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She started picking watermelons at 15. In fact, most people in this town of 7,000 work in the fields or at a local tomato cannery. But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. 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Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. 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He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. But council members, local law enforcement officials and residents raised a flurry of concerns about crime, addiction and resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Hanford Mayor Justin Mendes says, despite opposition from some vocal residents, the idea is getting some traction. “A lot of people here are in the farming world,” he says, “and they say if you’re gonna grow it and ship it to folks in San Francisco -- they eat our grapes, they eat our almonds, let them use our marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This permitting process is something cities in the Central Valley are grappling with in advance of November’s election, when voters will decide whether to pass \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> to legalize recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas grew up in this farming town an hour southwest of Fresno. She started picking watermelons at 15. In fact, most people in this town of 7,000 work in the fields or at a local tomato cannery. But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. So do Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a medical marijuana company, Purple Hearts Holistic Alternative Therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vargas met Chavez and Valencia, she was thrilled they wanted to start a business in Huron. She became their volunteer champion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s helped us get embedded in the community,” says Chavez. “She’s been the angel on our shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says they focused on Huron because it needs new businesses that offer more than seasonal work. “You have a population that is hoping for something to hang onto. And it’s tough when you don’t see anything beyond the mountains around you. It’s hard to get over that, to realize there’s a world out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also wanted to build on the momentum of Huron’s sister city, Coalinga, Chavez says. In July, Coalinga sold its unused prison for about $4 million to a company that makes cannabis extracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11137022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11137022\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-960x707.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez, who has a master’s degree in public administration, and Valencia, a driver for a medical marijuana collective, have also done their part to attract community support. Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. I don’t need that!\" says Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state. \u003ccite>(Christian Parley/Courtesy Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, that doesn't mean outsiders aren't eyeing the cheap real estate and ready labor force. “There are no other opportunities that exist around the state like they exist here,” says dispensary owner Keith Stephenson of Purple Heart Patient Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he found a vacant 1-million-square-foot facility in Hanford, he jumped on it. “I’m a small business,” Stephenson says, “so in the grand scheme of things I’m attempting to scale my business and survive in the emerging paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson’s plan is to use 200,000 square feet to grow marijuana inside the former tire plant. He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. But council members, local law enforcement officials and residents raised a flurry of concerns about crime, addiction and resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Hanford Mayor Justin Mendes says, despite opposition from some vocal residents, the idea is getting some traction. “A lot of people here are in the farming world,” he says, “and they say if you’re gonna grow it and ship it to folks in San Francisco -- they eat our grapes, they eat our almonds, let them use our marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As we were headed for the third and final presidential debate of this election season Wednesday, many anxious parents were asking, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/mommyfiles/article/are-you-letting-your-kids-watch-debate-Trump-9958046.php\">once again\u003c/a>, “Should I let my child watch?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, this wasn’t a question when I was an 11-year-old girl. In fact, in October 1984, my parents were so keen on my experiencing the second and final debate between Republican President Ronald Reagan and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Walter Mondale, they pulled me out of school and flew me to Kansas City, Missouri, where I could watch the \u003ca href=\"http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-21-1984-debate-transcript\">historic showdown \u003c/a>in person -- an amiable affair, in strong contrast to this year's debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136673\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 739px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11136673 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/VP2-1.jpg\" alt=\"This is me and my brother, Scott Martin, with Mondale at a campaign stop in Fort Worth, Texas. I’m 11 here.\" width=\"739\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/VP2-1.jpg 739w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/VP2-1-160x234.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/VP2-1-240x351.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/VP2-1-375x549.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/VP2-1-520x761.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author at age 11 with her brother, Scott Martin, and Walter Mondale at a campaign stop in Fort Worth, Texas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stephanie Martin Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad, Boe Martin, was the Mondale campaign’s lead “advance man” for the event, which is politico speak for \"the guy in charge of behind-the-scenes logistics.\" In Kansas City, I caught only a couple of glimpses of my dad — giving the Secret Service agents a “go” signal as he jumped into a car in Mondale’s motorcade, for example — so I didn’t fully understand his role that day. A couple of weeks ago, at my parents’ home in College Station, Texas, I asked him to help fill me in on that, as well as jog some of my own memories. Here’s a bit of our conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin Taylor:\u003c/strong> I don’t remember Reagan’s (now-famous) \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/Vote2004/story?id=96664\">zinger about Mondale’s “youth and inexperience.”\u003c/a> But I do remember the electric feeling in the room and the excitement of being there. What were you up to while I was in the audience?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Boe Martin:\u003c/strong> Once the motorcade got to the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, Mondale went with his immediate staff — the speechwriter, the debate coach, etc. — to the dressing room where the makeup person was. 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The former mayor also has contributed more than $4.7 million to Citizens for Healthy Oakland Children, which is supporting Measure HH, a proposal that would also add a one-cent tax on every ounce of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for all Bloomberg’s largesse, his contributions haven’t yet prevented soda tax advocates from being financially outgunned by the beverage industry. After a relatively slow start over the summer, the the Washington D.C.-based American Beverage Association has picked up the pace, giving $18.9 million to fight the San Francisco measure; $5.4 million on the Oakland battle; $500,000 to oppose Measure 2H, a similar Nov. 8 ballot item in Boulder, Colo.; and $50,000 against Measure O1 in Albany, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of high-stakes ballot measures represent a potential turning point for both the soda industry and public health advocates. Beverage manufacturers are casting the initiatives as grocery taxes that will cost consumers and erode profits in the $278 billion soda industry, while advocates see a rare opportunity for voters to address a public health issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ballot Refill\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhen voters in San Francisco, Oakland, Albany and Boulder cast their ballots next month, the momentum will be on Bloomberg’s side. After his administration’s 2012 ban was overturned by the New York Supreme Court, Bloomberg -- who left office in late 2013 -- turned his attention to a 2014 Berkeley effort to become the first city in the nation to tax sugar-sweetened beverages. The former mayor gave $647,000 to the committee supporting the tax, which passed with 76 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Bloomberg skipped an opportunity to become involved in a 2014 San Francisco initiative that would have levied a two-cent-per-ounce tax on sodas and other sweetened drinks. The measure, which required a two-thirds majority, only attracted support from 55 percent of voters after the beverage industry spent $9.5 million to help defeat it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former mayor also was on the winning side of a \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/public-health/199094/philadelphia-first-major-u-s-city-to-pass-soda-tax\">Philadelphia City Council vote\u003c/a> in June that levied a 1.5 cent-per-ounce tax on sodas. Bloomberg, one of the world’s wealthiest men, gave $1.5 million to Philadelphians for a Fair Future, a pro-tax “dark money” organization that is not required to publicly disclose its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Late Spending\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBy soda tax battle standards, the Philadelphia vote was a reasonably evenly matched affair. The $1.5 million from Bloomberg, combined with a $400,000 infusion from the Action Now Initiative funded by Houston billionaire investor John Arnold and his wife, Laura, amounted to almost half of the $4.2 million spent by the beverage industry. (Disclosure: The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a donor to MapLight).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda tax advocates have outspent the industry in only one of four initiative races this election. Boosted by contributions from an offshoot of the Colorado Health Foundation, advocates of the Boulder tax have spent $671,000 so far this year; the opposition, funded by the American Beverage Association, which has been footing the bill to fight the measures in all four cities, has spent $282,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandvsbigsoda.com/about\">Citizens for Healthy Oakland Children\u003c/a> had raised only $18,545, or $1 for every $32 collected by the beverage industry. Since July, however, the infusion from Bloomberg has narrowed the gap considerably. The opposition committee has spent $3.8 million, according to city records; supporters of the tax have raised more than $5 million, including $4.7 million from Bloomberg and $575,000 from the Arnolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the gap narrowing, big spending on advertising may determine the outcome. Since three of the four initiatives are in the Bay Area, both sides can amplify their messages across Oakland, San Francisco and Albany since all three cities are part of the same media market. And the spending gap is widening in San Francisco, the largest of the trio. The beverage industry has spent more than $10 million of a war chest that totaled $18.9 million through late September; supporters of the proposed tax had spent a little more than $2.3 million from a $6.4 million campaign treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disclosure report filed Oct. 3 with the Albany City Clerk’s office showed the beverage association had spent $76,683 campaigning against the proposal; the pro-tax forces reported raising $5,425, which included a $5,000 donation from the American Heart Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Disclosure: The author is a former employee of Bloomberg L.P.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Methodology: MapLight analysis of contributions to committees supporting and opposing ballot measures that would tax sugar-sweetened beverages in the November 2016 elections using the latest data available from local campaign finance reports as of October 18, 2016.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "Ballot Measure Seeks to Regulate Ammunition Sales, Take Guns From Felons",
