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Gov. Gavin Newsom was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/gavin-newsom-says-hes-running-for-California-governor-in-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">first candidate\u003c/a> to declare that he will run to succeed Gov. 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Three is too many.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Newsom insists he’ll have time to work on all three measures, while\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Legalizing-pot-on-back-burner-as-Newsom-focuses-6576636.php\" target=\"_blank\"> admitting\u003c/a> that the gun control proposal, which he is not only \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pol-ca-newsom-guns-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">backing but sponsoring\u003c/a>, will take center stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men can multitask,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with KQED, in which he pushed back against pundits who painted his support for the gun measure as \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2015/10/21/newsom-picks-politics-of-guns-over-pot/\" target=\"_blank\">evidence he was abandoning marijuana legalization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the perversity because I am used to multitasking as a mayor,\" he said. \"I always find it curious -- in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many. When you couldn't go a day without focusing on dozens of issues in my old job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also said this isn't all about raising his profile for 2018, contending that if the ballot measures were purely about getting gubernatorial votes, he'd be focusing on the issues Californians say they are most concerned about -- he cited \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">water\u003c/a>, education reform and the \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So for these cynics, that would suggest I'm pretty naive to where public sentiment is,\" he said. \"These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Stop the War on the Poor'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Guns are priority because they should be. Stopping one of the more insidious aspects of the war on drugs -- and that's the war on marijuana, which I think is disproportionately a war on people of color and on poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, \"it's hard not to support the minimum wage (hike) when I was mayor of the city that had the highest minimum wage in the nation, when I left, at the time … so it's not surprising to people that know me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal.' \u003ccite>Law professor Jessica Levinson\u003ccite> \u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a law professor who studies campaign and ethics issues at Loyola Marymount University, said it's all part and parcel of the Gavin Newsom playbook: Play to a liberal base, get ahead on issues that are controversial now but will likely be more broadly embraced in a couple years and also, yes, focus on more mainstream issues like the economy while you are at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's a smart strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal -- and maybe just a few years ahead of the curve,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So by the time we are voting for governor,\" she added, \"we will be looking at Gavin Newsom and saying, 'You had ESP, you knew where the state was going when it came to minimum wage, you knew where things were trending when it came to pot and you saw the importance of stronger gun control before other people were acting on it.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'He Embraces Being a Liberal Democrat'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said Newsom's positions may be risky for a moderate, but \"he can't run away from the fact that he's a liberal Democrat, so I think he's basically decided to embrace it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted the lieutenant governor is also talking about the economy and water -- \"he just made a trip to the Central Valley\" -- but that voters won't be paying attention to the actual governor's race for a year or more anyway, so it makes sense to lay the groundwork around other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770636\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770636\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think he is going to be one of the top contenders, and he’s basically laying claim to a number of areas now,\" Levinson said, noting Newsom has been \"trying to lose the lieutenant part of his title since before the day he was sworn in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's smart to use ballot measures to burnish his political credentials for another reason: Initiatives are not subject to the same campaign finance limits that candidates are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Y\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou can tie yourself to an issue without the same rubric of money restrictions, and in some ways it's less risky, because if a ballot initiative goes down, it's not a referendum on you as a candidate,\" she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backing Sean Parker's Pot Initiative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has indeed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Mayor-offers-package-of-gun-control-laws-He-2560246.php\" target=\"_blank\">been working \u003c/a>on all three \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/ftp/archive/mayornewsom/press-release-mayor-newsom-announces-increase-to-san-franciscos-minimum-wage/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">issues\u003c/a> for several years, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/10/gavin-newsom-to-support-marijuana-legalization-on-2016-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">including marijuana legalization,\u003c/a> and recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">announced his support\u003c/a> for one of more than two dozen potential 2016 legalization measures -- the one\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/sean-parker-backed-marijuana-legalization-measure\" target=\"_blank\"> backed by former Facebook executive and Napster co-founder Sean Parker\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that proposal is the most closely aligned with the framework \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Newsom-s-group-draws-state-s-road-map-to-6159604.php\" target=\"_blank\">set out by the blue-ribbon commission he chaired \u003c/a>on the issue. He also acknowledged that it's the best funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he expressed confidence that the pro-legalization community can coalesce behind one measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"You just have to. If there are two or more initiatives it will fail ... it will confuse voters,\" he said. \"If you care about the cause you have to put aside your differences. If you don't care about your cause, it's about personalities, then they are on a collision course and they are going to set back the movement years and years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lieutenant governor also hinted at what he'll be focusing on beyond 2016 -- and for you cynics, it is one of those issues that polls well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue that defines me literally -- I am not overstating it -- is economic development. It's my passion, it's the issue that transcends all other issues,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, you can't tax your way to prosperity, nor can you cut your way to prosperity. You gotta grow your way to prosperity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe he is looking at those polls, after all.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"His plan is to focus on hot ballot measures -- pot legalization, gun control and a higher minimum wage. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1453921600,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1170},"headData":{"title":"Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016 | KQED","description":"His plan is to focus on hot ballot measures -- pot legalization, gun control and a higher minimum wage. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016","datePublished":"2015-11-27T08:01:52.000Z","dateModified":"2016-01-27T19:06:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10769449 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10769449","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/27/gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016/","disqusTitle":"Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016","customPermalink":"2015/11/27/Gavin-Newsom-Busy-In-2016/","nprStoryId":"464340887","path":"/news/10769449/gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/gavin-newsom-says-hes-running-for-California-governor-in-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">first candidate\u003c/a> to declare that he will run to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown -- and while the election isn't until 2018, it already seems Newsom is everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Francisco mayor has put himself front and center on three controversial 2016 ballot measures -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">pot legalization\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/gavin-newsom-gun-control-ballot-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">gun control\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/03/gavin-newsom-endorses-state-minimum-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\">higher minimum wage.\u003c/a> They're all issues that could shore up his liberal base and raise his profile in areas of the state where he's not well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also stand to make him some very powerful foes: law enforcement, the gun lobby and the state's business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I am used to multitasking as a mayor ... in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Newsom insists he’ll have time to work on all three measures, while\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Legalizing-pot-on-back-burner-as-Newsom-focuses-6576636.php\" target=\"_blank\"> admitting\u003c/a> that the gun control proposal, which he is not only \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pol-ca-newsom-guns-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">backing but sponsoring\u003c/a>, will take center stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men can multitask,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with KQED, in which he pushed back against pundits who painted his support for the gun measure as \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2015/10/21/newsom-picks-politics-of-guns-over-pot/\" target=\"_blank\">evidence he was abandoning marijuana legalization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the perversity because I am used to multitasking as a mayor,\" he said. \"I always find it curious -- in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many. When you couldn't go a day without focusing on dozens of issues in my old job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also said this isn't all about raising his profile for 2018, contending that if the ballot measures were purely about getting gubernatorial votes, he'd be focusing on the issues Californians say they are most concerned about -- he cited \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">water\u003c/a>, education reform and the \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So for these cynics, that would suggest I'm pretty naive to where public sentiment is,\" he said. \"These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Stop the War on the Poor'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Guns are priority because they should be. Stopping one of the more insidious aspects of the war on drugs -- and that's the war on marijuana, which I think is disproportionately a war on people of color and on poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, \"it's hard not to support the minimum wage (hike) when I was mayor of the city that had the highest minimum wage in the nation, when I left, at the time … so it's not surprising to people that know me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal.' \u003ccite>Law professor Jessica Levinson\u003ccite> \u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a law professor who studies campaign and ethics issues at Loyola Marymount University, said it's all part and parcel of the Gavin Newsom playbook: Play to a liberal base, get ahead on issues that are controversial now but will likely be more broadly embraced in a couple years and also, yes, focus on more mainstream issues like the economy while you are at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's a smart strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal -- and maybe just a few years ahead of the curve,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So by the time we are voting for governor,\" she added, \"we will be looking at Gavin Newsom and saying, 'You had ESP, you knew where the state was going when it came to minimum wage, you knew where things were trending when it came to pot and you saw the importance of stronger gun control before other people were acting on it.