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"content": "\u003cp>Are you a liberal Democrat who supports increased welfare payments or expanded access to subsidized child care or paid family leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your best bet may just be to frame it as gender issue -- not a way to fight poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the tactic many Democrats in the California Legislature are taking this year as they push bills that, in many cases, have failed in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ange-mariehancock.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Ange-Marie Hancock\u003c/a>, a professor of political science and gender studies at the University of Southern California, said it's a pretty smart approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's really a sense that there's not a lot of space in the public discourse for structural anti-poverty policies,\" she said, \"so I think female candidates and elected officials are making a calculation that they are not going to get these policies through if they are framed as a poverty issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"They have a better shot at things politically, particularly with Republicans and independents, if they frame these as gender equality issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, female lawmakers -- including Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) -- held a news conference to push \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/03/24/ca-bills-target-gender-pay-gaps-child-care/\" target=\"_blank\">a package of bills\u003c/a> touted as the \"women’s economic security agenda.\" They include measures to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_23_bill_20141201_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">repeal a decades-old law\u003c/a> that prohibits families on public assistance who have another child from receiving more aid (the so-called welfare-queen law); a proposal to expand access to state-subsidized child care and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_548_bill_20150226_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">give child care providers bargaining rights\u003c/a>; one that aims to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0351-0400/sb_358_bill_20150224_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">narrow the gender pay gap\u003c/a>; and legislation to require large retailers to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_357_bill_20150325_amended_asm_v97.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">give blue-collar workers more predictable schedules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0901-0950/ab_908_bill_20150318_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">proposing an expansion\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://m.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/03/24/california-bill-would-boost-paid-family-leave-to.html?r=full\" target=\"_blank\">California's paid family leave policies \u003c/a>. (Nationally, the White House is also \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/16/obama-tackles-americas-lack-of-sick-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\">talking about\u003c/a> the issue -- largely in the context of paid family leave, which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/16/us-stands-alone-on-lack-of-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">United States lacks\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They have a better shot at things politically, particularly with Republicans and independents, if they frame these as gender equality issues.'\u003ccite>Ange-Marie Hancock,\u003cbr>USC professor of political science\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of these are not new ideas. State Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), for example, has repeatedly tried to repeal the law limiting public assistance to families with new kids. But in the past, \u003ca href=\"http://sd30.senate.ca.gov/news/press-releases/2013-05-30-assembly-passes-holly-mitchells-repeal-cap-family-aid\" target=\"_blank\">she's pushed it as a poverty-fighting measure\u003c/a>, not a gender equality issue -- same as with child care access and other programs and policies near and dear to Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take how Atkins framed the package last week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-california-womens-caucus-pay-equity-child-care-poverty-20150324-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>: “Women continue to increase our role and our impact on our economy. ... It’s vital we pursue the policies that help ensure opportunity and equality. These actions will help more California women not only participate in the economic recovery but also in building our economic future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not just about gender -- it's also about how that issue intersects with California's economic strength, something that may resonate more with moderate Democrats, independents and even some Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC's Hancock said some social issues, like reproductive rights, are at play, too. While politicians have taken for granted that support or opposition to something like access to abortion is split along party lines, it actually isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you look at reproductive health policies, there are broad cross sections politically, and among religious groups, that support them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hancock has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ange-mariehancock.com/the-politics-of-disgust/\" target=\"_blank\">written extensively\u003c/a> about the \"welfare queen\" debate -- which led to huge reforms and cutbacks at the national level in 1996. And while things aren't changing overnight (after all, we still get treated to disingenuous debates over whether \"feminism\" \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/time-apologizes-for-including-feminist-on-list-of-wo-1659418745\">is a bad word\u003c/a>), Hancock said that men and women alike do seem to be giving more credence to real gender disparities, and not just in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, there was the Ellen Pao discrimination case, which was covered breathlessly by both tech and mainstream media and by most accounts has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silicon-valley-trial-20150326-story.html?track=rss#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">at least prompted discussion\u003c/a> of the huge gender gaps in Silicon Valley. Before that, there was tech executive Sheryl Sandberg's \u003ca href=\"http://leanin.org/book/\" target=\"_blank\">wildly successful book\u003c/a> on women and the workforce; and Anne-Marie Slaughter's 2012 Atlantic article, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Women Still Can't Have it All\u003c/a>.\" In short, said Hancock, all were serious debates about gender inequities that were mainstream, particularly among middle- and upper-class women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who else is talking about it? Presumed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who recently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/24/hillary-clinton-takes-on-gender-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">put the issue front and center\u003c/a> at a Silicon Valley talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hancock said that's wildly different than in 2008, when Clinton avoided these issues as a presidential candidate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"They have a better shot at things politically, particularly with Republicans and independents, if they frame these as gender equality issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, female lawmakers -- including Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) -- held a news conference to push \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/03/24/ca-bills-target-gender-pay-gaps-child-care/\" target=\"_blank\">a package of bills\u003c/a> touted as the \"women’s economic security agenda.\" They include measures to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_23_bill_20141201_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">repeal a decades-old law\u003c/a> that prohibits families on public assistance who have another child from receiving more aid (the so-called welfare-queen law); a proposal to expand access to state-subsidized child care and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_548_bill_20150226_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">give child care providers bargaining rights\u003c/a>; one that aims to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0351-0400/sb_358_bill_20150224_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">narrow the gender pay gap\u003c/a>; and legislation to require large retailers to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_357_bill_20150325_amended_asm_v97.