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So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TP90BZhO4e3Q1CC3ok1y0YzLetfcYjS7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. Not from kids, but through alleged financial mismanagement by previous city leaders that has left Lindsay’s current administration trying to figure out to pay for the sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says she’s trying to bring more transparency to the city and to get residents engaged. And that means all residents, including undocumented farmworkers who can’t vote. And their children, who can, but maybe don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amy Huerta. The mayor has a message for her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amy, I get the sense that you’re thinking that it might not make a difference whether you would vote,” Padilla says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to say to you that it does make a difference because I remember from Lindsay City Council, people won by one vote. That (one vote) could be you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. 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Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. 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"content": "\u003cp>As two initiatives to raise California's minimum wage inch closer to the November ballot, business groups have formed a coalition to fight them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A brand-new campaign committee called California Consumers Against Higher Prices is a coalition of a few dozen groups, including the California Restaurant Association, the California Hotel and Lodging Association, the California Manufacturers and Technology Association and the Chambers of Commerce in Los Angeles, Fresno and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These measures are flawed initiatives that have too many unintended consequences,” said Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yrRnwbXkGnbG0TbHDgLWEqQBkNYwbNYW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One initiative to raise the minimum wage, backed by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, calls for an increase of $1 each year until it reaches $15 in 2021. The other would raise the wage to $15 by 2020 and require employers to allow workers to take six paid sick days a year. The SEIU-UHW-backed measure appears to have the most momentum and expects to qualify for the ballot in less than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Condie said while the political climate in some California cities appears to support minimum wage hikes, his group's market research suggests voters across the state feel differently. He points out that San Francisco is the only city where voters actually approved a $15 minimum wage. In other cities, including Los Angeles, the city council enacted laws to raise the wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The world view of San Franciscans is much different than the voters of California,\" Condie told KPCC. \"Even in Los Angeles, when we survey the voters, they believe that $15 is too much, too fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So expect to see a lot of political ads in opposition to the measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The campaign will be fully funded,\" Condie said. \"Mail, social media, radio, TV. We will do everything that is required to have a winning result.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hardly deters supporters of the measures. Dave Regan, president of SEIU-UHW, said his group continues to reach out to organizations, churches and a growing roster of elected officials who support raising the wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are indicating they want to volunteer, they want to make phone calls and help with the campaign,\" Regan told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the momentum will pick up substantially on March 22 when he expects the state to certify the signatures his campaign has turned in and qualify the measure for the November ballot. That will also make a difference in financial contributions to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big-ticket donors, organizational donors, want to know that this is going to be on the ballot and that their support goes directly to getting this passed.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As two initiatives to raise California's minimum wage inch closer to the November ballot, business groups have formed a coalition to fight them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A brand-new campaign committee called California Consumers Against Higher Prices is a coalition of a few dozen groups, including the California Restaurant Association, the California Hotel and Lodging Association, the California Manufacturers and Technology Association and the Chambers of Commerce in Los Angeles, Fresno and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These measures are flawed initiatives that have too many unintended consequences,” said Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One initiative to raise the minimum wage, backed by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, calls for an increase of $1 each year until it reaches $15 in 2021. The other would raise the wage to $15 by 2020 and require employers to allow workers to take six paid sick days a year. The SEIU-UHW-backed measure appears to have the most momentum and expects to qualify for the ballot in less than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Presidential elections receive by far the most attention, but it’s also the race where individual voters have the least direct effect. The undercard races for local offices, such as city council and board of supervisors, offer the greatest opportunity for residents to exert influence and directly engage with elected officials, yet they receive some of the least attention, engagement and votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Cannady recalls his first success influencing local government. Cannady is a high school history teacher in the Pocket neighborhood of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252354166\" 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>\"The bus stop for our school site was about a mile away,” he says. “Not only did students have to walk, but there was no shelter for them. 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Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-1180x816.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-960x664.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides along a public levee in the Pocket, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day-To-Day Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mile east of the Pocket, in the Meadowview neighborhood, Darryl Lucien has a problem with a bare plot of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it reinforces a narrative of blight and decay in this low-income community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s full of weeds, and trash, and debris,” Lucien says. “Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city, so they can clean up their mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qSkD5oR6sR0jNNGO2jmfqFam0qIlRHRU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien works for a state assemblyman, but he says city and county officials often play a more direct role in our day-to-day lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are the people who are responsible for just your quality of life, making sure that your neighborhoods are clean, your roads are paved, police services, and making sure response times are good,” Lucien says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also influence state and federal actions, says Mike Madrid, a principal at the political consulting firm GrassrootsLab. Madrid mentions a ban on plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting no traction in the state Legislature for eight years,” he says. “Local governments were taking policy positions that effectively forced the hand of the Legislature to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says state marijuana, firearm and smoking laws all started at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Power Is Local\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each vote cast in a local race also has a larger statistical effect than in larger races. A vote in a district of 10,000 will play a larger role in the outcome than one in a statewide race of 40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You, by nature, have more impact,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voters turn out for local elections at dismal rates, on average half that of national races, according to a 2003 UC San Diego study. In cities that hold races in off-years, without federal elections, turnout can reach single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898179 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg\" alt='Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped, city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\" \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Councilman Larry Carr represents Meadowview and acknowledges the lack of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s way down-ticket,” Carr says. “Less money is spent on those campaigns, very little TV advertising because it’s just not cost-effective for the size of the districts. And so, it’s more difficult for people to get interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Face-To-Face Interaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local elections typically draw little interest and few votes, these elected officials are often the most directly accessible to their constituents, since they generally represent fewer people and live in the neighborhoods they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, Carr -- who is not up for election this year -- holds a public meeting at the community center in Meadowview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen residents, mostly community and neighborhood association leaders, are attending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did in the first meeting was essentially ask the community, ‘What do you want me to do, now that you’ve elected me?’ ” Carr says. “We had this whole room filled with butcher paper with things you wanted me to do. We narrowed it down to a few things. And we’re going to tell you about some of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He touted his accomplishments, and it also gave residents a forum to air their concerns. They sat at round, fold-out tables and discussed their desire for more jobs, better roads, community art and cleaner blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Coron mentions a continued need for afterschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detroit Boulevard area, we don’t really have much there at all,” Coron says, to nods around her table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Boykins is skeptical his voice will be heard. It’s his first time attending one of these meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think a lot of it is just show,\" Boykins says. “We talk, we do little things, but next year we’ll be here at the same time, talking about the same stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But B.J. 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The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put together a petition, got our councilman involved, too,” he says. “And sure enough, they moved the bus stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he says the accomplishment is modest, Cannady credits it with mobilizing him to become more involved with local issues in his community. He now runs neighborhood meetings and recently organized coffee with a leading mayoral candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898177 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Cyclist-1-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides along a public levee in the Pocket, Thursday, February 11, 2016. 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Will Cannady, who lives in the neighborhood, is pushing for the city to buy privately owned land along the Sacramento River to complete a new bike trail. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day-To-Day Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mile east of the Pocket, in the Meadowview neighborhood, Darryl Lucien has a problem with a bare plot of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it reinforces a narrative of blight and decay in this low-income community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s full of weeds, and trash, and debris,” Lucien says. “Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city, so they can clean up their mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien works for a state assemblyman, but he says city and county officials often play a more direct role in our day-to-day lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are the people who are responsible for just your quality of life, making sure that your neighborhoods are clean, your roads are paved, police services, and making sure response times are good,” Lucien says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also influence state and federal actions, says Mike Madrid, a principal at the political consulting firm GrassrootsLab. Madrid mentions a ban on plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting no traction in the state Legislature for eight years,” he says. “Local governments were taking policy positions that effectively forced the hand of the Legislature to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says state marijuana, firearm and smoking laws all started at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Power Is Local\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each vote cast in a local race also has a larger statistical effect than in larger races. A vote in a district of 10,000 will play a larger role in the outcome than one in a statewide race of 40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You, by nature, have more impact,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voters turn out for local elections at dismal rates, on average half that of national races, according to a 2003 UC San Diego study. In cities that hold races in off-years, without federal elections, turnout can reach single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10898179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10898179 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg\" alt='Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped, city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenLot-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Lucien says this undeveloped city-owned field in Meadowview is often “full of weeds, and trash, and debris. Every now and then I have to call 311 and report the city to the city, so they can clean up their mess.\" \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Councilman Larry Carr represents Meadowview and acknowledges the lack of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s way down-ticket,” Carr says. “Less money is spent on those campaigns, very little TV advertising because it’s just not cost-effective for the size of the districts. 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And we’re going to tell you about some of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He touted his accomplishments, and it also gave residents a forum to air their concerns. They sat at round, fold-out tables and discussed their desire for more jobs, better roads, community art and cleaner blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Coron mentions a continued need for afterschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detroit Boulevard area, we don’t really have much there at all,” Coron says, to nods around her table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Boykins is skeptical his voice will be heard. It’s his first time attending one of these meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think a lot of it is just show,\" Boykins says. “We talk, we do little things, but next year we’ll be here at the same time, talking about the same stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But B.J. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been 2½ decades since California voters last filled a U.S. Senate vacancy, but with veteran lawmaker Barbara Boxer set to step down this year, voters have a chance to pick from four major candidates competing to fill her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez is one of two Democrats in the running. After 20 years in the House of Representatives, the Orange County congresswoman aims to move up to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251991885\" 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>She has been trailing a fellow Democrat and the front-runner in the race, state Attorney General Kamala Harris. In a January survey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2523.pdf\">the Field Poll\u003c/a> showed among likely voters who stated a preference that Harris led by 27 percent to Sanchez' 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republicans, Tom Del Beccaro and Duf Sundheim, trailed behind them at 3 percent each. A third Republican, Rocky Chavez, drew support from 7 percent of the respondents, but he has since \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/08/57311/gop-senate-candidate-chavez-drops-out-from-race/\">withdrawn from the race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significantly, a large segment of those polled, 44 percent, were undecided. It's the voters in that group who Sanchez hopes to sway to her side. Even if she comes in second in California's June 7 primary election, she can survive to the general election under the state's open primary contest in which the top two vote-getters move on to the November ballot regardless of their party affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate race is the biggest political competition since California adopted top-two primary in 2011, and it likely will force a faceoff between the two well-known Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Campaign Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a February evening in the city of Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County, music played in one room of a Mexican restaurant that also doubles as a nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another room, a campaign event was about to get underway for Loretta Sanchez. The congresswoman sat down to explain why she thinks California voters should elect her to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know how to work with Democrats and with Republicans. So I think I will take that knowledge over to the Senate with me,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a member of the House since 1996, when she narrowly beat Orange County Republican Bob Dornan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zosZdU7f1hdfoABaRhoHP9yBUrh5K8aR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/203/loretta-sanchez#.Vt94U5MrK8U\">Her rankings\u003c/a> among special interest and labor groups as compiled by the elections site \u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/\">VoterSmart.org\u003c/a> are aligned with her politics as a moderate Democrat: high among groups like Planned Parenthood and lower as rated by the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez points out that she is the only candidate running who has a track record in Congress. She is proud of her role in the passage of revised sexual assault provisions in the military justice code and sits on the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how she differs from Harris, Sanchez turned not to the issues that separate them, but to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My parents are Mexican immigrants, came here with nothing, settled in Anaheim, had seven children,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Sanchez wins, she would be the first Latina senator. Should Harris prevail, her win would also be notable. Harris' mother is from India and her father grew up in Jamaica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Sanchez' younger sister, Linda Sanchez, is also a congresswoman, representing the 38th district covering Montebello, Pico Rivera, Norwalk and Artesia. At her sister's political event, Linda Sanchez rallied the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's the No.2 Democrat on both the Homeland Security committee and the Armed Services committee and, let me tell you, she knows her s---,\" Linda Sanchez said, drawing laughter and applause from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trailing in Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 Los Angeles County officials at the event endorsed Loretta Sanchez for the Senate race. But Sanchez found less enthusiasm at the California Democrats State Convention in February, landing the endorsement of just 19 percent of the delegates to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cadem.org/convention/convention-info/highlights\">Harris' 78 percent.