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That proposal, placed on Oakland's November ballot through a petition drive led by a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.liftupoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Up Oakland\u003c/a>, would hike minimum pay from $9 to $12.25 an hour, effective next March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the minimum wage increases in the form that Lift Up Oakland has it, I will lose eight or nine people, and I don’t have a choice about that,” LeBlanc told the council as it considered an alternate proposal for a more gradual increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted down the alternative, which would have raised wages to $12.25 next October and $13.50 in 2018. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12081_2014-07-11-19.00.50-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148072\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12081_2014-07-11-19.00.50-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Damita Davis Howard talks to people before leading them on a peace march. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Damita Davis Howard talks to people before leading them on a peace march. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On Nov. 4, Oakland voters will be ranking their top three choices from among 15 candidates running for mayor. \u003c/span>As part of our Election Watch 2014 coverage, we’re previewing issues on the minds of voters -- among them crime, gentrification and the economy. KQED’s Cyrus Musiker talked to some Oaklanders about what they want from their next mayor. Here are their profiles and comments.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lorie lives in a house with a classic white picket fence in in lower Rockridge, a prosperous neighborhood within earshot of Highway 24 and a BART station. He’s also among the residents who raised funds for a private security patrol, one of many that have sprung up in Oakland, because the police department is stretched too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By their own admission they don’t have the resources to fully patrol the area,\" he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">And he told me why the security patrol was needed during a walk around his seemingly peaceful block.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Right there is my neighbor who was mugged at gunpoint by three different people on the corner right by my house. Right here that three-plex is a renter who was mugged at gunpoint coming back from Trader Joe’s.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“An extremely important element of any vision for the mayor of Oakland has to be security and public safety,\" Lorie said. \"I would just like to hear that people [the candidates] are thinking about it and looking for creative solutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear those concerns echoed in the blue-collar Fruitvale district \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">in the words of Jose Dorado.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He was born and raised in Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood. And now he owns Dorado’s Tax and Bookkeeping Service, just off Fruitvale Boulevard, and chairs the Maxwell Park Neighborhood Council, a crime prevention group that also acts as a community liaison to the police force.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Dorado keeps a T-shirt hanging in his office bearing the words “Respect Our City,” which he dons when he helps patrol First Friday events.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">I asked him for the top issue he wants the next mayor to deal with.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“First and foremost, as has been the case for many years, is public safety,\" Dorado said. \u003c/span>“There are some merchants that tell me just flatly, 'Look, I look across the street to see when everybody is closing up, because that’s when I close up, because I'm not going to be here alone.'\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I know there would be more business attracted, if in fact we have less crime. And certainly here in the Fruitvale, there would be far more opportunities for businesses to thrive.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148075\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-148075 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Dorado says public safety is Oakland's most important issue. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-300x300.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12079_015-lpr-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Dorado says public safety is Oakland's most important issue. (Cyrus Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s violent crime rate has fallen, but a recent poll and these interviews suggest that public safety remains the top issue for voters as they choose the next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Bruce Nye thinks the next mayor should strive to achieve full staffing for the police force of 925 officers, as determined by former Police Chief Anthony Batts. Nye is a board member and co-founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://oaktalk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Make Oakland Better Now.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There is one robbery and one burglary investigator assigned to each of the five policing districts in the city of Oakland,\" Nye said. \"So, what can you do with that? Obviously, not very much.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye was just as keen for the next mayor to close a terrible chapter in the city’s policing history. The Oakland Police Department has been under federal court supervision for 12 years because of the Riders scandal, at a cost of millions of dollars, as city officials have failed again and again to make good on reforms.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We’ve been hearing for years that success is just around the corner, that we’re going to be out of this within a year,\" Nye said. \"That doesn’t happen. So we really need to have a strategy for the administration for how we end this.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye’s group is also worried about a budget deficit and unfunded pension liabilities predicted in a report by Oakland’s former city administrator, Deanna Santana. Nye said he wants to hear how the next mayor will bridge a budget gap totaling more than $1.5 billion.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And this is a city with a total budget of about a billion dollars a year,\" Nye said. \"So that is an enormous, enormous number.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But no mayor gets to focus on just one issue.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Everybody says crime, crime, crime. But what really needs to happen is we need innovators and not dinosaurs in City Hall.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">These are the words of Konda Mason, the CEO and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.impacthub.net\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Hub Oakland,\u003c/a> a shared workspace and business incubator in a former auto showroom in Oakland’s booming Uptown neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Crime is just about the lack of hope, because resources are not there, because the economic disparity in this town is just huge,\" Mason said. \"And if we want to get to crime, what we need to get to is jobs. Closing that access gap. Given a good job, I can’t believe I’d pick up a gun and take your iPhone.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We need to change the internal culture of City Hall to deal with the 21st century economy. There’s no innovation officer in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The infrastructure needs rehabilitating.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Mason is one of the voices of Oakland’s new economy. Mark Everton is a voice for an older set of businesses -- the city’s booming restaurant, hotel and tourism trade. Everton wears many hats. He’s general manager of the Waterfront Hotel in Jack London Square, chairs the board of the Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandchamber.com\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> and co-founded the Oakland Restaurant Association. He offers a very short agenda for the next mayor.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Don’t muck with it. What we’ve got going is working. If that could be my mantra to whoever is coming into office. It’s working,\" Everton said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“What we’re really looking for is for the incumbent mayor or for the incoming new mayor to keep that heat alive, to take the steps necessary to allow businesses to flourish and operate, get a handle on our public safety issues, and make sure that public safety is not a detriment to keeping that renaissance we’ve seen in the restaurant and the tourism scene from flourishing,\" he said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That renaissance and an influx of San Franciscans seeking lower rents has had a downside, though: gentrification.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That’s one reason I talked to Jessamyn Sabbag, deputy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandrising.org\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Rising,\u003c/a> a group working in the flatlands of East and West Oakland, areas that have missed out on Oakland’s economic boom.