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">give blue-collar workers more predictable schedules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0901-0950/ab_908_bill_20150318_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">proposing an expansion\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://m.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/03/24/california-bill-would-boost-paid-family-leave-to.html?r=full\" target=\"_blank\">California's paid family leave policies \u003c/a>. (Nationally, the White House is also \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/16/obama-tackles-americas-lack-of-sick-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\">talking about\u003c/a> the issue -- largely in the context of paid family leave, which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/16/us-stands-alone-on-lack-of-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">United States lacks\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They have a better shot at things politically, particularly with Republicans and independents, if they frame these as gender equality issues.'\u003ccite>Ange-Marie Hancock,\u003cbr>USC professor of political science\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of these are not new ideas. State Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), for example, has repeatedly tried to repeal the law limiting public assistance to families with new kids. But in the past, \u003ca href=\"http://sd30.senate.ca.gov/news/press-releases/2013-05-30-assembly-passes-holly-mitchells-repeal-cap-family-aid\" target=\"_blank\">she's pushed it as a poverty-fighting measure\u003c/a>, not a gender equality issue -- same as with child care access and other programs and policies near and dear to Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take how Atkins framed the package last week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-california-womens-caucus-pay-equity-child-care-poverty-20150324-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>: “Women continue to increase our role and our impact on our economy. ... It’s vital we pursue the policies that help ensure opportunity and equality. These actions will help more California women not only participate in the economic recovery but also in building our economic future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not just about gender -- it's also about how that issue intersects with California's economic strength, something that may resonate more with moderate Democrats, independents and even some Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC's Hancock said some social issues, like reproductive rights, are at play, too. While politicians have taken for granted that support or opposition to something like access to abortion is split along party lines, it actually isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you look at reproductive health policies, there are broad cross sections politically, and among religious groups, that support them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hancock has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ange-mariehancock.com/the-politics-of-disgust/\" target=\"_blank\">written extensively\u003c/a> about the \"welfare queen\" debate -- which led to huge reforms and cutbacks at the national level in 1996. And while things aren't changing overnight (after all, we still get treated to disingenuous debates over whether \"feminism\" \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/time-apologizes-for-including-feminist-on-list-of-wo-1659418745\">is a bad word\u003c/a>), Hancock said that men and women alike do seem to be giving more credence to real gender disparities, and not just in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, there was the Ellen Pao discrimination case, which was covered breathlessly by both tech and mainstream media and by most accounts has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silicon-valley-trial-20150326-story.html?track=rss#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">at least prompted discussion\u003c/a> of the huge gender gaps in Silicon Valley. Before that, there was tech executive Sheryl Sandberg's \u003ca href=\"http://leanin.org/book/\" target=\"_blank\">wildly successful book\u003c/a> on women and the workforce; and Anne-Marie Slaughter's 2012 Atlantic article, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Women Still Can't Have it All\u003c/a>.\" In short, said Hancock, all were serious debates about gender inequities that were mainstream, particularly among middle- and upper-class women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who else is talking about it? Presumed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who recently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/24/hillary-clinton-takes-on-gender-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">put the issue front and center\u003c/a> at a Silicon Valley talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hancock said that's wildly different than in 2008, when Clinton avoided these issues as a presidential candidate. 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So, too, is the relative political strength of young voters and millions of middle-to-low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some exceptions, it's still true that the voters who cast ballots in California are older, whiter and richer than the state as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent PPIC poll, \u003ca href=\"http://ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1143\" target=\"_blank\">published just last week\u003c/a>, offers new evidence of how potentially robust some political debates could be in California ... if only the pool of likely voters grew to include some new voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colleges Or Debt For Surplus Tax Dollars?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the issue of California's currently flush government finances, and whether elected officials -- if they had the flexibility -- should push more dollars into debt repayment or restoring recent cuts to higher education funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC found a 17-point advantage among all adults (56 percent to 39 percent) for boosting higher education rather than paying down debt. But among the subset of likely voters, it's a split decision (47 percent to 48 percent, respectively). 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Examine the question by household income and, again, the same split: much stronger support for increased higher education funding for those making up to $80,000 a year, while a split decision among those who earn more than $80,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Likely Voters: Less Likely To Like What They See From Government\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, the fascinating -- and troubling -- part of all of this is how the opinions of \u003cem>likely voters\u003c/em>, those who frequently cast ballots in California elections, mirror the views of those who are older, more wealthy, and white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit, a few more findings from the most recent poll:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> White Californians generally believe their state tax burden is higher than it should be, while Latinos mostly see it as about the right amount\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Californians age 55 and older are much more likely to oppose any extension of the income and sales tax increases approved by voters in 2012; younger voters either support an extension (ages 18-34) or are split on the idea (ages 35-54)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked whether high-speed rail is important \"for the future quality of life and economic vitality of California,\" whites (21 percent) seem noticeably more blase than do Latinos (31 percent), Asians (38 percent) and black residents (38 percent)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"When we look across the racial and ethnic communities of California,\" says PPIC's Baldassare, \"there's a strong desire to invest more, a strong belief that we need more for a better future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's where the issue becomes very real: The electorate in California, a place home to more Americans than any other state, has been shrinking of late. 2014 saw \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/california-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought/\" target=\"_blank\">the lowest turnout elections on record\u003c/a>, with a myriad of reasons being offered, but particularly disturbing apathy among some of these key demographics. Even when measured against \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-pages/15day-general-2014/hist-reg-stats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overall voter registration\u003c/a>, some 6.5 million Californians seem uninterested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Those registration numbers could change under a new effort by a San Diego assemblymember and Secretary of State Alex Padilla to \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/26/us-usa-california-voter-idUSKBN0MM30W20150326\" target=\"_blank\">follow the lead of Oregon and create automatic voter registration when obtaining a driver's license\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no state is likely well served by this kind of schism between its voters and its residents, it seems particularly troubling for California. After all, few states have as robust a system of direct democracy -- laws in California are often enacted by voters, not legislators. 