molestation. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, a runoff between the top two finishers will be held on June 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5602068054&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Salas, an engineering executive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">was appointed\u003c/a> to fill the seat until a new council member was elected, giving Mahan a clear majority of allies on the council. On the campaign trail and in interviews with KQED, the candidates expressed stark differences in their opinions of Mahan’s most controversial proposals, specifically his plans to prioritize city homelessness dollars for short-term housing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">arrest unhoused people\u003c/a> who refuse multiple offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really turning into a referendum on the mayor’s agenda,” said Bob Staedler, a land-use consultant and finalist for District 3’s interim appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San José’s system of governance, the mayor does not have the power to sign or veto legislation but must instead find five other votes to build a majority coalition on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Mahan has at least five Council members who appear aligned with his plans, particularly on homelessness, in Salas, Michael Mulcahy, Bien Doan, Pam Foley and George Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SanJoseCityCouncil-1920x1182.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New San José Councilmember Carl Salas, right, speaks to reporters with Mayor Matt Mahan after the council voted 6-4 to appoint Salas to the vacant District 3 seat. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If Salas is succeeded by a candidate who opposes some or all of Mahan’s platform, more power could shift to council members seen as swing votes, particularly District 1 representative Rosemary Kamei. Last month, Kamei voted to give Mahan’s budget, which included his plans on homelessness, initial approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidate in the District 3 race most closely aligned with the mayor’s agenda is Matthew Quevedo, who has worked as Mahan’s deputy chief of staff and received his endorsement. Quevedo is the only candidate who has voiced clear support for Mahan’s plan to have people experiencing homelessness face arrest if they refuse three offers of shelter within 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless a candidate wins the District 3 election outright in April, the new council member will take office after the council is expected to take a final vote on the shelter-or-arrest plan in June. Debates over the city’s strategy to reduce homelessness are likely to be an annual point of contention for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Quevedo has campaigned on being a reliable sixth vote for Mahan’s long-term vision of redirecting transfer tax dollars raised through Measure E away from permanent affordable housing and toward short-term housing and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building six votes for that and getting people off the streets is of utmost importance,” Quevedo said. “On solutions like interim housing and getting people off the streets more immediately, I would be a proud vote and a proud majority vote on making that happen faster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo said he would not agree with Mahan on every vote. He pointed to the council’s unanimous approval in February of digital billboards in downtown, which Quevedo and the rest of the District 3 candidates opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sharpest critiques of Mahan’s plans have come from Gabby Chavez-Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, who called the mayor’s homelessness enforcement proposal jarring at a candidate forum sponsored by \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em> in March and said it made her “question what city I live in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez-Lopez said she campaigned in 2020 to pass Measure E, which taxes property sales of $2 million or more and raises around $50 million annually. In his budget plan, Mahan wants to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">permanently direct\u003c/a> nearly all of the Measure E revenue to pay for temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12034347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-3_qed-1920x1240.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Council District 3 candidate, Gabby Chavez-Lopez, speaks at a candidates forum at the San José Women’s Club in San José on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were telling [voters] that it was for permanent supportive housing and prevention,” Chavez-Lopez said. “So for me, in a time when trust is at an all-time low, why are we going back on that commitment to voters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Tordillos, chair of the San José Planning Commission, said he could support spending more Measure E dollars in the short term to fulfill the council’s commitment to building out tiny home villages and parking lots for people living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He opposes a permanent funding shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, we need to make sure that we’re getting back to a balanced allocation of Measure E dollars between both shelter spending as well as affordable housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Tordillos and Chavez-Lopez are endorsed by the Santa Clara County Democratic Party, which has typically lined up on opposite sides of Mahan in city elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250306_SanJoseDistrict3_GC-30_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Council District 3 candidate, Irene Smith, speaks to voters, following a candidates forum, at the San José Women’s Club in San José on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Irene Smith, a financial analyst and neighborhood activist, said she would push to fund larger congregate shelter developments instead of the tiny home models preferred by Mahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re waiting for the housing to be built, whatever it is — tiny homes, permanent supportive housing, group homes — let’s offer [unhoused] people an incrementally better way of living right now,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Duran, a former lieutenant with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, said his focus would be on opening mental health and drug treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While City Hall insiders will be closely monitoring the outcome of Tuesday’s election, the expected low voter turnout could make it difficult to draw any clear conclusions on how the electorate is viewing the policies advanced by Mahan and the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday, just 8% of registered voters in the district had cast a ballot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is scaling back a core component of San Francisco’s approach to overdoses and outdoor drug use, putting many health experts on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health providers across the city are being told to cease distributing safe smoking supplies in public spaces, according to the mayor’s Wednesday announcement. People must now participate in drug counseling or other services in order to receive any type of safer-use supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">overdose deaths have increased\u003c/a> in San Francisco since October. Mounting pressure from business and community members has challenged the city’s embrace of harm reduction, a public health approach the city helped pioneer during the HIV/AIDS crisis to improve the health and lives of drug users at any stage of use or recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can no longer accept the reality of two people dying a day from overdose. The status quo has failed to ensure the health and safety of our entire community, as well as those in the throes of addiction,” Lurie said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Our new policy will connect individuals to treatment quickly, and that is a big step toward reclaiming our public spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of having outreach workers handing out safer smoking supplies to users on the street, Lurie is ordering all health providers to move that distribution indoors. For those who do make it in person to pick up any safer use supplies, Lurie is now requiring that they also participate in drug treatment, counseling or other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will maintain its safe needle exchanges and distribution of Narcan, which can reverse an opioid overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health advocates cried foul over the recent update, saying it goes against research and current trends in San Francisco’s overdose epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032239 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-OverdoseResponse-42-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more people consume fentanyl through smoking rather than injecting. 