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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:55 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Governor Jerry Brown is the first – and will likely be the only – man to win four terms as California’s chief executive. But the Democrat celebrated that historic achievement Tuesday night with a low-key private dinner at the governor’s mansion in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No party. No cheering crowd. No balloons. Just Brown, accompanied by his wife Anne, addressing about a dozen reporters in front of the historic building’s front steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next four years, to the extent that I have the ability, the physical and the intellectual stamina and capacity, I’m going to do my upmost to live up to the promise of California,” Brown said in during his brief press conference.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“I don’t have any illusions about how easy it will be. It’s going to be quite challenging. …There’s lots of differences in points of view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was easy: Brown’s reelection. He spent just a fraction of his $20 million campaign war chest, and didn’t run a single television or radio ad for his own campaign. Still, the Associated Press and other news outlets declared Brown the winner over Republican Neel Kashkari just moments after the polls closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before 10 p.m., Brown was leading Kashkari by 13 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who’s already the longest-serving governor in state history, shrugged off most questions about the historic nature of his win. When reporters pressed him to reflect on his unique position as California’s only four-term chief executive - term limits now bar governors to two terms - Brown did concede, “This fourth term -- no one’s ever had it, no one’s every going to ever have it again. And I take the responsibility and the opportunity very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:05 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The polls closed at 8 p.m. Then news organizations raced to call the governor's race. The winner: Jerry Brown. Cheers went up from the governor's mansion, Brown's non-residence where he's following the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Kashkari camp? The tweet below, from San Francisco Chronicle political reporter Carla Marinucci, is worth more than the proverbial thousand words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/529846363098345472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The contest at the top of Californians’ ballots has been defined this year by what it is not: a competitive campaign. Gov. Jerry Brown spent 2014 essentially ignoring the fact he was asking voters to grant him an unprecedented fourth term in office. The Democrat didn’t run a single campaign ad focused on his re-election campaign, and only spent a small fraction of his $20 million campaign war chest. The handful of political rallies Brown did hold in the final week before Election Day were focused on Propositions 1 and 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the polls have consistently shown Brown with a commanding lead over his Republican opponent, Neel Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like the Field Poll is validating my campaign strategy,” Brown told reporters last week after the latest survey showed him with a 21-point edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, a first-time candidate, attempted to run an outside-the-box campaign. The former U.S. Treasury official argued that Brown has ignored California’s lingering poverty problems. In the race’s final weeks, Kashkari focused on Brown’s decision to appeal a Los Angeles judge’s decision that California’s teacher tenure laws violate the state constitution. But Kashkari struggled to raise funds, and many of his more high-profile efforts -- such as a TV ad on the teacher tenure issue featuring a drowning child, and the week he spent posing as a homeless man in Fresno -- were labeled stunts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As low profile as this year’s gubernatorial campaign has been, tonight’s results will still make history. If Brown wins, he’ll become the first California governor elected to a fourth term. And if Kashkari prevails, the Republican will have pulled off one of the most stunning, unexpected political upsets of all time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The contest at the top of Californians’ ballots has been defined this year by what it is not: a competitive campaign. Gov. Jerry Brown spent 2014 essentially ignoring the fact he was asking voters to grant him an unprecedented fourth term in office. The Democrat didn’t run a single campaign ad focused on his re-election campaign, and only spent a small fraction of his $20 million campaign war chest. The handful of political rallies Brown did hold in the final week before Election Day were focused on Propositions 1 and 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the polls have consistently shown Brown with a commanding lead over his Republican opponent, Neel Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like the Field Poll is validating my campaign strategy,” Brown told reporters last week after the latest survey showed him with a 21-point edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, a first-time candidate, attempted to run an outside-the-box campaign. The former U.S. Treasury official argued that Brown has ignored California’s lingering poverty problems. In the race’s final weeks, Kashkari focused on Brown’s decision to appeal a Los Angeles judge’s decision that California’s teacher tenure laws violate the state constitution. But Kashkari struggled to raise funds, and many of his more high-profile efforts -- such as a TV ad on the teacher tenure issue featuring a drowning child, and the week he spent posing as a homeless man in Fresno -- were labeled stunts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As low profile as this year’s gubernatorial campaign has been, tonight’s results will still make history. If Brown wins, he’ll become the first California governor elected to a fourth term. And if Kashkari prevails, the Republican will have pulled off one of the most stunning, unexpected political upsets of all time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Expectations of low voter turnout got us thinking: What gets people to the polls? And what keeps them away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"KQED's Nina Thorsen proudly displays her "I Voted" sticker beneath her car radio, dutifully tuned to 88.5 FM. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen-800x473.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen-400x236.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Nina Thorsen proudly displays her \"I Voted\" sticker beneath her car radio, dutifully tuned to 88.5 FM. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked why she voted, KQED Producer Nina Thorsen launches into an epic origin story. \"When my mother realized she was pregnant with me, she was standing in line to vote for Adlai Stevenson\" for president in 1956.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a long line and strong civic pride, Thorsen's mother \"needed to stay in line to vote for Adlai.