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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115662\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS402_voted-lapel20121102-scr-e1382381270844.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS402_voted-lapel20121102-scr-e1382381270844.jpg\" alt=\"(Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)\" width=\"320\" height=\"241\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115662\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The only debate between the two leading Republicans running for California governor took place Tuesday night adjacent to a skeleton with thick eyebrows that stood in for incumbent Jerry Brown. Former \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/21/127359/neel-kashkari-governor-race-california-gop\">U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari\u003c/a> didn’t meet \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tim-donnelly-gop-for-governor\">Assemblyman Tim Donnelly\u003c/a> in a college auditorium or television studio, but on Los Angeles talk radio station \u003ca href=\"http://www.kfiam640.com/onair/john-and-ken-37487/\">KFI’s popular John and Ken Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate, in a ballroom at Anaheim's Ayres Hotel, was unorthodox. But it did give Kashkari and Donnelly their only opportunity to question each other face-to-face. Neither candidate hesitated to unload the main ammunition they’ve been using against each other throughout the race. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alluding to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ln-assembly-passes-bill-banning-state-from-selling-confederate-flag-donnelly-only-vote-in-opposition-20140505-story.html\">Donnelly's recent vote\u003c/a> against a bill banning the state from selling the Confederate flag and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-donnelly-sharia-20140509-story.html\">his accusations\u003c/a> that Kashkari supports Islamic Sharia law, Kashkari turned to Donnelly and said, “In the last few months you’ve managed to denigrate Latinos, African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Hindus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If we are shrinking our party, we're not going to win another election, period.'\u003ccite>— Neel Kashkari\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If we are shrinking our party, we’re not going to win another election, period,” continued Kashkari as a largely pro-Donnelly crowd jeered and booed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly immediately dismissed the criticism. “They don’t kick a dead dog,” he said. “They only attack you when you’re the front-runner and you’re a threat. And the only colors that matter to me are red, white, and blue. Because those are the colors of freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'John McCain Had No Idea What Was Going On'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, in turn, asked Kashkari why he voted for Barack Obama when he ran against Republican John McCain in 2008. Kashkari was working in the U.S. Treasury Department then, helping coordinate the government’s response to an economic collapse that, at that point, appeared to be teetering on the edge of a full-blown depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually met with both candidates,” said Kashkari. “And I’ve got to tell you something. John McCain had no idea what was going on in the financial crisis.... We met with both the McCain campaign and the Obama campaign, and were shocked at the poor economic advice McCain was getting.” Several books, including Peter Baker’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/books/days-of-fire-peter-bakers-book-about-bush-and-cheney.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Days of Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, have detailed how widespread that view was within the Bush administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The only colors that matter to me are red, white, and blue. Because those are the colors of freedom.'\u003ccite>— Tim Donnelly\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the debate’s most contentious moments came in the final minutes, when an audience member asked Donnelly why he recently accused Kashkari of supporting Sharia law during his Treasury tenure. Many observers viewed that as an attempt to insinuate the Hindu candidate is, in fact, Muslim. While Donnelly had previously apologized for the claim, which stems from a seminar the department ran on international banking, he stuck with it Thursday night. “Given how barbaric Sharia is, why would we want to be compliant with anything Sharia?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American banks want to go into Middle Eastern countries and push our financial products and our free markets there,” said Kashkari. “You have to start by understanding the laws in those countries. ... The idea that President George W. Bush, the man who worked so hard to keep us safe, the idea that his administration would try to bring Islamic law to America? It’s outrageous and it’s offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kashkari's Aggressive Push\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari tried again and again to land a punch during the debate, at one point working a reference to Donnelly's criminal record into an answer about immigration policy. (The assemblyman is on probation \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/03/tim-donnelly-seeks-plea-deal-does-not-plan-to-seek-trial-in-airport-gun-case.html\">for trying to bring a loaded handgun through airport security\u003c/a>.) But Donnelly never took the bait, dismissing Kashkari’s challenges with quips and campaign talking points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd in the ballroom cheered him on, but more and more Republican leaders are raising concerns about the repercussions of a fall Donnelly candidacy. Earlier Thursday, former Gov. Pete Wilson released a statement saying that “keeping public focus on the real and important issues facing California will require a candidate who does not have to defend Tim Donnelly’s bizarre votes and statements or his irresponsible personal behavior. Donnelly’s record ... would inescapably become the focus of the Donnelly campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poll after poll has shown Donnelly with a commanding lead over Kashkari (a seven-point lead in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_414MBS.pdf\">the latest Public Policy Institute of California poll\u003c/a>; 15 points in \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2463.pdf\">the last Field survey\u003c/a>). The fact the debate even took place shows how concerned the Kashkari campaign is with its poll numbers. Kashkari waved off Donnelly’s calls for a debate at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/16/california-republican-convention-kashkari-donnelly-battle-for-support\">the March Republican Convention\u003c/a>. But here Kashkari was in a rowdy Anaheim hotel ballroom, fielding questions from talk radio shock jocks, sitting near a skeleton standing in for Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Donnelly’s campaign remains strapped for cash, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/05/10/kashkari-raises-his-campaign-ante-to-1-million/\">Kashkari has pumped $1 million\u003c/a> of his own money into his campaign in recent weeks. That money has allowed him to run a limited television advertising campaign, but is far short of the millions of dollars needed to air sustained advertising to boost his name recognition.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136127\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Candidates for San Jose Mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo, and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates for San Jose mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">San Jose is getting a new mayor. Incumbent Chuck Reed has served his limit of two terms. But Reed’s battles with city unions over pension reform are still shaping the mayoral campaigns of the top five candidates ahead of the June 3 primary.