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The one Borenstein signed, along with more than 360 professors and lecturers in October 2023, calls for support for Jewish staff and students and also wishes safety for students and faculty with Palestinian family and ties in Gaza. The other, signed by about 500 faculty members, was addressed to the UC regents in May 2024 and alleges that campus antisemitism had put Jewish students and faculty in danger after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> spread over Israel’s war on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This notice is to inform you that, because your signature appears on one of these letters, your information on file with the University is being produced to the EEOC in response to this subpoena,” read the message from UC general counsel Charles Robinson to those who signed the letters.[aside postID=news_12032030 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-13-BL-1020x680.jpg']It also said that a member of the EEOC staff could reach out to UC employees “regarding [their] own experiences at the university” as part of its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borenstein, who is Jewish, said he was initially puzzled by his inclusion in the subpoena because the letters were “not the sort of thing that so far the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">Trump administration has been targeting\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One possibility is they are actually looking for allies within the academic community, and the people who signed this letter might be allies to whatever policies they expect to put into place in punishing the University of California,” he told KQED. “The other possibility was that even expressing any sympathy towards the people of Gaza would potentially bring down the wrath of the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President said in a statement that it “remains committed to protecting the privacy of its community members, while complying with its legal obligation in responding to the agency requests.” The EEOC did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subpoena follows investigations that the Trump administration has launched into alleged antisemitism at Columbia and Harvard universities, both of which have affected federal funding at the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123503256182_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Five college students sit on the ground with laptops\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123503256182_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123503256182_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123503256182_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123503256182_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123503256182_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff members of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the college newspaper, work into the night as police cleared out demonstrators from Columbia University’s campus, late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. \u003ccite>(Jake Offenhartz/Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a letter to its members this week, a UC faculty association said those cases have set a clear precedent “that the Trump administration is using these investigations as pretext to make multimillion dollar cuts to research funding in higher education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after complying with the administration’s demands, neither Columbia nor Harvard has had its funding restored, UC-AFT Local 1474 President Katie Rodger wrote in the message, which demanded that the UC system protect employees’ privacy and decline to respond to the subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal antisemitism task force this week launched a review of more than $255 million in contracts and grants between Harvard, its partners and the government.[aside postID=news_12033446 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-1020x680.jpg']The same task force in March canceled $400 million in research funding from federal sources to Columbia. 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He has promised that factory jobs will return back to the United States as a result of the taxes, but his policies risk a sudden economic slowdown as consumers and businesses could face sharp price hikes on autos, clothes and other goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years,” Trump said in remarks at the White House. “But it is not going to happen anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was fulfilling a key campaign promise as he imposed what he called “reciprocal” tariffs on trade partners, acting without Congress through the 1977 International Emergency Powers Act in an extraordinary attempt to both break and ultimately reshape America’s trading relationship with the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s higher rates would hit foreign entities that sell more goods to the United States than they buy, meaning the tariffs could stay in place for some time as the administration expects other nations to lower their tariffs and other barriers to trade that it says have led to a $1.2 trillion trade imbalance last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2207060270-1020x667.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tariffs follow similar recent announcements of 25% taxes on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/autos-tariffs-trump-tax-imports-ford-gm-e53823ef7bbb7b3c46d11eca90aaa638\">auto imports\u003c/a>; levies against \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0\">China, Canada and Mexico;\u003c/a> and expanded trade penalties on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-aluminum-steel-e5a6295577275045db3484b71c979bfb\">steel and aluminum\u003c/a>. Trump has also imposed tariffs on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-gas-tax-9197d606dea29caed6a7a79dd358d26a\">countries that import oil from Venezuela\u003c/a> and he plans separate import taxes on pharmaceutical drugs, lumber, copper and computer chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the warning signs about a falling stock market or consumer sentiment turning morose have caused the administration to publicly second-guess its strategy, despite the risk of political backlash as voters in last year’s election said they wanted Trump to combat inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior administration officials, who insisted on anonymity to preview the new tariffs with reporters ahead of Trump’s speech, said the taxes would raise hundreds of billions of dollars annually in revenues. They said the 10% baseline rate existed to help ensure compliance, while the higher rates were based on the trade deficits run with other nations and then halved to reach the numbers that Trump presented in the Rose Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2222/04/GettyImages-2207584759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2222/04/GettyImages-2207584759.