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"content": "\u003cp>When San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/scrutiny-officer-involved-shootings-may-increase/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in January\u003c/a> that the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a> should investigate all officer-involved shootings, the local policing landscape looked very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upheaval had already begun, sparked by the fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview District. Cohen was barraged by angry comments from her constituents there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267141814\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that I heard consistently is that there is no police accountability,” Cohen said, “or even perception of police accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments, or reprimands, and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.'\u003ccite>Barbara Attard,\u003cbr>\nPolice accountability consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says she started drafting the measure that would become \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/OCC%20Legal%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition D\u003c/a> after finding the Office of Citizen Complaints wasn’t immediately investigating the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s responsibilities are outlined in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/IV/4.127/\" target=\"_blank\">City Charter\u003c/a>, which means changing them is up to the city’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enter Prop. D\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s measure is simple. If Proposition D is approved by voters, OCC investigators would automatically investigate all officer-involved shootings for violations of department policy. Investigators could recommend discipline as well as changes in policy or officer training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian oversight investigations would thus become a permanent piece of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">multiple probes following a death\u003c/a> or serious injury at the hands of city police officers. The measure wouldn't affect other inquiries that follow officer-involved shootings, including investigations by SFPD’s homicide and internal affairs units and a separate criminal investigation by the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no organized opposition to expanding the role of the OCC, and in anticipation of Prop. D's passage, Mayor Ed Lee's proposed budget includes $1.8 million to hire five new civilian investigators and upgrade training and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC's executive director, Joyce Hicks, says the measure would allow her investigators to begin their work at the scene of a shooting, instead of waiting days, weeks or months to receive a complaint and then play catch-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"Ex\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigator would immediately begin canvassing the area where the shooting occurred, looking for witnesses,” she said. “Sometimes there are witnesses who feel comfortable speaking to OCC investigators but don’t feel comfortable talking to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Picture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D would likely quadruple the number of incidents investigated by the OCC. Cohen notes that of the 35 police shootings that might have triggered an OCC inquiry in the past five years, the office has looked into just eight -- the only ones in which someone filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of opposition to expanding the number of OCC investigations, some critics question whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">the agency has any teeth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigates hundreds of complaints a year, and some of them are very serious cases,” said police accountability consultant Barbara Attard, who has worked for the OCC as well as civilian oversight offices in Berkeley and San Jose. “But there’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments or reprimands and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s officer-involved shooting investigations follow a similar pattern. A KQED review of the six completed investigations (two are still pending) between December 2010 and January 2016 shows no \"sustained\" complaints -- meaning the office found no fault on the part of officers involved and recommended no discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office found officers were legally justified to use deadly force in five of those incidents. The DA's office did not investigate the 2010 shooting of Vinh Bui, according to a spokesman, because District Attorney George Gascón had recently been appointed to the post after serving as police chief and there could have been a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>S.F. Police Shooting Investigations\u003c/h3>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Office of Citizen Complaints\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314413335/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Joshua-Smith?secret_password=jWFBg5kNG9a8VIhCSEbt\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314488644/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Kenneth-Harding?secret_password=4YUGAJyfmA95RwKH8sag\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489250/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Pralith-Pralourng?secret_password=6wSpwmhKRnMDQ7eYPOuG\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489739/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Police-Shooting-of-Brian-Cooper?secret_password=akbZpABvTJU2ZVUagI71\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314490313/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Alejandro-Nieto?secret_password=uLGGznfTZffKCPTFMzNU\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>DA's Office/News Sources\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-police-killing-of-mentally-ill-man-exposes-6797077.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/318-65%20Buena%20Vista.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/323-3rd%20%26%20Newcomb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/299-Washington%20%26%20Davis%20St._Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/321-15%20Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/305-Bernal%20Hill%20Park.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of the OCC's authority and the case law governing police use of force. But, she says, as SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> change to emphasize de-escalation and other alternatives to firearms, the OCC's findings in future cases could also change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Lawful but awful' is no longer acceptable to the American public,\" she said. \"... The public is demanding greater transparency, greater explanations as to why law enforcement conducts itself in the way it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC plays a major role in changing police practices, Hicks says. The office's policy attorney was part of a broad group that debated and tweaked new rules for body cameras and use of force. And she says the office's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into the December 2010 police killing of Vinh Bui found policy and training failures and recommended enhancing training for encounters with mentally ill suspects and the department's tactical reviews of shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges to Transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D won't change one of the major challenges in bringing transparency to the OCC's work, says police accountability consultant Attard, because of the strong privacy protections for police officers embodied in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When all of your work remains confidential, I think it's hard for the public to really know what you're doing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RDXWXzCNh9gS825TpkA3nxzUIcjFNY8O\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following legal advice from city attorney's office, Hicks says, the OCC's summaries of police shooting cases are stripped of the names of officers, the names of those injured or killed and even the date and location of incidents. The investigative summaries are virtually buried in monthly OCC reports of all its recently closed case, documents that run to more than 100 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is one of the few states that has complete confidentiality around police misconduct cases,\" Attard said, \"and we're way overdue to change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attard, Hicks and Supervisor Cohen all supported a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would have eased restrictions on public access to sustained findings of police misconduct. The measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-california-police-misconduct-r-1464384312-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the OCC is as transparent as the law currently allows, but Attard says the agency could do more to push for stronger discipline and transparency. She says attention may shift toward the office following the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">May 19 resignation\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that he's no longer here, I think we need to look to the OCC and the Police Commission for their role in accountability and ensure that they're holding officers and the police chief accountable when there should be serious discipline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Baby Step'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cohen, Proposition D is just one \"baby step\" in a series of bigger changes she wants to bring to San Francisco policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465493&GUID=2B16E0C9-22B7-4AB1-965A-B4FC6EBFF9A7\" target=\"_blank\">second City Charter amendment\u003c/a> that would change the OCC's name to the Independent Police Oversight Department. The measure would also grant the agency authority over its own budget instead of making it subject to Police Commission oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465501&GUID=11974C06-B4BB-4388-A3AF-451E7C0955AA\" target=\"_blank\">Yet another charter amendment\u003c/a> Cohen proposes would create an independent bureau in the district attorney's office that would be the \"primary agency to investigate criminal conduct arising out of critical incidents in the city involving officer-involved use of force.