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'He Embraces Being a Liberal Democrat'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said Newsom's positions may be risky for a moderate, but \"he can't run away from the fact that he's a liberal Democrat, so I think he's basically decided to embrace it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted the lieutenant governor is also talking about the economy and water -- \"he just made a trip to the Central Valley\" -- but that voters won't be paying attention to the actual governor's race for a year or more anyway, so it makes sense to lay the groundwork around other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770636\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770636\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think he is going to be one of the top contenders, and he’s basically laying claim to a number of areas now,\" Levinson said, noting Newsom has been \"trying to lose the lieutenant part of his title since before the day he was sworn in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's smart to use ballot measures to burnish his political credentials for another reason: Initiatives are not subject to the same campaign finance limits that candidates are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Y\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou can tie yourself to an issue without the same rubric of money restrictions, and in some ways it's less risky, because if a ballot initiative goes down, it's not a referendum on you as a candidate,\" she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backing Sean Parker's Pot Initiative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has indeed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Mayor-offers-package-of-gun-control-laws-He-2560246.php\" target=\"_blank\">been working \u003c/a>on all three \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/ftp/archive/mayornewsom/press-release-mayor-newsom-announces-increase-to-san-franciscos-minimum-wage/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">issues\u003c/a> for several years, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/10/gavin-newsom-to-support-marijuana-legalization-on-2016-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">including marijuana legalization,\u003c/a> and recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">announced his support\u003c/a> for one of more than two dozen potential 2016 legalization measures -- the one\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/sean-parker-backed-marijuana-legalization-measure\" target=\"_blank\"> backed by former Facebook executive and Napster co-founder Sean Parker\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that proposal is the most closely aligned with the framework \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Newsom-s-group-draws-state-s-road-map-to-6159604.php\" target=\"_blank\">set out by the blue-ribbon commission he chaired \u003c/a>on the issue. He also acknowledged that it's the best funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he expressed confidence that the pro-legalization community can coalesce behind one measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"You just have to. If there are two or more initiatives it will fail ... it will confuse voters,\" he said. \"If you care about the cause you have to put aside your differences. If you don't care about your cause, it's about personalities, then they are on a collision course and they are going to set back the movement years and years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lieutenant governor also hinted at what he'll be focusing on beyond 2016 -- and for you cynics, it is one of those issues that polls well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue that defines me literally -- I am not overstating it -- is economic development. It's my passion, it's the issue that transcends all other issues,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, you can't tax your way to prosperity, nor can you cut your way to prosperity. You gotta grow your way to prosperity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe he is looking at those polls, after all.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10769449/gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_16","news_2795","news_102"],"featImg":"news_10769450","label":"news_72"},"news_10757407":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10757407","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10757407","score":null,"sort":[1447447664000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rep-sam-farr-retires-opening-fourth-calif-congressional-seat-in-2016","title":"Rep. Sam Farr Retires, Opening Fourth Calif. Congressional Seat in 2016","publishDate":1447447664,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Carmel Democratic Rep. Sam Farr's retirement Thursday was sudden, but not shocking: Farr is 74 years old and has served in Congress for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what really hit me is this becoming 75 and realizing, 'Oh my God, my body is not going to be healthy forever, so I’d rather have some healthy years like my grandchildren.' And I watched people stay in Congress too long, and I didn’t want to be like them,\" Farr said Thursday while announcing he will not seek re-election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jack Pitney, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, said there's something else at play, too: Farr is not the only senior Democrat to retire recently, either in California or nationally. In fact, 21 of the state's \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">52 congressional representatives have been elected in the past five years\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he average seniority in Congress has fluctuated over the years -- recently, we are seeing Democrats often retiring at somewhat higher rate than Republicans,\" Pitney said. \"Here'\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s the problem for Democrats in the House of Representatives ... if you are\u003c/span> in the minority party you have practically no chance of enacting major legislation under your own name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"It's very frustrating,\" he added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232964034\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frustration Over Gridlock\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr alluded to that frustration in his Thursday remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Who comes after me is going to have a tough time because of the gridlock,\" he said, but struck a hopeful note. \"But a lot of things can still be done on the energy of the individual and ability to find common ground. That’s what I’ve done.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats' minority status may have also played a role in Santa Barbara Rep. Lois Capps' \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-lois-capps-retirement-20150408-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">resignation announcement\u003c/a> earlier this year. She is also a Democrat and in her 70s, and she was also elected in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr and Capps are among four congressional Democrats from the Golden State who are stepping down this year; Janice Hahn, D-San Pedro, is running for Los Angeles County supervisor and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/16/kamala-harris-loretta-sanchez-duel-at-center-of-california-democratic-convention/\" target=\"_blank\">Loretta Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, is hoping to succeed Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only Capps' seat is considered competitive; the districts of Farr, Hahn and Sanchez are all safely Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legislative Record\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr helped create Cal State Monterey Bay and authored legislation to turn Pinnacles National Monument into a national park. He served on the powerful Appropriations Committee and was a champion for veterans. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.farr.house.gov/index.php/press-releases/71-newsroom/2014-press-releases/1083-farr-statement-on-rohrabacher-farr-medical-marijuana-amendment\" target=\"_blank\">co-authored the groundbreaking 2015 budget amendment\u003c/a> that prevents the federal government from prosecuting medical marijuana patients who are in compliance with state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 23 years in the Congress, Sam Farr has served as a tenacious, far-sighted champion for California’s Central Coast and hard-working families across America,\" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a written statement. \"With a career in public service that stretches across five decades, Congressman Farr has truly devoted his life building a better future for his communities, our country and our world.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Farr joins other senior members of the minority Democrats to retire recently. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1453921663,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":547},"headData":{"title":"Rep. Sam Farr Retires, Opening Fourth Calif. Congressional Seat in 2016 | KQED","description":"Farr joins other senior members of the minority Democrats to retire recently. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Rep. Sam Farr Retires, Opening Fourth Calif. Congressional Seat in 2016","datePublished":"2015-11-13T20:47:44.000Z","dateModified":"2016-01-27T19:07:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10757407 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10757407","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/13/rep-sam-farr-retires-opening-fourth-calif-congressional-seat-in-2016/","disqusTitle":"Rep. Sam Farr Retires, Opening Fourth Calif. Congressional Seat in 2016","customPermalink":"2015/11/13/Sam-Farr-Steps-Down/","nprStoryId":"464589531","path":"/news/10757407/rep-sam-farr-retires-opening-fourth-calif-congressional-seat-in-2016","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Carmel Democratic Rep. Sam Farr's retirement Thursday was sudden, but not shocking: Farr is 74 years old and has served in Congress for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what really hit me is this becoming 75 and realizing, 'Oh my God, my body is not going to be healthy forever, so I’d rather have some healthy years like my grandchildren.' And I watched people stay in Congress too long, and I didn’t want to be like them,\" Farr said Thursday while announcing he will not seek re-election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jack Pitney, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, said there's something else at play, too: Farr is not the only senior Democrat to retire recently, either in California or nationally. In fact, 21 of the state's \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">52 congressional representatives have been elected in the past five years\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he average seniority in Congress has fluctuated over the years -- recently, we are seeing Democrats often retiring at somewhat higher rate than Republicans,\" Pitney said. \"Here'\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s the problem for Democrats in the House of Representatives ... if you are\u003c/span> in the minority party you have practically no chance of enacting major legislation under your own name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"It's very frustrating,\" he added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232964034&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232964034'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frustration Over Gridlock\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr alluded to that frustration in his Thursday remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Who comes after me is going to have a tough time because of the gridlock,\" he said, but struck a hopeful note. \"But a lot of things can still be done on the energy of the individual and ability to find common ground. That’s what I’ve done.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats' minority status may have also played a role in Santa Barbara Rep. Lois Capps' \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-lois-capps-retirement-20150408-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">resignation announcement\u003c/a> earlier this year. She is also a Democrat and in her 70s, and she was also elected in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr and Capps are among four congressional Democrats from the Golden State who are stepping down this year; Janice Hahn, D-San Pedro, is running for Los Angeles County supervisor and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/16/kamala-harris-loretta-sanchez-duel-at-center-of-california-democratic-convention/\" target=\"_blank\">Loretta Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, is hoping to succeed Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only Capps' seat is considered competitive; the districts of Farr, Hahn and Sanchez are all safely Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legislative Record\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr helped create Cal State Monterey Bay and authored legislation to turn Pinnacles National Monument into a national park. He served on the powerful Appropriations Committee and was a champion for veterans. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.farr.house.gov/index.php/press-releases/71-newsroom/2014-press-releases/1083-farr-statement-on-rohrabacher-farr-medical-marijuana-amendment\" target=\"_blank\">co-authored the groundbreaking 2015 budget amendment\u003c/a> that prevents the federal government from prosecuting medical marijuana patients who are in compliance with state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 23 years in the Congress, Sam Farr has served as a tenacious, far-sighted champion for California’s Central Coast and hard-working families across America,\" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a written statement. \"With a career in public service that stretches across five decades, Congressman Farr has truly devoted his life building a better future for his communities, our country and our world.