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"content": "\u003cp>Up and down the state, candidates are gearing up for the next election. The 2018 \u003cem>gubernatorial\u003c/em> election, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gov. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gavinnewsom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> is in and is quickly assembling a war chest. Ditto state Treasurer \u003ca href=\"http://www.johnchiang.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Chiang\u003c/a>. Former California schools superintendent and East Bay Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/1998jun/ca/state/vote/eastin_d/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delaine Eastin\u003c/a> says she’s gearing up to run, and Bay Area billionaire \u003ca href=\"http://thenextgeneration.org/about/people/tom-steyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Steyer \u003c/a>is said to be considering it, too. And former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says he’ll be jumping in as soon as next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican political consultant Mike Madrid says it’s going to be a crowded and largely Democratic field. That will tempt viable Republicans to test the waters, including perhaps San Diego Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Faulconer \u003c/a>and Fresno Mayor \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresno.gov/Government/MayorsOffice/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you’re seeing a younger, newer generation of Democrats that represent various constituencies, different voices in the Democratic Party,” Madrid says. “And I think it’s probably a conversation we’ve needed to have in California for at least 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says he doesn’t think the governor’s race is going to dominate Thanksgiving dinner discussions. But he says the only thing bigger than running for California’s top job is running for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes early planning, it takes a lot of groundwork. It takes a lot of behind-the-scenes discussions,” he says. “And it’s going to take a lot of early mobilization of key voting groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep an eye out for official announcements shortly after the presidential election concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gubernatorial race isn’t the only one getting the political world talking. In fact, there could be a more immediate seat to fill. If California Attorney General Kamala Harris wins her U.S. Senate bid, as polls indicate she likely will, Gov. Jerry Brown will need to appoint someone to fill out the remainder of her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the names speculated on as possible successors to Harris are retired Superior Court judge Katherine Feinstein — whose mother is Sen. Dianne Feinstein — L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, Ann Ravel, federal elections commissioner and former chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), and even Gov. Brown’s wife, attorney Anne Gust Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Lay, who is tracking potential candidates for his daily Sacramento roundup called the Nooner, says Brown may be thinking long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Brown appears to tilt toward candidates who are likely to win election on their own and likely through the governorship in 2026,” he says. “That may rule out some possible caretakers, but tells a strong story for an appointment by someone who arrived as governor via the AG office, as did his father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/nooner/2016-10-31.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He writes\u003c/a> that Brown will likely stay away from any sitting lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just in case that’s not enough to make your head spin, there’s also the possibility that Sen. Feinstein — who at age 83 is the oldest member of the U.S. Senate — will announce her retirement. That would set off yet another scramble for a coveted open seat on the 2018 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please pass the turkey.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "Will Passage of Proposition 64 Shake Up 'Mendocino Shakedown'?",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next week, California voters may decide to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. And if \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138357/explaining-proposition-64-how-california-would-legalize-marijuana\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposition 64\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passes, California’s justice system will face a number of unexpected impacts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in many parts of the state, including Mendocino County along the northern coast, widespread marijuana cultivation and its side effects are already a fact of life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Top Prosecutor Develops a ‘Restitution’ Plan in Mendocino \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2011, the county's newly elected district attorney, David Eyster, found himself facing a huge backlog of marijuana cases. It’s not unusual for this small county of about 90,000 people to rack up more than 300 marijuana cases in a single year, ranging from smaller grows of less than 50 plants to massive grows that can involve misuse of public lands and environmental degradation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyster found a unique and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">controversial\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> way to start moving some of these cases through the courts. Under the authority of a California\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://law.justia.com/codes/california/2015/code-hsc/division-10/chapter-8/section-11470.2\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that’s part of the state’s health and safety code, he began offering certain marijuana defendants misdemeanor plea deals if they paid what’s called \"restitution\" for the costs of seizing and destroying their pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After looking at law enforcement costs, Eyster came up with a formula: “$50 a plant, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a little plant or a big plant, we just keep it $50 a plant, or $500 a processed pound.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But only first-time defendants, and those who aren’t causing environmental damage or growing on public lands, get the opportunity to take this deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It's a person with a little medical marijuana need, but they have a huge greed,” he said. “And so there's a little bit of medical marijuana mixed in with it. But it's just so little compared to what they're doing that it can't be overlooked.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291113481\" 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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The district attorney's office says it’s a way to distinguish between career criminals and those who may have misinterpreted the legal limits of medical marijuana cultivation and sale.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big emphasis is trying to be consistent,” Eyster said. “You know, if you talk about marijuana litigation prosecution in the state of California, the word consistent is not something that's often used.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, about a third of all cases are settled through restitution. It has freed up resources in the DA's office and brought in resources to local law enforcement. The county sheriff’s department sees the lion’s share of this revenue, about $7.2 million to date.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ju8txceJCayu8iCF9ZWgi3_wsTQ0K819vT115KmjBBk/pubchart?oid=1088128012&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Critics Call it the ‘Mendocino Shakedown’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many in the county call the restitution program by another name: the \"Mendocino Shakedown.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heidi Larson is an attorney who prosecuted sex crimes in the Mendocino County DA's office for about 10 years and worked in the county public defender’s office for a year.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said that while the program is certainly innovative, it has some troubling aspects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big question is: What about people who can't pay these numbers?” she said. “Are they being treated the same as people who can pay?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Larson said she’s talked to people who told her they build restitution into their business plan, “and that’s when you’re dealing with massive growers, because they come in every scale.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, she said, on the other end of the scale are those who simply can’t afford to pay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Geniella in the DA’s office doesn’t buy this argument. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’ve never seen a poor marijuana grower in Mendocino County,” he said. “So the notion that someone is losing their home in debt -- no, it simply has not happened.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But multiple sources told KQED that defendants have gone deep into debt due to restitution. And some people ended up paying, even though they insist they were legally growing medical marijuana. These sources didn’t want to go on the record because they’re worried they’d face retribution if they went public.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People need to understand you’re not shielded at all,” Larson said. “It’s an\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Defense\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affirmative defense.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can be arrested. You can go to the jail. You can be charged. You can end up having to go all the way through before the decision is made whether or not it truly is medicinal. And that’s going to cost some money.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eyster said before he brings charges, he does let marijuana defendants bring in any medical paperwork they might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you're legal, you walk away and we say have a good day,\" he said. \"If you're not legal then, we tell you what your options are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Sebastopol-based defense attorney\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.omarfigueroa.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Figueroa\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who specializes in medical marijuana, said part of the problem is that medical marijuana laws are still very gray. And local and state laws are still at odds with federal law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People are basically making a rational choice to buy a misdemeanor instead of suffer the potential of a felony conviction,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you don’t make that choice, the consequences can be severe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Case of Richard Bolton\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Bolton, 34, is facing those consequences. The lifelong Mendocino resident owns a two-bedroom house tucked under the redwood trees in the town of Willits. He runs a logging and construction company, and in October he and his 20-year-old fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, welcomed a baby girl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But their life will soon change. Bolton will be heading to jail for six months, starting in January. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One afternoon in October, the two walked around their backyard, checking on their raised garden beds of grapes, tomatoes and peppers, all starting to get a little moldy from the fall rains that have just begun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in 2014, the county’s marijuana eradication task force busted the place and found about 70 marijuana plants growing in these same beds. They also found 15 plants in the garage, around 20 pounds of dried pot, five guns and more than $100,000 cash in Bolton’s safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton was arrested.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His lawyer approached him with the district attorney’s offer to pay around $20,000 in restitution and plead to a misdemeanor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I thought it was more extortion than anything,” Bolton said. “You know they want to take my money for something I didn't do, and then they want to get you for a felony crime, but they want to let you walk for a misdemeanor to pay him money.