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"content": "\u003cp>With California's June primary looking more consequential every day, a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1178\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California poll\u003c/a> shows Donald Trump with a commanding lead among the remaining Republicans running for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is preferred by 38 percent of likely voters, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 19 percent. The poll was finished just before Florida Sen. Marco Rubio exited the race, and both he and Ohio Gov. John Kasich registered 12 percent in the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/254819733\" 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>Without Rubio in the race and his supporters' second-choice votes added in, Trump remains at 38 percent, while Cruz gains 8 percentage points for a total of 27 percent. Kasich wins 14 percent without Rubio included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton maintains a 48 to 41 percent lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the U.S. Senate race, two Democrats lead the pack. Attorney General Kamala Harris is preferred by 26 percent of likely voters, followed by Orange County congresswoman Loretta Sanchez with 17 percent. Republicans Tom Del Becarro and Duf Sundheim are in single digits (9 and 6 percent respectively), with 31 percent of respondents saying they're still undecided. Republican Ron Unz entered the race after the poll was conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was any doubt whether California's primary would count for something, Kasich removed it the night he won the primary in his home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m getting ready to rent a covered wagon,\" Kasich told the crowd in Cleveland last week. \"We’re gonna have a big sail and blow us to the Rocky Mountains and over the mountains to California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disillusioned Republicans Return to the Party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is by far the most fascinating presidential campaign I’ve ever been involved in and seen and witnessed,\" said San Francisco attorney Harmeet Dhillon, vice chair of the California Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon says the state's suddenly relevant primary has Republicans who left the party in disgust returning like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10906782\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10906782\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-800x885.jpg\" alt=\"Harmeet Dhillon, vice chair of the California Republican Party.\" width=\"800\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-800x885.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-400x442.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-1180x1305.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-960x1062.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harmeet Dhillon, vice chair of the California Republican Party. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They’re coming back into the party and they're seeing that they may be relevant this time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's GOP primary is closed -- only registered Republicans can vote. That could help the most conservative candidate in the race, says Tom Hudson, with the group \u003ca href=\"http://cragop.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Republican Assembly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Longtime party activists and party volunteers and party donors and a lot of the mainstream of California have lined up behind Ted Cruz,\" said Hudson. \"The Trump people have hats and bumper stickers and a bunch of names on a piece of paper, but that's about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Trump or Kasich, Hudson says, Cruz has an active grassroots operation here lining up delegates for the primary. A few prominent Republicans, like Carly Fiorina, are also supporting him. Hudson and other conservatives worry that Trump would be like Arnold Schwarzenegger, what some conservatives call a RINO, or Republican In Name Only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger \"was a disaster as governor,\" Hudson said. He says he thinks Trump, like \"The Governator,\" has \"no core beliefs and says whatever is popular.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative GOP activist Jon Fleischman agrees, saying Trump is just playing on voter anger while promising to shake things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It turns out it was a sham, he was an actor who acted mad to get my support,\" Fleischman said of Schwarzenegger. \"And then he went to Sacramento and really became a political insider.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republican consultant Mike Madrid thinks critics underestimate Trump at their peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">You might see Trump, Cruz or Kasich, even if you live in liberal Oakland, Santa Monica or San Francisco — anywhere they think they can win delegates.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think he’s probably going to be more competitive than we think he is because we’re seeing this tremendous appetite against establishment candidates on both sides of the aisle,\" Madrid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Madrid thinks the Trump phenomenon is driving up voter turnout, \"only half are pro-Trump, while the other half is turned off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican consultant Hector Barajas says it’s all great for a party that's been losing voters -- and statewide elections in California -- year after year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's gonna mean that our volunteer rolls are going to increase,\" Barajas predicts. \"You’re going to have a lot more of that excitement, people wanting to get themselves registered, making sure they're registered. At the same time filling out those volunteer cards. You know increasing those volunteer rolls will be important, especially if we can carry that all the way to November.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Hand-to-Hand Delegate Combat'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the most delegates of any state -- in fact, more than 10 percent of the total number of delegates needed to capture the GOP nomination are available here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eJVrv827nE9wQSW9lYk4jljTCAhiGnb1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the state’s 53 congressional districts has three delegates, and whichever candidate gets the most votes in each district wins all three. That means there are delegates to be won in \u003cem>every district\u003c/em>, whether it’s represented by San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi or conservative Kevin McCarthy in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP vice chair Dhillon says that kind of competition brings to mind World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the candidates’ top spokespersons told me it’s like going to be like \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad\" target=\"_blank\">the Battle of Stalingrad\u003c/a> -- hand-to-hand delegate combat,\" Dhillon said. \"That means in each of the congressional districts there’s a fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might just see Trump, Cruz or Kasich, even if you live in liberal Oakland, Santa Monica or San Francisco -- \u003cem>anywhere\u003c/em> they think they can win delegates. Every Republican I spoke to is hopeful the contentious primary will draw as much as 30 percent more GOP voters. 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Republican Ron Unz entered the race after the poll was conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was any doubt whether California's primary would count for something, Kasich removed it the night he won the primary in his home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m getting ready to rent a covered wagon,\" Kasich told the crowd in Cleveland last week. \"We’re gonna have a big sail and blow us to the Rocky Mountains and over the mountains to California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disillusioned Republicans Return to the Party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is by far the most fascinating presidential campaign I’ve ever been involved in and seen and witnessed,\" said San Francisco attorney Harmeet Dhillon, vice chair of the California Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon says the state's suddenly relevant primary has Republicans who left the party in disgust returning like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10906782\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10906782\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-800x885.jpg\" alt=\"Harmeet Dhillon, vice chair of the California Republican Party.\" width=\"800\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-800x885.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-400x442.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-1180x1305.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HarmeetDhillon-960x1062.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harmeet Dhillon, vice chair of the California Republican Party. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They’re coming back into the party and they're seeing that they may be relevant this time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's GOP primary is closed -- only registered Republicans can vote. 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Amy is 18, and she could be the first in her family to vote, so he’s putting a lot of pressure on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t always take his side,” laughs Amy. “I don’t always do what he tells me to do, because we both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255017454″ 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>But other potential young voters in Lindsay come from families where politics are not a main course during family dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘It Doesn’t Matter If I Vote or Not’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town from the Huerta household, 22-year-old Cassandra Baca’s daughter, Amoriee, just woke up from a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca says she hasn’t really thought at all about voting. She’s got enough on her plate as a single mom with a baby. 