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When people say Oakland is the new Brooklyn, she says, it often means low-income renters are losing their homes to better-paid workers. So Sabbag wants the next mayor to support a tenants rights measure stalled in the City Council, and the higher minimum wage on the fall ballot.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“For us here at Oakland Rising, the next mayor should be all about \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">providing programs and services and a vision for Oakland, particularly to keep low-income working-class immigrant communities of color who’ve been here for a long time in their homes. And in healthy and safe communities.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And safe and healthy communities are far more than just cops on the streets, but there is sufficient funding for really good programs and services, ranging from libraries and parks and after-school programs to good economic development that provides living wage jobs so families can support themselves and really thrive. To good health care, to strong education and after-school programs.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“More resilient neighborhoods won’t produce as much crime,\" Sabbag said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings us back to public safety, in a neighborhood that’s seen little of downtown’s economic gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Friday evening for the past two years, the Rev. Damita Davis Howard has led a peace march through deep East Oakland, with its high rate of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On the Friday I attended, about 30 people had gathered from all over Oakland at a tiny church on 86th Avenue. After a prayer, Howard led the march through a neighborhood of iron gates and fierce dogs, and she told me her priority for the next mayor\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There ought to be a kumbaya of all of the neighborhoods of Oakland. … And if you don’t get the harmony from North Oakland all the way to the San Leandro border, if you don’t think about each and every neighborhood, each and every family, then I think you do an injustice to the whole city,\" Howard said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A peace march goes through East Oakland every Friday evening. 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He’s also among the residents who raised funds for a private security patrol, one of many that have sprung up in Oakland, because the police department is stretched too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By their own admission they don’t have the resources to fully patrol the area,\" he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">And he told me why the security patrol was needed during a walk around his seemingly peaceful block.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Right there is my neighbor who was mugged at gunpoint by three different people on the corner right by my house. Right here that three-plex is a renter who was mugged at gunpoint coming back from Trader Joe’s.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“An extremely important element of any vision for the mayor of Oakland has to be security and public safety,\" Lorie said. \"I would just like to hear that people [the candidates] are thinking about it and looking for creative solutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear those concerns echoed in the blue-collar Fruitvale district \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">in the words of Jose Dorado.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He was born and raised in Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Bruce Nye thinks the next mayor should strive to achieve full staffing for the police force of 925 officers, as determined by former Police Chief Anthony Batts. Nye is a board member and co-founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://oaktalk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Make Oakland Better Now.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There is one robbery and one burglary investigator assigned to each of the five policing districts in the city of Oakland,\" Nye said. \"So, what can you do with that? Obviously, not very much.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye was just as keen for the next mayor to close a terrible chapter in the city’s policing history. The Oakland Police Department has been under federal court supervision for 12 years because of the Riders scandal, at a cost of millions of dollars, as city officials have failed again and again to make good on reforms.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We’ve been hearing for years that success is just around the corner, that we’re going to be out of this within a year,\" Nye said. \"That doesn’t happen. So we really need to have a strategy for the administration for how we end this.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Nye’s group is also worried about a budget deficit and unfunded pension liabilities predicted in a report by Oakland’s former city administrator, Deanna Santana. Nye said he wants to hear how the next mayor will bridge a budget gap totaling more than $1.5 billion.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And this is a city with a total budget of about a billion dollars a year,\" Nye said. \"So that is an enormous, enormous number.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But no mayor gets to focus on just one issue.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Everybody says crime, crime, crime. But what really needs to happen is we need innovators and not dinosaurs in City Hall.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">These are the words of Konda Mason, the CEO and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.impacthub.net\" target=\"_blank\">Impact Hub Oakland,\u003c/a> a shared workspace and business incubator in a former auto showroom in Oakland’s booming Uptown neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Crime is just about the lack of hope, because resources are not there, because the economic disparity in this town is just huge,\" Mason said. \"And if we want to get to crime, what we need to get to is jobs. Closing that access gap. Given a good job, I can’t believe I’d pick up a gun and take your iPhone.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“We need to change the internal culture of City Hall to deal with the 21st century economy. There’s no innovation officer in Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The infrastructure needs rehabilitating.”\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Mason is one of the voices of Oakland’s new economy. Mark Everton is a voice for an older set of businesses -- the city’s booming restaurant, hotel and tourism trade. Everton wears many hats. He’s general manager of the Waterfront Hotel in Jack London Square, chairs the board of the Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandchamber.com\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> and co-founded the Oakland Restaurant Association. He offers a very short agenda for the next mayor.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Don’t muck with it. What we’ve got going is working. If that could be my mantra to whoever is coming into office. It’s working,\" Everton said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“What we’re really looking for is for the incumbent mayor or for the incoming new mayor to keep that heat alive, to take the steps necessary to allow businesses to flourish and operate, get a handle on our public safety issues, and make sure that public safety is not a detriment to keeping that renaissance we’ve seen in the restaurant and the tourism scene from flourishing,\" he said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That renaissance and an influx of San Franciscans seeking lower rents has had a downside, though: gentrification.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">That’s one reason I talked to Jessamyn Sabbag, deputy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandrising.org\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Rising,\u003c/a> a group working in the flatlands of East and West Oakland, areas that have missed out on Oakland’s economic boom.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When people say Oakland is the new Brooklyn, she says, it often means low-income renters are losing their homes to better-paid workers. So Sabbag wants the next mayor to support a tenants rights measure stalled in the City Council, and the higher minimum wage on the fall ballot.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“For us here at Oakland Rising, the next mayor should be all about \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">providing programs and services and a vision for Oakland, particularly to keep low-income working-class immigrant communities of color who’ve been here for a long time in their homes. And in healthy and safe communities.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“And safe and healthy communities are far more than just cops on the streets, but there is sufficient funding for really good programs and services, ranging from libraries and parks and after-school programs to good economic development that provides living wage jobs so families can support themselves and really thrive. To good health care, to strong education and after-school programs.