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Some of them were controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans were outraged that the committee didn’t vote on their bill seeking to add new requirements before state officials could place “sexually violent predators” in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate’s top Republican, Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/brian-jones-42\">Brian Jones\u003c/a> of San Diego, accused Democratic leaders of protecting “predators over families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Democrats, including Jackson, also were frustrated. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2977\">Jackson had a child tax credit bill\u003c/a> die in the suspense file. Asked last week if he knew who was responsible for killing the bill, Jackson said, “That’s part of the process. You don’t know in many cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When cost estimates kill California bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other Democrats last summer also accused the Newsom administration of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/08/newsom-healthcare-costs-inflated-estimates/\">inflating cost estimates\u003c/a> to kill health care legislation the governor’s team didn’t like through the suspense process. 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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034051/sen-cory-bookers-anti-trump-speech-on-the-senate-floor-has-lasted-20-hours-and-counting\">Sen. 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However, some young voters, frustrated by what they describe as months of inaction, are worried that the impetus will stop on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was inspiring, and seeing other Democrats support Booker was uplifting. … Maybe things are going to start happening,” said Lauren Utne, a graduate student at UC Berkeley. “But overall, I just want to see more people stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats say there are limits to what they can do in the face of Republicans’ hold on the federal government with control of the executive office and both chambers of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said he’s been holding town hall meetings and rallies, meeting with constituents and speaking out whenever he can. He’s also joined Democrats like California Attorney General Rob Bonta in pursuing legal action against the Trump administration, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta is leading the charge against many of Trump’s policies, joining suits against orders that impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033731/trumps-election-order-creates-confusion-before-the-next-federal-election-in-2026\">new voting restrictions and guidelines\u003c/a> and cut funding for universities and other research institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should organize. We should get together,” Thompson said. “There’s a ton of opportunities out there. The rallies have been going well. The court cases have been going well. We’ve got a midterm election right around the corner. We’re going to do well by sticking together and being unified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San José, who represents a section of Silicon Valley, said he’s focused on fighting Trump policies that are hurting Californians economically — especially as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034425/how-much-will-tariffs-raise-prices-trumps-economists-revealed-their-answer\">new tariffs\u003c/a> go into effect this week that he said will disproportionately affect working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909183 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/GettyImages-1166902886-1-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll see me on the House floor next week, battling against a bill Republicans are introducing to lift the caps on overdraft fees that we know have cost American families $1 billion a year,” he said. “You’ll see me certainly in lots of other districts in California [where] residents do not have a representative willing to have a town hall because the Republican leadership told their delegation not to have town halls in their district. We’re going to go there and talk to folks about the impacts of cutting Medicaid and the impacts on Social Security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since succeeding Rep. Barbara Lee in November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030116/rep-lateefah-simon-rebukes-trump-in-fiery-speech-calls-for-bold-progressive-action\">Rep. Lateefah Simon, \u003c/a>D-Oakland, said she’s been in her East Bay district talking to constituents and hosting round tables with local businesses and experts every weekend. This Saturday, though, she’s staying in Washington to join the “Hands Off” protest against the Trump administration happening there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other demonstrations are planned across the country, including in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks need us and want us to have a visceral but also strategic reaction to the dismantling of government,” said Simon, who has a background as a liberal activist and organizer. “We have been in very dangerous governments before, and the newness of this country demands that we use everything that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon said Democrats have been working behind the scenes to pressure Republican colleagues in committee meetings and on the floor. Booker’s marathon speech gave them the fuel they need to keep pushing, she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the most impactful moments I have seen in government,” Simon told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all constituents are convinced, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utne, who is studying natural resources at UC Berkeley, said she’s disappointed at how Democratic leaders have reacted to Trump’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was shocked when several Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, voted in favor of a Republican stopgap funding bill last month to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031318/schumer-to-support-gop-funding-bill-unwilling-to-risk-government-shutdown\">avoid a government shutdown\u003c/a>, one of the few ways the minority party could have exerted power over the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utne said the decision felt particularly disheartening because so many of her friends either lost their jobs in departments where spending is being slashed or are struggling to find work as a result of the federal hiring freeze.[aside postID=news_12032453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1394023104-1020x680.jpg']She also pointed to California Gov. 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In liberal strongholds like California, representatives need to use their power to stand up for issues that are hurting residents, Utne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has always been such a big economic leader and a leader in environmental rights and queer rights and all these other things,” Utne said. “We should be at the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angie Zhu, a sophomore at UC Berkeley, said most of the headlines she’s read center on what Republicans and Trump are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats need to stir up more publicity around what they are doing to fight back, she said. The Republican Party is better at maintaining an active social media presence, she said, adding that social media is the best way to engage young voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who are not involved in politics, our sources are through what’s popping up on Instagram and TikTok,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Suckley, a senior at UC Berkeley, said older politicians have been too complacent since Trump’s election. It feels like many Democratic leaders are giving up and waiting for the next election before they make a move, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suckley said he wants to see politicians stand alone and “do the right thing” regardless of political affiliation or possible cuts to federal funding. 