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San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Zakhary Mallett*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mallettforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roland Emerson\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RBEmerson3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/RBEmerson3\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will Roscoe\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roscoeforbart.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lateefah Simon\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.lateefahforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lateefahforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 9 (Central San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gwyneth Borden\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bordenforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bordenforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bevan Dufty\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bevandufty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bevandufty.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michael Petrelis\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PetrelisFiles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/PetrelisFiles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>*\u003cem>Incumbent\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If you don't know who your director is, by the way, that's not all on you. Your local news outlets, maybe even the one you're checking out right now, could probably pay more consistent attention to what's going on with all the stuff the board does. (Who's your board member? Take a look at \u003ca href=\"#bartmap\">the map\u003c/a> at the bottom of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of familiarity appears to be reflected in how people vote, or simply don't vote at all, in BART board races. In 2012 and 2014, for instance, about one in four people who cast ballots refrained from voting for anyone in the BART contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his year, voters will fill five of the nine BART board seats. Those five contests, along with \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856855/measure-rr-asks-bay-area-voters-to-approve-3-5-billion-for-bart-improvements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure RR\u003c/a>, the agency's $3.5 billion infrastructure bond, could have a profound impact on the transit system's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 2016 campaigns for both the board seats and the bond measure have become, to a large extent, a referendum on both the current frayed state of the system and the 2013 strikes that twice shut down service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the state of the system: Any frequent rider can tell you that BART, which last fiscal year recorded an average of 433,000 weekday passenger trips compared to 345,000 five years ago, is overcrowded. Rush-hour trains are so packed that they often leave riders behind at its most heavily used Oakland and San Francisco stations. And those stations are more jammed than they've ever been. Average weekday exits at San Francisco's Embarcadero station, BART's busiest, have risen from 35,603 in fiscal 2010-11 to 47,643 in 2015-16, an increase of 34 percent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any rider can tell you that breakdowns are just one all-too-common feature of the BART experience. Among other frequent BART complaints:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Some stations and trains are dirty -- \"filthy\" is \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22bart%22%20%22filthy%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a frequently used adjective\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fares\u003c/a> are high, ranging from $1.95 one way on short hops to $7.75 for the longest run on the system, Pittsburg/Bay Point to Millbrae. (We're excluding the premium passengers pay to ride to San Francisco International Airport. Also note: youth and senior fares are a fraction of that cost, ranging from 70 cents to $2.90 one way).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Crime on the system is an issue that gained attention after a fatal shooting last January on a train in West Oakland. That incident led to the disclosure that virtually all the \"security cameras\" on BART trains are decoys, not the real thing.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s to the hangover from the 2013 strikes: BART critics, notably state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, and East Bay Times columnist Daniel Borenstein, argue that the agency's board and management caved in when they settled the labor dispute with worker unions -- an agreement that included a 15.8 percent wage increase. They also criticize a four-year contract extension negotiated earlier this year as too costly and doing nothing to head off future work stoppages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That critique has expanded, with Glazer blasting the board as irresponsible and \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11060910/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urging voters\u003c/a> to replace three of the four incumbents who are standing for re-election next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289028132&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer is backing up the talk with cash, with campaign finance reports through Thursday showing his state Senate re-election committee has donated a total of $24,000 to three board candidates: District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett, who was the only board member to vote against the labor contracts, and challengers Debora Allen and Jennifer Hosterman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/about_debora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen\u003c/a> is a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and business consultant who ran as a Republican in an unsuccessful bid earlier this year for the state Assembly. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 1 \u003c/a>incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gail Murray\u003c/a>, a transportation industry consultant who is trying for her fourth term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hosterman\u003c/a> is a lawyer, real estate agent and former mayor of Pleasanton. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 5\u003c/a> incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John McPartland\u003c/a>, a retired Army colonel, chief officer for the Oakland Fire Department and BART safety specialist, who is seeking his third term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The two other board seats to be filled are in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 3\u003c/a>, in which incumbent Rebecca Saltzman is running against former Moraga City Councilman Ken Chew and two other challengers, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 9\u003c/a>, a seat vacated by BART Board President Tom Radulovich. Bevan Dufty, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and former chief of the city's homeless initiatives, is running against Gwyneth Borden, a member of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board, and longtime community activist Michael Petrelis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll the races may be competitive -- it's hard to tell without \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a> breaking down the numbers. But the race that could say the most about the future of BART and its board is the above-mentioned District 7, where contract critic Zakhary Mallett, now finishing his first term on the board, is facing off with three others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three challengers are Oakland residents: Roland Emerson, who \u003ca href=\"https://acgreens.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/roland_emerson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes himself\u003c/a> in a Green Party questionnaire as \"a working-class BART rider\" who wants to correct BART's decline; Will Roscoe, an engineer whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/updates/why-is-a-new-paradigm-needed-for-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint for BART\u003c/a> would essentially scrap train service in favor of developing a far-flung regional network of self-driving electric buses; and Lateefah Simon, a 2003 MacArthur \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/fellows/720/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"genius grant\" recipient\u003c/a> and politically well-connected social justice campaigner who currently serves on the California State University Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main contest here -- as illustrated both by some high-profile endorsements and campaign fundraising -- is between Mallett (pronounced ma-LAY) and Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29-year-old Mallett, who holds a master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and drives for Uber as he works to start up a business as a transportation consultant, has won the endorsements of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Re-elect-Mallett-for-BART-9972747.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/21/editorial-bart-needs-allen-mallett-hosterman-chew-east-bay-times/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>. Both praise him for standing against the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, 39, is president of Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://akonadi.org/akonadi/mission-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akonadi Foundation\u003c/a>, an organization founded by major Democratic Party donors \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Obama-s-Piedmont-backers-an-emerging-force-3726863.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan\u003c/a> that focuses its philanthropy on racial justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's career working in social justice organizations has yielded a collection of big-name endorsements, including state Attorney General Kamala Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That backing is matched by fundraising that, while small potatoes in a state where donors have shoved \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138545/donors-pour-record-450-million-into-california-initiatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mountains of cash\u003c/a> into statewide initiative campaigns, is unusually robust for a typically low-key, and low-dollar, transit board race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Simon's campaign had reported raising about $240,000. Most of the money has come in more than 1,000 individual donations, the campaign says, many of them in the $10 to $50 range. Campaign reports detail hundreds of larger donations from contributors including Olis Simmons, head of East Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a>, BART board member Nick Josefowitz and Silicon Valley philanthropist \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/tech-philanthropy/2013/9/12/meet-cari-tuna-the-woman-giving-away-dustin-moskovitzs-faceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cari Tuna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon has also gotten major donations in the last month from two groups sponsored by the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of BART's unions, and progressive community groups. The Richmond Working Families committee has donated $23,000 in cash and in-kind support like canvassing; a parallel committee, Oakland Working Families, has contributed $16,000 to Simon's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records show Mallett has raised just over $62,000 to date. His biggest donor: Steve Glazer's campaign committee, which has given him $9,000 so far -- $8,000 of that in two contributions last week. San Ramon's United Contractors Association PAC has kicked in $8,000. Republic Urban Properties, which is developing \u003ca href=\"http://www.republicfamilyofcompanies.com/developments/development-detail/republic-millbrae-bart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a residential and commercial project\u003c/a> at BART's Millbrae Station, has donated $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett's other major donors are BART contractors, including Taber Construction, which has given $3,000 in this election cycle, and East Bay engineering contractor Kal Krishnan and his firm, which together have donated $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>allett says that high among his priorities if he's re-elected to the board will be pursuing a BART expansion from Richmond up along the Interstate 80 corridor to San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11144266 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg\" alt=\"BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur station.\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1920x1327.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur Station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That idea \"has moved further in the last two years than in the 20 years prior,\" Mallett said in an interview at MacArthur BART. He also champions in-fill development projects at MacArthur and down the line at BART's West Oakland Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his main concern, he says, is finance -- and that leads directly to discussion of the agency's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Labor costs are out of control and unreasonable,\" Mallett says. \"The sorts of benefits we give our workforce from the top to the bottom are not heard of in most environments, and the work rules are woefully deficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says workers are not paying enough into their pensions and criticizes contract provisions that guarantee what he calls \"nominal\" rates -- currently $137 a month -- for family medical coverage. Among the work rules he wants changed is one \u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com/accomplishments-priorities/financially-responsible/costly-bart-contract-provisions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he says\u003c/a> allows BART train operators to work just 4½ hours in an eight-hour workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett also wants to get rid of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/01/barts-free-ride-program-among-bay-areas-most-generous/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a policy\u003c/a> that gives BART workers free rides for life -- and extends the benefit to their spouses and to children up to the age of 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think workers having free rides while they're working at BART is one thing,\" Mallett said. \"But for it to be extended to as many family members as it is and to continue after retirement are the two big sores that I have\" with the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett implicitly endorses Glazer's call for a new group of BART directors who will address the contract issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to take interest in this election cycle and put into BART leadership those who they feel will be fiscally responsible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>imon's campaign focuses on her daily experience as a legally blind single mom who's completely reliant on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144269\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/simon.