\" She did, and the lesson was passed down to her yet-unborn daughter. \"I was born to vote in every election,\" Thorsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346964\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Poll worker Brie Felder, 45, hands voter Belinda Ricklefs, 78, her ballot at the Rotary Nature Center polling place in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poll worker Brie Felder, 45, hands voter Belinda Ricklefs, 78, her ballot at the Rotary Nature Center polling place in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poll worker Brie Felder views volunteering and voting as her duty. \"My ancestors lost their lives trying to get the right to vote. It's my patriotic duty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belinda Ricklefs enjoys voting in person. \"I like coming to the polls and talking to the poll workers. It feels much more democratic to me\" than voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346915\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsamchoe Shrestha, 50, of El Cerrito, plans to vote later in the day. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tsamchoe Shrestha, of El Cerrito, looks after toddlers Isabel and Clara as they play in Dolores Park. She is babysitting them for the day, and says she doesn't know if she'll be able to get to the polls in time to vote -- but she plans to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes their parents come early, sometimes they come late, so it depends on their schedule,\" Shrestha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346914\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha Padilla, 17, of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School and Jerry Gong, 17, of Galileo High School volunteer as poll workers at the Dolores Park Church polling place. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samantha Padilla, 17, of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, and Jerry Gong, 17, of Galileo High School volunteer as poll workers at the Dolores Park Church polling place. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School student Samantha Padilla, 17, volunteered as a poll worker at the Dolores Park Church polling place on Election Day because her teacher inspired her to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My civics teacher told us, 'As young teens, you should be more involved.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10346840 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-1440x959.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Taylor, 28, votes at her polling place on 36 Hoff St. in San Francisco's Mission District. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Taylor, 28, votes at her polling place in San Francisco's Mission District. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reflecting a growing trend in this year's election, Lauren Taylor planned on voting-by-mail in this year's election. But she recently moved, so she didn't receive her mail-in ballot, necessitating a trip to the polls\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346916\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki Peterson, 57, has been making baked goods on election day at the Dolores Park Church polling place on and off for the past 10 years. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Peterson, 57, has been making baked goods on Election Day at the Dolores Park Church polling place on and off for the past 10 years. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vicki Peterson and a group of churchgoers at the Dolores Park Church make cookies and other baked good for voters, and have been doing so for the past 10 years. The increase in mail-in voting hasn't slowed the demand for treats, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people come and say, 'I voted by mail, but I still want some cookies!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman, Shelley Degerness, is volunteering as a baker at the Dolores Park Church polling place for the first time this year. As a Canadian citizen, she can't vote. But Degerness and her husband \"posted about the election on Facebook and told all our friends to vote!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346912\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Christopherson (Right), 33, and Robert Morris (Left), 41, play with their dogs Oliver and Ocho at Dolores Park. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Christopherson (right), 33, and Robert Morris, 41, play with their dogs, Oliver and Ocho, at Dolores Park. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Morris turned in his vote-by-mail ballot this morning. But Grant Christopherson hasn't done all his research yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, I'm sitting down tonight,\" he said, planning to drop off his ballot before the polls close at 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland-800x464.jpg\" alt=\"CJ Dunbar (right), 24, and Caroline Hawkinson, 24, relax by Lake Merritt. Neither voted on election day. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland-800x464.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland-400x232.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Dunbar (right), 24, and a friend relax by Lake Merritt. Neither voted on Election Day. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJ Dunbar thought she was registered to vote locally, but found out today she wasn't. \"I'm definitely going to register for the next election, though. I've just moved so many times that it's hard to keep track of where I'm registered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"A sign signals voters to a polling place at 660 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign signals voters to a polling place at 660 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Pollack, 40, counts votes at the Dolores Park Church polling place. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Pollack, 40, a volunteer for the David Campos campaign, counts votes at the Dolores Park Church polling place. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Expectations of low voter turnout got us thinking: What gets people to the polls? And what keeps them away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"KQED's Nina Thorsen proudly displays her "I Voted" sticker beneath her car radio, dutifully tuned to 88.5 FM. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen-800x473.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen-400x236.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/thorsen.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Nina Thorsen proudly displays her \"I Voted\" sticker beneath her car radio, dutifully tuned to 88.5 FM. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked why she voted, KQED Producer Nina Thorsen launches into an epic origin story. \"When my mother realized she was pregnant with me, she was standing in line to vote for Adlai Stevenson\" for president in 1956.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a long line and strong civic pride, Thorsen's mother \"needed to stay in line to vote for Adlai.\" She did, and the lesson was passed down to her yet-unborn daughter. \"I was born to vote in every election,\" Thorsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346964\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Poll worker Brie Felder, 45, hands voter Belinda Ricklefs, 78, her ballot at the Rotary Nature Center polling place in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/nature-center.