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But Latino residents are not being represented equitably on the Democratic County Central Committee — which is mostly composed of white representatives, with only one Latino on the slate, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that the San Francisco Democratic Party is not a beacon of hope and the voice we need right now to fight for Latino issues,” Ortiz told KQED. “If you don’t have representation, you’re less likely to have folks that are championing Latino issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/1024px-City_Hall_SF_evening.jpg\" alt=\"A shot of San Francisco City Hall lit up in the evening.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/1024px-City_Hall_SF_evening.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/1024px-City_Hall_SF_evening-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/1024px-City_Hall_SF_evening-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/1024px-City_Hall_SF_evening-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall lit up at night on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Christoph Radtke/Wikimedia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the timing of the club’s announcement followed controversy over Ortiz, who was accused of sexual assault last year by several women in the political community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The club said in January that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020452/sf-politico-resumes-role-president-latinx-democratic-club-after-sexual-assault-allegations\">internal investigation\u003c/a> found that the allegations were unsupported, and Ortiz was reinstated to his position. His reappointment caused public outcry, which included some of the women who had accused Ortiz of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure to respond to allegations made against Ortiz and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996787/reckoning-on-sexual-assault-roils-sf-democrats-as-mayoral-endorsement-looms\">others in the San Francisco political scene\u003c/a>, the city’s Democratic Party voted to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016733/sf-democrats-adopt-new-sexual-assault-reporting-policies\">new guidelines\u003c/a> for reporting and monitoring sexual misconduct cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in May, an ombudsperson will investigate reports of sexual violence, and an adjudication panel will be put in place to decide potential remedies and consequences. While the new policy allows victims to bring allegations to their local Democratic chapters, those who feel uncomfortable doing so can now choose to go through the official Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of local chapters will have to complete sexual harassment training and incorporate the policies into their chapters’ bylaws if they wish to remain chartered.[aside postID=news_12032892 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I have not received any type of communication from the Latinx club or its leadership, and so I can’t say for sure what their motivations are aside from what they’ve written on paper,” said Nancy Tung, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party. “But I will say that it’s a bit strange to me that people who have been long-term Democrats would not seek to try to mediate differences with the party before unilaterally and without warning deciding to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ortiz, the club fully adopted the party’s new code of conduct policies and have also restructured their own internal processes when it comes to addressing sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latinx Democratic Club is not the first this year to cut ties. Leadership with the Rose Pak Democratic Club, which changed its name to the Rose Pak Asian American Club, announced that they would not be rechartering with San Francisco’s Democratic Party in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter addressed to Tung, the club’s leadership said that monolingual seniors expressed distrust when interacting with the party and alleged that the Democratic Party failed to address the immediate concerns of Asian American and immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party signed a resolution in February condemning the Trump administration’s actions and reaffirming the city’s status as a sanctuary for immigrants and other marginalized communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Silicon Valley billionaires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017551/is-san-francisco-a-bellwether-for-cryptocurrency-influence-on-local-elections\">poured millions of dollars\u003c/a> into San Francisco elections in November to increase policing, consolidate mayoral power and shift the city to the center politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bets paid off — for some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, cryptocurrency CEO Chris Larsen and other business leaders to help lure major companies and their employees back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move is a boon for private sector leaders, who now have a direct line to City Hall, and comes as San Francisco’s economy struggles to rebound from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several billionaires shaping San Francisco are also working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>. The money flowing into local politics has deepened fractures among San Francisco Democratic leaders, mirroring the national Democratic Party’s struggle to unite behind a single strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco should be leading the resistance and opposition to Donald Trump, but we’re seeing how big money in San Francisco has kind of neutered the city. It has neutralized us on issues,” said Peter Gallotta, a member of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. “We’re struggling now with an identity crisis of ‘who are we?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the opening of the new OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The identity crisis was palpable shortly after Trump’s inauguration when Gallotta proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/143yCoEPWOXYbmCVtUrH7K2GSLncG_ebm/view\">resolution condemning tech titans\u003c/a> who supported Democrats in San Francisco while cozying up to Republicans in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta, a DCCC member since 2017, sought to spotlight figures like Larsen, who contributed more than $1 million to moderate Democratic candidates in San Francisco’s November election, campaign finance records show. Ripple, the cryptocurrency company Larsen co-founded and chairs, donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum donated $250,000 to a PAC supporting Lurie for mayor and $5.1 million to Trump’s campaign. Venture capitalist William Oberndorf, co-founder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a moderate organizing group, spent over $1 million on San Francisco elections in 2024, primarily backing mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. Oberndorf also contributed $100,000 to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']Altman, who contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">a key advisor\u003c/a> on Lurie’s City Hall transition team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats really need to point to how this money is