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"content": "\u003cp>History books are filled with patriotic prose about how a generation of Californians, fighting back against wealthy political powers, embraced the idea of circumventing elected officials in favor of laws written by citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great system, you say? Sometimes. One with unintended consequences? Sometimes. One that needs fixing? Good question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's a question now being asked with real intensity, in light of a troubling proposal that one Californian says voters should enact in November 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.iandrinstitute.org/California.htm\" target=\"_blank\">history of ballot initiatives\u003c/a> -- one of three forms of direct democracy swept into existence in California in 1911 -- is rooted in the belief that citizens, not elected officials, often know what's best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do give to the electorate the power of action when desired,\" said Gov. Hiram Johnson in promoting the initiative, referendum and recall in \u003ca href=\"http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/23-hjohnson01.html\" target=\"_blank\">his 1911 inaugural address\u003c/a>. \"And they do place in the hands of the people the means by which they may protect themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process by which initiatives become California law has remained mostly unchanged for more than a century, but it has not been completely sacrosanct. Some of the rules have evolved, and one big factor in the process changes every four years: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/12-might-california-low-voter-turnout-spark-2016-initiative-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">the threshold for an initiative to actually get on the ballot\u003c/a>. (But more on that in a moment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, politicians and citizen groups alike have generally hewed to the notion that the 1911 state constitutional amendment forbids too much tinkering. Which brings us to the growing outrage over \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0008%20%28Sodomy%29_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">an initiative submitted for consideration on Feb. 26\u003c/a> by a Huntington Beach attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, his proposed law is shocking, laid out in just 43 words:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\"The People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.\"\u003c/i>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Those words have become the subject of intense scrutiny, both in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15513962.html\" target=\"_blank\">state\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2015/3/22/8270411/california-lgbt-executions\" target=\"_blank\">national\u003c/a> media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-10463934 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini-400x252.png\" alt=\"ini\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini-400x252.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini-320x201.png 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">But the author of the self-proclaimed \"Sodomite Suppression Act,\" Matt McLaughlin, has gone radio silent when reporters have tried to contact him for comment. Other than \u003ca href=\"http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/198329\" target=\"_blank\">the fact that he's been a licensed attorney for 16 years\u003c/a> and professed the impact of the Bible on his life in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/12/local/me-bibleman12\" target=\"_blank\">a 2004 newspaper story (about another unusual initiative he had written)\u003c/a>, McLaughlin is pretty much a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/california-state-bar-disbar-matthew-gregory-mclaughlin-198329?recruiter=1686836&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive\" target=\"_blank\">intense effort is now underway to have him disbarred\u003c/a>, while groups across the political spectrum have criticized or condemned his proposal. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/20/california-politics-podcast-the-drought-dilemma/\" target=\"_blank\">And as we discussed on last week's California Politics Podcast\u003c/a>, there's certainly the potential that the more oxygen the story gets, the more brightly the flame burns on promoting an extremist point of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Change The System? If So, How?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the better question may be whether there's anything that it should spark in the way of changes to California's initiative process. There have been nips and tucks made over the years, but the fundamentals have remained pretty constant: drafting the proposed law, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/11-0069%20%28i1012_11-0069_%28equality_in_legislature%29%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">even if it's in your own handwriting\u003c/a>; handing over $200 to the state attorney general's office; and then gathering the signatures of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not easy to clear that last hurdle. Since January 2012, there have been 105 proposed initiatives submitted for a formal title and summary, but only 16 that have made it to the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/03/19/shoot-the-gays-initiative-apparently-headed-for-circulation/\" target=\"_blank\">some have demanded otherwise when it comes to McLaughlin's anti-gay proposal\u003c/a>, there's nothing in the law that gives state Attorney General Kamala Harris the power to block a measure she -- or anyone -- deems a mistake. If anything, the clamor over the years has been for a smaller, not larger, role by the attorney general. Critics have often lobbed accusations that \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/26/opinion/la-ed-ballot-titles-20131226\" target=\"_blank\">the official titles and summaries drafted by attorneys general can be crafted to suit one political position or another\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been many other ideas, too, including more legislative power over initiatives. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/27/big-changes-to-california-initiative-process-signed-by-jerry-brown/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown made a few notable changes\u003c/a> (including a new public comment period that's the focus of calls for action by opponents of this initiative). But the long-standing maxim is that giving elected officials more power over the initiative process would conflict with the basic tenets of a system designed to be \u003cem>independent\u003c/em> of elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will The Anti-Gay Initiative Spark A Broader Effort?