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Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TP90BZhO4e3Q1CC3ok1y0YzLetfcYjS7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. Not from kids, but through alleged financial mismanagement by previous city leaders that has left Lindsay’s current administration trying to figure out to pay for the sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says she’s trying to bring more transparency to the city and to get residents engaged. And that means all residents, including undocumented farmworkers who can’t vote. And their children, who can, but maybe don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amy Huerta. The mayor has a message for her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amy, I get the sense that you’re thinking that it might not make a difference whether you would vote,” Padilla says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to say to you that it does make a difference because I remember from Lindsay City Council, people won by one vote. That (one vote) could be you.”\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. 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After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. 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But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. 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"content": "\u003cp>Presidential elections receive by far the most attention, but it’s also the race where individual voters have the least direct effect. The undercard races for local offices, such as city council and board of supervisors, offer the greatest opportunity for residents to exert influence and directly engage with elected officials, yet they receive some of the least attention, engagement and votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Cannady recalls his first success influencing local government. Cannady is a high school history teacher in the Pocket neighborhood of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252354166\" 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 bus stop for our school site was about a mile away,” he says. “Not only did students have to walk, but there was no shelter for them. They'd go onto people's property and hide under a plum tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he tells it, the school district told him he needed to talk to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put together a petition, got our councilman involved, too,” he says. “And sure enough, they moved the bus stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he says the accomplishment is modest, Cannady credits it with mobilizing him to become more involved with local issues in his community. He now runs neighborhood meetings and recently organized coffee with a leading mayoral candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898177 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides along a public levee in the Pocket, Thursday, February 11, 2016. Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-1180x816.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-960x664.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides along a public levee in the Pocket, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day-To-Day Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mile east of the Pocket, in the Meadowview neighborhood, Darryl Lucien has a problem with a bare plot of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it reinforces a narrative of blight and decay in this low-income community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s full of weeds, and trash, and debris,” Lucien says. “Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city, so they can clean up their mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qSkD5oR6sR0jNNGO2jmfqFam0qIlRHRU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien works for a state assemblyman, but he says city and county officials often play a more direct role in our day-to-day lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are the people who are responsible for just your quality of life, making sure that your neighborhoods are clean, your roads are paved, police services, and making sure response times are good,” Lucien says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also influence state and federal actions, says Mike Madrid, a principal at the political consulting firm GrassrootsLab. Madrid mentions a ban on plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting no traction in the state Legislature for eight years,” he says. “Local governments were taking policy positions that effectively forced the hand of the Legislature to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says state marijuana, firearm and smoking laws all started at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Power Is Local\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each vote cast in a local race also has a larger statistical effect than in larger races. A vote in a district of 10,000 will play a larger role in the outcome than one in a statewide race of 40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You, by nature, have more impact,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voters turn out for local elections at dismal rates, on average half that of national races, according to a 2003 UC San Diego study. In cities that hold races in off-years, without federal elections, turnout can reach single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898179 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg\" alt='Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped, city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\" \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Councilman Larry Carr represents Meadowview and acknowledges the lack of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s way down-ticket,” Carr says. “Less money is spent on those campaigns, very little TV advertising because it’s just not cost-effective for the size of the districts. And so, it’s more difficult for people to get interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Face-To-Face Interaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local elections typically draw little interest and few votes, these elected officials are often the most directly accessible to their constituents, since they generally represent fewer people and live in the neighborhoods they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, Carr -- who is not up for election this year -- holds a public meeting at the community center in Meadowview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen residents, mostly community and neighborhood association leaders, are attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did in the first meeting was essentially ask the community, ‘What do you want me to do, now that you’ve elected me?’ ” Carr says. “We had this whole room filled with butcher paper with things you wanted me to do. We narrowed it down to a few things. 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Madrid mentions a ban on plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting no traction in the state Legislature for eight years,” he says. “Local governments were taking policy positions that effectively forced the hand of the Legislature to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says state marijuana, firearm and smoking laws all started at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Power Is Local\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each vote cast in a local race also has a larger statistical effect than in larger races. A vote in a district of 10,000 will play a larger role in the outcome than one in a statewide race of 40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You, by nature, have more impact,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voters turn out for local elections at dismal rates, on average half that of national races, according to a 2003 UC San Diego study. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tonight's primaries in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri will be closely watched by some Californians, as a sign of whether our June primary will make a difference in either party's nomination. The Florida and Ohio contests are especially crucial on the Republican side, and could \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/delegate-math-here-s-how-contested-convention-could-happen-n531191\" target=\"_blank\">go a long way\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-delegates-convention-220616\" target=\"_blank\">determining\u003c/a> whether the race results in a brokered convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252023036\" 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>\"I must say, I'm really looking forward to March 15,\" says Linda Ackerman, a California representative on the Republican National Committee, \"I think it will be interesting for California because we could actually be a player.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter the result, Californians won't get a chance to vote in the primary until June 7, the final day that states will weigh in. So why is the Golden State's primary so late in the game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recent Shifts Due to Cost, Relevance \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The date of California's presidential primary has swung back and forth between the early and late end of the campaign season, reflecting conflicting desires to keep election costs low while also remaining relevant nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"nwOMor9TKRgpGIw9bBV74VT9R3kh1l4H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 1994, California held its primary elections in June, but still occasionally hosted competitive primaries, including tight races on the Democratic side in 1968, 1984 and 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give the state a more permanent say in the process of selecting nominees, lawmakers moved the state's primary election to March. It would remain there until 2005, in the meantime giving key wins (and huge delegate totals) to George W. 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Over 57 percent of registered Californians \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2008-primary/2008-sov.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">voted in the presidential primary\u003c/a> in February (the earliest election in state history); three months later in June, \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2008-statewide-direct-primary/complete-sov.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">only 28 percent of registered voters\u003c/a> weighed in on state propositions and races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Counties Behind Most Recent Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's a race for the state Legislature, president or a ballot initiative, California counties are largely responsible for shouldering the cost of elections in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state has been unwilling to pick up any election costs,\" says Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit that works to improve the state's election process. \"It's something a lot of people don't realize. It's a real barrier to voter expansion and participation in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide cost of the February 2008 presidential primary was over $96 million. Neal Kelley, registrar of voters in Orange County, said the June 2008 statewide election cost roughly the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to prepare the election the same way, whether we have one item on the ballot or 15 contests on the ballot,\" says Kelley. \"I always tell people we have to prepare for 100 percent turnout, even if we don't get 100 percent turnout.