already influencing the policies of the Trump administration, and also just how big money continues to influence our political system here in California and in San Francisco,” Gallotta, one of the remaining progressives on the DCCC after moderates took over the majority in 2024, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta’s resolution passed, but several members pushed back against language that called out leaders in tech, one of the city’s biggest industries for tax revenue. Nancy Tung, chair of the DCCC, voted against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it was an indictment on the amount of money that gets spent in our political elections in San Francisco, then it was really one-sided,” Tung told KQED, pointing to money spent by organized labor on local races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s spending power often outweighs that of organized labor, said Jane Kim, a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Billionaire wealth will vastly outpower labor’s ability to give,” she said. “What we see is an unfortunate imbalance of who gets influence in government today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. Kim is a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others wanted to dilute Galotta’s resolution to rebuke Trump rather than his donors who are influencing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to perpetuate is a united voice opposing Donald Trump, not having the same old tired fights,” DCCC member Trevor Chandler said during January’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DCCC later voted to create a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuX1yWyVLI10gegryZPmnNZ_kzd6DN13/view\">separate resolution\u003c/a> based on Chandler’s proposal to denounce Trump’s agenda targeting the city’s sanctuary status, transgender rights and other issues. It passed in February after additional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resistance against Trump this time around is really going to be in the courts again,” Tung said. “I understand that people are very frustrated, and they want to be demonstrating in the streets, but it’s exhausting to do that.”[aside postID=news_12017551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-2162428471-1020x680.jpg']Democrats in Washington are struggling to find a strategy for countering Trump. Their disagreements came to a head this month when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was one of 10 Democrats to vote for a Republican spending bill aimed at delaying a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told reporters in a dig at Schumer after the bill passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As representatives in Washington splinter over government funding, San Francisco faces its own nearly $1 billion budget deficit. Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, compared agitation among San Francisco Democrats to intraparty fights at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see a lot of the same advisors and donors for both Lurie’s administration and the Trump administration, and the fact that he hasn’t spoken for that is disappointing,” Kim said. “Clearly, they’re very different in terms of the goals that they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they have a similar approach to government — that you don’t need any government experience in order to lead and that hiring the wealthiest people with private sector experience is going to fix the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who had no prior elected experience before becoming mayor, broke the city’s record for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">most expensive mayoral campaign in history\u003c/a>, the majority coming from his own wealth as an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members attend Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015128/sfs-next-mayor-wants-city-lean-into-ai-stay-out-regulating\">boosted the city as an artificial intelligence hub\u003c/a>. Accompanied by a live pianist, Lurie recently promised tech workers at the new Mission Bay headquarters of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company and maker of ChatGPT, that San Francisco’s reputation as the tech capital of the world would soon rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OpenAI is leading our city’s latest tech resurgence,” he said. “My administration will ensure that our city is a place where companies can succeed and a place where your employees are proud to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">remained quiet on Trump\u003c/a> and his relationship with Altman, Elon Musk, David Sachs and other Silicon Valley billionaires. Instead, City Attorney David Chiu and city supervisors have led resistance to Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights, immigrants and public funding as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-democrats-constituents-resistance-20207038.php\">Bay Area residents\u003c/a> increasingly demand Democratic representatives in Washington press harder against executive orders from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Lurie is the poster child of our politics becoming an oligarchy. But he didn’t pass Citizens United — he exploited it. And we need to give him a chance,” said political consultant Eric Jaye, referring to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in \u003cem>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission\u003c/em>, which allowed wealthy people and corporations to spend unlimited money on elections. “This country has been sliding away from a vigorous democracy. You can buy elections now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without campaign finance reform, private interests will continue to wield and consolidate power locally and nationally, Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The richest people in the world want to control the San Francisco government, and they are spending virtually unlimited amounts of money in an attempt to do so,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several billionaires shaping San Francisco are also working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>. The money flowing into local politics has deepened fractures among San Francisco Democratic leaders, mirroring the national Democratic Party’s struggle to unite behind a single strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco should be leading the resistance and opposition to Donald Trump, but we’re seeing how big money in San Francisco has kind of neutered the city. It has neutralized us on issues,” said Peter Gallotta, a member of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. “We’re struggling now with an identity crisis of ‘who are we?