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one observer says the furor over the anti-gay initiative should lead to an important change in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you are taking away fundamental human rights -- as in the right to live -- it is appropriate to give our public officials a formal exception that they can invoke to block an initiative that violates fundamental human rights,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/03/harris-should-not-circulate-the-sodomite-suppression-act-to-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote political journalist Joe Mathews in an online column on Monday\u003c/a>. Mathews argued that even without such a change to the system, Attorney General Harris should test the existing legal boundaries by refusing to process this initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No doubt there could be a political upside to such action (especially for someone running for statewide office in 2016); but others may worry about ensuing legal precedents that could impact other, less black-and-white, initiative proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say the state could discourage frivolous proposals by hiking the $200 fee charged to file an initiative, though that could also enrage those who already feel as though the system favors influential interests over grass-roots groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line is that unusual -- often unworkable, illegal or downright odd -- initiatives are often submitted for review and circulation. A sampling of the more colorful ideas in recent years:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/10-0019%20%28i925_initiative_10-0019%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">ban on all divorces\u003c/a> in California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/09-0014%20%28i811_initiative_09-0014%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">Mandatory drug testing\u003c/a> for members of the Legislature\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A exemption for \"\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/10-0022%20%28i928_initiative_10-0022_1%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">speech based on biblical authority\u003c/a>\" from being subject to discrimination and hate crime laws\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/11-0014%20%28i945_initiative_11-0014%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">ban on banks foreclosing\u003c/a> on any California homeowner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Establishing \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/09-0030%20%28i827_initiative_09-0030%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">a new right to play Christmas music\u003c/a> in California schools\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In case you missed it: None of these ever happened. In fact, none of the backers even submitted signatures from California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, what sets these proposed laws apart from the current proposal is the idea of legalized, vigilante violence against one group of California men and women. But like other far-flung proposals, the real limitation is the support of other voters -- their signatures on an initiative petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's now easier than it's been in decades to qualify an initiative (fewer signatures and a slightly longer time to gather them), it's still a very high hurdle unless you've got a lot of money or a well-organized and large army of volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiative proponent Matthew McLaughlin seems to have neither, no doubt something that his critics are privately breathing a sign of relief over ... even as they insist his proposal is a wake-up call for a system in need of change.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Which brings us to the growing outrage over \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0008%20%28Sodomy%29_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">an initiative submitted for consideration on Feb. 26\u003c/a> by a Huntington Beach attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, his proposed law is shocking, laid out in just 43 words:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\"The People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.\"\u003c/i>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Those words have become the subject of intense scrutiny, both in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15513962.html\" target=\"_blank\">state\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2015/3/22/8270411/california-lgbt-executions\" target=\"_blank\">national\u003c/a> media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-10463934 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini-400x252.png\" alt=\"ini\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini-400x252.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini-320x201.png 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ini.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">But the author of the self-proclaimed \"Sodomite Suppression Act,\" Matt McLaughlin, has gone radio silent when reporters have tried to contact him for comment. 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If So, How?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the better question may be whether there's anything that it should spark in the way of changes to California's initiative process. There have been nips and tucks made over the years, but the fundamentals have remained pretty constant: drafting the proposed law, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/11-0069%20%28i1012_11-0069_%28equality_in_legislature%29%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">even if it's in your own handwriting\u003c/a>; handing over $200 to the state attorney general's office; and then gathering the signatures of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not easy to clear that last hurdle. Since January 2012, there have been 105 proposed initiatives submitted for a formal title and summary, but only 16 that have made it to the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/03/19/shoot-the-gays-initiative-apparently-headed-for-circulation/\" target=\"_blank\">some have demanded otherwise when it comes to McLaughlin's anti-gay proposal\u003c/a>, there's nothing in the law that gives state Attorney General Kamala Harris the power to block a measure she -- or anyone -- deems a mistake. If anything, the clamor over the years has been for a smaller, not larger, role by the attorney general. Critics have often lobbed accusations that \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/26/opinion/la-ed-ballot-titles-20131226\" target=\"_blank\">the official titles and summaries drafted by attorneys general can be crafted to suit one political position or another\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been many other ideas, too, including more legislative power over initiatives. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/27/big-changes-to-california-initiative-process-signed-by-jerry-brown/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown made a few notable changes\u003c/a> (including a new public comment period that's the focus of calls for action by opponents of this initiative). But the long-standing maxim is that giving elected officials more power over the initiative process would conflict with the basic tenets of a system designed to be \u003cem>independent\u003c/em> of elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will The Anti-Gay Initiative Spark A Broader Effort?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one observer says the furor over the anti-gay initiative should lead to an important change in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you are taking away fundamental human rights -- as in the right to live -- it is appropriate to give our public officials a formal exception that they can invoke to block an initiative that violates fundamental human rights,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/03/harris-should-not-circulate-the-sodomite-suppression-act-to-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote political journalist Joe Mathews in an online column on Monday\u003c/a>. Mathews argued that even without such a change to the system, Attorney General Harris should test the existing legal boundaries by refusing to process this initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No doubt there could be a political upside to such action (especially for someone running for statewide office in 2016); but others may worry about ensuing legal precedents that could impact other, less black-and-white, initiative proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say the state could discourage frivolous proposals by hiking the $200 fee charged to file an initiative, though that could also enrage those who already feel as though the system favors influential interests over grass-roots groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line is that unusual -- often unworkable, illegal or downright odd -- initiatives are often submitted for review and circulation. A sampling of the more colorful ideas in recent years:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/10-0019%20%28i925_initiative_10-0019%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">ban on all divorces\u003c/a> in California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/09-0014%20%28i811_initiative_09-0014%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">Mandatory drug testing\u003c/a> for members of the Legislature\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A exemption for \"\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/10-0022%20%28i928_initiative_10-0022_1%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">speech based on biblical authority\u003c/a>\" from being subject to discrimination and hate crime laws\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/11-0014%20%28i945_initiative_11-0014%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">ban on banks foreclosing\u003c/a> on any California homeowner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Establishing \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/09-0030%20%28i827_initiative_09-0030%29.