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to duplicate the cost of everything from ballot materials to polling place staff led California counties to support a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB80\" target=\"_blank\">2011 law \u003c/a>that consolidated the state and presidential primary and moved it back to June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consolidated March Primary a Middle Ground? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of the move to a consolidated June primary in 2012 were predictable. \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2012-primary/pdf/2012-complete-sov.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Turnout of registered voters \u003c/a>plummeted to 31 percent in a year when the Democratic nominee for president was an incumbent, and the Republican race was decided by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there a happy medium between price and participation for California's presidential primary?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander says the state could consider going back to a consolidated March primary, like it had in 1996, 2000 and 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was consolidated, all the contests were on the ballot, so we didn't have two primaries,\" she says. \"And we had a lot of voter excitement and participation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state will again have to weigh whether a place on the crowded national stage is worth the effects of a drawn-out, eight-month general election campaign, or whether the state's top-two primary has already altered the equation on primary spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, if future primaries play out like 2016, California officials may be content with remaining at the end of the primary campaign trail, taking a chance that they'll end up in the middle of the action.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been 2½ decades since California voters last filled a U.S. Senate vacancy, but with veteran lawmaker Barbara Boxer set to step down this year, voters have a chance to pick from four major candidates competing to fill her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez is one of two Democrats in the running. After 20 years in the House of Representatives, the Orange County congresswoman aims to move up to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251991885\" 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>She has been trailing a fellow Democrat and the front-runner in the race, state Attorney General Kamala Harris. In a January survey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2523.pdf\">the Field Poll\u003c/a> showed among likely voters who stated a preference that Harris led by 27 percent to Sanchez' 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republicans, Tom Del Beccaro and Duf Sundheim, trailed behind them at 3 percent each. A third Republican, Rocky Chavez, drew support from 7 percent of the respondents, but he has since \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/08/57311/gop-senate-candidate-chavez-drops-out-from-race/\">withdrawn from the race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significantly, a large segment of those polled, 44 percent, were undecided. It's the voters in that group who Sanchez hopes to sway to her side. Even if she comes in second in California's June 7 primary election, she can survive to the general election under the state's open primary contest in which the top two vote-getters move on to the November ballot regardless of their party affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate race is the biggest political competition since California adopted top-two primary in 2011, and it likely will force a faceoff between the two well-known Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Campaign Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a February evening in the city of Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County, music played in one room of a Mexican restaurant that also doubles as a nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another room, a campaign event was about to get underway for Loretta Sanchez. The congresswoman sat down to explain why she thinks California voters should elect her to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know how to work with Democrats and with Republicans. So I think I will take that knowledge over to the Senate with me,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a member of the House since 1996, when she narrowly beat Orange County Republican Bob Dornan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zosZdU7f1hdfoABaRhoHP9yBUrh5K8aR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/203/loretta-sanchez#.Vt94U5MrK8U\">Her rankings\u003c/a> among special interest and labor groups as compiled by the elections site \u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/\">VoterSmart.org\u003c/a> are aligned with her politics as a moderate Democrat: high among groups like Planned Parenthood and lower as rated by the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez points out that she is the only candidate running who has a track record in Congress. She is proud of her role in the passage of revised sexual assault provisions in the military justice code and sits on the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how she differs from Harris, Sanchez turned not to the issues that separate them, but to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My parents are Mexican immigrants, came here with nothing, settled in Anaheim, had seven children,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Sanchez wins, she would be the first Latina senator. Should Harris prevail, her win would also be notable. Harris' mother is from India and her father grew up in Jamaica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Sanchez' younger sister, Linda Sanchez, is also a congresswoman, representing the 38th district covering Montebello, Pico Rivera, Norwalk and Artesia. At her sister's political event, Linda Sanchez rallied the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's the No.2 Democrat on both the Homeland Security committee and the Armed Services committee and, let me tell you, she knows her s---,\" Linda Sanchez said, drawing laughter and applause from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trailing in Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 Los Angeles County officials at the event endorsed Loretta Sanchez for the Senate race. But Sanchez found less enthusiasm at the California Democrats State Convention in February, landing the endorsement of just 19 percent of the delegates to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cadem.org/convention/convention-info/highlights\">Harris' 78 percent.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to issues like immigration, job creation and the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.loretta.org/issues\">Sanchez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kamalaharris.org/issues/\">Harris\u003c/a> are not far apart. One\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/26/57985/california-senate-candidates-split-on-iphone-acces/\"> difference between them has emerged\u003c/a> on the issue of Apple Inc.'s resistance to the FBI's request to crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists: Sanchez is backing Apple and Harris is not taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez speaks of banning gun shows and limiting gun magazines to 10-round capacities. She’s endorsed a ballot measure that would raise the minimum wage in California to $15 an hour and backs \u003ca href=\"https://lorettasanchez.house.gov/issues/health-care\">health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County congresswoman Janice Hahn, who is running for a Los Angeles County supervisor seat, is among those who are supporting Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she’s effective in a way of communicating to the American people some of the issues, particularly as it relates to homeland security,\" Hahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez' communication style has landed her in trouble in the past. She has taken heat for making a Native American war cry gesture after a mixup in referring to a person from India and a Native American. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/05/17/51758/kamala-harris-calls-senate-candidate-sanchez-s-ges/\">apologized for the gaffe\u003c/a>, but it continues to haunt her politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she drew criticism for stating on Larry King's show that up to 20 percent of Muslims want an Islamic caliphate. In that case, she did not apologize, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/26/57060/rep-loretta-sanchez-stands-by-statement-that-up-to/\">stood by her statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have spoken to those comments and the reality is that there’s no one who has done more for the Muslim-American community than I have, \" she told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Whalen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/\">Stanford University’s Hoover Institution\u003c/a> said there's a clear difference in the way Sanchez and Harris speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris is quiet, reserved,\" he said. \"Loretta Sanchez is a little more earthy, and a little more out there. And she has, shall we say, a checkered record when it comes to comments she has made that are sometimes politically incorrect and then sometimes just some tone-deaf political judgments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whalen points to one moment in 2000 when Sanchez tried to organize a political fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic National Convention. Under political pressure, she later relocated it to Universal Studios CityWalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what she learned from the reaction to her fundraiser, Sanchez suggested sexism was behind the kerfuffle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned that people are harder on women than men,\" she said. Sanchez maintains that male politicians have held fundraisers at the Playboy Mansion and did not receive the flak she attracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Hennessey, Playboy Enterprises spokeswoman, said fundraisers have been held at the mansion for politicians like former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and ex-Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley served from 1973 to 1993, while Washington held office in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Turnout May Be Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez met up with KPCC recently in Orange County in the city of Placentia, about a mile north from where she grew up. In high school, she worked cleaning houses with her mom on weekends and scooped ice cream at a local Save On.