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"content": "\u003cp>During Wednesday night's broadcast of Game Two of the World Series on KTVU, after the Giants finally got out of that awful \u003ca href=\"http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/63106348/v36845831/offense-for-royals-comes-alive-with-a-fiverun-6th\">bottom of the sixth inning\u003c/a>, viewers around the Bay Area saw this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4n11e1Ilvk]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With election day less than two weeks away, it's no surprise to see campaigns making a final on-air push. But most World Series viewers throughout the Bay Area won't see Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti on their ballot on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sbranti, a Democrat, is running for the state Assembly against Republican \u003ca href=\"http://bakerforassembly.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Catharine Baker\u003c/a> in the 16th District, which encompasses much of central Contra Costa County and southern Alameda County and runs from Orinda southeast through Livermore. Current Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan is termed out after six years in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race is expected to be a close one, and Democrats see the district as key to holding on to their two-thirds majority in the Assembly. That explains why, after surviving an expensive intraparty \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/04/live-updates-key-legislative-races\" target=\"_blank\">primary fight\u003c/a>, Sbranti has received support from the state Democratic Party and \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/Detail.aspx?id=1356108&view=lateexpn\" target=\"_blank\">independent expenditure committees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, TV ads, especially during World Series game, are expensive. For 30-second spots in \u003ca href=\"https://stations.fcc.gov/collect/files/35703/Political%20File/2014/State/Sbranti%20for%20AD%2016/Sbranti%20World%20Series%20Contract%2010-21%20to%2010-25%20%2814139965329662%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">each of the first five games\u003c/a> of the World Series, the Sbranti campaign \u003ca href=\"https://stations.fcc.gov/collect/files/35703/Political%20File/2014/State/Sbranti%20for%20AD%2016/Sbranti%20World%20Series%20Contract%2010-25%20%2814141730161009%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paid a total \u003c/a>of $346,500. As a comparison, four nightly news ads on the same channel purchased by Neel Kashkari's campaign for governor cost just $1,680.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why would a campaign pay that premium, especially if so many viewers can't vote for the candidate they see on the screen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a sure bet,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.swansoncomm.net/aboutus.html\">Robin Swanson\u003c/a>, a Democratic political strategist and former communications director for Assembly Speaker John Perez. \"You're going to buy it because you know people are watching.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the age of sitcom-streaming and DVR, the unique draw of live sports is not lost on campaign consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a program that people typically tape,\" adds Sbranti spokeswoman Michelle Henry. \"They're watching it live so you have a much larger audience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry knows the effectiveness of World Series advertising firsthand. She worked for Buchanan when the assemblywoman won re-election in 2010, behind a similar ad purchase during the Giants' World Series against the Texas Rangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With term limits on a state legislator's stay in office, regional ads can also be effective in making a quick introduction to viewers who may later become a voting base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Sbranti] will be voting on issues that effect the state,\" says Henry. \"There are also people who have relatives who live in the 16th. They might be living in the city but might have a cousin living in Pleasanton or Walnut Creek, and they can strike up a conversation that they know about this race and hopefully influence their friends and neighbors, and co-workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, airing these ads \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/14/mail-may-not-be-flashy-but-helps-win-campaigns/\">is a luxury\u003c/a>. It's a big reason why no other Assembly or state Senate candidate in the Bay Area has purchased ad time on network channels so far this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catharine Baker's campaign is simply not in a financial position to match Sbranti's on-air presence. In a statement, campaign spokesman Justin Matheson said, \"Catharine is proud to stand with the voters on the issues, not special interest bosses, and that resonates more than any expensive ad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads may be expensive, but when viewers turn on the World Series over the next two nights, Swanson says Sbranti has them right where he wants them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is more and more difficult as people start to watch things on the internet, on their laptops, on their phones, to really track down where the voters are. So it's actually rare that you know people are going to be watching something. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1698px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/10/iStock_000006541724_Medium.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/10/iStock_000006541724_Medium.jpg\" alt=\"(iStock/Getty Images)\" width=\"1698\" height=\"1131\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(iStock/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The drought has moved to the top of Californians’ worry list. And that’s a first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to name the “most important issue” facing the state, 26 percent of respondents to a statewide survey earlier this month said “water” and “drought.” That’s a statistical tie with those who said “jobs” and “the economy” (29 percent), the first time that’s happened since 1998, when the \u003ca title=\"PPIC - main\" href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> started asking the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an incredible number,” says Mark Baldassare, who directs the poll. And he says he thinks it’s more than a fleeting response to the crisis of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I think there’s a fundamental shift going on.”\u003ccite>— Mark Baldassare, PPIC\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s been the duration of this [three-year] drought and the fact that it’s affected every corner of the state, that’s made people realize that it’s not a short-term issue; it’s a long-term issue,” he says. “I think there’s a fundamental shift going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare says the water issue had been “nowhere” on residents’ radar in most previous polls. Just 7 percent of respondents mentioned it as recently as January of this year, before creeping up to 24 percent in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason the spike surprised Baldassare was that optimism about the economy hasn’t improved that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if people feel that one problem has been resolved and they’ve replaced it with something else,” he observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bit of perspective: fully half of those polled say they’re following news of the drought “very closely.” Baldassare says that’s far more than are closely tracking the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heightened angst over the drought and water supplies is also likely driving support for \u003ca title=\"Ballotpedia - Prop 1\" href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_%282014%29\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, the $7 billion bond measure \u003ca title=\"CWF - water bond\" href=\"http://waterforthelonghaul.com/local-impact-interest/\">to fund water projects\u003c/a> around the state. In the latest PPIC poll, 56 percent of likely voters said they were inclined to vote “yes” on the measure. Perhaps more significantly, only 32 percent said they would vote “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An “overwhelming majority” of 72 percent saw the state’s water supply as a “big problem.” Both coastal and inland residents were equally concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a state issue, it’s a regional issue, it’s a local issue,” says Baldasare.” It’s an in-your-house and in-your backyard issue for Californians, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points, which makes it a statistical tie between “drought, water” and “jobs, economy” in the survey. Here’s how the main question was posed and how the answers have changed in less than a year’s time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>First, thinking about the state as a whole, what do you think is the most important issue facing people in California today?