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">a new right to play Christmas music\u003c/a> in California schools\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In case you missed it: None of these ever happened. In fact, none of the backers even submitted signatures from California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, what sets these proposed laws apart from the current proposal is the idea of legalized, vigilante violence against one group of California men and women. But like other far-flung proposals, the real limitation is the support of other voters -- their signatures on an initiative petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's now easier than it's been in decades to qualify an initiative (fewer signatures and a slightly longer time to gather them), it's still a very high hurdle unless you've got a lot of money or a well-organized and large army of volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gary Hart has been around California politics long enough to know that legislators skilled at navigating the status quo can be suspicious of change, and so he wasn't surprised at the 2014 reaction to his call for abolishing special elections to fill legislative vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of this epidemic of special elections, we have legislators who are the \u003ci>product\u003c/i> of special elections,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_K._Hart\" target=\"_blank\">Hart\u003c/a>, a former state education secretary who himself spent 20 years in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet Hart insists that the existing system -- special elections like those being held today in three state Senate districts -- has worn out its welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196320437\" 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>\"When you have all these special elections,\" said Hart in a recent interview, \"it really gets in the way of what the Legislature is about for most of the year -- which is governing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a myriad of reasons, there is very little that's \"special\" about special elections these days in California. In fact, they've become quite commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Votes Cast, Many Months of Waiting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/special-elections/pdf/ca-special-elections-history.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">election records\u003c/a> make the point quite dramatically: 33 special state legislative or congressional elections since 2009 -- more than the entire previous decade, and on par to surpass those held in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes the three state Senate special elections being held today: one \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/special-elections/2015-sd37/\" target=\"_blank\">in Orange County\u003c/a>; one in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/special-elections/2015-sd21/\" target=\"_blank\">a district encompassing parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties\u003c/a>; and one in the East Bay that features \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/12/will-republicans-decide-east-bay-democratic-senate-slugfest/\" target=\"_blank\">a three-way Democratic slugfest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the elections are consolidated -- that is, run concurrently -- with regularly scheduled elections. 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The governor already has that power to fill any vacancy that should occur in the U.S. Senate, in a statewide office or on a county board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Vacancies in the U.S. House of Representatives are required by federal law to be filled by a special election.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SCA16, which was introduced by former Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), added two additional checks on the power of a governor: It allowed members of the chamber where the vacancy occurs to block the appointment; and it required a governor to appoint someone of the same political party as the former lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither of those constraints exist in the power over other vacancy appointments. In fact, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18877\" target=\"_blank\">tapped a Democrat for a seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors on March 4\u003c/a> to replace a Republican elected to the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposal was met with skepticism under the state Capitol dome, especially by those who argued that even tepid voter participation is better than none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think I would have been appointed to this position, to be frank with you,\" said Norma Torres, then a state senator and chair of the Senate elections committee, during an April 2014 legislative hearing. Torres won a special Senate election in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Last fall, she was elected to Congress.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shouldn't The State Foot the Cost?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the elections are here to stay, then others say the least the state can do is to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite a burden,\" said Assemblywoman Ling-Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang has introduced the latest version of a bill that's been floating around Sacramento for several years: to mandate that the state, not counties, pick up the tab for special elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the way it worked prior to 2007, when state lawmakers started trimming expenses in the wake of tough economic times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the elections have kept coming. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gary Hart has been around California politics long enough to know that legislators skilled at navigating the status quo can be suspicious of change, and so he wasn't surprised at the 2014 reaction to his call for abolishing special elections to fill legislative vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of this epidemic of special elections, we have legislators who are the \u003ci>product\u003c/i> of special elections,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_K._Hart\" target=\"_blank\">Hart\u003c/a>, a former state education secretary who himself spent 20 years in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet Hart insists that the existing system -- special elections like those being held today in three state Senate districts -- has worn out its welcome.\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/196320437&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/196320437'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have all these special elections,\" said Hart in a recent interview, \"it really gets in the way of what the Legislature is about for most of the year -- which is governing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In fact, they've become quite commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Votes Cast, Many Months of Waiting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/special-elections/pdf/ca-special-elections-history.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">election records\u003c/a> make the point quite dramatically: 33 special state legislative or congressional elections since 2009 -- more than the entire previous decade, and on par to surpass those held in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes the three state Senate special elections being held today: one \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/special-elections/2015-sd37/\" target=\"_blank\">in Orange County\u003c/a>; one in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/special-elections/2015-sd21/\" target=\"_blank\">a district encompassing parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties\u003c/a>; and one in the East Bay that features \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/12/will-republicans-decide-east-bay-democratic-senate-slugfest/\" target=\"_blank\">a three-way Democratic slugfest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the elections are consolidated -- that is, run concurrently -- with regularly scheduled elections. 