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"content": "\u003cp>Depending on whom you ask, it's a question of either common sense or constitutional rights: Should ammunition be treated like guns are, with background checks for buyers and limits on who can sell?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of several questions facing voters within Proposition 63, a gun control measure sponsored by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. The initiative would also require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement; set up a process for convicted felons to give up their guns; and fully ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288988967\" 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>Additionally, the ballot measure would require state officials to continue to share the names of people prohibited from having guns with the FBI and require that gun stores conduct background checks of their employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom sees ammunition regulation as perhaps the measure's most consequential provision. He said other states will follow suit if California passes Proposition 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are having a very important debate in this country about background checks on guns, but a gun has never killed anybody, unless it's used as a blunt instrument,\" Newsom said. \"A gun needs a component -- and that's the ammunition -- to be deadly. And the reality is today anyone can buy ammunition anywhere. There’s no licensing requirements to buy ammunition. ... Any local grocery store, liquor store, can legally sell unlimited rounds of ammunition. You can get truckloads of ammunition sent to your doorstep online. There's no background checks for the people selling them and there’s no background checks for the people purchasing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871371\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have no problem with people purchasing guns. I have no problem with people purchasing ammunition. I just want the right people purchasing guns and the right people purchasing ammunition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun enthusiasts see Proposition 63 as an attack on their Second Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig DeLuz, spokesman for the Stop 63 campaign and a lobbyist for the Firearms Policy Coalition in Sacramento, said that, for the most part, Proposition 63 will do nothing to crack down on criminals who use guns and instead will punish people who follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the provisions of this bill do not affect anyone who has been convicted of a crime. It does not affect terrorists; it does not affect potential mass shooters; it does not affect criminals. It only affects law-abiding citizens,\" said DeLuz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contends that California has plenty of gun control laws on the books already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"We are getting to the point where we are just piling on, and when you make complying with the law so onerous, then one of two things happen,\" he said. \"One, I decide it's too onerous and expensive for me to comply with the law or I get to a point where I am just going to ignore the law ... and I decide that the defense of myself and my family is more important than following laws that go against the Constitution.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Man's Reasons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Weiss has a different take. His daughter, Veronika Weiss, was a 19-year-old UC Santa Barbara freshman when she -- along with five other UCSB students -- was killed by a mentally disturbed man in 2014. The killer went on a rampage through Isla Vista, the town adjacent to UCSB where most students live, with three guns that he had legally purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11135599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11135599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png\" alt=\"Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \" width=\"800\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-400x377.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1920x1810.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1180x1112.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-960x905.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weiss has been an outspoken advocate for stricter gun control laws ever since -- an issue he felt strongly about even before his daughter was killed. Weiss said he knows that most people who die by gunshot won't be part of a mass killing or even the victim of a mentally ill shooter, like his daughter, but he wants to support laws that will reduce gun deaths overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously, with 33,000 Americans getting shot to death every year, something is terribly wrong with our system. It doesn't happen at this rate in Canada or Australia or Switzerland. Any other developed nation doesn't have the rate of gun violence that we have in America,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Gun Owners Who 'Don't Own Guns'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said Proposition 63's ammunition regulation provision isn't aimed at mass shooters, but at making it harder for a much larger group of criminals to get bullets: Those that acquire guns illegally but can purchase ammunition anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important folks we are trying to bring in under the ammunition background check are people that quote-unquote don’t own a gun, but are legally buying ammunition at Wal-Mart, Big 5 and online. These are the people who are involved in the overwhelming majority of homicides in inner cities all across this country but here in California,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun control laws such as background checks work, said Julie Leftwich, legal director at the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The nonprofit partnered with Newsom to write Proposition 63. It also helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/landmark-california-gun-seizure-law-takes-effect\">push a law, supported by Weiss\u003c/a>, that instated a gun violence restraining order in California allowing police and family members to petition a court to take away someone's firearms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have passed, as a state, over 50 strong gun safety laws (over the past 20 years) and our gun deaths have dropped by 56 percent, which is twice as much as other states,\" Leftwich said. \"We have done a lot and it is making a difference. ... If you look nationally, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradycampaign.org/our-impact/campaigns/background-checks\">Brady background checks\u003c/a> have stopped more than 2.5 million criminals and other prohibited people from buying guns.\"[contextly_sidebar id=\"C8JL8KPxVlzubrlSZ7oDaEeJKV9MxSRC\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said Proposition 63 is mostly common sense: He called ammunition background checks \"smart\" and said they won't hamper recreational gun users. And he called the provision requiring newly convicted felons to get rid of their guns \"kind of a no-brainer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Infringement on Your Rights?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DeLuz has a problem with each and every one of the ballot measure's provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuz said with California's strong laws around buying guns, there's no need for the ammunition background checks -- and he warned it could lead to racial profiling of certain gun users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said requiring gun owners to report when a firearm is lost or stolen will \"make a victim of them once again,\" and could result in a previously law-abiding person being labeled a criminal. Proposition 63 makes it an infraction, or a simple ticket, to fail to report a lost or stolen gun, with increasing penalties if a person repeatedly fails to report missing firearms. Supporters of the measure say it will help police crack down on gun traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while it's been illegal in California to buy or sell magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets since 1994, DeLuz said the provision of Proposition 63 requiring people who have older magazines to get rid of them amounts to confiscation of private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said the provision requiring felons to prove to a court that they have given up a gun before sentencing will burden probation departments that are already stretched thin. He noted that s\u003ca href=\"http://stoptheammograb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/List-of-Opponents-PAC-10.13.16.pdf\">ome law enforcement groups oppose Proposition 63\u003c/a>, though their opposition mostly centers around the fact that the ballot measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article103588977.html\">doesn't exempt law enforcement officers from its requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Buying in Bulk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said it would drive up the price of bullets for law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\u003ccite>James Cloud\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times when people purchase ammunition they purchase it in bulk because it's cheaper -- like toilet paper,\" DeLuz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime recreational shooter James Cloud, who was practicing at Jackson Arms shooting range in South San Francisco recently, agreed. He said it's easy to go through thousands of rounds of bullets in a single afternoon and that buying them online is the cheapest option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun stores and ranges \"are going to charge way more, double or triple,\" he said. Cloud said it's already confusing trying to navigate the patchwork of state and local laws in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nuts,\" he said. \"It's out of control, because you know what it is? I think the laws are definitely not targeting criminals now, not at all. They get their guns out of state or they are going to go to Mexico. These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeLuz also accused Newsom of using the ballot measure to help raise money and his political profile in advance of the 2018 governor's race. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's taking an issue that specifically affects constitutional rights, that has to do with protecting people's safety, and he's using it as a political tool,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Parent's Worst Fear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the issues Proposition 63 tackles were already broached by several laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this summer. But Newsom said Proposition 63 is still crucial to ensure Californians' safety because it is stronger than the laws passed in Sacramento and, if passed by voters, cannot be undone by lawmakers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he's tackling this issue because he cares deeply about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been to more homicides than most people because I was mayor of a city. I have seen firsthand the devastation of gun violence. I've got four kids. Last year, more preschoolers were gunned down than police officers in the line of duty,\" he said. \"When I drop my kids off at school I have parents, literally, on my mother's grave, that have asked me about gun violence because they are scared to death about dropping their kids off at school. I can't stand these aspects of guns and gun violence, and I can't stand this gun lobby.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Depending on whom you ask, it's a question of either common sense or constitutional rights: Should ammunition be treated like guns are, with background checks for buyers and limits on who can sell?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of several questions facing voters within Proposition 63, a gun control measure sponsored by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. The initiative would also require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement; set up a process for convicted felons to give up their guns; and fully ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of bullets.\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/288988967&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/288988967'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the ballot measure would require state officials to continue to share the names of people prohibited from having guns with the FBI and require that gun stores conduct background checks of their employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom sees ammunition regulation as perhaps the measure's most consequential provision. He said other states will follow suit if California passes Proposition 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are having a very important debate in this country about background checks on guns, but a gun has never killed anybody, unless it's used as a blunt instrument,\" Newsom said. \"A gun needs a component -- and that's the ammunition -- to be deadly. And the reality is today anyone can buy ammunition anywhere. There’s no licensing requirements to buy ammunition. ... Any local grocery store, liquor store, can legally sell unlimited rounds of ammunition. You can get truckloads of ammunition sent to your doorstep online. There's no background checks for the people selling them and there’s no background checks for the people purchasing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871371\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have no problem with people purchasing guns. I have no problem with people purchasing ammunition. I just want the right people purchasing guns and the right people purchasing ammunition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun enthusiasts see Proposition 63 as an attack on their Second Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig DeLuz, spokesman for the Stop 63 campaign and a lobbyist for the Firearms Policy Coalition in Sacramento, said that, for the most part, Proposition 63 will do nothing to crack down on criminals who use guns and instead will punish people who follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the provisions of this bill do not affect anyone who has been convicted of a crime. It does not affect terrorists; it does not affect potential mass shooters; it does not affect criminals. It only affects law-abiding citizens,\" said DeLuz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contends that California has plenty of gun control laws on the books already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"We are getting to the point where we are just piling on, and when you make complying with the law so onerous, then one of two things happen,\" he said. \"One, I decide it's too onerous and expensive for me to comply with the law or I get to a point where I am just going to ignore the law ... and I decide that the defense of myself and my family is more important than following laws that go against the Constitution.