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to issues like immigration, job creation and the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.loretta.org/issues\">Sanchez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kamalaharris.org/issues/\">Harris\u003c/a> are not far apart. One\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/26/57985/california-senate-candidates-split-on-iphone-acces/\"> difference between them has emerged\u003c/a> on the issue of Apple Inc.'s resistance to the FBI's request to crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists: Sanchez is backing Apple and Harris is not taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez speaks of banning gun shows and limiting gun magazines to 10-round capacities. She’s endorsed a ballot measure that would raise the minimum wage in California to $15 an hour and backs \u003ca href=\"https://lorettasanchez.house.gov/issues/health-care\">health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County congresswoman Janice Hahn, who is running for a Los Angeles County supervisor seat, is among those who are supporting Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she’s effective in a way of communicating to the American people some of the issues, particularly as it relates to homeland security,\" Hahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez' communication style has landed her in trouble in the past. She has taken heat for making a Native American war cry gesture after a mixup in referring to a person from India and a Native American. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/05/17/51758/kamala-harris-calls-senate-candidate-sanchez-s-ges/\">apologized for the gaffe\u003c/a>, but it continues to haunt her politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she drew criticism for stating on Larry King's show that up to 20 percent of Muslims want an Islamic caliphate. In that case, she did not apologize, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/26/57060/rep-loretta-sanchez-stands-by-statement-that-up-to/\">stood by her statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have spoken to those comments and the reality is that there’s no one who has done more for the Muslim-American community than I have, \" she told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Whalen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/\">Stanford University’s Hoover Institution\u003c/a> said there's a clear difference in the way Sanchez and Harris speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris is quiet, reserved,\" he said. \"Loretta Sanchez is a little more earthy, and a little more out there. And she has, shall we say, a checkered record when it comes to comments she has made that are sometimes politically incorrect and then sometimes just some tone-deaf political judgments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whalen points to one moment in 2000 when Sanchez tried to organize a political fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic National Convention. Under political pressure, she later relocated it to Universal Studios CityWalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what she learned from the reaction to her fundraiser, Sanchez suggested sexism was behind the kerfuffle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned that people are harder on women than men,\" she said. Sanchez maintains that male politicians have held fundraisers at the Playboy Mansion and did not receive the flak she attracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Hennessey, Playboy Enterprises spokeswoman, said fundraisers have been held at the mansion for politicians like former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and ex-Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley served from 1973 to 1993, while Washington held office in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Turnout May Be Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez met up with KPCC recently in Orange County in the city of Placentia, about a mile north from where she grew up. In high school, she worked cleaning houses with her mom on weekends and scooped ice cream at a local Save On.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the visit, Sanchez ducked inside a shop called Mexico Supermarket, where pinatas hung from the ceiling. In the back, a cook chopped beef for carne asada tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sanchez visited the store, Placentia resident Brian Richards grabbed her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish we had more like you,\" Richards said, assuring Sanchez that he'd vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez also met someone who may represent her biggest challenge: people who see no reason to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895717\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent college grad Taylor Chun, the store manager, worked behind the cash register. She told Sanchez she hoped someday to become a wedding planner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the congresswoman left, Chun said she does not plan to vote. She would like to see things change in her neighborhood, such as more jobs. But Chun said she doesn’t think a new senator will make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like nobody really is going to help us,\" the young cashier said. \"They get the votes, they win and then after that, it’s like nothing is really changing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therein lies a problem: Voter turnout could have a major impact on Sanchez’ campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Southern California has a larger population, voters in Northern California, where Harris has her base, cast their ballots at higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political analysts point out Sanchez will need Southern Californians like Chun to vote if the congresswoman is to have a better chance at defeating Harris. Also key to her success are Latino voters, a group that historically records low voter turnout rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re Sanchez … you have to do two things right now,” Whalen said. Appeal to “Latino voters, primarily in Southern California, and then secondly, Southern California Democrats writ large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPCC. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">http://www.kpcc.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what's important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Even if she comes in second in California's June 7 primary election, she can survive to the general election under the state's open primary contest in which the top two vote-getters move on to the November ballot regardless of their party affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate race is the biggest political competition since California adopted top-two primary in 2011, and it likely will force a faceoff between the two well-known Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Campaign Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a February evening in the city of Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County, music played in one room of a Mexican restaurant that also doubles as a nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another room, a campaign event was about to get underway for Loretta Sanchez. The congresswoman sat down to explain why she thinks California voters should elect her to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know how to work with Democrats and with Republicans. So I think I will take that knowledge over to the Senate with me,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a member of the House since 1996, when she narrowly beat Orange County Republican Bob Dornan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/203/loretta-sanchez#.Vt94U5MrK8U\">Her rankings\u003c/a> among special interest and labor groups as compiled by the elections site \u003ca href=\"http://votesmart.org/\">VoterSmart.org\u003c/a> are aligned with her politics as a moderate Democrat: high among groups like Planned Parenthood and lower as rated by the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez points out that she is the only candidate running who has a track record in Congress. She is proud of her role in the passage of revised sexual assault provisions in the military justice code and sits on the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how she differs from Harris, Sanchez turned not to the issues that separate them, but to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My parents are Mexican immigrants, came here with nothing, settled in Anaheim, had seven children,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Sanchez wins, she would be the first Latina senator. Should Harris prevail, her win would also be notable. Harris' mother is from India and her father grew up in Jamaica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Sanchez' younger sister, Linda Sanchez, is also a congresswoman, representing the 38th district covering Montebello, Pico Rivera, Norwalk and Artesia. At her sister's political event, Linda Sanchez rallied the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's the No.2 Democrat on both the Homeland Security committee and the Armed Services committee and, let me tell you, she knows her s---,\" Linda Sanchez said, drawing laughter and applause from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trailing in Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 Los Angeles County officials at the event endorsed Loretta Sanchez for the Senate race. But Sanchez found less enthusiasm at the California Democrats State Convention in February, landing the endorsement of just 19 percent of the delegates to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cadem.org/convention/convention-info/highlights\">Harris' 78 percent.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119698-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez sits inside Tlaquepaque Restaurant in Placentia on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to issues like immigration, job creation and the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.loretta.org/issues\">Sanchez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kamalaharris.org/issues/\">Harris\u003c/a> are not far apart. One\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/26/57985/california-senate-candidates-split-on-iphone-acces/\"> difference between them has emerged\u003c/a> on the issue of Apple Inc.'s resistance to the FBI's request to crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists: Sanchez is backing Apple and Harris is not taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez speaks of banning gun shows and limiting gun magazines to 10-round capacities. She’s endorsed a ballot measure that would raise the minimum wage in California to $15 an hour and backs \u003ca href=\"https://lorettasanchez.house.gov/issues/health-care\">health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County congresswoman Janice Hahn, who is running for a Los Angeles County supervisor seat, is among those who are supporting Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she’s effective in a way of communicating to the American people some of the issues, particularly as it relates to homeland security,\" Hahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez' communication style has landed her in trouble in the past. She has taken heat for making a Native American war cry gesture after a mixup in referring to a person from India and a Native American. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/05/17/51758/kamala-harris-calls-senate-candidate-sanchez-s-ges/\">apologized for the gaffe\u003c/a>, but it continues to haunt her politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she drew criticism for stating on Larry King's show that up to 20 percent of Muslims want an Islamic caliphate. In that case, she did not apologize, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/26/57060/rep-loretta-sanchez-stands-by-statement-that-up-to/\">stood by her statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have spoken to those comments and the reality is that there’s no one who has done more for the Muslim-American community than I have, \" she told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Whalen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/\">Stanford University’s Hoover Institution\u003c/a> said there's a clear difference in the way Sanchez and Harris speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris is quiet, reserved,\" he said. \"Loretta Sanchez is a little more earthy, and a little more out there. And she has, shall we say, a checkered record when it comes to comments she has made that are sometimes politically incorrect and then sometimes just some tone-deaf political judgments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whalen points to one moment in 2000 when Sanchez tried to organize a political fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic National Convention. Under political pressure, she later relocated it to Universal Studios CityWalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what she learned from the reaction to her fundraiser, Sanchez suggested sexism was behind the kerfuffle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned that people are harder on women than men,\" she said. Sanchez maintains that male politicians have held fundraisers at the Playboy Mansion and did not receive the flak she attracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Hennessey, Playboy Enterprises spokeswoman, said fundraisers have been held at the mansion for politicians like former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and ex-Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley served from 1973 to 1993, while Washington held office in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Turnout May Be Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez met up with KPCC recently in Orange County in the city of Placentia, about a mile north from where she grew up. In high school, she worked cleaning houses with her mom on weekends and scooped ice cream at a local Save On.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the visit, Sanchez ducked inside a shop called Mexico Supermarket, where pinatas hung from the ceiling. In the back, a cook chopped beef for carne asada tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sanchez visited the store, Placentia resident Brian Richards grabbed her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish we had more like you,\" Richards said, assuring Sanchez that he'd vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez also met someone who may represent her biggest challenge: people who see no reason to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10895717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10895717\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119704-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Chun, who just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, is working as a manager at her family's store in Placentia. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent college grad Taylor Chun, the store manager, worked behind the cash register. She told Sanchez she hoped someday to become a wedding planner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the congresswoman left, Chun said she does not plan to vote. She would like to see things change in her neighborhood, such as more jobs. But Chun said she doesn’t think a new senator will make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like nobody really is going to help us,\" the young cashier said. \"They get the votes, they win and then after that, it’s like nothing is really changing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therein lies a problem: Voter turnout could have a major impact on Sanchez’ campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Southern California has a larger population, voters in Northern California, where Harris has her base, cast their ballots at higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political analysts point out Sanchez will need Southern Californians like Chun to vote if the congresswoman is to have a better chance at defeating Harris. 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"content": "\u003cp>California law prohibits felons, people with a history of domestic violence and others with severe mental illness from having guns. It falls to Attorney General Kamala Harris and her Department of Justice to confiscate those guns. But 11,830 people currently banned from having guns may still possess them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That upsets Amanda and Nick Wilcox, whose daughter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Nevada-City-Mourns-Gunman-s-motive-unclear-2965803.php\" target=\"_blank\">Laura, was killed\u003c/a> by a gunman in Nevada City in 2001 while working at the county behavioral health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was numb for six months,\" Amanda Wilcox recalls. \"I kept pinching myself, thinking I don’t believe this happened. I felt like I was outside my body -- as if something had happened to someone else. It turns your life upside down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, shock turned into a conviction that Amanda and her husband needed to do more to control access to guns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251183107\" 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>They joined the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bradycampaign.org/california-chapters\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence\u003c/a> and were instrumental in getting several major gun control laws passed in recent years. And they’ve steadfastly pushed state lawmakers to fully fund the Department of Justice’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Implementing the program is harder than we all envisioned -- certainly for DOJ and certainly for us who advocated for this program in the very beginning,\" said Wilcox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Backlog From the Beginning\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APPS uses a database to flag people who legally obtain guns but later lose the right to have them. Agents at the DOJ track them down and confiscate their guns, a task both dangerous and time-consuming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began using the database in 2006. From day one, there's been a backlog in the system. It reached a peak in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public safety hearing just weeks after the December 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, legislators were stunned to learn that the list of prohibited gun owners yet to be investigated had reached 20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list.'