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/simon-1020x1596.jpg\" alt=\"BART board candidate Lateefah Simon, outside Oakland's 12th Street station. \" width=\"400\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11144269\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART board candidate Lateefah Simon, outside Oakland's 12th Street station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm running for my life,\" she says. \"If the BART system doesn't work, guess what? I can't bring my kid to school. And there are tens of thousands of other disabled folks in the Bay Area, elderly folks, children and families who are actually relying on this system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's \u003ca href=\"https://www.lateefahforbart.com/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">program for fixing BART\u003c/a> starts with making the agency's finances more transparent to the public and making the system more affordable and accessible. But she says she feels that the focus on BART's labor costs and union contracts is divisive and counterproductive, and that BART management and labor unions have made progress in building a more cooperative relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won't throw workers under the bus,\" Simon says. \"I'll have a sophisticated conversation about how we work with labor and develop really good relationships with labor instead of pushing the media to have a visceral reaction to the very difficult work labor and management are doing to create some peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon takes issue with a view voiced explicitly by the East Bay Times that she's labor's \"chosen candidate,\" on the ballot with a mission to unseat Mallett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anybody who knows my career knows I've never been bought or bossed by anybody,\" she says. \"The $500 million labor cost of a $1.8 billion budget -- of course we need to look at that line by line every single year in partnership with labor, in partnership with real workers, in partnership with fiscal experts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon adds she won't accept contributions from BART contractors and would like to restrict contributions from those who bid on work for the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What riders deserve and what they need is a pretty pure voice,\" she says. \"I want to partner with real stakeholders and not just folks who are interested in contracts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here's one thing that Simon and Mallett pretty much agree on: Measure RR, the $3.5 billion BART bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says that while he agrees with those who have expressed concerns about BART's \"historic financial mismanagement,\" the need for money to help revamp the system's infrastructure is a separate issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to reinvest in BART, period,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon gives Measure RR an unqualified endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need the public to invest again in the transit system, to make it safer, to make it reliable and to make it faster,\" she says. \"This is an opportunity, but when we pass this measure, what I want to happen is to regain the public's trust again. That means we have to spend it well -- they have to see new cars, they have to see a habitual fixing up of the system every single day. ... We have to think about continuous care for our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1Rr1dKRdePfUMMDPIr6PniD7USw0\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday 7:05 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he BART Board of Directors is probably the most influential elected body in the Bay Area that most people seem to know nearly nothing about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine members of the BART board play a huge part in the lives of the hundreds of thousands of individual passengers who ride BART each weekday as well as the legions who drive to work on highways that would be near permanent gridlock, were it not for the regional rapid transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board makes decisions that affect riders in large and small ways. It signs off on the agency's budget -- $1.8 billion in the current fiscal year. It approves big-ticket items like BART's new fleet of rail cars and has the final word on the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who makes the call on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/bart-passengers-riding-in-harmony-with-bart-bicyclists-mostly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bikes on BART\u003c/a>? \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Relief-at-last-BART-may-reopen-bathrooms-closed-9137675.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Closed station restrooms\u003c/a>? Banning \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/bart-board-oks-penalties-for-seat-hogs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seat hogs\u003c/a>? Contracts to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/27/at-barts-16th-mission-station-the-rapture-is-nigh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fix station escalators\u003c/a>? BART \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/five-years-later-barts-cell-service-shutdown-still-wakeup-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police policy and oversight\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answer: Board, board, board, board and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But let me ask: If you're one of the 2 million registered voters in the three BART counties -- Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco -- who's your representative on the BART board? My incredibly unscientific poll -- asking about a dozen people at a BART event whether they could identify the director for their district -- drew only shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">2016 BART Races and Candidate Websites\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 1 (Central Contra Costa County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gail Murray*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.gailmurrayforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gailmurrayforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Debora Allen\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deboraallen.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 3 (Alameda and Contra Costa)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rebecca Saltzman*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccaforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebeccaforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ken Chew\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.electkenchew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electkenchew.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Worth Freeman\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://makebartworthit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">makebartworthit.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Varun Paul\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://paul4bart.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paul4bart.weebly.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 5 (Southern Alameda)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>John McPartland*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://mcpartlandforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mcpartlandforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jennifer Hosterman\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jenniferforbart.com/\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 7 (W. Contra Costa and Alameda, E. San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Zakhary Mallett*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mallettforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roland Emerson\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RBEmerson3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/RBEmerson3\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will Roscoe\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roscoeforbart.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lateefah Simon\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.lateefahforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lateefahforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 9 (Central San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gwyneth Borden\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bordenforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bordenforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bevan Dufty\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bevandufty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bevandufty.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michael Petrelis\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PetrelisFiles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/PetrelisFiles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>*\u003cem>Incumbent\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If you don't know who your director is, by the way, that's not all on you. Your local news outlets, maybe even the one you're checking out right now, could probably pay more consistent attention to what's going on with all the stuff the board does. (Who's your board member? Take a look at \u003ca href=\"#bartmap\">the map\u003c/a> at the bottom of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of familiarity appears to be reflected in how people vote, or simply don't vote at all, in BART board races. In 2012 and 2014, for instance, about one in four people who cast ballots refrained from voting for anyone in the BART contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his year, voters will fill five of the nine BART board seats. Those five contests, along with \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856855/measure-rr-asks-bay-area-voters-to-approve-3-5-billion-for-bart-improvements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure RR\u003c/a>, the agency's $3.5 billion infrastructure bond, could have a profound impact on the transit system's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 2016 campaigns for both the board seats and the bond measure have become, to a large extent, a referendum on both the current frayed state of the system and the 2013 strikes that twice shut down service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the state of the system: Any frequent rider can tell you that BART, which last fiscal year recorded an average of 433,000 weekday passenger trips compared to 345,000 five years ago, is overcrowded. Rush-hour trains are so packed that they often leave riders behind at its most heavily used Oakland and San Francisco stations. And those stations are more jammed than they've ever been. Average weekday exits at San Francisco's Embarcadero station, BART's busiest, have risen from 35,603 in fiscal 2010-11 to 47,643 in 2015-16, an increase of 34 percent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any rider can tell you that breakdowns are just one all-too-common feature of the BART experience. Among other frequent BART complaints:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Some stations and trains are dirty -- \"filthy\" is \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22bart%22%20%22filthy%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a frequently used adjective\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fares\u003c/a> are high, ranging from $1.95 one way on short hops to $7.75 for the longest run on the system, Pittsburg/Bay Point to Millbrae. (We're excluding the premium passengers pay to ride to San Francisco International Airport. Also note: youth and senior fares are a fraction of that cost, ranging from 70 cents to $2.90 one way).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Crime on the system is an issue that gained attention after a fatal shooting last January on a train in West Oakland. That incident led to the disclosure that virtually all the \"security cameras\" on BART trains are decoys, not the real thing.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s to the hangover from the 2013 strikes: BART critics, notably state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, and East Bay Times columnist Daniel Borenstein, argue that the agency's board and management caved in when they settled the labor dispute with worker unions -- an agreement that included a 15.8 percent wage increase. They also criticize a four-year contract extension negotiated earlier this year as too costly and doing nothing to head off future work stoppages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That critique has expanded, with Glazer blasting the board as irresponsible and \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11060910/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urging voters\u003c/a> to replace three of the four incumbents who are standing for re-election next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289028132&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer is backing up the talk with cash, with campaign finance reports through Thursday showing his state Senate re-election committee has donated a total of $24,000 to three board candidates: District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett, who was the only board member to vote against the labor contracts, and challengers Debora Allen and Jennifer Hosterman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/about_debora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen\u003c/a> is a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and business consultant who ran as a Republican in an unsuccessful bid earlier this year for the state Assembly. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 1 \u003c/a>incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gail Murray\u003c/a>, a transportation industry consultant who is trying for her fourth term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hosterman\u003c/a> is a lawyer, real estate agent and former mayor of Pleasanton. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 5\u003c/a> incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John McPartland\u003c/a>, a retired Army colonel, chief officer for the Oakland Fire Department and BART safety specialist, who is seeking his third term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The two other board seats to be filled are in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 3\u003c/a>, in which incumbent Rebecca Saltzman is running against former Moraga City Councilman Ken Chew and two other challengers, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 9\u003c/a>, a seat vacated by BART Board President Tom Radulovich. Bevan Dufty, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and former chief of the city's homeless initiatives, is running against Gwyneth Borden, a member of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board, and longtime community activist Michael Petrelis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll the races may be competitive -- it's hard to tell without \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a> breaking down the numbers. But the race that could say the most about the future of BART and its board is the above-mentioned District 7, where contract critic Zakhary Mallett, now finishing his first term on the board, is facing off with three others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three challengers are Oakland residents: Roland Emerson, who \u003ca href=\"https://acgreens.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/roland_emerson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes himself\u003c/a> in a Green Party questionnaire as \"a working-class BART rider\" who wants to correct BART's decline; Will Roscoe, an engineer whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/updates/why-is-a-new-paradigm-needed-for-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint for BART\u003c/a> would essentially scrap train service in favor of developing a far-flung regional network of self-driving electric buses; and Lateefah Simon, a 2003 MacArthur \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/fellows/720/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"genius grant\" recipient\u003c/a> and politically well-connected social justice campaigner who currently serves on the California State University Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main contest here -- as illustrated both by some high-profile endorsements and campaign fundraising -- is between Mallett (pronounced ma-LAY) and Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29-year-old Mallett, who holds a master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and drives for Uber as he works to start up a business as a transportation consultant, has won the endorsements of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Re-elect-Mallett-for-BART-9972747.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/21/editorial-bart-needs-allen-mallett-hosterman-chew-east-bay-times/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>. Both praise him for standing against the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, 39, is president of Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://akonadi.org/akonadi/mission-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akonadi Foundation\u003c/a>, an organization founded by major Democratic Party donors \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Obama-s-Piedmont-backers-an-emerging-force-3726863.