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the visit, Sanchez ducked inside a shop called Mexico Supermarket, where pinatas hung from the ceiling. In the back, a cook chopped beef for carne asada tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sanchez visited the store, Placentia resident Brian Richards grabbed her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish we had more like you,\" Richards said, assuring Sanchez that he'd vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez also met someone who may represent her biggest challenge: people who see no reason to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895717\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent college grad Taylor Chun, the store manager, worked behind the cash register. She told Sanchez she hoped someday to become a wedding planner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the congresswoman left, Chun said she does not plan to vote. She would like to see things change in her neighborhood, such as more jobs. But Chun said she doesn’t think a new senator will make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like nobody really is going to help us,\" the young cashier said. \"They get the votes, they win and then after that, it’s like nothing is really changing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therein lies a problem: Voter turnout could have a major impact on Sanchez’ campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Southern California has a larger population, voters in Northern California, where Harris has her base, cast their ballots at higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political analysts point out Sanchez will need Southern Californians like Chun to vote if the congresswoman is to have a better chance at defeating Harris. Also key to her success are Latino voters, a group that historically records low voter turnout rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re Sanchez … you have to do two things right now,” Whalen said. Appeal to “Latino voters, primarily in Southern California, and then secondly, Southern California Democrats writ large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPCC. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">http://www.kpcc.org\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>It’s been 2½ decades since California voters last filled a U.S. Senate vacancy, but with veteran lawmaker Barbara Boxer set to step down this year, voters have a chance to pick from four major candidates competing to fill her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez is one of two Democrats in the running. After 20 years in the House of Representatives, the Orange County congresswoman aims to move up to the Senate.\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/251991885&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/251991885'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been trailing a fellow Democrat and the front-runner in the race, state Attorney General Kamala Harris. In a January survey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2523.pdf\">the Field Poll\u003c/a> showed among likely voters who stated a preference that Harris led by 27 percent to Sanchez' 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republicans, Tom Del Beccaro and Duf Sundheim, trailed behind them at 3 percent each. A third Republican, Rocky Chavez, drew support from 7 percent of the respondents, but he has since \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/08/57311/gop-senate-candidate-chavez-drops-out-from-race/\">withdrawn from the race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significantly, a large segment of those polled, 44 percent, were undecided. It's the voters in that group who Sanchez hopes to sway to her side. Even if she comes in second in California's June 7 primary election, she can survive to the general election under the state's open primary contest in which the top two vote-getters move on to the November ballot regardless of their party affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate race is the biggest political competition since California adopted top-two primary in 2011, and it likely will force a faceoff between the two well-known Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Campaign Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a February evening in the city of Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County, music played in one room of a Mexican restaurant that also doubles as a nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another room, a campaign event was about to get underway for Loretta Sanchez. The congresswoman sat down to explain why she thinks California voters should elect her to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know how to work with Democrats and with Republicans. So I think I will take that knowledge over to the Senate with me,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a member of the House since 1996, when she narrowly beat Orange County Republican Bob Dornan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/203/loretta-sanchez#.Vt94U5MrK8U\">Her rankings\u003c/a> among special interest and labor groups as compiled by the elections site \u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/\">VoterSmart.org\u003c/a> are aligned with her politics as a moderate Democrat: high among groups like Planned Parenthood and lower as rated by the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez points out that she is the only candidate running who has a track record in Congress. She is proud of her role in the passage of revised sexual assault provisions in the military justice code and sits on the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how she differs from Harris, Sanchez turned not to the issues that separate them, but to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My parents are Mexican immigrants, came here with nothing, settled in Anaheim, had seven children,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Sanchez wins, she would be the first Latina senator. Should Harris prevail, her win would also be notable. Harris' mother is from India and her father grew up in Jamaica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Sanchez' younger sister, Linda Sanchez, is also a congresswoman, representing the 38th district covering Montebello, Pico Rivera, Norwalk and Artesia. At her sister's political event, Linda Sanchez rallied the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's the No.2 Democrat on both the Homeland Security committee and the Armed Services committee and, let me tell you, she knows her s---,\" Linda Sanchez said, drawing laughter and applause from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trailing in Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 Los Angeles County officials at the event endorsed Loretta Sanchez for the Senate race. But Sanchez found less enthusiasm at the California Democrats State Convention in February, landing the endorsement of just 19 percent of the delegates to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cadem.org/convention/convention-info/highlights\">Harris' 78 percent.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to issues like immigration, job creation and the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.loretta.org/issues\">Sanchez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kamalaharris.org/issues/\">Harris\u003c/a> are not far apart. One\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/26/57985/california-senate-candidates-split-on-iphone-acces/\"> difference between them has emerged\u003c/a> on the issue of Apple Inc.'s resistance to the FBI's request to crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists: Sanchez is backing Apple and Harris is not taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez speaks of banning gun shows and limiting gun magazines to 10-round capacities. She’s endorsed a ballot measure that would raise the minimum wage in California to $15 an hour and backs \u003ca href=\"https://lorettasanchez.house.gov/issues/health-care\">health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County congresswoman Janice Hahn, who is running for a Los Angeles County supervisor seat, is among those who are supporting Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she’s effective in a way of communicating to the American people some of the issues, particularly as it relates to homeland security,\" Hahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez' communication style has landed her in trouble in the past. She has taken heat for making a Native American war cry gesture after a mixup in referring to a person from India and a Native American. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/05/17/51758/kamala-harris-calls-senate-candidate-sanchez-s-ges/\">apologized for the gaffe\u003c/a>, but it continues to haunt her politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she drew criticism for stating on Larry King's show that up to 20 percent of Muslims want an Islamic caliphate. In that case, she did not apologize, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/26/57060/rep-loretta-sanchez-stands-by-statement-that-up-to/\">stood by her statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have spoken to those comments and the reality is that there’s no one who has done more for the Muslim-American community than I have, \" she told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Whalen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/\">Stanford University’s Hoover Institution\u003c/a> said there's a clear difference in the way Sanchez and Harris speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris is quiet, reserved,\" he said. \"Loretta Sanchez is a little more earthy, and a little more out there. And she has, shall we say, a checkered record when it comes to comments she has made that are sometimes politically incorrect and then sometimes just some tone-deaf political judgments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whalen points to one moment in 2000 when Sanchez tried to organize a political fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic National Convention. Under political pressure, she later relocated it to Universal Studios CityWalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what she learned from the reaction to her fundraiser, Sanchez suggested sexism was behind the kerfuffle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned that people are harder on women than men,\" she said. Sanchez maintains that male politicians have held fundraisers at the Playboy Mansion and did not receive the flak she attracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Hennessey, Playboy Enterprises spokeswoman, said fundraisers have been held at the mansion for politicians like former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and ex-Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley served from 1973 to 1993, while Washington held office in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Turnout May Be Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez met up with KPCC recently in Orange County in the city of Placentia, about a mile north from where she grew up. In high school, she worked cleaning houses with her mom on weekends and scooped ice cream at a local Save On.