\u003ccite>Kamala Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Firearms Chief Stephen Lindley testified that day that the list had expanded that fast because more than 2,000 people were being added each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite our best efforts, the bureau does not have the resources to keep up with this annual influx of cases to reduce the backlog,\" Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many people, how many guns, what would it cost to get them out of the hands of prohibited people as quickly as possible?” asked Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindley told lawmakers if the bureau could temporarily hire 50 more agents, his department would be able to clear the backlog within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe we can arrest our way, and investigate our way, out of this,” Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that an $8 million, a $15 million a $24 million investment in getting guns out of the hands of a prohibited person would be a very wise and worthy investment,” said Steinberg, who was later able to rally bipartisan support for a one-time allocation of $24 million set to expire this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"CV1HN3Teeb0gHmh0nXgMqLwTiDvSDh0g\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ agents investigated 20,000 people since then, but in that time as many people were added to the list, leaving a backlog of roughly 12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the swearing-in of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon at the state Capitol Monday, Attorney General Kamala Harris said $24 million was not enough to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Armed and Prohibited Persons List is extensive, and it grows every day,\" Harris told Capital Public Radio. \"It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list. I need a lot more resources, frankly, to meet the challenge of -- not only just reducing -- but I want to eliminate that backlog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is seeking an annual $4.7 million increase for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing Gun Purchases and a Growing List\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Jan. 1, 2016, DOJ report to the Legislature\u003c/a> cites a surge in gun purchases and new laws that expanded the number of people subject to prohibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ officials declined to talk to KQED about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have not made it a priority. It's as simple as that,\" said Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), who voted for the temporary funding in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen, a budget leader in the Republican caucus, has called for a hearing to find out why DOJ did not eliminate the backlog. “They have not really been accountable in telling us what their problem has been. Their answer is, ‘We need more money, we need more money, we need more money.’ That is not an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891671\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10891671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-400x540.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-1180x1594.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-960x1297.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2015-504.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the Bureau of State Audits faulted the DOJ for not doing enough to ensure the accuracy of the database and the prompt investigation of people who became prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BSA said DOJ had repeatedly cited the “redirecting” of APPS agents to other priority work with a statutory deadline as an obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some responsibility lies with local law enforcement for failing to notify DOJ when they confiscate guns. The DOJ reports 500 such instances since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Police Chiefs Association president David Bejarano acknowledged law enforcement’s use of APPS got off to a slow start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe a lot of police departments and sheriff’s departments weren’t fully aware of the APPS system, the database,” Bejarano said. “Obviously in light of what we’re seeing nationwide -- with mass shootings occurring too frequently -- I think there’s a refocus to spend more time using the database, and we’ve seen an improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bejarano says DOJ dedicated more time and personnel to work on the APPS backlog and to partner with local law enforcement. He knows of at least 100 joint operations up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bejarano, the Chula Vista police chief, said his officers currently conduct annual sweeps to seize guns using the APPS database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more weapons we remove from the streets -- especially from those who are prohibited from owning or possessing a weapon -- I’m sure that at some point we’re preventing violence and saving some lives,\" said Bejarano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Wilcox, whose daughter was killed by a gunman, thinks APPS would be even more effective if California lawmakers fully funded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In an ideal world, they would be disarming these prohibited persons as soon as they became known to DOJ so that you’re not always feeling like you’re on a treadmill going backwards,” Wilcox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature will consider the attorney general’s request for more money to confiscate guns at a hearing in Sacramento on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money would come from a special fund -- from a $5 fee people pay for each gun they buy in California -- and would have no impact on the state's general fund. Even with more permanent funding, the DOJ projects it will take until 2020 to reduce the backlog to 3,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what's important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It reached a peak in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public safety hearing just weeks after the December 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, legislators were stunned to learn that the list of prohibited gun owners yet to be investigated had reached 20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list.'\u003ccite>Kamala Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Firearms Chief Stephen Lindley testified that day that the list had expanded that fast because more than 2,000 people were being added each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite our best efforts, the bureau does not have the resources to keep up with this annual influx of cases to reduce the backlog,\" Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many people, how many guns, what would it cost to get them out of the hands of prohibited people as quickly as possible?” asked Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindley told lawmakers if the bureau could temporarily hire 50 more agents, his department would be able to clear the backlog within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe we can arrest our way, and investigate our way, out of this,” Lindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that an $8 million, a $15 million a $24 million investment in getting guns out of the hands of a prohibited person would be a very wise and worthy investment,” said Steinberg, who was later able to rally bipartisan support for a one-time allocation of $24 million set to expire this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ agents investigated 20,000 people since then, but in that time as many people were added to the list, leaving a backlog of roughly 12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the swearing-in of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon at the state Capitol Monday, Attorney General Kamala Harris said $24 million was not enough to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Armed and Prohibited Persons List is extensive, and it grows every day,\" Harris told Capital Public Radio. \"It's not just some list that sits there and we just chip away at it. Every day, names are added to that list. I need a lot more resources, frankly, to meet the challenge of -- not only just reducing -- but I want to eliminate that backlog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is seeking an annual $4.7 million increase for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing Gun Purchases and a Growing List\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Jan. 1, 2016, DOJ report to the Legislature\u003c/a> cites a surge in gun purchases and new laws that expanded the number of people subject to prohibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ officials declined to talk to KQED about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have not made it a priority. It's as simple as that,\" said Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), who voted for the temporary funding in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen, a budget leader in the Republican caucus, has called for a hearing to find out why DOJ did not eliminate the backlog. “They have not really been accountable in telling us what their problem has been. Their answer is, ‘We need more money, we need more money, we need more money.’ That is not an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891671\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10891671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-800x1081.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-400x540.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-1180x1594.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Harris-960x1297.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Kamala Harris says the one-time allocation of $24 million wasn't enough to work through a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2015-504.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the Bureau of State Audits faulted the DOJ for not doing enough to ensure the accuracy of the database and the prompt investigation of people who became prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BSA said DOJ had repeatedly cited the “redirecting” of APPS agents to other priority work with a statutory deadline as an obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some responsibility lies with local law enforcement for failing to notify DOJ when they confiscate guns. The DOJ reports 500 such instances since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Police Chiefs Association president David Bejarano acknowledged law enforcement’s use of APPS got off to a slow start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe a lot of police departments and sheriff’s departments weren’t fully aware of the APPS system, the database,” Bejarano said. “Obviously in light of what we’re seeing nationwide -- with mass shootings occurring too frequently -- I think there’s a refocus to spend more time using the database, and we’ve seen an improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bejarano says DOJ dedicated more time and personnel to work on the APPS backlog and to partner with local law enforcement. He knows of at least 100 joint operations up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bejarano, the Chula Vista police chief, said his officers currently conduct annual sweeps to seize guns using the APPS database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more weapons we remove from the streets -- especially from those who are prohibited from owning or possessing a weapon -- I’m sure that at some point we’re preventing violence and saving some lives,\" said Bejarano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Wilcox, whose daughter was killed by a gunman, thinks APPS would be even more effective if California lawmakers fully funded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In an ideal world, they would be disarming these prohibited persons as soon as they became known to DOJ so that you’re not always feeling like you’re on a treadmill going backwards,” Wilcox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature will consider the attorney general’s request for more money to confiscate guns at a hearing in Sacramento on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money would come from a special fund -- from a $5 fee people pay for each gun they buy in California -- and would have no impact on the state's general fund. 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"content": "\u003cp>People up and down the state are trying to crack the code on California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jan/28/why-dont-more-californians-vote/\">dismal voter turnout\u003c/a>, which reached a record low for general elections in 2014. Just 42.2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is getting ready to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/14/will-californias-new-motor-voter-law-boost-turnout/\" target=\"_blank\">register drivers automatically to vote\u003c/a>, and there's talk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/01/26/46056/ca-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-s-plan-to-get-m/\" target=\"_blank\">sending mail-in ballots\u003c/a> to every registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a San Diego nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panasd.org/\">Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans\u003c/a>, sees untapped potential in one voting bloc: refugees. The group noticed that refugees who do vote tend to never miss an election. They’re super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251017007\" 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>How big is the opportunity? California has resettled \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugee-resettlement-metropolitan-america\">about 300,000 refugees\u003c/a> since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramla Sahid is PANA's executive director and a U.S.-born daughter of Somali refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grow, we have children, children get married, they have more children. So I think former refugees and new refugees are sort of an underengaged, overlooked, potentially huge voter base that could, I think, impact the way we do things,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889865 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg\" alt=\"Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\" width=\"800\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-400x478.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-1180x1409.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-960x1146.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sahid is working this election year to replicate on a larger scale what's happening in Mariam Ali's home. Ali lives in San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/10/san-diego-neighborhoods-close-distance-miles-apart/\">Teralta\u003c/a> neighborhood, where just 27 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From War to Ballot Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Ali was cooking pasta for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids, they love this stuff,\" she said. \"'Mommy, make the alfredo sauce!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the store-bought kind but spiked with curry and ground African peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five years ago, Ali was begging nomadic tribes for a pot to boil what little food she had. She and her family had fled \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094503\">civil war in Somalia\u003c/a> and were walking to a refugee camp about 200 miles from their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took my house, they took my money, they took my belongings and I escaped with nothing,\" Ali said. Rebels were seizing towns amid the fighting between Somalia's Hawiye and Darod clans, of which Ali's family and ousted Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre were members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali went from seeing a government toppled in Somalia to living for years in a Kenyan refugee camp with no civic structure — just United Nations workers keeping things running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, in the United States, Ali is a super voter. That means she's voted in every election since becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003. Her first vote for president went to Democrat John Kerry, who lost to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889854 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in Diego’s Teralta neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' We went to the county office and I didn't know what to do,\" Ali said, recalling that first vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali has since encouraged her three older sons to vote. She said they fill out their mail-in ballots as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Small But Mighty Voting Bloc\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refugee families are not like Ali's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 32 percent of foreign-born residents vote, compared with 46 percent of those born in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census and \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>, a company that analyzes voter information for campaigns and others. Turnout among refugees is hard to pinpoint — foreign-born also includes people who voluntarily left home, immigrants who are living in the country illegally and cannot vote, and legal residents who aren't yet citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a survey by PANA of 953 East Africans in San Diego shows 30 percent of those registered are super voters, or voted in at least eight of the past 10 elections. That's compared with 20 percent of the state's voting population, according to data from the U.S. Census and Political Data Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrat:\u003c/strong> 45 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Republican:\u003c/strong> 40 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>African-American:\u003c/strong> 3 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Asian:\u003c/strong> 7 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Latino:\u003c/strong> 10 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age 65 or older:\u003c/strong> 58 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Earns $100,000 or more:\u003c/strong> 37 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Homeowner:\u003c/strong> 78 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: Political Data Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the refugees surveyed, 75 percent are also active voters, meaning they don't show up only for presidential elections, like a lot of U.S.-born voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether this phenomenon is seen elsewhere in the state. According to Political Data Inc., 13 percent of California's foreign-born voters are super voters. The data don't account for refugees alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sahid said it would make sense to see staunch refugee voters throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when you're kicked out of your home, you're persecuted, you've fled wars, and you have to start over and rebuild your entire life, it means something more when you can actually engage in decision-making,\" Sahid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ietcPzhokMQnz3LuWWdAGRKbzcr2BIZN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she votes because she wants her community's needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to vote because my voice will be heard,\" Ali said. \"If I need something and I don't vote, who knows me? Who knows my needs? No one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali cares a lot about empowering women — her father pushed her into an abusive marriage at age 14. She said her vote in this year's presidential race is going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am very excited,\" Ali said. \"Women can do what the men do, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she also cares about rising college tuition and racial inequality. She said she's surprised those issues don't draw more U.S.-born voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want my community members to vote and come out of the shell that they (are) hiding in,\" Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting Doubt on 'Every Vote Counts'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noreen H. Green lives down the street from Ali. She said racial inequality is exactly why she hasn't voted since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to refugees and they think this is the greatest country on Earth,\" Green said. \"I see it from a different perspective because I'm a black American and my ancestors were brought here as slaves and worked 400 years for free, and that's how a lot of the wealth of this country was built. So I see it from that lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green comes from a family of super voters. In fact, the last time she went to the polls was in 2014 to drop off a ballot for her mother, who had a stroke that year and was paralyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was that important to her,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-960x611.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green's husband is also a super voter. But not Green. She said casting a ballot would mean supporting a system she considers unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From young black men and women being killed — and there really have been no consequences for that — to the fact that you have to have millions, sometimes billions, to run for president. And our county Board of Supervisors sat on a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpisandiego.org/debate_erupts_over_county_s_reserve_funds\">reserve\u003c/a> during the recession.