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan\u003c/a> that focuses its philanthropy on racial justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's career working in social justice organizations has yielded a collection of big-name endorsements, including state Attorney General Kamala Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That backing is matched by fundraising that, while small potatoes in a state where donors have shoved \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138545/donors-pour-record-450-million-into-california-initiatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mountains of cash\u003c/a> into statewide initiative campaigns, is unusually robust for a typically low-key, and low-dollar, transit board race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Simon's campaign had reported raising about $240,000. Most of the money has come in more than 1,000 individual donations, the campaign says, many of them in the $10 to $50 range. Campaign reports detail hundreds of larger donations from contributors including Olis Simmons, head of East Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a>, BART board member Nick Josefowitz and Silicon Valley philanthropist \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/tech-philanthropy/2013/9/12/meet-cari-tuna-the-woman-giving-away-dustin-moskovitzs-faceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cari Tuna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon has also gotten major donations in the last month from two groups sponsored by the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of BART's unions, and progressive community groups. The Richmond Working Families committee has donated $23,000 in cash and in-kind support like canvassing; a parallel committee, Oakland Working Families, has contributed $16,000 to Simon's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records show Mallett has raised just over $62,000 to date. His biggest donor: Steve Glazer's campaign committee, which has given him $9,000 so far -- $8,000 of that in two contributions last week. San Ramon's United Contractors Association PAC has kicked in $8,000. Republic Urban Properties, which is developing \u003ca href=\"http://www.republicfamilyofcompanies.com/developments/development-detail/republic-millbrae-bart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a residential and commercial project\u003c/a> at BART's Millbrae Station, has donated $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett's other major donors are BART contractors, including Taber Construction, which has given $3,000 in this election cycle, and East Bay engineering contractor Kal Krishnan and his firm, which together have donated $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>allett says that high among his priorities if he's re-elected to the board will be pursuing a BART expansion from Richmond up along the Interstate 80 corridor to San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11144266 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg\" alt=\"BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur station.\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1920x1327.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur Station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That idea \"has moved further in the last two years than in the 20 years prior,\" Mallett said in an interview at MacArthur BART. He also champions in-fill development projects at MacArthur and down the line at BART's West Oakland Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his main concern, he says, is finance -- and that leads directly to discussion of the agency's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Labor costs are out of control and unreasonable,\" Mallett says. \"The sorts of benefits we give our workforce from the top to the bottom are not heard of in most environments, and the work rules are woefully deficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says workers are not paying enough into their pensions and criticizes contract provisions that guarantee what he calls \"nominal\" rates -- currently $137 a month -- for family medical coverage. 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"content": "\u003cp>Short answer: Yes, but not for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gov. Jerry Brown did sign a law in September legalizing the strangely popular trend of posting ballot photos to social media, that law won't go into effect until Jan. 1, 2017. That means for this election it's still illegal to take and post a photo of your marked ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/04c313da0672422ba28bb57c4e4a7ca0/ballot-selfies-look-where-they-are-allowed-or-not\" target=\"_blank\">According to an Associated Press survey\u003c/a>, there are 18 states where so-called ballot selfies are illegal. (The AP put California in the \"where legal status is unclear\" category.) Some of these states take the illegality of such photos more seriously than others. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey even \u003ca href=\"http://www.denverda.org/News_Release/Releases/2016%20Release/Ballot%20selfies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a reminder\u003c/a> to voters last week that posting such a photo would constitute a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warning said: \"There is a state law prohibiting voters from showing their completed ballot to others. This would include posting your completed ballot on social media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU advocates noted, however, this warning implies that disabled voters who require assistance in filling out their ballots would be guilty of a misdemeanor -- which is not the case. It's also true that courts in Indiana and New Hampshire have overturned similar laws as a free speech issue. So expect the national fight over the ballot selfie to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why outlaw the practice in the first place anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally, sharing photos of marked ballots (as opposed to unmarked ballots) was banned to stop the potential for vote-selling. The new California bill allowing ballot selfies got around this concern by simply adding the sentence: \"A voter may voluntarily disclose how he or she voted if that voluntary act does not violate any other law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that, while you will be able to take a photo of yourself and your ballot after Jan. 1, you still can't violate other laws, such as: \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=elec&group=18001-19000&file=18540-18548\" target=\"_blank\">no recording video or photos of other voters within 100 feet of a polling location\u003c/a>, for fear of potential intimidation and interference -- though there are some potential exceptions to this, such as specific media requests. And definitely no vote selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, ballot selfie enforcement is so unlikely that the bill's author, Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, already has been sharing constituents' photos on his own social media accounts -- despite their technical illegality through the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarcLevine/status/788509880185266176\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're worried about falling on the wrong side of the law, you can either wait until Jan. 1 or you can go nuts taking as many photos of your unmarked or sealed mail-in ballots as you want.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The men parked their white work van on a patch of dirt down the road from the college where Hillary Clinton was set to give a major speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they attached a banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was almost as long as the van with bold red-and-black vinyl lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trump that bitch,\" it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They waved and smiled, as people drove by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message wasn't subtle. It also wasn't an outlier. It's a slogan that's been found on T-shirts at many Trump rallies since \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2016/04/25/trump-clinton-misogynistic-merch/\">at least March\u003c/a>. There are bumper stickers for sale with the slogan, even a \u003ca href=\"https://saucedistributor.com/trump-that-bitch-presidential-hot-sauce.html\">bottle of hot sauce\u003c/a>. (Clinton has said she \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/21/463858189/hillary-clintons-elixir-can-a-hot-pepper-a-day-boost-immunity\">carries hot sauce with her wherever she goes \u003c/a>because of the immune-boosting properties of hot peppers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it was inevitable that with the first female nominee of a major political party on the ballot, the race for president would have undercurrents of sexism. But what wasn't inevitable is just how out in the open it has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is nearly impossible to separate out everything underlying this moment in history. Would this type of vitriol be directed at \u003cem>any\u003c/em> woman trying to reach the highest office in the land? Or is there something unique about Clinton, who has been on the political stage disrupting norms and drawing ire from Republicans for decades? And what about her opponent? If Clinton were running against someone else, would this still be happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Is this what we are teaching our little boys?'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much responsibility does Donald Trump have to bear? For strategists aligned with the previous two Republican presidential nominees, quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think that Jeb would have allowed that — or any of the other candidates,\" said Katie Packer, who was deputy campaign manager for Republican Mitt Romney in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to John McCain's 2008 campaign, also blamed Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's created a permissible environment for this,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt and Packer are not Trump fans. But they speak from the experience of being part of the rigors of campaigns with GOP nominees for president that both also ran against another candidate whose very presence on the ballot challenged a historical norm — Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt remembers a famous moment from 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was anger,\" Schmidt said, \"and there was angst and, as Sen. Obama was moving towards election to the presidency, the crowds became angrier frankly at the end of the campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, a woman stood up at and said, \"I can't trust Obama. I have read about him, and he's not, he's not, he's a -- he's an Arab.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain stopped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \"stepped forward towards her, and he said, 'No ma'am,' \" Schmidt recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain went on, \"He's a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain never became beloved by the base the same way his running mate, Sarah Palin, did, and that was, in part, because of his willingness do things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, perhaps unsurprisingly, there's been no moment like that — though there have been plenty of opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packer points to pictures of parents standing with their children at rallies with a variety of shirts and signs describing Clinton in crude sexual terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is this what we are teaching our little boys?\" Packer asked. \"Is this what we're teaching these kids is an appropriate way to treat women that you don't agree with? And there hasn't been a peep from the campaign about this stuff being offensive. And, so, by not addressing it, they have encouraged it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those T-shirts aren't sold by the campaign — and the lowest-common denominator has a way of thriving on the periphery of all campaigns. But Packer and Schmidt argue Trump's own words have fostered sexism rather than tamping it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The woman's card\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there was Trump accusing Clinton of playing the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/04/27/475899411/3-things-to-know-about-the-woman-card-in-the-2016-election\">woman's card\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I think the only card she has is the woman's card,\" Trump said in April during a victory speech after sweeping five primaries. \"She's got nothing else going on. And frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she's got going is the women's vote. And the beautiful thing is that women don't like her, OK?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doubled down on that, telling a crowd in Spokane, Washington, a couple of weeks later: \"If she didn't play the woman's card she would have no chance, I mean zero, of winning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton shrugged it off — and tried to use it to her advantage. \"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in,\" she said in a \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-trump-woman-card-deal-me-in\">campaign video \u003c/a>after Trump's remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Deal me in\" became something of a call-and-response catch phrase for Clinton. The campaign even began selling a pink $5 \"Woman Card.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I just don't think she has a presidential look'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who has made plenty of derogatory comments about women's appearances in this campaign, \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidential-look-2016-9\">said last month \u003c/a>of Clinton, \"I just don't think she has a presidential look. And you need a presidential look. You have to get the job done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly about his comment that he didn't think Clinton \"has a presidential look\" during the first debate, Trump again said, \"She doesn't have the look,\" before immediately pivoting to talking about her \"stamina.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003cstrong>I wasn't impressed'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the time, at a rally, where he was talking about the second debate, the town-hall style event where the candidates walked around on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She walks in front of me, you know, and when she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn't impressed,\" he said to hoots and laughter from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11143657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/gettyimages-615757104_wide-8f1552e2fa535c5b964571a50d86faa83a38ec21-e1477322871985.