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“More resilient neighborhoods won’t produce as much crime,\" Sabbag said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings us back to public safety, in a neighborhood that’s seen little of downtown’s economic gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Friday evening for the past two years, the Rev. Damita Davis Howard has led a peace march through deep East Oakland, with its high rate of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">On the Friday I attended, about 30 people had gathered from all over Oakland at a tiny church on 86th Avenue. After a prayer, Howard led the march through a neighborhood of iron gates and fierce dogs, and she told me her priority for the next mayor\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“There ought to be a kumbaya of all of the neighborhoods of Oakland. … And if you don’t get the harmony from North Oakland all the way to the San Leandro border, if you don’t think about each and every neighborhood, each and every family, then I think you do an injustice to the whole city,\" Howard said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12080_2014-07-11-19.29.00-1-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A peace march goes through East Oakland every Friday evening. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146909\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS11947_CAJC117_Governor-California-Debate12893-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-146909\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS11947_CAJC117_Governor-California-Debate12893-lpr-640x416.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown and GOP challenger Neel Kashkari clash in Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate. (Photo: Rich Pedroncelli, AP/Pool)\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown and GOP challenger Neel Kashkari clash in a Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate. (Photo: Rich Pedroncelli, AP/Pool)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown walked into the studios of The California Channel Thursday night, ten minutes before the cameras went live, he so completely ignored Neel Kashkari that the challenger awkwardly decided to get up, walk over, and gently introduce himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the debate was over, as everyone saw, the GOP contender clearly had Brown's attention. Still, don't be surprised if that doesn't last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate, a full two months to the day before voters go to the polls, was Kashkari's best shot at convincing Californians that he's a legitimate contender. It may also be the only time an audience has a chance to measure the two men side by side. Brown made it clear to all media organizations offering to host a debate that he would only do so in this first week of September -- aides said he has a busy schedule of signing or vetoing bills sent to him by the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps, but it's also smart politics for an incumbent like Brown -- 16 points ahead in the newest statewide poll and with perhaps 20 times more campaign cash on hand -- not to give his challenger's campaign any more oxygen to fuel an electoral fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can play [this debate] over and over again at your house,\" said the governor dismissively when I asked him in my role as moderator of Thursday night's clash whether he'd consent to another event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... that's a no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most notable narrative, at least from my vantage point as moderator, was how each man's experience had led them to such vastly different viewpoints about how to govern. For Brown, this is probably the last campaign of an unprecedented life in the public eye, and an effort to continue what he started in his third term as governor in 2011 -- a slow but steady untangling of some of California's most long-running problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything in government takes time,\" Brown said during the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast that with Neel Kashkari, a man who's singular government achievement may have succeeded precisely because \u003cem>there was no time\u003c/em>. That's the creation and execution of the 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program\" target=\"_blank\">Troubled Assets Relief Program\u003c/a> (or TARP), the federal bank bailout that Kashkari's boss at the time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, \u003ca href=\"http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-inside-job/2008/09/26/hank-paulson-kneeling-before-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\">begged congressional leaders to accept if they wanted to keep the nation's financial system from collapsing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari seems to have taken from that experience a particularly strong belief in his power to effect big change. He certainly demonstrated that in Thursday's debate over Brown's record in tackling California's biggest fiscal and economic problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said, \"We are making incremental progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which Kashkari fired back: \"The time for incrementalism has long since passed, Governor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be, but Kashkari would be wise to look at what's happened to previous California governors who have sought big change and demanded state lawmakers follow along. After all, many believe the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Davis-Says-He-Calls-All-The-Shots-Legislature-s-2919596.php\" target=\"_blank\">cocksure attitude by former Gov. Gray Davis that the Legislature was there \"to implement my vision,\"\u003c/a> ended with intraparty fighting, gridlock ... and Davis' recall from office. His successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, didn't fare much better at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, on the other hand, seems to have fully matured into a behind-the-scenes negotiator, a governor who helps shape dozens of bills before they ever reach his desk and who concedes some issues to win others. Of course, that's not so easy to explain (or defend) in a political campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjuxVjPbMk#t=3198\" target=\"_blank\">a partnership of KQED, The California Channel, The Los Angeles Times, and Telemundo52\u003c/a>) offered Neel Kashkari the first real chance to introduce himself to the public; after all, \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2481.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a new Field Poll\u003c/a> shows 41% of likely voters still have no opinion of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican newcomer took great pains in the live TV and radio debate to portray himself as \"an aerospace engineer\" (his first job before a pivot to investment banking) and \"the son of immigrants\" (his parents were born in India). The incumbent governor, of course, came prepared to talk about Kashkari's well-paid work on Wall Street prior to his challenger's efforts on the federal bank bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of like the arsonist putting out the fire,\" said Brown of Kashkari's jobs before and after the 2008 recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, neither candidate fully explained beliefs or actions on some thorny issues. Brown launched into the crisis of climate change when asked how to explain \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/07/cap-and-trade-faces-first-major-political-test/\" target=\"_blank\">an expected rise in gas prices in 2015 from California's climate regulations\u003c/a> (and he boasted of finding a listing for $1.50 gas in California online).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, meantime, promised to inspire some kind of national action on immigration reform and warned of \"open borders,\" rather than answering a question about the 58 percent of Californians in a new poll who support \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_26382526/gov-jerry-brown-top-lawmakers-back-legal-aid\" target=\"_blank\">state funding for legal assistance to the recent wave of unaccompanied and undocumented children\u003c/a>. Kashkari is opposed to that plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing's for sure: If Neel Kashkari wants to remain viable or even relevant over the next eight weeks, he's got to find a way to not let Jerry Brown go back to the quiet work of governing. And should he provoke a fight, he will have to find a way to deflect the powerful TV ads that Brown's $22 million war chest could easily finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari definitely landed some punches on Thursday; winning a heavyweight championship bout, though, takes a lot more than one good round.