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2222/04/GettyImages-2207584759-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2222/04/GettyImages-2207584759-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2222/04/GettyImages-2207584759-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump (left) delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs as US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick looks on during an event in the Rose Garden entitled ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a follow-up series of questions by The Associated Press, the White House could not say whether the tariff exemptions on imports worth $800 or less would remain in place, possibly shielding some imports from the new taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the possibility of broad tariffs that have been floated by some White House aides, most outside analyses by banks and think tanks see an economy tarnished by higher prices and stagnating growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump would be applying these tariffs on his own; he has ways of doing so without congressional approval. That makes it easy for Democratic lawmakers and policymakers to criticize the administration if the uncertainty expressed by businesses and declining consumer sentiment are signs of trouble to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Boushey, a member of the Biden White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, noted that the less aggressive tariffs Trump imposed during his first term failed to stir the manufacturing renaissance he promised voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not seeing indications of the boom that the president promised,” Boushey said. “It’s a failed strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., said the tariffs are “part of the chaos and dysfunction” being generated across the Trump administration. The chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stressed that Trump should not have the sole authority to raise taxes as he intends without getting lawmakers’ approval, saying that Republicans so far have been “blindly loyal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president shouldn’t be able to do that,” DelBene said. “This is a massive tax increase on American families, and it’s without a vote in Congress … President Trump promised on the campaign trail that he would lower costs on day one. Now he says he doesn’t care if prices go up — he’s broken his promise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Republicans who trust Trump’s instincts have acknowledged that the tariffs could disrupt an economy with an otherwise healthy 4.1 % unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll see how it all develops,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. “It may be rocky in the beginning. But I think that this will make sense for Americans and help all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime trading partners are preparing their own countermeasures. Canada has imposed some in response to the 25% tariffs that Trump tied to the trafficking of fentanyl. 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The results show some political headwinds for Trump and Republicans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, helped keep the state Supreme Court leaning in Democrats’ direction in a race that saw nearly $70 million in advertising, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, the most ever for a judicial race. That included \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345862/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel-election-results\">some $20 million from Musk\u003c/a> (more on him below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the marquee race of the elections Tuesday in a state that was decided by 1 point in the 2024 presidential election, and Crawford won it handily, by 10 points with more than 95% of the vote in.[aside postID=news_12033066 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/paypal-mafia_web-img-1020x574.png']Republicans, on the other hand, won the two special elections in Florida by roughly 14 points each. But these are very red districts. Republican members of Congress, who had represented these seats before being plucked for the Trump administration, won them by more than 30 points in November, so Democrats ate into the margins significantly there as well — though indications were they might do even better. (These are the seats that were held by Mike Waltz, now the national security adviser, and Matt Gaetz, whom Trump wanted to be attorney general before his nomination was pulled over concerns that he lacked sufficient Republican support to be confirmed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 60 Republican House members who won in 2024 by 15 points or less — and they might be concerned after these results, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Congressional_margin_of_victory_analysis\">Ballotpedia\u003c/a>. The conservative \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> editorial board, well read in Trump world, is calling the results a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/opinion/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-susan-crawford-brad-schimel-florida-house-gop-jimmy-patronis-randy-fine-38db797f?mod=editorials_article_pos1\">MAGA backlash\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to be careful to not overread the results of off-year elections — and Democrats did win a Wisconsin judicial seat in 2023, but lost the state in the presidential election. But there are early warning signs here for the GOP and a reminder that the energy is often with the out-party, which is why they have historically done so well in presidents’ first midterms. And these elections can be breadcrumbs on the path to success in midterms, especially if a president continues with a bold and divisive agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. It was a very bad night for Elon Musk — and his days may be numbered as Trump’s right hand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Musk went all in in the Wisconsin judicial race. Groups with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#513fea1e3d78\">world’s richest man’s\u003c/a> backing spent some $20 million. He also made an appearance in the state (wearing a cheese hat), offered $1 million checks to voters and even said “\u003ca href=\"https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/30/musk-says-destiny-of-humanity-rests-on-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/82705243007/\">the entire destiny of humanity\u003c/a>” could rest on the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk about raising the stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is likely to do what he does — put a positive spin on the results or say everything is fine and point to the Florida elections (as he did in an \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114265493906125093\">ALLCAPS\u003c/a> social media post Tuesday night without mentioning the Wisconsin judicial result). But it likely isn’t making him happy, especially considering how much heat Musk and his DOGE group have taken. Musk’s favorability ratings have been a net-negative nationally — and were in Wisconsin too. Musk represented something of a heat shield for Trump on an unpopular way of making sweeping cuts to the government, but, after Tuesday’s results, how long can he remain in the public eye and not start to affect Trump’s political standing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Trump’s overall approval rating has been marginally higher than during his first term because of \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/658661/republicans-men-push-trump-approval-higher-second-term.aspx\">strong GOP backing and because of men\u003c/a>. But an AP-NORC poll out this week showed Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/March-2025-topline-Trump-.pdf\">approval rating falling to 42% (PDF)\u003c/a>, and his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-immigration-tariffs-trade-b7a430909606d6b8b27cfbc5049a32b4\">economic approval only at 40%\u003c/a>, compared to better marks he received on immigration. That’s especially telling on this day of reciprocal tariffs as his trade war is unpopular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Musk does start to lose luster in Trump’s eyes, it could be a result congressional Republicans are quietly happy about. After all, they won their two House seats in Florida, helping shore up their majority, and Wisconsin’s outcome might help move Musk and his blunt, unpopular agenda out of the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, Musk may be new to politics, but he violated a key rule of it — never put anything on your head you don’t normally wear, even Trump, who likes a good hat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/donald-trump-jabs-michael-dukakis-over-tank-2/140795/\">knows about that one\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Signs of how Democrats combat Trump — and what the base wants.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An easy — and somewhat lazy — framing of the internal battle within the Democratic Party is “progressive vs. moderate.” Largely, many in the party agree on the issues, with obvious exceptions on how far to go on certain things or when to push for them or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is more fighting vs. acquiescence, of standing up vs. complacency.