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the visit, Sanchez ducked inside a shop called Mexico Supermarket, where pinatas hung from the ceiling. In the back, a cook chopped beef for carne asada tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sanchez visited the store, Placentia resident Brian Richards grabbed her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish we had more like you,\" Richards said, assuring Sanchez that he'd vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez also met someone who may represent her biggest challenge: people who see no reason to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895717\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent college grad Taylor Chun, the store manager, worked behind the cash register. She told Sanchez she hoped someday to become a wedding planner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the congresswoman left, Chun said she does not plan to vote. She would like to see things change in her neighborhood, such as more jobs. But Chun said she doesn’t think a new senator will make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like nobody really is going to help us,\" the young cashier said. \"They get the votes, they win and then after that, it’s like nothing is really changing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therein lies a problem: Voter turnout could have a major impact on Sanchez’ campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Southern California has a larger population, voters in Northern California, where Harris has her base, cast their ballots at higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political analysts point out Sanchez will need Southern Californians like Chun to vote if the congresswoman is to have a better chance at defeating Harris. 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"content": "\u003cp>California law prohibits felons, people with a history of domestic violence and others with severe mental illness from having guns. It falls to Attorney General Kamala Harris and her Department of Justice to confiscate those guns. But 11,830 people currently banned from having guns may still possess them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That upsets Amanda and Nick Wilcox, whose daughter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Nevada-City-Mourns-Gunman-s-motive-unclear-2965803.php\" target=\"_blank\">Laura, was killed\u003c/a> by a gunman in Nevada City in 2001 while working at the county behavioral health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was numb for six months,\" Amanda Wilcox recalls. \"I kept pinching myself, thinking I don’t believe this happened. I felt like I was outside my body -- as if something had happened to someone else. 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It reached a peak in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public safety hearing just weeks after the December 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, legislators were stunned to learn that the list of prohibited gun owners yet to be investigated had reached 20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list.'\u003ccite>Kamala Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Firearms Chief Stephen Lindley testified that day that the list had expanded that fast because more than 2,000 people were being added each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite our best efforts, the bureau does not have the resources to keep up with this annual influx of cases to reduce the backlog,\" Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many people, how many guns, what would it cost to get them out of the hands of prohibited people as quickly as possible?” asked Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindley told lawmakers if the bureau could temporarily hire 50 more agents, his department would be able to clear the backlog within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe we can arrest our way, and investigate our way, out of this,” Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that an $8 million, a $15 million a $24 million investment in getting guns out of the hands of a prohibited person would be a very wise and worthy investment,” said Steinberg, who was later able to rally bipartisan support for a one-time allocation of $24 million set to expire this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"CV1HN3Teeb0gHmh0nXgMqLwTiDvSDh0g\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ agents investigated 20,000 people since then, but in that time as many people were added to the list, leaving a backlog of roughly 12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the swearing-in of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon at the state Capitol Monday, Attorney General Kamala Harris said $24 million was not enough to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Armed and Prohibited Persons List is extensive, and it grows every day,\" Harris told Capital Public Radio. \"It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list. I need a lot more resources, frankly, to meet the challenge of -- not only just reducing -- but I want to eliminate that backlog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is seeking an annual $4.7 million increase for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing Gun Purchases and a Growing List\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Jan. 1, 2016, DOJ report to the Legislature\u003c/a> cites a surge in gun purchases and new laws that expanded the number of people subject to prohibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ officials declined to talk to KQED about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have not made it a priority. It's as simple as that,\" said Sen. 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Their answer is, ‘We need more money, we need more money, we need more money.’ That is not an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891671\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10891671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-400x540.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-1180x1594.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-960x1297.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2015-504.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the Bureau of State Audits faulted the DOJ for not doing enough to ensure the accuracy of the database and the prompt investigation of people who became prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BSA said DOJ had repeatedly cited the “redirecting” of APPS agents to other priority work with a statutory deadline as an obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some responsibility lies with local law enforcement for failing to notify DOJ when they confiscate guns. The DOJ reports 500 such instances since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Police Chiefs Association president David Bejarano acknowledged law enforcement’s use of APPS got off to a slow start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe a lot of police departments and sheriff’s departments weren’t fully aware of the APPS system, the database,” Bejarano said. “Obviously in light of what we’re seeing nationwide -- with mass shootings occurring too frequently -- I think there’s a refocus to spend more time using the database, and we’ve seen an improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bejarano says DOJ dedicated more time and personnel to work on the APPS backlog and to partner with local law enforcement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California law prohibits felons, people with a history of domestic violence and others with severe mental illness from having guns. It falls to Attorney General Kamala Harris and her Department of Justice to confiscate those guns. But 11,830 people currently banned from having guns may still possess them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That upsets Amanda and Nick Wilcox, whose daughter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Nevada-City-Mourns-Gunman-s-motive-unclear-2965803.php\" target=\"_blank\">Laura, was killed\u003c/a> by a gunman in Nevada City in 2001 while working at the county behavioral health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was numb for six months,\" Amanda Wilcox recalls. \"I kept pinching myself, thinking I don’t believe this happened. I felt like I was outside my body -- as if something had happened to someone else. It turns your life upside down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, shock turned into a conviction that Amanda and her husband needed to do more to control access to guns in California.\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/251183107&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/251183107'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They joined the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradycampaign.org/california-chapters\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence\u003c/a> and were instrumental in getting several major gun control laws passed in recent years. And they’ve steadfastly pushed state lawmakers to fully fund the Department of Justice’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Implementing the program is harder than we all envisioned -- certainly for DOJ and certainly for us who advocated for this program in the very beginning,\" said Wilcox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Backlog From the Beginning\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APPS uses a database to flag people who legally obtain guns but later lose the right to have them. Agents at the DOJ track them down and confiscate their guns, a task both dangerous and time-consuming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began using the database in 2006. From day one, there's been a backlog in the system. It reached a peak in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public safety hearing just weeks after the December 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, legislators were stunned to learn that the list of prohibited gun owners yet to be investigated had reached 20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list.'