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That's the creation and execution of the 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program\" target=\"_blank\">Troubled Assets Relief Program\u003c/a> (or TARP), the federal bank bailout that Kashkari's boss at the time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, \u003ca href=\"http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-inside-job/2008/09/26/hank-paulson-kneeling-before-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\">begged congressional leaders to accept if they wanted to keep the nation's financial system from collapsing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari seems to have taken from that experience a particularly strong belief in his power to effect big change. He certainly demonstrated that in Thursday's debate over Brown's record in tackling California's biggest fiscal and economic problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said, \"We are making incremental progress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which Kashkari fired back: \"The time for incrementalism has long since passed, Governor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be, but Kashkari would be wise to look at what's happened to previous California governors who have sought big change and demanded state lawmakers follow along. After all, many believe the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Davis-Says-He-Calls-All-The-Shots-Legislature-s-2919596.php\" target=\"_blank\">cocksure attitude by former Gov. Gray Davis that the Legislature was there \"to implement my vision,\"\u003c/a> ended with intraparty fighting, gridlock ... and Davis' recall from office. His successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, didn't fare much better at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, on the other hand, seems to have fully matured into a behind-the-scenes negotiator, a governor who helps shape dozens of bills before they ever reach his desk and who concedes some issues to win others. Of course, that's not so easy to explain (or defend) in a political campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjuxVjPbMk#t=3198\" target=\"_blank\">a partnership of KQED, The California Channel, The Los Angeles Times, and Telemundo52\u003c/a>) offered Neel Kashkari the first real chance to introduce himself to the public; after all, \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2481.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a new Field Poll\u003c/a> shows 41% of likely voters still have no opinion of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican newcomer took great pains in the live TV and radio debate to portray himself as \"an aerospace engineer\" (his first job before a pivot to investment banking) and \"the son of immigrants\" (his parents were born in India). The incumbent governor, of course, came prepared to talk about Kashkari's well-paid work on Wall Street prior to his challenger's efforts on the federal bank bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of like the arsonist putting out the fire,\" said Brown of Kashkari's jobs before and after the 2008 recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, neither candidate fully explained beliefs or actions on some thorny issues. Brown launched into the crisis of climate change when asked how to explain \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/07/cap-and-trade-faces-first-major-political-test/\" target=\"_blank\">an expected rise in gas prices in 2015 from California's climate regulations\u003c/a> (and he boasted of finding a listing for $1.50 gas in California online).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, meantime, promised to inspire some kind of national action on immigration reform and warned of \"open borders,\" rather than answering a question about the 58 percent of Californians in a new poll who support \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_26382526/gov-jerry-brown-top-lawmakers-back-legal-aid\" target=\"_blank\">state funding for legal assistance to the recent wave of unaccompanied and undocumented children\u003c/a>. Kashkari is opposed to that plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing's for sure: If Neel Kashkari wants to remain viable or even relevant over the next eight weeks, he's got to find a way to not let Jerry Brown go back to the quiet work of governing. And should he provoke a fight, he will have to find a way to deflect the powerful TV ads that Brown's $22 million war chest could easily finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari definitely landed some punches on Thursday; winning a heavyweight championship bout, though, takes a lot more than one good round.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1028px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-146872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/CAJC108_Governor-California-Debate12884-1028x679.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown, left, shakes hands with Republican challenger Neel Kashkari as they pose for photographs before a gubernatorial debate in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool)\" width=\"1028\" height=\"679\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown, left, shakes hands with Republican challenger Neel Kashkari as they pose for photographs before a gubernatorial debate in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first -- and apparently only -- debate between Gov. Jerry Brown and Republican challenger Neel Kashkari was fast-paced and, at times, feisty. The candidates hit on the major issues facing California: water, immigration, the economy, education and income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both candidates kept returning to the main themes of their campaigns. For Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury Department official, it’s the idea that while California’s government might have stabilized during Brown’s tenure, the state’s economy is still suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is your family back?” He asked voters during his closing statement. “Are your kids in good schools today? Do you feel good about your job? Do you have the job that you want, the job that you deserve?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, the message is stewardship. He argues the state has gone from deficit to surplus on his watch, and it’s continuing to turn the corner economically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state was in the shambles,” he said. “They were calling it a failed state. Well, it’s back. It’s not all the way back. And (Kashkari) likes to create the construct that if we’re not perfect, we’re not making progress. We are making incremental progress. I say 1.4 million jobs. And we’re recovering faster than the rest of the nation. We’re moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'Gravy Train'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more heated moments came when Kashkari criticized Brown for appealing a recent high-profile court ruling on teacher tenure laws, which a state judge ruled violates California students’ constitutional right to a good education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a choice between fighting for the civil rights of poor kids, and fighting for the union bosses who funded your campaigns,” Kashkari said to Brown. “You sided with the union bosses. You should be ashamed of yourself, Governor. I’m going to side with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘That makes no sense at all,” Brown responded. “That is so false.” The governor said broader problems like poverty play a bigger role than tenure laws in hindering educational opportunities, and said state law obligated him to appeal the lower-court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was clear that as the debate progressed, Kashkari’s criticism got under Brown’s skin. In response, he repeatedly attacked Kashkari’s ties to Wall Street. Kashkari worked as a Goldman Sachs banker before moving to the U.S. Treasury Department, where he ran the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which helped prop up struggling banks during the economic crisis. Brown even looped that background into his answer to moderator John Myers’ question about high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Kashkari calls it a crazy train,” Myers asked. “He says stop the crazy train. Governor, is it a crazy train?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uh, no,” said Brown. “I think he’s more familiar with the gravy train in Washington that paid out $30 billion in bonuses, or at least sat silently by while it happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Will 'Probably' Sign Bag Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did make some news during the debate, saying he’ll “probably” sign a high-profile bill banning single-use plastic bags. He said the statewide policy, which lawmakers passed last Friday, makes more sense than the more than 100 local bans already in place. But that revelation gave Kashkari an opening -- the Republican argued Brown and state lawmakers are spending too much time focusing on smaller issues like the bag ban, or another bill allowing dogs in outdoor restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they’re not working on is rebuilding the middle class,” he said. “You know, Governor, you say oh, you’re making incremental changes. 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Jerry Brown sits down for a live one-hour debate with his Republican challenger, Neel Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, I can offer a few viewing tips from my vantage point as the moderator of \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchannel.com/2014-gubernatorial-debate/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Debate: Race for Governor 2014 -- sponsored by KQED in partnership with the California Channel, the Los Angeles Times and Telemundo-52\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three journalists, including me, will ask the questions. Neither candidate will see any of the questions or topics in advance, and only a few others besides the three of us -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.telemundo52.com/tu-telemundo/Dunia-Elvir-225217262.