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Man's Reasons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Weiss has a different take. His daughter, Veronika Weiss, was a 19-year-old UC Santa Barbara freshman when she -- along with five other UCSB students -- was killed by a mentally disturbed man in 2014. The killer went on a rampage through Isla Vista, the town adjacent to UCSB where most students live, with three guns that he had legally purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11135599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11135599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png\" alt=\"Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \" width=\"800\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-800x754.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-400x377.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1920x1810.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-1180x1112.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/weiss-960x905.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Weiss with a poster of his daughter, Veronika, who was killed in a mass shooting near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. He's campaigning for Proposition 63. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weiss has been an outspoken advocate for stricter gun control laws ever since -- an issue he felt strongly about even before his daughter was killed. Weiss said he knows that most people who die by gunshot won't be part of a mass killing or even the victim of a mentally ill shooter, like his daughter, but he wants to support laws that will reduce gun deaths overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously, with 33,000 Americans getting shot to death every year, something is terribly wrong with our system. It doesn't happen at this rate in Canada or Australia or Switzerland. Any other developed nation doesn't have the rate of gun violence that we have in America,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Gun Owners Who 'Don't Own Guns'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said Proposition 63's ammunition regulation provision isn't aimed at mass shooters, but at making it harder for a much larger group of criminals to get bullets: Those that acquire guns illegally but can purchase ammunition anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important folks we are trying to bring in under the ammunition background check are people that quote-unquote don’t own a gun, but are legally buying ammunition at Wal-Mart, Big 5 and online. These are the people who are involved in the overwhelming majority of homicides in inner cities all across this country but here in California,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun control laws such as background checks work, said Julie Leftwich, legal director at the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The nonprofit partnered with Newsom to write Proposition 63. It also helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/landmark-california-gun-seizure-law-takes-effect\">push a law, supported by Weiss\u003c/a>, that instated a gun violence restraining order in California allowing police and family members to petition a court to take away someone's firearms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have passed, as a state, over 50 strong gun safety laws (over the past 20 years) and our gun deaths have dropped by 56 percent, which is twice as much as other states,\" Leftwich said. \"We have done a lot and it is making a difference. ... If you look nationally, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradycampaign.org/our-impact/campaigns/background-checks\">Brady background checks\u003c/a> have stopped more than 2.5 million criminals and other prohibited people from buying guns.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said Proposition 63 is mostly common sense: He called ammunition background checks \"smart\" and said they won't hamper recreational gun users. And he called the provision requiring newly convicted felons to get rid of their guns \"kind of a no-brainer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Infringement on Your Rights?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DeLuz has a problem with each and every one of the ballot measure's provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuz said with California's strong laws around buying guns, there's no need for the ammunition background checks -- and he warned it could lead to racial profiling of certain gun users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said requiring gun owners to report when a firearm is lost or stolen will \"make a victim of them once again,\" and could result in a previously law-abiding person being labeled a criminal. Proposition 63 makes it an infraction, or a simple ticket, to fail to report a lost or stolen gun, with increasing penalties if a person repeatedly fails to report missing firearms. Supporters of the measure say it will help police crack down on gun traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while it's been illegal in California to buy or sell magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets since 1994, DeLuz said the provision of Proposition 63 requiring people who have older magazines to get rid of them amounts to confiscation of private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said the provision requiring felons to prove to a court that they have given up a gun before sentencing will burden probation departments that are already stretched thin. He noted that s\u003ca href=\"http://stoptheammograb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/List-of-Opponents-PAC-10.13.16.pdf\">ome law enforcement groups oppose Proposition 63\u003c/a>, though their opposition mostly centers around the fact that the ballot measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article103588977.html\">doesn't exempt law enforcement officers from its requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Buying in Bulk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said it would drive up the price of bullets for law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\u003ccite>James Cloud\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times when people purchase ammunition they purchase it in bulk because it's cheaper -- like toilet paper,\" DeLuz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime recreational shooter James Cloud, who was practicing at Jackson Arms shooting range in South San Francisco recently, agreed. He said it's easy to go through thousands of rounds of bullets in a single afternoon and that buying them online is the cheapest option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun stores and ranges \"are going to charge way more, double or triple,\" he said. Cloud said it's already confusing trying to navigate the patchwork of state and local laws in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nuts,\" he said. \"It's out of control, because you know what it is? I think the laws are definitely not targeting criminals now, not at all. They get their guns out of state or they are going to go to Mexico. These laws are going to do nothing. It might make it worse. It's going to create a black market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeLuz also accused Newsom of using the ballot measure to help raise money and his political profile in advance of the 2018 governor's race. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's taking an issue that specifically affects constitutional rights, that has to do with protecting people's safety, and he's using it as a political tool,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Parent's Worst Fear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the issues Proposition 63 tackles were already broached by several laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this summer. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#note\">Editor's Note:\u003c/a> This story contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our election series \"All Politics is Local,\" we're looking at some of the races voters will find lower down on their ballots. We hear plenty about the presidential election. These races are less publicized, but no less important.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of recent voter participation data in San Francisco confirms conventional wisdom: judicial races are some of the most obscure on the ballot, with voters more likely to skip the choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no surprise to Mindy Romero, who heads the \u003ca href=\"http://ccep.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">California Civic Engagement Project\u003c/a> at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters want to feel comfortable and confident in their vote on all of the decisions on the ballot, and particularly it seems that the judicial races are difficult,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judicial races in San Francisco received the least amount of votes the last time the city elected a Superior Court judge two years ago. Just over a third of registered voters selected a candidate in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288859127\" 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>That's partially due to the races being nonpartisan and the apolitical nature of the judiciary, Romero said. Judges are ethically bound to remain objective on any issue that could come before them, and that can leave voters in a quandary on which candidate to pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every once in a while, voters get a stark reminder on the power Superior Court judges wield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/aaron-persky/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Persky\u003c/a>'s sentence of former Stanford student Brock Turner to a six-month jail term for sexual assault stirred national controversy this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics blasted Persky's sentence -- the charges could have landed the champion swimmer in prison for 14 years -- and seized on the case as a potent example of unfairness in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Persky is up for re-election this November, he's running unopposed so his name won't appear on local ballots. He could face a special \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/25/judging-the-judges-recalls-may-become-easier-but-is-that-better-for-california/\" target=\"_blank\">recall\u003c/a> election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the scandal, Persky \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/judge-aaron-persky-brock-turner-case/\" target=\"_blank\">transferred\u003c/a> to Santa Clara's civil division, so he'll no longer hear sexual assault or other criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But judges presiding over civil cases have extreme discretion, too, as San Franciscans were reminded late last year. After nine of the city's police officers swapped some violently racist, homophobic and sexist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">text messages,\u003c/a> Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">handed down a ruling\u003c/a> that kept the officers employed and on the city's payroll. Now, as Goldsmith retires, the city is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/05/s-f-city-attorney-appeals-ruling-on-police-texting-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">appealing\u003c/a> his interpretation of state law, and voters will select his replacement from two candidates steeped in city policing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Paul Henderson and Victor Hwang are former San Francisco prosecutors. Now Hwang is a civil rights attorney who moonlights as a city police commissioner. In addition to grappling with the policy implications of scandals emerging from the SFPD, he would have heard disciplinary charges against the officers involved in the racist texting scandal. But before the former police chief's recommendation that those officers be fired reached the commission, they challenged the discipline in Superior Court, with attorneys paid for by the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a police commissioner, wearing that hat, we have been shielded away from that litigation,\" Hwang said. \"I have not looked at any of the papers, and I can’t comment on the judge’s decision on that case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think anytime there’s an allegation of misconduct on the part of SFPD, we want to take quick and decisive action from the commission,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson is deputy chief of staff and public safety director for Mayor Ed Lee, who, along with other city and Police Department leaders, wanted the officers involved in the text messaging scandal fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s just not acceptable and cannot be acceptable,\" Henderson said of the bigoted texts. \"We cannot have a fair Police Department with communications like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he wants to make the courts more accessible to marginalized communities, and his experience as a black man informs his sense of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I’m successful in this race, I will not be able to ignore that, yes, I’m still an African-American man that is from this community,\" he said. \"I have had experiences, positive and negative with a whole host of agencies and individuals that don't necessarily define how I make my decisions, but they’re absolutely relevant to who I am as a person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates say they embrace the accountability that judicial elections bring to the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think this is a unique opportunity for voters to elect a judge,\" Hwang said, \"and I think part of our message is trying to convince them to vote down-ballot in this very high-profile presidential election cycle. I think it’s important, and what I have emphasized over and over to voters is forget the politics, this is not a political race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Romero said elections are an imperfect way to keep judges accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if you believe in accountability and you believe that voters should weigh in, because voters often report that they don’t have enough information to feel comfortable about a judicial race, then are you really having accountability?