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After the candidate forum, hundreds of protesters rallied across the street from the convention in front of the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium before returning to the convention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Party delegates were scheduled to vote Saturday night on an endorsement in the Senate race, though the splintered field makes it unlikely that any of the candidates will reach the 60% threshold necessary for a party backing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the party stamp of approval was crucial for the candidates to vie for, said Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., a voting research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That signal of a party endorsement has just really skyrocketed in importance. 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They also directly addressed the crowd of delegates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter centered her remarks on a vow to fight corporate interests in D.C. The Orange County congresswoman also said her electoral experience in a politically divided part of California shows she can attract the moderate suburban voters key to the party’s national coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Mitchell, vice president, Political Data Inc.\"]‘That signal of a party endorsement has just really skyrocketed in importance. It’s worth, in a U.S. Senate race, the equivalent of millions of dollars.’[/pullquote]“I have won three tough races and I know how to message in a way that will help us win a durable Democratic majority who will help us be able to win up and down the ballot,” Porter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff spoke to delegates about his clashes with former President Donald Trump. Schiff, who represents the San Fernando Valley, helped lead the first Trump impeachment inquiry and later served on the House Jan. 6 committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had a corrupt president of the United States, I investigated him, I impeached him,” Schiff said. “And when he engaged in insurrection, I helped expose him so that the Justice Department could prosecute him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese, a former executive at Google and Gusto, began her remarks asking delegates to participate in a breathing exercise, hoping to ease the tension in the hall. She told the crowd that she supported a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I already said I supported it. I already supported it, so if you want to support someone who supports you … ,” she said as chants from the protesters drowned her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks, who took to the stage in an effort to quell the demonstrations, said in a statement that “a small number of non-Delegate protesters circumvented venue security and disrupted the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were heard and following a closing statement by the final candidate, the program was concluded and all attendees exited the venue,” Hicks said in the statement. “We look forward to the continuation of a successful Convention this afternoon with voting on endorsements, caucus meetings, and hospitality events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raucous reception from party delegates, a group that is more progressive than the overall Democratic electorate, was a fitting greeting for the candidates hoping to fill the seat held until recently by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein until her death on Sept. 29. 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"content": "\u003cp>In two of the last three U.S. Senate elections in California, the Republican Party has failed to advance a candidate out of the top-two primary to the general election — one of many electoral indignities the state GOP has suffered in its decadeslong decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid that fate in 2024, the GOP will need to consolidate its shrinking share of the electorate around a single candidate in the March 5 primary — and hope Democrats split their allegiances among the three current frontrunners: Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican with perhaps the best chance to unite GOP primary voters is former baseball star Steve Garvey, whose campaign has paired a glory-days nostalgia with relatively moderate positions on issues like guns and abortion. To continue his rise in the polls and crack the top two, Garvey must now find a way to “cannibalize” conservative votes, said Mark DiCamillo, poll director for the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which released \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39s2g21k\">new polling numbers\u003c/a> on Friday.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kristin Olsen, California Strategies\"]‘I’m not sure anyone can unite the party right now. But I do think [Garvey] may have a better shot than most because of the fame and charisma.’[/pullquote]“He would need to become the favorite among all Republicans in order to get himself higher in the polls,” DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39s2g21k\">IGS\u003c/a> poll, Porter stands at 17%, with Schiff at 16% and Garvey at 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former All-Star and World Series champion who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, Garvey is the highest-profile Republican to launch a Senate run in California since former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s unsuccessful bid more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garvey, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963999/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-launches-bid-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">waited until October to officially launch his campaign\u003c/a>, now faces a sprint to introduce himself to voters, raise money and fend off two other Republicans in the race: businessman James Bradley and attorney Eric Early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just getting a candidate on the November ballot will be an uphill battle for Republicans in the Senate race. California has a top-two primary system, which means voters can select any candidate, regardless of political party. Only 24% of voters in the state are registered as Republicans, and the party has struggled to make inroads with independent and moderate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, Republicans have divided their votes among the top three GOP contenders in the Senate race, which could dilute the Republican vote and complicate the GOP path to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Garvey still sits outside of the top two, some of the underlying numbers are encouraging for him. Not only has he leaped ahead of Bradley (7%) and Early (4%) among likely voters, but he is the top choice among voters who identified as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Garvey — known as “Mr. Clean” during his playing days — appears to have room to grow. The IGS poll found that roughly a third of voters who identify as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative” are undecided in the race — compared with just one in five “somewhat liberal” or “strongly liberal” voters who are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Olsen, a former Republican leader in the state Assembly, said the recent speakership fight in Congress shows the challenge of uniting fractious GOP constituencies around a common purpose. But she said Garvey, due to his career on the baseball diamond, has the advantage of being well-liked and better known than the other Republicans in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure anyone can unite the party right now,” said Olsen, now a partner at the consulting firm California Strategies. “But I do think he may have a better shot than most because of the fame and charisma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey, who has never run for public office, could face headwinds over some of the positions he has staked out early in the campaign, which seem antithetical to the party’s right-wing base. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963999/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-launches-bid-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">told KQED in October that he opposes a national ban on abortion\u003c/a>, a view in line with the majority of California voters, who last year \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-california-89310197d2b3bd3e3ba806620dd2bdbb\">approved a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights\u003c/a> in the state. On gun safety, he supports waiting periods and “very stringent background checks” for gun purchases.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"senate-2024\"]Bradley and Early, meanwhile, have run campaigns more closely aligned to the conservative views held by their party’s grassroots. Bradley, who ran for Senate in 2018 and 2022, has vowed to target critical race theory and support “deep state investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, who ran for state attorney general in 2018 and 2022, is aiming to outflank Garvey among the party faithful. He has already picked up endorsements from county Republican parties from Yolo to Santa Barbara, and on Tuesday, he nabbed the support of the California Republican Assembly, the state’s oldest grassroots GOP organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Garvey moving to the center, let’s say, runs the risk of losing Republican voters, or certainly some Republican voters, to someone who is tacking to the right, which is what Early seems to be doing,” said Darry Sragow, publisher of the California Target Book, a nonpartisan election guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sragow said Garvey can’t afford to turn off members of the party base. In recent California elections, few moderate voters have been willing to vote for Republican candidates, and Garvey may not garner enough support from those voters “to compensate for what he loses on the right,” Sragow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of an explicit push to consolidate the Republican vote, Garvey’s campaign plans to present him as the most viable Republican candidate — both in terms of his potential to appeal to a broad range of voters and his capacity to raise ample funds for statewide advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eric Early has earned the respect of the political operation,” said Luis Alvarado, a GOP political strategist who is not working in the race. “But those operatives also want to win, and at the end of the day, if they see that they have an opportunity to elevate their party candidate through Steve Garvey, they’re going to decide that they’re going to coalesce around Steve Garvey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many unknowns could shape the Senate-race landscape between now and the start of voting in February. An endorsement from Trump could propel any of the Republican candidates into the general election, as it did for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2018/05/president-trump-endorses-john-cox-for-governor/\">John Cox in a crowded gubernatorial primary\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign machinations unique to the top-two format could also come into play. If, for instance, Barbara Lee, a Bay Area liberal stalwart, who currently sits at 9% in the IGS poll, can chip away at support from Porter and Schiff in the coming months, Garvey’s path to the general election could become clearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey or other Republicans could try to bolster Lee ahead of the March vote, a move similar to what Democrats did last year when they funded advertisements for Early in the attorney general primary to elevate the conservative lawyer over his moderate opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it becomes a three-way battle among the Democrats, they could be dividing their support evenly,” DiCamillo, of the IGS poll, said. “That might even make it possible for Garvey to come in second even if his support is only in the 20% range or 25% range. So there’s a lot of variables in play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would need to become the favorite among all Republicans in order to get himself higher in the polls,” DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39s2g21k\">IGS\u003c/a> poll, Porter stands at 17%, with Schiff at 16% and Garvey at 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former All-Star and World Series champion who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, Garvey is the highest-profile Republican to launch a Senate run in California since former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s unsuccessful bid more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garvey, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963999/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-launches-bid-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">waited until October to officially launch his campaign\u003c/a>, now faces a sprint to introduce himself to voters, raise money and fend off two other Republicans in the race: businessman James Bradley and attorney Eric Early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just getting a candidate on the November ballot will be an uphill battle for Republicans in the Senate race. California has a top-two primary system, which means voters can select any candidate, regardless of political party. Only 24% of voters in the state are registered as Republicans, and the party has struggled to make inroads with independent and moderate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, Republicans have divided their votes among the top three GOP contenders in the Senate race, which could dilute the Republican vote and complicate the GOP path to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Garvey still sits outside of the top two, some of the underlying numbers are encouraging for him. Not only has he leaped ahead of Bradley (7%) and Early (4%) among likely voters, but he is the top choice among voters who identified as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Garvey — known as “Mr. Clean” during his playing days — appears to have room to grow. The IGS poll found that roughly a third of voters who identify as “strongly conservative” or “somewhat conservative” are undecided in the race — compared with just one in five “somewhat liberal” or “strongly liberal” voters who are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Olsen, a former Republican leader in the state Assembly, said the recent speakership fight in Congress shows the challenge of uniting fractious GOP constituencies around a common purpose. But she said Garvey, due to his career on the baseball diamond, has the advantage of being well-liked and better known than the other Republicans in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure anyone can unite the party right now,” said Olsen, now a partner at the consulting firm California Strategies. “But I do think he may have a better shot than most because of the fame and charisma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey, who has never run for public office, could face headwinds over some of the positions he has staked out early in the campaign, which seem antithetical to the party’s right-wing base. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963999/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-launches-bid-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">told KQED in October that he opposes a national ban on abortion\u003c/a>, a view in line with the majority of California voters, who last year \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-california-89310197d2b3bd3e3ba806620dd2bdbb\">approved a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights\u003c/a> in the state. On gun safety, he supports waiting periods and “very stringent background checks” for gun purchases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Supreme Court issued an order Friday that temporarily stays any changes to federal rules for use of an abortion drug, while it takes time to more fully consider the issues raised in a court challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, put a five-day pause on the fast-moving case so the justices can decide whether lower court rulings restricting the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug, mifepristone, should be allowed to take effect in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices are being asked at this point only to determine what parts of an April 7 ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas, as modified by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-pill-appeal-fe13d36218f1fb43590aff29b5ba4e9c\">an appellate ruling Wednesday\u003c/a>, can be enforced while the case continues. The order expires late Wednesday, suggesting the court will decide that issue by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal saga that has unfolded over mifepristone — one of two drugs commonly used for medication abortions in the U.S. — has caused concern in California, where access to abortion is\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\"> a constitutional right\u003c/a> under state law. Gov. 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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who is co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said that while Alito’s decision Friday meant that mifepristone is still accessible, she warned that this access is still “under threat” pending the high court’s decision, and urged continued vigilance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to realize that this is another step toward Republicans trying to put into law a national ban on abortion,” said Lee in an interview with KQED. “My constituents are saying they’re worried, because some of these broad, really backwards types of decisions could turn the clock back on scientifically approved drugs nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Congressmember added that she and her colleagues were prepared to act if legislation was needed to strengthen the FDA’s authority and prevent court decisions from undermining that authority, warning of the implications such decisions may have down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The] FDA approves the safety and efficacy of drugs for all types of medical conditions, including Alzheimer’s,” Lee said. “So what does this say about a process that could hinder other kinds of scientific research for other types of medical conditions? That is very dangerous and people are concerned about that, in terms of the precedent setting with these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-854f60302f21c2c35129e58cf8d8a7b0\"> conservative justices reversed Roe v. 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Wade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations suing over mifepristone said the court’s action Friday was “standard operating procedure” and urged the justices to allow the appeals court-ordered changes to take effect by the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The type of order issued by the court Friday, an administrative stay, ordinarily is not an indication of what the justices will do going forward. It was signed by Alito because he handles emergency filings from Texas. Alito also is the author of last year’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department and Danco both warned of “regulatory chaos” and harm to women if the high court doesn’t block the lower-court rulings that had the effect of tightening FDA rules under which the drug, mifepristone, can be prescribed and dispensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg\" alt='Protesters march holding signs that read \"Abortion Is Health Care\" with the U.S. Capitol in the backdrop.' width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new limits would have taken effect Saturday if the court hadn’t acted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This application concerns unprecedented lower court orders countermanding FDA’s scientific judgment and unleashing regulatory chaos by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote Friday, less than two days after the appellate ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration and Danco now want a more lasting order that would keep the current rules in place as long as the legal fight over mifepristone continues. As a fallback, they asked the court to take up the issue, hear arguments and decide by early summer a legal challenge to mifepristone that anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations filed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court rarely acts so quickly to grant full review of cases before at least one appeals court has thoroughly examined the legal issues involved.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11946073,news_11946193,news_11938516\"]A ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday would prevent the pill, used in the most common abortion method, from being mailed or prescribed without an in-person visit to a doctor. It also would withdraw the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone for use beyond the seventh week of pregnancy. The FDA says it’s safe through 10 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the appeals court did not entirely withdraw FDA approval of mifepristone \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-telehealth-mifepristone-9ba8f3ce130fae246e1d87ce428b74a0\">while the fight over it continues\u003c/a>. The 5th Circuit narrowed an April 7 ruling by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-abortion-pill-fda-75964b777ef09593a1ad948c6cfc0237\">U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk\u003c/a>, whose far-reaching and virtually unprecedented order would have blocked FDA approval of the pill. 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If it stands, no medicine approved by the FDA would be safe from these attacks.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elizabeth Prelogar, US solicitor general\"]‘[T]his is the first time any court has abrogated FDA’s conditions on a drug’s approval based on a disagreement with the agency’s judgment about safety — much less done so after those conditions have been in effect for years.’