\u003ccite>Kamala Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Firearms Chief Stephen Lindley testified that day that the list had expanded that fast because more than 2,000 people were being added each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite our best efforts, the bureau does not have the resources to keep up with this annual influx of cases to reduce the backlog,\" Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many people, how many guns, what would it cost to get them out of the hands of prohibited people as quickly as possible?” asked Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindley told lawmakers if the bureau could temporarily hire 50 more agents, his department would be able to clear the backlog within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe we can arrest our way, and investigate our way, out of this,” Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that an $8 million, a $15 million a $24 million investment in getting guns out of the hands of a prohibited person would be a very wise and worthy investment,” said Steinberg, who was later able to rally bipartisan support for a one-time allocation of $24 million set to expire this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ agents investigated 20,000 people since then, but in that time as many people were added to the list, leaving a backlog of roughly 12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the swearing-in of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon at the state Capitol Monday, Attorney General Kamala Harris said $24 million was not enough to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Armed and Prohibited Persons List is extensive, and it grows every day,\" Harris told Capital Public Radio. \"It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list. I need a lot more resources, frankly, to meet the challenge of -- not only just reducing -- but I want to eliminate that backlog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is seeking an annual $4.7 million increase for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing Gun Purchases and a Growing List\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Jan. 1, 2016, DOJ report to the Legislature\u003c/a> cites a surge in gun purchases and new laws that expanded the number of people subject to prohibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ officials declined to talk to KQED about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have not made it a priority. It's as simple as that,\" said Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), who voted for the temporary funding in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen, a budget leader in the Republican caucus, has called for a hearing to find out why DOJ did not eliminate the backlog. “They have not really been accountable in telling us what their problem has been. Their answer is, ‘We need more money, we need more money, we need more money.’ That is not an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891671\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10891671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-400x540.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-1180x1594.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-960x1297.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2015-504.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the Bureau of State Audits faulted the DOJ for not doing enough to ensure the accuracy of the database and the prompt investigation of people who became prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BSA said DOJ had repeatedly cited the “redirecting” of APPS agents to other priority work with a statutory deadline as an obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some responsibility lies with local law enforcement for failing to notify DOJ when they confiscate guns. The DOJ reports 500 such instances since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Police Chiefs Association president David Bejarano acknowledged law enforcement’s use of APPS got off to a slow start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe a lot of police departments and sheriff’s departments weren’t fully aware of the APPS system, the database,” Bejarano said. “Obviously in light of what we’re seeing nationwide -- with mass shootings occurring too frequently -- I think there’s a refocus to spend more time using the database, and we’ve seen an improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bejarano says DOJ dedicated more time and personnel to work on the APPS backlog and to partner with local law enforcement. 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"content": "\u003cp>California lawmakers have again \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2782\" target=\"_blank\">introduced legislation\u003c/a> to impose a fee on sodas and other sugary beverages -- not a true tax, but a \"health impact fee\" to be paid by beverage distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the presumption is that the two-cents-an-ounce fee -- 24 cents on a 12-ounce can of soda -- would be passed along to consumers, and, if passed, would raise $2 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's real money,\" said the legislation's author, Assemblymember Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revenue would go into a \"Healthy California Fund,\" to be created by the bill. From there it would be spent on public health programs across the state, to fight obesity, diabetes and dental disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not going to fix things overnight,\" Bloom said, \"but as this money starts to flow ... that's going to have the effect, long term, of leading Californians to healthier lifestyles and also lower health costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloom said that medical research is pointing to sugar-sweetened beverages as a driver of diabetes and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Achermann, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://calbev.org/#!/home\" target=\"_blank\">CalBev\u003c/a>, a statewide industry group, said the organization is opposed to the bill. He said that obesity and diabetes are \"complicated problems\" and a broader approach is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Calories from any source\" can increase the risk of obesity and diabetes, Achermann said, \"so we think focusing on sugar-sweetened beverages isn't appropriate, and it isn't fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that California lawmakers have attempted either a so-called soda tax or a warning label\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article65000127.html\" target=\"_blank\"> seven times\u003c/a> between 2010 and 2015. None has passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloom introduced the soda tax legislation last year as well. It did not make it out of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article20776941.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Health committee\u003c/a>. Bloom says he has \"kept up the discussion\" with fellow legislators and that new studies \"point in the same direction and tell us that sugary beverages are an anathema to public health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects the Assembly Health committee to hear this new legislation in a month or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley is the only city in California to have a fee on sugar-sweetened beverages. The penny-per-ounce fee was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/11/04/will-berkeley-and-san-francisco-soda-tax-measures-set-precedent/\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2014\u003c/a> and is levied on distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new \u003ca href=\"http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. dietary guidelines\u003c/a> urge all Americans to limit sugar consumption to no more than 10 percent of daily calories, or about 12 teaspoons. By comparison, a can of Coke or other (non-diet) soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Jerry Brown can continue pursuing a plan to reduce the state's prison inmate population by releasing certain nonviolent felons early while it considers a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court's brief order means Brown's supporters can gather signatures to qualify a measure for the November ballot while the court decides whether the governor made improper, late additions to a juvenile justice proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sacramento County judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/25/judge-blocks-gov-browns-prison-population-ballot-measure\" target=\"_blank\">halted the qualifying process last month\u003c/a> after the California District Attorneys Association filed a lawsuit challenging the late additions. The judge ruled that Brown's additions substantially changed the proposed ballot language after it had gone through a public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jNBWaFQ9f312zrSMLCKyvpKG11CE2RBK\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Supreme Court ruled last week that the qualifying process can continue while the lawsuit is being decided. It reaffirmed that position Wednesday while putting the onus on the prosecutors to show the governor's changes were improper, rather than having Brown defend the additions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court didn't rule on the lawsuit's merits Wednesday, giving both sides until the end of the month to submit written legal arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed measure was filed with the attorney general's office in December as an attempt to transfer the power of deciding whether to prosecute juveniles as adults from prosecutors to judges. After the 30-day public comment period on the proposed ballot measure expired, Brown added language that would allow certain nonviolent adult felons to earn parole earlier while qualifying others for earlier releases from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/12/prosecutors-cry-foul-over-jerry-browns-ballot-measure\" target=\"_blank\">prosecutors say the additions are an end run around the public comment provision\u003c/a> and that they intend to continue their legal fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe when this court looks at all the information they will agree with the lower court and rule decidedly in our favor,\" California District Attorneys Association chief executive Mark Zahner said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A governor's spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is under court order to ease overcrowding in its prisons.