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">October 2014\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n29% jobs, economy\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>26% water, drought\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n6% education, schools, teachers\u003cbr>\n4% crime, gangs, drugs\u003cbr>\n4% health care, health reform, Obamacare\u003cbr>\n4% immigration, illegal immigration\u003cbr>\n4% state budget, deficit, taxes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">January 2014\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n26% jobs, economy\u003cbr>\n13% education, schools, teachers\u003cbr>\n10% state budget, deficit, taxes\u003cbr>\n9% immigration, illegal immigration\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong> 7% water, drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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PPIC's new poll shows Brown's re-election bid supported by an overwhelming 73 percent of Latinos surveyed -- 29 points higher than their support for the state budget measure on which Brown is starring in TV ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 2 is also struggling in the Bay Area, with only 44 percent support in the new poll. Pollster Baldassare suggests that some of the weakness among Democrats or liberals could be with those who believe the state needs to restore public services cut during the recession more than it needs to sock money away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these numbers are a sign that the complex budget reserve proposition is a sure-fire loser, with a little less than two weeks to go before Election Day. 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"content": "\u003cp>FULLERTON — Steven Logwood seems to have a pretty good BS detector when it comes to politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on the front door step of his modest Fullerton home, the father of two knows who that knock on the door is coming from this time of year, with candidates in this battleground community of Orange County vying for his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's very clear about what won’t work to win his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 412px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/IMG_1468.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10344736\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/IMG_1468-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblymember Sharon Quirk Silva responds to questions from voter Steven Logwood at his Fullerton home.\" width=\"412\" height=\"309\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva responds to questions from voter Steven Logwood at his Fullerton home. 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Well, who's not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does he want instead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really important to enumerate your ideas,\" said Logwood. \"Specific things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus of his quizzing on this particular day was Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva (D-Fullerton), a freshman legislator in a heated contest in one of California’s most closely watched legislative races this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County is, in fact, home to two of the season's biggest battles: the 65th Assembly district contest between \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharonquirksilva.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Quirk Silva\u003c/a> and GOP challenger \u003ca href=\"http://www.youngkim2014.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Young Kim\u003c/a>, as well as the race for the 34th state Senate district between Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.janet2014.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Janet Nguyen\u003c/a> and Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://www.solorioforsenate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Solorio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173360962\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, the two districts share only a fraction of voters and geography in Orange County's bustling cities. But in practice, the races feature much of the same messaging; the same swirling mix of partisan and ethnic appeals; and the same focus by Republicans to block -- or even break -- the supermajority power of Democrats in the statehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are very fascinating races,\" said Scott Lay, whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/nooner/\" target=\"_blank\">daily state politics email, The Nooner\u003c/a>, has closely covered the electoral fight in his native Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is, after all, what used to be the beating heart of California Republican politics. And although Republican registration still prevails in Orange County, the numbers are ever so shifting toward future elections decided by razor-thin margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state Senate race, an open seat due to term limits, Democrats held an almost 5 percentage point lead in voter registration in the most recent report (new numbers are coming before Nov. 4). Still, elections are won by those who show up. The historic low turnout in the June primary, resulting in perhaps a more GOP-friendly electorate, helped Republican Nguyen best Democrat Solorio by almost 17,000 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 376px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10344750\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim-400x313.jpg\" alt=\"Young Kim, GOP challenger in the 65th Assembly district race. (Young Kim Campaign)\" width=\"376\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim-400x313.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim-800x627.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Kim, GOP challenger in the 65th Assembly district race. (Young Kim Campaign)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since June, the battle has intensified. Campaign finance records show about a combined $6 million raised by the candidates and independent groups, the most of any state Senate race in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've invested a lot of dollars into our field program,\" said Solorio, a former assemblyman and current community college trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a telling comment, Solorio also talked about how door-to-door, get-out-the-vote efforts are a way to \"mitigate\" what's seen as a Democratic base that may not be so motivated to cast a ballot this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that can easily swing the electoral outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Democrats were energized by presidential politics in 2012, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by almost 9 percentage points in this Orange County legislative district. But roll back the clock just two years earlier, to the last nonpresidential election, and you'll find that GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman beat Jerry Brown in the governor's race here by 5 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344754\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10344754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-400x403.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Solorio\" width=\"400\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-400x403.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JoseSolorio.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Solorio, Democratic candidate for the 34th state Senate district and a former assemblyman. (Jose Solorio Campaign)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republicans are also motivated by another factor: If they win in Orange County, they very likely will block Democrats from having a supermajority of seats in the Senate -- a power with which Democrats can block or pass anything they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It comes down to issues,\" said GOP candidate Nguyen, a sitting county supervisor. \"I believe in limited government, but I also believe that the government needs to work for the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen and her fellow Republican, Assembly candidate Kim, are running campaigns aimed at blocking Democratic power in Sacramento. Both are also warning Orange County voters that Democrats could -- if they retain their two-thirds legislative supermajorities -- tinker with the sacrosanct property tax limits under 1978's Proposition 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving across the two districts, north from Huntington Beach through Westminster and Buena Park, one sees signs plastered everywhere for two GOP women urging voters to \"Protect Prop. 13.