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conscientious voters could look at endorsements, she said, since they can't assess judges by party affiliation. And Romero suggested another option for voters to get more information: Follow the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To challenge a judge and to get re-elected in a contested race, you do need a lot of money,\" she said. \"We know that elected officials generally have to be concerned about their donors and who got them there, who supported them along the way, and is it always realistic for us to assume that judges, once elected, can completely rule out donors and other folks that supported them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang raised $239,386 between January and late September, according to California Secretary of State \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign finance data\u003c/a>. Henderson collected $129,053 over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates' donor rolls include a spectrum of attorneys and other members of the Bay Area's legal community, and both have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/two-judicial-candidates-expected-head-november-ballot/\" target=\"_blank\">standout large donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang appears to have amassed some support on the San Francisco left, including donations from prominent progressives like state Senate candidate Jane Kim.* Henderson netted donations from two candidates for the city's next chief of police, the president of the Police Commission and the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson also received $1,000 from the San Francisco Police Officers Association's political action committee and $250 from Paul Chignell, the POA's legal defense administrator -- parties involved in funding the legal defense that kept SFPD officers who sent bigoted texts on the city's payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang and Henderson both acknowledge an uphill battle in educating voters on their race, often fielding a basic question: Judges have to run?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I welcome those conversations because people only ask questions for the things that they care about,\" Henderson said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"name\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>*This story has been updated to correctly identify donors to Victor Hwang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Judges are ethically bound to remain objective on any issue that could come before them, and that can leave voters in a quandary on which candidate to pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every once in a while, voters get a stark reminder on the power Superior Court judges wield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/aaron-persky/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Persky\u003c/a>'s sentence of former Stanford student Brock Turner to a six-month jail term for sexual assault stirred national controversy this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics blasted Persky's sentence -- the charges could have landed the champion swimmer in prison for 14 years -- and seized on the case as a potent example of unfairness in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Persky is up for re-election this November, he's running unopposed so his name won't appear on local ballots. He could face a special \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/25/judging-the-judges-recalls-may-become-easier-but-is-that-better-for-california/\" target=\"_blank\">recall\u003c/a> election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the scandal, Persky \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/judge-aaron-persky-brock-turner-case/\" target=\"_blank\">transferred\u003c/a> to Santa Clara's civil division, so he'll no longer hear sexual assault or other criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But judges presiding over civil cases have extreme discretion, too, as San Franciscans were reminded late last year. After nine of the city's police officers swapped some violently racist, homophobic and sexist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">text messages,\u003c/a> Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">handed down a ruling\u003c/a> that kept the officers employed and on the city's payroll. Now, as Goldsmith retires, the city is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/05/s-f-city-attorney-appeals-ruling-on-police-texting-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">appealing\u003c/a> his interpretation of state law, and voters will select his replacement from two candidates steeped in city policing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Paul Henderson and Victor Hwang are former San Francisco prosecutors. Now Hwang is a civil rights attorney who moonlights as a city police commissioner. In addition to grappling with the policy implications of scandals emerging from the SFPD, he would have heard disciplinary charges against the officers involved in the racist texting scandal. But before the former police chief's recommendation that those officers be fired reached the commission, they challenged the discipline in Superior Court, with attorneys paid for by the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a police commissioner, wearing that hat, we have been shielded away from that litigation,\" Hwang said. \"I have not looked at any of the papers, and I can’t comment on the judge’s decision on that case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think anytime there’s an allegation of misconduct on the part of SFPD, we want to take quick and decisive action from the commission,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson is deputy chief of staff and public safety director for Mayor Ed Lee, who, along with other city and Police Department leaders, wanted the officers involved in the text messaging scandal fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s just not acceptable and cannot be acceptable,\" Henderson said of the bigoted texts. \"We cannot have a fair Police Department with communications like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he wants to make the courts more accessible to marginalized communities, and his experience as a black man informs his sense of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I’m successful in this race, I will not be able to ignore that, yes, I’m still an African-American man that is from this community,\" he said. \"I have had experiences, positive and negative with a whole host of agencies and individuals that don't necessarily define how I make my decisions, but they’re absolutely relevant to who I am as a person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates say they embrace the accountability that judicial elections bring to the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think this is a unique opportunity for voters to elect a judge,\" Hwang said, \"and I think part of our message is trying to convince them to vote down-ballot in this very high-profile presidential election cycle. I think it’s important, and what I have emphasized over and over to voters is forget the politics, this is not a political race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Romero said elections are an imperfect way to keep judges accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if you believe in accountability and you believe that voters should weigh in, because voters often report that they don’t have enough information to feel comfortable about a judicial race, then are you really having accountability?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conscientious voters could look at endorsements, she said, since they can't assess judges by party affiliation. And Romero suggested another option for voters to get more information: Follow the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To challenge a judge and to get re-elected in a contested race, you do need a lot of money,\" she said. \"We know that elected officials generally have to be concerned about their donors and who got them there, who supported them along the way, and is it always realistic for us to assume that judges, once elected, can completely rule out donors and other folks that supported them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hwang raised $239,386 between January and late September, according to California Secretary of State \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign finance data\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our election series “All Politics is Local,” we’re looking at some of the races voters will find lower down on their ballot. We hear plenty about the presidential election. These races are much less publicized, but no less important.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only two schools in the tiny \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcsd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sausalito-Marin City School District\u003c/a>: a charter school and a traditional public school. Tension is high this election season, after state investigators reported that the school board has favored the charter school over the district school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four out of five of the current school board members are affiliated with the charter school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.willowcreekacademy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Willow Creek Academy\u003c/a>. One was a founder, and three are parents, one of whom also serves on the board of the charter school foundation. Many parents at the charter school are worried that two of those board members could be voted out this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288857809\" 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>\"What we’re doing right now at Willow Creek is working!\" said John Donovan, whose daughter attends fourth grade at the charter school. \"I mean, we’ve got kids from all different walks of life coming in here, working together, studying together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both schools in this district are K-8 and both are about 30 percent Latino and 10 percent Asian, but they have \u003ca href=\"http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/EthnicEnr.aspx?cChoice=DistEnrEt2&cYear=2015-16&cSelect=2165474--Sausalito%20Marin%20City&TheCounty=&cLevel=District&cTopic=Enrollment&myTimeFrame=S&cType=ALL&cGender=B\" target=\"_blank\">very different percentages\u003c/a> of African-American and white students. At the traditional public school, Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, 44 percent of the students last year were African-American, and 9 percent were white. At the charter school, 41 percent were white, and 12 percent were African-American. More than two thirds of the students at the district school qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. At the charter school, less than half of the kids are from such low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sausalito is so wealthy that the school district receives more money from property taxes than the minimum it would get from the state. The state Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team \u003ca href=\"http://fcmat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/08/Marin-COE-Sausalito-Marin-City-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">found the school board\u003c/a> diverted some of that money to the charter school that it said should have been used at the district school. But the school board \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcsd.org/files/SMCSD%20-%20Response%20to%20FCMAT%20Report_001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">denies doing anything wrong\u003c/a>. They say the district school already gets more money per pupil, and to give it additional money would be unfair to the charter school students, many of whom also have high needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My feelings are that if they’re to detract from the charter school, we could jeopardize the progress that this whole district has made and wind up going back fifteen years in our progress,\" Donovan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen years ago, a group of parents in Sausalito started the charter school here. It used to share a campus with the traditional public elementary school, but over time, the charter grew to serve more than twice the number of students that the district school serves. Three years ago, the school board decided to move the traditional public school across the highway to Marin City and merge it with the middle school to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents at the Marin City school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baysidemlk.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy\u003c/a>, see the move as one of many ways the school board has shortchanged their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The board favored them,\" said mother Kahaya Adams. \"It's always favored Willow Creek. It's unacceptable that we have to suffer and get cuts. Willow Creek has teachers' assistants, they have a full P.E. teacher, they have a full math, full science. We don't even have a science teacher!