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">Public safety, for instance, has become the top issue for many voters. “Crime is always top of my mind,” said Susan Carruthers recently at a mayoral debate near her home in the middle-class Willow Glen neighborhood. The debate was sponsored by a coalition of neighborhood groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of burglaries in my neighborhood of Willow Glen.” Carruthers said, “So, yeah, I’d like to see the police walk the streets instead of staying in their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carruthers seems almost embarrassed by her city’s rising crime rate. San Joseans have always taken pride in having one of the nation’s safest large cities. Emergency response times have worsened as well. And the problem is partly a legacy of pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s police force has shrunk by more than a third, to about 900 officers, with many jumping to neighboring cities to escape the effects of Measure B, a voter-approved pension reform plan now tied up in the courts and spearheaded by Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All five mayoral candidates at this debate said reducing the crime rate would be their top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First one would be public safety,” said City Councilwoman Madison Nguyen in her opening statement. “We right now have less than 1,000 sworn police officers patrolling our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen promised to bring back the burglary unit eliminated in 2012. And she said she’d crack down on police cadets if they quit after graduating from expensive city-run police academies. “They need to stay with us for at least five years. If they decide to leave, then they need to pay back that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line drew a round of applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s large Asian-American community is split in its support of Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American whose family came to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon and worked in the strawberry fields of the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen faced down a recall attempt by Vietnamese-Americans after she resisted efforts to rename a commercial neighborhood “Little Saigon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a close ally of Reed, the father of Measure B and another statewide pension reform measure. But so has the other leading candidate on the council, Sam Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me the two most serious problems we’ll need to face are fiscal sustainability and public safety,” Liccardo said at the Willow Glen debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is a South Bay native and former prosecutor who touts a crime reduction plan that involves networking video surveillance cameras at businesses around the city, and using data analytics to do smarter deployment of a reduced force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very simple approaches, but basically a restoration of community policing is what’s going to enable us to be a safer city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo boasts endorsements from major figures in San Jose’s business community and from two former mayors, and he’s the most out-front about continuing Reed’s program of fiscal reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have a $3 billion unfunded liability in this city.” Liccardo said, “and we cannot simply accept the idea that our children and grandchildren will pay for our inability to solve that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo and Nguyen are the top two of four council members running for mayor — with Rose Herrera and Pierluigi Oliverio trailing behind in the most recent polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has based her campaign on the argument that San Jose needs more jobs to increase its tax base. “Downtown san Jose is the most empty downtown city in the country during the daytime,” she said at the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill downtown, Herrera wants the city to speed up the permitting process, “That means changing how we do business down at City Hall,” she said, “taking on a revolutionary idea that Phoenix and other cities have done that I’m putting forward, and that is 24-hour permitting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliverio’s big idea is to “heal the divisions in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can do that,”he said, “is to make union negotiations public. So, you can attend as a citizen. Right now it’s a closed-door process, and the only thing that comes out of that process is angst, brinkmanship and hurt feelings that leads to too much hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if we’re being watched by the public,” Oliverio said, “everyone will be kind, everyone will be honest, and we’ll have a different day in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other top contender is Santa Clara Supervisor and former Councilman Dave Cortese. He’s the favorite of labor groups, and he told the crowd at the Willow Glen debate that the city wouldn’t be in such a mess if his council opponents had any good ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The policies are not working. We need to restore the trust in this city. We have broken morale in this city. It’s time for a change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese notes the city is losing not just police officers. Planning department staffing is down 30 percent, public works by 20 percent. And Cortese is the one candidate who says he would work with city unions to settle the legal battle over Measure B, rather than continue to fight for the measure in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tell me how you restore trust and morale when litigating with your own employees.” Cortese said, “It’s not going to happen. This war you’ve been hearing about needs to end. It’s time for reconstruction in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That version of “labor peace” has made Cortese, no surprise, the favorite of San Jose’s municipal unions. And their support could make all the difference in this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re phone-banking every night,\" said South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field said labor activists plan to call more than 100,000 likely voters urging them to vote for Cortese and pro-union candidates for the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cortese is really the only candidate who’s gonna turn the city in a better direction,” Field said. “There are five serious candidates, and four of them are all committed to a path that this current mayor has set, which has really been a disaster for the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor wields a powerful tool in this campaign: a well-endowed independent expenditure fund to pay for phone banks and mailers on Cortese’s behalf. Contributors include labor groups, politicians like Rep. Anna Eshoo and a pair of local cardrooms that have just chipped in $25,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That independent spending has prompted a countereffort by Silicon Valley businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want Sam Liccardo’s candidacy to fall through because he was outspent two or three to one,” says Carl Guardino, the well-connected CEO of the nonpartisan Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which lobbies on behalf of high-tech and civic interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardino rarely makes endorsements. But he’s making a personal exception for Liccardo, in gratitude for the candidate's early support for campaigns to bring BART to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has been a champion on a lot of issues that are in his purview as a San Jose City Council member,” Guardino said, “but also on regional, state and federal issues standing shoulder to shoulder with the innovation economy and the tech community in Silicon Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardino and his wife are raising funds in $1,000, $10,000 and $25,000 chunks from tech executives like Steve Wyman of TIVO and high-powered lawyers like Joe Cotchett — with home addresses from San Francisco to Los Altos to San Jose. Guardino insists the fund won’t attack other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is pro-Sam Liccardo,\" he said. \"It is not anti-anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many voters in San Jose may be wary of a divisive campaign between unions and big business. Those I talked to said they’re yearning for a mayor who will bridge the divisions within city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core of the problem is the council is very divided right now.” said Erik Fong, a tech worker who I talked to at the Willow Glen debate. “So I would look to the next mayor to be collaborative and bring people together to solve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters are already mailing in their ballots for the June 3 primary. Unless one candidate wins a majority, the two top finishers will fight on until November.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136127\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Candidates for San Jose Mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo, and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates for San Jose mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">San Jose is getting a new mayor. Incumbent Chuck Reed has served his limit of two terms. But Reed’s battles with city unions over pension reform are still shaping the mayoral campaigns of the top five candidates ahead of the June 3 primary.