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"content": "\u003cp>As the planned closure of the only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County draws nearer, a coalition of health care workers, advocates and community leaders are ramping up their efforts to halt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by thousands of people who have signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/stop-closure-of-trauma-comp-stroke-code-heart-at-regional-med-ctr-san-jose-immediately\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online petition\u003c/a>, the group is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in and prevent what they call the life-threatening closure of the trauma center and other service cuts at Regional Medical Center, a hospital in East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a choice but to fight,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said Thursday at a rally just steps from the entrance to Regional Medical Center. “Because if the state understood the impacts to this community, they already would have weighed in to say no to HCA removing these critical services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on Thursday. Chavez and a coalition of advocates are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt the closure of the hospital’s trauma center. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s ownership group, Hospital Corporation of America, or HCA Healthcare, is planning on Aug. 12 to shutter the Level II trauma center at Regional and eliminate its ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program, which handles severe heart attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also plans to downgrade its stroke services from the “comprehensive” level, which can care for all types of stroke patients and has 24/7 availability for complex neurosurgery, to “primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of staff members, including surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel at the hospital, recently started receiving termination notices tied to the planned cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure were to proceed, patients who needed such services would need to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county health care system, the county said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on Thursday to halt the cuts follow earlier requests by the group and county officials asking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the California Department of Public Health to investigate the planned cuts and to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office on Thursday said it is reviewing the matter but is unable to comment on a potential or ongoing investigation “to protect its integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Governor’s office deferred comment to the California Health and Human Services Agency, who did not immediately respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez, as well as other elected leaders, doctors, nurses and patient advocates, are raising alarms over the cuts, which they say will lead to more deaths and worse health outcomes for people all over the region who rely on the critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Medical Center in East San José is planning to close its trauma center and cut back other critical services on Aug. 12. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changes happening are discriminatory, the group said, as they will hit hardest in the area around the hospital, an area of the county with larger proportions of families with low income and of people of color who are more likely to have a harder time accessing health care in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the west side of San José, HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, where there are more hospitals to address health care needs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HCA has yet again decided to place profits over patients,” Melissa Gong, a registered nurse at Regional Medical Center, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many East San José residents have no insurance or are underinsured, have lower health literacy, and often face language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, many of these patients have chronic health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes, and resulting comorbidities. All comorbidities that require the use of stroke, STEMI, and trauma services,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement issued Thursday, Carmella Gutierrez, a spokesperson for HCA’s Far West Division, said the campaign against the hospital is choosing “exaggeration to generate a false fear” in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Diangson, a member of Defensoras, a patient organizing committee with health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Cindy Chavez knows better. Yet, she has chosen to divide the community with grand-standing photo ops rather than engage in a conversation about sustainable healthcare and the facts,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA said in a letter to the county’s emergency services department that it has seen a 38% reduction in patients at Regional Medical Center’s trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while a county report said the trauma center handles an average of 2,450 trauma patients annually, about a quarter of all reported trauma cases for the trauma system in the county, HCA disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported volumes in the County’s impact statement are overstated and do not align with the reality at RMC,” the letter from HCA said. “We average four trauma patients per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990290\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates pushing to stop the closure of Regional Medical Center’s trauma center carry a box made to look like a casket just outside the hospital in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company also said that the county’s requirements for operating the trauma center are costly because they go beyond what the American College of Surgeons recommends, including having a neurological surgery backup physician, more training and education for physicians and nurses, and higher fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital also said it expects to lose more trauma patients as Washington Hospital in Fremont, in Alameda County, comes online as a trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gong, the nurse, said HCA calling the campaign to stop the cuts exaggerated is deflecting from the heart of