\" Some legislative Democrats have indeed suggested possible changes or alterations to the tax-limiting constitutional amendment, but a largely centrist bloc of lawmakers has kept those proposals from gaining steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the GOP candidates here think that won't last if their Democratic challengers win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The time is now,\" said Kim, a former aide to U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton), of the need to win her Assembly race and block changes to Prop. 13. \"If we don't do it, we may be stuck.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim's battle against incumbent Quirk Silva has also been an expensive one, nearing the $4 million mark in candidate and independent committee cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JanetNguyen.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10344757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JanetNguyen-400x530.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Nguyen\" width=\"370\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JanetNguyen-400x530.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JanetNguyen-800x1060.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/JanetNguyen.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Nguyen, Republican candidate for for the 34th state Senate district. (Janet Nguyen Campaign)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two races also feature matchups that raise an interesting question -- both in this election and in future elections -- about how the diverse community prioritizes its politics. In both contests, a Latino Democrat faces an Asian-American Republican. Neither community, though, is monolithic -- especially Orange County's Asian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are voters looking at candidates with party loyalty or ethnic loyalty?\" asks political observer Scott Lay. \"And then is ethnic loyalty, particularly in the Asian-American community, broken down by Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipinos?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This helps explain why all four candidates have turned to what politicians do in uncertain times: try to maximize turnout among their party's base, then try to peel off just enough fence-sitting voters to make it across the finish line first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And none of the candidates seem to offer much hope for voters who may be seeking some political middle ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are striking differences,\" Quirk Silva said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really important to enumerate your ideas,\" said Logwood. \"Specific things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus of his quizzing on this particular day was Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva (D-Fullerton), a freshman legislator in a heated contest in one of California’s most closely watched legislative races this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County is, in fact, home to two of the season's biggest battles: the 65th Assembly district contest between \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharonquirksilva.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Quirk Silva\u003c/a> and GOP challenger \u003ca href=\"http://www.youngkim2014.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Young Kim\u003c/a>, as well as the race for the 34th state Senate district between Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.janet2014.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Janet Nguyen\u003c/a> and Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://www.solorioforsenate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Solorio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173360962&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173360962'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, the two districts share only a fraction of voters and geography in Orange County's bustling cities. But in practice, the races feature much of the same messaging; the same swirling mix of partisan and ethnic appeals; and the same focus by Republicans to block -- or even break -- the supermajority power of Democrats in the statehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are very fascinating races,\" said Scott Lay, whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/nooner/\" target=\"_blank\">daily state politics email, The Nooner\u003c/a>, has closely covered the electoral fight in his native Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is, after all, what used to be the beating heart of California Republican politics. And although Republican registration still prevails in Orange County, the numbers are ever so shifting toward future elections decided by razor-thin margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state Senate race, an open seat due to term limits, Democrats held an almost 5 percentage point lead in voter registration in the most recent report (new numbers are coming before Nov. 4). Still, elections are won by those who show up. The historic low turnout in the June primary, resulting in perhaps a more GOP-friendly electorate, helped Republican Nguyen best Democrat Solorio by almost 17,000 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 376px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10344750\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim-400x313.jpg\" alt=\"Young Kim, GOP challenger in the 65th Assembly district race. (Young Kim Campaign)\" width=\"376\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim-400x313.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim-800x627.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/YoungKim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Kim, GOP challenger in the 65th Assembly district race. (Young Kim Campaign)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since June, the battle has intensified. Campaign finance records show about a combined $6 million raised by the candidates and independent groups, the most of any state Senate race in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've invested a lot of dollars into our field program,\" said Solorio, a former assemblyman and current community college trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a telling comment, Solorio also talked about how door-to-door, get-out-the-vote efforts are a way to \"mitigate\" what's seen as a Democratic base that may not be so motivated to cast a ballot this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that can easily swing the electoral outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Democrats were energized by presidential politics in 2012, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by almost 9 percentage points in this Orange County legislative district. 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(Jose Solorio Campaign)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republicans are also motivated by another factor: If they win in Orange County, they very likely will block Democrats from having a supermajority of seats in the Senate -- a power with which Democrats can block or pass anything they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It comes down to issues,\" said GOP candidate Nguyen, a sitting county supervisor. \"I believe in limited government, but I also believe that the government needs to work for the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen and her fellow Republican, Assembly candidate Kim, are running campaigns aimed at blocking Democratic power in Sacramento. Both are also warning Orange County voters that Democrats could -- if they retain their two-thirds legislative supermajorities -- tinker with the sacrosanct property tax limits under 1978's Proposition 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving across the two districts, north from Huntington Beach through Westminster and Buena Park, one sees signs plastered everywhere for two GOP women urging voters to \"Protect Prop. 13.\" Some legislative Democrats have indeed suggested possible changes or alterations to the tax-limiting constitutional amendment, but a largely centrist bloc of lawmakers has kept those proposals from gaining steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the GOP candidates here think that won't last if their Democratic challengers win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The time is now,\" said Kim, a former aide to U.S. Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s no question about what the top line is on Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari’s resume: He led the federal government’s high-profile response to the 2008 economic meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the campaign trail, Kashkari doesn’t spend too much time talking about the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. And there’s a reason: Even though the bailout plan worked, it was messy, complicated and deeply unpopular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173159774\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that Kashkari completely ignores TARP. He briefly mentions it during his stump speech and has a stock answer prepared when voters and reporters ask about the program. By and large, Kashkari paints the $450 billion program as a bipartisan success.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice ... when the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.'\u003ccite>Neel Kashkari, U.S. Treasury Department, 2008\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everyone told us, 'Washington, D.C., is so complicated. You can’t get Republicans and Democrats to work together. You can’t navigate the House and the Senate.' ” Kashkari said during his September debate with Gov. Jerry Brown. “We figured it out. We got them to work together. We got the leaders of both parties to put their country before their political careers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the way Kashkari characterized it six years ago, at the depths of the economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice,” he told a group in the fall of 2008, his voice sounding strained and stressed. “When the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Your ATM Wouldn't Work'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s back up a bit. The economy imploded in 2008 for a long list of complicated reasons. The short summary is that too many banks bought up too many bad mortgages, and the global credit market basically dried up. (Need a refresher? \"This American Life’s\" 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">episode on the subprime lending crisis\u003c/a> remains one of the best explanations out there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kashkari likes to put it on the campaign trail, the economy was on the verge of a situation where “literally, your ATM wouldn’t work. You type in your code, no money comes out. You get your paycheck, you can’t cash it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Kashkari had decided to leave a comfortable job at Goldman Sachs when the bank’s CEO, Hank Paulson, became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary, this was suddenly Kashkari’s problem. He was all of 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Yeah, let’s bail them out, but don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was just one staffer in the U.S. Treasury Department, of course, but he played a major role in shaping, and eventually implementing, the federal government’s response to the crisis. A big enough role that he was portrayed in the HBO movie, \"Too Big To Fail.\" (Like the real-life Kashkari, the movie character has a massive Newfoundland dog.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book of the same name, which has become the definitive account of the 2008 crisis. According to Sorkin, Kashkari not only came up with the idea that became TARP, he came up with the initial $700 billion price tag, too. The total had more to do with politics than economics. The deliberations, as recounted by Sorkin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What about $1 trillion?\" Kashkari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll get killed,” Paulson said grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"Okay,\" Kashkari said. \"How about $700 billion?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The initial plan: The Treasury would buy up these so-called toxic assets of subprime mortgages that had paralyzed all the banks. Kashari eventually justified the $700 billion as about 5 percent of the nation’s total residential and commercial mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Gears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after Congress approved the plan, the Treasury Department shifted gears in a major way. Instead of buying up “toxic” mortgages, the government would now basically give the money directly to the nation’s largest banks. The first round of purchases distributed $125 billion to banks like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. By this point, Kashkari had been tapped as the head of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, to put it mildly, freaked out. San Diego Republican Darrell Issa may be endorsing Kashkari this year, but at the time he ripped into Kashkari:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" scrollable=\"no\" src=\"http://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4511989\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know whether Congress was lied to,” Issa demanded of a somewhat flustered Kashkari during a memorable hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari and the rest of the Treasury Department argued that the direct stock purchases were the better way to unfreeze the markets quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TARP eventually doled out $250 billion to banks and $450 billion overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included more than $60 billion for insurance giant AIG, which would become the most controversial aspect of Kashkari’s tenure. That’s because months after receiving federal assistance, AIG distributed more than $1 billion in bonuses and other payments to its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Failure of Oversight by Treasury'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown’s campaign strategy has been to ignore Kashkari’s existence. The main critique Brown lobbed at the Republican during their sole debate, however, focused on the AIG bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s bail them out,” Brown said. “But don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIG had to be bailed out, Treasury Department officials argued at the time, because the company had been left essentially holding the bag on a large chunk of the insurance policies that banks had purchased to protect themselves against foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This action was necessary to maintain stability of our financial system,” Kashkari said the day the department purchased its initial round of preferred stock. “In return, AIG must comply with stringent limitations on executive compensation for its top executives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the department didn’t realize was that it wasn’t just executives -- AIG had a massive, companywide bonus program in place. In March 2009, it handed out more than $1.7 billion in bonuses, retention payments and deferred compensation. The move generated a political firestorm, and was one of the first (of many) PR nightmares to confront the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special inspector general overseeing TARP, Neil Barofsky, told Congress that Kashkari’s team dropped the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treasury didn’t know about [the bonuses] until two weeks beforehand,” he testified after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Audit%20Reports/Extent_of_Federal_Agencies'_Oversight_of_AIG_Compensation_Varied_and_Important_Challenges_Remain_10_14_09.pdf\">releasing an audit focused on the AIG bonuses\u003c/a>. “And they didn’t know the scope of those payments. That they were going to apply not just to essential personnel, but also to nonessential. People who worked in the mail room, in the kitchen, the file room. Our audit concludes this was a failure. A failure of oversight by Treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the luxury of 20/20 hindsight,” Kashkari responded during a recent appearance on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “We were trying to prevent the American, and the global, economy from collapsing.” Still, he didn’t dispute the critique. “With all the luxury of six years to contemplate this, sure, we’d do lots of little things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Thankless Task\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Kashkari says TARP got every dollar back, and turned billions in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually a contested point. While repayments, interest and dividends have generated billions more in revenue than what the government paid out, TARP’s special inspector general \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Quarterly%20Reports/July_30_2014_Report_to_Congress.pdf\">argues the government is still owed about $40 billion in principal\u003c/a>. Kashkari disputes that figure, pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/reports/Pages/TARP-Tracker.aspx\">the Treasury Department’s official accounting\u003c/a>, which backs his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the larger point, UC Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the answer is pretty clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TARP was undoubtedly a success,” said Solomon, who has written several papers on the government’s response to the financial meltdown. “The fact that we’re standing here and the banks are up, and the economy is growing -- maybe not as fast as we want [it] to -- clearly shows that TARP was a success. It stopped the financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was seen as rewarding the banks that helped create the crisis to begin with. 