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents said the middle-schoolers at Bayside started the year without textbooks and with no permanent math teacher. Many parents are worried their kids are not being prepared for high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My sixth, seventh and eighth graders do the exact same work,\" said Kimberly Robinson. \"How is that? It’s not fair to these kids. There’s no way that they would let Willow Creek be going without books. We’re this far into the school year and we’re just now getting our books in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson and other parents at the Marin City school say they plan to vote for the two candidates who are challenging the school board incumbents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle playing out in this tiny district is not so different than in other school boards in California. School board races in California seem to be attracting more attention than in the past, in part because of the state's new policies on school funding. In addition to changing the way money is allocated to school districts, California's funding formula also gives local school boards more control over how to spend money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Urban and suburban school districts have become a battleground for a number of high profile issues,\" said Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley. \"One is charter schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bigger districts, charter school backers and teachers' unions (which oppose charters) contribute campaign funds to influence elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If voters don’t show up, we’re going to give power away to these special interests, rather than electing board members who have the broad interests of trying to improve schools for all kids,\" said Fuller.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Donald Trump is warning that the election will be rigged. He has precisely zero evidence to back up that claim. But he has a remarkably receptive audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/HTML%20Reports/views-on-the-american-election-process-and-perceptions-of-voter-fraud-issue-brief.aspx\">Around 30 percent\u003c/a> of Americans have \"little or no confidence\" that votes will be counted accurately — and Trump's voters are far less confident about that than Clinton's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that potentially millions of Americans will turn out to vote on Nov. 8, despite apparently believing their votes may not count at all. But to believe the election will be \"rigged\" is to believe that any number of improbable things will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a handful of reasons not to worry about any rigging:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>1. The election is decentralized\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, election-rigging worked on \u003cem>Scandal\u003c/em>, when a super-secret cabal of five people (including the first lady AND the White House chief of staff) flipped the election by fiddling with a single voting machine in Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Campaign 2016 is not a Shonda Rhimes production. Which is to say: Rigging the election would be much, much harder than this. For one, there are few options of where to try doing that voting-machine fiddling. Where would you begin? Ohio? Florida? Iowa? Arizona?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Conceivably one could focus on the few states that factor into the Electoral College,\" Walter Mebane, a political scientist who focuses on voter fraud at the University of Michigan, told NPR in August. \"And maybe that turns into a few hundred or a few thousand precincts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that would be difficult to do because — let's repeat this again — elections are not federally run. States run them themselves. Trying to twist the results in a bunch of different precincts run by different authorities would be monstrously difficult. And even if one could somehow pull it off, then there's the problem of people's big mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, say, 400 precincts in a big conspiracy, and no one will know?\" Mebane added. \"That's not gonna happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>2. State officials are on guard\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretaries of state are charged with administering elections in each state. And on Monday, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, insisted that rigging won't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First of all, I can reassure Donald Trump: I am in charge of elections in Ohio, and they're not going to be rigged. I'll make sure of that,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-election-rigged-ohio-secretary-of-state-229\">he told CNN\u003c/a>. \"Our institutions, like our election system, is one of the bedrocks of American democracy. We should not question it or the legitimacy of it. It works very well. In places like Ohio, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's no enemy of Trump — Husted, by the way, said later Monday that he will vote for the Republican nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple other secretaries of state have likewise asserted that the elections in their states will not be rigged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, considering that the cries of election rigging are overwhelmingly coming from the right, there's another reason to be skeptical, as the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/782210861330857985\">AP's Nick Riccardi\u003c/a> pointed out: Many of the closest states — Ohio, Iowa, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Alaska, Georgia — have Republican governors. That means the rigging would have to take place under Republican administrations — people who would, theoretically, have more reason to want Trump rather than Clinton to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>3. Clinton is already leading by a lot\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a really close race, there could potentially be more of an argument that \"rigging\" the election would be possible (with irregularities in particular counties or precincts, which would be challenged and subject to recounts and oversight and courts weighing in).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way things look right now, that doesn't seem likely to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the polls in November look like they do now, then I don't see much of an issue,\" Vanderbilt University political science professor Marc Hetherington \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/07/488893858/questioning-if-an-election-will-be-rigged-strikes-at-the-heart-of-democracy\">told NPR in August\u003c/a>. \"No one will find credible charges of election fraud if it looks like a blowout in advance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Clinton was far ahead of Trump — she had an 83 percent chance of winning to his 17, according to FiveThirtyEight. Now, it's looking slightly better for Clinton — 88 percent chance to his 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true that some states will be close. But if Clinton is far enough ahead in enough states — which is looking increasingly likely — then it wouldn't be necessary to rig the election. (Or you'd have to believe that many polls in many states are rigged, which isn't happening.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>4. Election fraud is rare (and it's not quite \"rigging\" either)\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple analyses have found the problem of voter fraud to be sparse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt's comprehensive analysis, there were only \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/\">31 incidents of the type of voter fraud\u003c/a> that could have been prevented by voter ID laws — that is, voter impersonation — from 2000 through 2014. Another analysis from News21 looked into 2,068 allegations of election fraud and found only 10 cases of impersonation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after analyzing multiple studies, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf\">Government Accountability Office\u003c/a> said it found \"few instances of in-person voter fraud\" (though it also acknowledged that in-person voter fraud is difficult to count accurately). So it appears that in-person voter fraud on the scale that it currently happens would have very little chance of swaying the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Trump and Pence have told their supporters to head to the polls to make sure people are voting fairly on Election Day. But even then, they could easily miss some cases of fraud, because fraud via absentee ballots is \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/13/the-disconnect-between-voter-id-laws-and-voter-fraud/\">\"unfortunately quite real,\"\u003c/a> as Levitt told \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, as election lawyer Chris Ashby pointed out on CNN Monday afternoon (after an \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ashbylaw/status/787352959633981440\">epic tweetstorm \u003c/a>over the weekend), individual instances of voter fraud aren't exactly \"rigging\" anyway. This isn't just semantics — yes, voter fraud is a bad thing. However, calling an election \"rigged\" implies a systematic, coordinated effort to cause one candidate to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more point here is that voter ID laws are the weapon of choice, particularly for politicians on the right, for fighting voter fraud. However, there's evidence that voter ID laws — which are put in place to fight voter fraud — end up swinging elections themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>5 (and 6 and 7 and 8 ...). Read Chris Ashby's latest post\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd be entirely remiss if we didn't point to Ashby's \u003ca href=\"https://extranewsfeed.com/the-election-is-not-rigged-23917d9b0534#.ii0k4de5k\">excellent Medium post\u003c/a> spelling out a few more reasons to be skeptical of \"rigging\" allegations. 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And on Monday, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, insisted that rigging won't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First of all, I can reassure Donald Trump: I am in charge of elections in Ohio, and they're not going to be rigged. I'll make sure of that,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-election-rigged-ohio-secretary-of-state-229\">he told CNN\u003c/a>. \"Our institutions, like our election system, is one of the bedrocks of American democracy. We should not question it or the legitimacy of it. It works very well. In places like Ohio, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's no enemy of Trump — Husted, by the way, said later Monday that he will vote for the Republican nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple other secretaries of state have likewise asserted that the elections in their states will not be rigged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, considering that the cries of election rigging are overwhelmingly coming from the right, there's another reason to be skeptical, as the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/782210861330857985\">AP's Nick Riccardi\u003c/a> pointed out: Many of the closest states — Ohio, Iowa, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Alaska, Georgia — have Republican governors. That means the rigging would have to take place under Republican administrations — people who would, theoretically, have more reason to want Trump rather than Clinton to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>3. Clinton is already leading by a lot\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a really close race, there could potentially be more of an argument that \"rigging\" the election would be possible (with irregularities in particular counties or precincts, which would be challenged and subject to recounts and oversight and courts weighing in).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way things look right now, that doesn't seem likely to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the polls in November look like they do now, then I don't see much of an issue,\" Vanderbilt University political science professor Marc Hetherington \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/07/488893858/questioning-if-an-election-will-be-rigged-strikes-at-the-heart-of-democracy\">told NPR in August\u003c/a>. \"No one will find credible charges of election fraud if it looks like a blowout in advance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Clinton was far ahead of Trump — she had an 83 percent chance of winning to his 17, according to FiveThirtyEight. Now, it's looking slightly better for Clinton — 88 percent chance to his 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true that some states will be close. But if Clinton is far enough ahead in enough states — which is looking increasingly likely — then it wouldn't be necessary to rig the election. (Or you'd have to believe that many polls in many states are rigged, which isn't happening.