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poll worker Brie Felder, 45, hands voter Belinda Ricklefs, 78, her ballot at the Rotary Nature Center polling place in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poll worker Brie Felder views volunteering and voting as her duty. \"My ancestors lost their lives trying to get the right to vote. It's my patriotic duty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belinda Ricklefs enjoys voting in person. \"I like coming to the polls and talking to the poll workers. It feels much more democratic to me\" than voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346915\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Tsamchoe-Shrestha_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsamchoe Shrestha, 50, of El Cerrito, plans to vote later in the day. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tsamchoe Shrestha, of El Cerrito, looks after toddlers Isabel and Clara as they play in Dolores Park. She is babysitting them for the day, and says she doesn't know if she'll be able to get to the polls in time to vote -- but she plans to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes their parents come early, sometimes they come late, so it depends on their schedule,\" Shrestha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346914\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha Padilla, 17, of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School and Jerry Gong, 17, of Galileo High School volunteer as poll workers at the Dolores Park Church polling place. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Poll-workers-Samantha-Padilla-and-Jerry-Gong_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samantha Padilla, 17, of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, and Jerry Gong, 17, of Galileo High School volunteer as poll workers at the Dolores Park Church polling place. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School student Samantha Padilla, 17, volunteered as a poll worker at the Dolores Park Church polling place on Election Day because her teacher inspired her to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My civics teacher told us, 'As young teens, you should be more involved.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10346840 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-1440x959.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Taylor, 28, votes at her polling place on 36 Hoff St. in San Francisco's Mission District. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Lauren-Taylor-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Taylor, 28, votes at her polling place in San Francisco's Mission District. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reflecting a growing trend in this year's election, Lauren Taylor planned on voting-by-mail in this year's election. But she recently moved, so she didn't receive her mail-in ballot, necessitating a trip to the polls\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346916\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki Peterson, 57, has been making baked goods on election day at the Dolores Park Church polling place on and off for the past 10 years. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Vicki-Peterson-1web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Peterson, 57, has been making baked goods on Election Day at the Dolores Park Church polling place on and off for the past 10 years. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vicki Peterson and a group of churchgoers at the Dolores Park Church make cookies and other baked good for voters, and have been doing so for the past 10 years. The increase in mail-in voting hasn't slowed the demand for treats, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people come and say, 'I voted by mail, but I still want some cookies!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman, Shelley Degerness, is volunteering as a baker at the Dolores Park Church polling place for the first time this year. As a Canadian citizen, she can't vote. But Degerness and her husband \"posted about the election on Facebook and told all our friends to vote!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346912\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Christopherson (Right), 33, and Robert Morris (Left), 41, play with their dogs Oliver and Ocho at Dolores Park. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Grant-Christopherson-and-Robert-Morris_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Christopherson (right), 33, and Robert Morris, 41, play with their dogs, Oliver and Ocho, at Dolores Park. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Morris turned in his vote-by-mail ballot this morning. But Grant Christopherson hasn't done all his research yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, I'm sitting down tonight,\" he said, planning to drop off his ballot before the polls close at 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland-800x464.jpg\" alt=\"CJ Dunbar (right), 24, and Caroline Hawkinson, 24, relax by Lake Merritt. Neither voted on election day. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland-800x464.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland-400x232.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fairyland.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Dunbar (right), 24, and a friend relax by Lake Merritt. Neither voted on Election Day. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJ Dunbar thought she was registered to vote locally, but found out today she wasn't. \"I'm definitely going to register for the next election, though. I've just moved so many times that it's hard to keep track of where I'm registered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"A sign signals voters to a polling place at 660 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/polling-place-crooked.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign signals voters to a polling place at 660 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10346913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Jeremy-Pollock-1_web-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Pollack, 40, counts votes at the Dolores Park Church polling place. 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"content": "\u003cp>As I was looking down the ballot the other day, one thing jumped out at me : The relatively high number of first-time candidates for statewide offices in this year's relatively sleepy election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the eight statewide offices from governor on down, \u003cem>five\u003c/em> are being sought by rookie politicians who survived the top-two primary in June. All but one are Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.neelkashkari.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Neel Kashkari \u003c/a>(Governor)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ronnehring.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Nehring \u003c/a>(Lt. 