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dunia Elvir\u003c/a> of Telemundo 52 and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/lanews-jim-newton-20130507-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Newton\u003c/a> of the Los Angeles Times -- have been working on the content. That's as it should be. Debates aren't a legitimate look at someone's qualifications for a big job like governor if candidates can't be prepared for anything that might come their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what I'm looking for...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Under Pressure:\u003c/strong> Live television and radio can be intense, and a debate being broadcast across California (and nationally by C-SPAN) is about as intense as it gets. Kashkari, in his first-ever run for office, has never really formally debated; Brown has done it so many times that he probably can't even remember how many there have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, Kashkari has faced some intense pressure before. The guy practically was dragged to Capitol Hill every time anyone wanted to gripe in 2008 and 2009 about \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TARP-Programs/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TARP\u003c/a>, the federal bank bailout he helped craft. But tonight's event casts a far wider net, with so many important issues facing California. Can he handle them all? Can he promote himself while also criticizing Brown? Can he adjust to the limiting environment of a small TV studio, the chair and podium, the off-camera lights signaling 15 seconds left to speak and time's up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Professor:\u003c/strong> For the governor, the big overarching question is whether he comes ready to debate ... or determined to lecture. Brown has a tendency to not only reach very deep (too deep?) into his grab bag of erudition, but as reporters know he can also be a little testy when he senses someone doesn't quite understand the issue at hand. 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We've also made clear that I will, if needed, jump in and redirect Brown and Kashkari to actually answer the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Day's News:\u003c/strong> My fellow debate journalists and I have spent the better part of the past 10 days drafting questions and discussing which issues are paramount. But let's face it: Big news that impacts California's future will beg to be discussed. Based on this morning's headlines, I have some ideas of what topics will get folded into our list of questions ... but I'm not going to divulge them just yet. Suffice it to say that for all the preparation the governor and his challenger have been doing in private, the news of this Thursday may likely shape the way voters perceive their readiness for the next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lasting Impact Or Flash In the Pan?\u003c/strong> And finally, does tonight's debate shape the race for governor in any discernible way over the next two months? It may not, but it certainly will give viewers and listeners their first chance to take stock of the record of Jerry Brown and the temperament and ideas of Neel Kashkari. There's been a lot of griping that this is the only scheduled debate between the two men between now and Nov. 4, and that's entirely fair; None of us involved in this broadcast think it should be the last time the two square off. Kashkari has asked for as many as 10 debates, and it's up to Brown to decide if he'll do this again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also true, in the interest of full disclosure, that Brown's campaign insisted this week of September was the only time when the governor was willing to debate. The media partners picked the actual day and time without any input from outsiders, but Kashkari and his advisers are angry that Brown had so much leverage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kashkari-and-brown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-146726\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kashkari-and-brown-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Neel Kashkari will debate Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 4.\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Neel Kashkari will debate Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 4.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Any formal debate in the modern era of politics lives or dies on what's seen by the audience at home, not by how the politicians appear from a vantage point just a few feet away. So at the risk of deflating my own story: It's all up to you, dear voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, those who were sitting nearby didn't grasp the enormity of President George H.W. Bush \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/famous-debate-moment-bush-sr-checks-his-watch-in-1992/\" target=\"_blank\">checking his watch in 1992\u003c/a>. They didn't hear \u003ca href=\"http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/s1p0eg/indecision-2000---sigh-language\" target=\"_blank\">Vice President Al Gore's sighs in 2000\u003c/a> in the way they came across in the live broadcast. And they certainly couldn't see how \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/10/04/passive-obama-debate-performance-a-case-study-in-what-not-to-do\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama's body language would be perceived\u003c/a> during his first 2012 debate with GOP challenger Mitt Romney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's all to say nothing of how \u003ca href=\"http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/research/americanhistory/ap_kennedynixon.php\" target=\"_blank\">radio audiences in 1960 generally thought that Richard Nixon beat John F. Kennedy\u003c/a>, while the television audience saw a much more... \u003ca href=\"http://thiswastv.com/2012/08/08/debate-night-kennedynixon-1960/\" target=\"_blank\">sweaty\u003c/a>... version of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, California voter, you're really the best judge of what happens at 7 p.m. tonight, when Gov. Jerry Brown sits down for a live one-hour debate with his Republican challenger, Neel Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, I can offer a few viewing tips from my vantage point as the moderator of \u003ca href=\"http://www.calchannel.com/2014-gubernatorial-debate/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Debate: Race for Governor 2014 -- sponsored by KQED in partnership with the California Channel, the Los Angeles Times and Telemundo-52\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three journalists, including me, will ask the questions. Neither candidate will see any of the questions or topics in advance, and only a few others besides the three of us -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.telemundo52.com/tu-telemundo/Dunia-Elvir-225217262.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dunia Elvir\u003c/a> of Telemundo 52 and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/lanews-jim-newton-20130507-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Newton\u003c/a> of the Los Angeles Times -- have been working on the content. That's as it should be. Debates aren't a legitimate look at someone's qualifications for a big job like governor if candidates can't be prepared for anything that might come their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what I'm looking for...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Under Pressure:\u003c/strong> Live television and radio can be intense, and a debate being broadcast across California (and nationally by C-SPAN) is about as intense as it gets. Kashkari, in his first-ever run for office, has never really formally debated; Brown has done it so many times that he probably can't even remember how many there have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, Kashkari has faced some intense pressure before. The guy practically was dragged to Capitol Hill every time anyone wanted to gripe in 2008 and 2009 about \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TARP-Programs/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TARP\u003c/a>, the federal bank bailout he helped craft. But tonight's event casts a far wider net, with so many important issues facing California. Can he handle them all? Can he promote himself while also criticizing Brown? Can he adjust to the limiting environment of a small TV studio, the chair and podium, the off-camera lights signaling 15 seconds left to speak and time's up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Professor:\u003c/strong> For the governor, the big overarching question is whether he comes ready to debate ... or determined to lecture. Brown has a tendency to not only reach very deep (too deep?) into his grab bag of erudition, but as reporters know he can also be a little testy when he senses someone doesn't quite understand the issue at hand. Those traits can be a bit of a double-edged sword in a big political debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's The Memorable Moment?