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11143657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/gettyimages-615757104_wide-8f1552e2fa535c5b964571a50d86faa83a38ec21-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk off stage Wednesday after the third and final presidential debate at the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk off stage Wednesday after the third and final presidential debate at the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clinton occasionally nods to her potential at making history, but she studiously avoids talking about the sexism directed at her. Instead she deflects, talking about sexism and chauvinism aimed at others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backlash with women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packer, who has made a specialty of helping Republicans better communicate with female voters, said women do notice Trump's language and recognize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kinds of women that Trump would need to win in a general election really recoil at that,\" Packer said, \"and it's the kind of thing that causes them to want to defend Hillary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has shown up in the polls. Since the first debate, and especially since the leaked audio of Trump bragging about groping and kissing women, Clinton's lead has expanded. It's been because of those very kinds of women — white, suburban, college-educated. It's why places like Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Hampshire have moved more strongly to her corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, when Clinton ran in the primary, there were certainly \u003cem>signs\u003c/em> of sexism. \"Saturday Night Live\" joked about a perceived double standard she seemed to face in the debates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you wanted to, you could buy a pantsuit-wearing Hillary Clinton nutcracker. (Actually, it is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sears.com/eagleview-usa-hillary-clinton-political-novelty-nutcracker-2016/p-SPM8050066527?sid=IDx20110310x00001i&gclid=CjwKEAjw-abABRDquOTJi8qdojwSJABt1S1OsOSSTRBedURLf4Ki1jJ_3WtJVUDaffdHW8wd1P9cDxoCRBXw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds\" target=\"_blank\">back for 2016\u003c/a> with a longer suit jacket to match Clinton's new style).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time — as she gets closer to that highest, hardest glass ceiling — it's even more out in the open, said Debbie Walsh, who heads the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is ironic in so many ways,\" Walsh said, \"that the person that this woman is running against kind of is almost a caricature of this uber-masculine guy with just tremendous bravado.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe it was fitting that in the waning minutes of the final debate, as Clinton was answering a question about Social Security — and again getting in a dig at her opponent's taxes — Trump would interrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Such a nasty woman,\" he interjected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many female voters, especially millennials, scoff at the idea of supporting Clinton just because she's a woman, but moments like that have \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/men-are-treating-2016-as-a-normal-election-women-arent/\">experts predicting \u003c/a>2016 could have a historically large gender gap — with women overwhelmingly supporting Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message wasn't subtle. It also wasn't an outlier. It's a slogan that's been found on T-shirts at many Trump rallies since \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2016/04/25/trump-clinton-misogynistic-merch/\">at least March\u003c/a>. There are bumper stickers for sale with the slogan, even a \u003ca href=\"https://saucedistributor.com/trump-that-bitch-presidential-hot-sauce.html\">bottle of hot sauce\u003c/a>. (Clinton has said she \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/21/463858189/hillary-clintons-elixir-can-a-hot-pepper-a-day-boost-immunity\">carries hot sauce with her wherever she goes \u003c/a>because of the immune-boosting properties of hot peppers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it was inevitable that with the first female nominee of a major political party on the ballot, the race for president would have undercurrents of sexism. But what wasn't inevitable is just how out in the open it has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is nearly impossible to separate out everything underlying this moment in history. Would this type of vitriol be directed at \u003cem>any\u003c/em> woman trying to reach the highest office in the land? Or is there something unique about Clinton, who has been on the political stage disrupting norms and drawing ire from Republicans for decades? And what about her opponent? If Clinton were running against someone else, would this still be happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Is this what we are teaching our little boys?'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much responsibility does Donald Trump have to bear? For strategists aligned with the previous two Republican presidential nominees, quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think that Jeb would have allowed that — or any of the other candidates,\" said Katie Packer, who was deputy campaign manager for Republican Mitt Romney in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to John McCain's 2008 campaign, also blamed Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's created a permissible environment for this,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt and Packer are not Trump fans. But they speak from the experience of being part of the rigors of campaigns with GOP nominees for president that both also ran against another candidate whose very presence on the ballot challenged a historical norm — Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt remembers a famous moment from 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was anger,\" Schmidt said, \"and there was angst and, as Sen. Obama was moving towards election to the presidency, the crowds became angrier frankly at the end of the campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, a woman stood up at and said, \"I can't trust Obama. I have read about him, and he's not, he's not, he's a -- he's an Arab.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain stopped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \"stepped forward towards her, and he said, 'No ma'am,' \" Schmidt recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain went on, \"He's a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain never became beloved by the base the same way his running mate, Sarah Palin, did, and that was, in part, because of his willingness do things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, perhaps unsurprisingly, there's been no moment like that — though there have been plenty of opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packer points to pictures of parents standing with their children at rallies with a variety of shirts and signs describing Clinton in crude sexual terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is this what we are teaching our little boys?\" Packer asked. \"Is this what we're teaching these kids is an appropriate way to treat women that you don't agree with? And there hasn't been a peep from the campaign about this stuff being offensive. And, so, by not addressing it, they have encouraged it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those T-shirts aren't sold by the campaign — and the lowest-common denominator has a way of thriving on the periphery of all campaigns. But Packer and Schmidt argue Trump's own words have fostered sexism rather than tamping it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The woman's card\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there was Trump accusing Clinton of playing the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/04/27/475899411/3-things-to-know-about-the-woman-card-in-the-2016-election\">woman's card\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I think the only card she has is the woman's card,\" Trump said in April during a victory speech after sweeping five primaries. \"She's got nothing else going on. And frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she's got going is the women's vote. And the beautiful thing is that women don't like her, OK?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doubled down on that, telling a crowd in Spokane, Washington, a couple of weeks later: \"If she didn't play the woman's card she would have no chance, I mean zero, of winning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton shrugged it off — and tried to use it to her advantage. \"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in,\" she said in a \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-trump-woman-card-deal-me-in\">campaign video \u003c/a>after Trump's remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Deal me in\" became something of a call-and-response catch phrase for Clinton. The campaign even began selling a pink $5 \"Woman Card.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I just don't think she has a presidential look'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who has made plenty of derogatory comments about women's appearances in this campaign, \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidential-look-2016-9\">said last month \u003c/a>of Clinton, \"I just don't think she has a presidential look. And you need a presidential look. You have to get the job done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly about his comment that he didn't think Clinton \"has a presidential look\" during the first debate, Trump again said, \"She doesn't have the look,\" before immediately pivoting to talking about her \"stamina.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003cstrong>I wasn't impressed'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the time, at a rally, where he was talking about the second debate, the town-hall style event where the candidates walked around on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She walks in front of me, you know, and when she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn't impressed,\" he said to hoots and laughter from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11143657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/gettyimages-615757104_wide-8f1552e2fa535c5b964571a50d86faa83a38ec21-e1477322871985.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11143657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/gettyimages-615757104_wide-8f1552e2fa535c5b964571a50d86faa83a38ec21-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk off stage Wednesday after the third and final presidential debate at the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk off stage Wednesday after the third and final presidential debate at the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clinton occasionally nods to her potential at making history, but she studiously avoids talking about the sexism directed at her. Instead she deflects, talking about sexism and chauvinism aimed at others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backlash with women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packer, who has made a specialty of helping Republicans better communicate with female voters, said women do notice Trump's language and recognize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kinds of women that Trump would need to win in a general election really recoil at that,\" Packer said, \"and it's the kind of thing that causes them to want to defend Hillary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has shown up in the polls. Since the first debate, and especially since the leaked audio of Trump bragging about groping and kissing women, Clinton's lead has expanded. It's been because of those very kinds of women — white, suburban, college-educated. It's why places like Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Hampshire have moved more strongly to her corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, when Clinton ran in the primary, there were certainly \u003cem>signs\u003c/em> of sexism. \"Saturday Night Live\" joked about a perceived double standard she seemed to face in the debates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you wanted to, you could buy a pantsuit-wearing Hillary Clinton nutcracker. 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"content": "\u003cp>Meet 11-year-old Isaiah Rocha Morales. He sounds pretty typical for a kid his age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s boring here. There’s not a lot to do. Almost no one goes to the park to play,” says the sixth-grader at Pleasant View Elementary School in Poplar, a tiny Latino farmworker town of about 2,500 people in Tulare County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah’s teacher, Somphane Hunter, describes his behavior as difficult, sometimes challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He displayed some pretty disruptive behavior at times. He just wasn’t on task, and he just wasn’t responding to what we were doing in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Isaiah’s getting more focused these days, thanks to an unexpected outcome of the California drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289390586\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water shortage in his community has inspired a group of young activists to knock on doors to register voters. In the June primary, fewer than 100 voters in Poplar cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first political campaign of Isaiah’s life, he’s already managed to register his parents and three other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are eager to register and vote,” he says. “They want to change what’s happening here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poplar doesn’t have a mayor or a city council. The only local elected officials are the five members of the board of the Poplar Community Services District, which manages water, sewage and the community's one park. Now there are two open seats on that board. And activists like Isaiah hope to fill them with someone who can help Poplar residents with a basic necessity: drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town has three water wells. Water levels for two of those wells have been steadily falling with the drought. The other one is polluted with nitrates, colorless odorless contaminants linked to fertilizer use. \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\">Nitrates in drinking water\u003c/a> can cause problems for pregnant women, and have been linked to cancer in some studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current board vice president Garry Maynard says Poplar’s drinking water is safe to drink, and qualified water experts test it every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"Garry Maynard is vice president of the Community Service District in Poplar. He's served on and off for some 20 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-800x498.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-1020x635.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-1180x734.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-960x598.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garry Maynard is vice president of the Community Services District in Poplar. He's served on and off for some 20 years. \u003ccite>(Ruben Tapia/Radio Bilingue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many Poplar residents, like Evelyn Rodriguez, aren’t confident it's safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t drink it. We only use it to take showers and sometimes we use it to cook,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>says Rodriguez, who has a young son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boiling nitrates, by the way, doesn’t get rid of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her neighbor, Arturo Rodriguez (no relation) has questions about the water, too. Questions that were sparked when he attended a water board meeting four months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember a woman from a state water agency questioning the board members about the fate of $312,000 allocated many months ago to drill a test well. Seems they didn’t do anything with the money,\" says Rodriguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his brother are among the four candidates who want to fill the two vacancies on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From what I know, it’s the first time this board has been on the ballot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current board member Maynard says the problem is that Poplar residents lack interest in local affairs. Maynard himself was appointed by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, and has served on and off for some 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long time since we had an election,” says Maynard. “We have a problem getting members to join the board”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"Evelyn Rodriguez says she's worried about drinking the water in Poplar. One of the town's wells has high level of nitrates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-1180x749.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-960x610.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-520x330.