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">Public safety, for instance, has become the top issue for many voters. “Crime is always top of my mind,” said Susan Carruthers recently at a mayoral debate near her home in the middle-class Willow Glen neighborhood. The debate was sponsored by a coalition of neighborhood groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of burglaries in my neighborhood of Willow Glen.” Carruthers said, “So, yeah, I’d like to see the police walk the streets instead of staying in their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carruthers seems almost embarrassed by her city’s rising crime rate. San Joseans have always taken pride in having one of the nation’s safest large cities. Emergency response times have worsened as well. And the problem is partly a legacy of pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s police force has shrunk by more than a third, to about 900 officers, with many jumping to neighboring cities to escape the effects of Measure B, a voter-approved pension reform plan now tied up in the courts and spearheaded by Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All five mayoral candidates at this debate said reducing the crime rate would be their top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First one would be public safety,” said City Councilwoman Madison Nguyen in her opening statement. “We right now have less than 1,000 sworn police officers patrolling our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen promised to bring back the burglary unit eliminated in 2012. And she said she’d crack down on police cadets if they quit after graduating from expensive city-run police academies. “They need to stay with us for at least five years. If they decide to leave, then they need to pay back that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line drew a round of applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s large Asian-American community is split in its support of Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American whose family came to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon and worked in the strawberry fields of the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen faced down a recall attempt by Vietnamese-Americans after she resisted efforts to rename a commercial neighborhood “Little Saigon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a close ally of Reed, the father of Measure B and another statewide pension reform measure. But so has the other leading candidate on the council, Sam Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me the two most serious problems we’ll need to face are fiscal sustainability and public safety,” Liccardo said at the Willow Glen debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is a South Bay native and former prosecutor who touts a crime reduction plan that involves networking video surveillance cameras at businesses around the city, and using data analytics to do smarter deployment of a reduced force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very simple approaches, but basically a restoration of community policing is what’s going to enable us to be a safer city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo boasts endorsements from major figures in San Jose’s business community and from two former mayors, and he’s the most out-front about continuing Reed’s program of fiscal reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have a $3 billion unfunded liability in this city.” Liccardo said, “and we cannot simply accept the idea that our children and grandchildren will pay for our inability to solve that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo and Nguyen are the top two of four council members running for mayor — with Rose Herrera and Pierluigi Oliverio trailing behind in the most recent polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has based her campaign on the argument that San Jose needs more jobs to increase its tax base. “Downtown san Jose is the most empty downtown city in the country during the daytime,” she said at the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill downtown, Herrera wants the city to speed up the permitting process, “That means changing how we do business down at City Hall,” she said, “taking on a revolutionary idea that Phoenix and other cities have done that I’m putting forward, and that is 24-hour permitting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliverio’s big idea is to “heal the divisions in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can do that,”he said, “is to make union negotiations public. So, you can attend as a citizen. Right now it’s a closed-door process, and the only thing that comes out of that process is angst, brinkmanship and hurt feelings that leads to too much hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if we’re being watched by the public,” Oliverio said, “everyone will be kind, everyone will be honest, and we’ll have a different day in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other top contender is Santa Clara Supervisor and former Councilman Dave Cortese. He’s the favorite of labor groups, and he told the crowd at the Willow Glen debate that the city wouldn’t be in such a mess if his council opponents had any good ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The policies are not working. We need to restore the trust in this city. We have broken morale in this city. It’s time for a change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese notes the city is losing not just police officers. Planning department staffing is down 30 percent, public works by 20 percent. And Cortese is the one candidate who says he would work with city unions to settle the legal battle over Measure B, rather than continue to fight for the measure in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tell me how you restore trust and morale when litigating with your own employees.” Cortese said, “It’s not going to happen. This war you’ve been hearing about needs to end. It’s time for reconstruction in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That version of “labor peace” has made Cortese, no surprise, the favorite of San Jose’s municipal unions. And their support could make all the difference in this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re phone-banking every night,\" said South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field said labor activists plan to call more than 100,000 likely voters urging them to vote for Cortese and pro-union candidates for the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cortese is really the only candidate who’s gonna turn the city in a better direction,” Field said. “There are five serious candidates, and four of them are all committed to a path that this current mayor has set, which has really been a disaster for the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor wields a powerful tool in this campaign: a well-endowed independent expenditure fund to pay for phone banks and mailers on Cortese’s behalf. Contributors include labor groups, politicians like Rep. Anna Eshoo and a pair of local cardrooms that have just chipped in $25,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That independent spending has prompted a countereffort by Silicon Valley businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want Sam Liccardo’s candidacy to fall through because he was outspent two or three to one,” says Carl Guardino, the well-connected CEO of the nonpartisan Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which lobbies on behalf of high-tech and civic interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardino rarely makes endorsements. But he’s making a personal exception for Liccardo, in gratitude for the candidate's early support for campaigns to bring BART to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has been a champion on a lot of issues that are in his purview as a San Jose City Council member,” Guardino said, “but also on regional, state and federal issues standing shoulder to shoulder with the innovation economy and the tech community in Silicon Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardino and his wife are raising funds in $1,000, $10,000 and $25,000 chunks from tech executives like Steve Wyman of TIVO and high-powered lawyers like Joe Cotchett — with home addresses from San Francisco to Los Altos to San Jose. Guardino insists the fund won’t attack other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is pro-Sam Liccardo,\" he said. \"It is not anti-anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many voters in San Jose may be wary of a divisive campaign between unions and big business. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tim-donnelly-gop-for-governor/rs10325_photo-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135595\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135595\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10325_photo-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"3)Tim Donnelly speaks to a group of campaign volunteers in Orange County. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Donnelly speaks to a group of campaign volunteers in Orange County. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tim Donnelly is campaigning for governor, and he’s not wearing any pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 48-year-old Republican assemblyman is in the back seat of a parked black SUV. He’s wriggling out of the suit he wore to talk to a group at an Orange County country club, and into a pair of jeans he’ll wear to go door to door in a nearby neighborhood that afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Donnelly changes, a woman who had listened to his speech walks up to the vehicle and drops two $20 bills into the cowboy boots he had slipped off and left on the parking lot pavement. She had come to the event with concerns about the new federal Common Core education standards, and had apparently been satisfied to hear about Donnelly’s no-holds-barred opposition to the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t make this stuff up,” said Donnelly when he got out of the truck and found the cash in his boots. “I guess we’re going to have gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149183219&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the Donnelly campaign in a nutshell — it isn’t pretty, it’s being run off an iPhone from the driver’s seat of an SUV, and it can sure use $40 cash infusions. Donnelly’s last campaign finance report showed he barely had enough cash on hand to pay the annual salary of a single minimum-wage employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, with less than a month to go before the June primary, it’s Donnelly — not former Bush administration official Neel Kashkari — who is viewed as the favorite to advance and face Gov. Jerry Brown on the fall ballot. Seventeen percent of likely voters supported Donnelly in the last Field Poll. Kashkari, who ran the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program, clocked in at just 2 percent. While TARP may have saved the country from a depression, the 12-figure bailout remains toxic among conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re doing is not trying to elect a different guy with a better haircut,” Donnelly had told a group of 30 campaign volunteers that morning. “We’re trying to unite people under a banner of liberty. And it’s liberty that matters. This is individual liberty. This was the cause of the first revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is certainly not good news from the Republican Party establishment’s point of view. “I think Republican Party leaders, donors, candidates, elected representatives — a great number of them would be alarmed if Donnelly is representing the Republicans in the fall against Gov. Brown,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican strategist who isn’t affiliated with either Donnelly or Kashkari. Republican leaders are concerned about Donnelly for a range of reasons — but primarily because of Donnelly’s history as a leader of the controversial Minuteman movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘California Is Occupied Territory’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a windy day in the eastern San Diego County town of Jacumba. Tumbleweed is skipping across the desert and piling up against the fence guarding the United States-Mexico border. Immigration reform advocate Enrique Morones points to the spot where the fence abruptly ends, and to the white Border Patrol jeep slowly making its way along the structure. This is the spot where Morones and his Border Angels group confronted Donnelly and his Minutemen, who were there to symbolically guard the border against undocumented immigrants trying to cross into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly was part of the initial group of Minutemen who massed along the Arizona border in April 2005. Founder Jim Gilchrist said the initial goal was to bring attention to undocumented immigrants who were crossing the border illegally. “If you want to bring attention to an issue or a matter, or create public debate, create the largest dog-and-pony show you can about the issue,” Gilchrist said. “I set out to bring as many Americans … to the border as I possibly could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Donnelly doesn’t pull punches. Last summer he told a Yolo County tea party group that ‘Obamacare was just a Trojan horse to introduce full-blown socialism.’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Donnelly kept a journal during his Arizona experience. He read part of it on air in a 2005 MSNBC documentary. “Somewhere out here our quarry awaits,” he wrote at one point. “It is good to feel the sun on my face while the morning chill is still fresh on my skin. It is cold out here in the desert at night. I have a sense I might make history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2005, Donnelly organized his own border watch in Jacumba. “My goal was to leverage the media,” he said, into paying more attention to border issues. “California is occupied territory,” he told MSNBC at the time. “We are no longer part of the United States in any recognizable regard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morones and his Border Angels group met Donnelly and the other armed volunteers with counter-demonstrations. “This was the worst of the American spirit,” Morones recalled. “Racism being played out as if it was a game. With these beer-drinking, gun-toting racists along the border.” Nearly a decade later, the Minutemen are long gone. But Morones still drives along the border, placing jugs of water in the desert to help people making the crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, of course, rejects the racist claim. He says his stand was about laws, not race. He points to Latino supporters backing his current run, and people like an African-American woman who came up to him during the country club event to voice concerns about Common Core. “Everybody wants to put me in a box. Look at all the people that come up to me, that talk to me,” he said. “They’re the wrong color, according to the newspaper. I’m not supposed to be winning among minorities — particularly Latinos. And yet I have a tremendous following.” Indeed, Donnelly did have more Latino support than Kashkari in the last round of polls — though it was still in the single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deeply-held Conservative Views\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his time with the Minutemen, Donnelly has reinvented himself as a Republican assemblyman representing the San Bernardino County community of Twin Peaks. He’s maintained his firm views on immigration, opposing recent laws granting in-state college tuition and driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Donnelly has also made the Second Amendment and gun rights a premier cause,\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-donnelly-legislature-20140422-story.html#page=1\"> and has developed a reputation\u003c/a> for raising conservative concerns about nearly every bill that makes its way through the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly doesn’t pull punches. Last summer he told a Yolo County tea party group that “Obamacare was just a Trojan horse to introduce full-blown socialism” into the country. At this spring’s Republican convention, he called Gov. Jerry Brown “a Marxist-progressive parading as a Democrat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean Donnelly’s angry. He calls for more civility in politics, and often delivers his speeches with a smirk or a grin. “No – he’s a Marxist-progressive parading as a Democrat,” he said about Brown. “Doesn’t mean I can’t like him and want to have a beer with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Donnelly can be pretty funny. He loves to do Bill Clinton impressions, alternating between “I feel your pain” and “I … do not … recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open question among political observers is whether Donnelly’s strong showing in the polls is a ceiling or a floor, and whether he can expand his base beyond tea party conservatives. Donnelly is convinced it’s a floor, and that he can win over California’s majority of independent and Democratic voters by talking about economic issues, such as Toyota’s decision to move a major plant from Southern California to Texas. “The very first thing that I would have done as governor — I would have actually shown up, and been in their boardroom, invited or not, and said, ‘What’s going on? Why are you leaving? What was the final straw? What can we do to keep you here?