\u003c/strong> Debates often have two predictable elements to them -- sometimes in sync, sometimes not: the planned stunt or quip, and the unexpected sizzle. Candidates often come in with something that they think will make the 11 p.m. TV newscast, but that eagerness can sometimes lead them to forget to actually engage in the here and now, the give and take that debates are really all about. As moderator, my job is to try to keep them engaged with the subject matter ... and to discourage gimmicks. In this debate, we've made clear to the candidates that our expectations are for substance, not shtick. We've also made clear that I will, if needed, jump in and redirect Brown and Kashkari to actually answer the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Day's News:\u003c/strong> My fellow debate journalists and I have spent the better part of the past 10 days drafting questions and discussing which issues are paramount. But let's face it: Big news that impacts California's future will beg to be discussed. Based on this morning's headlines, I have some ideas of what topics will get folded into our list of questions ... but I'm not going to divulge them just yet. Suffice it to say that for all the preparation the governor and his challenger have been doing in private, the news of this Thursday may likely shape the way voters perceive their readiness for the next four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lasting Impact Or Flash In the Pan?\u003c/strong> And finally, does tonight's debate shape the race for governor in any discernible way over the next two months? It may not, but it certainly will give viewers and listeners their first chance to take stock of the record of Jerry Brown and the temperament and ideas of Neel Kashkari. There's been a lot of griping that this is the only scheduled debate between the two men between now and Nov. 4, and that's entirely fair; None of us involved in this broadcast think it should be the last time the two square off. Kashkari has asked for as many as 10 debates, and it's up to Brown to decide if he'll do this again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also true, in the interest of full disclosure, that Brown's campaign insisted this week of September was the only time when the governor was willing to debate. The media partners picked the actual day and time without any input from outsiders, but Kashkari and his advisers are angry that Brown had so much leverage. Incumbents usually do have more heft -- and given \u003ca href=\"http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/new-york/2014/09/02/cuomo-says-debates-can-disservice-democracy/14992279/\" target=\"_blank\">the refusal to debate by another big-state governor facing a long-shot challenger\u003c/a> -- it's to Brown's credit that he's even doing any debate. The trick for Kashkari is to walk out of tonight's event with something that has staying power, some example of why California needs a new governor. For Brown, the trick is to walk away with as few political scratches as possible, and certainly no bruises that won't heal before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17715\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-320x200.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update September 2, 6:05 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A judge ruled Tuesday that Berkeley officials must change the soda tax measure language because it is currently misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Soda tax advocates say this change \"doesn't concern us at all.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said the city's statement that the tax would only be imposed on \"high-calorie, sugary drinks\" is \"a form of advocacy and therefore not impartial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo ordered the city to change the summary to say that the tax would apply to \"sugar-sweetened beverages,\" which he said is more neutral and less likely to create prejudice for or against Measure D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Johnson and Leon Cain \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/08/15/lawsuit-filed-over-berkeley-soda-tax-ballot-language/\" target=\"_blank\">filed the lawsuit in August\u003c/a>. Cain has previously attended Berkeley council meetings on behalf of the No Berkeley Beverage Tax campaign.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax opponents had also argued that ballot language that says the tax would be paid by distributors, not by consumers, is misleading because they believe distributors would pass on the extra cost to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grillo ruled against tax opponents on that issue, saying they failed to provide clear and convincing evidence based on the ballot statement that the tax won't be paid by consumers is misleading or partial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said tax opponents \"only speculate that it is like that such cost will be passed down to consumers, but it is unknown at this point whether or not any of the tax will eventually be passed down to consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo said the city correctly pointed out that distributors and retailers could choose to absorb the cost of the tax in order to better compete with other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley school board member Joshua Daniels, who is co-chair of the campaign in favor of Measure D, said Grillo's order that the ballot language be changed is only a \"relatively minor\" development and \"doesn't concern us at all\" because \"everyone knows that the measure is focused on preventing diabetes,\" and he thinks it will still be approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said that overall Grillo's ruling is \"a victory\" for Measure D supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo's ruling came one day before the deadline on Wednesday for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office to send ballot arguments to the printer so that voters can receive them well in advance of the election on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post July 2, 2014 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Charles Siler\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/02/berkeley-puts-sugar-tax-on-november-ballot-could-be-first-in-country-to-take-on-big-soda/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to include a proposal that would tax distributors of sugar-sweetened beverages on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Voters will decide on penny-per-ounce tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The measure, which proposes a one-cent-per-ounce charge at the distributor level, would be the first such tax passed in the country. Richmond tried to pass a similar tax in 2012, but it was voted down after a $2.7 million campaign by the soda industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax point to studies linking sugary drinks to childhood obesity and diabetes. Members of community organization Berkeley vs. Big Soda gathered on the steps of city hall before the Tuesday night meeting to voice their support of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support our kids. We don’t want our kids to be sick with diabetes,” said Dr. Vicki Alexander, co-chair of the Berkeley Healthy Child Foundation, at the council meeting. “We know that we can change that trend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the tax said the measure would prove ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that diabetes and childhood obesity are big issues. I just don’t necessarily agree that taxation on sweetened beverages or soda is the best way to deal with that,” said Jennifer Skidmore of J&J Vending. “Statistics show that purchasing of sweetened beverages is already on the decline, without taxation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also say the tax is a social justice issue, pointing to the higher rates of obesity in black and Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research shows diabetes rates in Latino, African-American communities have reached epidemic proportions,” said Xavier Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “That’s not an exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Soda will claim that we are attacking a product that is beloved by low-income folks,” said Councilmember Laurie Capitelli, “but those are the people who are coming to us and asking us to put this on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Mundorff, CEO and president of Landmark Theaters, which owns both the Shattuck Cinemas and the California Theater, said revenue from the tax would not be earmarked for any healthy initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could solve obesity and diabetes with a one-cent tax I’d say bring it on, let’s do two cents,” Mundorff said. “But the reality is that this cent is going into the general fund, and it is not earmarked to do anything, except to hurt business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the measure proposes a general tax, as opposed to a special tax, revenue from the tax would go into the general fund and cannot be reserved for any special purpose. With a special tax, the money could be designated for anti-obesity initiatives, such as nutrition programs in schools — but a special tax requires a two-thirds majority vote, while a general tax requires only 50 percent plus