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Torres won a special Senate election in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Last fall, she was elected to Congress.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shouldn't The State Foot the Cost?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the elections are here to stay, then others say the least the state can do is to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's quite a burden,\" said Assemblywoman Ling-Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang has introduced the latest version of a bill that's been floating around Sacramento for several years: to mandate that the state, not counties, pick up the tab for special elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the way it worked prior to 2007, when state lawmakers started trimming expenses in the wake of tough economic times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the elections have kept coming. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are probably only two things you really need to know about the notion of Gov. Jerry Brown -- a man afflicted three times with nasty bouts of what's called \"\u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/potomac+fever\" target=\"_blank\">Potomac Fever\u003c/a>\" -- running for president in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, that it's a great political parlor game; and second, that it's the kind of game he must love by always leaving the door ever so slightly open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did a reasonably good job of throwing cold water on the idea on Friday during the first of two days in Washington, D.C. The governor met with federal officials at the White House to talk about President Obama's hotly debated executive order on immigration. On Saturday, he will attend the annual white-tie-and-tails Gridiron Club dinner as a guest of the Washington Post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so perhaps fittingly, it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/13/jerry-brown-says-challenging-hillary-clinton-is-like-challenging-jerry-brown/\" target=\"_blank\">the newspaper's Friday morning story that got the ball rolling on whether he'd consider a 2016 presidential run\u003c/a> -- 40 years after his first attempt, followed by failed effort No. 2 in 1980 and No. 3 in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's message in the story: Hillary Clinton doesn't need a primary challenger. He repeated the assertion on Friday afternoon in a quick Q&A with the White House press corps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't think of anything I'd rather have less, if I were running for president, than a competitor in the primary,\" scoffed the governor. \"The primaries get into all the nuance, and small differences, of candidates from the same party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Hillary Rodham Clinton really needs, said Brown, is to be focused \"on drawing the distinctions\" with Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isn't that the final word? Probably. The governor told the Post that a presidential campaign doesn't look like \"a fruitful use of my time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But parlor game enthusiasts love how the 76-year-old Brown always seems to avoid an actual \"No\" to the big question. And with so many questions being raised this week about the all-or-nothing hopes that Democrats have when it comes to Clinton, the political California Dream often creeps back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Quinn, a longtime GOP political analyst in California, \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/03/jerry-brown-is-the-fourth-time-the-charm/\" target=\"_blank\">put it this way in a column on Thursday\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Too old, you say. Well, Winston Churchill returned as British Prime Minister in 1951, at the age of 77, a post he held until he was 81. His contemporary, Konrad Adenauer, became German chancellor at the age of 73 and served until he was 87; and in 1953, grandfatherly war hero Dwight Eisenhower became the American president. That looks like a golden age of great world leaders.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The consensus in and around Sacramento is that Brown actually likes being governor now, something that wasn't necessarily the case in his first go-round. Journalist Orville Schell, a longtime friend of the governor, said in an interview in January that the Democrat has finally realized that California is a heck of a good perch from which to rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The national stage has gotten so corrupted,\" said Schell, \"he's less interested in playing there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No doubt that's true. But as he makes the rounds in the nation's capital this weekend, some may remember the words of the enigmatic Californian reported by the Associated Press on Nov. 8, 1979, when asked why he'd possibly throw his hat in the ring again:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the people are ready if the right leadership wakes them up.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you wanted to find a true party line voter, Henry Gannett is your man. The Orinda resident says the last Democrat he voted for was Alan Cranston for state controller … in 1962. Until now, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s Republicans that may be the key constituency in filling a reliably Democratic state Senate seat on March 17, one left vacant by the election of U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five candidates are on the ballot in the state’s 7th Senate District, which stretches across Contra Costa and Alameda counties. But the race essentially comes down to just three Democrats: Susan Bonilla, an incumbent assemblywoman from Concord; Joan Buchanan, a former assemblywoman from Alamo; and Steve Glazer, the mayor of Orinda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If no one wins a majority of the votes cast next week, the top two finishers move on to a runoff on May 19. And almost everyone agrees: This race will keep going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republicans Wooed By Candidates, Big Money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who did Henry Gannett, the reliable Republican, vote for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We both voted for Steve Glazer,” said Gannett in a recent interview about the choice he and his wife made. “He won’t be as far out as the other candidates who are trying to get my vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer, the former campaign manager for Gov. Jerry Brown, believes his campaign is well suited to appeal to Republicans. But it’s also undoubtedly a political necessity — due, in part, to the criticism he’s received over the last few years from Democrats and the party’s traditional interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195597989″ 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>In 2012, Glazer was \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/07/former-jerry-brown-aide-among-consultants-blacklisted-by-labor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a campaign consultant to a business-backed political action committee\u003c/a> that helped defeat two incumbent Democrats in the state Assembly. He was subsequently \u003ca href=\"http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php/site/page/2181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blacklisted by organized labor\u003c/a> — a fight that spilled into Glazer’s unsuccessful Assembly bid in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether all of that is good or bad for constituents in this district remains a source of debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want someone they can control in the Legislature,” said Glazer in an interview, sitting outside an Orinda restaurant. “And I’m not their guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenger Susan Bonilla, though, says what Glazer sees as independence is more like isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a party of one isn’t a way to get anything done,” she said on Wednesday. “It’s great if you want to sit by yourself and eat lunch alone, but it’s not going to represent our region well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, a race with three major Democrats (a fourth newcomer Democrat, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kremin.