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly is also pushing to expand California’s film tax credits in order to stop the exodus of film work to states like Georgia and Pennsylvania, which offer companies major financial incentives to shoot on location. He made a point to knock on Democrats’ and independents’ doors when he canvassed Orange County neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Love Lost Between Donnelly and Republican Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for every broader economic theme, there are statements and stances that could alienate voters. Last week he accused his Hindu opponent, Neel Kashkari, of supporting Sharia, or Islamic law, during his tenure at the Treasury Department. Many observers viewed that as an attempt to insinuate that Kashkari is Muslim, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-donnelly-sharia-20140509-story.html\">Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, a conservative firebrand himself, called it\u003c/a> “hateful and ignorant garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Republican leaders think Donnelly and his tea party views would hurt the party’s brand, Donnelly is happy to return the favor.. He told an Orange County voter that the Democratic and Republican parties “both suck.” Speaking to reporters in Sacramento, Donnelly said, “Political parties aren’t the answer. They’re the problem. I really haven’t seen them do anything that’s of any significance — that’s advancing the cause of liberty forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if he’s on his own, Donnelly has a good shot at topping Kashkari in June. \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2463.pdf\">The most recent Field Poll had him leading\u003c/a> the former Bush and Obama administration official by 15 points among likely voters. 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While TARP may have saved the country from a depression, the 12-figure bailout remains toxic among conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re doing is not trying to elect a different guy with a better haircut,” Donnelly had told a group of 30 campaign volunteers that morning. “We’re trying to unite people under a banner of liberty. And it’s liberty that matters. This is individual liberty. This was the cause of the first revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is certainly not good news from the Republican Party establishment’s point of view. “I think Republican Party leaders, donors, candidates, elected representatives — a great number of them would be alarmed if Donnelly is representing the Republicans in the fall against Gov. Brown,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican strategist who isn’t affiliated with either Donnelly or Kashkari. Republican leaders are concerned about Donnelly for a range of reasons — but primarily because of Donnelly’s history as a leader of the controversial Minuteman movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘California Is Occupied Territory’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a windy day in the eastern San Diego County town of Jacumba. Tumbleweed is skipping across the desert and piling up against the fence guarding the United States-Mexico border. Immigration reform advocate Enrique Morones points to the spot where the fence abruptly ends, and to the white Border Patrol jeep slowly making its way along the structure. This is the spot where Morones and his Border Angels group confronted Donnelly and his Minutemen, who were there to symbolically guard the border against undocumented immigrants trying to cross into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly was part of the initial group of Minutemen who massed along the Arizona border in April 2005. Founder Jim Gilchrist said the initial goal was to bring attention to undocumented immigrants who were crossing the border illegally. “If you want to bring attention to an issue or a matter, or create public debate, create the largest dog-and-pony show you can about the issue,” Gilchrist said. “I set out to bring as many Americans … to the border as I possibly could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Donnelly doesn’t pull punches. Last summer he told a Yolo County tea party group that ‘Obamacare was just a Trojan horse to introduce full-blown socialism.’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Donnelly kept a journal during his Arizona experience. He read part of it on air in a 2005 MSNBC documentary. “Somewhere out here our quarry awaits,” he wrote at one point. “It is good to feel the sun on my face while the morning chill is still fresh on my skin. It is cold out here in the desert at night. I have a sense I might make history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2005, Donnelly organized his own border watch in Jacumba. “My goal was to leverage the media,” he said, into paying more attention to border issues. “California is occupied territory,” he told MSNBC at the time. “We are no longer part of the United States in any recognizable regard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morones and his Border Angels group met Donnelly and the other armed volunteers with counter-demonstrations. “This was the worst of the American spirit,” Morones recalled. “Racism being played out as if it was a game. With these beer-drinking, gun-toting racists along the border.” Nearly a decade later, the Minutemen are long gone. But Morones still drives along the border, placing jugs of water in the desert to help people making the crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, of course, rejects the racist claim. He says his stand was about laws, not race. He points to Latino supporters backing his current run, and people like an African-American woman who came up to him during the country club event to voice concerns about Common Core. “Everybody wants to put me in a box. Look at all the people that come up to me, that talk to me,” he said. “They’re the wrong color, according to the newspaper. I’m not supposed to be winning among minorities — particularly Latinos. And yet I have a tremendous following.” Indeed, Donnelly did have more Latino support than Kashkari in the last round of polls — though it was still in the single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deeply-held Conservative Views\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his time with the Minutemen, Donnelly has reinvented himself as a Republican assemblyman representing the San Bernardino County community of Twin Peaks. He’s maintained his firm views on immigration, opposing recent laws granting in-state college tuition and driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Donnelly has also made the Second Amendment and gun rights a premier cause,\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-donnelly-legislature-20140422-story.html#page=1\"> and has developed a reputation\u003c/a> for raising conservative concerns about nearly every bill that makes its way through the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly doesn’t pull punches. Last summer he told a Yolo County tea party group that “Obamacare was just a Trojan horse to introduce full-blown socialism” into the country. At this spring’s Republican convention, he called Gov. Jerry Brown “a Marxist-progressive parading as a Democrat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean Donnelly’s angry. He calls for more civility in politics, and often delivers his speeches with a smirk or a grin. “No – he’s a Marxist-progressive parading as a Democrat,” he said about Brown. “Doesn’t mean I can’t like him and want to have a beer with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Donnelly can be pretty funny. He loves to do Bill Clinton impressions, alternating between “I feel your pain” and “I … do not … recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open question among political observers is whether Donnelly’s strong showing in the polls is a ceiling or a floor, and whether he can expand his base beyond tea party conservatives. Donnelly is convinced it’s a floor, and that he can win over California’s majority of independent and Democratic voters by talking about economic issues, such as Toyota’s decision to move a major plant from Southern California to Texas. “The very first thing that I would have done as governor — I would have actually shown up, and been in their boardroom, invited or not, and said, ‘What’s going on? Why are you leaving? What was the final straw? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/voting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/voting.jpg\" alt=\"voting\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>Consider this the official launch of the 2014 election season in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials in all 58 counties begin sending out \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_m.htm\" target=\"_blank\">vote-by-mail ballots\u003c/a> on Monday and will continue to do so for the next three weeks. The final day for Californians to register to vote in the June 3 election is May 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As ballots start arriving in mailboxes, candidates and campaigns start trying to answer the single most important question: Which voters will actually show up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History is a pretty good guide that voter turnout is going to be low. State elections records show that since 1984, only \u003cem>twice\u003c/em> has a majority of registered California voters cast a primary election ballot ... and both of those years (2000 and 2008) featured closely watched, intense presidential campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take those two years out, and the historical primary election turnout in California is a dismal 39 percent. And in the last statewide primary held during a non-presidential year, only 33 percent of registered voters cast a ballot. 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In particular, he has pledged a new focus on poverty and income inequality, and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/03/neel-kashkari-says-jerry-brown-born-into-a-life-of-privilege.html\" target=\"_blank\">bashed Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> and others for not doing enough on the issue, one that usually resonates with Democrats and independents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble is, Kashkari's poll numbers hardly budged. In \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/23/poll-jerry-brown-draws-california-republican-votes\" target=\"_blank\">the most recent statewide poll\u003c/a>, he continued to trail Donnelly by a wide margin, though most California Republicans tell pollsters they remain undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(A sidenote: How has Donnelly done it? It's certainly not with money. Campaign finance records show he has only raised about $229,000 in 2014, less than Kashkari raised in the month of April alone. The answer may lie in news coverage. Democrats point to a private analysis of TV and radio news stories, so-called earned media, that shows Donnelly has had a whopping \u003cem>four times\u003c/em> the amount of media coverage Kashkari has gotten.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other campaigns also must decide whether enough persuadable voters — those who don't necessarily vote a party or ideological line — will show up for the June race. This is the first year in which California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/statewide-elections/2012-primary/faqs-primary-2012.htm\" target=\"_blank\">top-two primary system\u003c/a> (only the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election November) will be used in races for statewide office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">An absence of controversial ballot measures or closely contested candidate races may prompt many voters to sit out the June vote.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new primary rules have long hoped that breaking apart the closed, partisan primary system would increase interest in elections and campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reform efforts to increase turnout may not prove particularly effective,\" says Eric McGhee, a researcher at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California and one of the state's leading analysts of electoral trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as McGhee notes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1095\" target=\"_blank\">his new report on the top-two primary system\u003c/a>, more independent voters are expected as they learn the rules that allow them to cast votes for any candidate from any party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, elections are the most intense when some race or issue fuels the debate. Presidential elections do that every four years. Ballot measures in California also help fuel voter turnout. But that's another blow to this June election and those in years to come: Propositions placed before voters via the initiative process have been banned from all but November ballots. In 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a shift in initiatives — \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/09/good-government-or-political-power-play/\" target=\"_blank\">debatable as to whether it was good government or clever politics\u003c/a> — that has left June elections with only low-profile bonds and ballot measures placed there by the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line: For one reason or another, most of you probably won't vote in the election being held in four weeks' time. 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Why take a chance on making a public gaffe or showing up poorly against a rival trailing in the polls?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda did seem uncomfortable, sometimes fumbling over his phrasing and running up repeatedly against the time limits in the forum, tightly moderated by \u003cspan class=\"st\">\u003ca href=\"http://sjsc.ca.lwvnet.org/Message.html\">Gloria Chun Hoo\u003c/a>, president of the local LWV. But if audience members were unaware, walking in, of Honda’s 14-year tenure as a progressive liberal in Congress, they would have known a lot about Honda walking out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had results,” he said, “and the results I’ve brought to this valley, was for everybody and not for a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocating for the “voiceless” was a theme Honda hit on throughout the evening. He has championed human rights and civil rights during his time in Washington, and he’s also been known as a reliable ally of the valley’s technology interests. But now that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17th District\u003c/a> has been redrawn to hug Silicon Valley more tightly, simply being pro-tech may not be enough for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a series of easy re-elections since first winning the seat in 2000, Honda finds himself facing a tech-tastic challenger bankrolled by Silicon Valley titans, including Eric Schmidt of Google, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, to the tune of $3.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ro Khanna introduced himself thus: “My background as an economics teacher at Stanford, as someone who has written a book on manufacturing, as someone who’s worked at the Commerce Department on economic issues, makes me uniquely suited to address the challenges.” Later on, he noted he has developed a “detailed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/jobsplan\">seven-point plan\u003c/a> on how to create jobs” in the 17th District and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda countered that he brought the region $900 million to fund building a BART extension to San Jose. “That is what people want,” Honda said. “They want results, and that’s what I’ve done. It’s not theory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest surprise of the forum was Republican \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelvanlandingham\">Joel Vanlandingham\u003c/a>, a tech industry recruiter who has largely flown under the radar in this primary campaign. He’s urging supporters to donate to charity, rather than financially support his effort, and he slammed Honda and Khanna for raising millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want your money,” Vanlandingham told the audience. “I want you to sit down and evaluate your candidates and see who is going to represent you the best. Who can you put your faith in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 44 percent to 19 percent in the 17th District, and all three men hewed to the left on a wide range of issues. They all oppose fracking and offshore oil drilling. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/24/121931/Gov-Jerry-Brown-pardons-Christmas-Eve/rs7953_185719392-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121939\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-121939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7953_185719392-scr-640x422.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's one of the most familiar sayings in the world of politics: the only poll that matters is the official one taken on Election Day. But polls do offer a snapshot in time of a campaign ... which is why a brand new glimpse into the 2014 race for governor is so interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here it is: \u003ca href=\"http://www.neelkashkari.