[/pullquote]Use of medication abortion jumped significantly after the FDA’s 2016 rule expansion, according to data gathered by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. In 2017, medication abortion accounted for 39% percent of abortions, but by 2020 it had increased to become the most common method, accounting for 53% of all abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts have said the use of medication abortion has increased since the court overturned Roe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the drug was initially approved, the FDA limited its use to up to seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required three in-person office visits: the first to administer mifepristone, the next to administer the second drug, misoprostol, and the third to address any complications. It also required a doctor’s supervision and a reporting system for any serious consequences of the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the appeals court’s action stands, those would again be the terms under which mifepristone could be dispensed for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the Texas lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because the agency did not adequately review safety risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mifepristone has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years. While less drastic than completely overturning the drug’s approval, the latest ruling still represents a stark challenge to the FDA’s authority overseeing how prescription drugs are used in the U.S. The ruling late Wednesday overturned multiple decisions made by FDA regulators after years of scientific review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common side effects with mifepristone include cramping, bleeding, nausea, headache and diarrhea. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She added, “The stakes of this fight could not be higher in the face of ongoing attacks on women’s health, and we will continue to fight to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations suing over mifepristone said the court’s action Friday was “standard operating procedure” and urged the justices to allow the appeals court-ordered changes to take effect by the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The type of order issued by the court Friday, an administrative stay, ordinarily is not an indication of what the justices will do going forward. It was signed by Alito because he handles emergency filings from Texas. Alito also is the author of last year’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department and Danco both warned of “regulatory chaos” and harm to women if the high court doesn’t block the lower-court rulings that had the effect of tightening FDA rules under which the drug, mifepristone, can be prescribed and dispensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg\" alt='Protesters march holding signs that read \"Abortion Is Health Care\" with the U.S. Capitol in the backdrop.' width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new limits would have taken effect Saturday if the court hadn’t acted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This application concerns unprecedented lower court orders countermanding FDA’s scientific judgment and unleashing regulatory chaos by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote Friday, less than two days after the appellate ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration and Danco now want a more lasting order that would keep the current rules in place as long as the legal fight over mifepristone continues. As a fallback, they asked the court to take up the issue, hear arguments and decide by early summer a legal challenge to mifepristone that anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations filed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court rarely acts so quickly to grant full review of cases before at least one appeals court has thoroughly examined the legal issues involved.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, on Tuesday formally announced her run for Dianne Feinstein’s highly coveted U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TX25hZ42FY\">video\u003c/a> released by her Senate campaign, Lee leans on her biography: growing up in the segregated South, her successful fight to integrate her high school cheerleading squad, escaping a violent marriage, her time as an unhoused mother and her determination to attend college as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To do nothing has never been an option for me,\" Lee says in the nearly three-minute video produced by the political consulting firm Left Hook. 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She doesn’t even ask me for money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ludovic Blain, director of the California Donor Table, a statewide fundraising organization that invests in communities of color, said he believes a variety of progressive donors will step forward to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the same folks who supported folks like Stacey Abrams (in Georgia) on the other side of the country,\" he said. \"So I think that there is money for her to raise both from larger donors and from regular folk around the state and around the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips noted that while Schiff and Porter have larger national profiles than Lee does, she’ll stand out to many voters as the only well-known candidate of color currently in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the majority of voters in California are people of color,\" Phillips said. \"Whoever California elects needs to represent, in particular, the communities of color that are under attack in our state and nationally from some of their would-be Senate colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, Lee said in her 2018 KQED interview, \"You have to be authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really be able to let people know that you're there on their side and bring them in. 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"content": "\u003cp>Deep into the grueling negotiations over President Joe Biden’s big \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-environment-congress-200439493877e4aac6b8672757bcb3ae\">domestic policy package\u003c/a>, when it seemed that bickering among Democrats would never stop, San Francisco's top Democrat, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, let everyone in on a little secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This,” she confided quite publicly to reporters some time ago, “is the fun part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grind of legislating, treacherous for some, a sport for others, and often unsuccessful in the slow-moving Congress, is where Pelosi resides, exerting relentless drive to advance Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-health-lifestyle-bff841da156cb12cd47a564f9e0267eb\">roughly $2 trillion package Friday \u003c/a>through the House, sending it now to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House vote, with just one Democrat opposed, boosts momentum for Biden’s signature legislation after months of start-stop negotiations and provides a down payment on the party’s campaign promise to deliver competency in government and put it to work for Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Pelosi, who breezed into the House chamber early Friday to gavel the vote closed after a nearly all-night session, the outcome serves as a career milestone and further cements her legacy as not only the nation’s first woman speaker, but among its most powerful — one who is working to secure massive federal investments that Biden and others have compared to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congratulations,” Biden told her in a phone call she took in the Gold Room off the House floor as the final tally rolled in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s vote was never a sure thing. The final action in some ways snuck up on lawmakers after frenzied weeks of negotiations, several false starts and high-profile setbacks that delayed, and threatened to derail, the entire enterprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897081\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897081\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1354242362-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lawmakers clad in suits stand shoulder to shoulder behind a podium bearing the seal of the U.S. House of Representatives.