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months before the raid, Bolton said, he’d leased the house to a parolee named James Horn. According to Bolton, Horn was growing marijuana without his knowledge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton opted not to take the deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, he went to trial and got a hung jury. The district attorney then charged him with perjury in a connected civil case and moved to retry the criminal case. Bolton said at that point he was out of money to fight and was struggling to get partial custody of his 4-year-old son with a former partner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pleaded no contest to maintaining a property for unlawful sale of marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155298\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancée Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In three years with good behavior, then I get the felony dropped to misdemeanor. That way I can still coach my children’s football teams and baseball, whatever, so that’s the reason I pled to it at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge postponed his sentence, so he could be home for the birth of his daughter. Beginning in January, he will serve six months in jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His fiancee's voice cracked as she said she doesn’t know how she’ll cope without him for that time. But then she got angry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I think it's bogus,” she said. \"Just because he could have bought his way out of it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DA spokesman Geniella points out it was Bolton’s decision to pass on restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He chose to hire an attorney, pay $25,000 and go to trial. He did,” Geniella said. “He ended up with a hung jury in favor of conviction, and again on the morning of the second trial he entered a guilty plea. All those are Mr. Bolton's choices.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Law Enforcement Priorities\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underlying the resentment many Mendocino residents have about restitution is the sense that enforcement of marijuana laws is arbitrary and unfair.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We went in a helicopter ride on airport day a month ago and you can look out the window and you see crops all over town of marijuana,” Baldwin said. “And I don't see how they can charge one person and not get everybody, because everybody here is doing it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Mendocino County sheriff, Thomas Allman, said it’s not arbitrary at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He laid out his department’s five enforcement priorities:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profiteering (medical marijuana is supposed to be nonprofit)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public lands (growing in state or national parks)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trespass grows (growing on property owned by someone else)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water diversion (stealing water from streams or lakes)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental damage (killing wildlife and disrupting ecosystems)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get busted you need to meet one of the five, Allman said, but the last two are really the most important.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you really want to get a deputy sheriff interested in a commercial operation, you tell him or her that there was environmental degradation or illegal water diversion,” Allman said. And he said he’s tired of people flooding into his county from all over the world -- not to appreciate the scenery, but to take what they can from the land and then leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Allman was elected Sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas Allman was elected sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allman said his department busts only 15 percent of the marijuana that they know about. He said he simply doesn’t have the resources to go after the other 85 percent. And he said his team often will eradicate a marijuana grow and not find anyone there to arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We certainly would like to arrest the investor but the amount of time an investigation like that would cost us would prevent us from doing other investigations,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A county grand jury\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reviewed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the program earlier this year. Its primary findings were that the program increased court efficiency and eased jail overcrowding. But it also recommended that the district attorney institute a public program to assist those who can’t pay restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyster\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.response.restitution.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">responded\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the grand jury’s recommendation by reiterating that his office’s restitution process is sufficient to allow for defendants to claim and prove their poverty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the grand jury recommended that the program continue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if voters legalize recreational marijuana in November, the restitution program in its current form could be gutted or at least significantly altered. Proposition 64 would make cultivation for first-time offenders an automatic misdemeanor. So, the DA could lose some of his prosecutorial leverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Mike Geniella said restitution has been so effective that he’s confident it can evolve, along with the new law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s a big plus for the defendants, our office and the courts,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next week, California voters may decide to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. And if \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138357/explaining-proposition-64-how-california-would-legalize-marijuana\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposition 64\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passes, California’s justice system will face a number of unexpected impacts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in many parts of the state, including Mendocino County along the northern coast, widespread marijuana cultivation and its side effects are already a fact of life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Top Prosecutor Develops a ‘Restitution’ Plan in Mendocino \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2011, the county's newly elected district attorney, David Eyster, found himself facing a huge backlog of marijuana cases. It’s not unusual for this small county of about 90,000 people to rack up more than 300 marijuana cases in a single year, ranging from smaller grows of less than 50 plants to massive grows that can involve misuse of public lands and environmental degradation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyster found a unique and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">controversial\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> way to start moving some of these cases through the courts. Under the authority of a California\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://law.justia.com/codes/california/2015/code-hsc/division-10/chapter-8/section-11470.2\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that’s part of the state’s health and safety code, he began offering certain marijuana defendants misdemeanor plea deals if they paid what’s called \"restitution\" for the costs of seizing and destroying their pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After looking at law enforcement costs, Eyster came up with a formula: “$50 a plant, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a little plant or a big plant, we just keep it $50 a plant, or $500 a processed pound.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But only first-time defendants, and those who aren’t causing environmental damage or growing on public lands, get the opportunity to take this deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It's a person with a little medical marijuana need, but they have a huge greed,” he said. “And so there's a little bit of medical marijuana mixed in with it. But it's just so little compared to what they're doing that it can't be overlooked.”\u003c/span>\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/291113481&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/291113481'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The district attorney's office says it’s a way to distinguish between career criminals and those who may have misinterpreted the legal limits of medical marijuana cultivation and sale.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big emphasis is trying to be consistent,” Eyster said. “You know, if you talk about marijuana litigation prosecution in the state of California, the word consistent is not something that's often used.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, about a third of all cases are settled through restitution. It has freed up resources in the DA's office and brought in resources to local law enforcement. The county sheriff’s department sees the lion’s share of this revenue, about $7.2 million to date.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ju8txceJCayu8iCF9ZWgi3_wsTQ0K819vT115KmjBBk/pubchart?oid=1088128012&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Critics Call it the ‘Mendocino Shakedown’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many in the county call the restitution program by another name: the \"Mendocino Shakedown.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heidi Larson is an attorney who prosecuted sex crimes in the Mendocino County DA's office for about 10 years and worked in the county public defender’s office for a year.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said that while the program is certainly innovative, it has some troubling aspects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big question is: What about people who can't pay these numbers?” she said. “Are they being treated the same as people who can pay?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Larson said she’s talked to people who told her they build restitution into their business plan, “and that’s when you’re dealing with massive growers, because they come in every scale.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, she said, on the other end of the scale are those who simply can’t afford to pay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Geniella in the DA’s office doesn’t buy this argument. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’ve never seen a poor marijuana grower in Mendocino County,” he said. “So the notion that someone is losing their home in debt -- no, it simply has not happened.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But multiple sources told KQED that defendants have gone deep into debt due to restitution. And some people ended up paying, even though they insist they were legally growing medical marijuana. These sources didn’t want to go on the record because they’re worried they’d face retribution if they went public.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People need to understand you’re not shielded at all,” Larson said. “It’s an\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Defense\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affirmative defense.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can be arrested. You can go to the jail. You can be charged. You can end up having to go all the way through before the decision is made whether or not it truly is medicinal. And that’s going to cost some money.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eyster said before he brings charges, he does let marijuana defendants bring in any medical paperwork they might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you're legal, you walk away and we say have a good day,\" he said. \"If you're not legal then, we tell you what your options are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Sebastopol-based defense attorney\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.omarfigueroa.