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Neel Kashkari\u003c/a>, the preferred pick of many in California's Republican establishment, looks to have less support from voters \u003cem>in his own party\u003c/em> than Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, you read that right — less than six weeks from the June 3 election, a new statewide poll shows the veteran Democratic governor with more Republican support than one of the most talked about Republican challengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1097\" target=\"_blank\">poll from the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> finds Brown with 46 percent support among likely voters overall, a five-fold lead over any of his potential challengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Republicans, he's the choice of 7 percent of those surveyed, while Kashkari only musters 5 percent GOP voter support.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 31 percent of GOP voters think he's doing a good job as governor.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A small plurality of Republican voters — 20 percent — favor \u003ca href=\"http://www.electtimdonnelly.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Donnelly\u003c/a>, the Tea Party-aligned assemblyman from San Bernardino County. \u003ca href=\"http://www.andrewblount.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Blount\u003c/a>, the mayor of Laguna Beach, barely edges the governor among Republicans with 8 percent support. The vast majority of GOP voters — 58 percent — are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey is just the latest statewide to show Donnelly, a staunch conservative who gets a warm reception from die-hard GOP audiences, as the de facto frontrunner. And yet his support remains relatively small, with some political observers arguing that Donnelly has limited appeal beyond core Republican voters. Some have started publicly saying they fear a Brown vs. Donnelly fall matchup \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/09/local/la-me-republicans-california-20140410\" target=\"_blank\">could hurt the GOP's chances in other races\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet Kashkari, \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/03/13/neel-kashkari-looks-for-momentum-to-become-governor/6391829/\" target=\"_blank\">a former federal official who crafted the TARP effort of 2008 and a first-time candidate for office\u003c/a>, clearly has failed so far to make any noticeable inroads among likely voters. And it's not as though he's not trying: the 40-year-old Newport Beach resident has been traveling the state for more than a year, he's released relatively substantive position papers on jobs and education (the latter coming just Tuesday), and it's hard to browse a California news or political website without seeing a \"Kashkari for Governor\" ad pop up on the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Brown seems to be unaffected by the increasing number of attacks being launched by either Kashkari or Donnelly; the PPIC poll finds 56 percent of likely voters think he's doing a good job as governor. That number is higher than his base support in PPIC's question about the actual primary election, but that may be because some voters don't feel the need to vote for Brown in June ... given he's assured a spot on the November ballot, and this is the first statewide June election in which all voters can vote for all candidates (\u003ca href=\"http://www.kcet.org/news/ballotbrief/election-law/californias-new-top-two-open-primaries-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\">with only the top two advancing to the fall ballot\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Kashkari can gain any traction with voters, education issues could be part of his arsenal. The PPIC poll, which is largely about how Californians view K-12 and higher education, shows Brown is on thinner ice with the electorate when it comes to schools. Just 33 percent of likely voters approve of his work on public schools. And on Tuesday, Kashkari released his thoughts on schools -- which, in a nutshell, are to send tax dollars to individual schools and let them pretty much do whatever they want with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty percent of adults polled by PPIC say the quality of education in California schools is a big problem, and 55 percent say have the same high level of worry about the state budget's treatment of schools. The governor's signature education reform -- last year's shift of more unrestricted dollars to English learners and students from low-income families -- draws support in this poll, but just 27 percent of those surveyed actually knew of the program by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's support among Republicans, who may see him as the most moderate of the Democratic voices in Sacramento, is even higher when it comes to his approval numbers. 31 percent of GOP voters think he's doing a good job as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measuring Brown's appeal among Republicans depends, of course, on whether any given poll has a reasonably sized sample of GOP voters. Only 28 percent of California voters polled by PPIC identified themselves as Republican, with 44 percent as Democrats and 22 percent as independents. That's pretty much in line with official voter registration stats, but it might be an undersampling for the June election, where historically GOP turnout has been strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no one knows that a larger Republican sampling would have meant anything different ... and so, for now, these numbers raise some interesting questions. Can Kashkari, who has only about a third of the support of Donnelly, keep bashing Jerry Brown and hope to make it to the November ballot? Or does he have to start attacking the GOP frontrunner?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can Donnelly win enough of the huge 58 percent of undecided GOP primary voters in the PPIC poll to emerge victorious?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, perhaps most fascinating ... will even more Republicans decide that, absent a better choice, they'll cast a vote on June 3 for one of the most iconic Democrats in California history? This poll suggests that's not the craziest idea out there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey is just the latest statewide to show Donnelly, a staunch conservative who gets a warm reception from die-hard GOP audiences, as the de facto frontrunner. And yet his support remains relatively small, with some political observers arguing that Donnelly has limited appeal beyond core Republican voters. Some have started publicly saying they fear a Brown vs. Donnelly fall matchup \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/09/local/la-me-republicans-california-20140410\" target=\"_blank\">could hurt the GOP's chances in other races\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet Kashkari, \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/03/13/neel-kashkari-looks-for-momentum-to-become-governor/6391829/\" target=\"_blank\">a former federal official who crafted the TARP effort of 2008 and a first-time candidate for office\u003c/a>, clearly has failed so far to make any noticeable inroads among likely voters. And it's not as though he's not trying: the 40-year-old Newport Beach resident has been traveling the state for more than a year, he's released relatively substantive position papers on jobs and education (the latter coming just Tuesday), and it's hard to browse a California news or political website without seeing a \"Kashkari for Governor\" ad pop up on the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Brown seems to be unaffected by the increasing number of attacks being launched by either Kashkari or Donnelly; the PPIC poll finds 56 percent of likely voters think he's doing a good job as governor. That number is higher than his base support in PPIC's question about the actual primary election, but that may be because some voters don't feel the need to vote for Brown in June ... given he's assured a spot on the November ballot, and this is the first statewide June election in which all voters can vote for all candidates (\u003ca href=\"http://www.kcet.org/news/ballotbrief/election-law/californias-new-top-two-open-primaries-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\">with only the top two advancing to the fall ballot\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Kashkari can gain any traction with voters, education issues could be part of his arsenal. The PPIC poll, which is largely about how Californians view K-12 and higher education, shows Brown is on thinner ice with the electorate when it comes to schools. Just 33 percent of likely voters approve of his work on public schools. And on Tuesday, Kashkari released his thoughts on schools -- which, in a nutshell, are to send tax dollars to individual schools and let them pretty much do whatever they want with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty percent of adults polled by PPIC say the quality of education in California schools is a big problem, and 55 percent say have the same high level of worry about the state budget's treatment of schools. The governor's signature education reform -- last year's shift of more unrestricted dollars to English learners and students from low-income families -- draws support in this poll, but just 27 percent of those surveyed actually knew of the program by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's support among Republicans, who may see him as the most moderate of the Democratic voices in Sacramento, is even higher when it comes to his approval numbers. 