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1354242362-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1354242362-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1354242362-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1354242362-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1354242362-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) listens as House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) speaks at a press conference after the House passed the Build Back Better Act at the U.S. Capitol on November 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892232/at-kqed-pelosi-vows-to-pass-scaled-down-biden-agenda\">First, there was the difficult process of compiling the 2,135-page “Build Back Better Act,”\u003c/a> with its far-reaching proposals to expand government support to help families afford health care and child care and lower the price of prescription drugs, alongside new efforts to tackle climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, facing a solid wall of Republican opposition, the Democrats had to decide if they could actually approve the bill on their own, engaging in multiple rounds of private meetings and public handwringing between centrist and progressive flanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any step along the way could sideline a congressional leader, especially one without the political fortitude to push and pull lawmakers to fall in line. Her immediate predecessors, Paul Ryan and John Boehner, struggled to lead Republicans, and both retired and gave up the gavel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for more than 30 years, not only has the stomach for such gut-wrenching talks, she has has turned the perils of legislating into political opportunities, showcasing the party’s factions. “Diversity is our strength” is among her maxims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when she’s heard and seen enough, she stiffens the spine and pushes ahead, relying on the other Pelosi maxim — “Unity is our power” — to reach a resolution. Meeting privately with House leaders Monday evening, she signaled that it was time to move.[aside postID=\"news_11892232\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51923_AM6_0329-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House had already approved the\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-broadband-internet-ad2c86ce1bc6e85322f2629d7a72732e\"> related $1 trillion infrastructure package\u003c/a>, a roads-bridges-and-broadband measure favored by centrist lawmakers after poor election showings in Virginia and New Jersey served as a wake-up call to Democrats. Now, according to Pelosi’s strategy, it was time to make good on the commitment for Biden’s broader vision preferred by the progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All members of Congress representing the Bay Area voted in support of the Build Back Better Act, with East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee praising the bill's cap on child care costs at 7% of income for most families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my district and throughout the Bay Area, women want to get back into the workforce but child care is so expensive,\" Lee told KQED. The bill's hundreds of billions in dollars for the environment will also invest in the community, Lee said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're gonna reduce energy costs, and let me tell you, we're going to make good-paying jobs in the energy sector for young people, for formerly incarcerated people, putting solar panels on buildings and houses,\" Lee added. \"For the first time, we're going to be addressing for the first time, environmental justice, and making sure communities of color, low-income communities are cleaned up and don't have to deal with toxic dump sites.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi's successful balancing act is one that will touch many, her colleagues said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a long road because, you know, the sheer amount of impact we’re trying to have is enormous,” Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always complicated, I mean, when you’ve got people representing every corner of this country, there’s always going to be complexity, but that’s the art of governing,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi has been here before. A decade ago, she led House Democrats to passage of the Affordable Care Act, a year-long effort that consumed the Congress at the start of Barack Obama’s first term and contributed to the party’s electoral wipeout in the 2010 midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi lost the speaker’s gavel after Republicans regained control of the House in 2011, and today’s Republicans are expecting a repeat in 2022 as they heap criticisms on Biden’s bill as big government overreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is in line to become speaker if Democrats lose power next year, set the tone in an overnight speech full of vitriol and grievance against Biden, the Democrats and Pelosi in particular, as he chided her leadership and wished for her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he sounded “angry,” McCarthy said, it’s because he was. His more than eight-hour speech set a new record, besting one set just a few years back by Pelosi. But his protest did not stop the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi responded with one of the most politically biting strategies in her arsenal — she ignored him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Friday morning, Pelosi paid almost no attention to McCarthy’s record-setting rant and delivered a sunny speech in stark contrast to his dark mood.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara Lee, congresswoman\"]\"We're gonna reduce energy costs, and let me tell you, we're going to make good-paying jobs in the energy sector for young people, for formerly incarcerated people, putting solar panels on buildings and houses.