\" That role that now rests with SFPD homicide investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen is seeking to put both those proposals before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the OCC's part, it has received complaints and has opened investigations into the high-profile police shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Gongora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a>. The office's findings in those cases will likely be heavily scrutinized -- if the public can find them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/scrutiny-officer-involved-shootings-may-increase/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in January\u003c/a> that the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a> should investigate all officer-involved shootings, the local policing landscape looked very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upheaval had already begun, sparked by the fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview District. Cohen was barraged by angry comments from her constituents there.\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/267141814&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/267141814'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that I heard consistently is that there is no police accountability,” Cohen said, “or even perception of police accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments, or reprimands, and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.'\u003ccite>Barbara Attard,\u003cbr>\nPolice accountability consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says she started drafting the measure that would become \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/OCC%20Legal%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition D\u003c/a> after finding the Office of Citizen Complaints wasn’t immediately investigating the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s responsibilities are outlined in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/IV/4.127/\" target=\"_blank\">City Charter\u003c/a>, which means changing them is up to the city’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enter Prop. D\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s measure is simple. If Proposition D is approved by voters, OCC investigators would automatically investigate all officer-involved shootings for violations of department policy. Investigators could recommend discipline as well as changes in policy or officer training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian oversight investigations would thus become a permanent piece of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">multiple probes following a death\u003c/a> or serious injury at the hands of city police officers. The measure wouldn't affect other inquiries that follow officer-involved shootings, including investigations by SFPD’s homicide and internal affairs units and a separate criminal investigation by the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no organized opposition to expanding the role of the OCC, and in anticipation of Prop. D's passage, Mayor Ed Lee's proposed budget includes $1.8 million to hire five new civilian investigators and upgrade training and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC's executive director, Joyce Hicks, says the measure would allow her investigators to begin their work at the scene of a shooting, instead of waiting days, weeks or months to receive a complaint and then play catch-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"Ex\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigator would immediately begin canvassing the area where the shooting occurred, looking for witnesses,” she said. “Sometimes there are witnesses who feel comfortable speaking to OCC investigators but don’t feel comfortable talking to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Picture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D would likely quadruple the number of incidents investigated by the OCC. Cohen notes that of the 35 police shootings that might have triggered an OCC inquiry in the past five years, the office has looked into just eight -- the only ones in which someone filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of opposition to expanding the number of OCC investigations, some critics question whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">the agency has any teeth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigates hundreds of complaints a year, and some of them are very serious cases,” said police accountability consultant Barbara Attard, who has worked for the OCC as well as civilian oversight offices in Berkeley and San Jose. “But there’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments or reprimands and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s officer-involved shooting investigations follow a similar pattern. A KQED review of the six completed investigations (two are still pending) between December 2010 and January 2016 shows no \"sustained\" complaints -- meaning the office found no fault on the part of officers involved and recommended no discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office found officers were legally justified to use deadly force in five of those incidents. The DA's office did not investigate the 2010 shooting of Vinh Bui, according to a spokesman, because District Attorney George Gascón had recently been appointed to the post after serving as police chief and there could have been a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>S.F. Police Shooting Investigations\u003c/h3>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Office of Citizen Complaints\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314413335/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Joshua-Smith?secret_password=jWFBg5kNG9a8VIhCSEbt\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314488644/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Kenneth-Harding?secret_password=4YUGAJyfmA95RwKH8sag\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489250/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Pralith-Pralourng?secret_password=6wSpwmhKRnMDQ7eYPOuG\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489739/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Police-Shooting-of-Brian-Cooper?secret_password=akbZpABvTJU2ZVUagI71\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314490313/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Alejandro-Nieto?secret_password=uLGGznfTZffKCPTFMzNU\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>DA's Office/News Sources\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-police-killing-of-mentally-ill-man-exposes-6797077.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/318-65%20Buena%20Vista.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/323-3rd%20%26%20Newcomb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/299-Washington%20%26%20Davis%20St._Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/321-15%20Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/305-Bernal%20Hill%20Park.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of the OCC's authority and the case law governing police use of force. But, she says, as SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> change to emphasize de-escalation and other alternatives to firearms, the OCC's findings in future cases could also change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Lawful but awful' is no longer acceptable to the American public,\" she said. \"... The public is demanding greater transparency, greater explanations as to why law enforcement conducts itself in the way it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC plays a major role in changing police practices, Hicks says. The office's policy attorney was part of a broad group that debated and tweaked new rules for body cameras and use of force. And she says the office's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into the December 2010 police killing of Vinh Bui found policy and training failures and recommended enhancing training for encounters with mentally ill suspects and the department's tactical reviews of shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges to Transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D won't change one of the major challenges in bringing transparency to the OCC's work, says police accountability consultant Attard, because of the strong privacy protections for police officers embodied in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When all of your work remains confidential, I think it's hard for the public to really know what you're doing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following legal advice from city attorney's office, Hicks says, the OCC's summaries of police shooting cases are stripped of the names of officers, the names of those injured or killed and even the date and location of incidents. The investigative summaries are virtually buried in monthly OCC reports of all its recently closed case, documents that run to more than 100 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is one of the few states that has complete confidentiality around police misconduct cases,\" Attard said, \"and we're way overdue to change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attard, Hicks and Supervisor Cohen all supported a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would have eased restrictions on public access to sustained findings of police misconduct. The measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-california-police-misconduct-r-1464384312-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the OCC is as transparent as the law currently allows, but Attard says the agency could do more to push for stronger discipline and transparency. She says attention may shift toward the office following the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">May 19 resignation\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that he's no longer here, I think we need to look to the OCC and the Police Commission for their role in accountability and ensure that they're holding officers and the police chief accountable when there should be serious discipline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Baby Step'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cohen, Proposition D is just one \"baby step\" in a series of bigger changes she wants to bring to San Francisco policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465493&GUID=2B16E0C9-22B7-4AB1-965A-B4FC6EBFF9A7\" target=\"_blank\">second City Charter amendment\u003c/a> that would change the OCC's name to the Independent Police Oversight Department. The measure would also grant the agency authority over its own budget instead of making it subject to Police Commission oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465501&GUID=11974C06-B4BB-4388-A3AF-451E7C0955AA\" target=\"_blank\">Yet another charter amendment\u003c/a> Cohen proposes would create an independent bureau in the district attorney's office that would be the \"primary agency to investigate criminal conduct arising out of critical incidents in the city involving officer-involved use of force.