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10757407/rep-sam-farr-retires-opening-fourth-calif-congressional-seat-in-2016","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10757569","label":"news_72"},"news_10753448":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10753448","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10753448","score":null,"sort":[1447182379000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prop-47-implementation-differs-around-state-aclu-finds","title":"Prop. 47 Implementation Differs Around State, ACLU Finds","publishDate":1447182379,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It's been a year since \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-prop-47-drug-possession-20141103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">California voters embraced Proposition 47\u003c/a>, reducing low-level offenses like drug possession and petty crime from felonies to misdemeanors and allowing people to clear past felonies from their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the discussion since then has centered around two narratives: Supporters point to the tens of thousands of people \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/22/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\" target=\"_blank\">being given a second chance,\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=1846\" target=\"_blank\">falling county jail and state prison populations, \u003c/a>and the state's historically low crime rates. Opponents note \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/10/prop47/\" target=\"_blank\">spikes in crime in some communities\u003c/a>, saying police are now forced to give tickets instead of arresting criminals for low-level crimes and questioning whether drug addicts \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/03/16/50392/unintended-consequence-how-prop-47-tanks-drug-cour/\" target=\"_blank\">will really get the help they need without the threat of jail time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one year after Prop. 47 took effect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acluca.org/Prop47/\" target=\"_blank\">a new report\u003c/a> by the American Civil Liberties Union of California finds a more nuanced picture. Looking at hundreds of pages of public records from the state's 58 counties, the organization discovered wild variations in terms of policing, jail policies and rehabilitation opportunities for misdemeanor offenders -- and that there's still a lot of work left to be done to fulfill Prop. 47's promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232609630\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local law enforcement officials have complained there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-proposition-47-falsehoods-arrest-20151027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">no reason to take someone into custody for a misdemeanor \u003c/a>and have let the number of arrests fall. But other counties are arresting far \u003cem>more\u003c/em> low-level criminals than \u003cem>before\u003c/em> Prop. 47 passed, the ACLU found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"V8imR8EY5PTgwl0MSkQh8BJ0ZdaGbrgf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While jail populations fell right after Prop. 47's passage with the immediate release of thousands of offenders, some counties are now packing their jails with far more misdemeanor offenders than before. Because of this, jail populations are on the rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, some counties are putting misdemeanor criminals on probation while others aren’t -- and, according to the report, the decisions about who to supervise all seem pretty arbitrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, director of criminal justice and drug policy at the ACLU of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the successes of the first year, local agencies are still deciding how they will respond to Prop. 47. Unfortunately, there is still some resistance among law enforcement. As California enters Prop. 47’s second year, local law enforcement, behavioral health departments and county governments need to work together to address societal issues that have long challenged our communities, including mental illness, substance use disorders and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU praises counties for their quick response to Prop. 47's passage, saying they are \"to be commended for the speed with which they addressed resentencing,\" of people behind bars. It calls out some historically conservative counties, including Kern, Fresno and Placer, for quickly embracing creative strategies around drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10753752\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10753752\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1440x984.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1180x806.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-960x656.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the report notes that while thousands of people on probation and as many as 1 million with years-old felonies could still be eligible to have their records cleared, they have only two more years under the measure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government needs to allocate more resources to resentencing efforts, the ACLU recommended, including outreach to let people know they may be eligible. And the state should simplify the process for cleaning up criminal records, the report states, including making it automatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report pushes back on the narrative by some in law enforcement that Prop. 47 left them with no option but to ticket petty thieves, drug users and car burglars, noting people with misdemeanor charges are taking up more and more jail beds in some counties such as Riverside, where the number of inmates convicted of misdemeanors doubled from March 2014 to March 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inconsistencies extend beyond jail beds. It seems some sheriff's departments are prioritizing low-level arrests, while others are ignoring Prop. 47 crimes: They are up 77 percent in Fresno and down 10 percent in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the associations that represent district attorneys and sheriffs in California said those variations are not surprising: Crimes have always been treated differently around the state, largely based on local community priorities. Aaron McGuire of the State Sheriff's Association called some of the report's findings hypocritical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a sense they are saying while we decriminalized drug possession, we should still be arresting and prosecuting people for drug possession,\" he said, noting that those actions require the same amount of taxpayer resources regardless of whether a person is charged with a misdemeanor or felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sean Hoffman of the District Attorney's Association said prosecutors and police agencies haven't been given the resources they need to make such a huge shift in policy succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the policy recommendations they outline in there highlight what we see as one of big flaws with Prop. 47, which is that none of the, or very little of the, infrastructure was in place and funded to support these individuals when we decide we are not going to deal with this as much as a criminal justice issue as we are social, substance abuse, mental health issue,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says counties need to identify more funding to help people with mental health and drug treatment through existing sources, including health care money, and ensure prevention strategies don’t ignore people until they are charged with felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until Prop. 47, counties largely focused on programs and services for people facing or convicted of felony offenses. Through Prop. 47, voters reduced several of those offenses to misdemeanors. They did not, however, intend for these individuals or offenses to be ignored,\" the report states. \"The intent of Prop. 47 is to shift toward programs to connect people who commit these petty offenses to the services they need to prevent future offending, including mental health care, substance use disorder treatment and supportive housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU also believes that probation departments need to use scientific assessments to decide which misdemeanor offenders would benefit from supervision; and that police need more options than just handcuffs to help the drug addicted and mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We encourage policymakers and advocates to use the information in our report to start a conversation around how local governments and communities can work together to make the most of the opportunity before them,” said Dooley-Sammuli. “California is in the spotlight as other states consider enacting similar reforms, and the choices we make now will have repercussions not only for our communities here at home, but in the decisions being made across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Report discovered wild variations in terms of policing, jail policies and rehabilitation opportunities for misdemeanor offenders.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1447260883,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1198},"headData":{"title":"Prop. 47 Implementation Differs Around State, ACLU Finds | KQED","description":"Report discovered wild variations in terms of policing, jail policies and rehabilitation opportunities for misdemeanor offenders.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Prop. 47 Implementation Differs Around State, ACLU Finds","datePublished":"2015-11-10T19:06:19.000Z","dateModified":"2015-11-11T16:54:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10753448 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10753448","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/prop-47-implementation-differs-around-state-aclu-finds/","disqusTitle":"Prop. 47 Implementation Differs Around State, ACLU Finds","customPermalink":"2015/11/10/Mixed-Results-For-Proposition-47/","path":"/news/10753448/prop-47-implementation-differs-around-state-aclu-finds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's been a year since \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-prop-47-drug-possession-20141103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">California voters embraced Proposition 47\u003c/a>, reducing low-level offenses like drug possession and petty crime from felonies to misdemeanors and allowing people to clear past felonies from their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the discussion since then has centered around two narratives: Supporters point to the tens of thousands of people \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/22/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\" target=\"_blank\">being given a second chance,\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=1846\" target=\"_blank\">falling county jail and state prison populations, \u003c/a>and the state's historically low crime rates. Opponents note \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/10/prop47/\" target=\"_blank\">spikes in crime in some communities\u003c/a>, saying police are now forced to give tickets instead of arresting criminals for low-level crimes and questioning whether drug addicts \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/03/16/50392/unintended-consequence-how-prop-47-tanks-drug-cour/\" target=\"_blank\">will really get the help they need without the threat of jail time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one year after Prop. 47 took effect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acluca.org/Prop47/\" target=\"_blank\">a new report\u003c/a> by the American Civil Liberties Union of California finds a more nuanced picture. Looking at hundreds of pages of public records from the state's 58 counties, the organization discovered wild variations in terms of policing, jail policies and rehabilitation opportunities for misdemeanor offenders -- and that there's still a lot of work left to be done to fulfill Prop. 47's promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232609630&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232609630'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local law enforcement officials have complained there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-proposition-47-falsehoods-arrest-20151027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">no reason to take someone into custody for a misdemeanor \u003c/a>and have let the number of arrests fall. But other counties are arresting far \u003cem>more\u003c/em> low-level criminals than \u003cem>before\u003c/em> Prop. 47 passed, the ACLU found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While jail populations fell right after Prop. 47's passage with the immediate release of thousands of offenders, some counties are now packing their jails with far more misdemeanor offenders than before. Because of this, jail populations are on the rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, some counties are putting misdemeanor criminals on probation while others aren’t -- and, according to the report, the decisions about who to supervise all seem pretty arbitrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, director of criminal justice and drug policy at the ACLU of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the successes of the first year, local agencies are still deciding how they will respond to Prop. 47. Unfortunately, there is still some resistance among law enforcement. As California enters Prop. 47’s second year, local law enforcement, behavioral health departments and county governments need to work together to address societal issues that have long challenged our communities, including mental illness, substance use disorders and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU praises counties for their quick response to Prop. 47's passage, saying they are \"to be commended for the speed with which they addressed resentencing,\" of people behind bars. It calls out some historically conservative counties, including Kern, Fresno and Placer, for quickly embracing creative strategies around drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10753752\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10753752\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1440x984.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1180x806.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-960x656.