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the opening of the new OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The identity crisis was palpable shortly after Trump’s inauguration when Gallotta proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/143yCoEPWOXYbmCVtUrH7K2GSLncG_ebm/view\">resolution condemning tech titans\u003c/a> who supported Democrats in San Francisco while cozying up to Republicans in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta, a DCCC member since 2017, sought to spotlight figures like Larsen, who contributed more than $1 million to moderate Democratic candidates in San Francisco’s November election, campaign finance records show. Ripple, the cryptocurrency company Larsen co-founded and chairs, donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum donated $250,000 to a PAC supporting Lurie for mayor and $5.1 million to Trump’s campaign. Venture capitalist William Oberndorf, co-founder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a moderate organizing group, spent over $1 million on San Francisco elections in 2024, primarily backing mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. Oberndorf also contributed $100,000 to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Altman, who contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">a key advisor\u003c/a> on Lurie’s City Hall transition team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats really need to point to how this money is already influencing the policies of the Trump administration, and also just how big money continues to influence our political system here in California and in San Francisco,” Gallotta, one of the remaining progressives on the DCCC after moderates took over the majority in 2024, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta’s resolution passed, but several members pushed back against language that called out leaders in tech, one of the city’s biggest industries for tax revenue. Nancy Tung, chair of the DCCC, voted against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it was an indictment on the amount of money that gets spent in our political elections in San Francisco, then it was really one-sided,” Tung told KQED, pointing to money spent by organized labor on local races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s spending power often outweighs that of organized labor, said Jane Kim, a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Billionaire wealth will vastly outpower labor’s ability to give,” she said. “What we see is an unfortunate imbalance of who gets influence in government today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. Kim is a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others wanted to dilute Galotta’s resolution to rebuke Trump rather than his donors who are influencing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to perpetuate is a united voice opposing Donald Trump, not having the same old tired fights,” DCCC member Trevor Chandler said during January’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DCCC later voted to create a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuX1yWyVLI10gegryZPmnNZ_kzd6DN13/view\">separate resolution\u003c/a> based on Chandler’s proposal to denounce Trump’s agenda targeting the city’s sanctuary status, transgender rights and other issues. It passed in February after additional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resistance against Trump this time around is really going to be in the courts again,” Tung said. “I understand that people are very frustrated, and they want to be demonstrating in the streets, but it’s exhausting to do that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, compared agitation among San Francisco Democrats to intraparty fights at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see a lot of the same advisors and donors for both Lurie’s administration and the Trump administration, and the fact that he hasn’t spoken for that is disappointing,” Kim said. “Clearly, they’re very different in terms of the goals that they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they have a similar approach to government — that you don’t need any government experience in order to lead and that hiring the wealthiest people with private sector experience is going to fix the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who had no prior elected experience before becoming mayor, broke the city’s record for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">most expensive mayoral campaign in history\u003c/a>, the majority coming from his own wealth as an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members attend Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015128/sfs-next-mayor-wants-city-lean-into-ai-stay-out-regulating\">boosted the city as an artificial intelligence hub\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>BAKERSFIELD — Erlinda Carrillo is already exhausted by the first two months of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter lost her job at a scientific research institute after the Trump administration canceled its government contract. She’s worried layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031166/federal-judge-in-sf-orders-trump-administration-to-reverse-mass-firings-at-6-agencies\">affect care for her brother\u003c/a>, a Vietnam War veteran. And she’s concerned about her Social Security benefits \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office\">amid cost-cutting\u003c/a> at the Social Security Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m tired of all of the backlash that we’re actually getting due to Donald Trump,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carillo and her husband, Mitch, went looking for inspiration in the gym of a Bakersfield community center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032453/rep-ro-khanna-on-how-democrats-should-fight-back\">where Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/a> held a town hall meeting on Sunday — hundreds of miles from his Silicon Valley district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was part of a day-long barnstorming tour of meetings in three districts represented by California Republicans for Khanna, a Democrat. Khanna mocked Republicans for not holding in-person town halls and denounced the GOP budget framework that could set the table for cuts to Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032694 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audrey Chavez (center) listens at a town hall meeting with Rep. Ro Khanna at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also got a taste of the rising frustration among Democratic voters who have criticized party leaders for lacking vitality and vision in their response to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dispirited Democrats made up much of the crowd in Bakersfield. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending\">reserved particular criticism\u003c/a> for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who led nine Democrats in voting for a Republican-authored budget resolution to avoid a government shutdown earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When is the Democratic Party going to set aside its peacetime leaders and bring up some wartime leaders?” Darren Bly asked Khanna. “Because that’s what we need.”[aside postID=news_12032453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1394023104-1020x680.jpg']Khanna reiterated his stance that the party’s “old guard needs to step aside,” and said, “If the party is letting us down, it’s time to rebuild the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not fighting and marching and organizing, then you don’t understand the moment,” he continued. “We need Democratic leaders who are going to be with the people in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25597409-nbc-march-2025-poll/?q=stick&mode=document#document/p16\">recent NBC poll\u003c/a> found that 20% of Democratic voters have negative views of the party. Unlike in 2017, when most Democratic voters hoped their party would pursue compromise and consensus in Congress, the survey found 65% of Democratic voters want House Democrats to stick to their positions, even if it leads to gridlock in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we want to see,” said Mitch Carillo, pointing to Khanna as he paced the makeshift stage answering questions. “They were mentioning the old guard in the Democratic Party, and they’ve done some really great things, but it’s time to step aside and let’s let this younger generation come in and see what they can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the Republicans aren’t playing fair, they’re not playing by the rule book, I mean, whatever it takes to win, they’ll do,” Carillo added. “The Democrats don’t have an answer for that. I think people like Ro Khanna do have an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From center right) Connie Wright, Sally MacGuire and Ali Ramirez applaud and cheer at a town hall meeting with Rep. 