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Figueroa\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who specializes in medical marijuana, said part of the problem is that medical marijuana laws are still very gray. And local and state laws are still at odds with federal law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People are basically making a rational choice to buy a misdemeanor instead of suffer the potential of a felony conviction,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you don’t make that choice, the consequences can be severe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Case of Richard Bolton\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Bolton, 34, is facing those consequences. The lifelong Mendocino resident owns a two-bedroom house tucked under the redwood trees in the town of Willits. He runs a logging and construction company, and in October he and his 20-year-old fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, welcomed a baby girl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But their life will soon change. Bolton will be heading to jail for six months, starting in January. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One afternoon in October, the two walked around their backyard, checking on their raised garden beds of grapes, tomatoes and peppers, all starting to get a little moldy from the fall rains that have just begun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in 2014, the county’s marijuana eradication task force busted the place and found about 70 marijuana plants growing in these same beds. They also found 15 plants in the garage, around 20 pounds of dried pot, five guns and more than $100,000 cash in Bolton’s safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton was arrested.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His lawyer approached him with the district attorney’s offer to pay around $20,000 in restitution and plead to a misdemeanor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I thought it was more extortion than anything,” Bolton said. “You know they want to take my money for something I didn't do, and then they want to get you for a felony crime, but they want to let you walk for a misdemeanor to pay him money.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months before the raid, Bolton said, he’d leased the house to a parolee named James Horn. According to Bolton, Horn was growing marijuana without his knowledge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton opted not to take the deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, he went to trial and got a hung jury. The district attorney then charged him with perjury in a connected civil case and moved to retry the criminal case. Bolton said at that point he was out of money to fight and was struggling to get partial custody of his 4-year-old son with a former partner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pleaded no contest to maintaining a property for unlawful sale of marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155298\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancée Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In three years with good behavior, then I get the felony dropped to misdemeanor. That way I can still coach my children’s football teams and baseball, whatever, so that’s the reason I pled to it at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge postponed his sentence, so he could be home for the birth of his daughter. Beginning in January, he will serve six months in jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His fiancee's voice cracked as she said she doesn’t know how she’ll cope without him for that time. But then she got angry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I think it's bogus,” she said. \"Just because he could have bought his way out of it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DA spokesman Geniella points out it was Bolton’s decision to pass on restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He chose to hire an attorney, pay $25,000 and go to trial. He did,” Geniella said. “He ended up with a hung jury in favor of conviction, and again on the morning of the second trial he entered a guilty plea. All those are Mr. Bolton's choices.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Law Enforcement Priorities\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underlying the resentment many Mendocino residents have about restitution is the sense that enforcement of marijuana laws is arbitrary and unfair.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We went in a helicopter ride on airport day a month ago and you can look out the window and you see crops all over town of marijuana,” Baldwin said. “And I don't see how they can charge one person and not get everybody, because everybody here is doing it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Mendocino County sheriff, Thomas Allman, said it’s not arbitrary at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He laid out his department’s five enforcement priorities:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profiteering (medical marijuana is supposed to be nonprofit)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public lands (growing in state or national parks)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trespass grows (growing on property owned by someone else)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water diversion (stealing water from streams or lakes)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental damage (killing wildlife and disrupting ecosystems)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get busted you need to meet one of the five, Allman said, but the last two are really the most important.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you really want to get a deputy sheriff interested in a commercial operation, you tell him or her that there was environmental degradation or illegal water diversion,” Allman said. And he said he’s tired of people flooding into his county from all over the world -- not to appreciate the scenery, but to take what they can from the land and then leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Allman was elected Sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas Allman was elected sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allman said his department busts only 15 percent of the marijuana that they know about. He said he simply doesn’t have the resources to go after the other 85 percent. And he said his team often will eradicate a marijuana grow and not find anyone there to arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We certainly would like to arrest the investor but the amount of time an investigation like that would cost us would prevent us from doing other investigations,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A county grand jury\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reviewed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the program earlier this year. Its primary findings were that the program increased court efficiency and eased jail overcrowding. But it also recommended that the district attorney institute a public program to assist those who can’t pay restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyster\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.response.restitution.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">responded\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the grand jury’s recommendation by reiterating that his office’s restitution process is sufficient to allow for defendants to claim and prove their poverty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the grand jury recommended that the program continue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if voters legalize recreational marijuana in November, the restitution program in its current form could be gutted or at least significantly altered. Proposition 64 would make cultivation for first-time offenders an automatic misdemeanor. So, the DA could lose some of his prosecutorial leverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Mike Geniella said restitution has been so effective that he’s confident it can evolve, along with the new law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Oakland was the first to regulate and tax medical marijuana dispensaries. Now, some city leaders see the industry’s profits and are proposing to take a bigger piece of the action: The Oakland City Council is voting Tuesday night on a pot profit-taking plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shopharborside.com/\">Harborside Health Center\u003c/a> in Oakland is the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its executive director, Steve DeAngelo, says his dispensary brings in about $30 million in annual revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created over a 150 well-paying jobs and we’re the second largest retail taxpayer in the city,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo says Harborside pays about $1.5 million in taxes every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Steve DeAngelo (shown in 2014) is co-founder and executive director of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155471\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve DeAngelo (shown in 2014) is co-founder and executive director of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, the country’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His operation is one of eight licensed dispensaries in Oakland. But there are scores of other pot businesses that operate semi-legally, meaning they pay taxes but they are not fully licensed. And now the city wants to license them, too, but at a price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exploding cannabis industry has the city rethinking how much the dispensaries should pay the city to operate and who gets those licenses. City Councilwoman Desley Brooks is leading that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at this industry across the United States and in Oakland, the vast majority of people who are making money in this industry are white males,” she said during a recent city hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside’s DeAngelo says he’s sympathetic with effort to diversify the industry. But he has problems with Brooks’ other plan to charge dispensaries 25 percent of their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the courts have really been very, very consistent in ruling that a government agency is not allowed to take private property in that fashion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over whether they city should demand medical marijuana profits comes as it is still grappling with how to promote diversity in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/500264056/500264057\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the City Council voted to expand the industry by giving preferences for licenses to pot entrepreneurs who did jail time for marijuana offenses or for those who live in certain East Oakland neighborhoods — like Brooks’ district — that are predominantly black and Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that there is equity in this industry and we need to make sure that Oaklanders have an opportunity,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, under current rules, drug felons applying for a cannabis license have to own at least 50 percent of their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dale Geringer, director of the California chapter of National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, opposes the preference program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Super Skunk is one of the many different kinds of marijuana sold at Harborside Health Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Skunk is one of the many different kinds of marijuana sold at Harborside Health Center. \u003ccite>(Richard Gonzales/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These rules go well beyond what any other legal industry has to put up with and they are supposedly addressed at equity problems which are not even caused by this industry but rather by the laws that prohibited it,” Geringer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a few people around the city worry that the controversy over profits and preferences could drive away the medical marijuana industry from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terryn Buxton is among them. He’s an entrepreneur who sits on a commission that advises the city on how to deal with the marijuana business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m from Oakland and I’m born and raised here. I’d like my business to be here,” he says. “But I do not know if we’re going to have an environment our business can survive in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(It also put $14.7 million behind \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>, Weinstein’s initiative aimed at lowering drug prices.