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under this dome, for centuries, members of Congress have stood exactly where we stand to pass legislation of extraordinary consequence in our nation’s history and for our nation’s future,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Capitol’s setting reminds lawmakers, Pelosi said, that “we are part of history, that our words and actions will face the judgment of history and that we are part of the long and honorable heritage of our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats cheered passage on the House floor, chanting “Nancy, Nancy, Nancy!” as sullen Republicans at one point belted out, “Hey, hey, goodbye,” some mock-waving across the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One newcomer to Congress, Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s 13th Congressional District Representative Barbara Lee was the sole member of Congress to vote against the authorization of the war in Afghanistan 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a moment that features heavily in director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885337/rep-barbara-lee-on-afghanistan-and-a-life-of-speaking-truth-to-power\">Abby Ginzberg's new documentary \"Barbara Lee: Truth to Power,\"\u003c/a> which examines Lee's life and work as a Bay Area representative whose career in Congress has spanned 23 years, and which centers the conversation on Lee’s resolve to stand in opposition to her colleagues during a time of national crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885337/rep-barbara-lee-on-afghanistan-and-a-life-of-speaking-truth-to-power\">Lee and Ginzberg recently joined Alexis Madrigal on KQED Forum\u003c/a> to talk about her storied career in Congress, her early days at Mills College and her thoughts on the latest developments in Afghanistan, two decades after her news-making vote. Read on for the highlights of their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Growing up amid segregation in Texas\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in 1946, Lee grew up in segregated El Paso, Texas, down the street from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/09/618280396/how-a-black-detective-infiltrated-the-kkk\">Ron Stallworth, who went on to write \"Black Klansman\" \u003c/a>— his autobiography detailing his experiences infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan — and who still lives in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee attended Catholic schools — the only schools in the area that would allow Black students to attend at the time. As the only Black Girl Scout in her town, she was invited by her non-Black cohorts to attend events at the historic Plaza Theatre. However, Black people were only allowed in the balcony — a degrading experience that deterred Lee and many other Black community members from going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first movie Lee ever saw at the Plaza Theatre was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/105052/spike-lee-checks-under-the-hood-in-the-blistering-blackkklansman\">Spike Lee’s 2018 film adaptation of Stallworth's “BlacKkKlansman.”\u003c/a> The experience was, in Lee’s words, \"remarkable,\" and one that she wished her \"mother had been there\" for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat unsurprisingly, Lee wants Ginzberg’s documentary to play at the Plaza Theatre in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11843387 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Barbara Lee during a speech in front of a podium and microphone. She has a hand raised and is wearing a blue shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Barbara Lee speaks at an election event in Berkeley on Oct. 27, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘The right thing to do’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A trained social worker, Lee was able to, as Ginzberg put it, \"find her moral center\" during a time of \"patriotic warmongering\" immediately following 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She understood what \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/60-words\">that 60-word resolution\u003c/a> was going to lead us to,\" said Ginzberg. As the filmmaker sees it, it was Lee’s ability to set aside \"national fervor\" that made her \"the one person in Congress who was able to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was after \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/remember-july-dec01-remember_09-14\">Rev. Nathan Baxter spoke at the Sept. 14, 2001, National Prayer Service\u003c/a> that Lee made the decision to vote against a U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. It was, said Lee, \"a decision that did not come lightly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, this choice jeopardized her seat in Congress. \"There are moments when you have to say, 'I'm risking everything because this is the right thing to do,'\" said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for her opinions on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/politics/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html\">President Biden’s recent choice to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan\u003c/a>, Lee maintains that \"he absolutely made the right call.\" She was, however, quick to critique the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, stating that \"there is no military solution in Afghanistan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe we should have withdrawn many, many years ago when President Obama was in office,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the daughter of a retired lieutenant colonel who was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, Lee understands that \"the dislocation and the violence and the trauma and the sadness that people have experienced over the last 20 years\" is not easily fixed \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> in either the U.S. or in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is a chair of the subcommittee that funds the U.S. effort to withdraw from Afghanistan. This group’s focus, she says, is now on humanitarian assistance and diplomatic development assistance and an investment in nonmilitary strategies to provide security for women, and advocate for women’s education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Audience questions: Mills College and Palestine\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lee shared her experience as a single mother attending classes at Oakland's Mills College. \"I took my children to college with me,\" she said. \"They sat through classes with me.\" It was at Mills where Lee had her first introduction to longtime mentor Shirley Chisholm, in the only government course she enrolled in during her time there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by a KQED Forum caller about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\">the future of Mills College amid the news of its upcoming merger with Northeastern University\u003c/a>, Lee stressed the importance for continued educational options for single mothers, saying that \"there are very few academic environments that are conducive\" to pursuing a degree for women raising children alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was also asked by a caller to justify her endorsement of a military aid package for Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a member of Congress who advocates for a two-state solution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885337/rep-barbara-lee-on-afghanistan-and-a-life-of-speaking-truth-to-power\">Lee spoke about the complications of taking a more balanced approach\u003c/a> to new humanitarian aid efforts toward Palestine. But \"I don't think there are any members of Congress who have been more pro-Palestinian, in terms of justice for the Palestinian people and children, than myself,\" said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as Ginzberg's new documentary looking back on