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Kremin\u003c/a>, is also running) means the district’s dominant party will likely split into pieces when the votes are tallied. Democrats have \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/special-elections/2015-sd7/registration-information.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 15-point registration advantage over Republicans\u003c/a>, but GOP voters represent a major prize — and perhaps, will cast the deciding ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Political_Data/status/575880904997888001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the for-profit voting research firm Political Data Inc. shows that 15-point gap has narrowed to just 9 points\u003c/a> in ballots already cast by mail; put another way, Republicans are casting a disproportionately large percentage of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP candidate on the ballot, Michaela Hertle, \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelahertle.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped out of the race in February and endorsed Glazer\u003c/a>. In the weeks since, hundreds of thousands of dollars of independent mailers have been delivered to Republican voters — most of them focused squarely on Glazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes pro-Glazer efforts by Southern California businessman \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1013130&view=late3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Bloomfield\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=1947400&amendid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $200,000 effort\u003c/a> by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It also includes anti-Glazer efforts, most notably from a political action committee often aligned with Democrats \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/06/republicans-file-lawsuit-in-bitter-east-bay-senate-race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that’s now being sued for a mailer using the familiar elephant logo associated with the GOP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Democrats Vie For Party’s Loyalty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the two mainstream Democrats — Bonilla and Buchanan — are waging more traditional campaigns to the party’s base voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla has the endorsement of the state Democratic Party, and has been the most successful in raising money. Buchanan has the endorsement of the powerful California Teachers Association and is well-known, due to her former Assembly district sitting squarely inside the boundaries of the Senate district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Name recognition, and the reputation I have, is a distinct advantage,” said Buchanan last weekend at an event with her supporters in the Blackhawk community outside Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women pledge to work on education issues, continuing their efforts on that front in the Legislature. 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But it’s also undoubtedly a political necessity — due, in part, to the criticism he’s received over the last few years from Democrats and the party’s traditional interest groups.\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/195597989″&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/195597989″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Glazer was \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/07/former-jerry-brown-aide-among-consultants-blacklisted-by-labor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a campaign consultant to a business-backed political action committee\u003c/a> that helped defeat two incumbent Democrats in the state Assembly. 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Democrats have \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/special-elections/2015-sd7/registration-information.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 15-point registration advantage over Republicans\u003c/a>, but GOP voters represent a major prize — and perhaps, will cast the deciding ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Political_Data/status/575880904997888001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the for-profit voting research firm Political Data Inc. shows that 15-point gap has narrowed to just 9 points\u003c/a> in ballots already cast by mail; put another way, Republicans are casting a disproportionately large percentage of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP candidate on the ballot, Michaela Hertle, \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelahertle.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped out of the race in February and endorsed Glazer\u003c/a>. In the weeks since, hundreds of thousands of dollars of independent mailers have been delivered to Republican voters — most of them focused squarely on Glazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes pro-Glazer efforts by Southern California businessman \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1013130&view=late3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Bloomfield\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=1947400&amendid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $200,000 effort\u003c/a> by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It also includes anti-Glazer efforts, most notably from a political action committee often aligned with Democrats \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/06/republicans-file-lawsuit-in-bitter-east-bay-senate-race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that’s now being sued for a mailer using the familiar elephant logo associated with the GOP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Democrats Vie For Party’s Loyalty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the two mainstream Democrats — Bonilla and Buchanan — are waging more traditional campaigns to the party’s base voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla has the endorsement of the state Democratic Party, and has been the most successful in raising money. Buchanan has the endorsement of the powerful California Teachers Association and is well-known, due to her former Assembly district sitting squarely inside the boundaries of the Senate district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Name recognition, and the reputation I have, is a distinct advantage,” said Buchanan last weekend at an event with her supporters in the Blackhawk community outside Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women pledge to work on education issues, continuing their efforts on that front in the Legislature. Both also support an extension of the temporary taxes in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/poll-shows-californians-willing-to-extend-Prop30-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012’s Proposition 30\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experience is also a key talking point for each of these Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical for the voter to weigh what job has already been accomplished and whether this person can actually be effective,” said Bonilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another GOP voter contacted for this story, Steve Jones, said he decided to vote for Bonilla based on a friend’s recommendation, but said he liked all three of the major candidates — with special praise for Glazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Steve Glazer probably has the character and fight that most closely fits my ‘Best Candidate’ view of the three Democrats,” he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special elections for the Legislature are historically low turnout affairs — which means a handful of the district’s 488,596 voters will decide the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why Buchanan is focusing on her loyal base of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been treating this like a kind of grass-roots election,” Buchanan told a group of 50 or so supporters last week gathered in the backyard of Lori and Paul Garcia. “We know turnout’s going to be low, and we depend on people to talk to their friends and make sure they vote.