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His choice of the 22nd District was no accident: Two-thirds of residents receive health coverage through Medicaid, according to the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need three Republicans — three Republicans — to prevent the cuts to Medicaid,” Khanna told the crowd on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s representative, David Valadao, said in a speech on the House floor last month that he has heard from many constituents “who tell me the only way they can afford health care is through programs like Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not support a final reconciliation bill that risks leaving them behind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032695 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawna Sodders-Simpson holds a sign at a town hall meeting with Rep. 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An \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-03/61235-Boyle-Pallone.pdf\">analysis released\u003c/a> by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that it would be impossible for Republicans to achieve that benchmark without cutting Medicaid, which accounts for $8.2 trillion of the $8.8 trillion in spending under that committee’s jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Paul, a doctor in Bakersfield, said it would be heartbreaking if cuts led to patients being unable to afford care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul, who was invited to the town hall by a coworker, heaped his own share of criticism on the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get young people like [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] or very progressive people like Bernie Sanders speaking truth to power, we try to marginalize them so we seem more mainstream,” he said. “This is sort of my start in becoming more active and trying to push back against what’s going on in our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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His choice of the 22nd District was no accident: Two-thirds of residents receive health coverage through Medicaid, according to the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need three Republicans — three Republicans — to prevent the cuts to Medicaid,” Khanna told the crowd on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s representative, David Valadao, said in a speech on the House floor last month that he has heard from many constituents “who tell me the only way they can afford health care is through programs like Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not support a final reconciliation bill that risks leaving them behind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032695 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawna Sodders-Simpson holds a sign at a town hall meeting with Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising that just three weeks into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term, California finds itself in the crosshairs over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026189/transgender-athletes-face-new-hurdles-as-ncaa-adopts-stricter-policy-citing-trump-order\">transgender athletes\u003c/a>, climate change and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">water policies\u003c/a>, to name just a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has forced Gov. Gavin Newsom, in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">devastation from fires in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, to exchange his years of anti-Trump rhetoric for something more akin to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">kissing the ring\u003c/a> of a president who is acting like a king hellbent on settling scores and punishing political enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is fighting back in the courts. Attorney General Rob Bonta joined blue state attorneys general in seeking to stop Trump orders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">freeze federal funding\u003c/a>, including grants funding research at public and private universities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the announced candidates for the 2026 gubernatorial election await a decision from a possible contender: former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. She is cautious and often guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she runs, I would expect her to wage a much more personal campaign for governor of her home state,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communication at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, who called Harris “one of the most risk-averse politicians in the country,” said a run for governor would give her a chance to campaign in friendlier political territory than she often experienced in her 100-day run for president — and on issues where she is more personally comfortable.[aside postID=news_12019149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-2181827064-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has never had a female governor, and Harris, as well as the other women running, could break that barrier. Aimee Allison, whose organization She the People advocates for electing more women of color, said at this moment, that alone is not enough for any candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even more important than representation, they have to make an argument that the old guard and the old way of politicking isn’t going to work in Trump’s America, not Trump 2.0,” Allison said. “There’s too many attacks, and they’re coming from so many different places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom has pivoted from criticizing Trump to figuring out how to flatter him enough to get what California needs in disaster relief, Allison said accommodation is not an option for the next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be willing to get into the arena, set your agenda and fight like hell. That’s who we want right now,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris would not be the first former vice president who ran for president and lost, then turned around and ran for governor of California two years later. Richard Nixon did it in 1962 after losing a razor-thin race to John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost a bitter campaign to Pat Brown, the incumbent Democratic governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After saying he was done with politics, Nixon reemerged eight years later and was elected president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what the downsides of Harris running for governor were, Schnur’s answer was simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could lose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. 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"content": "\u003cp>California Democrats passed a key first test of party unity in their confrontation with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> administration this week. The state Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024851/california-legislature-approves-50m-to-fight-trump-administration-in-court\">voted along party lines\u003c/a> on Monday to set aside money for legal battles against the White House, sending the bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approving the $50 million legal aid plan was not straightforward, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antipathy toward Trump helped Democrats in California gain a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature in 2016 — and swell their ranks throughout his first term. However, a KQED analysis of district-level election results — using data from the Secretary of State’s office and nonpartisan research firm California Target Book — reveals that Trump’s recent gains in blue districts have complicated the Democratic playbook for resistance in his second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire face the challenge of uniting their caucuses while navigating an aggressive White House agenda and California’s shifting political map. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025063/california-assembly-delay-votes-on-50-million-funding-bills-amid-trump-legal-battle\">Despite hurdles along the way\u003c/a>, the funding plan cleared both houses of the Legislature with just a single Democratic vote in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party cohesion is especially impressive when comparing the makeup of this supermajority to the one that took office in the aftermath of Trump’s first victory in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11279418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11279418\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-632202066-e1484966703442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Capitol as President Trump gave his inaugural address on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back then, Democrats held 27 of 40 seats in the state Senate and 55 of 80 seats in the state Assembly. Strikingly, all 82 Democrats represented districts where Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory over Trump was at least 10 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supermajority is even larger today: Democrats hold 60 seats in the Assembly and 30 in the Senate. Backlash to Trump, particularly in Orange County, led to Democrats unseating many swing-district Republicans during his first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the caucus has grown, the politics have become more complex. Now, 11 Democrats hold seats where the margin between Trump and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> fell within single digits, including two members — Sen. Melissa Hurtado of Bakersfield and Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria of Merced — who represent districts that Trump won. Another Assemblymember, Jasmeet Bains, represents a Bakersfield district that went for Harris by just 363 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Acosta, a Democratic political consultant, said legislators representing Trump-trending districts “have to create that lane of independence for themselves” as they navigate confrontations between California and Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024851 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GavinNewsomGetty-1020x707.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not running against Newsom per se, but they’re running against some of the caucus policies,” Acosta said. “I’m assuming they’re still going to be against the Trump overall agenda, but like Soria and probably Jasmeet Bains … they’re going to pick and choose their battles on some of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calculations spilled into the open after Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">called a special session\u003c/a> days after the election to approve Trump-related legal aid. The plan sets aside up to $25 million for the state’s attorney general to battle the Trump administration in court and another $25 million for legal nonprofits to defend residents facing detention or deportation from federal actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom initially pressed lawmakers to approve the funding before Trump took office, but the Legislature was consumed with responding to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">deadly Los Angeles fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That delay proved to be an asset for Democrats. By the time the bills came up for a vote, moderates were armed with examples of Trump pushing the limits of constitutional law with moves \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024387/california-22-other-states-sue-to-block-trumps-federal-funding-freeze\">to halt federal funding\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">end recognition of birthright citizenship\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12003637 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a business suit looks off camera with a woman's head in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/07132023-Assembly-Floor-Session-RL-CM-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, a Delano Democrat on the Assembly Floor, during a session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on July 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When this bill was first put forward, I had real questions about whether we were responding to a serious threat or simply trying to score some cheap political points,” Bains said on the Assembly floor before the vote. “But this new administration has erased any doubts that I may have had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were still speed bumps for both bills on the way to Newsom’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, Hurtado supported the nonprofit legal aid but was the lone Democrat to vote against the money for state lawyers. Her 16th District seat swung toward Trump by a 53%–44% margin after residents there had voted for Joe Biden by eight points in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel personally that Trump-proofing is a missed opportunity to urge the president for meaningful change,” Hurtado said on the Senate floor. “We should be working with the president to ensure public safety deportations are targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024757 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to register and enter an informational session about immigration services at Willow Cove Elementary in Pittsburg, California, on Jan. 29, 2025. More than 300 people attended the event organized by Stand Together Contra Costa and the Pittsburg Unified School District, which offered free, private consultation with immigration attorneys, medical services and a resource fair. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sensing a vulnerability on the issue of immigration, Republicans in the Assembly pushed for a vote last week on an amendment to clarify that the legal aid money could not be used to defend a person convicted of a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats responded by delaying the vote until Monday. When the proposal was finally brought up, Bains joined Republicans in supporting the amendment, while swing district Democrats Pilar Schiavo and Darshana Patel abstained from voting.[aside postID=news_12024816 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01393-1020x680.jpg']Meanwhile, Democratic leaders must still contend with the caucus’ imposing left flank. Seven in 10 Democrats in the Assembly represent districts that resoundingly rejected Trump in November, voting for Harris by a margin of at least 20 points. Rivas seemed to channel the desires of those members to take a more pugilistic stance when he took the rare step of addressing the entire Assembly from the rostrum before Monday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me be blunt — right now, Californians are being threatened by an out-of-control administration in Washington that doesn’t care about the Constitution, that thinks there are no limits to its power,” Rivas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What appeared to unite the caucus behind the special session bills was Trump’s flurry of executive actions in his first two weeks in office. Bains spoke of Trump’s threats to withhold wildfire disaster aid. Schiavo focused her remarks on the directive to freeze federal funding, which was rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Wong, who led the campaign operation for the Assembly Democrats from 2017–22, argued the caucus would be wise to position any resistance around tangible programs coming under fire from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If