[aside postID=forum_2010101909107 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/GettyImages-651462930-1020x680.jpg']That was clear with how angry the “do something” Democratic base was when Senate leader Chuck Schumer allowed a GOP-led spending bill to pass last month to keep the government open. It’s also why so many on the left liked Sen. Cory Booker holding the floor of the Senate with an anti-Trump speech. It is now the longest speech ever in the chamber, more than 24 straight hours, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech\">breaking the record\u003c/a> held by the late Strom Thurmond, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/06/22/128020372/scott-beats-strom-thurmond-s-son-in-sc-for-gop-house\">racist South Carolina senator\u003c/a>, a fact Booker, who is Black, said he was “very aware” of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party summed up the split among Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that the most meaningful distinction within Democrats now is left versus center,” state party chair Ben Wikler said in MSNBC’s \u003cem>Morning Joe\u003c/em>. “I think it’s actually going on your front foot and fighting back versus rolling over and playing dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that Crawford was against an abortion ban at the court, that Jill Underly, the state schools chief, ran against the dismantling of Department of Education, and that they both were against Musk casting “aside any check and balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are broadly held by progressives, by centrists, by everything in between,” Wickler said. “The critical thing is to go out there and fight. It is to make the case to voters; it is to be omnipresent, to communicate, travel everywhere, and I think the Democrats who do that in the big-tent coalition that makes up the Democratic Party, the anti-MAGA coalition, you’re going to see a lot of success from people who have that energy and that conviction. That’s what voters are looking for right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. The political realignment is helping Democrats in off-year elections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both parties poured millions of outside dollars into these races, and that’s because off-year and special elections are hard to mobilize voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $70 million spent on ads alone in Wisconsin was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/most-expensive-judicial-election-ever\">most ever for a judicial race\u003c/a> and lots of it came from outside the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, the 6th congressional district election for Waltz’s seat — the one Trump and the GOP were most concerned about — would have been in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/resources/campaign-finance-statistics/2024/tables/congressional/ConCand8e_2024_21m.pdf\">top 20 for most spending by a single candidate (PDF)\u003c/a> for any House race the \u003cem>entire\u003c/em> 2024 cycle, and that was over 20 months. This was two. The Democrat raised about $10 million in that time and spent more than $8 million, while the Republican spent less than $1 million, as of the candidates’ March 12 filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout wasn’t bad. It’s always lower in those kinds of races than in presidential elections — and that, of course, was the case in both states. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345862/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel-election-results\">In Wisconsin\u003c/a>, roughly 2.4 million ballots were cast (with 95% in), about 30% less than in November. In Florida, fewer than 200,000 voters went to the polls in each congressional district. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/florida/?r=0\">more than double that\u003c/a>. So money isn’t everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s a reminder that firing up the bases is key in off-year and midterm elections —and that the realignment of college-educated voters, who have higher turnout rates, toward Democrats is helping them in these kinds of elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Voter ID is an issue that continues to heavily lean right\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It should be noted that the same voters who voted for a liberal judge in Wisconsin also \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/01/us/elections/results-wisconsin-question.html\">overwhelmingly approved\u003c/a> a measure requiring voter ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something that’s already state law; this enshrined it in the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/07/bipartisan-support-for-early-in-person-voting-voter-id-election-day-national-holiday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew poll\u003c/a> last year found 81% in favor of requiring people to show government-issued photo ID to vote. That included 69% of Democrats. Few things get that level of bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, yes, Democrats can take Tuesday as one of the first bits of good news they’ve had since the 2024 presidential election. But they also have to be aware that there are lots of issues that are still center-right, including voter ID and many measures meant to curb immigration — especially when the party is seeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html\">record\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/5224072-democrats-low-approval-rating/\">lows\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-party-hits-new-polling-low-voters-want-fight-trump-harder-rcna196161\">favorability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Republicans, on the other hand, won the two special elections in Florida by roughly 14 points each. But these are very red districts. Republican members of Congress, who had represented these seats before being plucked for the Trump administration, won them by more than 30 points in November, so Democrats ate into the margins significantly there as well — though indications were they might do even better. (These are the seats that were held by Mike Waltz, now the national security adviser, and Matt Gaetz, whom Trump wanted to be attorney general before his nomination was pulled over concerns that he lacked sufficient Republican support to be confirmed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 60 Republican House members who won in 2024 by 15 points or less — and they might be concerned after these results, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Congressional_margin_of_victory_analysis\">Ballotpedia\u003c/a>. The conservative \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> editorial board, well read in Trump world, is calling the results a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/opinion/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-susan-crawford-brad-schimel-florida-house-gop-jimmy-patronis-randy-fine-38db797f?mod=editorials_article_pos1\">MAGA backlash\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to be careful to not overread the results of off-year elections — and Democrats did win a Wisconsin judicial seat in 2023, but lost the state in the presidential election. But there are early warning signs here for the GOP and a reminder that the energy is often with the out-party, which is why they have historically done so well in presidents’ first midterms. And these elections can be breadcrumbs on the path to success in midterms, especially if a president continues with a bold and divisive agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. It was a very bad night for Elon Musk — and his days may be numbered as Trump’s right hand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Musk went all in in the Wisconsin judicial race. Groups with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#513fea1e3d78\">world’s richest man’s\u003c/a> backing spent some $20 million. He also made an appearance in the state (wearing a cheese hat), offered $1 million checks to voters and even said “\u003ca href=\"https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/30/musk-says-destiny-of-humanity-rests-on-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/82705243007/\">the entire destiny of humanity\u003c/a>” could rest on the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk about raising the stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is likely to do what he does — put a positive spin on the results or say everything is fine and point to the Florida elections (as he did in an \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114265493906125093\">ALLCAPS\u003c/a> social media post Tuesday night without mentioning the Wisconsin judicial result). But it likely isn’t making him happy, especially considering how much heat Musk and his DOGE group have taken. Musk’s favorability ratings have been a net-negative nationally — and were in Wisconsin too. Musk represented something of a heat shield for Trump on an unpopular way of making sweeping cuts to the government, but, after Tuesday’s results, how long can he remain in the public eye and not start to affect Trump’s political standing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Trump’s overall approval rating has been marginally higher than during his first term because of \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/658661/republicans-men-push-trump-approval-higher-second-term.aspx\">strong GOP backing and because of men\u003c/a>. But an AP-NORC poll out this week showed Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/March-2025-topline-Trump-.pdf\">approval rating falling to 42% (PDF)\u003c/a>, and his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-immigration-tariffs-trade-b7a430909606d6b8b27cfbc5049a32b4\">economic approval only at 40%\u003c/a>, compared to better marks he received on immigration. That’s especially telling on this day of reciprocal tariffs as his trade war is unpopular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Musk does start to lose luster in Trump’s eyes, it could be a result congressional Republicans are quietly happy about. After all, they won their two House seats in Florida, helping shore up their majority, and Wisconsin’s outcome might help move Musk and his blunt, unpopular agenda out of the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, Musk may be new to politics, but he violated a key rule of it — never put anything on your head you don’t normally wear, even Trump, who likes a good hat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/donald-trump-jabs-michael-dukakis-over-tank-2/140795/\">knows about that one\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Signs of how Democrats combat Trump — and what the base wants.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An easy — and somewhat lazy — framing of the internal battle within the Democratic Party is “progressive vs. moderate.” Largely, many in the party agree on the issues, with obvious exceptions on how far to go on certain things or when to push for them or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is more fighting vs. acquiescence, of standing up vs. complacency.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is now the longest speech ever in the chamber, more than 24 straight hours, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech\">breaking the record\u003c/a> held by the late Strom Thurmond, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/06/22/128020372/scott-beats-strom-thurmond-s-son-in-sc-for-gop-house\">racist South Carolina senator\u003c/a>, a fact Booker, who is Black, said he was “very aware” of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party summed up the split among Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that the most meaningful distinction within Democrats now is left versus center,” state party chair Ben Wikler said in MSNBC’s \u003cem>Morning Joe\u003c/em>. “I think it’s actually going on your front foot and fighting back versus rolling over and playing dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that Crawford was against an abortion ban at the court, that Jill Underly, the state schools chief, ran against the dismantling of Department of Education, and that they both were against Musk casting “aside any check and balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are broadly held by progressives, by centrists, by everything in between,” Wickler said. “The critical thing is to go out there and fight. It is to make the case to voters; it is to be omnipresent, to communicate, travel everywhere, and I think the Democrats who do that in the big-tent coalition that makes up the Democratic Party, the anti-MAGA coalition, you’re going to see a lot of success from people who have that energy and that conviction. That’s what voters are looking for right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. The political realignment is helping Democrats in off-year elections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both parties poured millions of outside dollars into these races, and that’s because off-year and special elections are hard to mobilize voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $70 million spent on ads alone in Wisconsin was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/most-expensive-judicial-election-ever\">most ever for a judicial race\u003c/a> and lots of it came from outside the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, the 6th congressional district election for Waltz’s seat — the one Trump and the GOP were most concerned about — would have been in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/resources/campaign-finance-statistics/2024/tables/congressional/ConCand8e_2024_21m.pdf\">top 20 for most spending by a single candidate (PDF)\u003c/a> for any House race the \u003cem>entire\u003c/em> 2024 cycle, and that was over 20 months. This was two. The Democrat raised about $10 million in that time and spent more than $8 million, while the Republican spent less than $1 million, as of the candidates’ March 12 filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout wasn’t bad. It’s always lower in those kinds of races than in presidential elections — and that, of course, was the case in both states. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345862/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel-election-results\">In Wisconsin\u003c/a>, roughly 2.4 million ballots were cast (with 95% in), about 30% less than in November. In Florida, fewer than 200,000 voters went to the polls in each congressional district. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/florida/?r=0\">more than double that\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At town halls across the nation, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/fear-anger-california-democrat-town-halls-20238638.php\">in California\u003c/a>, residents have confronted their members of Congress face-to-face to voice their fears and frustrations over Trump administration policies, from cuts to overseas aid to Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, lawmakers in the state Legislature have introduced about a dozen proposals that would make it harder to confront your local officials at public meetings and would shield more information from the public eye, according to an analysis of CalMatters’ Digital Democracy database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills follow a streak of California officials’ attempts to shroud themselves in secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/gov-newsom-bat-phones-ceos-california-businesses/64213359\">recently sent burner phones\u003c/a> to major California business leaders with his number preprogrammed — paid for by his nonprofit, allowing him to communicate with executives without having to disclose the content publicly. Lawmakers and government employees\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/california-non-disclosure-agreements-capitol-annex-project/62376142\"> signed non-disclosure agreements\u003c/a> preventing them from sharing details about taxpayer-funded renovations to the state Capitol. The Legislature refused to say \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/03/california-legislative-transparency-public-corruption/\">whether federal search warrants\u003c/a> and subpoenas were served to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largely Democratic efforts have raised alarms among ethics advocates and an outcry from some Republican lawmakers, such as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/carl-demaio-161014\">Assemblymember Carl DeMaio\u003c/a> of San Diego, who has introduced two bills to require lawmakers and government agencies to disclose more to the public, not less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He announced them during \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20050331085059/http:/www.sunshineweek.org/sunshineweek/launch\">National