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In fact, the last three Republican nominees for governor started out at the top:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businessman Bill Simon narrowly lost to Gray Davis in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold Schwarzenegger's first run for office was the 2003 recall election -- he was then nominated by the GOP in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg Whitman finished first in the 2010 GOP primary, earning the right to face Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there have been first-time candidates on the Democratic side as well, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Connell\">Kathleen Connell\u003c/a>, who ran and won the state controller's job in 1994, and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Westly\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Westly\u003c/a>, who narrowly snagged the controller's race in 2002, edging out state Sen. Tom McClintock by 0.2% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at no time in the past 20 years have there been as many first-time candidates left standing in a November gubernatorial election as there are this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover Institution politics research fellow \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/profiles/bill-whalen\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Whalen \u003c/a>says there are several reasons so many novice Republicans run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just don't have enough credible people to run for statewide office,\" says Whalen. \"And they won't be able to solve that problem for a while. They're focused now on electing people to the state Assembly and Senate who might be able to wage a credible statewide campaign down the road.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whalen, who's worked for several Republican governors in the past, notes that when Pete Wilson ran for governor in 1990, he'd held public office for 24 years (state Assembly, San Diego mayor, U.S. Senate). Likewise George Deukmejian before him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 1994 and the disastrous Proposition 187 began eating away at Republicans' strength in California, the party had a deep bench filled with credible state legislators who could make a serious statewide run. Today, even a powerful Republican like Bakersfield Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin McCarthy \u003c/a>is not about to leave Congress for a statewide run in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Republicans' share of the electorate is 28 percent and shrinking,\" says Whalen. In other words, the math simply doesn't favor candidates with an \"R\" next to their name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whalen notes a different phenomenon is happening on the Democrats' side. Two Democrats are squaring off in the state schools superintendent race. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/11/RS11267_177844339-e1415059485967.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22337\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/11/RS11267_177844339-640x495.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 2:30am 11/5/2014\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Berkeley have passed the nation's first soda tax with a resounding 75 percent of the vote. More than 30 cities and states across the country have attempted such a tax, but have failed, at least in part because of big spending by the soda industry to defeat these measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But across the bay in San Francisco, a similar proposal failed to get the two-thirds supermajority it needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley's Measure D needed only a simple majority to pass. It will levy a penny-per-ounce tax on \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/29/heres-what-would-be-taxed-or-not-in-sf-berkeley-soda-tax-measures/#more-22233\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/29/heres-what-would-be-taxed-or-not-in-sf-berkeley-soda-tax-measures/#more-22233\" target=\"_blank\">most sugar-sweetened beverages\u003c/a> and is estimated to raise more than a million dollars per year. Proceeds will go to the general fund; Measure D calls for the creation of a health panel to advise Berkeley's City Council on appropriate health programs to receive funding.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign co-chair Josh Daniels called Berkeley's win a tipping point. \"I think you will now see many, many other cities and communities around the country looking at this as a genuine public policy to address the diabetes and obesity crisis that we face,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the San Francisco proposition did not pass, supporters there declared a victory of their own: more than half the voters approved the tax despite millions spent by the American Beverage Association to defeat it. \"So the fact that we were able to overcome $10 million dollars,\" said Proposition E co-author Supervisor Scott Wiener, \"and it looks like a majority of San Franciscans -- despite that $10 million -- will vote 'yes,' is pretty extraordinary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Salazar, a spokesman for both opposition campaigns, funded primarily by the beverage association, called Berkeley \"an anomaly\" and said that to expect to pass such a tax elsewhere in California was \"foolhardy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are convinced he's wrong. Harold Goldstein is executive director with the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, and called the measure's passage \"remarkable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we learned here in Berkeley,\" he said, \"is that when voters learn the truth about sugary beverages, when they learn that they are one of the central causes of the growing diabetes epidemic, they want to tax it, they want to regulate these products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, sugar-sweetened beverages are the primary source of added sugar in the American diet, and that added sugar is linked to increasing rates of diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has a history of being first to a new cause that's later embraced more broadly, said Lori Dorfman, executive director for the Berkeley Media Studies Group. She noted that Berkeley was the first city to pass a clean indoor air ordinance. \"In the mid-70's, Berkeley made the first 'curb cut,' and now people in wheelchairs all over the country are not trapped in their homes any more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico enacted a soda tax earlier this year on January 1, and by summer, consumption had dropped 10 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Brownell, dean of Duke University's school of public policy \u003ca title=\"http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/press/ruddnews/OpEdNYTimesTaxes1994.pdf\" href=\"http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/press/ruddnews/OpEdNYTimesTaxes1994.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">first proposed a soda tax\u003c/a> in the early 1990's. He called the votes in both Berkeley and San Francisco \"historic\" and, like other advocates, predicted other cities will soon follow suit, despite what soda companies might say publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My guess is that inside their boardrooms, they know very well these taxes are the beginning of the future,\" he said. \"This is a wave starting to crest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownell said that half the costs of diabetes and obesity are born by taxpayers, through the government health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid. Those public costs \"justify the government getting involved, just like tobacco taxes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:25am 11/5\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 80 percent of precincts reported, Berkeley's Measure D has 75 percent \"yes\" to 25 percent \"no\" votes. It needs a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 100 percent of precincts are now reporting. Proposition E needed a two-thirds supermajority to pass. It received 54.5 percent \"yes\" to 45.5 percent \"no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have tried, but none has yet succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Would 'send shudders through the soft drink industry.