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290964734″ 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>Weinstein says he’s steadfastly promoting condoms when other groups seem to have forgotten them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfashionable,” he says. “I was on a panel discussion and one of the guys said, ‘You’re acting like our mother telling us to wear galoshes.’ And my reaction was, ‘Yeah, somebody needs to do that!’ I mean, I’m not trying to win a popularity contest. Obviously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not trying to win a popularity contest. Obviously.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Michael Weinstein\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Weinstein, Proposition 60 is primarily about protecting adult film workers against sexually transmitted diseases at a time when infection rates are at a 20-year high across California. But it’s also another large-scale condom campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people get their sex education through these films and I think it’s sending a bad message,” Weinstein says. “I don’t want young people to be educated that the only kind of sex that’s hot is unsafe sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11148455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11148455 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, in his office in Los Angeles. Behind him is a painting of Chris Brownlie, who worked with Weinstein to found the first AIDS hospice in LA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, in his office in Los Angeles. Behind him is a painting of Chris Brownlie, who worked with Weinstein to found the first AIDS hospice in L.A. He is backing Propositions 60 and 61. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Controversial Figure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein has long taken controversial positions, but he’s often landed on the right side of history. In the 1980s, he fought lawmakers in California who wanted to quarantine AIDS patients. When nurses were afraid touch patients, leaving them languishing in the hallways of county hospitals, he helped set up one of the first AIDS hospices, where people could die with dignity and compassion. And when the AIDS cocktail came out, Weinstein risked bankruptcy to provide the drugs to uninsured patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided we had a moral obligation to give them, and we paid for them and those people lived,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Weinstein’s more recent and most unpopular stances is on \u003ca href=\"https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/prevention/reduce-your-risk/pre-exposure-prophylaxis/\">PrEP\u003c/a>, the daily HIV prevention pill. Many activists consider it a Gift from God. Weinstein calls it a party drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s often taken in conjunction with crystal meth and other party drugs,” he says. “It’s really a get-out-of-jail-free card.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein says it gives people a free pass to not use condoms and be reckless, driving a rise in other STDs, which\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/02/no-new-infections-in-hundreds-taking-pill-to-prevent-hiv/\"> recent studies\u003c/a> bear out. But other public health groups say PrEP will reduce HIV transmission and save lives, which the studies also support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not helpful to have one of the largest HIV organizations in the world trivializing it or downplaying its importance,” says Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, director of state and local affairs at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaf.org/\">San Francisco AIDS Foundation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group, along with \u003ca href=\"https://aplahealth.org/\">AIDS Project LA\u003c/a>, is opposed to Proposition 60, in part because it ignores PrEP. Mulhern-Pearson says Weinstein’s singular focus on condoms is outdated and unrealistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condom fatigue is real,” she says. “And I think that all of us are probably not realistic and not forthcoming about our condom use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History and Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein has been fighting to mandate condoms in adult films for years. While federal and state worker safety laws technically already require producers to protect performers against STDs with condoms, the law is largely ignored and poorly enforced. Weinstein has been pushing Cal/OSHA for years to refine and clarify regulations, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/02/17/california-porn-industry-protests-rules-mandating-condoms/\">without success\u003c/a>. He’s backed local measures in Los Angeles County to require condoms, which \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_Porn_Actors_Required_to_Wear_Condoms_Act,_Measure_B_(November_2012)\">passed\u003c/a>, but enforcement has, again, been minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every turn, the adult film industry has fought hard against condom mandates. They say it will force them to make products that won’t sell, driving the business underground or out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11153923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11153923\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Adult film performers rally against Proposition 60 outside Michael Weinstein’s office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-960x680.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-240x170.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-375x266.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult film performers rally against Proposition 60 outside Michael Weinstein’s office. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In mid-October, more than 100 adult film performers rallied outside Weinstein’s office in Los Angeles to protest Proposition 60. They chanted slogans like “Our Bodies, Our Choice!” and carried signs that said “Where is Weinstein?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say they prefer to rely on the industry’s bimonthly testing protocol over condoms. Performer Ela Darling says condoms don’t work on porn sets — they’re uncomfortable and cause friction rashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sex you have on camera isn’t like the sex you have at home,” she says. “It’s like Olympic-level, athletic sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s frustrated that Weinstein is ignoring their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He will not hear us, he will not speak to us, but he’s happy speaking\u003cem> for\u003c/em> us,” she says. “And that’s the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein defends his refusal to meet with the adult film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to put myself in a position of debating people where all they do is call me names,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. Weinstein’s critics have called him bombastic, a bully. They compare him to Donald Trump. They post tweets that refer to him as the Condom Nazi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In case they haven’t noticed, I’m Jewish and I’m gay, OK,” he says. “It makes my skin curl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein says he’s never liked the limelight. He’s had to develop a thick skin to stay in this business, to stand up for what he believes is the moral thing to do, for what he believes is his responsibility toward young generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s clear that the criticism bothers him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been hurt,” says Sharon Raphael, an old friend and fellow activist. “I know that it hurts him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she adds, everyone knows he’s a force to be reckoned with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When most people would be down and out, strike three, he’d get up again,” she says. “He never gives up. Ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — When Mike Stabile first moved to Los Angeles in 2011, he was struck by a billboard he saw along the freeway. It showed a line of cocaine and a turned-over shot glass, with the caption: \u003cem>You know why. Free HIV test.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I literally pulled over the car and was like, what’s going on?” Stabile remembers. “I was having a panic attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another ad showed two men in bed, looking nervous, with the question: \u003cem>“Trust Him?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a gay man, you really have to fight against this idea that you’re constantly in danger,” says Stabile, who came of age during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. “Fear and stigma actually works against people getting tested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11148363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11148363 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-800x245.jpg\" alt=\"TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335\" width=\"800\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-800x245.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-160x49.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-1020x312.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-960x294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-240x73.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-375x115.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335-520x159.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrustHim_GayWhite_1094x335.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of many ads sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of AIDS Healthcare Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stabile says he sees the same heavy-handed, moralistic attitude behind \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measures/2023/info/proposition-60\">Proposition 60\u003c/a>, the state ballot initiative that would require adult film performers to use condoms on porn sets. If they don’t, and state regulators fail to enforce the mandate in a timely manner, any Californian can sue the film producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Its success depends on stigma around sex, stigma around porn,” says Stabile, who now works for the \u003ca href=\"http://dontharassca.com/\">No on 60 campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man behind Proposition 60 — and all those billboards — is Michael Weinstein, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidshealth.org/#/\">AIDS Healthcare Foundation\u003c/a>, and a longtime maverick in gay activist circles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit runs pharmacies and provides HIV care in 13 states and 37 countries, and gave away 38.5 million condoms last year. It’s putting $4.5 million from its pharmacy sales into backing the Proposition 60 condom mandate. (It also put $14.7 million behind \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>, Weinstein’s initiative aimed at lowering drug prices.)\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/290964734″&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/290964734″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein says he’s steadfastly promoting condoms when other groups seem to have forgotten them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfashionable,” he says. “I was on a panel discussion and one of the guys said, ‘You’re acting like our mother telling us to wear galoshes.’ And my reaction was, ‘Yeah, somebody needs to do that!’ I mean, I’m not trying to win a popularity contest. Obviously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not trying to win a popularity contest. Obviously.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Michael Weinstein\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Weinstein, Proposition 60 is primarily about protecting adult film workers against sexually transmitted diseases at a time when infection rates are at a 20-year high across California. But it’s also another large-scale condom campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people get their sex education through these films and I think it’s sending a bad message,” Weinstein says. “I don’t want young people to be educated that the only kind of sex that’s hot is unsafe sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11148455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11148455 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, in his office in Los Angeles. Behind him is a painting of Chris Brownlie, who worked with Weinstein to found the first AIDS hospice in LA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Michael-Weinstein_1973-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, in his office in Los Angeles. Behind him is a painting of Chris Brownlie, who worked with Weinstein to found the first AIDS hospice in L.A. He is backing Propositions 60 and 61. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Controversial Figure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein has long taken controversial positions, but he’s often landed on the right side of history. In the 1980s, he fought lawmakers in California who wanted to quarantine AIDS patients. When nurses were afraid touch patients, leaving them languishing in the hallways of county hospitals, he helped set up one of the first AIDS hospices, where people could die with dignity and compassion. And when the AIDS cocktail came out, Weinstein risked bankruptcy to provide the drugs to uninsured patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided we had a moral obligation to give them, and we paid for them and those people lived,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Weinstein’s more recent and most unpopular stances is on \u003ca href=\"https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/prevention/reduce-your-risk/pre-exposure-prophylaxis/\">PrEP\u003c/a>, the daily HIV prevention pill. Many activists consider it a Gift from God. Weinstein calls it a party drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s often taken in conjunction with crystal meth and other party drugs,” he says. “It’s really a get-out-of-jail-free card.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein says it gives people a free pass to not use condoms and be reckless, driving a rise in other STDs, which\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/02/no-new-infections-in-hundreds-taking-pill-to-prevent-hiv/\"> recent studies\u003c/a> bear out. But other public health groups say PrEP will reduce HIV transmission and save lives, which the studies also support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not helpful to have one of the largest HIV organizations in the world trivializing it or downplaying its importance,” says Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, director of state and local affairs at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaf.org/\">San Francisco AIDS Foundation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group, along with \u003ca href=\"https://aplahealth.org/\">AIDS Project LA\u003c/a>, is opposed to Proposition 60, in part because it ignores PrEP. Mulhern-Pearson says Weinstein’s singular focus on condoms is outdated and unrealistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condom fatigue is real,” she says. “And I think that all of us are probably not realistic and not forthcoming about our condom use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History and Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein has been fighting to mandate condoms in adult films for years. While federal and state worker safety laws technically already require producers to protect performers against STDs with condoms, the law is largely ignored and poorly enforced. Weinstein has been pushing Cal/OSHA for years to refine and clarify regulations, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/02/17/california-porn-industry-protests-rules-mandating-condoms/\">without success\u003c/a>. He’s backed local measures in Los Angeles County to require condoms, which \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_Porn_Actors_Required_to_Wear_Condoms_Act,_Measure_B_(November_2012)\">passed\u003c/a>, but enforcement has, again, been minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every turn, the adult film industry has fought hard against condom mandates. They say it will force them to make products that won’t sell, driving the business underground or out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11153923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11153923\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Adult film performers rally against Proposition 60 outside Michael Weinstein’s office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-960x680.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-240x170.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-375x266.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Prop60Protesters-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult film performers rally against Proposition 60 outside Michael Weinstein’s office. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In mid-October, more than 100 adult film performers rallied outside Weinstein’s office in Los Angeles to protest Proposition 60. They chanted slogans like “Our Bodies, Our Choice!” and carried signs that said “Where is Weinstein?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say they prefer to rely on the industry’s bimonthly testing protocol over condoms. Performer Ela Darling says condoms don’t work on porn sets — they’re uncomfortable and cause friction rashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sex you have on camera isn’t like the sex you have at home,” she says. “It’s like Olympic-level, athletic sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s frustrated that Weinstein is ignoring their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He will not hear us, he will not speak to us, but he’s happy speaking\u003cem> for\u003c/em> us,” she says. “And that’s the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein defends his refusal to meet with the adult film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to put myself in a position of debating people where all they do is call me names,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. Weinstein’s critics have called him bombastic, a bully. They compare him to Donald Trump. They post tweets that refer to him as the Condom Nazi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In case they haven’t noticed, I’m Jewish and I’m gay, OK,” he says. “It makes my skin curl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein says he’s never liked the limelight. He’s had to develop a thick skin to stay in this business, to stand up for what he believes is the moral thing to do, for what he believes is his responsibility toward young generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s clear that the criticism bothers him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been hurt,” says Sharon Raphael, an old friend and fellow activist. “I know that it hurts him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she adds, everyone knows he’s a force to be reckoned with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When most people would be down and out, strike three, he’d get up again,” she says. “He never gives up. Ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When California \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/historical-absentee/\" target=\"_blank\">first offered \u003c/a>voters the option of mail-in or absentee ballots in 1962, less than 3 percent of ballots were cast that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, the state began allowing Californians the option of signing up to be permanent absentee voters for any reason at all. Since then, the percentage of ballots cast by mail has steadily climbed, and when all the votes are counted in the Nov. 8 election, over 60 percent of the votes will be cast by mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do you make sure your ballot gets there on time to be counted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many voters, perhaps still nostalgic for old-timey elections, physically drop off their mail-in ballots at their local polling place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you put your ballot in the mailbox, the first question is, \"Do I need to put a stamp or two on it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is, \"it depends.\" Alpine and Sierra counties have mail-in-ballot-only elections and cover the cost of postage. Until very recently, the only other county that paid the cost of postage voluntarily was San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tide is turning, says Kim Alexander, president and founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/voter/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Santa Cruz is covering postage for the first time this year,\" Alexander says. \"It's an important new trend!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Alexander says other counties, mostly in the Bay Area, also pay for postage now. They include Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Plumas counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're not in one of those counties, how much postage do you use? It's not as straightforward as you might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve found that in Alameda the county advises voters to affix two 'forever' stamps if they are voting three cards, and three 'forever' stamps if they are voting four cards,\" Alexander says. She adds that Los Angeles County says one stamp is enough, while Contra Costa, Sacramento and San Diego counties are advising 68 cents worth of postage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to potential confusion, says Alexander, Sacramento's return envelope says \"place \u003cem>stamp\u003c/em> here,\" even though more than one stamp is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don't worry too much about your vote not counting for lack of postage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The counties all have agreements with the post offices to cover insufficient postage costs, but most voters don't know that,\" Alexander says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Additional postage will be required to return your vote-by-mail ballot envelope by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/alco_ssl_app/rov/voter_info/voter_profile.jsp?formLanguage=E\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage? Yes. Two stamps. BUT if you live in a precinct that has less than 250 voters, you and all the voters in your precinct may be sent a vote-by-mail ballot. For this type of ballot, you will receive a postage-paid envelope in which to return your ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cocovote.us/current-election/track-my-vote-by-mail-ballot/#VotebyMailBallotSearch\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage: Not required. 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If you are a permanent VBM voter, you are required to pay postage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you VBM because you live in an area without a polling place, you don’t have to pay postage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were required to pay postage and accidentally forgot to, the post office is instructed to forward your ballot to Napa County and they will pay for your postage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://secure.countyofnapa.org/VoterInfo/\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage: Postage paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfelections.org/tools/vbmstatus/\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage: Postage paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shapethefuture.org/MyElectionMaterials/\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage: Postage paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eservices.sccgov.org/rov?tab=ab\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage: Yes and no, depending on where you live. If you don’t have a precinct in your area, you should have a postage-paid ballot. If not, your ballot requires one regular stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/rov/voting_by_mail/vbmstatus.asp\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Postage: Return postage for \"Mailed Ballot Only\" voters is paid by the Registrar of Voters Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://secure.sonoma-county.org/vote/vote_by_mail_ballot_status.aspx?sid=1070\" target=\"_blank\">Track your ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ericka Cruz Guevarra contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Update: This story was changed to reflect the fact that the California Voter Foundation did \u003cem>not\u003c/em> oppose SB 450 but rather was \u003cem>neutral\u003c/em> on it. Also Alpine and Sierra counties are not compelled to pay postage for mail-in ballots. 