her life is released, Lee said she is focused on her future both inside and outside of politics. Emphasizing \"that there is life after Congress,\" Lee said that she wants to \"continue serving. I love my job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love working for the people. I hope I'm making a contribution and helping my constituents,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Read on for the highlights of their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Growing up amid segregation in Texas\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in 1946, Lee grew up in segregated El Paso, Texas, down the street from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/09/618280396/how-a-black-detective-infiltrated-the-kkk\">Ron Stallworth, who went on to write \"Black Klansman\" \u003c/a>— his autobiography detailing his experiences infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan — and who still lives in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee attended Catholic schools — the only schools in the area that would allow Black students to attend at the time. As the only Black Girl Scout in her town, she was invited by her non-Black cohorts to attend events at the historic Plaza Theatre. However, Black people were only allowed in the balcony — a degrading experience that deterred Lee and many other Black community members from going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first movie Lee ever saw at the Plaza Theatre was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/105052/spike-lee-checks-under-the-hood-in-the-blistering-blackkklansman\">Spike Lee’s 2018 film adaptation of Stallworth's “BlacKkKlansman.”\u003c/a> The experience was, in Lee’s words, \"remarkable,\" and one that she wished her \"mother had been there\" for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat unsurprisingly, Lee wants Ginzberg’s documentary to play at the Plaza Theatre in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11843387 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Barbara Lee during a speech in front of a podium and microphone. She has a hand raised and is wearing a blue shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS33588_1112018_AW_GetOutTheVote_04-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Barbara Lee speaks at an election event in Berkeley on Oct. 27, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘The right thing to do’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A trained social worker, Lee was able to, as Ginzberg put it, \"find her moral center\" during a time of \"patriotic warmongering\" immediately following 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She understood what \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/60-words\">that 60-word resolution\u003c/a> was going to lead us to,\" said Ginzberg. As the filmmaker sees it, it was Lee’s ability to set aside \"national fervor\" that made her \"the one person in Congress who was able to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was after \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/remember-july-dec01-remember_09-14\">Rev. Nathan Baxter spoke at the Sept. 14, 2001, National Prayer Service\u003c/a> that Lee made the decision to vote against a U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. It was, said Lee, \"a decision that did not come lightly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, this choice jeopardized her seat in Congress. \"There are moments when you have to say, 'I'm risking everything because this is the right thing to do,'\" said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for her opinions on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/politics/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html\">President Biden’s recent choice to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan\u003c/a>, Lee maintains that \"he absolutely made the right call.\" She was, however, quick to critique the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, stating that \"there is no military solution in Afghanistan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe we should have withdrawn many, many years ago when President Obama was in office,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the daughter of a retired lieutenant colonel who was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, Lee understands that \"the dislocation and the violence and the trauma and the sadness that people have experienced over the last 20 years\" is not easily fixed \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> in either the U.S. or in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is a chair of the subcommittee that funds the U.S. effort to withdraw from Afghanistan. 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"content": "\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris returned to her native Bay Area to make the case for Gov. Gavin Newsom to keep his job less than a week before voting ends in the Sept. 14 recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a campaign event outside the IBEW/NECA Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee building in San Leandro, Harris painted the recall effort against Newsom as a referendum not just on the governor’s agenda but on progressive values writ large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand that this recall campaign is about California and it’s about a whole lot more. They’re thinking that if they can get this done in California, they can go around the country and do this,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Harris spoke, a crowd of mostly union members sweltered in the hot sun as they heard from a long line of elected officials, union leaders and Democratic boosters. Many attendees waved signs reading “Reject the Republican Recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audience seemed most energized when speakers called out Texas and its recent restrictive abortion law — and when speakers including the governor railed against Republican opposition to mask and vaccine mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885679\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45263_001_KQED_ElectionStockPhotos_TikaHall_10062020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]One of the rally attendees was Brenda Okoli, a 67-year-old Oakland resident who works as an in-home care worker. She said she came out because she believes Newsom has worked hard to keep the state safe during the coronavirus pandemic and always supported workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That man literally saved thousands of lives by shutting down the way that he did,” Okoli said, referring to the governor’s early and aggressive pandemic response. “He has done so much for the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okoli wasn’t the only one praising Newsom’s decisiveness on pandemic precautions — an issue the other side also has used to fire up its base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, who has known Newsom since their days as local elected officials in San Francisco, noted that Newsom was among the first governors to lock down in spring of 2020; he also has instituted some of the nation’s strictest mask and vaccine mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall proponents have used those issues to drum up anger at Newsom and remain enraged that the governor dined with a group of friends at a high-end restaurant during last winter’s COVID-19 surge, even as he urged Californians to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris said the governor “led with courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want us to remember those early days. Let’s remember the course of it. We were all scared. We didn’t know what was happening, but we needed leaders to have courage, to take a stand and make decisions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took one person — who is Gavin Newsom — to make hard decisions. In a moment of crisis that was unpredictable, he led.