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, voters in San Francisco or Berkeley will decide whether to impose a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, the so-called soda tax. Similar attempts have failed more than two dozen times nationwide, including in the California cities of Richmond and El Monte in 2012 and in Telluride, Colorado, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugar-sweetened beverages account for \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/r2p_sweetend_beverages.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/r2p_sweetend_beverages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one-third of the added sugar \u003c/a>in the average American's diet, and advocates say that increasing consumption of sugar is driving up rates of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other health ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents insist that the tax would disproportionately hurt people who are low income and that taxing people for what they choose to eat or drink is just bad policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the opponents are spending big to drive those messages home. The \"no\" campaigns in both cities are funded largely by the American Beverage Association, which has spent more than a whopping $11 million to defeat the two measures -- $9 million in San Francisco and more than $2 million in Berkeley. Proponents have spent a mere fraction of those amounts. The biggest donor by far to either campaign is former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who gave more than $600,000 and \u003ca title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC4KXjgQII\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC4KXjgQII\" target=\"_blank\">funded a TV ad \u003c/a>that aired during the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KVgksnAHQh4qGNYQaT88s4v51T0kBbxe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Proposition E would levy a 2-cents-an-ounce tax, raising the price of a can of soda by 24 cents and a 12-pack almost $3. The revenue, estimated at $35 million to $54 million, is earmarked to be spent specifically on nutrition and physical activity programs. Because the tax is earmarked, it requires a two-thirds majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That two-thirds majority is \"a very high hurdle,\" says Michael Jacobsen, executive director of the Washington, DC-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, but \"if San Francisco gets even 50 percent of the vote, that would be quite remarkable, and I think would send shudders through the soft drink industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Berkeley's tax is 1-cent-an-ounce. The measure would raise more than $1 million, but the funds would go into the city's general fund -- which means it needs only a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Salazar, spokesman for both anti-tax campaigns,\u003ca title=\"http://mashable.com/2014/11/03/bay-area-soda-tax/\" href=\"http://mashable.com/2014/11/03/bay-area-soda-tax/\" target=\"_blank\"> admits the race is tight\u003c/a>, but insists that Berkeley is no bellwether for the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobsen disagrees. While Berkeley is a very progressive community, if the tax passes, \"it's a population accepting and taxing itself,\" he said. \"I think that will be an encouragement to other progressive cities and states. You can imagine Vermont, Madison, maybe Boston, thinking 'well, if they can do it in Berkeley, maybe we can do it here.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico enacted a similar tax on January 1, and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages dropped 10 percent by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Harold Goldstein is executive director with the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, and called the measure's passage \"remarkable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we learned here in Berkeley,\" he said, \"is that when voters learn the truth about sugary beverages, when they learn that they are one of the central causes of the growing diabetes epidemic, they want to tax it, they want to regulate these products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, sugar-sweetened beverages are the primary source of added sugar in the American diet, and that added sugar is linked to increasing rates of diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has a history of being first to a new cause that's later embraced more broadly, said Lori Dorfman, executive director for the Berkeley Media Studies Group. She noted that Berkeley was the first city to pass a clean indoor air ordinance. \"In the mid-70's, Berkeley made the first 'curb cut,' and now people in wheelchairs all over the country are not trapped in their homes any more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico enacted a soda tax earlier this year on January 1, and by summer, consumption had dropped 10 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Brownell, dean of Duke University's school of public policy \u003ca title=\"http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/press/ruddnews/OpEdNYTimesTaxes1994.pdf\" href=\"http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/press/ruddnews/OpEdNYTimesTaxes1994.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">first proposed a soda tax\u003c/a> in the early 1990's. He called the votes in both Berkeley and San Francisco \"historic\" and, like other advocates, predicted other cities will soon follow suit, despite what soda companies might say publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My guess is that inside their boardrooms, they know very well these taxes are the beginning of the future,\" he said. \"This is a wave starting to crest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownell said that half the costs of diabetes and obesity are born by taxpayers, through the government health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid. Those public costs \"justify the government getting involved, just like tobacco taxes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:25am 11/5\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 80 percent of precincts reported, Berkeley's Measure D has 75 percent \"yes\" to 25 percent \"no\" votes. It needs a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 100 percent of precincts are now reporting. Proposition E needed a two-thirds supermajority to pass. It received 54.5 percent \"yes\" to 45.5 percent \"no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many have tried, but none has yet succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Would 'send shudders through the soft drink industry.