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(Need a refresher? \"This American Life’s\" 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">episode on the subprime lending crisis\u003c/a> remains one of the best explanations out there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kashkari likes to put it on the campaign trail, the economy was on the verge of a situation where “literally, your ATM wouldn’t work. You type in your code, no money comes out. You get your paycheck, you can’t cash it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Kashkari had decided to leave a comfortable job at Goldman Sachs when the bank’s CEO, Hank Paulson, became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary, this was suddenly Kashkari’s problem. He was all of 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Yeah, let’s bail them out, but don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was just one staffer in the U.S. Treasury Department, of course, but he played a major role in shaping, and eventually implementing, the federal government’s response to the crisis. A big enough role that he was portrayed in the HBO movie, \"Too Big To Fail.\" (Like the real-life Kashkari, the movie character has a massive Newfoundland dog.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book of the same name, which has become the definitive account of the 2008 crisis. According to Sorkin, Kashkari not only came up with the idea that became TARP, he came up with the initial $700 billion price tag, too. The total had more to do with politics than economics. The deliberations, as recounted by Sorkin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What about $1 trillion?\" Kashkari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll get killed,” Paulson said grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"Okay,\" Kashkari said. \"How about $700 billion?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The initial plan: The Treasury would buy up these so-called toxic assets of subprime mortgages that had paralyzed all the banks. Kashari eventually justified the $700 billion as about 5 percent of the nation’s total residential and commercial mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Gears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after Congress approved the plan, the Treasury Department shifted gears in a major way. Instead of buying up “toxic” mortgages, the government would now basically give the money directly to the nation’s largest banks. The first round of purchases distributed $125 billion to banks like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. By this point, Kashkari had been tapped as the head of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, to put it mildly, freaked out. 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That’s because months after receiving federal assistance, AIG distributed more than $1 billion in bonuses and other payments to its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Failure of Oversight by Treasury'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown’s campaign strategy has been to ignore Kashkari’s existence. The main critique Brown lobbed at the Republican during their sole debate, however, focused on the AIG bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s bail them out,” Brown said. “But don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. 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The move generated a political firestorm, and was one of the first (of many) PR nightmares to confront the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special inspector general overseeing TARP, Neil Barofsky, told Congress that Kashkari’s team dropped the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treasury didn’t know about [the bonuses] until two weeks beforehand,” he testified after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Audit%20Reports/Extent_of_Federal_Agencies'_Oversight_of_AIG_Compensation_Varied_and_Important_Challenges_Remain_10_14_09.pdf\">releasing an audit focused on the AIG bonuses\u003c/a>. “And they didn’t know the scope of those payments. That they were going to apply not just to essential personnel, but also to nonessential. People who worked in the mail room, in the kitchen, the file room. Our audit concludes this was a failure. A failure of oversight by Treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the luxury of 20/20 hindsight,” Kashkari responded during a recent appearance on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “We were trying to prevent the American, and the global, economy from collapsing.” Still, he didn’t dispute the critique. “With all the luxury of six years to contemplate this, sure, we’d do lots of little things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Thankless Task\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Kashkari says TARP got every dollar back, and turned billions in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually a contested point. While repayments, interest and dividends have generated billions more in revenue than what the government paid out, TARP’s special inspector general \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Quarterly%20Reports/July_30_2014_Report_to_Congress.pdf\">argues the government is still owed about $40 billion in principal\u003c/a>. Kashkari disputes that figure, pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/reports/Pages/TARP-Tracker.aspx\">the Treasury Department’s official accounting\u003c/a>, which backs his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the larger point, UC Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the answer is pretty clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TARP was undoubtedly a success,” said Solomon, who has written several papers on the government’s response to the financial meltdown. “The fact that we’re standing here and the banks are up, and the economy is growing -- maybe not as fast as we want [it] to -- clearly shows that TARP was a success. It stopped the financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was seen as rewarding the banks that helped create the crisis to begin with. That doesn’t play well in politics, which may explain why candidate Kashkari doesn’t talk about TARP a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Chevron-funded campaign committee has blitzed the streets of Richmond and the airwaves and Internet in an effort to stop Mayor Gayle McLaughlin’s bid for a City Council seat in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billboards line boulevards, mailers stuff mailboxes, television commercials play hourly and a web video shows McLaughlin, who is termed out after eight years in office, skipping onto an airplane: “Gayle McLaughlin ran away when we needed her the most,” a narrator says. “Why would we elect her to City Council?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an analysis of city documents, invoices, travel receipts and bank statements dating to 2010 shows that McLaughlin has traveled less, missed fewer meetings, and spent less money on the trips than City Councilman Nat Bates, a longtime supporter of the oil giant’s mammoth refinery here and the Chevron-backed committee’s favored candidate for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 554px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/travel-chart1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10344455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/travel-chart1.jpg\" alt=\"Chart comparing travel by members of Richmond's city council. 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I don’t apologize for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several large billboards around town mock McLaughlin as an absentee mayor who ignores Richmond’s problems while traveling the world. They are paid for by the same committee, Moving Forward, that has also blanketed the city with other billboards and ads promoting Bates to be the city’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the city’s expense reports, McLaughlin spent $3,890 in taxpayer money on 13 total days of official city travel since 2010. Her two trips were a “Building Livable Communities” conference in Yosemite and, last year, a delegation to Richmond’s sister city in Regla, Cuba with Councilman Tom Butt and two aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates has been on five city-funded trips since 2010: Two delegations he’s led to Richmond sister cities in China and Japan, two conferences in Southern California, and a “National League of Cities” conference in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilman spent $13,249 in city funds for 43 days of travel, about triple McLaughlin’s travel time and expenses.