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>4. Election fraud is rare (and it's not quite \"rigging\" either)\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple analyses have found the problem of voter fraud to be sparse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt's comprehensive analysis, there were only \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/\">31 incidents of the type of voter fraud\u003c/a> that could have been prevented by voter ID laws — that is, voter impersonation — from 2000 through 2014. Another analysis from News21 looked into 2,068 allegations of election fraud and found only 10 cases of impersonation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after analyzing multiple studies, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf\">Government Accountability Office\u003c/a> said it found \"few instances of in-person voter fraud\" (though it also acknowledged that in-person voter fraud is difficult to count accurately). So it appears that in-person voter fraud on the scale that it currently happens would have very little chance of swaying the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Trump and Pence have told their supporters to head to the polls to make sure people are voting fairly on Election Day. But even then, they could easily miss some cases of fraud, because fraud via absentee ballots is \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/13/the-disconnect-between-voter-id-laws-and-voter-fraud/\">\"unfortunately quite real,\"\u003c/a> as Levitt told \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, as election lawyer Chris Ashby pointed out on CNN Monday afternoon (after an \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ashbylaw/status/787352959633981440\">epic tweetstorm \u003c/a>over the weekend), individual instances of voter fraud aren't exactly \"rigging\" anyway. This isn't just semantics — yes, voter fraud is a bad thing. However, calling an election \"rigged\" implies a systematic, coordinated effort to cause one candidate to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more point here is that voter ID laws are the weapon of choice, particularly for politicians on the right, for fighting voter fraud. However, there's evidence that voter ID laws — which are put in place to fight voter fraud — end up swinging elections themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>5 (and 6 and 7 and 8 ...). Read Chris Ashby's latest post\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd be entirely remiss if we didn't point to Ashby's \u003ca href=\"https://extranewsfeed.com/the-election-is-not-rigged-23917d9b0534#.ii0k4de5k\">excellent Medium post\u003c/a> spelling out a few more reasons to be skeptical of \"rigging\" allegations. For example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- elections are held in public places and staffed by private citizens;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- party officials and lawyers are at the ready to challenge if needed;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- voting machines have systems in place to prevent fraud — for example, they are \"equipped with multiple interconnected counters that make it impossible to add or remove votes secretly\" (sorry, Olivia Pope); and ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- representatives of both candidates \u003cem>and \u003c/em>parties observe vote-counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So the ideal approach would be to continue \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/09/28/65207/a-bold-new-approach-to-english-proficiency-for-kid/\">teaching them in their native language\u003c/a> to keep their brains stimulated, while folding in English language instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could spend more time teaching them in their native language and working on that proficiency and getting to those higher-level thinking skills, I think they’d be that much further ahead academically and be able to pick up English faster,” said Symonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But current state law prevents the school from teaching them using those methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the English in Public Schools Initiative, which California voters approved in 1998, requires that the students spend one year in a sheltered class like this one, taking all of their classes in English, before transitioning to mainstream classes at their grade level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/03/64930/election-2016-faq-proposition-58-non-english-langu/\">Proposition 58\u003c/a>, on California’s general election ballot, would remove those limits on native language instruction. The measure would directly affect instruction for the state’s 1.3 million English learners and indirectly for those students whose parents want them to be bilingual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative has drawn wide support from educators, who point to research in the last decade that suggests young people who learn multiple languages improve their brain’s ability to focus and manage several tasks at the same time, which are the keys to learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also supported by dozens of Democratic elected officials, the California Association for Bilingual Education, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Advancement Project and the think tank EdTrust West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition’s strongest opponent is the man who created the bilingual education limits through Proposition 227, the original ballot measure passed 18 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bilingual education is dead and it’s not coming back,” said Ron Unz, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who authored and funded Proposition 227.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Proposition 227 made it on the ballot, more than 400,000 students were enrolled in bilingual education programs in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old system put hundreds of thousands — a good fraction of 1 million students — in a program where they were not taught English as soon as they started school,” Unz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the bilingual education programs immersed students in their native language — largely Spanish — while dual immersion programs focused on Spanish instruction and built up English gradually from the early grades. 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The question and answer between teacher and student is sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes a mixture of English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach, principal Symonds said, is to gradually build up these kids’ mental ability to learn two languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kindergarten, the instruction is 90 percent in Spanish and 10 percent in English, Symonds said. The amount of instruction in English gradually increases each year as students progress through elementary school, until roughly half of class time is spent in English and half in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re immersing them in two languages,” he said. “We’re looking at the long-term picture of student achievement. The gains, we’re not going to start seeing until the upper grades and into high school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current bilingual education limits, Symonds said, are like a timer that forces kids to sink or swim in their new language without the lifeline of their native language. 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"content": "\u003cp>Brightly lit rooms, enticing menus and a smiling staff greet customers from the entrance of the Green Door. What initially might seem like a favorite coffee bar is actually a San Francisco dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green Door in San Francisco is one of the oldest medical marijuana dispensaries in the United States, having opened in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone are the days of dark backrooms and transactions made in secret. Bright displays show off available products while daily menus offer unique-sounding flavors such as Bombay Cherry Doughnut and Platinum Cookies. Rather than baristas, the staff is made up of knowledgeable “budtenders” who can offer insight into the numerous products available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> passes in November, it’s expected that the number of marijuana dispensaries will increase throughout the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11076610/6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt\">Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what really goes on in a dispensary?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFrom weighing out bulk product to patients enjoying their merchandise, I follow the marijuana buds from start to finish at the dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulk bags of marijuana are received from vendors and weighed by hand as they’re packaged for individual sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs out and packages cannabis buds. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are poured into small bags after being weighed by hand. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs and packages cannabis buds. Price says he’s in support of Proposition 64. He says that it would cut down on the number of people jailed for illegal marijuana use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are chosen and weighed by hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Price is careful to choose just the right buds to package up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price picks through the bulk container of marijuana to find the best buds for each package. He wants every client to get the best product possible, no matter what bag they buy from the counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"After being weighed, the cannabis buds are packaged for sale at the Green Door Dispensary in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-400x244.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packages of cannabis buds lay on a counter at the Green Door dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as pre-rolls that will be sold at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Approximately 750 pre-rolls are made each day by staff. \" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-400x278.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-960x668.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as premade joints. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hoea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Staff members grind down marijuana that doesn’t meet the tough standards for full-bud packaging. Then they sift the finer material and use it to fill premade joints. Every day they make at least 750 joints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128458\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Rodriguez fills cones to make pre-rolls for sale at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Rodriguez, who has been working at the dispensary since January, makes approximately 750 pre-rolls a day during his shift. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With practiced hands, Ricardo Rodriguez fills paper cones with marijuana before tapping out the end and folding them up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Rodriguez has been at the dispensary since January and really enjoys it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like a big family here,” say Rodriguez. “We all help each other out. Everyone is very supportive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128390\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Drawers full of different strains of cannabis stand in the back of the dispensary. The Green Door dispensary carries dozens of different strains daily. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff search through drawers of packaged marijuana for customers at the dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the marijuana is packaged and ready for sale, it’s taken downstairs to the main shop. An entire back wall is lined with drawers full of different strains of marijuana. The Green Door dispensary carries an assortment of strains that changes daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the buds are edibles of all varieties. From chocolate bars and macaroons to lozenges and cotton candy, staff say the marijuana-infused foods are a popular treat with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California holds a cannabis-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco holds a marijuana-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upstairs from the shop is a lounge where patients can use the products they’ve purchased. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers this option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11128397 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nic Ash rolls a ‘Backwoods’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers a lounge where patients can use their product after purchasing it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nic Ash rolls a ‘backwoods blunt’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a large room full of windows and skylights, more than a dozen patients sit at tables or lounge on couches. In the corner, a small kitchen offers paper cones and rolling papers, alongside dabbing rigs and vaporizers. Nic Ash, a patient of Green Door, enjoys rolling a “backwoods blunt” while sitting with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State financial analysts say that if Proposition 64 passes, shops like this could bring in hundreds of millions, or perhaps more than a billion, dollars in \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856409/california-businesses-seeing-green-in-legal-marijuana-and-prop-64\">revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a variety of groups, for many reasons, are opposed to the proposition. Some \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/marijuana/11098944/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot\">small growers\u003c/a> say they’ll be pushed out by “Big Marijuana,” whereas other groups are concerned about children being exposed to the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alicia Darrow, the chief operations manager of Green Door, says it should be legalized. “It does create competition, but that’s standard in any business,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulk bags of marijuana are received from vendors and weighed by hand as they’re packaged for individual sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs out and packages cannabis buds. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are poured into small bags after being weighed by hand. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maurice Price, who has been working at the Green Door dispensary for two years, weighs and packages cannabis buds. Price says he’s in support of Proposition 64. He says that it would cut down on the number of people jailed for illegal marijuana use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are chosen and weighed by hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs04-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Price is careful to choose just the right buds to package up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price picks through the bulk container of marijuana to find the best buds for each package. He wants every client to get the best product possible, no matter what bag they buy from the counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"After being weighed, the cannabis buds are packaged for sale at the Green Door Dispensary in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-400x244.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs02-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packages of cannabis buds lay on a counter at the Green Door dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as pre-rolls that will be sold at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Approximately 750 pre-rolls are made each day by staff. \" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-400x278.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs05-960x668.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three containers of paper cones are filled and finished as premade joints. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hoea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Staff members grind down marijuana that doesn’t meet the tough standards for full-bud packaging. Then they sift the finer material and use it to fill premade joints. Every day they make at least 750 joints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128458\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Rodriguez fills cones to make pre-rolls for sale at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California. Rodriguez, who has been working at the dispensary since January, makes approximately 750 pre-rolls a day during his shift. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs07-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With practiced hands, Ricardo Rodriguez fills paper cones with marijuana before tapping out the end and folding them up. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Rodriguez has been at the dispensary since January and really enjoys it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like a big family here,” say Rodriguez. “We all help each other out. Everyone is very supportive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128390\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Drawers full of different strains of cannabis stand in the back of the dispensary. The Green Door dispensary carries dozens of different strains daily. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs09-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff search through drawers of packaged marijuana for customers at the dispensary. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the marijuana is packaged and ready for sale, it’s taken downstairs to the main shop. An entire back wall is lined with drawers full of different strains of marijuana. The Green Door dispensary carries an assortment of strains that changes daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the buds are edibles of all varieties. From chocolate bars and macaroons to lozenges and cotton candy, staff say the marijuana-infused foods are a popular treat with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco, California holds a cannabis-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs014-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at the Green Door dispensary in San Francisco holds a marijuana-infused macaroon by Madame Munchie. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-SMall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upstairs from the shop is a lounge where patients can use the products they’ve purchased. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers this option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11128397 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nic Ash rolls a ‘Backwoods’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. Green Door is one of only a few dispensaries in San Francisco that offers a lounge where patients can use their product after purchasing it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs011-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nic Ash rolls a ‘backwoods blunt’ in the smoking lounge upstairs from the shop. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a large room full of windows and skylights, more than a dozen patients sit at tables or lounge on couches. In the corner, a small kitchen offers paper cones and rolling papers, alongside dabbing rigs and vaporizers. Nic Ash, a patient of Green Door, enjoys rolling a “backwoods blunt” while sitting with friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11128394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161007_greendoor_bhs010-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis buds are broken up onto a tobacco leaf by a patient in the lounge. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State financial analysts say that if Proposition 64 passes, shops like this could bring in hundreds of millions, or perhaps more than a billion, dollars in \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856409/california-businesses-seeing-green-in-legal-marijuana-and-prop-64\">revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a variety of groups, for many reasons, are opposed to the proposition. Some \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/marijuana/11098944/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot\">small growers\u003c/a> say they’ll be pushed out by “Big Marijuana,” whereas other groups are concerned about children being exposed to the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alicia Darrow, the chief operations manager of Green Door, says it should be legalized. “It does create competition, but that’s standard in any business,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Billy Cunningham has been eligible to cast a ballot almost as long as he’s lived in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I’ve been here overs 40 years. I came to San Francisco about 10 or 11,” says Cunningham, sitting in an office at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, though: He hasn’t voted. Not even the \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">chance to vote for America’s first black president could move him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289950288″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Never really been into voting, politics and none of that,” he says\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Cunningham fell on hard times a while back, was homeless for a time. Now he’s living in a single-room-occupancy hotel. He also enrolled in a civics course offered by Episcopal Community Services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Voting came up one day and I registered to vote in class,” says Cunningham.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Yeah,” chimes in Cunningham’s teacher, Katherine Powell. “Billy became a first-time voter as, and I’ll say this is because we’re the same age, a very mature adult.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127175\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Cunningham and Katherine Powell discuss work in a classroom at Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-400x293.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-960x703.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Cunningham and Katherine Powell discuss work in a classroom at Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lacey Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Powell says she’s inspired by Billy’s newfound passion for voting. “I just really like the fact that Billy is a voter and is spreading that enthusiasm to other students” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Powell’s civics course includes discussion of voting rights, how to read an election manual and the occasional visit from local election officials. It’s designed for people who are homeless. Or, like Cunningham, just getting back on their feet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“A lot of people just haven’t had the chance to be engaged or somehow thought that their vote wouldn’t matter,” says Powell.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127176\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-800x600.jpg\" alt=\" Katherine Powell teaches a civics course for an adult education program run by Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Powell teaches a civics course for an adult education program run by Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lacey Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Black Americans cemented their right to vote 51 years ago with passage of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/vra/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voting Rights Act\u003c/a>. In 1920, women broke down barriers to the ballot box. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But only in the last 30 years have homeless Americans done the same. Not only does their vote matter, say advocates, but you can cast that ballot even if you have no fixed address. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Luckily you can,” says \u003ca href=\"http://cangress.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Community Action Network (LACAN) \u003c/a>executive director Pete White. He says people can list a shelter or a public park where they sleep. They don’t even need to be that specific. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“On the voter registration affidavit there’s a line that says: address or cross streets,” explains White. “That one line, ‘or cross streets,’ came about as a result of houseless advocates fighting for a campaign to make sure people without homes were not disenfranchised.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Last month, LACAN wrapped up a 30-day voter registration project on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/skid-row-in-los-angeles-a-city-within-a-city/\">Skid Row,\u003c/a> a stretch of downtown L.A. that’s home to a big concentration of shelters and other services. This month they’re focusing on locating registered voters in areas with high rates of homelessness to make sure they can vote if they want to. That includes people like TC Alexander, who lives in a tent on the sidewalk just outside the offices of LACAN. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">After he feeds his dog some lunch, we duck inside the building to get away from the street noise. Alexander says he’s been homeless off and on since the mid-1980s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Even so, Alexander rarely misses the chance to vote. When he was a kid, he joined his mom on voter registration drives across Los Angeles\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I’m going with my mother downtown, anywhere, at an outing, a concert. She was educating me about the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” says Alexander. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Thirty years ago Alexander participated in demonstrations at L.A. City Hall demanding the homeless be allowed to vote. It was around the time a group of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalhomeless.org/projects/vote/court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless men sued Santa Barbara County \u003c/a>when their voter registration forms were denied because they listed a public park as their home. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The men won. And the state of California revised its eligibility rules.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“You don’t need an ID to vote. Why should you need an address to vote,” says Alexander. “You had to fight for everything. We had to fight for that right for homeless people to vote as citizens of the United States.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">There’s an estimated 28,000 homeless people in the city of L.A. and about half a million nationwide — a massive, largely untapped voting bloc.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We know on any given night there are hundreds of thousands of people who are homeless,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.innercitylaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inner City Law Center \u003c/a>policy director Jerry Jones. “And voting is especially important, given how poorly served people who are living in destitution are from our government.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Jones says the November election in L.A. is unlike any in recent memory. And not because of who’s running for president. There’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lachamber.com/advocacy/measure-hhh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.2 billion bond measure on the ballot \u003c/a>that supporters hope will spur construction of up to 10,000 units of permanent supportive housing over the next decade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“So, showing up and voting is especially important to people who are experiencing homelessness (because) there is finally real hope of getting the resources we need to make a difference in this crisis in L.A.,” says Jones.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In San Francisco, voters are weighing \u003ca href=\"http://www.lwvsf.org/elections-2/pro-cons-prop-q-november-8-2016-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition Q\u003c/a>. It aims to crack down on makeshift homeless encampments by requiring people to move into a shelter if space is available. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Proposition Q made for a lively discussion recently in that civics class Katherine Powell teaches at Episcopal Community Services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127178\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition Q made for a lively discussion recently in a civics class at Episcopal Community Services\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-400x269.