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, voters in San Francisco or Berkeley will decide whether to impose a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, the so-called soda tax. Similar attempts have failed more than two dozen times nationwide, including in the California cities of Richmond and El Monte in 2012 and in Telluride, Colorado, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugar-sweetened beverages account for \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/r2p_sweetend_beverages.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/r2p_sweetend_beverages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one-third of the added sugar \u003c/a>in the average American's diet, and advocates say that increasing consumption of sugar is driving up rates of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other health ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents insist that the tax would disproportionately hurt people who are low income and that taxing people for what they choose to eat or drink is just bad policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the opponents are spending big to drive those messages home. The \"no\" campaigns in both cities are funded largely by the American Beverage Association, which has spent more than a whopping $11 million to defeat the two measures -- $9 million in San Francisco and more than $2 million in Berkeley. Proponents have spent a mere fraction of those amounts. The biggest donor by far to either campaign is former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who gave more than $600,000 and \u003ca title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC4KXjgQII\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC4KXjgQII\" target=\"_blank\">funded a TV ad \u003c/a>that aired during the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Proposition E would levy a 2-cents-an-ounce tax, raising the price of a can of soda by 24 cents and a 12-pack almost $3. The revenue, estimated at $35 million to $54 million, is earmarked to be spent specifically on nutrition and physical activity programs. 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"content": "\u003cp>A proposal to boost the state's cash reserves that seemed to struggle in early polls went on to a resounding victory on Tuesday -- an endorsement, of sorts, of Gov. Jerry Brown's call for fiscal restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 2, the constitutional amendment reworking the state's system of putting money away for lean years, was ahead with almost 70 percent of the vote -- the apparent largest margin of victory of any of the six statewide propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That outcome stood in stark contrast to its anemic poll numbers prior to Election Day, tepid support some observers attributed to Prop. 2's complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, sometimes referred to as a rainy day fund, did not have a major PR campaign behind it until just the past few weeks, when Gov. Jerry Brown hitched both Prop. 2 and a $7.5 water bond measure to his own effort to win re-election as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/22/prop-2-struggles-can-jerry-brown-help-it-win\" target=\"_blank\">A late October poll\u003c/a> by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute put support for the measure at just 49 percent, traditionally a dangerous place for a proposition so close to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 2 amends the state constitution to increase the amount of tax revenues automatically set aside each year by state lawmakers. That amount will increase in years in which the most volatile state tax revenues, those that come from the capital gains of the most wealthy, are at their peak. The measure limits the instances in which elected officials at the state Capitol can tap the reserve funds, and it earmarks a sizable portion of the money in the immediate future for repayment of debts the state incurred during the fiscal crises of the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was placed on the ballot by Brown and legislators as a substitution for a 2010 version of a reserve fund boost, and represents perhaps the most far-reaching effort by state lawmakers to smooth out the long-term impact of tax revenues that have fluctuated by billions of dollars in boom and bust economic times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Prop. 2 goes beyond the traditional budget reserve in both its provision for possible savings earmarked for public schools and a related 2014 law that would limit the size of some cash reserves held by local school districts. The latter law, quietly attached to Prop. 2 (but not part of the actual constitutional amendment), was criticized as a political giveaway to teachers unions that wanted the school districts in question to spend more money on salaries and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others pointed out, not quite as loudly, that Prop. 2 is a weaker option than a broad-based adjustment to the tax system in California -- an adjustment that could, for example, include sales taxes on more services while lowering some personal income taxes. But tax reform on that scale has been discussed several times in Sacramento over the past decade and has been politically impossible to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, urged by many to take on the issue should he be elected to another term as governor, has largely remained silent on the tax structure. Instead, he argued that Prop. 2 is a reasonable and prudent way to provide for backup cash during the state's most lean fiscal periods. And the ballot measure was one of a pair of propositions the governor used as a proxy re-election campaign in the final weeks of the election season.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:25 a.m.\u003c/strong> Wednesday: With all of Richmond's 53 precincts reporting, it appears that City Councilman Tom Butt has been elected mayor of Richmond. Butt, backed by the city's progressive faction, has 51.4 percent of the vote. Nat Bates, a longtime councilman backed by Chevron, has 35.4 percent of the vote. Butt can avoid a runoff by finishing with over 50 percent; final numbers won't be known until unprocessed mail ballots are processed -- probably sometime later this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the City Council race, a slate of progressive candidates appears to have swept the three available seats. Gayle McLaughlin, the city's termed-out mayor, finished with 16.9 percent, ahead of Jovanka Beckles (16.2) and Eduardo Martinez (14.6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> With about half of the city's 53 precincts reporting, progressive-backed City Councilman Tom Butt is widening his lead in the race for mayor. He now has 50.6 percent of the vote, a 14-point lead over Nat Bates, a longtime councilman heavily funded by Chevron. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Uche Uwahemu, has just over 12 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council race has changed dramatically as votes: Termed-out Mayor Gayle McLaughlin now holds the lead, with over 16 percent of the vote. Her fellow Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates, incumbent Jovanka Beckles and newcomer Eduardo Martinez are in second and third place. Chevron-backed Donna Powers has dropped to fifth place, putting her out of a seat if the results hold. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Incumbent Jim Rogers currently is in fourth place and out of a winning spot, with just under 14 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the race for a two-year term on the City Council, RPA-backed Jael Myrick, an incumbent, is holding a sizable lead against fellow Councilman Corky Booze, who was also backed by Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means there are currently no Chevron-backed candidates in position to win. There are still a lot of votes to be counted, but if the results hold this will be a big loss for the oil giant, which poured at least $3.1 million into this election in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:20 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first results for the Richmond City Council and mayoral races are trickling in, and so far the results are tight. With nearly 4,300 votes counted (mostly vote-by-mail), Councilman Tom Butt has a 300-vote lead over fellow Councilman Nat Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt's campaign manager, Alex Knox, said he's cautiously optimistic at this point, but he thinks it might be a close race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far it's really good. Our initial results are great, but nobody's taking that as any sort of serious indication yet,\" Knox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the results are very early --probably just 20 percent of the total expected-- this might not be good news for Chevron, which spent over $500,000 on billboards, mailers and television ads supporting Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council races, current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is holding second place spot for now. She's a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, and was the target of a large-scale negative campaign funded by Chevron. The two other RPA candidates --including incumbent Jovanka Beckles-- are behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron-backed council candidate Donna Powers is in third place. If those results hold, she would win a seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a mayoral race in Richmond this election season, and current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is termed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin, the first Green Party candidate elected mayor of a major city, is part of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, or RPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the group behind a lot of attention-getting stories out of Richmond recently, like the soda tax bill and the attempt to use eminent domain to buy up underwater mortgages. But no one from the RPA is running for mayor this time around. Instead, two long-time city councilmen are squaring off: Nat Bates and Tom Butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10346545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bates is 82 years old, and part of an established faction of pro-business, moderate politicians in the city. He served on the council in the '60s and '70s, and was re-elected in 1995. Bates is heavily supported by Chevron in this race, which has a large refinery in Richmond. The company would like to see someone more sympathetic at the head of the City Council, after McLaughlin took a decidedly adversarial stance against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt is 72, and he's been on the council since 1995. McLaughlin and the RPA are endorsing him in this race because he often votes with the progressives on the council, even if he's not officially part of the alliance. He has often worked on compromising with Chevron, most recently on the company's $1 billion refinery modernization project. In that case, he and two other council members helped secure a $90 million community benefits package from the company in exchange for the votes to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men have been on the City Council for a combined 54 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The candidates in some ways are more similar than not,\" said Robert C. Smith, a political science professor at San Francisco State. He’s been following Richmond politics for decades. \"So it’s not like to elect either one is going to bring about change, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh face in this race is Uche Uwahemu, a businessman and former social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve had their opportunity to lead,\" Uwahemu said, referring to Bates and Butt. \"You can’t keep recycling the same folks all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10346539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\" alt=\"Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. Courtesty Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014.\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. (Courtesy Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uwahemu has got a lot of ideas, from a technical high school that teaches computer skills to a technology incubator that would fund tech startups in Richmond. But when it comes to funding those ideas, he’s a bit fuzzy. He also wants to beef up Richmond's port, which he says is underutilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uwehamu has little campaign cash to spend, and really, little chance of winning this race. Bates, on the other hand, is getting a big chunk of funds from a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/10/3-million-in-chevrons-moving-forward-war-chest/\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 million super PAC created by Chevron to influence Richmond politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has poured a total of $3 million into super PACs. A lot of that money is going to negative campaigning against McLaughlin --who's running for council -- and the other RPA council candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if Bates and those forces win, it will be evidence the money made the difference,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates is running on a pro-business platform and promises to get Richmond out of its $7 million deficit, even if it means laying off city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t move a city and you can’t operate a city if you have that kind of tremendous deficit. It’s just like a household,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In years past Bates has attracted support from many of Richmond’s African-American voters, who make up 14 percent of the city's registered voters -- like Frances Adams, an elementary school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's always been there when we need things for the school, he's always been there to come and talk to the children at school, and I feel that he's served the city of Richmond very well,\" Adams said after a debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt has prioritized building and maintaining parks, preserving historical buildings and adding bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are all things that make Richmond attractive to businesses, attractive to residents and make Richmond thrive -- at least thrive better than they would without them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Butt's supporters, Jessie West, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The progressive government we’ve had these last years has done wonderful things for Richmond and we’re really on a roll,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that if Bates gets elected, the progressive agenda will fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has been attacking that agenda relentlessly with messages on billboards, the airwaves and mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation would like to see McLaughlin fail at her bid for City Council and for Bates to take over as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents have seen their city improve under McLaughlin, as the economy has picked up. Unemployment has dropped to 10 percent, though it's still higher than the rest of the Bay Area. And the crime rate has dropped. 