one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sugar tax on San Francisco’s November ballot is a special tax, and so will require a two-thirds majority to pass, unlike the Berkeley proposal. The San Francisco measure also proposes a tax of two cents per ounce, rather than Berkeley’s one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s November ballot will read: “Shall an ordinance imposing a 1¢ per ounce general tax on the distribution of high-calorie, sugary drinks (e.g., sodas, energy drinks, presweetened teas) and sweeteners used to sweeten such drinks, but exempting: (1) sweeteners (e.g., sugar, honey,syrups) typically used by consumers and distributed to grocery stores; (2) drinks and sweeteners distributed to very small retailers; (3) diet drinks, milk products, 100% juice, baby formula, alcohol, or drinks taken for medical reasons, be adopted?” Councilmember Linda Maio proposed the new, slightly different language at the Tuesday meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax acknowledged that in the coming months, the soda industry will likely campaign heavily against the tax measure in Berkeley and in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think even if they spent a million dollars they could confuse the people of Berkeley. So I’m not really worried about how much money they spend,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington. “The people of Berkeley are too smart to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a lot of opposition, there’s going to be lot of lies,” said Mayor Tom Bates. “They’re going to be sending people door to door with distortions, with misinformation, and it’s going to be tough. So we all need to work. This is the beginning, this is not the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">KQED News Associate \u003ca style=\"color: #336699\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca style=\"color: #336699\" href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17715\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-320x200.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update September 2, 6:05 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A judge ruled Tuesday that Berkeley officials must change the soda tax measure language because it is currently misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Soda tax advocates say this change \"doesn't concern us at all.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said the city's statement that the tax would only be imposed on \"high-calorie, sugary drinks\" is \"a form of advocacy and therefore not impartial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo ordered the city to change the summary to say that the tax would apply to \"sugar-sweetened beverages,\" which he said is more neutral and less likely to create prejudice for or against Measure D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Johnson and Leon Cain \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/08/15/lawsuit-filed-over-berkeley-soda-tax-ballot-language/\" target=\"_blank\">filed the lawsuit in August\u003c/a>. Cain has previously attended Berkeley council meetings on behalf of the No Berkeley Beverage Tax campaign.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax opponents had also argued that ballot language that says the tax would be paid by distributors, not by consumers, is misleading because they believe distributors would pass on the extra cost to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grillo ruled against tax opponents on that issue, saying they failed to provide clear and convincing evidence based on the ballot statement that the tax won't be paid by consumers is misleading or partial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said tax opponents \"only speculate that it is like that such cost will be passed down to consumers, but it is unknown at this point whether or not any of the tax will eventually be passed down to consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo said the city correctly pointed out that distributors and retailers could choose to absorb the cost of the tax in order to better compete with other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley school board member Joshua Daniels, who is co-chair of the campaign in favor of Measure D, said Grillo's order that the ballot language be changed is only a \"relatively minor\" development and \"doesn't concern us at all\" because \"everyone knows that the measure is focused on preventing diabetes,\" and he thinks it will still be approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said that overall Grillo's ruling is \"a victory\" for Measure D supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo's ruling came one day before the deadline on Wednesday for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office to send ballot arguments to the printer so that voters can receive them well in advance of the election on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post July 2, 2014 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Charles Siler\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/02/berkeley-puts-sugar-tax-on-november-ballot-could-be-first-in-country-to-take-on-big-soda/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to include a proposal that would tax distributors of sugar-sweetened beverages on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Voters will decide on penny-per-ounce tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The measure, which proposes a one-cent-per-ounce charge at the distributor level, would be the first such tax passed in the country. Richmond tried to pass a similar tax in 2012, but it was voted down after a $2.7 million campaign by the soda industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax point to studies linking sugary drinks to childhood obesity and diabetes. Members of community organization Berkeley vs. Big Soda gathered on the steps of city hall before the Tuesday night meeting to voice their support of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support our kids. We don’t want our kids to be sick with diabetes,” said Dr. Vicki Alexander, co-chair of the Berkeley Healthy Child Foundation, at the council meeting. “We know that we can change that trend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the tax said the measure would prove ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that diabetes and childhood obesity are big issues. I just don’t necessarily agree that taxation on sweetened beverages or soda is the best way to deal with that,” said Jennifer Skidmore of J&J Vending. “Statistics show that purchasing of sweetened beverages is already on the decline, without taxation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also say the tax is a social justice issue, pointing to the higher rates of obesity in black and Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research shows diabetes rates in Latino, African-American communities have reached epidemic proportions,” said Xavier Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “That’s not an exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Soda will claim that we are attacking a product that is beloved by low-income folks,” said Councilmember Laurie Capitelli, “but those are the people who are coming to us and asking us to put this on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Mundorff, CEO and president of Landmark Theaters, which owns both the Shattuck Cinemas and the California Theater, said revenue from the tax would not be earmarked for any healthy initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could solve obesity and diabetes with a one-cent tax I’d say bring it on, let’s do two cents,” Mundorff said. “But the reality is that this cent is going into the general fund, and it is not earmarked to do anything, except to hurt business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the measure proposes a general tax, as opposed to a special tax, revenue from the tax would go into the general fund and cannot be reserved for any special purpose. 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So I’m not really worried about how much money they spend,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington. “The people of Berkeley are too smart to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a lot of opposition, there’s going to be lot of lies,” said Mayor Tom Bates. “They’re going to be sending people door to door with distortions, with misinformation, and it’s going to be tough. So we all need to work. This is the beginning, this is not the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">KQED News Associate \u003ca style=\"color: #336699\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca style=\"color: #336699\" href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/08/RS5161_78770400-scr-e1375404453328.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14038\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/08/RS5161_78770400-scr-620x356.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"620\" height=\"356\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Helen Shen,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/August/20/california-survey-health-insurance-rates-and-prop-45.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters are showing strong early support for a ballot initiative that would expand the state's authority to regulate health insurance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 7 of every 10 respondents indicated that they would vote in favor of Proposition 45, while 16 percent would vote against it, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2478.