\" Green said. \"I don't vote because I don't believe anyone deserves my vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whichever candidate squares off with Republican Donald Trump if he wins the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's another thing. It's like watching a circus,\" Green said, referring to this year’s GOP presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Green is interning with a nonprofit that works to get out the vote during election years. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdop.net/\">San Diego Organizing Project\u003c/a> also organizes the community around social justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said for her to vote, the system would have to look a lot different. And she said it will be those she organizes — the Black Lives Matter protesters, immigrant \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/25/central-valley-teen-familys-only-vote-will-she-cas/\">DREAMers\u003c/a> and refugees like Ali — who will shape it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to empower people and create this mass of people that can make change,\" Green said. \"Because it's going to take a mass movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PANA believes refugees are that mass to push for change — at the ballot box. San Diego has resettled an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/21/san-diego-marks-world-refugee-day/\">estimated 100,000 refugees\u003c/a> since 1975. To PANA, that's 100,000 potential super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit www.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">kpbs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: The original version of this story said DMV is already registering drivers automatically to vote. That's not happening yet. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>People up and down the state are trying to crack the code on California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jan/28/why-dont-more-californians-vote/\">dismal voter turnout\u003c/a>, which reached a record low for general elections in 2014. Just 42.2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is getting ready to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/14/will-californias-new-motor-voter-law-boost-turnout/\" target=\"_blank\">register drivers automatically to vote\u003c/a>, and there's talk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/01/26/46056/ca-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-s-plan-to-get-m/\" target=\"_blank\">sending mail-in ballots\u003c/a> to every registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a San Diego nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panasd.org/\">Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans\u003c/a>, sees untapped potential in one voting bloc: refugees. The group noticed that refugees who do vote tend to never miss an election. They’re super voters.\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/251017007&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/251017007'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big is the opportunity? California has resettled \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugee-resettlement-metropolitan-america\">about 300,000 refugees\u003c/a> since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramla Sahid is PANA's executive director and a U.S.-born daughter of Somali refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grow, we have children, children get married, they have more children. So I think former refugees and new refugees are sort of an underengaged, overlooked, potentially huge voter base that could, I think, impact the way we do things,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889865 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg\" alt=\"Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\" width=\"800\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-400x478.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-1180x1409.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-960x1146.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sahid is working this election year to replicate on a larger scale what's happening in Mariam Ali's home. Ali lives in San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/10/san-diego-neighborhoods-close-distance-miles-apart/\">Teralta\u003c/a> neighborhood, where just 27 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From War to Ballot Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Ali was cooking pasta for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids, they love this stuff,\" she said. \"'Mommy, make the alfredo sauce!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the store-bought kind but spiked with curry and ground African peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five years ago, Ali was begging nomadic tribes for a pot to boil what little food she had. She and her family had fled \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094503\">civil war in Somalia\u003c/a> and were walking to a refugee camp about 200 miles from their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took my house, they took my money, they took my belongings and I escaped with nothing,\" Ali said. Rebels were seizing towns amid the fighting between Somalia's Hawiye and Darod clans, of which Ali's family and ousted Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre were members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali went from seeing a government toppled in Somalia to living for years in a Kenyan refugee camp with no civic structure — just United Nations workers keeping things running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, in the United States, Ali is a super voter. That means she's voted in every election since becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003. Her first vote for president went to Democrat John Kerry, who lost to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889854 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in Diego’s Teralta neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' We went to the county office and I didn't know what to do,\" Ali said, recalling that first vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali has since encouraged her three older sons to vote. She said they fill out their mail-in ballots as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Small But Mighty Voting Bloc\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refugee families are not like Ali's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 32 percent of foreign-born residents vote, compared with 46 percent of those born in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census and \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>, a company that analyzes voter information for campaigns and others. Turnout among refugees is hard to pinpoint — foreign-born also includes people who voluntarily left home, immigrants who are living in the country illegally and cannot vote, and legal residents who aren't yet citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a survey by PANA of 953 East Africans in San Diego shows 30 percent of those registered are super voters, or voted in at least eight of the past 10 elections. That's compared with 20 percent of the state's voting population, according to data from the U.S. Census and Political Data Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrat:\u003c/strong> 45 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Republican:\u003c/strong> 40 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>African-American:\u003c/strong> 3 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Asian:\u003c/strong> 7 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Latino:\u003c/strong> 10 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age 65 or older:\u003c/strong> 58 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Earns $100,000 or more:\u003c/strong> 37 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Homeowner:\u003c/strong> 78 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: Political Data Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the refugees surveyed, 75 percent are also active voters, meaning they don't show up only for presidential elections, like a lot of U.S.-born voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether this phenomenon is seen elsewhere in the state. According to Political Data Inc., 13 percent of California's foreign-born voters are super voters. The data don't account for refugees alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sahid said it would make sense to see staunch refugee voters throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when you're kicked out of your home, you're persecuted, you've fled wars, and you have to start over and rebuild your entire life, it means something more when you can actually engage in decision-making,\" Sahid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she votes because she wants her community's needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to vote because my voice will be heard,\" Ali said. \"If I need something and I don't vote, who knows me? Who knows my needs? No one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali cares a lot about empowering women — her father pushed her into an abusive marriage at age 14. She said her vote in this year's presidential race is going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am very excited,\" Ali said. \"Women can do what the men do, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she also cares about rising college tuition and racial inequality. She said she's surprised those issues don't draw more U.S.-born voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want my community members to vote and come out of the shell that they (are) hiding in,\" Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting Doubt on 'Every Vote Counts'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noreen H. Green lives down the street from Ali. She said racial inequality is exactly why she hasn't voted since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to refugees and they think this is the greatest country on Earth,\" Green said. \"I see it from a different perspective because I'm a black American and my ancestors were brought here as slaves and worked 400 years for free, and that's how a lot of the wealth of this country was built. So I see it from that lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green comes from a family of super voters. In fact, the last time she went to the polls was in 2014 to drop off a ballot for her mother, who had a stroke that year and was paralyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was that important to her,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-960x611.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green's husband is also a super voter. But not Green. She said casting a ballot would mean supporting a system she considers unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From young black men and women being killed — and there really have been no consequences for that — to the fact that you have to have millions, sometimes billions, to run for president. And our county Board of Supervisors sat on a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpisandiego.org/debate_erupts_over_county_s_reserve_funds\">reserve\u003c/a> during the recession.\" Green said. \"I don't vote because I don't believe anyone deserves my vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whichever candidate squares off with Republican Donald Trump if he wins the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's another thing. It's like watching a circus,\" Green said, referring to this year’s GOP presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Green is interning with a nonprofit that works to get out the vote during election years. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdop.net/\">San Diego Organizing Project\u003c/a> also organizes the community around social justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said for her to vote, the system would have to look a lot different. And she said it will be those she organizes — the Black Lives Matter protesters, immigrant \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/25/central-valley-teen-familys-only-vote-will-she-cas/\">DREAMers\u003c/a> and refugees like Ali — who will shape it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to empower people and create this mass of people that can make change,\" Green said. \"Because it's going to take a mass movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PANA believes refugees are that mass to push for change — at the ballot box. San Diego has resettled an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/21/san-diego-marks-world-refugee-day/\">estimated 100,000 refugees\u003c/a> since 1975. To PANA, that's 100,000 potential super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit www.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">kpbs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: The original version of this story said DMV is already registering drivers automatically to vote. That's not happening yet. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what's important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Democrat\u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/\"> Ro Khanna \u003c/a>isn’t only taking on eight-term congressman \u003ca href=\"http://mikehonda.com/\">Mike Honda \u003c/a>for the House seat in the heart of Silicon Valley. He’s roughing up the entire California Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fearless,” said 39-year-old Khanna, an Indian-American tech attorney from Fremont. “The rules are rigged. There’s a group of people trying to hold onto their power by appointing their friends, who will decide who gets the party’s endorsement. It’s a vestige of the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250173174″ 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>Khanna admits he’s channeling Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump in this year’s wild and unorthodox presidential race. He believes they have tapped into voters who are tired of parties looking out for their own interests instead of working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the Republican side — although I disagree with him on many issues — there is a populism to Trump’s campaign,” said Khanna. “There’s a lot of anger on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was hours before delegates at the California Democratic Party Convention in San Jose overwhelmingly endorsed Honda on Feb. 27. For the 74-year-old veteran congressman — who is in the throes of a\u003ca href=\"https://ethics.house.gov/\"> serious House Ethics Committee \u003c/a>investigation — this is a rematch of a bitter race Khanna narrowly lost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda quickly brushed off Khanna’s accusations that the party rules are rigged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-400x330.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-960x791.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh come on. For goodness sake,” said Honda, a Japanese-American former schoolteacher. “I’m not the one who paid for memberships to load up on Democratic clubs. … We’ll see how much of an impact his negative campaign, his innuendos and the impressions he’s trying to leave on people work out. I don’t think they will work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during this campaign Khanna plans to hit Honda hard on the House ethics probe every chance he gets. There are allegations that Honda mixed campaign and government business and gave improper favors, like fast-tracking visas, to top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it [the investigation] disqualifies Mike Honda from running. It’s my honest opinion,” said Khanna. “It represents cronyism, it represents giving favors to donors and it’s wrong. And I will speak out about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda said there’s an internal House process by which committee members will determine if a House rule was violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violating an ethics rule is not breaking a law,” said Honda. “There is not a criminal investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the ethics committee’s decision is critical, said Larry Gerston, a political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the committee acts fairly soon, Honda could probably go a long way with putting it behind him,” said Gerston. “But if the committee acts in a negative way — let’s say in September or October — that could be a factor in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Khanna is portraying Honda “as everything wrong with politics” and himself as the ultimate Washington and Democratic Party outsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take no PAC [political action committee] money,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may want to brush up on who is serving in Congress. At the California Democratic Convention in San Jose last weekend, he bumped into Maxine Waters, the veteran Los Angeles congresswoman and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Khanna introduced himself and asked Waters what she’s running for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Re-election in Los Angeles,” said Waters, who was also once investigated for violating House ethics rules in 2010 and later exonerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-400x289.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-1180x852.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-960x693.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This race is very much a generational contrast between two Democrats who really don’t differ much on the issues, said Gerston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The senior man who has been there, done that, because he has so much experience. The young guy who is perhaps a little bit more brazen, going to break a few things along the way, and isn’t afraid to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is counting on support from younger voters who might not know or care about Honda’s history. But that might not be an adequate strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic activist Jay Cheng, 27, grew up in Cupertino and said he can count on Honda, who is a reliable vote on many issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For millennial Democrats who have grown up in the district, we know who has been there for us,” said Cheng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the convention, Khanna’s field director, Michael Ambler, said he had no problem signing up young volunteers from the district with no connection to Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of volunteers are in college and are worrying about how they are going to pay off their college loans,” said Ambler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 17th Congressional District — which includes Fremont, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Newark, Milpitas, Santa Clara and North San Jose — is home to tech giants Tesla, Google, Apple, Cisco and others. It also has a large population of voters from India, China, the Philippines, Japan, Vietnam and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus at the convention, Khanna said tech companies in the district need to reflect the diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QTzV4eaXdYx06AhRVYYr8tO0kxkeu9og”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into the halls of Facebook, Google, Tesla, there are not enough Filipino-Americans, there are not enough African-Americans, there are not enough Latino-Americans,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda has a compelling life story many immigrants can relate to. During World War II, he and his family were put in an internment camp with other Americans of Japanese descent. He later became a champion of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight terms in the House, Honda is reintroducing himself to voters to remind them where he came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people start to listen to who you are, your history and background, they say, ‘That sounds like me.’ So there’s a connection and it’s really important, and so is authenticity,” said Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aisha Wahab, an Afghan-American voter who works in the district, said there’s one issue that cuts across all ethnic and racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A chance to grow, a chance to survive, a chance to thrive. And I think that’s what this race is about. Our future, not our past,” said Wahab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just how much voters get to hear the candidates debate the issues in coming months remains to be seen. The race has become such a slugfest that Democratic San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio recently decided to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s too much mudslinging already,” said Oliverio. “I’ll talk about the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of how nasty this campaign may be, unsigned hit pieces were distributed at the convention portraying Khanna as a Republican puppet. The Honda campaign denies having any connection to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s primary rules, the top two finishers in the June election will advance. That means Khanna and Honda are likely to meet up again in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Democrat\u003ca href=\"http://www.rokhanna.com/\"> Ro Khanna \u003c/a>isn’t only taking on eight-term congressman \u003ca href=\"http://mikehonda.com/\">Mike Honda \u003c/a>for the House seat in the heart of Silicon Valley. He’s roughing up the entire California Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fearless,” said 39-year-old Khanna, an Indian-American tech attorney from Fremont. “The rules are rigged. There’s a group of people trying to hold onto their power by appointing their friends, who will decide who gets the party’s endorsement. It’s a vestige of the past.”\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/250173174″&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/250173174″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna admits he’s channeling Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump in this year’s wild and unorthodox presidential race. He believes they have tapped into voters who are tired of parties looking out for their own interests instead of working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the Republican side — although I disagree with him on many issues — there is a populism to Trump’s campaign,” said Khanna. “There’s a lot of anger on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was hours before delegates at the California Democratic Party Convention in San Jose overwhelmingly endorsed Honda on Feb. 27. For the 74-year-old veteran congressman — who is in the throes of a\u003ca href=\"https://ethics.house.gov/\"> serious House Ethics Committee \u003c/a>investigation — this is a rematch of a bitter race Khanna narrowly lost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda quickly brushed off Khanna’s accusations that the party rules are rigged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-400x330.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/KhannaSpeaking-960x791.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mike Honda (seated, red tie) listens to opponent Ro Khanna call the state Democratic Party endorsement process rigged. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh come on. For goodness sake,” said Honda, a Japanese-American former schoolteacher. “I’m not the one who paid for memberships to load up on Democratic clubs. … We’ll see how much of an impact his negative campaign, his innuendos and the impressions he’s trying to leave on people work out. I don’t think they will work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during this campaign Khanna plans to hit Honda hard on the House ethics probe every chance he gets. There are allegations that Honda mixed campaign and government business and gave improper favors, like fast-tracking visas, to top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it [the investigation] disqualifies Mike Honda from running. It’s my honest opinion,” said Khanna. “It represents cronyism, it represents giving favors to donors and it’s wrong. And I will speak out about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda said there’s an internal House process by which committee members will determine if a House rule was violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violating an ethics rule is not breaking a law,” said Honda. “There is not a criminal investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the ethics committee’s decision is critical, said Larry Gerston, a political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the committee acts fairly soon, Honda could probably go a long way with putting it behind him,” said Gerston. “But if the committee acts in a negative way — let’s say in September or October — that could be a factor in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Khanna is portraying Honda “as everything wrong with politics” and himself as the ultimate Washington and Democratic Party outsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take no PAC [political action committee] money,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he may want to brush up on who is serving in Congress. At the California Democratic Convention in San Jose last weekend, he bumped into Maxine Waters, the veteran Los Angeles congresswoman and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Khanna introduced himself and asked Waters what she’s running for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Re-election in Los Angeles,” said Waters, who was also once investigated for violating House ethics rules in 2010 and later exonerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10885479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10885479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-800x578.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-400x289.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-1180x852.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HondaSpeaks-960x693.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Honda talks with supporters from his district after getting the Democratic Party’s endorsement. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This race is very much a generational contrast between two Democrats who really don’t differ much on the issues, said Gerston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The senior man who has been there, done that, because he has so much experience. The young guy who is perhaps a little bit more brazen, going to break a few things along the way, and isn’t afraid to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is counting on support from younger voters who might not know or care about Honda’s history. But that might not be an adequate strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic activist Jay Cheng, 27, grew up in Cupertino and said he can count on Honda, who is a reliable vote on many issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For millennial Democrats who have grown up in the district, we know who has been there for us,” said Cheng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the convention, Khanna’s field director, Michael Ambler, said he had no problem signing up young volunteers from the district with no connection to Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of volunteers are in college and are worrying about how they are going to pay off their college loans,” said Ambler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 17th Congressional District — which includes Fremont, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Newark, Milpitas, Santa Clara and North San Jose — is home to tech giants Tesla, Google, Apple, Cisco and others. It also has a large population of voters from India, China, the Philippines, Japan, Vietnam and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus at the convention, Khanna said tech companies in the district need to reflect the diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into the halls of Facebook, Google, Tesla, there are not enough Filipino-Americans, there are not enough African-Americans, there are not enough Latino-Americans,” said Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Honda has a compelling life story many immigrants can relate to. During World War II, he and his family were put in an internment camp with other Americans of Japanese descent. He later became a champion of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight terms in the House, Honda is reintroducing himself to voters to remind them where he came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people start to listen to who you are, your history and background, they say, ‘That sounds like me.’ So there’s a connection and it’s really important, and so is authenticity,” said Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aisha Wahab, an Afghan-American voter who works in the district, said there’s one issue that cuts across all ethnic and racial groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A chance to grow, a chance to survive, a chance to thrive. And I think that’s what this race is about. Our future, not our past,” said Wahab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just how much voters get to hear the candidates debate the issues in coming months remains to be seen. 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"content": "\u003cp>California is dismissed or embraced across the country as a liberal stronghold, but in Los Angeles County Republicans outnumber Democrats in several locations. Among them: Santa Clarita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, though, Santa Clarita is transforming into a blue city as population growth and its annexation of unincorporated areas change the character of this majority white, well-off community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, like those in Santa Clarita Republican Women Federated, the largest GOP women's club in the city, these days of transition come with worries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250008273\" 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>At a recent monthly meeting in a Marie Callender's restaurant outside the city's Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park, some club members recently discussed their top concerns — growing homelessness, more liberal gun laws and a loss of traditional American values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All we can do as an individual is do our best and then turn the rest over to God. Let him do the rest of the work,\" said Maggie Aquaro, 73, a Santa Clarita resident for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located about 35 miles north of Los Angeles, the city is one of about 15 out of 88 in Los Angeles County with more registered Republicans than Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a political shift underway as the area's population expands. Santa Clarita has been in a growth spurt since the city's 1987 incorporation. With the unincorporated areas it absorbed in recent decades, Santa Clarita has a population of about 213,000, nearly double the city's size in 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve watched the community really expand, kind of in two ways,\" said Lena Smyth, a political science professor at Santa Clarita's College of the Canyons and a longtime resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have people who are moving here with their families who want, you know, the more affordable house, the better schools. And then you also have just the city itself has grown and has expanded its borders and annexed other unincorporated areas of L.A. County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10884202\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Smyth is a political science professor at College of the Canyons and a longtime resident of Santa Clarita.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lena Smyth is a political science professor at College of the Canyons and a longtime resident of Santa Clarita. \u003ccite>(Mary Plummer/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the city has grown, so, too, have the ranks of Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans here outnumber Democrats 43,774 to 37,273, according to a recent Secretary of State \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov//ror/ror-pages/politicalsub.pdf\">report on voter registrations\u003c/a> released last week. But the Democrats' general election registrations are up 52 percent between 2000 and 2014, well over the 21 percent growth for the Republican Party for the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the trend holds, registered Democrats could soon overtake Republicans in their size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's another change that could pose a challenge to both parties: A growing number of registered voters are declaring that they have no party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 25,000 fall into this category in Santa Clarita based on the latest voter registration report, and that is more than triple the number two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voters Voice Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilian Bonilla, a community college student who lives and goes to school in Santa Clarita, said she's definitely voting for president. She’s just doesn’t know who that will be yet, or even if it’ll be a Democrat or Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family bounced around Los Angeles County looking for an ideal place to live before they landed here after moving from Palmdale about eight years ago. They now reside in a gated community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You vote for somebody because they’re either going to help, you know, the category you’re in, or they’re gonna better you,\" she said. \"I’m just listening to see what everybody has to offer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education is one of her top issues in this year's election. She’d like to see K-12 schools in the area improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like I would vote for whoever is meeting my needs,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear a different story when we meet April Young outside Santa Clarita Lanes bowling alley, where she had just finished up a game and pizza with her grandkids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economy and jobs are the issues that Young said are concerning her the most. By that, she means \"being able to get a job that pays enough to pay the rent or pay the house payment or get the car insurance or whatever, feed your family,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young is also a Republican and an active voter. But unlike many of the GOP women in the Republican club, Young is still working. 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In the general presidential election in November 2012, the turnout was 78 percent. During the most recent city election in April 2014, just 14 percent of registered voters cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smyth said the date change will diminish the power of a small group of city voters who have been active in City Hall elections. Even her husband, a former Santa Clarita mayor and councilman, is considering a run for council again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to have a massive increase in voter turnout for a local election, which we've never seen in Santa Clarita before,\" she said. \"Typically a City Council member has been able to get elected with anywhere from 5,000 to 7,000 votes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California is dismissed or embraced across the country as a liberal stronghold, but in Los Angeles County Republicans outnumber Democrats in several locations. Among them: Santa Clarita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, though, Santa Clarita is transforming into a blue city as population growth and its annexation of unincorporated areas change the character of this majority white, well-off community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, like those in Santa Clarita Republican Women Federated, the largest GOP women's club in the city, these days of transition come with worries.\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/250008273&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/250008273'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent monthly meeting in a Marie Callender's restaurant outside the city's Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park, some club members recently discussed their top concerns — growing homelessness, more liberal gun laws and a loss of traditional American values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All we can do as an individual is do our best and then turn the rest over to God. Let him do the rest of the work,\" said Maggie Aquaro, 73, a Santa Clarita resident for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located about 35 miles north of Los Angeles, the city is one of about 15 out of 88 in Los Angeles County with more registered Republicans than Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a political shift underway as the area's population expands. Santa Clarita has been in a growth spurt since the city's 1987 incorporation. With the unincorporated areas it absorbed in recent decades, Santa Clarita has a population of about 213,000, nearly double the city's size in 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve watched the community really expand, kind of in two ways,\" said Lena Smyth, a political science professor at Santa Clarita's College of the Canyons and a longtime resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have people who are moving here with their families who want, you know, the more affordable house, the better schools. And then you also have just the city itself has grown and has expanded its borders and annexed other unincorporated areas of L.A. County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10884202\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Smyth is a political science professor at College of the Canyons and a longtime resident of Santa Clarita.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119745-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lena Smyth is a political science professor at College of the Canyons and a longtime resident of Santa Clarita. \u003ccite>(Mary Plummer/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the city has grown, so, too, have the ranks of Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans here outnumber Democrats 43,774 to 37,273, according to a recent Secretary of State \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov//ror/ror-pages/politicalsub.pdf\">report on voter registrations\u003c/a> released last week. But the Democrats' general election registrations are up 52 percent between 2000 and 2014, well over the 21 percent growth for the Republican Party for the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the trend holds, registered Democrats could soon overtake Republicans in their size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's another change that could pose a challenge to both parties: A growing number of registered voters are declaring that they have no party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 25,000 fall into this category in Santa Clarita based on the latest voter registration report, and that is more than triple the number two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voters Voice Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilian Bonilla, a community college student who lives and goes to school in Santa Clarita, said she's definitely voting for president. She’s just doesn’t know who that will be yet, or even if it’ll be a Democrat or Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family bounced around Los Angeles County looking for an ideal place to live before they landed here after moving from Palmdale about eight years ago. They now reside in a gated community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You vote for somebody because they’re either going to help, you know, the category you’re in, or they’re gonna better you,\" she said. \"I’m just listening to see what everybody has to offer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education is one of her top issues in this year's election. She’d like to see K-12 schools in the area improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like I would vote for whoever is meeting my needs,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear a different story when we meet April Young outside Santa Clarita Lanes bowling alley, where she had just finished up a game and pizza with her grandkids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economy and jobs are the issues that Young said are concerning her the most. By that, she means \"being able to get a job that pays enough to pay the rent or pay the house payment or get the car insurance or whatever, feed your family,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young is also a Republican and an active voter. But unlike many of the GOP women in the Republican club, Young is still working. She’s an aide at a local school district, and said Santa Clarita isn’t producing enough well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can work at Foster’s Freeze or you can work at the bowling alley, but that’s obviously not enough to survive on,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median household income here is about $81,500, far higher than California's average. Still, earnings haven’t recovered enough to reach pre-recession levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a particular concern for young people just entering the job market, but also for Santa Clarita’s growing minority population, a majority of them Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawsuit Brings Key Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This November, when Santa Clarita voters participate in the presidential election, they'll also have other key choices to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/120223-full.