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887868 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Harris stands behind a podium and points to her right as she speaks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a No on the Recall campaign event with California Gov. Gavin Newsom at a union training facility on Sept. 8, 2021, in San Leandro. With six days left until the recall election, Newsom is ramping up campaign efforts across the state. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also been campaigning on his COVID-19 record, noting Thursday that the leading Republican candidate, talk show radio host Larry Elder, has promised to roll back most of the governor’s mask and vaccine mandates if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885994\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS45459_007_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]“Eat your heart out, Texas and Florida — we’ve had better health outcomes and better economic outcomes during this pandemic,” he said. “Larry Elder wants to walk us on that same COVID cliff as Texas and Florida, and Tennessee, and Alabama and Georgia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On other policy issues, the vice president in particular took aim at Texas, where a restrictive new abortion law took effect last week banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Harris attacked Texas Governor Greg Abbott for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035119369/fact-check-texas-gov-greg-abbotts-misleading-remarks-on-the-states-abortion-law\">comments he made defending the law and claiming that it won’t force victims of rape to give birth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The words that he spoke were the words that were to arrogantly dismiss concerns about rape survivors. And to speak those words that were empty, words that were false, words that were fueled with not only arrogance but bravado — that is not who we want in our leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want in our leaders, someone like Gavin Newsom,” Harris said, “who always speaks the truth on behalf of all the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She warned that the election could have far-reaching political and policy consequences across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in Texas, what’s happening in Georgia, what’s happening around our country with these policies that are about attacking women’s rights, reproductive rights, voting rights, worker’s rights,” she said. “We will show them you’re not going to get this done. Not here, never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the election less than a week out, Newsom’s campaign team was projecting confidence that they will be able to turn out their base in this overwhelmingly Democratic state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign manager Juan Rodriguez said they’ve worked for months to inform Democratic voters of the recall process, after their internal polling in January showed just 30% of Democrats were informed and engaged — compared to 70% of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months later, Rodriguez boasted, the Newsom campaign has developed “perhaps the most robust field operation program that the state has actually ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public polling shows that field game may be working: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887225/with-two-weeks-left-in-the-recall-election-latest-polls-show-some-good-news-for-newsom\">A PPIC survey out last week\u003c/a> showed 58% of likely voters opposing the recall, with 39% supporting it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One of the rally attendees was Brenda Okoli, a 67-year-old Oakland resident who works as an in-home care worker. She said she came out because she believes Newsom has worked hard to keep the state safe during the coronavirus pandemic and always supported workers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That man literally saved thousands of lives by shutting down the way that he did,” Okoli said, referring to the governor’s early and aggressive pandemic response. “He has done so much for the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okoli wasn’t the only one praising Newsom’s decisiveness on pandemic precautions — an issue the other side also has used to fire up its base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, who has known Newsom since their days as local elected officials in San Francisco, noted that Newsom was among the first governors to lock down in spring of 2020; he also has instituted some of the nation’s strictest mask and vaccine mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall proponents have used those issues to drum up anger at Newsom and remain enraged that the governor dined with a group of friends at a high-end restaurant during last winter’s COVID-19 surge, even as he urged Californians to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris said the governor “led with courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want us to remember those early days. Let’s remember the course of it. We were all scared. We didn’t know what was happening, but we needed leaders to have courage, to take a stand and make decisions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took one person — who is Gavin Newsom — to make hard decisions. In a moment of crisis that was unpredictable, he led.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887868 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Harris stands behind a podium and points to her right as she speaks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1339129330-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a No on the Recall campaign event with California Gov. Gavin Newsom at a union training facility on Sept. 8, 2021, in San Leandro. With six days left until the recall election, Newsom is ramping up campaign efforts across the state. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom has also been campaigning on his COVID-19 record, noting Thursday that the leading Republican candidate, talk show radio host Larry Elder, has promised to roll back most of the governor’s mask and vaccine mandates if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting “from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,” said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally’s co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]‘At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States’ struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has “been a beam of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans “is something that’s really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. “I’m Afghan myself, and I’m out here to support my people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to continue to have hope,” she added. “I’m very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. 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