\" That role that now rests with SFPD homicide investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen is seeking to put both those proposals before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s November ballot will be jammed with statewide propositions, but there’s just one measure in the June primary. Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508″ 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>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes — and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud — living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature — both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then — just one month later — came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running — all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TbJcfLVhuM0vsrVTIdUNag6A9A1sCmEr”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. “One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. Three?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee\u003c/a> — two days after Yee’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Constitution\u003c/a> does not allow the Legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three suspended senators still got their taxpayer-funded salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So later that year, the Legislature nearly unanimously placed the constitutional amendment on the June 2016 ballot that’s now called Prop. 50. It would allow the Assembly or Senate to suspend one of its members — with or without pay — with a two-thirds vote. Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,” says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker — and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,” says Mayer. “So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really,” he says, “those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will have a chilling effect,” Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. “Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That’s a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law — which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature — both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then — just one month later — came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running — all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. “One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. 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Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,” says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a kid, San Jose Assembly District 27 candidate \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-affairs/2016/02/03/3869/\">Andres Quintero \u003c/a>figured out what motivates many Latinos to vote. And he didn't need the guidance of a high-priced political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longtime political activist said that, while helping his mother clean apartments and houses for landlords in the then-hardscrabble Edenvale neighborhood, he listened to Latinos talk about the lack of local services. He said that's what they cared about most, and he discovered the people who complained the loudest usually voted and got action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266982172\" 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>\"There were no libraries, there were no amenities other than what the schools offered, and that was about it,\" said Quintero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why he is waging a ground campaign in East San Jose with little money and a small army of family members and friends knocking on doors and talking to people who don't regularly vote in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By phone, Suguey Hernandez, a senior field director for California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.mivcalifornia.org/\">Mobilize the Immigrant Vote,\u003c/a> is doing the same thing but is holed up in a cubicle at the office of a San Jose immigrant rights group called SIREN (Services, Immigrants Rights and Education Network). Like Quintero, she learned about the problem of Latino voter participation at an early age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My experience with my own family is, often the primary isn't an election that people know about,\" said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is starting to turn that notion on its head. And she's hearing about Trump without even bringing up his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because there is the Trump fear that people are going to be deported more or that communities are going to be broken apart,\" said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino registration is surging in California. \u003ca href=\"http://americasvoice.org/press_releases/new-nationwide-polling-latino-voters-immigration-matters-trump-toxic-gop-brand-image-moving-wrong-direction/\">And recent polls show\u003c/a> Trump's harsh talk about Mexican immigrants is angering Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Felix, assistant professor of Latin American studies at UC Santa Cruz, said there's the perfect political storm brewing in Santa Clara County between Trump's anti-immigrant climate and local concerns about education and safety for Latino residents. Now, he said, is the time to aggressively register Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need this sort of bottom-up approach to spread the word to educate the community and to encourage people to register and come out on voting day,\" said Felix. \"Latinos are not a single-issue constituency. Like any other voting bloc, they're concerned about a multiplicity of issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's why Quintero is working the neighborhoods hard. On a rainy Saturday morning, Gilbert Medina let Quintero into his San Jose home and said he'll vote in the primary and general election. But he laughed off Trump as the motivator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants better schools for his grandson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We come from Mexico with no educations, me and my wife. My sons -- only one or two have a high school diploma -- it's very hard for them. Maybe the next generation will have a better education,\" said Medina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that next generation still lives with him. Now Medina's son, Gilbert Jr., wants better law enforcement so he can walk his son to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More police officers, more security,\" said Medina. \"I want to be able to walk out and take my son for a walk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these reliable voters aren't the norm in Santa Clara County or around the state. Two million California Latinos are eligible to vote but don't register, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/03/2016-electorate-will-be-the-most-diverse-in-u-s-history/\">Pew Research Center study.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last five presidential elections we have voted 20 percent below the white vote, and so we have a phenomenon where Latinos will soon be the majority in Santa Clara County. Still the white population, they continue to call the shots,\" said Chava Bustamante, director of Latinos United for a New America (LUNA) in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bustamante admits the efforts to mobilize Latino voters here is fragmented, with no central coordinator. And there's little funding for the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the fall, Latino leaders will invest more resources -- going door to door to target 4,000 Latino immigrants who seldom vote. They'll encourage them to sign up for vote-by-mail, then hold nonpartisan house parties in 10 precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea is for people to discuss the pros and cons of what we're voting for and then vote, and then take those ballots to the registrar of voters,\" said Bustamante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County's Republican and Democratic parties also plan to canvass neighborhoods together this fall to get Latinos to register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A lot of voters with no party preference who were hoping to cast ballots in California's June 7 Democratic presidential primary could be in for an unwelcome surprise if they don't act fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only registered Republicans can vote in the GOP’s presidential primary. But California's Democratic primary is open to no party preference voters and they are free to participate in the primary -- that is, if they