2013 had the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_24856239/richmond-reports-lowest-homicide-total-33-years-credits\" target=\"_blank\">fewest homicides in over 30 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is really no hot-button issue this time around, like the soda tax that failed two years ago. Smith predicts turn out will be low. And that usually benefits the progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not clear where that vote comes from in terms of ethnically, class or whatever,\" Smith said about the RPA's constituency. \"But it is clear that on the basis of past elections that they have a pretty good grass-roots mobilization get-out-the-vote campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says that if you look at Richmond’s politics over time, the rise of McLaughlin and her Richmond Progressive Alliance has actually been surprising. He says the winner of this election will signify whether the city wants to continue this progressive agenda, or return to a more moderate, pro-business leadership.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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With nearly 4,300 votes counted (mostly vote-by-mail), Councilman Tom Butt has a 300-vote lead over fellow Councilman Nat Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt's campaign manager, Alex Knox, said he's cautiously optimistic at this point, but he thinks it might be a close race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far it's really good. Our initial results are great, but nobody's taking that as any sort of serious indication yet,\" Knox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the results are very early --probably just 20 percent of the total expected-- this might not be good news for Chevron, which spent over $500,000 on billboards, mailers and television ads supporting Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council races, current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is holding second place spot for now. She's a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, and was the target of a large-scale negative campaign funded by Chevron. 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Instead, two long-time city councilmen are squaring off: Nat Bates and Tom Butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10346545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bates is 82 years old, and part of an established faction of pro-business, moderate politicians in the city. He served on the council in the '60s and '70s, and was re-elected in 1995. Bates is heavily supported by Chevron in this race, which has a large refinery in Richmond. The company would like to see someone more sympathetic at the head of the City Council, after McLaughlin took a decidedly adversarial stance against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt is 72, and he's been on the council since 1995. McLaughlin and the RPA are endorsing him in this race because he often votes with the progressives on the council, even if he's not officially part of the alliance. He has often worked on compromising with Chevron, most recently on the company's $1 billion refinery modernization project. In that case, he and two other council members helped secure a $90 million community benefits package from the company in exchange for the votes to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men have been on the City Council for a combined 54 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The candidates in some ways are more similar than not,\" said Robert C. Smith, a political science professor at San Francisco State. He’s been following Richmond politics for decades. \"So it’s not like to elect either one is going to bring about change, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh face in this race is Uche Uwahemu, a businessman and former social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve had their opportunity to lead,\" Uwahemu said, referring to Bates and Butt. \"You can’t keep recycling the same folks all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10346539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\" alt=\"Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. Courtesty Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014.\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. (Courtesy Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uwahemu has got a lot of ideas, from a technical high school that teaches computer skills to a technology incubator that would fund tech startups in Richmond. But when it comes to funding those ideas, he’s a bit fuzzy. He also wants to beef up Richmond's port, which he says is underutilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uwehamu has little campaign cash to spend, and really, little chance of winning this race. Bates, on the other hand, is getting a big chunk of funds from a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/10/3-million-in-chevrons-moving-forward-war-chest/\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 million super PAC created by Chevron to influence Richmond politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has poured a total of $3 million into super PACs. 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It’s just like a household,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In years past Bates has attracted support from many of Richmond’s African-American voters, who make up 14 percent of the city's registered voters -- like Frances Adams, an elementary school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's always been there when we need things for the school, he's always been there to come and talk to the children at school, and I feel that he's served the city of Richmond very well,\" Adams said after a debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt has prioritized building and maintaining parks, preserving historical buildings and adding bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are all things that make Richmond attractive to businesses, attractive to residents and make Richmond thrive -- at least thrive better than they would without them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Butt's supporters, Jessie West, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The progressive government we’ve had these last years has done wonderful things for Richmond and we’re really on a roll,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that if Bates gets elected, the progressive agenda will fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has been attacking that agenda relentlessly with messages on billboards, the airwaves and mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation would like to see McLaughlin fail at her bid for City Council and for Bates to take over as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents have seen their city improve under McLaughlin, as the economy has picked up. 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