all of a sudden Meals on Wheels disappears, we go to war because people depend on that,” Wong said. “And we don’t need to add all of this other extraneous, performative lingo on how we do it. That’s all unnecessary, and that’s also off-putting to voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For lifelong Republican Doris Gentry, a presidential inauguration is like being at a concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re surrounded by like-minded people who are there for the same reason. They’re all cheering, chanting and jumping,” said Gentry, chair of the Napa County Republican Central Committee, who plans to be among \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/washington-braces-trump-inauguration-with-fortress-like-fencing-extra-police-2025-01-14/\">hundreds of thousands\u003c/a> of people in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the inauguration of Donald Trump’s second term as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gentry, who also attended the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, said she is hopeful about the “America-first” approach that Trump has touted on the campaign trail. She said she supports some of his recent proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVpQYU5lM8\">rename\u003c/a> the Gulf of Mexico and to acquire \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/president-elect-trump-on-greenland-and-panama-canal/5148065\">Greenland\u003c/a> — in what the president-elect has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251168/trump-greenland\">described\u003c/a> as “economic security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Trump is an out-of-the-box thinker and extremely wise. So why do I want to go watch a man like that be installed as our next president? It’s just staggering,” Gentry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Burns, the chair of the Contra Costa Republican Party, also plans to be at Trump’s inauguration. He said this moment caps what he calls an “incredible year in politics” — which saw two attempted assassinations on Trump and the shift in the Democratic ticket from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just excited to be back in D.C. for this. It’s going to be really an epic experience,” Burns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Gentry, Burns said this election, it felt more acceptable to be a Trump supporter in the Bay Area, typically a Democratic stronghold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ You’d get more people saying, ‘Hey, I didn’t want to say anything, but I agree,’ and ‘Thank you for saying something,’” Burns said. “Whereas before, there was a culture of ‘you have to stay completely underground.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across all nine Bay Area counties, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/12/california-election-results-trump-vote-2024/\">higher percentage of voters\u003c/a> cast their ballot for Donald Trump this election compared with last time Trump ran in 2020. The changes in the Bay Area between 2020 and 2024 are small — between a 1% and 4% increase in each county. But that’s also coupled with the fact that statewide voter turnout was much lower this election: 80% of registered voters voted in 2020, compared with 71% in 2024.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101908347,news_12019638,news_12015637\"]Paul Mitchell, a political data analyst and the vice president of Political Data Incorporated, said that percentage change in support for Trump isn’t necessarily an indication of more support for Republicans in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s kind of premature to jump to the conclusion of, ‘Oh, look, Republicans are gaining,’ in an instance where it might just be that a lot of Democrats were staying home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell added that in the coming months, he and other political data analysts will be studying the numbers to determine whether some voters changed their attitudes and voted Republican this election or if the change is simply an indication that turnout among Democrats was lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bay Area Republicans hold watch parties to celebrate Trump’s inauguration, the region is expected to feel division — as several counter-demonstrations are planned throughout the MLK holiday weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, \u003ca href=\"https://action.womensmarch.com/local?filter%5Blocation%5D=94107&page=1\">People’s Marches\u003c/a> are happening across the Bay Area, from San José to Sebastopol, in solidarity with similar protests nationwide. On Sunday, a coalition of dozens of local groups made up of student organizations, unions, and civil rights groups have planned a San Francisco march, dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://wefightback2025.org/\">We Fight Back.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022798\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community leaders and local organizations gather for a photo, following a press conference protesting Trump’s inauguration, in front of City Hall, in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers of Sunday’s march said they’re inaugurating a movement of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This demonstration is not a one-off event. This is the inauguration of the ‘We Fight Back’ movements,” said organizer Luna Osleger-Montañez during a news conference Wednesday at San Francisco City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other organizers stressed that Sunday’s action marks the beginning of a long fight to resist various facets of Trump’s platform, like his promises of mass deportations and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/trump-on-lgbtq-rights\">removal of federal anti-discrimination policies aimed primarily at the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think it’s a widespread feeling of the need to make sure some of the rhetoric of the campaign does not become a reality for our people,” said Natalie Hrizi, a representative of the teacher’s union for the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathalie Hrizi, vice president of substitutes for United Educators of SF and public teacher, poses for a photo outside of City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those promises of mass deportations have spurred fear for some in the Bay Area’s immigrant community, but organizers of Sunday’s march said they felt buoyed by the diversity and scale of the organizations that have pledged to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The biggest feeling I’m going to have on Sunday is pride and optimism,” said Sanika Mahajan, the director of Community Engagement and Organizing at the nonprofit Mission Action. “ As much as they want us to have fear, as much as they want us to feel confused or siloed, we know that we have to be united in order to fight back, and so I’m excited to see that on Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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On Monday, the Latinx Democratic Club announced that an internal investigation “did not support the allegations” and that its former leader is reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Ortiz categorically denies any wrongdoing and has provided evidence to the DA that demonstrates his innocence,” Tony Brass, Ortiz’s legal counsel, said in a statement. “Mr. Ortiz will continue to cooperate with the DA to clear his name and will not stand by and have his reputation ruined by false allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal committee tasked with investigating the complaints was comprised of club members, including board members, and three external experts on sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman who accused Ortiz of sexual assault chose not to participate in the internal investigative process out of fear of retaliation and bias from the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahra Hajee, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/new-allegations-against-s-f-politico-democrats-19552577.php\">publicly accused Ortiz\u003c/a> of sexual assault in a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> story, opted out after her reports were met with concerns over false accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Reflection of a building in a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-22-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall on Aug. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is upsetting, yet unsurprising, to see SFLDC’s lack of courage by reinstating the man who sexually assaulted me as their organization’s leader,” Hajee said on Monday. “While SFLDC was investigating my assault over the past several months, they used their platform not to advance protections for survivors, but instead consistently and publicly advocate for consequences for false reporting at the SFDCCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This misplaced focus made clear to me that the investigation process was biased and would trivialize my own experience coming forward — which is why I declined to participate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Brass said Hajee pursued Ortiz and blasted her accusation as “baseless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman who accused Ortiz of sexual assault in the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> story, and who has remained anonymous, said she was never invited to participate in the investigation and was not aware it was underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016733 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-184795463-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no way of knowing there was an investigation and no avenue through which to participate in one,” the woman, who requested to remain anonymous due to concerns over safety and political retaliation, told KQED. “This is really absurd. Of course, they believed him — he’s the only person they heard from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz’s announcement comes shortly after the San Francisco Democratic Party recently voted to adopt new guidelines for reporting and handling sexual misconduct cases, following multiple accusations of sexual assault and harassment within local Democratic chapters that advocates and survivors said largely went ignored until they came forward publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies preserve the preexisting option of reporting directly to a local chapter, which can still pursue its own investigation. The Latinx Democratic Club started its internal review process before the Democratic Party adopted the new guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But survivors who don’t feel comfortable or confident reporting directly to their local chapter can now also choose to go through the official Democratic Party. Those reports will go to an ombudsperson and an investigator. An adjudication panel would decide potential remedies and consequences, ranging from restorative justice to admonishment or expulsion from the San Francisco Democratic Party. The policy also lays out an appeals process for the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of local chapters, as well as candidates seeking the party’s endorsement, will have to complete sexual harassment training and incorporate the policies into their chapters’ bylaws by May 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am incredibly exhausted, but will continue to work towards a community that will do right by survivors in their journeys to seek healing and justice,” Hajee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Volunteers are there to make phone calls into our battleground states and congressional districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s little doubt San Francisco voters will go for the Bay Area’s own Kamala Harris, the disruption at the party’s Market Street office — the city’s center for national, state-level and local campaigning for Democratic candidates — inflamed Election Day tensions over the potential for confrontations. 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They arrived around 4:15 p.m. Monday and said they were there to “convert people,” according to Tung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Mullen was also with a woman he said was formerly unhoused and questioned why there was so much feces on San Francisco’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff and volunteers called for them to “leave the premises” and accused Mullen and his supporters of trespassing, and eventually, Tung and others got them to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung said that the six or so weeks San Francisco Democrats have spent in their headquarters have been pretty smooth, but safety is still top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our volunteers are not naive to the environment that we’re in,” Tung said. “Obviously, they feel very strongly about making sure that we elect a qualified candidate, Kamala Harris, as the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The altercation could foreshadow what’s to come as results stream on Tuesday night and throughout the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies and universities around the Bay Area are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012421/law-enforcement-schools-bay-area-prepare-post-election-turmoil\">making preparations\u003c/a> for political unrest, which is likely no matter which way the presidential contest goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, jurisdictions are already struggling to retain staff and calm tensions as “self-appointed election observers” with clipboards and notepads watch officials count mail-in and early ballots. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012295/election-workers-quit-in-shasta-as-self-appointed-observers-roam-office\">Shasta County\u003c/a>, about half of the registrar’s 21 employees have quit over the hostile environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 and 2022 elections were met with mass protests from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012408/adam-schiff-is-confident-harris-will-win-but-worried-about-maga-election-deniers\">election deniers\u003c/a>, and former President Donald Trump — along with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010914/we-wont-commit-to-certifying-election-results-say-most-california-gop-congressmembers\">Republican representatives\u003c/a> — still denies that he lost the 2020 presidential race. This time, he’s gone on the offensive about alleged election fraud, starting an “election integrity effort” and encouraging supporters to observe vote counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various news organizations have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-cheating-fraud-lies-52832138394282b8a3355b45c0b913a9\">warned\u003c/a> that Trump’s remarks at closing rallies have laid the foundation for denying the results of Tuesday’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, he told a crowd in Arizona that the “only thing that can stop us is the cheating.” In Pennsylvania, he’s saying thousands of “fraudulent” mail-in ballot applications and voter registration forms have been sent in by a “third-party group.” He’s not said whether he will accept the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mullen’s part, following a series of clips of Monday’s altercation, he posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dannymullen\">Instagram\u003c/a> a photo with the caption “more tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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