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the report notes that while thousands of people on probation and as many as 1 million with years-old felonies could still be eligible to have their records cleared, they have only two more years under the measure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government needs to allocate more resources to resentencing efforts, the ACLU recommended, including outreach to let people know they may be eligible. And the state should simplify the process for cleaning up criminal records, the report states, including making it automatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report pushes back on the narrative by some in law enforcement that Prop. 47 left them with no option but to ticket petty thieves, drug users and car burglars, noting people with misdemeanor charges are taking up more and more jail beds in some counties such as Riverside, where the number of inmates convicted of misdemeanors doubled from March 2014 to March 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inconsistencies extend beyond jail beds. It seems some sheriff's departments are prioritizing low-level arrests, while others are ignoring Prop. 47 crimes: They are up 77 percent in Fresno and down 10 percent in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the associations that represent district attorneys and sheriffs in California said those variations are not surprising: Crimes have always been treated differently around the state, largely based on local community priorities. Aaron McGuire of the State Sheriff's Association called some of the report's findings hypocritical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a sense they are saying while we decriminalized drug possession, we should still be arresting and prosecuting people for drug possession,\" he said, noting that those actions require the same amount of taxpayer resources regardless of whether a person is charged with a misdemeanor or felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sean Hoffman of the District Attorney's Association said prosecutors and police agencies haven't been given the resources they need to make such a huge shift in policy succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the policy recommendations they outline in there highlight what we see as one of big flaws with Prop. 47, which is that none of the, or very little of the, infrastructure was in place and funded to support these individuals when we decide we are not going to deal with this as much as a criminal justice issue as we are social, substance abuse, mental health issue,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says counties need to identify more funding to help people with mental health and drug treatment through existing sources, including health care money, and ensure prevention strategies don’t ignore people until they are charged with felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until Prop. 47, counties largely focused on programs and services for people facing or convicted of felony offenses. Through Prop. 47, voters reduced several of those offenses to misdemeanors. They did not, however, intend for these individuals or offenses to be ignored,\" the report states. \"The intent of Prop. 47 is to shift toward programs to connect people who commit these petty offenses to the services they need to prevent future offending, including mental health care, substance use disorder treatment and supportive housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU also believes that probation departments need to use scientific assessments to decide which misdemeanor offenders would benefit from supervision; and that police need more options than just handcuffs to help the drug addicted and mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We encourage policymakers and advocates to use the information in our report to start a conversation around how local governments and communities can work together to make the most of the opportunity before them,” said Dooley-Sammuli. “California is in the spotlight as other states consider enacting similar reforms, and the choices we make now will have repercussions not only for our communities here at home, but in the decisions being made across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10753448/prop-47-implementation-differs-around-state-aclu-finds","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18862","news_17725","news_18502","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10753502","label":"news_72"},"news_10743221":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10743221","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10743221","score":null,"sort":[1446510350000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-doctor-heads-up-well-funded-marijuana-legalization-initiative","title":"California Doctor Heads Up Well-Funded Marijuana Legalization Initiative","publishDate":1446510350,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The physician who wrote the California Medical Association's background paper on marijuana in 2011 is one of the official proponents of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, filed Monday with the California Secretary of State's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In filing the measure, Dr. Donald O. Lyman said in a written statement that \"the physician community and the people of California in general have increasingly voiced support for ending marijuana prohibition and bringing greater control, oversight and consumer protections to our marijuana policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most comprehensive and carefully-crafted measure ever introduced to control, regulate and tax responsible adult-use of marijuana anywhere in America -- and it will make California healthier, make our streets and communities safer and better protect our children,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed measure attempts to address some of the issues voters have expressed concern about in the past, including access for children and public safety. It would allow adults over the age of 21 to possess up to an ounce of pot at a time, and grow up to six plants. Cities and counties could still ban marijuana sales, but could not disallow personal cultivation in homes. The act would limit public smoking, and treat open containers of pot like alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has come out \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/10/gavin-newsom-to-support-marijuana-legalization-on-2016-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">strongly in favor of legalizing marijuana\u003c/a>, immediately threw his support behind the measure. He said it follows the road map\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/newsoms-commission-drafts-road-map-for-regulating-recreational-pot\" target=\"_blank\"> he and other members of a commission laid out this summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am pleased that this thoughtful measure is aligned with the Blue Ribbon Commission's recommendations, and presents California its best opportunity to improve the status quo by making marijuana difficult for kids to access,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is backed by the broadest coalition of supporters to date and I believe that Californians will rally behind this consensus measure, which also serves to strengthen law enforcement, respect local preferences, protect public health and public safety, and restore the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are already more than a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives/active-measures\" target=\"_blank\">dozen potential 2016 marijuana legalization measures\u003c/a> out there, but none boast the deep pockets of this initiative, which is supported by billionaire tech investor Sean Parker -- co-founder of Napster and a former Facebook president\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Marijuana-legalization-ballot-measure-will-have-6603211.php\" target=\"_blank\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's why this version is widely seen as the one with legs -- when it comes to ballot measures, money talks. To simply collect the required signatures to qualify a measure for the state ballot generally takes millions of dollars, and then you need the cash to convince voters they should back the measure. A competing measure backed by California NORML, which has some high-profile advisers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2015/10/16/california-marijuana-legalization-in-disarray-campaigns-late-divided\" target=\"_blank\">has run into bumps lately around both money and endorsements. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now becomes whether supporters of legalization will coalesce behind one measure, or split their support among multiple initiatives, diluting their clout and opening themselves up to attacks from those that oppose legalization. The pro-marijuana side has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-legalization-measure-to-debut-soon/Content?oid=4472182\" target=\"_blank\">rife with internal debates\u003c/a>, most notably in 2010 when the last attempt to legalize marijuana, Proposition 19, was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/03/local/la-me-pot-20101103-1\">defeated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The latest ballot proposal to legalize marijuana in California has big money behind it. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1446568556,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":520},"headData":{"title":"California Doctor Heads Up Well-Funded Marijuana Legalization Initiative | KQED","description":"The latest ballot proposal to legalize marijuana in California has big money behind it. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Doctor Heads Up Well-Funded Marijuana Legalization Initiative","datePublished":"2015-11-03T00:25:50.000Z","dateModified":"2015-11-03T16:35:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10743221 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10743221","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/california-doctor-heads-up-well-funded-marijuana-legalization-initiative/","disqusTitle":"California Doctor Heads Up Well-Funded Marijuana Legalization Initiative","customPermalink":"2015/11/02/sean-parker-backed-marijuana-legalization-measure/","path":"/news/10743221/california-doctor-heads-up-well-funded-marijuana-legalization-initiative","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The physician who wrote the California Medical Association's background paper on marijuana in 2011 is one of the official proponents of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, filed Monday with the California Secretary of State's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In filing the measure, Dr. Donald O. Lyman said in a written statement that \"the physician community and the people of California in general have increasingly voiced support for ending marijuana prohibition and bringing greater control, oversight and consumer protections to our marijuana policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most comprehensive and carefully-crafted measure ever introduced to control, regulate and tax responsible adult-use of marijuana anywhere in America -- and it will make California healthier, make our streets and communities safer and better protect our children,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed measure attempts to address some of the issues voters have expressed concern about in the past, including access for children and public safety. It would allow adults over the age of 21 to possess up to an ounce of pot at a time, and grow up to six plants. Cities and counties could still ban marijuana sales, but could not disallow personal cultivation in homes. The act would limit public smoking, and treat open containers of pot like alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has come out \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/10/gavin-newsom-to-support-marijuana-legalization-on-2016-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">strongly in favor of legalizing marijuana\u003c/a>, immediately threw his support behind the measure. He said it follows the road map\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/newsoms-commission-drafts-road-map-for-regulating-recreational-pot\" target=\"_blank\"> he and other members of a commission laid out this summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am pleased that this thoughtful measure is aligned with the Blue Ribbon Commission's recommendations, and presents California its best opportunity to improve the status quo by making marijuana difficult for kids to access,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is backed by the broadest coalition of supporters to date and I believe that Californians will rally behind this consensus measure, which also serves to strengthen law enforcement, respect local preferences, protect public health and public safety, and restore the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are already more than a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives/active-measures\" target=\"_blank\">dozen potential 2016 marijuana legalization measures\u003c/a> out there, but none boast the deep pockets of this initiative, which is supported by billionaire tech investor Sean Parker -- co-founder of Napster and a former Facebook president\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Marijuana-legalization-ballot-measure-will-have-6603211.php\" target=\"_blank\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's why this version is widely seen as the one with legs -- when it comes to ballot measures, money talks. To simply collect the required signatures to qualify a measure for the state ballot generally takes millions of dollars, and then you need the cash to convince voters they should back the measure. A competing measure backed by California NORML, which has some high-profile advisers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2015/10/16/california-marijuana-legalization-in-disarray-campaigns-late-divided\" target=\"_blank\">has run into bumps lately around both money and endorsements. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now becomes whether supporters of legalization will coalesce behind one measure, or split their support among multiple initiatives, diluting their clout and opening themselves up to attacks from those that oppose legalization. The pro-marijuana side has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-legalization-measure-to-debut-soon/Content?oid=4472182\" target=\"_blank\">rife with internal debates\u003c/a>, most notably in 2010 when the last attempt to legalize marijuana, Proposition 19, was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/03/local/la-me-pot-20101103-1\">defeated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10743221/california-doctor-heads-up-well-funded-marijuana-legalization-initiative","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_102"],"featImg":"news_10743223","label":"news_72"},"news_10718584":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10718584","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10718584","score":null,"sort":[1444978912000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"behested-payments-let-private-groups-curry-favor-with-politicians-new-law-will-limit-disclosure","title":"'Behested Payments' Let Private Groups Curry Favor with Politicians -- New Law Will Limit Disclosure","publishDate":1444978912,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Political Muscle | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>AT&T. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Chevron. Indian gaming tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a who’s who list of campaign contributors -- and it is. But these groups also excel at another type of giving, one that’s often overlooked and is about to get a little less transparent: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/index.php?id=499\" target=\"_blank\">Behested payments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong> The top behested payment fundraisers since 1997:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jerry Brown: $30,240,411\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Arnold Schwarzenegger: $13,404,775\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brian Maienschein: $12,679,880\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rob Bonta: $4,254,716\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tom Torlakson: $3,756,543\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Darrell Steinberg: $3,351,538\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jackie Speier: $3,304,855\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Don Perata: $2,465,660\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gray Davis: $1,863,623\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dennis Hollingsworth: $1,767,884\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s no secret to even casual political observers that politicians raise money for their own campaigns. But once they’re in office, elected officials in California can also use their clout to help raise cash for pet projects outside of state government. Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/08/local/la-me-brown-charities-20110808\" target=\"_blank\">directed the bulk\u003c/a> of his $30 million in behested payments to two Oakland charter schools. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has funneled most of his $3.7 million to the Department of Education and \u003ca href=\"http://cdefoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">a nonprofit that supports\u003c/a> the state department he oversees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount they can raise for these private groups is unlimited -- but officials must file reports when the donations top $5,000 from a single source in one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the donations add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, politicians have directed more than $120 million to private groups since state ethics regulators started requiring disclosure in 1997 -- $28 million this year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the payments may go to good causes, but are simply another way for special interest groups -- largely powerful corporations with business before state government -- to curry favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228671046\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not quid pro quo,” said Kathay Feng, executive director of the government accountability group California Common Cause. “But there clearly is an expectation that if I give this large amount of money, you are going to pay attention, and I am probably going to have an easier time being able to come into your office and talk to you than a local constituent who didn't give a dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with a swipe of his pen, the governor just severely limited what has to be disclosed. Last week, Brown signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1544\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1544\u003c/a>, which removed a special category of lawmaker requests from disclosure requirements: Those that cover when an elected official lobbies a government agency to give taxpayer money to a private company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sorts of payments have ballooned in recent years as the available money for grants and tax breaks rose -- this year, it topped $15 million, accounting for more than half of behested payments disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10718785\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder-400x866.png\" alt=\"Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder\" width=\"400\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder-400x866.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fair Political Practices Commission -- the state ethics watchdog agency that oversees campaign finance, behested payments and other financial disclosures -- opposed the changes implemented in AB1544.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to look at it like a triangle. It's not just a public official asking for government money -- it’s where does the money end up,” said FPPC chair Jodi Remke. “When a public official is asking a government agency to give money to a for-profit organization, I think the public has a right to know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remke said her concern isn’t simply about whether a conflict exists now, but whether it could arise down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s who’s getting the money and why are they getting it?” she said. “(If) an official wants to make sure this particular company gets all this money, well, would I be surprised or would you be surprised if this official goes and works for that company in a year or two?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, was one of the lawmakers who reported helping secure public funds for a private business this year, the very kind of money that lawmakers won't have to disclose under the provisions of AB 1544. Bonta wrote a letter in support of giving a biofuel company in his district a $3.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission -- and soon after, received two campaign contributions from leaders of the company that won the grant, Viridis Fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he initially sent a letter simply calling on the commission to fund a biofuels company in the Bay Area, because all the grants in recent years went to other areas of the state. He said he filed the behested payment report out of an “abundance of caution” and probably didn’t even need to, because Viridis hasn’t actually received any of the money yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s not quid pro quo, but there clearly is an expectation that if I give this large amount of money, you are going to pay attention .' \u003ccite>Kathay Feng, California Common Cause\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, Bonta defended his vote on the floor of the Assembly for AB1544, saying the burden of disclosure should be on the state agency in these types of cases -- not the elected official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the disclosure is appropriate and fine. The public should have access to information anytime a legislator is influencing or making a request to help get a government grant,” he said. “I just don’t think the assemblymember should be the one burdened with the report, for very practical reasons. There are times when we put in a request and we don’t know what happens yet, and we shouldn’t have the burden of having to monitor a state department or agency to check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1YvJipdhchnj2HW7ytsEk9Pr2El3idqf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But FPPC chair Remke said it’s unreasonable to think the public would have the time or expertise to monitor every government agency and to know when to inquire about an elected official’s influence on a particular grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a member of the public, how am I going to find what that official did, unless that official has to to report it?” she said. “The best way to trace money from for-profit entities or government entities is by doing it through the official that you are interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feng agreed, saying the change in law means that it’s impossible for the public to scrutinize the giveaway of millions of public dollars. She also wasn’t surprised that a KQED News analysis found the most prolific behested payment donors, other than government agencies, are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/14/california-interest-groups-hedge-their-bets-give-campaign-cash-to-anyone-in-power/\" target=\"_blank\">the same businesses and tribes that hedge their bets when it comes to political donations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think the disclosure is appropriate and fine ... I just don’t think the Assembly member should be the one burdened with the report.\" \u003ccite>Assemblyman Rob Bonta\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The thing that drives us crazy, when it comes to campaign finances and behested payments, the problem is, the people making laws -- the legislators -- and those that have the most influence on those laws -- special interest groups -- also have the ability to craft those laws in a ways that can hide those relationships,” Feng said. “It is pretty maddening they have made a mockery of California disclosure laws by creating carve-outs that allow them to not to have to disclose how they are spending public money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feng noted that there have been abuses in the past, including when former \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/02/local/me-nunez2\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez received blowback\u003c/a> for funneling money from corporate and labor groups with business before the Legislature to a tiny charity that threw events that carried his name and helped raise his political profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta said bringing resources to constituents is part of a lawmakers’ job, noting he’s helped raise money for community events, including one that gave low-income kids glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's what we are supposed to be doing. We are supposed to be putting glasses on kids who don't have access to care,” he said. “And if I can help bring a mobile eye clinic because I am a legislator and I could reach out to someone who can provide those services, to bring them into the district, I mean, I think I should. I think my constituents expect me to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News producers Lisa Pickoff-White and Guy Marzorati contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Lawmakers have raised more than $120 million for private charities and businesses since 1997 through behested payments. 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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Chevron. Indian gaming tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a who’s who list of campaign contributors -- and it is. But these groups also excel at another type of giving, one that’s often overlooked and is about to get a little less transparent: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/index.php?id=499\" target=\"_blank\">Behested payments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong> The top behested payment fundraisers since 1997:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jerry Brown: $30,240,411\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Arnold Schwarzenegger: $13,404,775\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brian Maienschein: $12,679,880\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rob Bonta: $4,254,716\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tom Torlakson: $3,756,543\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Darrell Steinberg: $3,351,538\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jackie Speier: $3,304,855\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Don Perata: $2,465,660\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gray Davis: $1,863,623\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dennis Hollingsworth: $1,767,884\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s no secret to even casual political observers that politicians raise money for their own campaigns. But once they’re in office, elected officials in California can also use their clout to help raise cash for pet projects outside of state government. Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/08/local/la-me-brown-charities-20110808\" target=\"_blank\">directed the bulk\u003c/a> of his $30 million in behested payments to two Oakland charter schools. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has funneled most of his $3.7 million to the Department of Education and \u003ca href=\"http://cdefoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">a nonprofit that supports\u003c/a> the state department he oversees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount they can raise for these private groups is unlimited -- but officials must file reports when the donations top $5,000 from a single source in one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the donations add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, politicians have directed more than $120 million to private groups since state ethics regulators started requiring disclosure in 1997 -- $28 million this year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the payments may go to good causes, but are simply another way for special interest groups -- largely powerful corporations with business before state government -- to curry favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228671046&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228671046'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not quid pro quo,” said Kathay Feng, executive director of the government accountability group California Common Cause. “But there clearly is an expectation that if I give this large amount of money, you are going to pay attention, and I am probably going to have an easier time being able to come into your office and talk to you than a local constituent who didn't give a dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with a swipe of his pen, the governor just severely limited what has to be disclosed. Last week, Brown signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1544\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1544\u003c/a>, which removed a special category of lawmaker requests from disclosure requirements: Those that cover when an elected official lobbies a government agency to give taxpayer money to a private company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sorts of payments have ballooned in recent years as the available money for grants and tax breaks rose -- this year, it topped $15 million, accounting for more than half of behested payments disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10718785\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder-400x866.png\" alt=\"Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder\" width=\"400\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder-400x866.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Total_Behested_Payments_by_Year_Amount_chartbuilder.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fair Political Practices Commission -- the state ethics watchdog agency that oversees campaign finance, behested payments and other financial disclosures -- opposed the changes implemented in AB1544.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to look at it like a triangle. It's not just a public official asking for government money -- it’s where does the money end up,” said FPPC chair Jodi Remke. “When a public official is asking a government agency to give money to a for-profit organization, I think the public has a right to know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remke said her concern isn’t simply about whether a conflict exists now, but whether it could arise down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s who’s getting the money and why are they getting it?” she said. “(If) an official wants to make sure this particular company gets all this money, well, would I be surprised or would you be surprised if this official goes and works for that company in a year or two?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, was one of the lawmakers who reported helping secure public funds for a private business this year, the very kind of money that lawmakers won't have to disclose under the provisions of AB 1544. Bonta wrote a letter in support of giving a biofuel company in his district a $3.