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-1180x792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-960x645.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition Q made for a lively discussion recently in a civics class at Episcopal Community Services \u003ccite>(Lacey Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It was Billy Cunningham’s first chance to consider its pros and cons. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“The city does need to be cleaned up, but where you gonna put these people?” asks Cunningham. “There are only four or five shelters, and they are overcrowded. I’d rather walk over people than to have people just pushed aside, and no telling what you gonna do with them.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Cunningham says he hadn’t really planned to launch a one-man voter drive. But there is this friend of his, a Vietnam veteran who’s homeless. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I believe he prefers to be on the streets, why I don’t know. But I believe he is a registered voter,” says Cunningham. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">So maybe he’ll start there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Billy Cunningham has been eligible to cast a ballot almost as long as he’s lived in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I’ve been here overs 40 years. I came to San Francisco about 10 or 11,” says Cunningham, sitting in an office at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, though: He hasn’t voted. Not even the \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">chance to vote for America’s first black president could move him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289950288″&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/289950288″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Never really been into voting, politics and none of that,” he says\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Cunningham fell on hard times a while back, was homeless for a time. Now he’s living in a single-room-occupancy hotel. He also enrolled in a civics course offered by Episcopal Community Services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Voting came up one day and I registered to vote in class,” says Cunningham.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Yeah,” chimes in Cunningham’s teacher, Katherine Powell. “Billy became a first-time voter as, and I’ll say this is because we’re the same age, a very mature adult.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127175\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Cunningham and Katherine Powell discuss work in a classroom at Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-800x585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-400x293.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-V_Katherine-and-Billy-960x703.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Cunningham and Katherine Powell discuss work in a classroom at Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lacey Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Powell says she’s inspired by Billy’s newfound passion for voting. “I just really like the fact that Billy is a voter and is spreading that enthusiasm to other students” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Powell’s civics course includes discussion of voting rights, how to read an election manual and the occasional visit from local election officials. It’s designed for people who are homeless. Or, like Cunningham, just getting back on their feet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“A lot of people just haven’t had the chance to be engaged or somehow thought that their vote wouldn’t matter,” says Powell.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127176\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-800x600.jpg\" alt=\" Katherine Powell teaches a civics course for an adult education program run by Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HOMELESS-VOTERS-_Katherine-portrait-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Powell teaches a civics course for an adult education program run by Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lacey Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Black Americans cemented their right to vote 51 years ago with passage of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/vra/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voting Rights Act\u003c/a>. In 1920, women broke down barriers to the ballot box. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But only in the last 30 years have homeless Americans done the same. Not only does their vote matter, say advocates, but you can cast that ballot even if you have no fixed address. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Luckily you can,” says \u003ca href=\"http://cangress.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Community Action Network (LACAN) \u003c/a>executive director Pete White. He says people can list a shelter or a public park where they sleep. They don’t even need to be that specific. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“On the voter registration affidavit there’s a line that says: address or cross streets,” explains White. “That one line, ‘or cross streets,’ came about as a result of houseless advocates fighting for a campaign to make sure people without homes were not disenfranchised.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Last month, LACAN wrapped up a 30-day voter registration project on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/skid-row-in-los-angeles-a-city-within-a-city/\">Skid Row,\u003c/a> a stretch of downtown L.A. that’s home to a big concentration of shelters and other services. This month they’re focusing on locating registered voters in areas with high rates of homelessness to make sure they can vote if they want to. That includes people like TC Alexander, who lives in a tent on the sidewalk just outside the offices of LACAN. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">After he feeds his dog some lunch, we duck inside the building to get away from the street noise. Alexander says he’s been homeless off and on since the mid-1980s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Even so, Alexander rarely misses the chance to vote. When he was a kid, he joined his mom on voter registration drives across Los Angeles\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I’m going with my mother downtown, anywhere, at an outing, a concert. She was educating me about the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” says Alexander. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Thirty years ago Alexander participated in demonstrations at L.A. City Hall demanding the homeless be allowed to vote. It was around the time a group of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalhomeless.org/projects/vote/court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless men sued Santa Barbara County \u003c/a>when their voter registration forms were denied because they listed a public park as their home. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The men won. And the state of California revised its eligibility rules.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“You don’t need an ID to vote. Why should you need an address to vote,” says Alexander. “You had to fight for everything. We had to fight for that right for homeless people to vote as citizens of the United States.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">There’s an estimated 28,000 homeless people in the city of L.A. and about half a million nationwide — a massive, largely untapped voting bloc.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We know on any given night there are hundreds of thousands of people who are homeless,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.innercitylaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inner City Law Center \u003c/a>policy director Jerry Jones. “And voting is especially important, given how poorly served people who are living in destitution are from our government.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Jones says the November election in L.A. is unlike any in recent memory. And not because of who’s running for president. There’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lachamber.com/advocacy/measure-hhh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.2 billion bond measure on the ballot \u003c/a>that supporters hope will spur construction of up to 10,000 units of permanent supportive housing over the next decade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“So, showing up and voting is especially important to people who are experiencing homelessness (because) there is finally real hope of getting the resources we need to make a difference in this crisis in L.A.,” says Jones.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In San Francisco, voters are weighing \u003ca href=\"http://www.lwvsf.org/elections-2/pro-cons-prop-q-november-8-2016-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition Q\u003c/a>. It aims to crack down on makeshift homeless encampments by requiring people to move into a shelter if space is available. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Proposition Q made for a lively discussion recently in that civics class Katherine Powell teaches at Episcopal Community Services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127178\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition Q made for a lively discussion recently in a civics class at Episcopal Community Services\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-400x269.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-1180x792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/homeless-voters-ECS_Classroom-960x645.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition Q made for a lively discussion recently in a civics class at Episcopal Community Services \u003ccite>(Lacey Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It was Billy Cunningham’s first chance to consider its pros and cons. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“The city does need to be cleaned up, but where you gonna put these people?” asks Cunningham. “There are only four or five shelters, and they are overcrowded. I’d rather walk over people than to have people just pushed aside, and no telling what you gonna do with them.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Cunningham says he hadn’t really planned to launch a one-man voter drive. But there is this friend of his, a Vietnam veteran who’s homeless. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I believe he prefers to be on the streets, why I don’t know. But I believe he is a registered voter,” says Cunningham. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>At some point everyone, regardless of party affiliation or lack thereof, wants to bail from a presidential election. OK, that's a hunch, but it's borne out, at least in part (caveats aplenty), in an online survey by the American Psychological Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty-two percent of American adults tell the pollsters that the 2016 election is a very or somewhat significant source of stress. The survey was conducted online among adults 18 years old and older living in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/10/presidential-election-stress.aspx\">by the Harris Poll for the association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For the past decade, the Stress in America™ survey has examined how stress affects the health and well-being of American adults. Prior to the release of this year's full survey results slated for early 2017, APA highlighted data that points to Americans' stress levels related to the upcoming presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'We're seeing that it doesn't matter whether you're registered as a Democrat or Republican — U.S. adults say they are experiencing significant stress from the current election,' said Lynn Bufka, PhD, APA's associate executive director for practice research and policy. Across party lines, those registered as Democrats (55 percent) and Republicans (59 percent) are statistically equally likely to say the election is a very or somewhat significant source of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'Election stress becomes exacerbated by arguments, stories, images and video on social media that can heighten concern and frustration, particularly with thousands of comments that can range from factual to hostile or even inflammatory,' said Bufka.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"If there is an effect it's a lagged effect,\" says Joe Nunes. He is head of the marketing department at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and he studies consumer behavior. In an interview with NPR, Nunes says consumers and voters often show their reactions to elections in spending and investment patterns. 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If people felt the status quo was going to radically change, he says, \"they'd pull money out of the stock market, stop spending on major goods.\" He says people are likely feeling fatigue and concern but that's different from a panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you are feeling stressed, what can you do about it? \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/14/497942024/in-other-news-this-photo-of-an-elephant-snuggling-an-ostrich\">You could\u003c/a> follow\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/13/497824938/man-juggles-for-an-entire-marathon-without-a-single-drop\"> the links\u003c/a> to some of our \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/496938817/world-s-oldest-living-man-celebrates-his-bar-mitzvah-100-years-late\">non-politics news\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the APA has these suggestions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"If the 24-hour news cycle of claims and counterclaims from the candidates is causing you stress, limit your media consumption. 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