31 percent of GOP voters think he's doing a good job as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measuring Brown's appeal among Republicans depends, of course, on whether any given poll has a reasonably sized sample of GOP voters. Only 28 percent of California voters polled by PPIC identified themselves as Republican, with 44 percent as Democrats and 22 percent as independents. That's pretty much in line with official voter registration stats, but it might be an undersampling for the June election, where historically GOP turnout has been strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no one knows that a larger Republican sampling would have meant anything different ... and so, for now, these numbers raise some interesting questions. Can Kashkari, who has only about a third of the support of Donnelly, keep bashing Jerry Brown and hope to make it to the November ballot? Or does he have to start attacking the GOP frontrunner?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can Donnelly win enough of the huge 58 percent of undecided GOP primary voters in the PPIC poll to emerge victorious?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, perhaps most fascinating ... will even more Republicans decide that, absent a better choice, they'll cast a vote on June 3 for one of the most iconic Democrats in California history? This poll suggests that's not the craziest idea out there.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Wall Street doesn't like me because they know I will make them accountable,'' Donnelly said in a statement emailed by his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of Donnelly donors gave the symbolic recurring amount of $17.76, promoted as an option on Donnelly's website as a contribution to become a member of \"the Patriot Club.\" The amount is a reference to 1776, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly's expenditures so far this year include $22,000 for campaign videos and hundreds more to fly a videographer to shoot them, as well as $11,500, at a rate of $5,000 a month, to his former campaign manager, Jennifer Kerns. She quit earlier this month in a disagreement over campaign strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reports also show more than $9,200 spent on private flights between California cities on two days in February. A spokeswoman for the campaign, Katherine Parkinson, said a pilot normally donates the use of his plane and fuel but he was unavailable after the campaign had already booked some events, including one featuring actress Maria Conchita Alonso, who appeared in a video with Donnelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> A number of Donnelly donors gave the symbolic recurring amount of $17.76, promoted as an option on Donnelly's website as a contribution to become a member of 'the Patriot Club.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Donors were solicited to underwrite the costs, she said. The report also lists a gift worth $5,000 for a flight on another day in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Donnelly, Kashkari also has spent heavily since announcing his bid on Jan. 21, reporting expenditures of $527,000, including more than $230,000 for campaign consultants and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who is notoriously stingy, has paid $30,000 to his campaign consulting firm, SCN Strategies, and reported expenditures of $156,000, including $60,000 spent on his behalf for fundraisers and polling. He also paid $25,000 to political adviser Ned Ruthrauff, who also serves as a director in the office of the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political spokesman for Brown, Dan Newman, said Ruthrauff \"splits his time'' between the two jobs. 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Although I have met with, and will continue to meet with, individuals and organizations that have concerns regarding SCA 5, these Commission hearings will be yet another opportunity for people to have their voices heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Hernandez \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/14/129500/hernandez-hopes-to-bring-affirmative-action-back-to-california-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on \"KQED Newsroom\" on Frida\u003c/a>y -- see video above -- to promote the measure and described it \"as about diversity but more important about equal opportunity for every student here in the state of California.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 209, which passed in 1996 with 54.5 percent of the vote, declares: \"The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the affirmative action ban say it has made it more difficult for underrepresented minorities — especially African-American students — trying to gain admission to the state's public colleges. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.collegecampaign.org/files/5613/8619/1254/State_of_Higher_Education_Black.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study last year\u003c/a> said the percentage of black applicants admitted to the University of California systemwide had fallen from 75 percent to 58 percent since Prop. 209 became law. The Campaign for College Opportunity Study said that African-American admission rates fell from 51.1 percent percent to 15.4 percent at UC Berkeley and from 57.5 percent to 13.5 percent at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Hernandez's SCA5 would have repealed Prop. 209's ban on racial and other admissions preferences in higher education, and the measure received little attention until the state Senate approved it by a vote of 27-9 in late January. Among those voting for SCA5 were Sens. Leland Yee of San Francisco and Southern California Sens. Ted Lieu and Carol Liu. They are all Chinese Americans, and all say they have heard from thousands of people concerned about SCA 5. A Yee aide acknowledged Monday that some supporters had threatened to withhold campaign contributions as the senator runs for California Secretary of State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate vote triggered a backlash from parts of the state's Asian-American community. Both \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0307-ramakrishnan-prop209-affirmative-action-20140307,0,6278135.story#ixzz2vHjmoCou\" target=\"_blank\">parents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25356235/chinese-americans-wooed-by-gop-over-anti-affirmative\" target=\"_blank\">political activists\u003c/a> have expressed concern that the high degree of success Asian-American students have enjoyed in the state's public colleges could be reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140110352&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/03/john-a-perez-halts-effort-to-overturn-californias-prop-209.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee's Capital Notes blog summarizes\u003c/a> the announcement from Peréz and what led to it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... 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As it's currently written it requires a two-thirds vote of both houses, and those votes don't exist in both houses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez said he and Senate leader Darrell Steinberg will form a task force to discuss whether California should change the way it admits students to public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group will include representatives from the University of California, California State University and the community colleges, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move came a week after three Asian-American state senators -- who had previously voted for SCA5 -- asked Pérez to put a stop the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prior to the vote on SCA5 in the Senate, we heard no opposition to the bill. However, in the past few weeks, we have heard from thousands of people throughout California voicing their concerns about the potential impacts,\" Sens. 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