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rodriguez says she's worried about drinking the water in Poplar. One of the town's wells has high level of nitrates. \u003ccite>(Ruben Tapia/Radio Bilingue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But residents I talked to said they didn’t remember receiving information about any open seats on the board, or the activities of the water board in general. Two months ago, dates for upcoming meetings did start to appear on water bills, but only in English -- in a town that is mostly Spanish-speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to the tiny water board office to ask why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Mendiola is the secretary. She showed me a water bill with the date for the next meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Board meeting September the 1st. This is in everybody’s bill. Everybody received a bill here, so they can see what's going on,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In English?” I asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know that we have to go bilingual,” said Mendiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t,” chimed in Maynard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of insensitivity to the Latino community is one of the reasons 11-year-old Isaiah is motivated to register his neighbors. He deeply values the hard work his parents and others endure in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We Latinos, our parents go to the fields, and they work like donkeys. 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In the June primary, fewer than 100 voters in Poplar cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first political campaign of Isaiah’s life, he’s already managed to register his parents and three other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are eager to register and vote,” he says. “They want to change what’s happening here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poplar doesn’t have a mayor or a city council. The only local elected officials are the five members of the board of the Poplar Community Services District, which manages water, sewage and the community's one park. Now there are two open seats on that board. And activists like Isaiah hope to fill them with someone who can help Poplar residents with a basic necessity: drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town has three water wells. Water levels for two of those wells have been steadily falling with the drought. The other one is polluted with nitrates, colorless odorless contaminants linked to fertilizer use. \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\">Nitrates in drinking water\u003c/a> can cause problems for pregnant women, and have been linked to cancer in some studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current board vice president Garry Maynard says Poplar’s drinking water is safe to drink, and qualified water experts test it every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"Garry Maynard is vice president of the Community Service District in Poplar. He's served on and off for some 20 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-800x498.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-1020x635.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-1180x734.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-960x598.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Maynard-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garry Maynard is vice president of the Community Services District in Poplar. He's served on and off for some 20 years. \u003ccite>(Ruben Tapia/Radio Bilingue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many Poplar residents, like Evelyn Rodriguez, aren’t confident it's safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t drink it. We only use it to take showers and sometimes we use it to cook,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>says Rodriguez, who has a young son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boiling nitrates, by the way, doesn’t get rid of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her neighbor, Arturo Rodriguez (no relation) has questions about the water, too. Questions that were sparked when he attended a water board meeting four months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember a woman from a state water agency questioning the board members about the fate of $312,000 allocated many months ago to drill a test well. Seems they didn’t do anything with the money,\" says Rodriguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his brother are among the four candidates who want to fill the two vacancies on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From what I know, it’s the first time this board has been on the ballot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current board member Maynard says the problem is that Poplar residents lack interest in local affairs. Maynard himself was appointed by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, and has served on and off for some 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long time since we had an election,” says Maynard. “We have a problem getting members to join the board”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"Evelyn Rodriguez says she's worried about drinking the water in Poplar. One of the town's wells has high level of nitrates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-1180x749.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-960x610.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/EvelynR-520x330.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Rodriguez says she's worried about drinking the water in Poplar. One of the town's wells has high level of nitrates. \u003ccite>(Ruben Tapia/Radio Bilingue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But residents I talked to said they didn’t remember receiving information about any open seats on the board, or the activities of the water board in general. Two months ago, dates for upcoming meetings did start to appear on water bills, but only in English -- in a town that is mostly Spanish-speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to the tiny water board office to ask why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Mendiola is the secretary. She showed me a water bill with the date for the next meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Board meeting September the 1st. This is in everybody’s bill. Everybody received a bill here, so they can see what's going on,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In English?” I asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know that we have to go bilingual,” said Mendiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t,” chimed in Maynard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of insensitivity to the Latino community is one of the reasons 11-year-old Isaiah is motivated to register his neighbors. He deeply values the hard work his parents and others endure in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We Latinos, our parents go to the fields, and they work like donkeys. And some die in the heat,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah says that he hopes by the time he gets to vote, Poplar and other communities like his will have a better future, one in which there’s room at the decision-making table for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ruben Tapia originally produced this story in Spanish for Edicion Semanaria, the weekly show from \u003ca href=\"http://radiobilingue.org/en/\">Radio Bilingue.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Politically speaking, the Central Valley is a pretty red region in our mostly blue state. So, with the most controversial candidate in memory at the top of the GOP ticket, I wondered how Republican voters in the valley are feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I figured I should start with agriculture. It’s the biggest industry here, and farmers tends to lean Republican. I ended up in William Bourdeau’s truck, driving down a gravel road in Coalinga, surrounded by bare fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These fields have produced many, many crops over many years,\" Bourdeau said, listing off a dozen fruits and vegetables. \"But they're all fallow now.\" Bourdeau is vice president of Harris Farms, one of the largest agricultural outfits in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289389481\" 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>Back in his office, Bourdeau told me his biggest concern this election is water. Like most farmers around here, he says he needs more of it. And going without has a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very difficult for people that are hard-working,\" he said. \"They want to work, but if you can't provide a job because you don't have the water, there's nothing you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames state and federal regulators for prioritizing the environment over agriculture. And he’s made up his mind about which presidential candidate will change that. On the wall he’s got a photo of himself smiling next to Donald Trump. He’s got quite a few Trump signs, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met with Trump three different times,\" Bourdeau said. \"We had a very frank conversation. He was able to incorporate what we talked about into his speech that he delivered to thousands of people. He’s very impressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump held a rally in Fresno in May he told the crowd: \"We have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous. If I win, believe me we’re gonna start opening up the water so you can have your farmers survive.\" He got huge cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has been to the valley twice in the past few months, and has broken fundraising records. Clinton hasn’t been here since before the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg\" alt=\"For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president.\" width=\"800\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1020x529.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1180x612.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-960x498.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-240x125.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-375x195.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-520x270.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next place I went looking for people to talk to about politics was the Big Fresno Fair. I found Democrats and Republicans in the crowd, including one Republican man who was not keen on Trump. Anthony Hill was drinking a beer with a friend near the food stands. He \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">said it bothers him that the nominee has no political experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003c/span>I mean, I’m conservative,\" he told me, \"but it’s Donald Trump. He needs to go back to 'Celebrity Apprentice.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also met a guy named Steven. He asked me not to use his last name, but he told me he grew up in a small town here in the valley and he was raised Republican. \"I may be Hispanic, but I'm American,\" he said. \"The U.S. flag is my flag. The Mexican flag is not my flag. That’s just how I see things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven said that’s why he’s not bothered by Trump’s comments about Mexican rapists and his hard-line stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven’s not exactly advertising his support for Trump, though. \"I keep it a secret,\" he said, \"because being from the valley, being brown and being openly gay and voting for Trump is not the thing. It’s not!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told him I thought a rural Central Valley town would be a fairly conservative place. So he explained: \"Because in the valley, it's mainly Latino. That's what it is.\" The Central Valley does have a big Latino population -- and one that’s growing. And Latinos overwhelmingly vote Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, at my next stop -- a naturalization ceremony in Fresno -- I met a Mexican immigrant who also supports Trump. Israel Cervantes is an industrial mechanic who has lived in the United States for 25 years. Now he finally feels like he has a voice in the political process.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\"I feel like I'm fighting for what I want,\" he told me. \"I want security. I want safety. I want peace. I want strong leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"Israel Cervantes (C, with certificate), a Donald Trump supporter, stands with his family after his naturalization ceremony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-1020x811.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-960x764.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-375x298.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel Cervantes (C, with certificate), a Donald Trump supporter, stands with his family after his naturalization ceremony. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Isael Cervantes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cervantes also says he doesn’t believe in abortion, and he doesn’t want to see a Democrat choose the next Supreme Court justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cervantes’ 19-year-old son, Isael, raised some doubts. \"He's impulsive, quick to anger,\" the younger man said of Trump. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very difficult for people that are hard-working,\" he said. \"They want to work, but if you can't provide a job because you don't have the water, there's nothing you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames state and federal regulators for prioritizing the environment over agriculture. And he’s made up his mind about which presidential candidate will change that. On the wall he’s got a photo of himself smiling next to Donald Trump. He’s got quite a few Trump signs, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met with Trump three different times,\" Bourdeau said. \"We had a very frank conversation. He was able to incorporate what we talked about into his speech that he delivered to thousands of people. He’s very impressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump held a rally in Fresno in May he told the crowd: \"We have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous. If I win, believe me we’re gonna start opening up the water so you can have your farmers survive.\" He got huge cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has been to the valley twice in the past few months, and has broken fundraising records. Clinton hasn’t been here since before the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg\" alt=\"For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president.\" width=\"800\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1020x529.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1180x612.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-960x498.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-240x125.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-375x195.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-520x270.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next place I went looking for people to talk to about politics was the Big Fresno Fair. I found Democrats and Republicans in the crowd, including one Republican man who was not keen on Trump. Anthony Hill was drinking a beer with a friend near the food stands. He \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">said it bothers him that the nominee has no political experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003c/span>I mean, I’m conservative,\" he told me, \"but it’s Donald Trump. He needs to go back to 'Celebrity Apprentice.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also met a guy named Steven. He asked me not to use his last name, but he told me he grew up in a small town here in the valley and he was raised Republican. \"I may be Hispanic, but I'm American,\" he said. \"The U.S. flag is my flag. The Mexican flag is not my flag. That’s just how I see things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven said that’s why he’s not bothered by Trump’s comments about Mexican rapists and his hard-line stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven’s not exactly advertising his support for Trump, though. \"I keep it a secret,\" he said, \"because being from the valley, being brown and being openly gay and voting for Trump is not the thing. It’s not!