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10884201\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/120223-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clarita voters will get to vote on City Council races in November as a result of a Voter Rights Act lawsuit settlement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/120223-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/120223-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/120223-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/120223-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clarita voters will get to vote on City Council races in November as a result of a Voter Rights Act lawsuit settlement. \u003ccite>(Mary Plummer/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to a recent Voting Rights Act lawsuit claiming the votes of Latinos were being diluted in the city's election, a legal settlement in the case is moving Santa Clarita’s City Council balloting from April to November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to drastically impact the dynamics of the City Council race by drawing in many more voters. In the general presidential election in November 2012, the turnout was 78 percent. During the most recent city election in April 2014, just 14 percent of registered voters cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smyth said the date change will diminish the power of a small group of city voters who have been active in City Hall elections. Even her husband, a former Santa Clarita mayor and councilman, is considering a run for council again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to have a massive increase in voter turnout for a local election, which we've never seen in Santa Clarita before,\" she said. \"Typically a City Council member has been able to get elected with anywhere from 5,000 to 7,000 votes. 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"content": "\u003cp>The soundtrack of Luis Medellin’s childhood was the sound of the orange and lemon harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early mornings, he’d hear the clink of farmworkers setting up tall ladders in the orchards to pick the fruit. On cold nights, giant wind machines would whirr to life, as farmers scrambled to warm up the trees. All day long, trucks would rumble past his house, hauling loads of fresh fruit to one of the nearby packinghouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248688389\" 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>Medellin grew up in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/\">Lindsay\u003c/a>, a largely Latino town in Tulare County, in the heart of the state’s citrus belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The streets are all battered because of the heavy trucks that come by with oranges,” says Medellin, as he drives me around town in his minivan. “When I was little, I’d stand on the sidewalk, and hopefully they’d honk. There’s just so many trucks in this town, it’s crazy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10874616\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10874616\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10874616 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-800x1346.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Medellin, 29, with his sister Amy Huerta, 18, in their backyard in Lindsay, California. Amy is the only one in her family who can cast a ballot this fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-800x1346.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-400x673.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-1180x1986.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-960x1616.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Medellin, 29, with his sister, Amy Huerta, 18, in their backyard in Lindsay, California. Amy is the only one in her family who can cast a ballot this fall. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a clear day in winter, Lindsay boasts a spectacular view of the snow-covered Sierra and lush green foothills. But Medellin says Lindsay is a hardscrabble place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, it’s beautiful in the front, but on the backside there are people that go home late at night because they have to pay bills, or their kids go to school next to orange fields any given day when they’re spraying pesticides,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medellin became a community activist when he was a teenager. He lobbied the county to help keep \u003ca href=\"http://www.pesticidereform.org/article.php?id=317\">pesticide drift\u003c/a> away from schools, and spoke up about air and water quality for people in Lindsay, which is now more than 85 percent Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all his passion about community issues, Luis Medellin can’t vote. He’s undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His three younger sisters were born in the United States. The oldest, Amy Huerta, is 18. We meet up over a dinner of Hamburger Helper in the family's kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey donut!” greets his sister, as Luis comes in the door from work. “Hey ugly!” he retorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a really open family,” he laughs. “We joke and do the occasional back-of-the-head slap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when we sit down to eat, Luis wants to talk about something serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I feel is that in my household, Amy is our family’s voice. Because myself, I don’t have legal status, my parents don’t have legal status,” says Luis. “[We] depend on her, for our vote to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure you’re registered to vote, ’cuz you turned 18 last year,” he says, looking at Amy across the table.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"HsgQ52zlCeK8hgfqE0ScnS2oXmdtIl0i\"]\u003cbr>\n“Yeah, I did register to vote, when I got my California ID,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And are you going to vote?” Luis asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” laughs Amy. “I feel like sometimes my vote doesn’t count. Especially ’cuz right now, the generation is at a point where they don’t care. Most of us are not going to vote, we don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy does care about art. She draws fantasy characters like dragons and aliens. She eventually wants to leave this farm town and go to Hollywood to do special effects. Now, she’s studying fine art at community college. She’s the first in her family to go to college, and she could be the first to vote. But she’s not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not really well informed in some of the laws, what’s going down,” she tells Luis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the issues are what get you guys?” Luis asks. \"The issues of who’s running, what measures -- that’s what confuses this generation. But yet, there’s so much information. I think it’s just not to be lazy. The information is there. Read it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy says she’s used to Luis and other people in her family giving her advice and urging her to pay attention to politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been growing up in this whole environment, going to community meetings and protests with my brother,\" she says. \"He always speaks the truth about what he feels. Sometimes, I reflect, and realize he has a point. But I don’t always take his side. We both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that young people like Amy Huerta may chose not to vote upsets the city’s first Latina mayor, Ramona Villarreal-Padilla. She won her place on the City Council in the 2012 election, when just 949 voters in Lindsay, a town of 12,000, cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10874563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10874563\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10874563 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg\" alt=\"registered-turnout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-1180x624.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-960x508.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulare County is one of California’s most impoverished regions. There is a gap between eligible and registered voters though, especially when it comes to Latinos.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I won by maybe 50 votes. We really need to have the young people go out there and vote,” says Padilla. “If you think about it, if you’re the future generation that’s coming up, and you decide that you don’t want to, then lots of other people are going to be making choices for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’ll check in with Mayor Padilla, as well as Amy Huerta and other young eligible voters in Lindsay, over the coming months as part of our “California Counts” election collaboration with KPBS, KPCC and Capital Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what's important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/election2016\">kqed.org/election2016.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The soundtrack of Luis Medellin’s childhood was the sound of the orange and lemon harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early mornings, he’d hear the clink of farmworkers setting up tall ladders in the orchards to pick the fruit. On cold nights, giant wind machines would whirr to life, as farmers scrambled to warm up the trees. All day long, trucks would rumble past his house, hauling loads of fresh fruit to one of the nearby packinghouses.\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/248688389&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/248688389'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medellin grew up in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/\">Lindsay\u003c/a>, a largely Latino town in Tulare County, in the heart of the state’s citrus belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The streets are all battered because of the heavy trucks that come by with oranges,” says Medellin, as he drives me around town in his minivan. “When I was little, I’d stand on the sidewalk, and hopefully they’d honk. There’s just so many trucks in this town, it’s crazy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10874616\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10874616\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10874616 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-800x1346.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Medellin, 29, with his sister Amy Huerta, 18, in their backyard in Lindsay, California. Amy is the only one in her family who can cast a ballot this fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-800x1346.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-400x673.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-1180x1986.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-960x1616.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Medellin, 29, with his sister, Amy Huerta, 18, in their backyard in Lindsay, California. Amy is the only one in her family who can cast a ballot this fall. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a clear day in winter, Lindsay boasts a spectacular view of the snow-covered Sierra and lush green foothills. But Medellin says Lindsay is a hardscrabble place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We meet up over a dinner of Hamburger Helper in the family's kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey donut!” greets his sister, as Luis comes in the door from work. “Hey ugly!” he retorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a really open family,” he laughs. “We joke and do the occasional back-of-the-head slap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when we sit down to eat, Luis wants to talk about something serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I feel is that in my household, Amy is our family’s voice. Because myself, I don’t have legal status, my parents don’t have legal status,” says Luis. “[We] depend on her, for our vote to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure you’re registered to vote, ’cuz you turned 18 last year,” he says, looking at Amy across the table.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Yeah, I did register to vote, when I got my California ID,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And are you going to vote?” Luis asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” laughs Amy. “I feel like sometimes my vote doesn’t count. Especially ’cuz right now, the generation is at a point where they don’t care. Most of us are not going to vote, we don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy does care about art. She draws fantasy characters like dragons and aliens. She eventually wants to leave this farm town and go to Hollywood to do special effects. Now, she’s studying fine art at community college. She’s the first in her family to go to college, and she could be the first to vote. But she’s not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not really well informed in some of the laws, what’s going down,” she tells Luis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the issues are what get you guys?” Luis asks. \"The issues of who’s running, what measures -- that’s what confuses this generation. But yet, there’s so much information. I think it’s just not to be lazy. The information is there. Read it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy says she’s used to Luis and other people in her family giving her advice and urging her to pay attention to politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been growing up in this whole environment, going to community meetings and protests with my brother,\" she says. \"He always speaks the truth about what he feels. Sometimes, I reflect, and realize he has a point. But I don’t always take his side. We both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that young people like Amy Huerta may chose not to vote upsets the city’s first Latina mayor, Ramona Villarreal-Padilla. She won her place on the City Council in the 2012 election, when just 949 voters in Lindsay, a town of 12,000, cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10874563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10874563\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10874563 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg\" alt=\"registered-turnout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-1180x624.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-960x508.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulare County is one of California’s most impoverished regions. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like coffee and scotch, voting seems to be an acquired taste. Take Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood in southern Sacramento. It's mostly single-family homes, a lot of concrete and no grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Marcos leans against his car on the edge of the Home Depot parking lot on a recent afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly don’t feel like it makes much of a difference,\" says Marcos. He’s 22, and doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Lewis says he feels the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the politicians are for the rich, and they’re not for the poor,” says Lewis, as he catches the bus to get to work. “And black people have been poor since we first got here, or since we were first brought here. So, me voting isn’t going to make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/247733341\" 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>Jesse Reese, a retired sheet metal worker and head of the Meadowview Neighborhood Association, says that sentiment is common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘It doesn’t matter and my vote doesn’t count’— we hear a lot of that, all the time,” says Reese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869712\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10869712 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-800x753.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento’s Meadowview and the Pocket neighborhoods are split by Freeport Blvd and Interstate 5.\" width=\"800\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-800x753.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-400x376.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-1180x1110.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowViewPocketLight-960x903.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento’s Meadowview and The Pocket neighborhoods are split by Freeport Boulevard and Interstate 5. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He laments this lack of interest in the political system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s going to be there, whether you like it or not,” he says. “So, it can turn in your favor or not in your favor, depending on who you elect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reese says he’s unsure how to motivate the community. In Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood almost evenly composed of black, white, Asian and Latino residents, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election. That’s 15 percent lower than the turnout one minute west, over the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pocket is a whiter, more affluent neighborhood, hugged by the Sacramento River, noteworthy for parks and trees and monogrammed gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10869707\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-960x742.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway. \u003ccite>(California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If something happens in government and I haven’t voted, I don’t have any right to complain,” says Walter Newport, a retired professor walking out of Bel Air Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same goes for state worker Stacy Vanina-Everson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re taking a big piece of my income, I want to be damn sure that you’re going to do something good with it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dynamic in Meadowview and the Pocket is similar to two San Diego neighborhoods profiled in a previous California Counts story, Kensington and Teralta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UXkKDSo7bSZgtOT5TmwQvnz8Z2vkjo9y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s well-known that race, income, age and education play an important role in who votes and who doesn’t. Less understood are the reasons why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Pocket, Will Cannady, a high school teacher who’s active on local community issues, describes a civic peer pressure in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s contagious, especially when you put a lot of people that have the same views, same opinions,” Cannady says. “You’re going to over and over again see a lot of people who want to act on that if they see their neighbors doing the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannady is describing how voting is a social behavior, says Menlo College professor Melissa Michelson. She studies what drives people to the polls. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Like coffee and scotch, voting seems to be an acquired taste. Take Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood in southern Sacramento. It's mostly single-family homes, a lot of concrete and no grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Marcos leans against his car on the edge of the Home Depot parking lot on a recent afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly don’t feel like it makes much of a difference,\" says Marcos. He’s 22, and doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Lewis says he feels the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the politicians are for the rich, and they’re not for the poor,” says Lewis, as he catches the bus to get to work. “And black people have been poor since we first got here, or since we were first brought here. So, me voting isn’t going to make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In Meadowview, a working-class neighborhood almost evenly composed of black, white, Asian and Latino residents, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election. That’s 15 percent lower than the turnout one minute west, over the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pocket is a whiter, more affluent neighborhood, hugged by the Sacramento River, noteworthy for parks and trees and monogrammed gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10869707\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MeadowPocketTurnout-960x742.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In working-class Meadowview, only about 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election - 15 percent lower than the turnout just over the freeway. \u003ccite>(California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If something happens in government and I haven’t voted, I don’t have any right to complain,” says Walter Newport, a retired professor walking out of Bel Air Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same goes for state worker Stacy Vanina-Everson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re taking a big piece of my income, I want to be damn sure that you’re going to do something good with it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dynamic in Meadowview and the Pocket is similar to two San Diego neighborhoods profiled in a previous California Counts story, Kensington and Teralta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s well-known that race, income, age and education play an important role in who votes and who doesn’t. Less understood are the reasons why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Pocket, Will Cannady, a high school teacher who’s active on local community issues, describes a civic peer pressure in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s contagious, especially when you put a lot of people that have the same views, same opinions,” Cannady says. “You’re going to over and over again see a lot of people who want to act on that if they see their neighbors doing the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannady is describing how voting is a social behavior, says Menlo College professor Melissa Michelson. She studies what drives people to the polls. Michelson says most people learn to engage in the political process from family, friends or in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of cognitive barriers to voting,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lists the steps involved — filling out the registration form, learning about the candidates and propositions, and showing up to the right polling place on the right day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, if you’re not from a community where voting is the norm, if you’re not from a family where your parents took you to the polling place when you were a little kid, if you haven’t gone to college and developed those cognitive skills, then we’re really asking a lot of voters,” says Michelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10869701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10869701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Mai Yang Vang, a Hmong community organizer, was born and grew up in Meadowview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Vang-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mai Yang Vang, a Hmong community organizer, was born and grew up in Meadowview. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mai Yang Vang says she understands the barriers firsthand. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Diego’s El Cajon Boulevard and its four lanes of traffic doesn’t look like much of a border, but it divides two starkly different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head north of it and you’ll quickly leave the liquor stores and ethnic markets behind and move into a neighborhood of single-family homes that become progressively pricier with each passing block. Head south and you’ll be surrounded by apartment buildings, many housing immigrants from Mexico and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/apr/24/how-fall-saigon-made-san-diego-refugee-hub/\">refugees\u003c/a> who have fled civil wars in East Africa and Southeast Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two San Diego neighborhoods, Kensington and Teralta, are directly next to each other but worlds apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246565341\" 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>Kensington’s median income is $90,565, while Teralta’s is $21,698, according to \u003ca href=\"http://census.gov/\">U.S. Census data\u003c/a>. In Kensington, 66 percent of the residents are white; in Teralta, 6 percent are white. Zoom a little deeper and 47 percent of Teralta’s diverse residents are foreign born, compared with 12 percent in Kensington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These differences feed into a huge gap in voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DBzQ5Y7sMqE9wfO4kImAfxyzGv92UYId\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014 general election, 62 percent of registered voters in Kensington cast ballots. One of its precincts had the third-highest turnout in all of San Diego, at 70 percent. The Teralta neighborhood in City Heights had 27 percent voter turnout, and its precincts were among the city’s lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet residents in these divergent neighboring communities will be asked to vote on the same issues this year — from raising San Diego’s minimum wage and possibly the state’s to setting aside funds to fix the region’s crumbling roads. And they will decide together — if they vote — who will represent them \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd9/\">on the City Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is whether low-turnout Teralta will continue to allow high-turnout Kensington to make the political decisions for both of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859534\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10859534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png\" alt=\"news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px\" width=\"800\" height=\"1040\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-768x998.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1440x1872.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1180x1534.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-960x1248.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kensington ‘Embraces’ Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kensington, resident Peter Dennehy likes the community feel of his upper-middle-class neighborhood. He’s lived there for almost nine years, and his mother has been there 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy, who has hosted fundraisers for local political candidates and attended debates at a church five blocks from his home, said voting is a tradition for most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a neighborhood that embraces participation at every level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-year-old is pretty sure he’s never missed an election since he turned 18 and could vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was raised that way,” he said. “I went to vote with my parents, and so that behavior was modeled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kensington has a bustling commercial area with an \u003ca href=\"http://stehlyfarmsmarket.com/\">organic grocery store\u003c/a> and lots of local shops and restaurants. Every afternoon and evening, it’s filled with residents walking to do errands or get dinner, strolling with their dogs or taking their kids to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy said the opportunity to interact with neighbors attracts people to Kensington who want to be involved in their community. It also may help to explain why they get out to vote, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent politicians live there, too. Among them: \u003ca href=\"https://susandavis.house.gov/\">Democratic Rep. Susan Davis\u003c/a> and former Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders, who is often spotted by neighbors on his daily walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Teralta, Embracing a New Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10859538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859538\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10859538 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. All four say they plan to vote for Sanders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-400x224.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-1180x662.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-960x538.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. All four say they plan to vote for Sanders. \u003ccite>(Megan Burks/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you travel south from Kensington’s cafes and playground, the homes steadily decrease in value and the shops start to sell liquor, not organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than a mile you’ll be in the heart of City Heights’ Teralta neighborhood. Its frenetic center is filled with people from all over the world catching buses to service industry jobs or walking to one of the dozens of Vietnamese and East African supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Mohamud Osman, whose family is from Somalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He turned 18 last year and said he'll be voting for the first time in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voting is a way for us people to have a voice — and not just voting for presidency (or) laws like legalize this, legalize that,” Osman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s eager to vote for his next City Council member and on quality-of-life issues, including raising the minimum wage. He registered to vote late last year just so he could sign a petition to get the measure on the ballot. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/oct/20/city-council-decide-whats-next-san-diego-minimum-w/\">San Diego minimum wage initiative\u003c/a> will be on the June ballot, and a statewide measure could be on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Osman is adamant about having a voice in the election, he represents in part why turnout in his neighborhood dips as low as 14 percent in some elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of Teralta residents aren’t old enough to vote, undercutting its civic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the community was redistricted to give Latinos a stronger voice on the San Diego City Council. The new lines netted a population that was half Latino. But age \u003ca href=\"http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/city-heights/what-sds-new-political-lines-would-look-like/\">slashed that voting bloc\u003c/a> nearly in half, and the district re-elected Councilwoman Marti Emerald, who is white and a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely Kensington carried much of Emerald’s win. Nearly 90 percent of residents there are above the voting age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osman’s family is also representative of many households in his neighborhood, in that his mom and siblings are among the nearly half of Teralta residents born outside the United States. Many can’t vote because they’re \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/17/study-sheds-light-mid-citys-unauthorized-and-unins/\">living in the country illegally\u003c/a> or can't afford the $680 processing fee to become U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Osman said most of the immigrants and refugees in Teralta are like his mom -- too busy trying to build a new life to establish that tradition of voting the way Kensington resident Dennehy’s mother did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't pay attention to a lot of things because we want to know what can we do to have more income,” Osman said. His dad was the sole breadwinner in the family, but he died seven months ago from complications of pneumonia. He worked as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, Osman said, it’s discouraging to know that Kensington voters are deciding the elections for Teralta voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me definitely want to vote less in a sense,” Osman said. “But I can’t. I want to set an example for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Campaigning Across Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://tomshepard.com/\">Tom Shepard\u003c/a> is a San Diego political consultant behind many high-profile campaigns for city and county offices. He said Teralta residents shouldn’t be quick to assume candidates for office will skip over their neighborhood to canvass high-turnout Kensington’s manicured streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a realistic concern, but I think one mitigating factor in this election cycle is that we're anticipating a relatively high turnout in the November election as a result of the presidential campaign,” Shepard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if history is any measure — 2008 and 2012 in particular — there will be a significant turnout of voters in City Heights for the November election,” he said. “So candidates that don't have a strategy to connect with those voters in June might find themselves far behind the eight ball when it comes to attracting them come November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.trilogyprgroup.com/about/xema_jacobson.html\">Xema Jacobson\u003c/a>, who ran Emerald’s successful City Council campaign in 2008, said the key to winning in such divergent communities as Kensington and Teralta is not to ignore the low-turnout area, but just to approach it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With active voters, you can go in and identify them and follow up with phone calls and that’s it,” she said. “With people who don’t vote all the time, you spend a bit more time with them. It’s not just a phone call, but on Election Day you go knock on their door, ask, ‘Do you need a ride? Do you need child care? Do you need something to get you to the polls?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime Kensington resident Jodi Cleesattle said she understands those pressures her Teralta neighbors feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poorer you are, certainly the more pressing issues you may have on your mind, to where voting or learning about particular candidates is less of a priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleesattle, 47, said just because a wide spread in demographics exists between her neighborhood and Teralta, that doesn't necessarily mean there's a deep political divide between the two neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want better schools, safe neighborhoods, streets without potholes, all those same kinds of concerns,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.kpbs.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These differences feed into a huge gap in voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014 general election, 62 percent of registered voters in Kensington cast ballots. One of its precincts had the third-highest turnout in all of San Diego, at 70 percent. The Teralta neighborhood in City Heights had 27 percent voter turnout, and its precincts were among the city’s lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet residents in these divergent neighboring communities will be asked to vote on the same issues this year — from raising San Diego’s minimum wage and possibly the state’s to setting aside funds to fix the region’s crumbling roads. And they will decide together — if they vote — who will represent them \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd9/\">on the City Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is whether low-turnout Teralta will continue to allow high-turnout Kensington to make the political decisions for both of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859534\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10859534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png\" alt=\"news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px\" width=\"800\" height=\"1040\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-768x998.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1440x1872.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1180x1534.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-960x1248.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kensington ‘Embraces’ Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kensington, resident Peter Dennehy likes the community feel of his upper-middle-class neighborhood. He’s lived there for almost nine years, and his mother has been there 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy, who has hosted fundraisers for local political candidates and attended debates at a church five blocks from his home, said voting is a tradition for most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a neighborhood that embraces participation at every level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-year-old is pretty sure he’s never missed an election since he turned 18 and could vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was raised that way,” he said. “I went to vote with my parents, and so that behavior was modeled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kensington has a bustling commercial area with an \u003ca href=\"http://stehlyfarmsmarket.com/\">organic grocery store\u003c/a> and lots of local shops and restaurants. Every afternoon and evening, it’s filled with residents walking to do errands or get dinner, strolling with their dogs or taking their kids to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy said the opportunity to interact with neighbors attracts people to Kensington who want to be involved in their community. It also may help to explain why they get out to vote, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent politicians live there, too. Among them: \u003ca href=\"https://susandavis.house.gov/\">Democratic Rep. Susan Davis\u003c/a> and former Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders, who is often spotted by neighbors on his daily walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Teralta, Embracing a New Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10859538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859538\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10859538 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. 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All four say they plan to vote for Sanders. \u003ccite>(Megan Burks/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you travel south from Kensington’s cafes and playground, the homes steadily decrease in value and the shops start to sell liquor, not organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than a mile you’ll be in the heart of City Heights’ Teralta neighborhood. Its frenetic center is filled with people from all over the world catching buses to service industry jobs or walking to one of the dozens of Vietnamese and East African supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Mohamud Osman, whose family is from Somalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He turned 18 last year and said he'll be voting for the first time in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voting is a way for us people to have a voice — and not just voting for presidency (or) laws like legalize this, legalize that,” Osman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s eager to vote for his next City Council member and on quality-of-life issues, including raising the minimum wage. He registered to vote late last year just so he could sign a petition to get the measure on the ballot. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/oct/20/city-council-decide-whats-next-san-diego-minimum-w/\">San Diego minimum wage initiative\u003c/a> will be on the June ballot, and a statewide measure could be on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Osman is adamant about having a voice in the election, he represents in part why turnout in his neighborhood dips as low as 14 percent in some elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of Teralta residents aren’t old enough to vote, undercutting its civic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the community was redistricted to give Latinos a stronger voice on the San Diego City Council. The new lines netted a population that was half Latino. But age \u003ca href=\"http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/city-heights/what-sds-new-political-lines-would-look-like/\">slashed that voting bloc\u003c/a> nearly in half, and the district re-elected Councilwoman Marti Emerald, who is white and a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely Kensington carried much of Emerald’s win. Nearly 90 percent of residents there are above the voting age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osman’s family is also representative of many households in his neighborhood, in that his mom and siblings are among the nearly half of Teralta residents born outside the United States. Many can’t vote because they’re \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/17/study-sheds-light-mid-citys-unauthorized-and-unins/\">living in the country illegally\u003c/a> or can't afford the $680 processing fee to become U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Osman said most of the immigrants and refugees in Teralta are like his mom -- too busy trying to build a new life to establish that tradition of voting the way Kensington resident Dennehy’s mother did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't pay attention to a lot of things because we want to know what can we do to have more income,” Osman said. His dad was the sole breadwinner in the family, but he died seven months ago from complications of pneumonia. He worked as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, Osman said, it’s discouraging to know that Kensington voters are deciding the elections for Teralta voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me definitely want to vote less in a sense,” Osman said. “But I can’t. 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He said Teralta residents shouldn’t be quick to assume candidates for office will skip over their neighborhood to canvass high-turnout Kensington’s manicured streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a realistic concern, but I think one mitigating factor in this election cycle is that we're anticipating a relatively high turnout in the November election as a result of the presidential campaign,” Shepard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if history is any measure — 2008 and 2012 in particular — there will be a significant turnout of voters in City Heights for the November election,” he said. “So candidates that don't have a strategy to connect with those voters in June might find themselves far behind the eight ball when it comes to attracting them come November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.trilogyprgroup.com/about/xema_jacobson.html\">Xema Jacobson\u003c/a>, who ran Emerald’s successful City Council campaign in 2008, said the key to winning in such divergent communities as Kensington and Teralta is not to ignore the low-turnout area, but just to approach it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With active voters, you can go in and identify them and follow up with phone calls and that’s it,” she said. “With people who don’t vote all the time, you spend a bit more time with them. It’s not just a phone call, but on Election Day you go knock on their door, ask, ‘Do you need a ride? Do you need child care? Do you need something to get you to the polls?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime Kensington resident Jodi Cleesattle said she understands those pressures her Teralta neighbors feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poorer you are, certainly the more pressing issues you may have on your mind, to where voting or learning about particular candidates is less of a priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleesattle, 47, said just because a wide spread in demographics exists between her neighborhood and Teralta, that doesn't necessarily mean there's a deep political divide between the two neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want better schools, safe neighborhoods, streets without potholes, all those same kinds of concerns,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 KPBS. 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"content": "\u003cp>Critics have repeatedly attacked California Attorney General Kamala Harris for what they say is her slow progress investigating gun owners who are legally prohibited from having them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, California created the nation's only database to identify these gun owners, including the mentally ill and those subject to domestic violence restraining orders. It allows the seizure of weapons by law enforcement from people in the prohibited categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no record of anyone questioning the existence of the database, which has been praised by gun control advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a decade after it went into effect, the tracking system \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/28/california-struggles-to-seize-illegal-guns-despite-24-million-investment\" target=\"_blank\">has a backlog of thousands of cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8BYkQWLZZVzBnJCjTFnjyHnQGUrRWFhn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Rep. Loretta Sanchez. The Orange County congresswoman is Harris's closest competitor for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer. All three are Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez told Capital Public Radio during an \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.capradio.org/64126\">interview in January\u003c/a> that Harris has squandered state resources, and hasn't even produced a database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided to focus on whether the database exists, and check on how the state funds have been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our research\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The database is officially called the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS). It was created in 2001 after the Legislature passed \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020SB950\">SB 950\u003c/a>, a Republican-authored bill, in response to gun violence across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cross-references all handgun and assault weapon owners in California against criminal records. It's designed to check for individuals who legally purchased or registered a firearm but later committed a crime that would prevent them from owning the gun. Law enforcement agents are charged with tracking down the individuals and trying to confiscate their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-400x251.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Attorney General's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The database became active in December 2006, according to Harris's office, four years before she was elected attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the database is not public, it is real. It's been tied to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://crpa.org/bauer-v-harris/\">court challenge\u003c/a> and is the subject of reports by the Attorney General's Office, articles by the press and letters by gun rights groups and gun control advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes. It does exist,\" said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office. \"These (enforcement) agents are working these cases every day. ... It's definitely a lot of work. It's time-consuming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The database absolutely exists,\" added Mike McLively, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris.\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-400x313.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1440x1127.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1180x923.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-960x751.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We asked the Sanchez campaign to explain her claim. A campaign spokesman argued that it's correct -- if you add words that greatly change the original statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To date, we don't have that database as it was promised by the (State) Department of Justice in 2013,\" the spokesman wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a refresher, here's what Sanchez said originally: \"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still a backlog?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a clear misstatement to say \"we don't have that database.\" But we wanted to see what progress Harris has made reducing its backlog, to better examine Sanchez's claim that \"nothing was done\" and that \"$25 million was spent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown approved $24 million in additional funds to reduce the long list of cases. It had grown to more than 20,700 at the time, according to Harris' office. Earlier that year, a Harris aide seemed to suggest that the backlog could be eliminated in a single year, according to \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15138524.html\">news reports\u003c/a> from the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, the attorney general pledged to hire 36 enforcement agents with the money. Two years later, only half as many had been hired due to what Harris' office called \"hiring challenges.\" And while state investigations helped clear nearly 7,000 names off the list, the overall backlog had shrunk by only one-fifth during that time, to about 17,500, according to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/armed-prohib-person-system.pdf\">March 2015 report\u003c/a> by the Attorney General's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article17973449.html\">criticized Harris\u003c/a> for what they said was slow progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's comments about the database came five days before the Attorney General's Office issued \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\">another report\u003c/a> on the program. It said the list is now down to about 12,700 cases, which the office called \"a historic low.\" The report makes clear that the list is not static. More than 20,000 people were added to it during the past 2½ years, while about 7,800 dropped off due to death or other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10855575 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg\" alt=\"SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\" width=\"800\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1180x1354.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-960x1102.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the additional funding was approved in 2013, state agents have removed more than 20,500 people, and doubled the average number of guns seized per year, according to the most recent report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office has spent $15 million of the $24 million, according to the Attorney General's Office. The office's authority to spend the remainder expires May 1, though Harris has asked the Legislature to create a permanent funding stream for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our ruling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Loretta Sanchez said in a recent interview that California Attorney General Kamala Harris has done \"nothing\" to address a backlog of cases in a high-profile gun ownership tracking system. The database allows law enforcement to seize guns from people with criminal records and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns -- by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only does the program exist, but some progress has been made. The backlog has been cut from more than 20,000 cases to 12,700. That's after Harris's office spent $15 million of $24 million allocated by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some continue to argue that the cases should be cleared more quickly, citing the mass shootings that have continued across the country. But there's no denying that the Attorney General's Office, under Harris, has put a dent in the backlog, allowing for the seizure of thousands of guns. And that's far from \"nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there's room to criticize the pace of the program, Sanchez's statement amounts to a complete misrepresentation of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rate the claim Pants On Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/feb/21/principles-truth-o-meter/\">Click here for more \u003c/a>on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297825900/Senate-Bill-140-Supplemental-Budget-Report\">Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_13841\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/297825900/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a list of sources on this fact check and to read more more fact checks, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFactCalifornia.com\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was created in 2001 after the Legislature passed \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020SB950\">SB 950\u003c/a>, a Republican-authored bill, in response to gun violence across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cross-references all handgun and assault weapon owners in California against criminal records. It's designed to check for individuals who legally purchased or registered a firearm but later committed a crime that would prevent them from owning the gun. Law enforcement agents are charged with tracking down the individuals and trying to confiscate their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-400x251.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Attorney General's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The database became active in December 2006, according to Harris's office, four years before she was elected attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the database is not public, it is real. It's been tied to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://crpa.org/bauer-v-harris/\">court challenge\u003c/a> and is the subject of reports by the Attorney General's Office, articles by the press and letters by gun rights groups and gun control advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes. It does exist,\" said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office. \"These (enforcement) agents are working these cases every day. ... It's definitely a lot of work. It's time-consuming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The database absolutely exists,\" added Mike McLively, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris.\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-400x313.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1440x1127.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1180x923.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-960x751.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We asked the Sanchez campaign to explain her claim. A campaign spokesman argued that it's correct -- if you add words that greatly change the original statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To date, we don't have that database as it was promised by the (State) Department of Justice in 2013,\" the spokesman wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a refresher, here's what Sanchez said originally: \"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still a backlog?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a clear misstatement to say \"we don't have that database.\" But we wanted to see what progress Harris has made reducing its backlog, to better examine Sanchez's claim that \"nothing was done\" and that \"$25 million was spent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown approved $24 million in additional funds to reduce the long list of cases. It had grown to more than 20,700 at the time, according to Harris' office. Earlier that year, a Harris aide seemed to suggest that the backlog could be eliminated in a single year, according to \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15138524.html\">news reports\u003c/a> from the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, the attorney general pledged to hire 36 enforcement agents with the money. Two years later, only half as many had been hired due to what Harris' office called \"hiring challenges.\" And while state investigations helped clear nearly 7,000 names off the list, the overall backlog had shrunk by only one-fifth during that time, to about 17,500, according to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/armed-prohib-person-system.pdf\">March 2015 report\u003c/a> by the Attorney General's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article17973449.html\">criticized Harris\u003c/a> for what they said was slow progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's comments about the database came five days before the Attorney General's Office issued \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\">another report\u003c/a> on the program. It said the list is now down to about 12,700 cases, which the office called \"a historic low.\" The report makes clear that the list is not static. More than 20,000 people were added to it during the past 2½ years, while about 7,800 dropped off due to death or other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10855575 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg\" alt=\"SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\" width=\"800\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1180x1354.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-960x1102.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the additional funding was approved in 2013, state agents have removed more than 20,500 people, and doubled the average number of guns seized per year, according to the most recent report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office has spent $15 million of the $24 million, according to the Attorney General's Office. The office's authority to spend the remainder expires May 1, though Harris has asked the Legislature to create a permanent funding stream for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our ruling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Loretta Sanchez said in a recent interview that California Attorney General Kamala Harris has done \"nothing\" to address a backlog of cases in a high-profile gun ownership tracking system. The database allows law enforcement to seize guns from people with criminal records and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns -- by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only does the program exist, but some progress has been made. The backlog has been cut from more than 20,000 cases to 12,700. That's after Harris's office spent $15 million of $24 million allocated by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some continue to argue that the cases should be cleared more quickly, citing the mass shootings that have continued across the country. 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And that's far from \"nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there's room to criticize the pace of the program, Sanchez's statement amounts to a complete misrepresentation of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rate the claim Pants On Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/feb/21/principles-truth-o-meter/\">Click here for more \u003c/a>on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297825900/Senate-Bill-140-Supplemental-Budget-Report\">Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_13841\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/297825900/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a list of sources on this fact check and to read more more fact checks, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFactCalifornia.com\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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