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>People up and down the state are trying to crack the code on California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jan/28/why-dont-more-californians-vote/\">dismal voter turnout\u003c/a>, which reached a record low for general elections in 2014. Just 42.2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is getting ready to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/14/will-californias-new-motor-voter-law-boost-turnout/\" target=\"_blank\">register drivers automatically to vote\u003c/a>, and there's talk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/01/26/46056/ca-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-s-plan-to-get-m/\" target=\"_blank\">sending mail-in ballots\u003c/a> to every registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a San Diego nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panasd.org/\">Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans\u003c/a>, sees untapped potential in one voting bloc: refugees. The group noticed that refugees who do vote tend to never miss an election. They’re super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251017007\" 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>How big is the opportunity? California has resettled \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugee-resettlement-metropolitan-america\">about 300,000 refugees\u003c/a> since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramla Sahid is PANA's executive director and a U.S.-born daughter of Somali refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grow, we have children, children get married, they have more children. So I think former refugees and new refugees are sort of an underengaged, overlooked, potentially huge voter base that could, I think, impact the way we do things,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889865 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg\" alt=\"Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\" width=\"800\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-400x478.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-1180x1409.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-960x1146.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sahid is working this election year to replicate on a larger scale what's happening in Mariam Ali's home. Ali lives in San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/10/san-diego-neighborhoods-close-distance-miles-apart/\">Teralta\u003c/a> neighborhood, where just 27 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From War to Ballot Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Ali was cooking pasta for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids, they love this stuff,\" she said. \"'Mommy, make the alfredo sauce!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the store-bought kind but spiked with curry and ground African peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five years ago, Ali was begging nomadic tribes for a pot to boil what little food she had. She and her family had fled \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094503\">civil war in Somalia\u003c/a> and were walking to a refugee camp about 200 miles from their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took my house, they took my money, they took my belongings and I escaped with nothing,\" Ali said. Rebels were seizing towns amid the fighting between Somalia's Hawiye and Darod clans, of which Ali's family and ousted Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre were members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali went from seeing a government toppled in Somalia to living for years in a Kenyan refugee camp with no civic structure — just United Nations workers keeping things running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, in the United States, Ali is a super voter. That means she's voted in every election since becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003. Her first vote for president went to Democrat John Kerry, who lost to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889854 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in Diego’s Teralta neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' We went to the county office and I didn't know what to do,\" Ali said, recalling that first vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali has since encouraged her three older sons to vote. She said they fill out their mail-in ballots as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Small But Mighty Voting Bloc\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refugee families are not like Ali's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 32 percent of foreign-born residents vote, compared with 46 percent of those born in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census and \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>, a company that analyzes voter information for campaigns and others. Turnout among refugees is hard to pinpoint — foreign-born also includes people who voluntarily left home, immigrants who are living in the country illegally and cannot vote, and legal residents who aren't yet citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a survey by PANA of 953 East Africans in San Diego shows 30 percent of those registered are super voters, or voted in at least eight of the past 10 elections. That's compared with 20 percent of the state's voting population, according to data from the U.S. Census and Political Data Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrat:\u003c/strong> 45 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Republican:\u003c/strong> 40 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>African-American:\u003c/strong> 3 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Asian:\u003c/strong> 7 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Latino:\u003c/strong> 10 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age 65 or older:\u003c/strong> 58 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Earns $100,000 or more:\u003c/strong> 37 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Homeowner:\u003c/strong> 78 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: Political Data Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the refugees surveyed, 75 percent are also active voters, meaning they don't show up only for presidential elections, like a lot of U.S.-born voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether this phenomenon is seen elsewhere in the state. According to Political Data Inc., 13 percent of California's foreign-born voters are super voters. The data don't account for refugees alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sahid said it would make sense to see staunch refugee voters throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when you're kicked out of your home, you're persecuted, you've fled wars, and you have to start over and rebuild your entire life, it means something more when you can actually engage in decision-making,\" Sahid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ietcPzhokMQnz3LuWWdAGRKbzcr2BIZN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she votes because she wants her community's needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to vote because my voice will be heard,\" Ali said. \"If I need something and I don't vote, who knows me? Who knows my needs? No one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali cares a lot about empowering women — her father pushed her into an abusive marriage at age 14. She said her vote in this year's presidential race is going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am very excited,\" Ali said. \"Women can do what the men do, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she also cares about rising college tuition and racial inequality. She said she's surprised those issues don't draw more U.S.-born voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want my community members to vote and come out of the shell that they (are) hiding in,\" Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting Doubt on 'Every Vote Counts'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noreen H. Green lives down the street from Ali. She said racial inequality is exactly why she hasn't voted since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to refugees and they think this is the greatest country on Earth,\" Green said. \"I see it from a different perspective because I'm a black American and my ancestors were brought here as slaves and worked 400 years for free, and that's how a lot of the wealth of this country was built. So I see it from that lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green comes from a family of super voters. In fact, the last time she went to the polls was in 2014 to drop off a ballot for her mother, who had a stroke that year and was paralyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was that important to her,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-960x611.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green's husband is also a super voter. But not Green. She said casting a ballot would mean supporting a system she considers unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From young black men and women being killed — and there really have been no consequences for that — to the fact that you have to have millions, sometimes billions, to run for president. And our county Board of Supervisors sat on a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpisandiego.org/debate_erupts_over_county_s_reserve_funds\">reserve\u003c/a> during the recession.\" Green said. \"I don't vote because I don't believe anyone deserves my vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whichever candidate squares off with Republican Donald Trump if he wins the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's another thing. It's like watching a circus,\" Green said, referring to this year’s GOP presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Green is interning with a nonprofit that works to get out the vote during election years. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdop.net/\">San Diego Organizing Project\u003c/a> also organizes the community around social justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said for her to vote, the system would have to look a lot different. And she said it will be those she organizes — the Black Lives Matter protesters, immigrant \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/25/central-valley-teen-familys-only-vote-will-she-cas/\">DREAMers\u003c/a> and refugees like Ali — who will shape it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to empower people and create this mass of people that can make change,\" Green said. \"Because it's going to take a mass movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PANA believes refugees are that mass to push for change — at the ballot box. San Diego has resettled an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/21/san-diego-marks-world-refugee-day/\">estimated 100,000 refugees\u003c/a> since 1975. To PANA, that's 100,000 potential super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit www.