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told him I thought a rural Central Valley town would be a fairly conservative place. So he explained: \"Because in the valley, it's mainly Latino. That's what it is.\" The Central Valley does have a big Latino population -- and one that’s growing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanders.senate.gov/\">Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a> was back in California recently, trying to harness some of his popularity on behalf of progressive causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders was here stumping for \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>, the state initiative aimed at reducing prescription drug costs, and for San Francisco state Senate candidate Jane Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 2.5 million Californians voted for Sanders in the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-primary/26-presidential-formatted.pdf\">Democratic primary\u003c/a>. Now, Sanders is calling on his supporters to back key issues -- and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But some Bernie backers are still making up their minds about that last ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289315851\" 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>Carroll Fife is one of them. She's involved with the Black Lives Matter movement and works to combat gentrification in Oakland. She was also a delegate for Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in July. Sure, she'll vote for Proposition 61. But ask Fife who she wants in the White House and she leans back and scrunches up her nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ouch, I don’t know!\" she moans. \"I would really have to think about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11138108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders supporter and former delegate Carroll Fife at a press conference in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie Sanders supporter and former delegate Carroll Fife at a press conference in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Carroll Fife)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fife is no fan of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. But she’s not sold on Clinton either. Like many Bernie Sanders supporters in California, Fife has what some on the left call the “luxury” of living in a state where Clinton continues to have a \u003ca href=\"http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/california/\">formidable lead\u003c/a> over Trump: She knows that even if she doesn't vote for Clinton, there's little danger Trump will win California's electoral votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Kauffman is taking advantage of that. He’s a longtime supporter of the Peace and Freedom Party, but next month he’s voting for the Green Party’s presidential candidate, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jill2016.com/\">Jill Stein\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were living in Ohio or Pennsylvania, I would be working very hard for Hillary Clinton without even holding my nose,” says Kauffman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Bernie supporters say even if California is not a swing state, they want to make extra sure Trump is defeated. Tonya Love, an Oakland resident, will be voting for Clinton, “but at the same time recognizing you need to push her on things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138110\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11138110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Tanaka speaks with a campaigner at the Jill Stein campaign event in Oakland on October 6, 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Tanaka speaks with a campaigner at the Jill Stein campaign event in Oakland on Oct. 6, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Love, like many Sanders backers, is leery of Clinton’s connections to Wall Street and what she considers a hawkish foreign policy. Some Sanders voters also say Clinton is corrupt -- their suspicions further fueled by allegations that the Democratic Party was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc-wikileaks-emails.html\">assisting her campaign\u003c/a> on the sly during the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hillary Clinton represents just about everything I oppose,” says Kate Tanaka, an Oakland real estate agent, who voted for Ralph Nader in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanaka is returning to her political party roots and voting for the Green Party’s Stein. She doesn’t buy the notion that Clinton is the lesser of two evils and refuses to vote with a “gun to her head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have got to start having some choices in our elections,” says Tanaka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this middle-aged progressive isn’t yet ready to join up with \u003ca href=\"https://ourrevolution.com/\">Our Revolution\u003c/a>, the organization Sanders launched after the convention and that brought him here last week in support of \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to figure out what it is before I get involved with it,” says Tanaka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Revolution came under criticism by some Sanders supporters because it can accept unlimited contributions \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/24/491242694/bernie-sanders-to-announce-our-revolution-political-group\">without disclosing the donors\u003c/a>. That decision “dilutes the message” of Sanders’ grass-roots approach, says Mathew Murphy, an Oakland teenager and Sanders backer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy has not yanked the Bernie lawn sign still planted in his family’s front yard. \"As you can see, we haven't really given up hope,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 19-year-old is one of the prized millennials Clinton and the Democratic Party are desperately trying to turn out in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm begrudgingly coming around to voting for Clinton,” says Murphy, whose brown hair is pulled back in a short ponytail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11138107 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21542_IMG_0936-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders supporter Mathew Murphy at his family home in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie Sanders supporter Mathew Murphy at his family home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we talk in mid-September, Murphy is preparing to head off to college for his freshman year at UC Davis. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanders.senate.gov/\">Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a> was back in California recently, trying to harness some of his popularity on behalf of progressive causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders was here stumping for \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>, the state initiative aimed at reducing prescription drug costs, and for San Francisco state Senate candidate Jane Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 2.5 million Californians voted for Sanders in the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-primary/26-presidential-formatted.pdf\">Democratic primary\u003c/a>. Now, Sanders is calling on his supporters to back key issues -- and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But some Bernie backers are still making up their minds about that last ask.\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/289315851&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/289315851'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll Fife is one of them. She's involved with the Black Lives Matter movement and works to combat gentrification in Oakland. She was also a delegate for Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in July. Sure, she'll vote for Proposition 61. But ask Fife who she wants in the White House and she leans back and scrunches up her nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ouch, I don’t know!\" she moans. \"I would really have to think about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11138108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders supporter and former delegate Carroll Fife at a press conference in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21543_12185390_10153706962646948_7113281746883334296_o-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie Sanders supporter and former delegate Carroll Fife at a press conference in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Carroll Fife)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fife is no fan of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. But she’s not sold on Clinton either. Like many Bernie Sanders supporters in California, Fife has what some on the left call the “luxury” of living in a state where Clinton continues to have a \u003ca href=\"http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/california/\">formidable lead\u003c/a> over Trump: She knows that even if she doesn't vote for Clinton, there's little danger Trump will win California's electoral votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Kauffman is taking advantage of that. He’s a longtime supporter of the Peace and Freedom Party, but next month he’s voting for the Green Party’s presidential candidate, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jill2016.com/\">Jill Stein\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were living in Ohio or Pennsylvania, I would be working very hard for Hillary Clinton without even holding my nose,” says Kauffman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Bernie supporters say even if California is not a swing state, they want to make extra sure Trump is defeated. Tonya Love, an Oakland resident, will be voting for Clinton, “but at the same time recognizing you need to push her on things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138110\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11138110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Tanaka speaks with a campaigner at the Jill Stein campaign event in Oakland on October 6, 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21442_161006_JillSteinCapmaign_bhs03-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Tanaka speaks with a campaigner at the Jill Stein campaign event in Oakland on Oct. 6, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Love, like many Sanders backers, is leery of Clinton’s connections to Wall Street and what she considers a hawkish foreign policy. Some Sanders voters also say Clinton is corrupt -- their suspicions further fueled by allegations that the Democratic Party was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc-wikileaks-emails.html\">assisting her campaign\u003c/a> on the sly during the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hillary Clinton represents just about everything I oppose,” says Kate Tanaka, an Oakland real estate agent, who voted for Ralph Nader in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanaka is returning to her political party roots and voting for the Green Party’s Stein. She doesn’t buy the notion that Clinton is the lesser of two evils and refuses to vote with a “gun to her head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have got to start having some choices in our elections,” says Tanaka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this middle-aged progressive isn’t yet ready to join up with \u003ca href=\"https://ourrevolution.com/\">Our Revolution\u003c/a>, the organization Sanders launched after the convention and that brought him here last week in support of \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to figure out what it is before I get involved with it,” says Tanaka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Revolution came under criticism by some Sanders supporters because it can accept unlimited contributions \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/24/491242694/bernie-sanders-to-announce-our-revolution-political-group\">without disclosing the donors\u003c/a>. That decision “dilutes the message” of Sanders’ grass-roots approach, says Mathew Murphy, an Oakland teenager and Sanders backer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy has not yanked the Bernie lawn sign still planted in his family’s front yard. \"As you can see, we haven't really given up hope,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 19-year-old is one of the prized millennials Clinton and the Democratic Party are desperately trying to turn out in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm begrudgingly coming around to voting for Clinton,” says Murphy, whose brown hair is pulled back in a short ponytail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11138107 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21542_IMG_0936-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders supporter Mathew Murphy at his family home in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernie Sanders supporter Mathew Murphy at his family home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we talk in mid-September, Murphy is preparing to head off to college for his freshman year at UC Davis. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — Political donors have spent a record $450 million on 17 statewide November ballot initiatives in California, beating the state’s own record for the most spent on propositions appearing on state ballots in a single year, campaign reports filed Thursday show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraising has soared at least $12 million past California’s previous record, when $438 million was spent on the campaigns for and against 21 measures on 2008 ballots. With inflation, fundraising in 2008 would be worth at least $490 million today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No other state has come close to those amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of the few states that empower voters to enact laws affecting state revenue and spending. The proposals going before the state’s 18 million registered voters put billions of dollars at stake in this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s big business,” said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola University in Los Angeles, who commented before the record was broken. She and other campaign finance experts stress that big money flows to the contests that will have the biggest financial impact, and the final push to sway voters is likely to include a spending blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the oxygen is really being sucked up by the presidential race,” Levinson said. “For most voters, they’re just starting to think about the ballot measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2024/info/proposition-61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 61\u003c/a>, a proposal to cap what the state pays for prescription drugs at the lowest price the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pays, has drawn the biggest spending. Pharmaceutical companies have contributed most of the $108 million that’s been raised to defeat it, including $22 million publicly disclosed Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which placed it on the ballot, has spent about $14 million backing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Proposition 61 would not force drug companies to change their prices, the state legislative analyst says its fiscal effect on the $3.8 billion market is unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobacco companies are among the other biggest spenders, contributing more than $55 million to oppose \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2019/info/proposition-56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 56\u003c/a>, a proposed $2 tax increase on every pack of cigarettes sold in the state. The California Hospital Association has spent more than $46 million opposing three measures that would affect funding for Medi-Cal, the state’s health care program for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the funding has come directly from the corporations facing massive gains or losses to their own bottom line on Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”7aWK4a82A0Jpwby0JzufGc40HiucDUYh”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re called citizen initiatives because of who has to sign them, not necessarily who has to pay for them,” said Josh Altic, who directs research on ballot measures at Ballotpedia, an organization that aggregates electoral data from all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the biggest individual donors are Republican Charles Munger Jr., who has contributed more than $10 million to support \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2017/info/proposition-54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 54\u003c/a>, seeking greater legislative transparency, and Napster founder Sean Parker, who has given about $7 million supporting the effort to legalize and tax recreational marijuana, \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 64\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals exclude money that is transferred between allied campaigns as well as duplicate contributions recorded when one committee raised money for more than one proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record amount also includes about $50 million raised in 2014 for some of this year’s ballot measures. That money does not appear in some calculations the Secretary of State’s Office provides online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where does all the money go? The campaign reports show more than $40 million was used to pay signature-gatherers who circulated petitions to qualify each of the 14 initiatives and one referendum for the ballot. Two measures were placed on the ballot by lawmakers, a process that does not require signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the reports show roughly $200 million has been spent on advertising and political consulting firms that coordinate research and media buys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $115 million was spent to air 76,000 broadcast television advertisements supporting and opposing California initiatives through Oct. 17, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity of data from Kantar Media/CMAG, which monitors media markets around the country and offers a widely accepted cost estimate. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are so many questions about California’s November ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana that it’s easy to overlook the most basic question of all: What would the initiative actually do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we’re here to help. So get out your sample or mail-in ballots and follow along as we go through that little \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> summary together. It’s right next to where you vote “yes” or “no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like in the voter guide, we'll throw in a few “pro” and “con” arguments, too. OK, let's get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 legalizes marijuana under state law, for use by adults 21 or older\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting immediately, it would no longer be a crime in California to buy, possess or transport limited amounts of marijuana for personal use. You could cultivate up to six plants in the privacy of your own home -- either indoors or outdoors, as long as it's not visible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can’t sell it, but they can grow it for their own personal use,\" explains Richard Miadich, the lawyer who wrote the initiative and works for the Yes on 64 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says you can smoke or consume marijuana products -- including edibles -- only at a private home, or at a business that gets a license to allow on-site consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot use marijuana, ingest marijuana in any way, in public,\" he says. \"You can’t use it or ingest it anywhere where smoking is prohibited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 imposes state taxes on sales and cultivation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of taxes, in fact. There would be a state excise tax on cultivation of $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaves; and a state excise tax on sales: 15 percent of the retail price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's on top of the regular sales tax that we pay on everything from cars to couches, though medical marijuana patients would be exempt from sales tax. And local governments can throw their own excise tax on top, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[PotTaxation]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers wouldn’t pay the cultivation tax directly. But if you live in a city with a particularly high sales tax rate that chooses to also add a local excise tax, your total taxes might reach 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, is ridiculously high,” says Jamie Kerr, the founder of a storefront medical marijuana dispensary in the city of Shasta Lake and an opponent of Proposition 64. She wants to see California legalize marijuana but says this is the wrong way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That (combined tax rate) exceeds the threshold at which we start to promote the illicit market,” Kerr says, “and that’s a concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to strike the right balance,” counters initiative author Richard Miadich, “of not having a tax that's so high that you perpetuate the illegal market -- which is what of course we want to eliminate by enacting this initiative -- but not have a tax rate that's so low that it encourages overuse by adults, for example.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says the tax rates set by Proposition 64 are just starting points. The Legislature can adjust any rates it decides need to be tweaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 provides for industry licensing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized medical marijuana in 1996, it wasn’t until last year that the governor and Legislature finally created a regulatory framework. 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Such as, how big is a serving size? What are the testing requirements? And, the hot-button question of what exactly constitutes drugged driving?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says there's not enough research to set a legal standard for marijuana intoxication, so Proposition 64 gives the state money to do its own research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are using marijuana today and they are driving today,” he says. “So this initiative accepts that that problem exists today and offers solutions for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr calls that irresponsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To roll out the adult use market -- which literally banks on increased usage to generate the revenue that is expected and that is projected -- I think that it’s putting the cart in front of the horse,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 allows local regulation and taxation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 64 passes, local governments would have some powers -- but not others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot ban indoor cultivation for personal use,” says Tim Cromartie with the League of California Cities, “although you can regulate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QHDI4Ys2yphlIGIvowhGGnEEvjoAcmou\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Cromartie says, cities and counties could require residents to obtain permits, pay fees, and let their homes be inspected to prevent fire risk, excess water use or mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And local governments can choose to ban recreational marijuana businesses entirely -- just like they can choose to ban medical marijuana businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you decide to allow them,” Cromartie says, “you can decide under what circumstances -- what’s the local licensing fee gonna be, what kind of inspections or audits are they gonna have to comply with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a local government chooses not to set regulations, the state can unilaterally issue a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal impact: additional tax revenues ranging from high hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually, mostly dedicated to specific purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember all those taxes we talked about earlier? That money would be split several ways, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>reimbursing state agencies for their regulatory costs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>drugged driving research\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>after-school programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>environmental restoration\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s more, but it’s a long list. The official Voter Information Guide analysis, written by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/analysis.htm\">has the details\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal Impact: Reduced criminal justice costs of tens of millions of dollars annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gets to the other major result of legalizing recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 would reduce penalties for many marijuana-related crimes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are so many questions about California’s November ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana that it’s easy to overlook the most basic question of all: What would the initiative actually do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we’re here to help. So get out your sample or mail-in ballots and follow along as we go through that little \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> summary together. It’s right next to where you vote “yes” or “no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like in the voter guide, we'll throw in a few “pro” and “con” arguments, too. OK, let's get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 legalizes marijuana under state law, for use by adults 21 or older\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting immediately, it would no longer be a crime in California to buy, possess or transport limited amounts of marijuana for personal use. You could cultivate up to six plants in the privacy of your own home -- either indoors or outdoors, as long as it's not visible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can’t sell it, but they can grow it for their own personal use,\" explains Richard Miadich, the lawyer who wrote the initiative and works for the Yes on 64 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says you can smoke or consume marijuana products -- including edibles -- only at a private home, or at a business that gets a license to allow on-site consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot use marijuana, ingest marijuana in any way, in public,\" he says. \"You can’t use it or ingest it anywhere where smoking is prohibited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 imposes state taxes on sales and cultivation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of taxes, in fact. There would be a state excise tax on cultivation of $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaves; and a state excise tax on sales: 15 percent of the retail price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's on top of the regular sales tax that we pay on everything from cars to couches, though medical marijuana patients would be exempt from sales tax. And local governments can throw their own excise tax on top, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[PotTaxation]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers wouldn’t pay the cultivation tax directly. But if you live in a city with a particularly high sales tax rate that chooses to also add a local excise tax, your total taxes might reach 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, is ridiculously high,” says Jamie Kerr, the founder of a storefront medical marijuana dispensary in the city of Shasta Lake and an opponent of Proposition 64. 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The Legislature can adjust any rates it decides need to be tweaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 provides for industry licensing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California voters legalized medical marijuana in 1996, it wasn’t until last year that the governor and Legislature finally created a regulatory framework. The regulations themselves are still being written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state will be in charge of licensing cultivators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of nonmedical marijuana,” Miadich says, “just like it is for medical marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[MedPotReg]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 generally piggybacks on the system created by California’s medical marijuana laws – but not entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr, the dispensary founder, says the initiative eliminates existing protections that prevent large companies from controlling too many links in the supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those protections exist, she says, to allow the current medical marijuana industry “fair and equitable market access, without having to immediately right out of the gate compete with some well-capitalized corporate interests that are wanting to get into this space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miadich says state regulators would have the ability to deny license requests if they would lead to anti-competitive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 64 establishes standards for marijuana products\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative sets at least one very specific standard: \"For example, there's a limit on the level of THC that can be in a serving size of edible marijuana products,” says Drew Soderborg with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11138463\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at a dispensary in San Francisco holds a cannabis-infused macaroon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/PotMacaroon-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at a dispensary in San Francisco holds a cannabis-infused macaroon. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it leaves some other limits up to state regulators. 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That money would be split several ways, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>reimbursing state agencies for their regulatory costs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>drugged driving research\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>after-school programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>environmental restoration\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s more, but it’s a long list. The official Voter Information Guide analysis, written by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/analysis.htm\">has the details\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal Impact: Reduced criminal justice costs of tens of millions of dollars annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gets to the other major result of legalizing recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 would reduce penalties for many marijuana-related crimes. 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After reviewing the scientific evidence of persistent environmental harm, California legislators in 2014 banned thin plastic carryout bags, authorizing stores to charge customers 10 cents for heavier-duty plastic sacks or paper bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ban inflamed the nation’s bag makers, who intervened before the law could take effect. They wielded two ballot measures to poke a stick in the eye of the Legislature and the grocery industry, whom they haven’t forgiven for switching sides to support the ban after the Legislature allowed the grocers to keep the 10 cent fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in the confounding manner of direct democracy, California voters in November will ponder two opposing initiatives, each sponsored by the plastic bag industry—which has spent more than $6 million to put them on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/proposition/propositions-65-and-67-plastic-bags/\">Prop. 67\u003c/a>, is a referendum—an attempt to block the bag ban by asking voters whether they agree with the new law. The plastic bag industry is hoping to convince enough Californians to vote no, thereby preempting the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/proposition/propositions-65-and-67-plastic-bags/\">Prop. 65\u003c/a>, would redirect the 10 cent bag fee consumers pay, so that rather than stores reaping the benefit, it would instead go to an environmental fund administered by the state Wildlife Conservation Board. The plastics industry is backing this one, a smack-down to the grocery industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1092839\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1092839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic bags at checkout.