request a Democratic ballot. Data analyst Paul Mitchell says most independent voters haven't done that, even though they were mailed a notecard asking if they wanted a specific party ballot. He says 85 percent of ballots sent to no party preference voters statewide did not include a presidential option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary is just days away, but Mitchell says there's still time for independent voters to get a Democratic ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Ways to Get a Democratic Ballot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One avenue is to find that notecard or to download it from the county registrar website,\" he says. \"Hand-sign it, fill it out, mail it in. And if the county registrar receives it before May 31, which is coming up soon, they can get a new ballot mailed to them. The ballot they are currently holding would become invalidated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says voters can also go to their polling place on Election Day and swap out their ballot for one with the presidential contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a sense of how many voters might be affected, there are a few voting-related numbers to consider. One is the growing number of independent voters in the state, now \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/60day-presprim-2016/hist-reg-stats.pdf\">nearly 24 percent\u003c/a> of all registered voters, or more than 4 million people. Mitchell says his research shows about half of those voters want to take part in the Democratic primary. The other factor is the growing number of people who vote by mail. They accounted for more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/historical-absentee/\">60 percent \u003c/a>of voters in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dFEzGTVPkeuknJj8Qcal3CWesXiWjscO\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says the situation is further complicated because the need to request a specific ballot happens only in presidential election years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-every-four-year occurrence,\" he says. \"Now being told, 'Oh, you were supposed to have mailed in a notecard,' is frustrating a lot of voters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation has added up to some sleepless nights for Ben Tulchin, the pollster for the Bernie Sanders campaign. He says the ballot situation could cost Sanders a couple hundred thousand votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time there are barriers to voting, we all know from years and years of experience, some people won’t be able to overcome those barriers and vote in the way they want,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulchin says the campaign is still confident it can win California. A recent poll shows Sanders has \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/25/clinton-and-sanders-neck-and-neck-in-california-poll\">closed the gap\u003c/a> with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her campaign for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris often mentions the record settlement her office negotiated with five of the largest mortgage lenders after the home foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal that brought about $20 billion in relief to California won national media attention for Harris. But the mortgage meltdown continues affecting homeowners to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not my home.'\u003ccite>Rosario Frisse\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the home Rosario Frisse rents in a quiet neighborhood in Antioch -- a city about 45 miles east of San Francisco -- there aren't many decorations on her walls. Even though she's been living there for a few years, there are unpacked boxes on her patio outside and more in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not my home,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home she once owned sits about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765\" 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>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. She caravaned with a group called Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization to Washington, D.C., to protest the banks, and she spoke at rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn't help her save her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisse said her husband now wants to move back to Missouri, where there's family. She wants to stay in California. But at the same time there are no pictures on her walls. And there are still unpacked boxes that tell her she’s not home yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/election-2016\">kqed.org/election2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In her campaign for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris often mentions the record settlement her office negotiated with five of the largest mortgage lenders after the home foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal that brought about $20 billion in relief to California won national media attention for Harris. But the mortgage meltdown continues affecting homeowners to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not my home.'\u003ccite>Rosario Frisse\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the home Rosario Frisse rents in a quiet neighborhood in Antioch -- a city about 45 miles east of San Francisco -- there aren't many decorations on her walls. Even though she's been living there for a few years, there are unpacked boxes on her patio outside and more in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not my home,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home she once owned sits about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\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/266189765&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/266189765'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. She caravaned with a group called Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization to Washington, D.C., to protest the banks, and she spoke at rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn't help her save her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisse said her husband now wants to move back to Missouri, where there's family. She wants to stay in California. But at the same time there are no pictures on her walls. And there are still unpacked boxes that tell her she’s not home yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/election-2016\">kqed.org/election2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Several dozen people protested Wednesday outside a Donald Trump rally in Anaheim, where demonstrators were outnumbered by police aiming to prevent the kind of trouble seen at other rallies for the candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-717101-anaheim-police.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Orange County Register\u003c/a>, a total of 16 people were arrested throughout the day and at a second gathering in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven adults and one minor were taken into custody when they failed to follow orders to break up the protest after a Trump speech at the Anaheim Convention Center, police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order came after shouting matches erupted between opponents and a few supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266098700\" 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>Lines of police in riot gear -- some on foot, others on horseback -- were backed by armored vehicles as they closely watched over the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, demonstrators pummeled a Trump piñata, decapitating it outside the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some demonstrators with their faces covered by bandanas shouted expletives against the candidate, while others stood quietly with signs reading \"migration is beautiful\" and \"we are not rapists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10968299 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-Trump protesters tear up Trump campaign sings outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-960x661.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Trump protesters tear up Trump campaign signs outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Von Hougo says he loves a lot of what Donald Trump is saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t agree with everything he’s saying,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elementary school teacher drove about two hours to get here. As he strode toward the Anaheim Convention Center Wednesday morning, Hougo says he does worry that Trump promises much more than he can deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we can deport 11 million illegal immigrants,” says Hougo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"W5TeD8MSNgKEo8Y3s4TLOHePllvZbZtA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we do need to secure the border but I think we also realistically need a pathway to citizenship. We need to get the people out of the shadows so we know who's here because that's a huge problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A retired Navy veteran named Larry, who didn’t want to give his last name, ambled up to the convention center hoping to get in, even though he didn’t have a ticket. He’s pretty sure he’ll vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to admit he is kind of scary because you don’t know, he could start a trade war with China that’ll have disastrous consequences,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has threatened to impose enormous tariffs on Chinese goods, an action that many economic experts agreed would hurt American trade abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But something needs to be done, and it may take a loose cannon,\" the vet adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10968306\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A couple of young unidentified Trump supporters face off with protesters outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of young unidentified Trump supporters face off against protesters outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s Trump’s reputation as a “loose cannon” who “speaks his mind” that has made protests at his appearances as ubiquitous as those red baseball caps with the Reagan-era borrowed “Make America Great Again” slogan that the billionaire reality TV star \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-trademarked-make-america-great-again-2015-5\">had trademarked\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-714064-crowd-rally.html\" target=\"_blank\">visit to Orange County last month\u003c/a> was dogged by street protests. Anti-Trump demonstrators clashed with police, blocked streets and trashed a squad car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were more subdued Wednesday. While Trump spoke to about 7,500 people inside, 17-year-old Lizbeth Bariera from Anaheim hoisted an anti-Trump sign over her head while slowly circling the convention center plaza on a skateboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm not old enough to vote,” says Bariera. “But if I had to vote I would vote for Bernie (Sanders) because he’s the only one who has the common sense to know what's going on in the real world. He has a background in politics, unlike Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10968297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbeth Bariera of Anaheim delivered her anti-Trump message via skateboard on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-960x649.