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">kpbs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: The original version of this story said DMV is already registering drivers automatically to vote. That's not happening yet. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\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\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\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>People up and down the state are trying to crack the code on California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jan/28/why-dont-more-californians-vote/\">dismal voter turnout\u003c/a>, which reached a record low for general elections in 2014. Just 42.2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is getting ready to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/14/will-californias-new-motor-voter-law-boost-turnout/\" target=\"_blank\">register drivers automatically to vote\u003c/a>, and there's talk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/01/26/46056/ca-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-s-plan-to-get-m/\" target=\"_blank\">sending mail-in ballots\u003c/a> to every registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a San Diego nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panasd.org/\">Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans\u003c/a>, sees untapped potential in one voting bloc: refugees. The group noticed that refugees who do vote tend to never miss an election. They’re super voters.\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/251017007&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/251017007'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big is the opportunity? California has resettled \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugee-resettlement-metropolitan-america\">about 300,000 refugees\u003c/a> since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramla Sahid is PANA's executive director and a U.S.-born daughter of Somali refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grow, we have children, children get married, they have more children. So I think former refugees and new refugees are sort of an underengaged, overlooked, potentially huge voter base that could, I think, impact the way we do things,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889865 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg\" alt=\"Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\" width=\"800\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-400x478.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-1180x1409.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-960x1146.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sahid is working this election year to replicate on a larger scale what's happening in Mariam Ali's home. Ali lives in San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/10/san-diego-neighborhoods-close-distance-miles-apart/\">Teralta\u003c/a> neighborhood, where just 27 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From War to Ballot Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Ali was cooking pasta for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids, they love this stuff,\" she said. \"'Mommy, make the alfredo sauce!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the store-bought kind but spiked with curry and ground African peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five years ago, Ali was begging nomadic tribes for a pot to boil what little food she had. She and her family had fled \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094503\">civil war in Somalia\u003c/a> and were walking to a refugee camp about 200 miles from their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took my house, they took my money, they took my belongings and I escaped with nothing,\" Ali said. Rebels were seizing towns amid the fighting between Somalia's Hawiye and Darod clans, of which Ali's family and ousted Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre were members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali went from seeing a government toppled in Somalia to living for years in a Kenyan refugee camp with no civic structure — just United Nations workers keeping things running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, in the United States, Ali is a super voter. That means she's voted in every election since becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003. Her first vote for president went to Democrat John Kerry, who lost to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889854 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in Diego’s Teralta neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' We went to the county office and I didn't know what to do,\" Ali said, recalling that first vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali has since encouraged her three older sons to vote. She said they fill out their mail-in ballots as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Small But Mighty Voting Bloc\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refugee families are not like Ali's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 32 percent of foreign-born residents vote, compared with 46 percent of those born in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census and \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>, a company that analyzes voter information for campaigns and others. Turnout among refugees is hard to pinpoint — foreign-born also includes people who voluntarily left home, immigrants who are living in the country illegally and cannot vote, and legal residents who aren't yet citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a survey by PANA of 953 East Africans in San Diego shows 30 percent of those registered are super voters, or voted in at least eight of the past 10 elections. That's compared with 20 percent of the state's voting population, according to data from the U.S. Census and Political Data Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrat:\u003c/strong> 45 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Republican:\u003c/strong> 40 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>African-American:\u003c/strong> 3 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Asian:\u003c/strong> 7 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Latino:\u003c/strong> 10 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age 65 or older:\u003c/strong> 58 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Earns $100,000 or more:\u003c/strong> 37 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Homeowner:\u003c/strong> 78 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: Political Data Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the refugees surveyed, 75 percent are also active voters, meaning they don't show up only for presidential elections, like a lot of U.S.-born voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether this phenomenon is seen elsewhere in the state. According to Political Data Inc., 13 percent of California's foreign-born voters are super voters. The data don't account for refugees alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sahid said it would make sense to see staunch refugee voters throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when you're kicked out of your home, you're persecuted, you've fled wars, and you have to start over and rebuild your entire life, it means something more when you can actually engage in decision-making,\" Sahid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she votes because she wants her community's needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to vote because my voice will be heard,\" Ali said. \"If I need something and I don't vote, who knows me? Who knows my needs? No one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali cares a lot about empowering women — her father pushed her into an abusive marriage at age 14. She said her vote in this year's presidential race is going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am very excited,\" Ali said. \"Women can do what the men do, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she also cares about rising college tuition and racial inequality. She said she's surprised those issues don't draw more U.S.-born voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want my community members to vote and come out of the shell that they (are) hiding in,\" Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting Doubt on 'Every Vote Counts'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noreen H. Green lives down the street from Ali. She said racial inequality is exactly why she hasn't voted since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to refugees and they think this is the greatest country on Earth,\" Green said. \"I see it from a different perspective because I'm a black American and my ancestors were brought here as slaves and worked 400 years for free, and that's how a lot of the wealth of this country was built. So I see it from that lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green comes from a family of super voters. In fact, the last time she went to the polls was in 2014 to drop off a ballot for her mother, who had a stroke that year and was paralyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was that important to her,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-960x611.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green's husband is also a super voter. But not Green. She said casting a ballot would mean supporting a system she considers unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From young black men and women being killed — and there really have been no consequences for that — to the fact that you have to have millions, sometimes billions, to run for president. And our county Board of Supervisors sat on a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpisandiego.org/debate_erupts_over_county_s_reserve_funds\">reserve\u003c/a> during the recession.\" Green said. \"I don't vote because I don't believe anyone deserves my vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whichever candidate squares off with Republican Donald Trump if he wins the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's another thing. It's like watching a circus,\" Green said, referring to this year’s GOP presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Green is interning with a nonprofit that works to get out the vote during election years. 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