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission -- and soon after, received two campaign contributions from leaders of the company that won the grant, Viridis Fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he initially sent a letter simply calling on the commission to fund a biofuels company in the Bay Area, because all the grants in recent years went to other areas of the state. He said he filed the behested payment report out of an “abundance of caution” and probably didn’t even need to, because Viridis hasn’t actually received any of the money yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s not quid pro quo, but there clearly is an expectation that if I give this large amount of money, you are going to pay attention .' \u003ccite>Kathay Feng, California Common Cause\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, Bonta defended his vote on the floor of the Assembly for AB1544, saying the burden of disclosure should be on the state agency in these types of cases -- not the elected official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the disclosure is appropriate and fine. The public should have access to information anytime a legislator is influencing or making a request to help get a government grant,” he said. “I just don’t think the assemblymember should be the one burdened with the report, for very practical reasons. There are times when we put in a request and we don’t know what happens yet, and we shouldn’t have the burden of having to monitor a state department or agency to check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But FPPC chair Remke said it’s unreasonable to think the public would have the time or expertise to monitor every government agency and to know when to inquire about an elected official’s influence on a particular grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a member of the public, how am I going to find what that official did, unless that official has to to report it?” she said. “The best way to trace money from for-profit entities or government entities is by doing it through the official that you are interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feng agreed, saying the change in law means that it’s impossible for the public to scrutinize the giveaway of millions of public dollars. She also wasn’t surprised that a KQED News analysis found the most prolific behested payment donors, other than government agencies, are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/14/california-interest-groups-hedge-their-bets-give-campaign-cash-to-anyone-in-power/\" target=\"_blank\">the same businesses and tribes that hedge their bets when it comes to political donations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think the disclosure is appropriate and fine ... I just don’t think the Assembly member should be the one burdened with the report.\" \u003ccite>Assemblyman Rob Bonta\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The thing that drives us crazy, when it comes to campaign finances and behested payments, the problem is, the people making laws -- the legislators -- and those that have the most influence on those laws -- special interest groups -- also have the ability to craft those laws in a ways that can hide those relationships,” Feng said. “It is pretty maddening they have made a mockery of California disclosure laws by creating carve-outs that allow them to not to have to disclose how they are spending public money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feng noted that there have been abuses in the past, including when former \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/02/local/me-nunez2\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez received blowback\u003c/a> for funneling money from corporate and labor groups with business before the Legislature to a tiny charity that threw events that carried his name and helped raise his political profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta said bringing resources to constituents is part of a lawmakers’ job, noting he’s helped raise money for community events, including one that gave low-income kids glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's what we are supposed to be doing. We are supposed to be putting glasses on kids who don't have access to care,” he said. “And if I can help bring a mobile eye clinic because I am a legislator and I could reach out to someone who can provide those services, to bring them into the district, I mean, I think I should. I think my constituents expect me to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News producers Lisa Pickoff-White and Guy Marzorati contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10718584/behested-payments-let-private-groups-curry-favor-with-politicians-new-law-will-limit-disclosure","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_17955"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_17599","news_30","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10718586","label":"news_72"},"news_10719025":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10719025","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10719025","score":null,"sort":[1444972718000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-road-ahead-california-politics-podcast","title":"The Road Ahead: California Politics Podcast","publishDate":1444972718,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Election 2016 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In several important ways, the road ahead in California political circles became a little more clear this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our podcast examines some potentially game-changing 2016 ballot initiatives that were introduced this week. And we take a look back at a few more of the decisions made by Gov. Jerry Brown on bills -- decisions that could offer hints about legislative battles next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also offer a programming note, in this final episode of the existing politics podcast. Thanks to all of you for listening!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This week: Election 2016 developments, a final look at bill signings, and a podcast goodbye -- for now.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1453921733,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":87},"headData":{"title":"The Road Ahead: California Politics Podcast | KQED","description":"This week: Election 2016 developments, a final look at bill signings, and a podcast goodbye -- for now.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Road Ahead: California Politics Podcast","datePublished":"2015-10-16T05:18:38.000Z","dateModified":"2016-01-27T19:08:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10719025 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10719025","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/the-road-ahead-california-politics-podcast/","disqusTitle":"The Road Ahead: California Politics Podcast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/RDnews/2015/10/PolPodcast101515.mp3","guestFields":"0","nprStoryId":"464589680","path":"/news/10719025/the-road-ahead-california-politics-podcast","audioDuration":2056000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In several important ways, the road ahead in California political circles became a little more clear this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our podcast examines some potentially game-changing 2016 ballot initiatives that were introduced this week. And we take a look back at a few more of the decisions made by Gov. Jerry Brown on bills -- decisions that could offer hints about legislative battles next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also offer a programming note, in this final episode of the existing politics podcast. Thanks to all of you for listening!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10719025/the-road-ahead-california-politics-podcast","authors":["232","3239"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_13","news_17793"],"tags":["news_30","news_17714"],"featImg":"news_10719027","label":"news_6944"},"news_10714214":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10714214","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10714214","score":null,"sort":[1444892494000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-sacramento-limits-are-few-on-revolving-door-between-government-and-private-jobs","title":"In Sacramento, Limits Are Few on Revolving Door Between Government and Private Jobs","publishDate":1444892494,"format":"video","headTitle":"Political Muscle | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>To the old saying that \"It's not what you know, it's who you know,\" there's an addendum in the world of Sacramento insiders: It's also for whom you worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more often than not in the community surrounding the state Capitol, those with real influence have worked a lot of places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this town, what's interesting is one minute you're an advocate and the next minute, you're the decision-maker,\" says Richard Costigan. \"And then you're going to rotate back out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228512601\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costigan, a registered lobbyist and former legislative affairs secretary to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is one of countless men and women in state government circles whose influence has grown with each new job. And while that may not be unlike other walks of life, there are nonetheless rules regarding the \"revolving door\" between public and private sector employment -- rules put in place to avoid any chance that public policy decisions are tainted by undue influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is somewhat different than just a private individual changing jobs,\" said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola School of Law in Los Angeles and president of the city's ethics commission. \"The revolving door is more like a swing right now, where you can run through it pretty easily.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real question, say observers, is whether that influence should be better disclosed to the public. Unlike the private sector, where it's mainly one's Rolodex that gets packed into a moving box, public sector officials also bring with them at least some of the secret recipes into how government really works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do Existing Limits On Influence Work?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's only about three people who actually understand this stuff,\" said Gov. Jerry Brown as he signed a package of midyear budget changes on March 23, 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of the three people the governor was clearly referring to was standing beside him: his legislative affairs secretary, Gareth Elliott. It was Elliott's job to help Brown sift through hundreds of bills that would be either signed into law or vetoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10718323\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Gareth Elliott (R) hands Gov. Jerry Brown paperwork during a bill signing on March 24, 2011. A powerful lobbying firm announced Elliott would be joining their team just days after Elliott left the Brown administration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10718323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-1440x974.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gareth Elliott (R) hands Gov. Jerry Brown paperwork during a bill signing on March 24, 2011. A powerful lobbying firm announced Elliott would be joining their team just days after Elliott left the Brown administration. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A well-respected veteran adviser to Democrats in Sacramento, Elliott served as Brown's top legislative aide for almost four years. This past January, he left the administration. And like so many others in Sacramento, he became a lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing his \"extensive previous experience,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/285066381/Gareth-Elliott-Announcement\" target=\"_blank\">partners in the powerful lobbying firm Sacramento Advocates issued a press release within days announcing that Elliott would be joining their firm\u003c/a> -- a firm, said the statement, \"whose clients have long included some of the nation's largest and most widely recognized businesses, trade associations and non-profit entities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott did not respond to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while state regulations require a one-year ban on lobbying for the state's highest-ranking officials -- legislators, agency secretaries and top gubernatorial aides -- the restriction is limited only to lobbying the branch of government for which the ex-employee used to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, a former adviser to a governor can immediately lobby the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's certainly an indication that the restrictions aren't particularly stringent,\" said Loyola Law School's Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does The Former Job Help? Maybe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half-dozen former legislators or top government officials were contacted for this story, and most declined to speak about their transitions from public to private sector work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who did disputed any assertion that their inside expertise led to significant victories for the interest groups that they count as clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10718258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10718258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-800x725.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, seen here in 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-800x725.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-400x362.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-1440x1304.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-1180x1069.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-960x870.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, seen here in 2009. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I still think, at the end of the day, that good public policy wins,\" said Costigan, the former Schwarzenegger-adviser-turned-lobbyist. \"Do you get the benefit of the doubt, because of a relationship, if the policy is close? Maybe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say that experienced hands can help steer all sides of complex policy debates to a successful compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are different ways to participate and have an impact,\" said Darrell Steinberg, the former leader of the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, who left office last year due to term limits, is now a partner in a law firm that touts its ability to help Fortune 500 clients navigate governmental and legal affairs in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Somebody said to me before I left,\" said Steinberg, \"that when you leave public office you lose your authority, but you don't necessarily lose your power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, though, contend that power may be a public asset that translates into personal profit. Several insiders contacted for this story said the real reason that so many influential people travel through the Capitol's revolving door is to make up for years of small salaries paid by working in state service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qA0XnM5eHIh6PbmpYGVx49Wmlavqw9cy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others dispute the allure of a bigger paycheck. Bill Emmerson made headlines in 2013 when he resigned his state Senate seat representing parts of San Bernardino County and was quickly hired as a senior vice president of the California Hospitals Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he leave for the money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" said Emmerson in an interview. \"I just have had a long history in health care policy issues, and I wanted to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits Vs. Disclosure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The existing \"revolving door\" regulations designed to lessen the private-sector benefit of public -ector experience are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-year ban on legislators or top executive branch officials covers only registered lobbying, not any number of other influential posts. Neither former senator, Steinberg nor Emmerson, is a registered lobbyist and they say they have no intention of becoming one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is no restriction on one particularly influential pool of state employees: legislative staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top aides to members of the state Assembly and Senate can, and do, move freely between their jobs in the statehouse and jobs as lobbyists, strategists and advocates. A KQED News analysis of existing staff rosters finds more than two dozen of the Legislature's most high-ranking positions -- chief of staff and top consultant to a legislative committee -- have resumes with influential stints working for labor unions, energy companies, trade associations and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That stands in contrast to \"revolving door\" regulations in local governments across the state. The city of Los Angeles imposes a two-year ban on elected officials being paid to influence a city agency. And San Francisco and Santa Clara counties impose lifetime lobbying bans for a former employee when it comes to items they worked on during their time with their county tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, though, the rules may do less to lessen the flexing of political muscle for personal profit than simple disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it comes to the revolving door, we are drawing these lines that just allow for an enormous amount of influence-peddling to still occur,\" said Loyola law professor Levinson. \"Part of this is, there is no perfect law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News producer Guy Marzorati contributed to this report. Exclusive animation by Mark Fiore.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To see other stories in the KQED News series on government influence, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/political-muscle\" target=\"_blank\">California Political Muscle homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Powerful government jobs can be steppingstones to big salaries based on all of that insider experience.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1444936885,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1257},"headData":{"title":"In Sacramento, Limits Are Few on Revolving Door Between Government and Private Jobs | KQED","description":"Powerful government jobs can be steppingstones to big salaries based on all of that insider experience.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In Sacramento, Limits Are Few on Revolving Door Between Government and Private Jobs","datePublished":"2015-10-15T07:01:34.000Z","dateModified":"2015-10-15T19:21:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10714214 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10714214","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/in-sacramento-limits-are-few-on-revolving-door-between-government-and-private-jobs/","disqusTitle":"In Sacramento, Limits Are Few on Revolving Door Between Government and Private Jobs","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/gMaWTxBDRSA","path":"/news/10714214/in-sacramento-limits-are-few-on-revolving-door-between-government-and-private-jobs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To the old saying that \"It's not what you know, it's who you know,\" there's an addendum in the world of Sacramento insiders: It's also for whom you worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more often than not in the community surrounding the state Capitol, those with real influence have worked a lot of places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this town, what's interesting is one minute you're an advocate and the next minute, you're the decision-maker,\" says Richard Costigan. \"And then you're going to rotate back out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228512601&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228512601'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costigan, a registered lobbyist and former legislative affairs secretary to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is one of countless men and women in state government circles whose influence has grown with each new job. And while that may not be unlike other walks of life, there are nonetheless rules regarding the \"revolving door\" between public and private sector employment -- rules put in place to avoid any chance that public policy decisions are tainted by undue influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is somewhat different than just a private individual changing jobs,\" said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola School of Law in Los Angeles and president of the city's ethics commission. \"The revolving door is more like a swing right now, where you can run through it pretty easily.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real question, say observers, is whether that influence should be better disclosed to the public. Unlike the private sector, where it's mainly one's Rolodex that gets packed into a moving box, public sector officials also bring with them at least some of the secret recipes into how government really works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do Existing Limits On Influence Work?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's only about three people who actually understand this stuff,\" said Gov. Jerry Brown as he signed a package of midyear budget changes on March 23, 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of the three people the governor was clearly referring to was standing beside him: his legislative affairs secretary, Gareth Elliott. It was Elliott's job to help Brown sift through hundreds of bills that would be either signed into law or vetoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10718323\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Gareth Elliott (R) hands Gov. Jerry Brown paperwork during a bill signing on March 24, 2011. A powerful lobbying firm announced Elliott would be joining their team just days after Elliott left the Brown administration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10718323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-1440x974.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BrownSigningWGareth-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gareth Elliott (R) hands Gov. Jerry Brown paperwork during a bill signing on March 24, 2011. A powerful lobbying firm announced Elliott would be joining their team just days after Elliott left the Brown administration. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A well-respected veteran adviser to Democrats in Sacramento, Elliott served as Brown's top legislative aide for almost four years. This past January, he left the administration. And like so many others in Sacramento, he became a lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing his \"extensive previous experience,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/285066381/Gareth-Elliott-Announcement\" target=\"_blank\">partners in the powerful lobbying firm Sacramento Advocates issued a press release within days announcing that Elliott would be joining their firm\u003c/a> -- a firm, said the statement, \"whose clients have long included some of the nation's largest and most widely recognized businesses, trade associations and non-profit entities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott did not respond to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while state regulations require a one-year ban on lobbying for the state's highest-ranking officials -- legislators, agency secretaries and top gubernatorial aides -- the restriction is limited only to lobbying the branch of government for which the ex-employee used to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, a former adviser to a governor can immediately lobby the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's certainly an indication that the restrictions aren't particularly stringent,\" said Loyola Law School's Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does The Former Job Help? Maybe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half-dozen former legislators or top government officials were contacted for this story, and most declined to speak about their transitions from public to private sector work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who did disputed any assertion that their inside expertise led to significant victories for the interest groups that they count as clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10718258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10718258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-800x725.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, seen here in 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-800x725.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-400x362.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-1440x1304.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-1180x1069.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Steinberg-960x870.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, seen here in 2009. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I still think, at the end of the day, that good public policy wins,\" said Costigan, the former Schwarzenegger-adviser-turned-lobbyist. \"Do you get the benefit of the doubt, because of a relationship, if the policy is close? Maybe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say that experienced hands can help steer all sides of complex policy debates to a successful compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are different ways to participate and have an impact,\" said Darrell Steinberg, the former leader of the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, who left office last year due to term limits, is now a partner in a law firm that touts its ability to help Fortune 500 clients navigate governmental and legal affairs in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Somebody said to me before I left,\" said Steinberg, \"that when you leave public office you lose your authority, but you don't necessarily lose your power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, though, contend that power may be a public asset that translates into personal profit. Several insiders contacted for this story said the real reason that so many influential people travel through the Capitol's revolving door is to make up for years of small salaries paid by working in state service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others dispute the allure of a bigger paycheck. Bill Emmerson made headlines in 2013 when he resigned his state Senate seat representing parts of San Bernardino County and was quickly hired as a senior vice president of the California Hospitals Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he leave for the money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" said Emmerson in an interview. \"I just have had a long history in health care policy issues, and I wanted to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits Vs. Disclosure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The existing \"revolving door\" regulations designed to lessen the private-sector benefit of public -ector experience are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-year ban on legislators or top executive branch officials covers only registered lobbying, not any number of other influential posts. Neither former senator, Steinberg nor Emmerson, is a registered lobbyist and they say they have no intention of becoming one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is no restriction on one particularly influential pool of state employees: legislative staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top aides to members of the state Assembly and Senate can, and do, move freely between their jobs in the statehouse and jobs as lobbyists, strategists and advocates. A KQED News analysis of existing staff rosters finds more than two dozen of the Legislature's most high-ranking positions -- chief of staff and top consultant to a legislative committee -- have resumes with influential stints working for labor unions, energy companies, trade associations and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That stands in contrast to \"revolving door\" regulations in local governments across the state. The city of Los Angeles imposes a two-year ban on elected officials being paid to influence a city agency. And San Francisco and Santa Clara counties impose lifetime lobbying bans for a former employee when it comes to items they worked on during their time with their county tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, though, the rules may do less to lessen the flexing of political muscle for personal profit than simple disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it comes to the revolving door, we are drawing these lines that just allow for an enormous amount of influence-peddling to still occur,\" said Loyola law professor Levinson. \"Part of this is, there is no perfect law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News producer Guy Marzorati contributed to this report. Exclusive animation by Mark Fiore.