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic bags at checkout. \u003ccite>(Day Donaldson/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the bag ban survives at the polls, Californians would say goodbye to one of the world’s most utilitarian products. Thus would the plastic bag, a humble object engineered to be of long and useful service, become undone by its very design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It already has been exiled from \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=67&year=2016\">150 cities and counties\u003c/a>, primarily along the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the environmental facts have been misconstrued,” said Phil Rozenski, policy chair of the American Progressive Bag Alliance, and a senior director at Novolex. Its subsidiary, Hilex Poly Co., has contributed to the ballot propositions. “This is all about politics and emotional debate. Science left the building years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of plastic’s durability, even when exposed to constant wave action and degraded by a relentless sun, it doesn’t disappear, but breaks down into tiny particles called microplastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, a survey of existing research estimated that as many as 51 trillion particles of microplastics are floating around the planet’s oceans, weighing as much as 236,000 metric tons. Closer to home, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfei.org/documents/microplastic-contamination-san-francisco-bay\">2015 study\u003c/a> found that eight wastewater treatment plants discharge nearly half a million microplastic particles into the San Francisco Bay each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even taking into consideration that bags represent only a portion of all plastics found in marine debris, researchers say 80 percent of trash floating in the ocean is plastic. “The problems with plastics are well-documented,” said Eben Schwartz, who oversees the California Coastal Commission’s Marine Debris Program. “Sea animals ingest plastic and it not only gives the sense of being full, so they starve, but it can also get caught in the esophagus, and keep food from getting down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1092840\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1963px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1092840 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean.png\" alt=\"PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean\" width=\"1963\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean.png 1963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-800x447.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-768x430.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-1020x571.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-1920x1074.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-1180x660.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-960x537.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-240x134.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-375x210.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-520x291.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1963px) 100vw, 1963px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plastic accumulated in the stomach of a marine mammal, renders the animals more buoyant and makes it more difficult to dive for food. Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for their favorite meal, jellyfish. Offshore and onshore, animals become entangled with plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Californians use about 15 million single-use plastic bags a year—as the Legislative Analyst \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=67&year=2016\">notes\u003c/a>, that’s more than 400 bags per Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because plastic is marvelous. Few modern inventions have so quickly shoved aside the competition and staked a spot smack in the middle of American culture, industrial design and manufacturing. Plastics emerged in the late 1940s full of promise and vigor. Then, as now, plastic begins life as a petrochemical. Manufacturing processes convert chains of hydrogen and carbon molecules into a polymer resin that is then heated, shaped and cooled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheap and versatile, it can become just about anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plastic formulation prevents it from bio-degrading along with other garbage. Scientists sifting through landfills of the future will dredge up diapers—and Safeway bags. Even the industry’s “biodegradable” bags don’t completely break down, and these green plastic bags account for less than 1 per cent of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This description of a plastic bag’s afterlife, from an \u003ca href=\"http://plasticbaglaws.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MEA_green-cities-CA.pdf\">environmental assessment\u003c/a> prepared for California local governments: “The majority of bags end up as litter or in the landfill, and even those in the landfill may be blown away as litter due to their light weight. Although some recycling facilities will handle plastic bags, most reject them because they can get caught in the machinery and cause malfunctioning, or are contaminated after use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1092843\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1653px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1092843\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web.jpg\" alt=\"Credit:\" width=\"1653\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web.jpg 1653w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1653px) 100vw, 1653px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bags snag on tree limbs, blow around on vacant lots and loiter in gutters. But don’t blame the bag, says the industry, blame a populace ridden with litterbugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s marine debris or litter—it shouldn’t be there,” said Rozenski. “We have to work on it as a society. Approaching it on a product-by-product basis is not the way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others oppose the ban on philosophical grounds. “The government shouldn’t be telling stores what kind of bags to offer. That’s between the store and the customer,” said Ted Brown, chairman of the state Libertarian Party, which opposes both propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do bag bans really make a difference?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since San Francisco’s ban has been in place, plastic bag refuse found on the Bay Area’s inland and coastal beaches has fallen 34 per cent, according to Schwartz of the coastal commission. He cited data gathered at annual Bay Area cleanups showing that in 2008, plastic bags accounted for about 9 percent of all debris removed from beaches. By 2012, they were only 6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never see drops like that,” he said. “The bans are effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a non-profit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. For more stories by Julie Cart, go to calmatters.org/about/staff/julie-cart/\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ban inflamed the nation’s bag makers, who intervened before the law could take effect. They wielded two ballot measures to poke a stick in the eye of the Legislature and the grocery industry, whom they haven’t forgiven for switching sides to support the ban after the Legislature allowed the grocers to keep the 10 cent fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in the confounding manner of direct democracy, California voters in November will ponder two opposing initiatives, each sponsored by the plastic bag industry—which has spent more than $6 million to put them on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/proposition/propositions-65-and-67-plastic-bags/\">Prop. 67\u003c/a>, is a referendum—an attempt to block the bag ban by asking voters whether they agree with the new law. The plastic bag industry is hoping to convince enough Californians to vote no, thereby preempting the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/proposition/propositions-65-and-67-plastic-bags/\">Prop. 65\u003c/a>, would redirect the 10 cent bag fee consumers pay, so that rather than stores reaping the benefit, it would instead go to an environmental fund administered by the state Wildlife Conservation Board. The plastics industry is backing this one, a smack-down to the grocery industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1092839\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1092839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic bags at checkout.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag2Checkout-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic bags at checkout. \u003ccite>(Day Donaldson/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the bag ban survives at the polls, Californians would say goodbye to one of the world’s most utilitarian products. Thus would the plastic bag, a humble object engineered to be of long and useful service, become undone by its very design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It already has been exiled from \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=67&year=2016\">150 cities and counties\u003c/a>, primarily along the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the environmental facts have been misconstrued,” said Phil Rozenski, policy chair of the American Progressive Bag Alliance, and a senior director at Novolex. Its subsidiary, Hilex Poly Co., has contributed to the ballot propositions. “This is all about politics and emotional debate. Science left the building years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of plastic’s durability, even when exposed to constant wave action and degraded by a relentless sun, it doesn’t disappear, but breaks down into tiny particles called microplastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, a survey of existing research estimated that as many as 51 trillion particles of microplastics are floating around the planet’s oceans, weighing as much as 236,000 metric tons. Closer to home, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfei.org/documents/microplastic-contamination-san-francisco-bay\">2015 study\u003c/a> found that eight wastewater treatment plants discharge nearly half a million microplastic particles into the San Francisco Bay each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even taking into consideration that bags represent only a portion of all plastics found in marine debris, researchers say 80 percent of trash floating in the ocean is plastic. “The problems with plastics are well-documented,” said Eben Schwartz, who oversees the California Coastal Commission’s Marine Debris Program. “Sea animals ingest plastic and it not only gives the sense of being full, so they starve, but it can also get caught in the esophagus, and keep food from getting down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1092840\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1963px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1092840 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean.png\" alt=\"PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean\" width=\"1963\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean.png 1963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-800x447.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-768x430.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-1020x571.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-1920x1074.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-1180x660.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-960x537.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-240x134.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-375x210.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag3FloatinginOcean-520x291.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1963px) 100vw, 1963px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plastic accumulated in the stomach of a marine mammal, renders the animals more buoyant and makes it more difficult to dive for food. Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for their favorite meal, jellyfish. Offshore and onshore, animals become entangled with plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Californians use about 15 million single-use plastic bags a year—as the Legislative Analyst \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=67&year=2016\">notes\u003c/a>, that’s more than 400 bags per Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because plastic is marvelous. Few modern inventions have so quickly shoved aside the competition and staked a spot smack in the middle of American culture, industrial design and manufacturing. Plastics emerged in the late 1940s full of promise and vigor. Then, as now, plastic begins life as a petrochemical. Manufacturing processes convert chains of hydrogen and carbon molecules into a polymer resin that is then heated, shaped and cooled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheap and versatile, it can become just about anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plastic formulation prevents it from bio-degrading along with other garbage. Scientists sifting through landfills of the future will dredge up diapers—and Safeway bags. Even the industry’s “biodegradable” bags don’t completely break down, and these green plastic bags account for less than 1 per cent of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This description of a plastic bag’s afterlife, from an \u003ca href=\"http://plasticbaglaws.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MEA_green-cities-CA.pdf\">environmental assessment\u003c/a> prepared for California local governments: “The majority of bags end up as litter or in the landfill, and even those in the landfill may be blown away as litter due to their light weight. Although some recycling facilities will handle plastic bags, most reject them because they can get caught in the machinery and cause malfunctioning, or are contaminated after use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1092843\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1653px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1092843\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web.jpg\" alt=\"Credit:\" width=\"1653\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web.jpg 1653w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/PlasticBag4Landfill_for-web-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1653px) 100vw, 1653px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bags snag on tree limbs, blow around on vacant lots and loiter in gutters. But don’t blame the bag, says the industry, blame a populace ridden with litterbugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s marine debris or litter—it shouldn’t be there,” said Rozenski. “We have to work on it as a society. Approaching it on a product-by-product basis is not the way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others oppose the ban on philosophical grounds. “The government shouldn’t be telling stores what kind of bags to offer. That’s between the store and the customer,” said Ted Brown, chairman of the state Libertarian Party, which opposes both propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do bag bans really make a difference?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since San Francisco’s ban has been in place, plastic bag refuse found on the Bay Area’s inland and coastal beaches has fallen 34 per cent, according to Schwartz of the coastal commission. He cited data gathered at annual Bay Area cleanups showing that in 2008, plastic bags accounted for about 9 percent of all debris removed from beaches. By 2012, they were only 6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never see drops like that,” he said. “The bans are effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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