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"content": "\u003cp>What difference can a city tax make of 1 cent per ounce on distributors of sugary drinks? Plenty, if you look at the flood of money going into two Bay Area ballot measures proposing that tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign contributions for and against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland rose to more than $46 million, making these local contests two of the most expensive in California this election. The vast majority of that money comes from just three out-of-state funding sources, according to campaign finance reports, pointing to the high stakes and potential nationwide reach of these election battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, representing giants like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, has spent $28.7 million fighting the taxes in San Francisco and Oakland. Meanwhile, billionaires Michael Bloomberg of New York and Texans John and Laura Arnold have injected more than $17 million into the pro-tax campaign advertisements, mostly during recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay town of Albany\u003cu>,\u003c/u> with just 19,000 residents, is also proposing a similar soda tax. The ABA has spent $185,000 to fight that measure, while supporters have raised only about $6,200, with the biggest donation from the American Heart Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Bay Area measures aim to raise significant funds — about \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Controller%20Statement%20Prop%20V%20-%20Tax%20on%20Distributing%20Sugar-sweetened%20Beverages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$15 million\u003c/a> in San Francisco, $6 million in Oakland and $220,000 in Albany per year — for health and education programs to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks and stem a growing Type 2 diabetes epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities that might be considering a similar tax in other states are paying attention, say political observers. Voters in Berkeley became the first in the U.S. to pass a soda tax in 2014. Will larger cities like San Francisco and Oakland follow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles whose work focuses on campaign finance and ethics, said the “extraordinary” amount of money fueling the Bay Area soda tax contests has to do with the nationwide ramifications of this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American Beverage Association has spent a lot of money on these municipal measures, but I think they understand that they probably have more to lose if this passes,” Levinson said. “If there’s a soda tax in San Francisco and/or Oakland, then it will send a signal to cities throughout the state and probably throughout the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the ABA-funded “No on Grocery Tax” campaign has blanketed voters with mailers and ads that often feature small-business owners of color saying the tax could hurt them and low-income residents. They argue that distributors will pass on the cost of a soda tax to small-business owners, who might raise the prices of other food products they sell to stay competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University, said the ABA’s strategy aims to drive a divide among progressives along race and income differences on a key issue for many Bay Area voters: cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are giving people reasons to sort of be on different sides of the issue. That might make the decision harder for some voters, and therefore more likely to vote no,” said McDaniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s soda tax has not worked like a tax on groceries, according to research by UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the Oakland-based Public Health Institute. 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Cordova said the campaign emphasizes nonviolence in its messaging to its volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said recent events, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/26/65789/donald-trump-s-destroyed-hollywood-star-is-already/\">damage to Trump’s star\u003c/a> on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, have some on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re careful about our volunteers, to make sure we don’t put them in harm’s way ... it is a concern,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worry Trump’s rhetoric may spur \u003cem>his\u003c/em> supporters into violence. 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We want all voters to be able to cast an informed ballot and to have a positive experience in this election,” Kitamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11153852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11153852\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"A sign points the way to a San Francisco polling place.\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-960x619.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points the way to a San Francisco polling place. \u003ccite>(Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karin Wang, Advancing Justice Los Angeles vice president of programs and communications, added: “I think all of us have a pretty strong fear that we might see things this year that we haven’t seen in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.naleo.org/\">National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund\u003c/a> (NALEO) recently asked the Justice Department to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/17/65649/latino-civic-engagement-group-presses-feds-for-und/\">help ensure disruption-free elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are most concerned about is anybody who takes it upon themselves to be their own poll watchers, and to try to determine who is and who is not eligible to vote simply because of their appearance,\" said Arturo Vargas, executive director of NALEO, a nonpartisan group based in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said she knows of several dozen Trump volunteers who will be traveling to Riverside to monitor the polls for any problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 100,000 Trump volunteers in California, according to Trump’s California communications director, Jon Cordova. Cordova said the campaign emphasizes nonviolence in its messaging to its volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said recent events, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/26/65789/donald-trump-s-destroyed-hollywood-star-is-already/\">damage to Trump’s star\u003c/a> on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, have some on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re careful about our volunteers, to make sure we don’t put them in harm’s way ... it is a concern,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worry Trump’s rhetoric may spur \u003cem>his\u003c/em> supporters into violence. Several of Trump events, including a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/28/60110/protests-outside-trump-rally-close-streets-in-cost/\">rally he held in Costa Mesa\u003c/a> in April, have turned violent with supporters or protesters clashing with police or each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, hundreds of nonpartisan volunteers will also be monitoring polling locations in California on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice California\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan group that advocates for Asians and voting rights, plans to send 600 trained volunteers to polling places in 25 counties, including Riverside and Orange, to help voters with limited English proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group also said volunteers will be on the lookout for voters who are \"intimidated or harassed, and if voters are being asked to show identification inappropriately, among other issues,” Deanna Kitamura, the group's Voting Rights Project director, stated in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our monitors observe or report any major issues, we will be in immediate contact with election officials on Election Day. We want all voters to be able to cast an informed ballot and to have a positive experience in this election,” Kitamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11153852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11153852\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"A sign points the way to a San Francisco polling place.\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-960x619.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PollingPlaceSign-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points the way to a San Francisco polling place. \u003ccite>(Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karin Wang, Advancing Justice Los Angeles vice president of programs and communications, added: “I think all of us have a pretty strong fear that we might see things this year that we haven’t seen in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.naleo.org/\">National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund\u003c/a> (NALEO) recently asked the Justice Department to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/17/65649/latino-civic-engagement-group-presses-feds-for-und/\">help ensure disruption-free elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are most concerned about is anybody who takes it upon themselves to be their own poll watchers, and to try to determine who is and who is not eligible to vote simply because of their appearance,\" said Arturo Vargas, executive director of NALEO, a nonpartisan group based in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Proposition 61 Gives California Mandate to Lower Drug Prices, Not Tools",
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"content": "\u003cp>No California ballot fight has attracted more money or bigger names than Proposition 61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents call it the only initiative in the country that could rein in rising drug prices. Pharmaceutical companies have spent nearly $110 million to oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But politics aside, experts see a problem with the measure. They question whether California could implement the law and what the consequences would be, if it can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The battle comes amid national outrage at drug manufacturers that have hiked the cost of specialty drugs, including EpiPens and HIV and Hepatitis C treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290803590\" 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>The Meat of the Proposal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">California buys a lot of drugs. Medi-Cal pays for low-income residents, the Department of Corrections provides them to inmates, and CalPERS gives them to state employees and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents of Proposition 61 think those agencies can band together to force prices lower, and the measure is very specific about how low: It would prohibit the state from paying any more for a drug than the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Why use the Department of Veterans Affairs as the marker?” says Proposition 61 campaign strategist Garry South. “Because the Department of Veterans Affairs, under federal law, gets the lowest prices for prescription drugs of any government agency, state or federal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The VA’s Bargain Basement Prices\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The VA does get a mandatory discount, as South says -- typically at least 24 percent off the average wholesale price of a brand-name drug. But that’s not much different than state Medicaid programs, including Medi-Cal, which receive a 23.1 percent discount by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“On top of that, the VA can negotiate further discounts,” says Boston University economist Austin Frakt. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcfe.research.va.gov/docs/wp_2011_04.pdf\">a 2011 report\u003c/a> he produced for the agency, Frakt found it buys drugs for 40 percent less than Medicare pays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But, that comes with a catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“One way they are aided in their negotiation is that they are not required to cover all drugs,” says Frakt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The VA restricts access to some drugs, requiring physicians to first try cheaper alternatives or document why they can’t. That allows the agency to give one drug more market share and put tight restrictions on a competitor. Companies that want their drugs in VA hospitals have an incentive to offer low prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The VA has other advantages when negotiating, says Walid Gellad, director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">It employs doctors and prescribers directly, giving it tighter control over the medicines they distribute, compared to other government health systems that rely on private doctors and pharmacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The department also purchases drugs itself, rather than reimbursing for what outside doctors prescribe, as Medicare and Medicaid do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It’s also a place that trains a lot of future doctors,” says Gellad. “I think that’s important for pharmaceutical manufacturers — to have their drug present in a place where a lot of people are training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Can California Match Those Prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“You can understand when someone goes to the ballot, it just makes complete sense: ‘If the VA pays this much, why should I pay more?’ ” says Gellad. “But it’s so much more complicated than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proposition 61 would require Medi-Cal to get VA prices for about 3 million of its patients (it excludes other Medi-Cal patients, who are on managed care plans). Rachel Sachs, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis who studies drug pricing, says it’s unlikely the state can produce the same leverage as the VA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There are a whole set of legal obstacles, before this initiative can actually reduce prices in the way that its sponsors want,” says Sachs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While Medi-Cal can create a preferred drug list, the federal government ultimately decides which medicines the state must pay for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Medi-Cal has to cover the drugs,” says Sachs. “So, telling Medi-Cal it can only pay the VA prices doesn’t give the state the bargaining power to walk away from the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents say it would be up to the state to figure out the mechanics. South, the Yes on 61 campaign strategist, says the reaction from pharmaceutical companies proves the measure would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There’s a reason why the drug companies have aggregated $90 million to fight this measure (it rose to nearly $110 million after this interview),” says South. “It’s not because they have a great deal of confidence in their ability to walk away from the California market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Can California Even See the VA’s Prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">One common criticism of Proposition 61 is that the Department of Veterans Affairs does not release its lowest prices, so California agencies may simply be unable to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It may be impossible for CalPERS or (the California Department of Health Care Services, which runs Medi-Cal) to discover the lowest price paid for the same drug by the VA,” says an \u003ca href=\"/media/7789997/CalPERS%20analysis%20of%20Prop%2061.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">analysis of Proposition 61 by CalPERS staff.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Garry South calls this “a mythology that has developed over many years by people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He says only a small fraction of drugs, which the VA buys ad hoc and in bulk for lower prices from drug companies, do not show up on publicly published lists. The department confirms this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But Gellad says it’s that small group of drugs that are often the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“When people say they want lower prices, it’s not that they want lower prices for generic medicines,” says Gellad. “They want lower prices for Hepatitis C drugs, for drugs like HIV, things like that, for which the VA negotiates prices which are lower than is publicly known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>What if the State Can’t See or Get the Required Prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Instead of embracing the measure, state agencies that would presumably save money under it have sounded notes of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">CalPERS says it may not be able to get the required drug prices, forcing it to breach its contracts with the third-party pharmacies and insurers it relies on and leaving members without access to medicines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The retirement system would likely have to implement emergency regulations to join with other state agencies and begin purchasing drugs itself — less than eight months after voters approve the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It is doubtful such a massive build-out could be accomplished by the Act’s compliance date of July 1, 2017,” the staff analysis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Neither CalPERS nor the Department of Health Care Services has taken an official position on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But, if Medi-Cal similarly could not achieve the VA prices — and therefore couldn’t purchase drugs — it would violate federal rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There’s a number of choices,” says Mike Wofford, the DHCS chief of pharmacy policy. “The state could be penalized. The state Medicaid services could be taken away, in a last resort kind of thing. But, typically it’s a penalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>As Goes California...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proposition 61’s biggest endorsers are Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — who has stumped for the measure around the state and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Fanyx06as\">cut an ad\u003c/a> for it — and AARP. The powerful lobby for retired people has backed the measure, its first in the state since 2008. California advocacy director Blanca Castro says the organization wants California to set a national precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/embed/y6Fanyx06as\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It’s going to be a game changer,” she says. “If it passes, we are going to be able to see other states follow suit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But the organization acknowledges potential problems in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“The fact of the matter is that with every legislation, every initiative, there’s some risk. But, in this case, for AARP that’s not an excuse for doing nothing,” says Mark Beach, the associate state director. “From our perspective, those things could happen, people could file lawsuits, but we can’t just do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Hurting Veterans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Several veterans groups, including the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, have opposed the measure on the grounds that it could raise their drug prices. And they’ve starred in ads against Proposition 61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents call that an empty threat, arguing that federal law requires the discounts. The VA disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This measure has the potential for significant negative financial impact to VA if drug manufacturers stop providing VA with large discounts it is currently able to negotiate,” \u003ca href=\"/media/7789984/VA%20Memo%20re%20Impact%20of%20Prop%2061%20Given%20to%20LAO.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">an issue brief\u003c/a> from the department says. “VA should assume … the pharmaceutical industry will react by eliminating all non-statutorily required and non-contractually required VA pharmaceutical discounts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The brief estimates the VA could lose nearly $4 billion per year, once its current contracts with drugmakers expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>No California ballot fight has attracted more money or bigger names than Proposition 61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents call it the only initiative in the country that could rein in rising drug prices. Pharmaceutical companies have spent nearly $110 million to oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But politics aside, experts see a problem with the measure. They question whether California could implement the law and what the consequences would be, if it can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The battle comes amid national outrage at drug manufacturers that have hiked the cost of specialty drugs, including EpiPens and HIV and Hepatitis C treatments.\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/290803590&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/290803590'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Meat of the Proposal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">California buys a lot of drugs. Medi-Cal pays for low-income residents, the Department of Corrections provides them to inmates, and CalPERS gives them to state employees and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents of Proposition 61 think those agencies can band together to force prices lower, and the measure is very specific about how low: It would prohibit the state from paying any more for a drug than the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Why use the Department of Veterans Affairs as the marker?” says Proposition 61 campaign strategist Garry South. “Because the Department of Veterans Affairs, under federal law, gets the lowest prices for prescription drugs of any government agency, state or federal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The VA’s Bargain Basement Prices\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The VA does get a mandatory discount, as South says -- typically at least 24 percent off the average wholesale price of a brand-name drug. But that’s not much different than state Medicaid programs, including Medi-Cal, which receive a 23.1 percent discount by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“On top of that, the VA can negotiate further discounts,” says Boston University economist Austin Frakt. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcfe.research.va.gov/docs/wp_2011_04.pdf\">a 2011 report\u003c/a> he produced for the agency, Frakt found it buys drugs for 40 percent less than Medicare pays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But, that comes with a catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“One way they are aided in their negotiation is that they are not required to cover all drugs,” says Frakt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The VA restricts access to some drugs, requiring physicians to first try cheaper alternatives or document why they can’t. That allows the agency to give one drug more market share and put tight restrictions on a competitor. Companies that want their drugs in VA hospitals have an incentive to offer low prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The VA has other advantages when negotiating, says Walid Gellad, director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">It employs doctors and prescribers directly, giving it tighter control over the medicines they distribute, compared to other government health systems that rely on private doctors and pharmacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The department also purchases drugs itself, rather than reimbursing for what outside doctors prescribe, as Medicare and Medicaid do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It’s also a place that trains a lot of future doctors,” says Gellad. “I think that’s important for pharmaceutical manufacturers — to have their drug present in a place where a lot of people are training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Can California Match Those Prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“You can understand when someone goes to the ballot, it just makes complete sense: ‘If the VA pays this much, why should I pay more?’ ” says Gellad. “But it’s so much more complicated than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proposition 61 would require Medi-Cal to get VA prices for about 3 million of its patients (it excludes other Medi-Cal patients, who are on managed care plans). Rachel Sachs, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis who studies drug pricing, says it’s unlikely the state can produce the same leverage as the VA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There are a whole set of legal obstacles, before this initiative can actually reduce prices in the way that its sponsors want,” says Sachs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While Medi-Cal can create a preferred drug list, the federal government ultimately decides which medicines the state must pay for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Medi-Cal has to cover the drugs,” says Sachs. “So, telling Medi-Cal it can only pay the VA prices doesn’t give the state the bargaining power to walk away from the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proponents say it would be up to the state to figure out the mechanics. South, the Yes on 61 campaign strategist, says the reaction from pharmaceutical companies proves the measure would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There’s a reason why the drug companies have aggregated $90 million to fight this measure (it rose to nearly $110 million after this interview),” says South. “It’s not because they have a great deal of confidence in their ability to walk away from the California market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Can California Even See the VA’s Prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">One common criticism of Proposition 61 is that the Department of Veterans Affairs does not release its lowest prices, so California agencies may simply be unable to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It may be impossible for CalPERS or (the California Department of Health Care Services, which runs Medi-Cal) to discover the lowest price paid for the same drug by the VA,” says an \u003ca href=\"/media/7789997/CalPERS%20analysis%20of%20Prop%2061.