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth.jpg 1473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Bariera of Anaheim delivered her anti-Trump message via skateboard on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The majority of anti-Trump protesters were corralled on the opposite side of the convention center, away from the main entrance and under the watchful eye of dozens of police officers in riot gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duane Green skipped class at Long Beach City College because he wanted to hear what was on people’s minds. Dressed in a crisp blue-and-white button-down shirt and slacks, Green waded into the crowd of protesters, many covering their faces with bandanas and ski masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He watched anti-Trump demonstrators face off against a small band of anti-gay, anti-abortion protesters. He watched people tear apart a Donald Trump piñata, impale the head on a Mexican flag and parade it around the grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10968300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The head of a Donald Trump piñata is impaled on an American flag and paraded outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The head of a Donald Trump piñata is impaled on an Mexican flag and paraded outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green says he was impressed by people’s passion. But ultimately disappointed by what they had to say when he spoke to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it gets into detail, what do you feel about politics and procedures, they don’t know,” says Green. “But one thing I do know that’s important is education and money. Those are the real factors that get things done in the world. (Not) saying F whoever, with a mask over your face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Green headed off, horse-mounted police closed in to disperse the few hundred anti-Trump demonstrators spilling into the streets outside the Anaheim Convention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump returns to California for \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule\">appearances\u003c/a> in Fresno on Friday morning followed by a rally in downtown San Diego, where a coalition of activist groups promises \u003ca href=\"http://uniondelbarrio.org/main/?p=2042\">marches and rallies \u003c/a>targeting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, demonstrators pummeled a Trump piñata, decapitating it outside the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some demonstrators with their faces covered by bandanas shouted expletives against the candidate, while others stood quietly with signs reading \"migration is beautiful\" and \"we are not rapists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10968299 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-Trump protesters tear up Trump campaign sings outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear-960x661.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-sign-tear.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Trump protesters tear up Trump campaign signs outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Von Hougo says he loves a lot of what Donald Trump is saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t agree with everything he’s saying,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elementary school teacher drove about two hours to get here. As he strode toward the Anaheim Convention Center Wednesday morning, Hougo says he does worry that Trump promises much more than he can deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we can deport 11 million illegal immigrants,” says Hougo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we do need to secure the border but I think we also realistically need a pathway to citizenship. We need to get the people out of the shadows so we know who's here because that's a huge problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A retired Navy veteran named Larry, who didn’t want to give his last name, ambled up to the convention center hoping to get in, even though he didn’t have a ticket. He’s pretty sure he’ll vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to admit he is kind of scary because you don’t know, he could start a trade war with China that’ll have disastrous consequences,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has threatened to impose enormous tariffs on Chinese goods, an action that many economic experts agreed would hurt American trade abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But something needs to be done, and it may take a loose cannon,\" the vet adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10968306\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A couple of young unidentified Trump supporters face off with protesters outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-2-supporters-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of young unidentified Trump supporters face off against protesters outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s Trump’s reputation as a “loose cannon” who “speaks his mind” that has made protests at his appearances as ubiquitous as those red baseball caps with the Reagan-era borrowed “Make America Great Again” slogan that the billionaire reality TV star \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-trademarked-make-america-great-again-2015-5\">had trademarked\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-714064-crowd-rally.html\" target=\"_blank\">visit to Orange County last month\u003c/a> was dogged by street protests. Anti-Trump demonstrators clashed with police, blocked streets and trashed a squad car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were more subdued Wednesday. While Trump spoke to about 7,500 people inside, 17-year-old Lizbeth Bariera from Anaheim hoisted an anti-Trump sign over her head while slowly circling the convention center plaza on a skateboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm not old enough to vote,” says Bariera. “But if I had to vote I would vote for Bernie (Sanders) because he’s the only one who has the common sense to know what's going on in the real world. He has a background in politics, unlike Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10968297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Lisbeth Bariera of Anaheim delivered her anti-Trump message via skateboard on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth-960x649.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-Lisbeth.jpg 1473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Bariera of Anaheim delivered her anti-Trump message via skateboard on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The majority of anti-Trump protesters were corralled on the opposite side of the convention center, away from the main entrance and under the watchful eye of dozens of police officers in riot gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duane Green skipped class at Long Beach City College because he wanted to hear what was on people’s minds. Dressed in a crisp blue-and-white button-down shirt and slacks, Green waded into the crowd of protesters, many covering their faces with bandanas and ski masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He watched anti-Trump demonstrators face off against a small band of anti-gay, anti-abortion protesters. He watched people tear apart a Donald Trump piñata, impale the head on a Mexican flag and parade it around the grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10968300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The head of a Donald Trump piñata is impaled on an American flag and paraded outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TRUMP-OC-pinata-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The head of a Donald Trump piñata is impaled on an Mexican flag and paraded outside the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green says he was impressed by people’s passion. But ultimately disappointed by what they had to say when he spoke to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it gets into detail, what do you feel about politics and procedures, they don’t know,” says Green. “But one thing I do know that’s important is education and money. Those are the real factors that get things done in the world. 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"disqusTitle": "Clinton and Sanders Neck and Neck in California Poll",
"title": "Clinton and Sanders Neck and Neck in California Poll",