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The case against Melissa Reyes' landlord was open and shut, her attorney promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city officials documented the dismal conditions at her family's South San Francisco apartment unit -- a broken heater, leaky faucets, raw sewage pouring into the garage, rotting floors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most upsetting to Reyes: Her 3-year-old son slipped on the wet floor and broke his arm falling down the unit's steep staircase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she and her husband got to court, a judge said he couldn't set a trial date for at least a year. Because of state budget cuts, \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/County_Budget_Snapshot_SanMateo_2014.pdf\">San Mateo County has shuttered four courtrooms\u003c/a> and limited civil trials to one or two per week for the entire county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Reyes family settled the case, for less than they believe they could have received at trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195518588\" 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>Their story is not unusual, say judges and lawyers around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California courts -- like most state-funded programs -- suffered deep budget reductions during the recession and have yet to fully recover. Since 2008, according to the Judicial Council of California, thousands of court staffers have lost jobs while 52 courthouses and more than 200 courtrooms have been shuttered. In some counties, residents must now make a long drive to a different city to simply pay a fine; in all, the council estimates that 2.1 million Californians have lost access to a courtroom in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It felt like we were just second-class citizens -- like it didn't matter ... just settle it for whatever they are giving you.' \u003ccite>Melissa Reyes \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The improving economy is slowly allowing the state to pump more taxpayer dollars back into the trial court system, but court officials and lawyers say the deep cuts can still be felt -- particularly in civil courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also more expensive now to access court services: Fines and fees for court services were temporarily increased in 2012, and Gov. Jerry Brown wants to make those increases permanent in the state fiscal year that begins on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Second-Class Citizens'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Reyes family, the reductions had a tangible impact -- they couldn't wait years for what they felt they were owed. The same month that they filed a civil lawsuit, Reyes, her husband and their two kids were forced out of their two-bedroom apartment by city inspectors, who said it wasn't habitable. For several months, the family had to stay in homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they had mounting expenses. The family lost most of its possessions in flooding and left others behind when they were suddenly forced out of the unit; their one car needed repairs; and when they finally found an apartment to move into, the rent was triple what they had been paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes, a See's Candies manager and her husband, Miguel Reyes, a driver for disabled adults, said it was a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The judge was telling us, you know, it could take up to five years, like it could be a year, it could be two years, it could just get extended, extended, extended, there are only so many judges ... and he was trying to convince me to settle,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt\u003ci> \u003c/i>like we were just second-class citizens -- like it didn't matter ... just settle it for whatever they are giving you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Reyes family did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers say these types of situations -- where plaintiffs feel compelled to cut a deal even if they have a strong case -- are playing out all over California. Compounding matters, many court-sponsored mediation services have been cut back, forcing both sides to pay two or three times as much to simply get to a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Civil Court Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays extend to other areas of the law as well. Family court budgets have been slashed, making it difficult for parents to quickly secure child support payment orders or sort out custody issues, said Martin Hoshino, administrative director of the Judicial Council. He said he's also heard stories of restraining orders being delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the most pronounced effects are in the area of family (law) -- if you talk to any of the courts, they will tell you this is a real problem, because some of these are issues of reunification of families, or they are adoptions, or these are decisions that are being delayed that are aimed at helping some of the more vulnerable parts of our populations,\" Hoshino said. \"And that has cause for great concern among a lot of the judicial officials or court administrators that I speak to in terms of what are the real impacts of saying that a courtroom or courthouse is closed and really unavailable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, the closures have created physical barriers to access, Hoshino said: There are long lines, shorter hours and longer distances between courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not everybody has the means to take that kind of time off -- they may not even have the transportation means,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the constant pushing back of trial dates makes it difficult for small law firms, said Reyes' lawyer, Joe Tobener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will no longer take cases in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a small firm like ours,\" he said, \"a predictable stream of income is everything -- we can’t hire. And no one is gonna cry for the trial attorneys but, at the same time, we hire a lot of people and we use a lot of resources: Process servers, paralegals, deposition companies. It has a broader economic impact if lawyers aren't able to get access to the courtroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impacts are even more devastating for clients, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really limits access to justice because plaintiffs need to be able to bring their case to trial -- the trial date is everything,\" he said. \"If a defense attorney can delay and delay and delay, they certainly will. And it will drive up the cost of the litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Discouraging' Delays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges are frustrated as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Kuhl, Los Angeles Superior Court's presiding judge, said L.A. made 10 percent across-the-board cuts to court services in 2012, but it wasn't enough. So the next year, they made further cuts. In all, 79 courtrooms were shuttered, limiting where people can contest traffic tickets or adjudicate small claims cases. The court has also cut mediation services and eliminated court reporters in civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There has never been this kind of pressure on the courts in my time of practice, which stretches back into the 1970s.' \u003ccite>Judge Carolyn Kuhl \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said L.A. has tried to mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable -- children -- by keeping as many resources as possible in family and dependency courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So civil cases are essentially what's left,\" she said. \"There has never been this kind of pressure on the courts in my time of practice, which stretches back into the 1970s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuhl said the setbacks are especially disheartening because she and others have worked for decades to shorten the amount of time it takes to resolve civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And to see those gains essentially be lost -- as we now have delays such that the number of cases pending over two years has tripled -- is very discouraging,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor proposed adding around $180 million to the courts' budget next fiscal year, an investment that Hoshino said the council is eager to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians shouldn't expect a quick fix after years of cuts, he warned: Fines and fee revenues have decreased in recent years, trial courts will still have smaller budgets than they did before the recession, and a new formula -- aimed at lining up court funding more accurately with the actual services provided by each county -- will mean less money next year for 17 counties, including San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, San Diego and Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long term, Hoshino said, \"the net effect will be the improvement of services and the uniformity of services for all Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, \"you will still hear that some courts still have shortened hours, while some are lengthening their hours. 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