* Richmond council members receive a $5,000 annual travel allowance. Last December, Bates also went to the White House on invitation (not with city funds), but he said he could not recall other personal trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin took two other trips abroad, to Spain and Ecuador, for 12 days total. Neither was paid for with city funds. The Ecuador trip, which was paid for by the Ecuadorian government, included visits to sites of alleged environmental devastation at the hands of Big Oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344458\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 461px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10344458\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts.jpg\" alt=\"A comparative analysis of spending by Gayle McGloughlin and Nat Bates. (Richmond Confidential)\" width=\"461\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts.jpg 461w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts-400x679.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A comparative analysis of spending by Gayle McGloughlin and Nat Bates. (Richmond Confidential)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The accusations] are so ridiculous, with these billboards, that it’s not even hurtful at this point,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Tom Butt, who is running against Bates for mayor, said the Chevron-funded campaign to paint McLaughlin as a frequent traveler who has eschewed her responsibilities is hypocritical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s total bull,” Butt said. “Bottom line is that Bates has missed more meetings and spent more [city] money traveling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign expense reports, as of last month, Chevron’s campaign committee, Moving Forward, has spent more than $130,000 specifically targeting McLaughlin, more than triple McLaughlin’s own campaign spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving Forward, which defines itself as a coalition of businesses and organizations, has spent more than $380,000 touting Bates, and has received about \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/10/3-million-in-chevrons-moving-forward-war-chest/\" target=\"_blank\">$3 million in funding\u003c/a>, almost all from Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving Forward spokesman Alex Doniach defended the committee's approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put out 100 percent accurate information about the candidates running,” Doniach said, “in order to provide voters with the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates argued the benefits of his travel, saying developing business deals and possible Chinese investments in Richmond justify his publicly financed trips to Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to the cultural exchange, it’s also generated financial opportunities,” he said. According to Richmond port director Jim Matzorkis, the end of this quarter could see millions of Chinese dollars move into \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/07/sister-cities-in-name-if-not-in-deed-edge-closer-to-a-true-financial-kinship/\" target=\"_blank\">development projects\u003c/a> in the city, though contracts and leases are still being finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin sees Moving Forward’s aggressive campaign as an effort to defeat Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) candidates and win support for the oil company on the council. The city’s lawsuit against Chevron for a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/05/24/richmond-mulls-legal-action-against-chevron-corp-over-refinery-fire_draft/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 refinery fire\u003c/a> could cost the company hundreds of millions in damages, and a new council majority sympathetic to Chevron could squelch the suit or pave the way for a settlement more favorable to the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates downplayed his attendance record at the City Council meetings. His 11 absences were more than twice as many as the next most absent member. Butt has missed five meetings since 2010, according to meeting minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t research how many I do or don’t attend,” Bates said. “And any meetings I haven’t attended were because I was either ill or representing the city in some capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving Forward spokesperson Doniach said she’s “not directly familiar” with the data showing that Bates traveled more than McLaughlin, missed more meetings and spent more city money on travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*The dollar amount of the NLC conference trip (part of the total calculation) was not derived by analyzing finances from expense reports, as were the other calculations, because that data was not made available. This figure was instead derived by cross-referencing receipt dates with bank statements. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Her two trips were a “Building Livable Communities” conference in Yosemite and, last year, a delegation to Richmond’s sister city in Regla, Cuba with Councilman Tom Butt and two aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates has been on five city-funded trips since 2010: Two delegations he’s led to Richmond sister cities in China and Japan, two conferences in Southern California, and a “National League of Cities” conference in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilman spent $13,249 in city funds for 43 days of travel, about triple McLaughlin’s travel time and expenses.* Richmond council members receive a $5,000 annual travel allowance. Last December, Bates also went to the White House on invitation (not with city funds), but he said he could not recall other personal trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin took two other trips abroad, to Spain and Ecuador, for 12 days total. Neither was paid for with city funds. The Ecuador trip, which was paid for by the Ecuadorian government, included visits to sites of alleged environmental devastation at the hands of Big Oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344458\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 461px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10344458\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts.jpg\" alt=\"A comparative analysis of spending by Gayle McGloughlin and Nat Bates. (Richmond Confidential)\" width=\"461\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts.jpg 461w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Receipts-400x679.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A comparative analysis of spending by Gayle McGloughlin and Nat Bates. 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According to Richmond port director Jim Matzorkis, the end of this quarter could see millions of Chinese dollars move into \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/07/sister-cities-in-name-if-not-in-deed-edge-closer-to-a-true-financial-kinship/\" target=\"_blank\">development projects\u003c/a> in the city, though contracts and leases are still being finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin sees Moving Forward’s aggressive campaign as an effort to defeat Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) candidates and win support for the oil company on the council. The city’s lawsuit against Chevron for a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/05/24/richmond-mulls-legal-action-against-chevron-corp-over-refinery-fire_draft/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 refinery fire\u003c/a> could cost the company hundreds of millions in damages, and a new council majority sympathetic to Chevron could squelch the suit or pave the way for a settlement more favorable to the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates downplayed his attendance record at the City Council meetings. His 11 absences were more than twice as many as the next most absent member. Butt has missed five meetings since 2010, according to meeting minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t research how many I do or don’t attend,” Bates said. “And any meetings I haven’t attended were because I was either ill or representing the city in some capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving Forward spokesperson Doniach said she’s “not directly familiar” with the data showing that Bates traveled more than McLaughlin, missed more meetings and spent more city money on travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*The dollar amount of the NLC conference trip (part of the total calculation) was not derived by analyzing finances from expense reports, as were the other calculations, because that data was not made available. This figure was instead derived by cross-referencing receipt dates with bank statements. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-20-at-10.36.01-AM-e1413826601647.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22123\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-20-at-10.36.01-AM-640x417.png\" alt=\"Mario Savio stands on top of police car in front of Sproul Hall on Oct 1. 1964. (Courtesy of UC Berkeley, The Bancroft Library).\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Savio stands on top of police car in front of UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall on Oct 1. 1964. The protest is considered the birth of the Free Speech Movement. (Courtesy of UC Berkeley, The Bancroft Library).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Erika Kelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley, the originator of movements ranging from Free Speech to Healthy Eating has a new cause: taking on the soft drink industry. On November 4th, the city's voters will decide whether to tax sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley.'\u003cbr> -- Dr. Vicki Alexander\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No such tax has ever passed anywhere in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort is bringing out progressives in Berkeley who have lobbied for social change for decades. Berkeley city leaders and health advocates have joined a coalition to support the measure, in hopes of igniting a nationwide fight against soda consumption. Meanwhile, the beverage industry is spending big to defeat the measure.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A History of Activism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters of Measure D see it as the next chapter in Berkeley’s history of social activism. Dr. Vicki Alexander has been working on public health and other social issues in this community for half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley,\" says Alexander. \"The Free Speech Movement the Free Mandela Movement -- just one after another after another -- we were involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was there 50 years ago at UC Berkeley confrontation at Sproul Hall between students and the administration -- a confrontation credited with launching the Free Speech Movement. Berkeley also helped launch an effort toward healthy eating, led by Alice Waters and Berkeley's schoolyard gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, funding cuts threatened some of those gardens, and the seed was planted for the beverage tax, says Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents of the kids who benefited from the gardens in the schools,\" Alexander says, \"and people in the community who benefited from the gardens started [asking], 'How can we have a source of funding that's ongoing?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building A Coalition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They knew they were taking on a tough opponent -- the beverage industry. Beverage taxes have been tried in 30 cities and states. They've all failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposition often successfully argues that this kind of tax would hurt low-income minority communities. So early on Berkeley activists began building a \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\">coalition that included African-Americans and Latinos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol McGruder works with the Berkeley chapter of the NAACP. She says she's involved as part of her focus on health in the African-American community. She says she was \"very disappointed\" when New York City's local NAACP sided against the ban on large servings of soda that was proposed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Richmond I know that big soda hired a lot of people from the community, from minority groups, to do telephone polling against it,“ McGruder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley pro-tax campaign is also tapping into a broad network of\u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\"> community groups\u003c/a>. Take the Ecology Center. It's been around for more than 40 years, and is known for pioneering Berkeley's curbside recycling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ecology Center marshaled resources including campaign foot soldiers like 22-year-old Kad Smith, who works on nutrition programs for the center. He’s spending weekends canvassing, and his evenings phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message is that there is an overwhelming and urgent health crisis in our community,” says Smith. \"We see those disparities especially in south and west Berkeley, which is a low-income community, which is also populated by a lot of people of color. It’s an overwhelming health crisis with obesity, diabetes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"yes\" campaign is also drawing support from outside the community. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried and failed to put a cap on the size of sodas sold in that city, recently donated $85,000 to the Berkeley effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money From a Big Opponent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive around Berkeley and you will see bright red “Yes on D” signs blooming in yard after yard, suggesting the measure's success is at hand. But the beverage industry is very good at fighting this fight, very good at sowing doubt about the benefits of this kind of tax. So far they've \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" target=\"_blank\">spent more than $1.6 million dollars\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ashby BART station, it’s easy to see where some of that money is going. There are signs everywhere that say, “Measure D is not what is seems.” A bunch of them have a big piece of glossy fruit that on the outside looks like an apple and on the inside looks like an orange. The tagline says, “On November 4th, vote no on Measure D.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UB8RkOYJaiQH1WslpAfI0RKMkE32mdwG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Merrill is a democratic political strategist based in Berkeley. She says the beverage industry's tactics work. It’s easier to kill this kind of measure than to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're hearing the measure is flawed, it won't do what it says it will; the money won't be spent in the way that the proponents say it will.” says Merrill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry argues there's no guarantee the tax income will support school gardens or other health programs. Instead it will end up in Berkeley's general fund, where it could be used to pay for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spokesman Roger Salazar says the anti-tax support is coming from some unions and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Kemper owns one of those small businesses, Smokey J’s BBQ on Shattuck Avenue. Campaign fliers for No on D cover the tables in his small restaurant. He says the tax could hurt his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be passed onto the people that buy stuff here,\" Kemper says. \"That’s increasing the cost of the overall food. They’re spending more money when they come here, but I don’t see any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their message out, \u003ca title=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" href=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" target=\"_blank\">the no campaign\u003c/a> is also paying teams of young people, some from as far away as Hayward, who are going door to door, every day until the election. They're articulate and very persuasive. Salazar says they're relying on that kind of street outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go out, share the information that we have,” says Salazar. “Encourage them to read the initiative for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is Big Soda The Next Big Tobacco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley vs. Big Soda” is the official tag line of the Yes on D campaign. The slogan is featured on their t-shirts, their yard signs, and is even the \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com\" target=\"_blank\">campaign's website URL\u003c/a>. Proponents argue that there are parallels between the soda industry and tobacco companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on D campaign even hosted a forum called “Is Soda The New Tobacco,” featuring Stan Glantz, a UCSF professor of medicine who has long fought for public health policies, including tobacco taxes to reduce smoking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political strategist Katie Merrill says those who think they can take on the soda industry should consider it a long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The soda industry is not the tobacco industry, it's not the oil industry,” says Merrill. “People haven't spent 30 years in high visibility battles against the soda industry”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's just that kind of battle that Berkeley activists say they're known for.