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To see other stories in the KQED News series on government influence, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/political-muscle\" target=\"_blank\">California Political Muscle homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10714214/in-sacramento-limits-are-few-on-revolving-door-between-government-and-private-jobs","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051","news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_17955"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_17599","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10717218","label":"news_72"},"news_10713907":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10713907","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10713907","score":null,"sort":[1444539322000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"governors-vetoes-poke-lawmakers-on-special-session-failure","title":"Governor's Vetoes Poke Lawmakers On Special Session Failure","publishDate":1444539322,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In a series of bundled vetoes, Gov. Jerry Brown sent a hard-to-miss weekend message to state legislators: You dropped the ball before leaving Sacramento for 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown took action on 80 bills on Saturday, signing landmark legislation on everything from \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-gov-brown-on-motor-voter-bill-20150917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">voter registration\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/10/california-now-has-strictest-limits-in-u-s-on-livestock-antibiotics/\" target=\"_blank\">farm animal antibiotics\u003c/a>. But in a handful of vetoes, the governor quickly brushed aside efforts by Democrats in the California Legislature that he contended were fiscally unwise in light of a big item left on their legislative to-do list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That item is the crafting of a replacement for the state's existing tax on managed-care plans that participate in the Medi-Cal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, federal officials decreed that California's managed care organizations (MCO) tax will no longer be allowed after 2016, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/capitol-desk/2015/2/lao-report-state-could-lose-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\">analysts have warned that failing to restructure the tax could result in a loss of some important federal Medicaid funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reworking the MCO tax proved to be no easy task this summer, even after the governor called \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/6.16.15_Health_Care_Special_Session.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a special legislative session to deal with the issue\u003c/a>. New taxes require a supermajority vote of both legislative houses, and Republicans were in no mood to put up the necessary votes on the MCO tax -- \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/17/tricky-tax-timing-for-state-lawmakers-to-fund-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">even when Democrats attempted to link the tax to programs that GOP legislators supported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of whether that inaction represented a failure on the part of Democrats or a fact of life when it comes to bipartisan tax votes, Brown pointed to the MCO tax standoff as the reason he vetoed 15 separate bills on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the extension of the managed care organization tax that I called for in special session,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_515_Veto_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Brown\u003c/a>, \"next year's budget faces the prospect of over $1 billion in cuts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228082664\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor vetoed bills related not just to Medi-Cal, but also to a handful of new tax credits Democrats hoped to put on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those tax breaks included incentives on creating low-income housing, increasing food bank donations, and more. While rarely talked about during legislative debates extolling their virtues, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20150428/legislators-seek-even-more-tax-breaks-dan-walters\" target=\"_blank\">tax credits nonetheless reduce the revenues that come in to state coffers\u003c/a>. And Brown was all too happy to point that out in a blanket veto message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot support providing additional tax credits that will make balancing the the state's budget even more difficult,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other blanket veto came on bills directly related to Medi-Cal, including ones that would have added new health benefits for California's working poor. They included a program to kick tobacco addiction, home visitation programs for pregnant women or new parents, and a new Medi-Cal reimbursement system for rural health clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats and activists grumbled about the vetoes on Saturday, especially when it came to Brown's rejection of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_35_bill_20150914_enrolled.htm\" target=\"_blank\">five-year, $100 million annual expansion of an existing low-income housing tax credit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This investment would have produced thousands of badly needed affordable units for our workforce, created thousands of well-paying jobs, and also brought $200 million more in federal resources to our state each year,\" said Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, in a statement. \"I am deeply disappointed we will not realize these benefits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Pearl, executive director of the nonpartisan California Housing Consortium, was more blunt: \"Affordable home builders in the state are dismayed by this shortsighted decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing tax credit, in particular, was sent to the governor's desk on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_35_vote_20150912_1200AM_asm_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">a unanimous vote in the Assembly\u003c/a> and a near-unanimous vote in the Senate. But in a state Capitol \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/California-governor-s-unchecked-veto-power-6561686.php\" target=\"_blank\">where veto overrides have been nonexistent for decades\u003c/a>, Brown's singular voice has the final say. And fiscal prudence, at least in the way he defines it, has been the governor's constant rallying cry since returning to the statehouse in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Brown vetoes bills he says the state can't afford until lawmakers rework a tax on managed-care plans.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1444699323,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":671},"headData":{"title":"Governor's Vetoes Poke Lawmakers On Special Session Failure | KQED","description":"Brown vetoes bills he says the state can't afford until lawmakers rework a tax on managed-care plans.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Governor's Vetoes Poke Lawmakers On Special Session Failure","datePublished":"2015-10-11T04:55:22.000Z","dateModified":"2015-10-13T01:22:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10713907 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10713907","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/10/governors-vetoes-poke-lawmakers-on-special-session-failure/","disqusTitle":"Governor's Vetoes Poke Lawmakers On Special Session Failure","path":"/news/10713907/governors-vetoes-poke-lawmakers-on-special-session-failure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a series of bundled vetoes, Gov. Jerry Brown sent a hard-to-miss weekend message to state legislators: You dropped the ball before leaving Sacramento for 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown took action on 80 bills on Saturday, signing landmark legislation on everything from \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-gov-brown-on-motor-voter-bill-20150917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">voter registration\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/10/california-now-has-strictest-limits-in-u-s-on-livestock-antibiotics/\" target=\"_blank\">farm animal antibiotics\u003c/a>. But in a handful of vetoes, the governor quickly brushed aside efforts by Democrats in the California Legislature that he contended were fiscally unwise in light of a big item left on their legislative to-do list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That item is the crafting of a replacement for the state's existing tax on managed-care plans that participate in the Medi-Cal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, federal officials decreed that California's managed care organizations (MCO) tax will no longer be allowed after 2016, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/capitol-desk/2015/2/lao-report-state-could-lose-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\">analysts have warned that failing to restructure the tax could result in a loss of some important federal Medicaid funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reworking the MCO tax proved to be no easy task this summer, even after the governor called \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/6.16.15_Health_Care_Special_Session.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a special legislative session to deal with the issue\u003c/a>. New taxes require a supermajority vote of both legislative houses, and Republicans were in no mood to put up the necessary votes on the MCO tax -- \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/17/tricky-tax-timing-for-state-lawmakers-to-fund-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">even when Democrats attempted to link the tax to programs that GOP legislators supported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of whether that inaction represented a failure on the part of Democrats or a fact of life when it comes to bipartisan tax votes, Brown pointed to the MCO tax standoff as the reason he vetoed 15 separate bills on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the extension of the managed care organization tax that I called for in special session,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_515_Veto_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Brown\u003c/a>, \"next year's budget faces the prospect of over $1 billion in cuts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228082664&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228082664'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor vetoed bills related not just to Medi-Cal, but also to a handful of new tax credits Democrats hoped to put on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those tax breaks included incentives on creating low-income housing, increasing food bank donations, and more. While rarely talked about during legislative debates extolling their virtues, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20150428/legislators-seek-even-more-tax-breaks-dan-walters\" target=\"_blank\">tax credits nonetheless reduce the revenues that come in to state coffers\u003c/a>. And Brown was all too happy to point that out in a blanket veto message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot support providing additional tax credits that will make balancing the the state's budget even more difficult,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other blanket veto came on bills directly related to Medi-Cal, including ones that would have added new health benefits for California's working poor. They included a program to kick tobacco addiction, home visitation programs for pregnant women or new parents, and a new Medi-Cal reimbursement system for rural health clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats and activists grumbled about the vetoes on Saturday, especially when it came to Brown's rejection of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_35_bill_20150914_enrolled.htm\" target=\"_blank\">five-year, $100 million annual expansion of an existing low-income housing tax credit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This investment would have produced thousands of badly needed affordable units for our workforce, created thousands of well-paying jobs, and also brought $200 million more in federal resources to our state each year,\" said Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, in a statement. \"I am deeply disappointed we will not realize these benefits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Pearl, executive director of the nonpartisan California Housing Consortium, was more blunt: \"Affordable home builders in the state are dismayed by this shortsighted decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing tax credit, in particular, was sent to the governor's desk on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_35_vote_20150912_1200AM_asm_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">a unanimous vote in the Assembly\u003c/a> and a near-unanimous vote in the Senate. 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Jerry Brown has decided the fate of hundreds of bills in recent weeks as he stares down a Sunday deadline to either sign or veto legislation passed prior to the finish of the 2015 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Penny Nelson sat down with California politics and government reporter Marisa Lagos to discuss some of the week's most notable decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227718194\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bills:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB358\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 358\u003c/a>, known as the Fair Pay Act, which \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\">gives the state the strongest equal pay laws in the nation.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>, the year's landmark climate change legislation; backers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\">had to strip one of the bill's most high profile oil provisions \u003c/a>but it still sets ambitious renewable energy goals.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>, which greatly expands the amount of racial and other demographic information police officers must collect in an attempt to better understand racial profiling among law enforcement in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>, which expands warrant requirements for searches to cell phones, computers and other electronics.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. 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