"headTitle": "Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>As state election officials report surging voter interest in the June 7 primary, a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1199\">poll\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has closed the gap against Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266022985\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among likely voters in the Democratic primary, the PPIC poll shows Clinton and Sanders essentially tied in California, with Clinton winning 46 percent support to 44 percent for Sanders. That’s within the poll’s margin of error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is clearly bad news for Hillary Clinton,\" said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even now that she's functionally clinched the Democratic nomination for president, she still doesn't have Democratic voters solidifying behind her,\" Kousser added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is clearly bad news for Hillary Clinton.'\u003ccite>Thad Kousser, UC San Diego\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clinton does best among Latinos and voters who are 45 and older. Sanders has the edge with younger voters and independent voters who have no party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC president and survey director Mark Baldassare says \u003cem>those\u003c/em> nonpartisans are the voters who will likely determine the outcome of the June 7 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Independent voters can be the difference makers in the Democratic presidential primary in ways that independent voters in other states have been the difference makers in the Republican presidential primaries,” says Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9HeMngwKytdXoECAOsiLOzSaZFCrDZfp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a catch, though. While nonpartisans \u003cem>can\u003c/em> vote in the Democratic primary, they have to ask for a Democratic ballot by mailing in a request to their local elections office or exchanging their ballot without the Democratic presidential candidates at their polling place on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hypothetical head-to-head fall matchups, both Clinton and Sanders lead likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, 49 to 39 percent. Sanders does even better, besting Trump by 17 points, 53 to 36 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in the relatively sleepy U.S. Senate race, Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez appear headed for a fall matchup. Attorney General Harris leads congresswoman Sanchez 27 to 19 percent. Three Republicans running are all below 10 percent, while 31 percent of voters say they’re still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is far from decided. But if Harris and Sanchez finish one-two on June 7 as expected, the fall runoff will be fascinating. The PPIC poll shows Harris leading Sanchez 34 to 26 percent. Among likely voters in the June primary, 24 percent said they wouldn’t bother voting if the Senate race comes down to two Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Loretta Sanchez (L) and Attorney General Kamala Harris. \" width=\"800\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-400x182.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-1180x537.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-960x437.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Loretta Sanchez (L) and Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi and Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Secretary of State Alex Padilla reported 1.8 million voter registrations or registration updates (such as political change of party or address) took place on the \u003ca href=\"http://registertovote.ca.gov/\">online voter registration website\u003c/a> since Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla calls the lead-up to the midnight Monday deadline “the most online registration activity this year, and the second-highest total in the nearly four-year history of the online registration site.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of state’s office said Californians 25 and younger accounted for 42 percent of the voter registration activity. Assuming they follow through and cast ballots in the Democratic primary, it could provide a boost to Bernie Sanders, who does best among younger voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/category/news/\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>, who crunches voter data and sells the analysis to campaigns, notes the registration surge has benefited the California Democratic Party far more than the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jmaaTQSOOQtsbYjTIiapb2g5BE3jKG1R\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No question all this interest in voting is great for democracy. But some worry that local election officials aren’t prepared for the onslaught of ballots likely to arrive on or before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is your first time voting, this is a tough time to make your entry into the voting process,\" says Kim Alexander of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/about/kimbio.html\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to who can and cannot vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, Alexander notes that “we have really confusing primary participation rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only registered Republicans can vote for Donald Trump or one of the other Republicans on the presidential ballot. The state Democratic Party allows voters with “no party preference” to cast ballots for Clinton or Sanders, but only if they specifically request a Democratic ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But analyst Mitchell says it appears most nonpartisan voters aren’t doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Los Angeles County 91 percent of the ballots mailed to nonpartisan voters had no presidential candidates on it,” says Mitchell. “And 85 percent of ballots sent statewide to nonpartisan or independent voters have no presidential candidates on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mitchell and Alexander made their comments earlier this week on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for independent voters to request a Democratic ballot, and they can even do that at their polling place on Election Day. Still, the data suggest a lot of confusion out there with little time to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's secretary of state maintains a voter information hotline at 800-345-VOTE (8683) to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, 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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright KQED 2016. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC president and survey director Mark Baldassare says \u003cem>those\u003c/em> nonpartisans are the voters who will likely determine the outcome of the June 7 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Independent voters can be the difference makers in the Democratic presidential primary in ways that independent voters in other states have been the difference makers in the Republican presidential primaries,” says Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a catch, though. While nonpartisans \u003cem>can\u003c/em> vote in the Democratic primary, they have to ask for a Democratic ballot by mailing in a request to their local elections office or exchanging their ballot without the Democratic presidential candidates at their polling place on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hypothetical head-to-head fall matchups, both Clinton and Sanders lead likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, 49 to 39 percent. Sanders does even better, besting Trump by 17 points, 53 to 36 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in the relatively sleepy U.S. Senate race, Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez appear headed for a fall matchup. Attorney General Harris leads congresswoman Sanchez 27 to 19 percent. Three Republicans running are all below 10 percent, while 31 percent of voters say they’re still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is far from decided. But if Harris and Sanchez finish one-two on June 7 as expected, the fall runoff will be fascinating. The PPIC poll shows Harris leading Sanchez 34 to 26 percent. Among likely voters in the June primary, 24 percent said they wouldn’t bother voting if the Senate race comes down to two Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS18642_SanchezHarris-800x364.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. 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But some worry that local election officials aren’t prepared for the onslaught of ballots likely to arrive on or before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is your first time voting, this is a tough time to make your entry into the voting process,\" says Kim Alexander of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvoter.org/about/kimbio.html\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to who can and cannot vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, Alexander notes that “we have really confusing primary participation rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only registered Republicans can vote for Donald Trump or one of the other Republicans on the presidential ballot. The state Democratic Party allows voters with “no party preference” to cast ballots for Clinton or Sanders, but only if they specifically request a Democratic ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But analyst Mitchell says it appears most nonpartisan voters aren’t doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Los Angeles County 91 percent of the ballots mailed to nonpartisan voters had no presidential candidates on it,” says Mitchell. “And 85 percent of ballots sent statewide to nonpartisan or independent voters have no presidential candidates on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mitchell and Alexander made their comments earlier this week on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for independent voters to request a Democratic ballot, and they can even do that at their polling place on Election Day. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a small downtown Los Angeles office one May evening, Helen Xiang and her teenage son, Sam, sat side by side, calling a list of Chinese-American registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam spoke in English and his mother in Mandarin, but their message was the same: Get to the polls June 7 and vote in the state primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to encourage our people to speak out,\" said Xiang, a 52-year-old Alhambra resident. \"Your ballot is really important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xiang arrived from China 20 years ago. She lived then illegally in the United States and worked menial jobs. She's now seeking citizenship, looking ahead to the day when she can cast a ballot and urging registered Asians to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message can be a hard sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians rank as the nation’s fastest-growing racial group, with about 5.3 million residing in California, yet their potential as voters has yet to reach full flower. Only 56 percent of those eligible to vote in 2012 were registered to do so, according to census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really difficult to reach out and get them to vote if they’re not even on the radar screens, if they’re not registered to vote,\" said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political scientist at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10967156 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. During a three-hour shift, volunteers can make up to 80 calls.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift on May 23, 2016, reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. During a three-hour shift at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, volunteers can make up to 80 calls. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even when registered, Asian-Americans lag at the polls. In 2012, fewer than 50 percent of registered Asian-American voters nationally turned out to vote in the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike U.S. Latinos, whose growth is now fueled by those who are native-born, the increase among Asians is driven mostly by immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For reasons similar to other ethnic groups with large numbers of immigrants, many Asians don’t engage in elections. Some aren't U.S. citizens, may not be fluent in English, face cultural challenges or have a distrust in governments carried over from their birth countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also aren’t monolithic and have different issues that matter to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn’t get otherwise. ... We're speaking in their language.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But with the 2016 primary just around the corner, get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at Asian-Americans are in full swing and focused on increasing their impact at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, community advocacy groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a> (AAAJ) have been setting up phone banks and recruiting volunteers like the Xiangs to make calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have about 10 volunteers right now that are making calls in five different languages,\" said Kelly Osajima, with AAAJ in Los Angeles, as she monitored the evening's phone bank effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers were making calls in Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Bangla and Thai, targeting \"voters who don’t vote frequently, so they don't get reached out to by mainstream campaigns,\" Osajima said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn't get otherwise,\" she said. \"We're speaking in their language.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the challenges of reaching Asians remain, the numbers who are engaging are slowly improving, said Stewart Kwoh, executive director of AAAJ in Los Angeles and a KPCC lifetime trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the United States, there are probably about 2 million Asian-Americans who are eligible to become citizens but haven’t applied,\" Kwoh said. \"We’re seeing that changing. In our own work, we are seeing a doubling of the citizenship applications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwoh said many of those applying for citizenship say they want to vote in the November election. He believes that anti-immigrant remarks in the presidential campaign have played a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967159\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. He's at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Results from a \u003ca href=\"http://aapidata.com/spring-2016-survey/\">survey of 1,200 Asian-American voters\u003c/a> released this week by AAAJ say the rhetoric of the campaign has captured their attention: Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment caused more than 40 percent of Asian-American voters to state they would not vote for a candidate who expressed those views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers like UC Riverside's Ramakrishnan said one way to reach Asian-American voters is through issues they care about. They are less interested in individual candidates than in concerns like education, health care and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Yed6NSTysRxpUL1kr6p8IWj7MMf1j7eU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made reaching out to Asian-American voters a part of their campaigns in California. Even Republican Donald Trump has galvanized voters -- largely in opposition, but he has \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/05/18/48955/meet-the-chinese-american-supporters-of-donald-tru/\">Asian-American supporters\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Asian-American voters tend to lean more Democratic than Republican, about a third claim no party affiliation. Having no party connection makes such voters hard to reach. That is particularly true of English-speaking, second-generation Asian-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have seen from recent elections is that Asian-American youths 18 to 29 years old have the lowest voter participation of any voter group in the country,\" Ramakrishnan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam, Helen Xiang’s son, turned 18 this year. He said he knows many Asian-Americans his age who aren't all that interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They think that just because they have freedom, they have the option to avoid the political system,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. They're at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In sharp contrast, his mother is excited about voting. Xiang said she feels a sense of indebtedness to the United States: Her son survived serious health problems when he was a child. And despite being poor, she said, he got excellent care here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Sam and his mother turn back to the phone bank, Sam sums up his philosophy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a famous quote out there. The quote is, 'Be the change you want to see,' \" he said. \"So what I’m trying to do here is start that domino effect, basically, to start encouraging people to vote and vote myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam and his mom plan to volunteer as poll workers during the June primary. Then they hope to cast their votes together in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, 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\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright KPCC 2016. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a small downtown Los Angeles office one May evening, Helen Xiang and her teenage son, Sam, sat side by side, calling a list of Chinese-American registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam spoke in English and his mother in Mandarin, but their message was the same: Get to the polls June 7 and vote in the state primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to encourage our people to speak out,\" said Xiang, a 52-year-old Alhambra resident. \"Your ballot is really important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xiang arrived from China 20 years ago. She lived then illegally in the United States and worked menial jobs. She's now seeking citizenship, looking ahead to the day when she can cast a ballot and urging registered Asians to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message can be a hard sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians rank as the nation’s fastest-growing racial group, with about 5.3 million residing in California, yet their potential as voters has yet to reach full flower. Only 56 percent of those eligible to vote in 2012 were registered to do so, according to census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really difficult to reach out and get them to vote if they’re not even on the radar screens, if they’re not registered to vote,\" said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political scientist at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10967156 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. During a three-hour shift, volunteers can make up to 80 calls.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128333-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Tran, a senior at San Gabriel High School, makes a call in Vietnamese during a phone bank shift on May 23, 2016, reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. During a three-hour shift at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, volunteers can make up to 80 calls. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even when registered, Asian-Americans lag at the polls. In 2012, fewer than 50 percent of registered Asian-American voters nationally turned out to vote in the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike U.S. Latinos, whose growth is now fueled by those who are native-born, the increase among Asians is driven mostly by immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For reasons similar to other ethnic groups with large numbers of immigrants, many Asians don’t engage in elections. Some aren't U.S. citizens, may not be fluent in English, face cultural challenges or have a distrust in governments carried over from their birth countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also aren’t monolithic and have different issues that matter to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn’t get otherwise. ... We're speaking in their language.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But with the 2016 primary just around the corner, get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at Asian-Americans are in full swing and focused on increasing their impact at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, community advocacy groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a> (AAAJ) have been setting up phone banks and recruiting volunteers like the Xiangs to make calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have about 10 volunteers right now that are making calls in five different languages,\" said Kelly Osajima, with AAAJ in Los Angeles, as she monitored the evening's phone bank effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers were making calls in Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Bangla and Thai, targeting \"voters who don’t vote frequently, so they don't get reached out to by mainstream campaigns,\" Osajima said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are providing that personal contact to them that they wouldn't get otherwise,\" she said. \"We're speaking in their language.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the challenges of reaching Asians remain, the numbers who are engaging are slowly improving, said Stewart Kwoh, executive director of AAAJ in Los Angeles and a KPCC lifetime trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the United States, there are probably about 2 million Asian-Americans who are eligible to become citizens but haven’t applied,\" Kwoh said. \"We’re seeing that changing. In our own work, we are seeing a doubling of the citizenship applications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwoh said many of those applying for citizenship say they want to vote in the November election. He believes that anti-immigrant remarks in the presidential campaign have played a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967159\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128344-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Hur, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, makes a call in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. He's at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. Phone calls in Korean are focused on L.A.'s Koreatown and Cerritos. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Results from a \u003ca href=\"http://aapidata.com/spring-2016-survey/\">survey of 1,200 Asian-American voters\u003c/a> released this week by AAAJ say the rhetoric of the campaign has captured their attention: Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment caused more than 40 percent of Asian-American voters to state they would not vote for a candidate who expressed those views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers like UC Riverside's Ramakrishnan said one way to reach Asian-American voters is through issues they care about. They are less interested in individual candidates than in concerns like education, health care and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made reaching out to Asian-American voters a part of their campaigns in California. Even Republican Donald Trump has galvanized voters -- largely in opposition, but he has \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/05/18/48955/meet-the-chinese-american-supporters-of-donald-tru/\">Asian-American supporters\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Asian-American voters tend to lean more Democratic than Republican, about a third claim no party affiliation. Having no party connection makes such voters hard to reach. That is particularly true of English-speaking, second-generation Asian-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have seen from recent elections is that Asian-American youths 18 to 29 years old have the lowest voter participation of any voter group in the country,\" Ramakrishnan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam, Helen Xiang’s son, turned 18 this year. He said he knows many Asian-Americans his age who aren't all that interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They think that just because they have freedom, they have the option to avoid the political system,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/128347-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lia Kim, a Korean teacher at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, works with ninth-grader Nara Hong on a call script in Korean during a phone bank shift reminding people to vote in the upcoming primary election. They're at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles on May 23, 2016. The students are volunteering through the K.W. Lee Center for Leadership. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In sharp contrast, his mother is excited about voting. Xiang said she feels a sense of indebtedness to the United States: Her son survived serious health problems when he was a child. And despite being poor, she said, he got excellent care here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Sam and his mother turn back to the phone bank, Sam sums up his philosophy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a famous quote out there. The quote is, 'Be the change you want to see,' \" he said. \"So what I’m trying to do here is start that domino effect, basically, to start encouraging people to vote and vote myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam and his mom plan to volunteer as poll workers during the June primary. Then they hope to cast their votes together in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, 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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2.5 million union members\u003c/a> call California home. With election season upon us, the two Democrats fighting for their party's presidential nomination see union support as critical to getting out the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave unions a shoutout at a recent rally in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need strong unions, and I will stand up for that basic American right,\" she told a cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton has been doing well with labor, collecting major endorsements from unions representing \u003ca href=\"http://www.aft.org/resolution/endorsement-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">teachers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-endorses-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">government employees\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufcw.org/2016/01/12/ufcwendorsesclinton/\" target=\"_blank\">food workers\u003c/a>. 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She says it’s not just that Clinton is better on one issue or another. Rather, she says, it’s their long history of working together on issues that tilted their endorsement toward Clinton instead of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is part of all of our platform, be it women and children, economics, all of that in a very real way,\" Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanders has his labor supporters, too. He has endorsements from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/cwa_endorses_sen_bernie_sanders_for_president\" target=\"_blank\">communication workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://nuhw.org/national-union-of-healthcare-workers-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-president/\" target=\"_blank\">health care employees\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.apwu.org/news/news-bulletin/executive-board-endorses-bernie-sanders-president\" target=\"_blank\">postal workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his most visible backers are the California Nurses Association and its umbrella organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/nurses-endorse-sen.-bernie-sanders-for-president/\" target=\"_blank\">National Nurses United\u003c/a>. The groups are powerful allies for Sanders. Records show the national organization has spent nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00490375\" target=\"_blank\">$4 million\u003c/a> on behalf of the Sanders campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265858528\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses recently rallied for Sanders at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Burger, co-president of both unions, said Sanders is the only candidate who would represent everyone in the United States. She jokes that he essentially stole their platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been working on single-payer Medicare for all. We’ve been working on securing Social Security and expanding it,\" she says. \"And we’ve been trying to make sure that people can go to college and not end up with a mountain load of debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger says her organization is sticking with Sanders until the end and will make sure that he has a major influence on the platform that Democrats adopt at their convention in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such steadfast support is crucial to candidates. Kent Wong directs the UCLA Labor Center. He says even though union membership is declining, organized labor is still a powerful political player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor’s endorsement has had a huge impact in opening up financial resources as well as campaign activists,\" he says. \"So when a candidate receives a labor endorsement, it’s a big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the ongoing nomination fight between Sanders and Clinton has been tough, Wong says he expects labor to come together for the general election. 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