Sunshine Week\u003c/a>, an annual campaign to promote government transparency that the Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article137321978.html\">quit observing eight years ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the one time throughout the year where we pause and we ask the question: Are decisions in government being made in the public light? Can the people know what’s going on?” DeMaio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking decision-makers in the eye\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/roger-niello-165442\">Roger Niello,\u003c/a> a Republican from Roseville, has contended that interacting with constituents in-person makes a difference: There’s nothing more thrilling for a local elected official than having constituents exercise their right to yell and scream at you, he said in 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/256703?t=465&f=7df9245729b5b21e4fec3274a24fafe4\">opposing a proposal\u003c/a> that allows neighborhood councils in Los Angeles to meet remotely until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just much more impactful,” he said. “It’s like the difference between a text message and a phone call. Text messages are useful for quick communication of something, but not for something more complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11996191 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2161853402-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless that proposal was signed into law — one of many over the past few years that have increasingly allowed state and local officials to participate remotely. This year, various legislators are pushing at least six different measures that aim to make them permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, California has relaxed its once-strict rules that required officials to be physically present at public meetings. Instead they’ve carved out more exceptions so that advisory board members can meet remotely, and public officials can avoid disclosing their whereabouts when they appear virtually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of these efforts say they “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258613?t=1707&f=c47df9713448f33eb3a9e44a990fd543\">modernize\u003c/a>” the state’s open meetings rules, arguing that allowing members more remote access boosts public participation, cuts costs, protects officials’ privacy and grants more flexibility in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the relaxed guidelines, 41 state boards reported increased attendance among board members, according to a June 2021 report by the \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/report/government-tomorrow-online-meetings/\">Little Hoover Commission\u003c/a>, a state oversight agency that focuses on government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But good government advocates argue that it shields officials from their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public officials must be accountable: They should be required to attend in person, ensuring that the public can see them, speak to them directly, hold them responsible for decisions that impact their communities,” Dora Rose, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of California, told legislators at a recent hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assembly floor at the state Capitol on May 31, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of this year’s pending bills is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb707\">SB 707\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/maria-elena-durazo-165445\">Sen. María Elena Durazo\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Los Angeles who last year \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-remote-meetings-local-boards/\">opposed an effort\u003c/a> to let local advisory boards meet remotely. This year she’s proposing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb707\">an overarching measure \u003c/a>that would include exemptions for different groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durazo told CalMatters she was compelled by testimony from groups who had to cancel meetings because they couldn’t gather enough members in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill would also require city and county governments to provide a call-in option to all public meetings. But during \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media-archive\">a recent hearing\u003c/a>, representatives of city officials argued that would hamstring local governments’ ability to manage \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258613?t=1857&f=c47df9713448f33eb3a9e44a990fd543\">“Zoom bombing,”\u003c/a> where participants disrupt meetings with “hate speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping donors secret\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Fair Political Practices Commission — the state agency policing ethics and campaign finance violations — is sponsoring \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab775\">AB755\u003c/a> to give officials more time to disclose funds they raised for other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds are called “behested payments,” typically donations to a nonprofit or government agency that come at a politician’s behest. Critics say the donations allow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/california-campaign-finance-violations-evan-low/\">special interests to curry favor\u003c/a> with politicians. Since 2011, state officials have reported raising more than $505 million in behested payments, with Newsom single-handedly raising more than $200 million from corporations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current law requires elected officials to disclose these payments within 30 days once they raise more than $5,000 from the same donor within a year. But violations are commonplace: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/show-your-work/2024/10/how-we-reported-on-california-campaign-violations/\">Six out of eight\u003c/a> of California’s constitutional officers have reported their payments late, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/campaign-finance-california-fppc-enforcement/\">including Newsom\u003c/a>, who was fined $13,000 for failing to disclose $14 million on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation introduced by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/mike-fong-165455\">Mike Fong\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Alhambra, would give lawmakers up to roughly 120 days to disclose the payments, making it harder for voters to know who is influencing their lawmakers in real time. Commission spokesperson Shery Yang told CalMatters the current filing period is too short and extending it “improves efficiency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After meeting the initial $5,000 threshold for disclosure, officials would be allowed to receive up to $999 from that same donor without ever disclosing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A related bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb760\">SB 760\u003c/a> by Sen. Ben Allen, an El Segundo Democrat — would let elected officials stop reporting funds they raised for nonprofits on TV or radio, or even in speeches like private fundraisers, if they don’t benefit financially from those payments or don’t know their efforts led to the contribution. Allen said the change is needed so officials aren’t afraid to name specific groups to donate to, especially after a disaster like the Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also seeking to relax the state’s campaign ethics rules is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb300\">SB 300\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/steve-padilla-165435\">Sen. Steve Padilla\u003c/a>, a Chula Vista Democrat. Public officials wouldn’t have to recuse themselves if they are making policies that would boost the membership of organizations they’re part of, such as unions or chambers of commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Capitol in Sacramento, on Aug. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other proposed legislation would also reduce the amount of information disclosed to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab950\">AB 950\u003c/a> by Lakewood Democrat José Solache would allow campaigns to stop disclosing their top funders on printed ads and refer to a website instead.