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Field poll\u003c/a> released Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 45 would give California's insurance commissioner the power to veto excessive health insurance rate increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurance rates in the state are currently overseen by the Department of Managed Health Care and the California Department of Insurance. Insurance companies are required to submit proposed rate increases for review each year by state regulators, who may declare rates unreasonable but cannot block them from going into effect.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the missing piece of health reform,\" says Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, the advocacy group that sponsored the initiative. \"If every Californian is required to purchase health insurance and no one is overseeing what insurance companies can charge, the insurance industry will have a free pass to raise prices at will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/05/27/insurance-commissioner-defends-health-insurance-initiative/\" target=\"_blank\">strongly supports the proposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, insurers have proceeded at least 14 times with rate hikes deemed unreasonable by California regulators, according to the California Public Interest Research Group, a consumer advocacy group in Sacramento. Consumer Watchdog says that those rate increases have cost consumers more than $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that Proposition 45 will cut health insurance costs, however. Critics say that the initiative would do nothing to reduce underlying health care costs, but could add a costly bureaucracy to the state's health insurance marketplace. Some also worry that the proposition could expose insurers to legal challenges on rate increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to drive the costs up dramatically,\" says Neil Crosby, a spokesperson for the California Association of Health Underwriters, a Sacramento-based group that represents the private health insurance industry. The campaign against Proposition 45 has received major financial backing from insurance providers such as the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Blue Shield of California. (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente or the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health care exchange, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/02/fight-continues-over-ballot-measure-to-control-health-insurance-premiums/\" target=\"_blank\">told legislators in July\u003c/a> that the proposition could undermine the exchange's ability to negotiate rates directly with health plans. For now, the exchange wields the bargaining power of 1.4 million people having signed up for insurance through Covered California since last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional layer of rate review and any potential disputes with the insurance commissioner could keep some plans from being available in time for open enrollment, Lee said, and might even cause some health plans to withdraw from certain markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance laws vary widely from state to state, but more than half of states already require some health insurance rate increases to be approved by the government before they can be implemented, according to data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states that require prior approval of rates have had to plan ahead to meet open enrollment timelines under the health law, says Sabrina Corlette, a senior research fellow at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. But in general, she says the extra reviews have not posed a problem. \"We have not heard that plans just weren't ready to be sold when open enrollment came around,\" says Corlette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Field Poll was among the very first to survey state residents on Proposition 45, and a strong blitz by the insurance companies during the fall campaign season could affect public opinion. Insurers have donated millions of dollars to a campaign to defeat the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, some observers say the proposition may not make a big difference in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current market forces and the added restrictions from the health law seem to be helping to keep rate increases low in California, says Dylan Roby, a health policy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the end of July, Covered California \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/31/californias-2015-obamacare-premiums-will-increase-modestly/\" target=\"_blank\">announced negotiated rate increases\u003c/a> for 2015, averaging a modest 4.2 percent across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional oversight could become more relevant in the future, says Roby, if health care spending begins to increase dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Roby warns that without proper foresight, the proposition could leave certain markets vulnerable to coverage disruptions. For example, he said, in areas that are costlier to insure, and especially where competition among insurers is lower, Covered California may be forced to accept higher rate increases to keep an insurer’s plan in that jurisdiction. But if the insurance commissioner were to reject those negotiated rates, the health plan could decide to pull out of that area altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close communication between all parties early on in rate negotiations will be key to maintaining statewide access to health insurance, if Proposition 45 passes in November, says Roby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Balancing the needs of the insurance commissioner and Covered California could be tricky,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Field Poll, which looked at a variety of health issues including Medicaid and the Covered California exchange, was conducted through telephone interviews of more than 1,500 state residents from June 26 through July 19. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Consumer Watchdog says that those rate increases have cost consumers more than $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that Proposition 45 will cut health insurance costs, however. Critics say that the initiative would do nothing to reduce underlying health care costs, but could add a costly bureaucracy to the state's health insurance marketplace. Some also worry that the proposition could expose insurers to legal challenges on rate increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to drive the costs up dramatically,\" says Neil Crosby, a spokesperson for the California Association of Health Underwriters, a Sacramento-based group that represents the private health insurance industry. The campaign against Proposition 45 has received major financial backing from insurance providers such as the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Blue Shield of California. (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente or the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health care exchange, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/02/fight-continues-over-ballot-measure-to-control-health-insurance-premiums/\" target=\"_blank\">told legislators in July\u003c/a> that the proposition could undermine the exchange's ability to negotiate rates directly with health plans. For now, the exchange wields the bargaining power of 1.4 million people having signed up for insurance through Covered California since last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional layer of rate review and any potential disputes with the insurance commissioner could keep some plans from being available in time for open enrollment, Lee said, and might even cause some health plans to withdraw from certain markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance laws vary widely from state to state, but more than half of states already require some health insurance rate increases to be approved by the government before they can be implemented, according to data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states that require prior approval of rates have had to plan ahead to meet open enrollment timelines under the health law, says Sabrina Corlette, a senior research fellow at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. 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But if the insurance commissioner were to reject those negotiated rates, the health plan could decide to pull out of that area altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close communication between all parties early on in rate negotiations will be key to maintaining statewide access to health insurance, if Proposition 45 passes in November, says Roby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Balancing the needs of the insurance commissioner and Covered California could be tricky,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Field Poll, which looked at a variety of health issues including Medicaid and the Covered California exchange, was conducted through telephone interviews of more than 1,500 state residents from June 26 through July 19. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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