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Berkeley also helped launch an effort toward healthy eating, led by Alice Waters and Berkeley's schoolyard gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, funding cuts threatened some of those gardens, and the seed was planted for the beverage tax, says Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents of the kids who benefited from the gardens in the schools,\" Alexander says, \"and people in the community who benefited from the gardens started [asking], 'How can we have a source of funding that's ongoing?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building A Coalition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They knew they were taking on a tough opponent -- the beverage industry. Beverage taxes have been tried in 30 cities and states. They've all failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposition often successfully argues that this kind of tax would hurt low-income minority communities. So early on Berkeley activists began building a \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\">coalition that included African-Americans and Latinos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol McGruder works with the Berkeley chapter of the NAACP. She says she's involved as part of her focus on health in the African-American community. She says she was \"very disappointed\" when New York City's local NAACP sided against the ban on large servings of soda that was proposed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Richmond I know that big soda hired a lot of people from the community, from minority groups, to do telephone polling against it,“ McGruder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley pro-tax campaign is also tapping into a broad network of\u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\"> community groups\u003c/a>. Take the Ecology Center. It's been around for more than 40 years, and is known for pioneering Berkeley's curbside recycling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ecology Center marshaled resources including campaign foot soldiers like 22-year-old Kad Smith, who works on nutrition programs for the center. He’s spending weekends canvassing, and his evenings phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message is that there is an overwhelming and urgent health crisis in our community,” says Smith. \"We see those disparities especially in south and west Berkeley, which is a low-income community, which is also populated by a lot of people of color. It’s an overwhelming health crisis with obesity, diabetes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"yes\" campaign is also drawing support from outside the community. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried and failed to put a cap on the size of sodas sold in that city, recently donated $85,000 to the Berkeley effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money From a Big Opponent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive around Berkeley and you will see bright red “Yes on D” signs blooming in yard after yard, suggesting the measure's success is at hand. But the beverage industry is very good at fighting this fight, very good at sowing doubt about the benefits of this kind of tax. So far they've \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" target=\"_blank\">spent more than $1.6 million dollars\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ashby BART station, it’s easy to see where some of that money is going. There are signs everywhere that say, “Measure D is not what is seems.” A bunch of them have a big piece of glossy fruit that on the outside looks like an apple and on the inside looks like an orange. The tagline says, “On November 4th, vote no on Measure D.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Merrill is a democratic political strategist based in Berkeley. She says the beverage industry's tactics work. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173191906″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s crunch time in the 17th Congressional District. Longtime incumbent Mike Honda is battling to keep his House seat against another Democrat, Ro Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re both using an army of volunteers to get the word out as the campaign enters its final two weeks. But as time grows tight, the campaigns appear to be targeting different political demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is attempting to pick off what Democrats he can while trying to get the votes of independents, undecideds and Republicans. Honda is focusing on Democrats with a capital D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda’s been in Congress for 14 years. He’s a stalwart supporter of civil rights, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, public transportation and math and science education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS12663_Courtney-Cooper-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10344290\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS12663_Courtney-Cooper-lpr-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Courtney Cooper of Los Gatos can't vote for Rep. Mike Honda, but she can volunteer to work the phones. 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So I figured, if I can’t give my vote, I can give my time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a member of the LGBTQ community, the 29-year-old Foothill College student took it to heart when Honda was one of the first elected officials to join the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noh8campaign.com/article/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOH8\u003c/a> campaign against Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not when it’s popular,” she said. “It’s what’s right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a database called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ngpvan.com/news/vanvotebuilder-wins-most-valuable-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vote Builder\u003c/a>, Cooper is calling people with a history of volunteering to help get out the vote. Most of those working the phones on this particular night are taking politics and government classes at local high schools and colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda tends to mumble in front of a microphone. 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Before an audience of mostly Latino and Asian students, Honda drew a long, historical line between sexual slavery perpetrated by the Japanese during World War II and the activities of ISIS in the Middle East today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating human trafficking is not a Democratic or Republican issue,” Honda said. “It’s not a women’s issue or an international issue. Human trafficking is the pre-eminent human rights issue of our day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Honda can campaign on his congressional record, Khanna cannot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent, balmy evening, Khanna went door to door in West San Jose. The neighborhood has a \u003cem>Leave It to Beaver\u003c/em> quality about it: quiet, leafy streets packed with mid-century ranch homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for Silicon Valley, this region is more than middle class. Homes here regularly sell for more than $1 million, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/95129_zip/SINGLE-FAMILY_HOME_type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trulia\u003c/a>, an online real estate marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There’s more to the district than just Silicon Valley, and there’s more to the district than just high-tech coolness.’\u003ccite>Bill Whalen,\u003cbr>\nHoover Institution\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khanna uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngpvan.com/voter-contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MiniVan\u003c/a>, a smartphone app for a database built under the guidance of Obama for America. The app tells Khanna voters’ names and party affiliations — or lack thereof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s dinner time and Khanna knows he has less than a minute to make his pitch, especially if he’s talking to a harried mom with kids at the table. 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