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab359\">AB 359\u003c/a> by San Bernardino Democrat James Ramos would allow the state campaign finance commission to stop reporting on its enforcement of local ethics rules.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>‘What they want is carte blanche authority to police in secret’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the state’s public records laws already are riddled with exemptions, politicians are still trying to create more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest exception the Legislature created is for itself. In 1975, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/public-services/legislative-process/legislative-open-records-act\">wrote its own rules\u003c/a> that vastly restrict what it must release to the public, shielding notes to members or staff, records of complaints or investigations, and anything else it deems not in the public’s interest to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year — after a 2018 law\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_201720180sb1421\"> forced police \u003c/a>agencies to be more transparent about their records — Downey Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/blanca-pacheco-165430\">Blanca Pacheco\u003c/a> wants to roll some of that back. Her bill would give \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1178\">law enforcement agencies more leeway \u003c/a>to keep some information private, such as the ranks, names and photos of officers who work undercover, are part of a state or federal task force, or who received death threats in the last decade due to their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to protect these undercover officers so that they can continue doing their work and keeping our communities safe,” she told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Bailey, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said the legislation undermines the progress made on police transparency. Police agencies already have ways to redact information, she said, but law enforcement agencies must explain why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they want is carte blanche authority to police in secret, to shield from the public eye really egregious police misconduct, like sexually assaulting civilians and serious uses of force,” Bailey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, said California already lags behind other, more conservative states in what is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all kinds of qualifications and exemptions and opportunities to put sand in the gears and delay disclosure, and it’s still a pretty limited set of documents you get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, local and state agencies have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2025/01/secret-homeless-shelter-complaints/\">only released records\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982270/kqed-wins-legal-victory-against-california-department-of-corrections-over-public-records\">a court forced them to do so\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loy’s group is also concerned about a proposal from Long Beach Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/josh-lowenthal-164206\">Josh Lowenthal\u003c/a> that would make it a misdemeanor for someone to “knowingly” post an elected or appointed official’s home address or telephone number, if they intend the posting to cause harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowenthal declined an interview with CalMatters, but said in a statement that elected and appointed officials have faced harassment or violence in recent years and this would “allow them to limit the proliferation of their information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loy countered that the bill, while still in its early stages, is overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are controversies over whether someone is a resident of the jurisdiction that they are elected to represent, and the press and public have a right to know the relevant information,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-07-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legislators convene during a session at the state Capitol in Sacramento, on Aug. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Let the sunshine peek in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a few glimmers of hope for public access, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Democratic Assemblymember Avelino Valencia’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/CA_202520260AB1029\">AB 1029\u003c/a>, elected officials would have to report if they own cryptocurrency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMaio, the San Diego Republican, is also reintroducing an idea to create an independent office to help people fight public records denials. Newsom vetoed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-public-records-2/\">similar bill\u003c/a> in 2023, saying it was unnecessary and costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the only way to appeal a rejected Public Records Act request is to sue — something not everyone can afford to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let a neutral third party determine whether a document is so sensitive that the public interest would be benefited by keeping it a secret,” DeMaio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also introduced a bill to make the Legislature follow the same California records act as other public agencies and touted his Rocklin Republican colleague Joe Patterson’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/CA_202520260AB1370\">AB 1370\u003c/a>, which would prohibit state lawmakers from entering into most non-disclosure agreements related to their decision-making, such as the Capitol renovation project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no justification for an elected official signing an NDA with a special interest, full stop,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largely Democratic efforts have raised alarms among ethics advocates and an outcry from some Republican lawmakers, such as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/carl-demaio-161014\">Assemblymember Carl DeMaio\u003c/a> of San Diego, who has introduced two bills to require lawmakers and government agencies to disclose more to the public, not less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He announced them during \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20050331085059/http:/www.sunshineweek.org/sunshineweek/launch\">National Sunshine Week\u003c/a>, an annual campaign to promote government transparency that the Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article137321978.html\">quit observing eight years ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the one time throughout the year where we pause and we ask the question: Are decisions in government being made in the public light? Can the people know what’s going on?” DeMaio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking decision-makers in the eye\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/roger-niello-165442\">Roger Niello,\u003c/a> a Republican from Roseville, has contended that interacting with constituents in-person makes a difference: There’s nothing more thrilling for a local elected official than having constituents exercise their right to yell and scream at you, he said in 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/256703?t=465&f=7df9245729b5b21e4fec3274a24fafe4\">opposing a proposal\u003c/a> that allows neighborhood councils in Los Angeles to meet remotely until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just much more impactful,” he said. “It’s like the difference between a text message and a phone call. Text messages are useful for quick communication of something, but not for something more complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless that proposal was signed into law — one of many over the past few years that have increasingly allowed state and local officials to participate remotely. This year, various legislators are pushing at least six different measures that aim to make them permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, California has relaxed its once-strict rules that required officials to be physically present at public meetings. Instead they’ve carved out more exceptions so that advisory board members can meet remotely, and public officials can avoid disclosing their whereabouts when they appear virtually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of these efforts say they “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258613?t=1707&f=c47df9713448f33eb3a9e44a990fd543\">modernize\u003c/a>” the state’s open meetings rules, arguing that allowing members more remote access boosts public participation, cuts costs, protects officials’ privacy and grants more flexibility in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the relaxed guidelines, 41 state boards reported increased attendance among board members, according to a June 2021 report by the \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/report/government-tomorrow-online-meetings/\">Little Hoover Commission\u003c/a>, a state oversight agency that focuses on government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But good government advocates argue that it shields officials from their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public officials must be accountable: They should be required to attend in person, ensuring that the public can see them, speak to them directly, hold them responsible for decisions that impact their communities,” Dora Rose, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of California, told legislators at a recent hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/053122-Capitol-Assembly-File-MG-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assembly floor at the state Capitol on May 31, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of this year’s pending bills is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb707\">SB 707\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/maria-elena-durazo-165445\">Sen. María Elena Durazo\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Los Angeles who last year \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-remote-meetings-local-boards/\">opposed an effort\u003c/a> to let local advisory boards meet remotely. This year she’s proposing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb707\">an overarching measure \u003c/a>that would include exemptions for different groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durazo told CalMatters she was compelled by testimony from groups who had to cancel meetings because they couldn’t gather enough members in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill would also require city and county governments to provide a call-in option to all public meetings. But during \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media-archive\">a recent hearing\u003c/a>, representatives of city officials argued that would hamstring local governments’ ability to manage \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258613?t=1857&f=c47df9713448f33eb3a9e44a990fd543\">“Zoom bombing,”\u003c/a> where participants disrupt meetings with “hate speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping donors secret\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Fair Political Practices Commission — the state agency policing ethics and campaign finance violations — is sponsoring \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab775\">AB755\u003c/a> to give officials more time to disclose funds they raised for other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds are called “behested payments,” typically donations to a nonprofit or government agency that come at a politician’s behest. Critics say the donations allow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/california-campaign-finance-violations-evan-low/\">special interests to curry favor\u003c/a> with politicians. Since 2011, state officials have reported raising more than $505 million in behested payments, with Newsom single-handedly raising more than $200 million from corporations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current law requires elected officials to disclose these payments within 30 days once they raise more than $5,000 from the same donor within a year. But violations are commonplace: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/show-your-work/2024/10/how-we-reported-on-california-campaign-violations/\">Six out of eight\u003c/a> of California’s constitutional officers have reported their payments late, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/campaign-finance-california-fppc-enforcement/\">including Newsom\u003c/a>, who was fined $13,000 for failing to disclose $14 million on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation introduced by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/mike-fong-165455\">Mike Fong\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Alhambra, would give lawmakers up to roughly 120 days to disclose the payments, making it harder for voters to know who is influencing their lawmakers in real time. Commission spokesperson Shery Yang told CalMatters the current filing period is too short and extending it “improves efficiency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After meeting the initial $5,000 threshold for disclosure, officials would be allowed to receive up to $999 from that same donor without ever disclosing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A related bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb760\">SB 760\u003c/a> by Sen. Ben Allen, an El Segundo Democrat — would let elected officials stop reporting funds they raised for nonprofits on TV or radio, or even in speeches like private fundraisers, if they don’t benefit financially from those payments or don’t know their efforts led to the contribution. Allen said the change is needed so officials aren’t afraid to name specific groups to donate to, especially after a disaster like the Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also seeking to relax the state’s campaign ethics rules is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb300\">SB 300\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/steve-padilla-165435\">Sen. Steve Padilla\u003c/a>, a Chula Vista Democrat. Public officials wouldn’t have to recuse themselves if they are making policies that would boost the membership of organizations they’re part of, such as unions or chambers of commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/082222-CA-Capitol-08-22-RL-CM-08-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Capitol in Sacramento, on Aug. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other proposed legislation would also reduce the amount of information disclosed to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab950\">AB 950\u003c/a> by Lakewood Democrat José Solache would allow campaigns to stop disclosing their top funders on printed ads and refer to a website instead.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab359\">AB 359\u003c/a> by San Bernardino Democrat James Ramos would allow the state campaign finance commission to stop reporting on its enforcement of local ethics rules.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>‘What they want is carte blanche authority to police in secret’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the state’s public records laws already are riddled with exemptions, politicians are still trying to create more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest exception the Legislature created is for itself. In 1975, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/public-services/legislative-process/legislative-open-records-act\">wrote its own rules\u003c/a> that vastly restrict what it must release to the public, shielding notes to members or staff, records of complaints or investigations, and anything else it deems not in the public’s interest to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year — after a 2018 law\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_201720180sb1421\"> forced police \u003c/a>agencies to be more transparent about their records — Downey Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/blanca-pacheco-165430\">Blanca Pacheco\u003c/a> wants to roll some of that back. Her bill would give \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1178\">law enforcement agencies more leeway \u003c/a>to keep some information private, such as the ranks, names and photos of officers who work undercover, are part of a state or federal task force, or who received death threats in the last decade due to their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to protect these undercover officers so that they can continue doing their work and keeping our communities safe,” she told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Bailey, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said the legislation undermines the progress made on police transparency. 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