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">analysis of Proposition 61 by CalPERS staff.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Garry South calls this “a mythology that has developed over many years by people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He says only a small fraction of drugs, which the VA buys ad hoc and in bulk for lower prices from drug companies, do not show up on publicly published lists. The department confirms this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But Gellad says it’s that small group of drugs that are often the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“When people say they want lower prices, it’s not that they want lower prices for generic medicines,” says Gellad. “They want lower prices for Hepatitis C drugs, for drugs like HIV, things like that, for which the VA negotiates prices which are lower than is publicly known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>What if the State Can’t See or Get the Required Prices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Instead of embracing the measure, state agencies that would presumably save money under it have sounded notes of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">CalPERS says it may not be able to get the required drug prices, forcing it to breach its contracts with the third-party pharmacies and insurers it relies on and leaving members without access to medicines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The retirement system would likely have to implement emergency regulations to join with other state agencies and begin purchasing drugs itself — less than eight months after voters approve the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“It is doubtful such a massive build-out could be accomplished by the Act’s compliance date of July 1, 2017,” the staff analysis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Neither CalPERS nor the Department of Health Care Services has taken an official position on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But, if Medi-Cal similarly could not achieve the VA prices — and therefore couldn’t purchase drugs — it would violate federal rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There’s a number of choices,” says Mike Wofford, the DHCS chief of pharmacy policy. “The state could be penalized. The state Medicaid services could be taken away, in a last resort kind of thing. But, typically it’s a penalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>As Goes California...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Proposition 61’s biggest endorsers are Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — who has stumped for the measure around the state and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Fanyx06as\">cut an ad\u003c/a> for it — and AARP. The powerful lobby for retired people has backed the measure, its first in the state since 2008. 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"content": "\u003cp>Across the Bay Area this year, police departments have been rocked by allegations of officer misconduct, and several police chiefs have lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Santa Clara -- the only city in California to elect its police chief -- there's a different kind of controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race between incumbent Police Chief Mike Sellers and Sgt. Pat Nikolai, longtime president of the \u003ca href=\"http://sccpoa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara Police Officers' Association\u003c/a>, is hinging on the city's new Levi's Stadium and the power and money of the 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290273091\" 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>Julie Kenrow, who has lived in Santa Clara's historic district for 16 years, said the police are overwhelmed by the 49ers because of all the security needed at Levi's Stadium for games and special events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was never for the stadium,\" said Kenrow. \"I just didn't think Santa Clara was the right fit for the team, because I think we're too small for that club and we got kind of bulldozed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Levi's opened in 2014, Santa Clara voters tried not to be bulldozed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They approved\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Voter%20Education/Voter%20Information%20Pamphlet/Documents/Measure-J.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Measure J\u003c/a>, prohibiting the use of their tax money for stadium operations, including policing. The 49ers are required to pay $170,000 for public safety costs per game at Levi's, according to the terms of the team's lease. The problem? Security costs have consistently run over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/new-santa-clara-mayor-vows-openness-in-dealings-with-49ers-developers/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor\u003c/a> said some of the security cost overruns are being billed to the city's general fund, eating up taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's my understanding it's still going on,\" Gillmor said. \"We have to stop the bleeding now. We have to stop it because I've heard from police officers and firefighters that it's still happening in Santa Clara.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillmor said Sellers, who was elected chief in 2012 before the stadium opened, has failed to pressure the 49ers for more money when the team's management wants more cops to deal with parking lot brawls. She is supporting Nikolai for police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't have a private business, which the 49ers are, making public safety decisions for our city,\" Gillmor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sellers says it's unfair to blame him for the city leaders' decision to cap the amount of money the 49ers must pay; he wasn't even chief at the time. Sellers thinks the 49ers should be responsible for all security costs. After all, he said, the city and team are in a long-term lease, and they have to get along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11147186\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11147186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara Police Chief Mike Sellers campaigns in front of Levi's Stadium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21637_FullSizeRender-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Police Chief Mike Sellers campaigns in front of Levi's Stadium. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot get a divorce after two years, two and a half, three years,\" Sellers said. \"We've got 40 years here, and we've got to make it work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rival Nikolai said Sellers hasn't been tough enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he could have stepped up a long time ago and gotten more money from the 49ers. He did nothing,\" Nikolai said. \"He just kept working under the assumption that what the 49ers were paying was good enough, and that's not acceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11147189\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11147189 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sergeant Pat Nikolai gets Julie Kenrow's vote telling her the 49'ers will pay for all security.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara police Sgt. Pat Nikolai gets Julie Kenrow's vote telling her the 49ers will pay for all security. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nikolai said he looks at the 49ers strictly as a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're in the business of making money, and they're doing a very good job of that,\" Nikolai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49ers issued a statement that said: \"The Stadium Authority is structured so that the City of Santa Clara is not liable for the debts or obligations of the Stadium Authority. All services provided by the City to the Stadium Manager or Stadium Authority are fully reimbursed. The public safety costs are tracked by the City, per event, and invoices are sent to the Stadium Manager once costs are known. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was never for the stadium,\" said Kenrow. \"I just didn't think Santa Clara was the right fit for the team, because I think we're too small for that club and we got kind of bulldozed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Levi's opened in 2014, Santa Clara voters tried not to be bulldozed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They approved\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Voter%20Education/Voter%20Information%20Pamphlet/Documents/Measure-J.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Measure J\u003c/a>, prohibiting the use of their tax money for stadium operations, including policing. The 49ers are required to pay $170,000 for public safety costs per game at Levi's, according to the terms of the team's lease. The problem? Security costs have consistently run over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/new-santa-clara-mayor-vows-openness-in-dealings-with-49ers-developers/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor\u003c/a> said some of the security cost overruns are being billed to the city's general fund, eating up taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's my understanding it's still going on,\" Gillmor said. \"We have to stop the bleeding now. We have to stop it because I've heard from police officers and firefighters that it's still happening in Santa Clara.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillmor said Sellers, who was elected chief in 2012 before the stadium opened, has failed to pressure the 49ers for more money when the team's management wants more cops to deal with parking lot brawls. She is supporting Nikolai for police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't have a private business, which the 49ers are, making public safety decisions for our city,\" Gillmor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sellers says it's unfair to blame him for the city leaders' decision to cap the amount of money the 49ers must pay; he wasn't even chief at the time. Sellers thinks the 49ers should be responsible for all security costs. 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He did nothing,\" Nikolai said. \"He just kept working under the assumption that what the 49ers were paying was good enough, and that's not acceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11147189\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11147189 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sergeant Pat Nikolai gets Julie Kenrow's vote telling her the 49'ers will pay for all security.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21639_FullSizeRender-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara police Sgt. Pat Nikolai gets Julie Kenrow's vote telling her the 49ers will pay for all security. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nikolai said he looks at the 49ers strictly as a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're in the business of making money, and they're doing a very good job of that,\" Nikolai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49ers issued a statement that said: \"The Stadium Authority is structured so that the City of Santa Clara is not liable for the debts or obligations of the Stadium Authority. All services provided by the City to the Stadium Manager or Stadium Authority are fully reimbursed. The public safety costs are tracked by the City, per event, and invoices are sent to the Stadium Manager once costs are known. The 49ers have paid all invoices from the City upon receipt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://santaclaraca.gov/government/stadium-authority/stadium-authority-board\" target=\"_blank\">Stadium Authority's board\u003c/a> is comprised of the seven members of the Santa Clara City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sellers said allegations that he is not tough enough with the 49ers are politically motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/14/santa-clara-audit-of-levis-stadium-finances-finds-potential-measure-j-violations/\" target=\"_blank\">An audit\u003c/a> ordered by Gillmor found that the city has used public money to pay for operations at Levi's Stadium, which is in violation of Measure J. 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