the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re gaslighting everybody,” Gong said. “We’re going to cut all the services that treat this side of town and underserved populations. And then when people fight back, we’re going to say, ‘Oh, but you’re upset that we’re taking away your services, well it’s how you’re receiving it, not what we’re doing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11987665,news_11988440\"]During the rally on Thursday, members of the coalition enacted a “funeral procession,” carrying black boxes made to look like caskets for 15 minutes near the hospital. The procession symbolizes the extra time it might take a patient to reach another trauma center in an emergency if the Regional Medical Center’s trauma center closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Raj Gupta, the head of neurology and stroke services at the hospital, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988440/advocates-protest-planned-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who has spoken out\u003c/a> against the cuts, said he doesn’t like the greediness of HCA Healthcare, which made $5.2 billion in profit last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues are participating in the rallies to try to stop them or, at minimum, raise awareness of the cuts that could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can close my eyes and let it happen, right?” he said. “But the public will not know until Aug. 12, when a crisis occurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Over 250,000 San Jose citizens thought seriously about what direction they wanted for our city before they cast their ballots,” said Mahan, in a statement. “While we are hopeful that the majority of voters have chosen common sense and change, however they voted, I am deeply grateful to every person who cast their ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-jose-mayor\"]While Mahan won over 60% of the votes cast at the polls on Election Day, Mahan and Chavez are virtually tied as hundreds of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots continue to be processed and counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real close race – and we applaud the work the registrar is doing to ensure the outstanding ballots are processed and voters’ voice are heard,” Chavez’s campaign manager Brian Parvizshahi said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José mayoral race was dominated by debates over the candidates’ approaches to reducing homelessness and improving public safety — along with arguments over which of the candidates was better positioned to bring change to city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With decades of experience, as a San José City Council member, labor leader and, currently, Santa Clara County supervisor, Chavez touted her work funding hospitals and health services and pushing for the passage of a $950 million affordable housing bond, Measure A, in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first run for mayor, in 2006, Chavez was weighed down by her ties to embattled mayor Ron Gonzales. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As voting gets underway Monday in the runoff election for San José mayor, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San José City Council member Matt Mahan are hoping to convince voters that they can move city government in a new direction in the nation’s 10th-largest city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The question of which candidate is better positioned to be a force for change has assumed a central role in the race to lead a city grappling with rising homelessness, lack of affordable housing and\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thinly staffed city departments like police and planning.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In interviews with KQED, Mahan and Chavez laid out their immediate and long-term visions, with a recent amendment to the city charter giving the winner of this race an opportunity to hold office for a decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has served in local government for most of the last quarter-century, first winning election to the San José City Council in 1998. Still, she has billed herself as a departure from current Mayor Sam Liccardo — who is supporting Mahan — by promising to bolster city staffing and to bring harmony to the council. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahan is a relative newcomer to San José politics, having won election to the Council in 2020 after a career in the tech industry. Liccardo and his business-aligned allies have spent heavily to back Mahan, but the first-term councilmember has run on a vow to shake up the city bureaucracy \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in part by tying pay increases for city leaders, nearly all of whom are supporting Chavez, to progress on issues such as crime and homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With San José’s unhoused population \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/4103/4699#:~:text=The%20overall%20number%20of%20homeless,city%20limits%20of%20San%20Jos%C3%A9.%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising 11% during the pandemic\u003c/a>, Mahan has attacked Chavez’s focus on constructing permanent supportive housing with services and has instead advocated to house the unhoused in quick-build tiny homes known as emergency interim housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it’s really a crisis, let’s go after scalable, efficient solutions to get people indoors and then invest in the supportive services from mental health and addiction counseling to job training, job placement,” Mahan said. “We should be buying (homes) in bulk rather than what we do today, which is extremely incremental and still leans far too heavily on building brand-new apartments.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928237\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11928237 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-800x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez at an election night party for her campaign for mayor, at the San José Woman’s Club on June 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the tiny-home policy has still generated predictable pushback from residents who don’t want unhoused people in their neighborhoods. When the City Council voted in June on four new and expanded emergency interim housing sites, Mahan was one of two “no” votes, asking city staff to spend more time exploring an alternative to the site proposed in his council district. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has defended the county’s focus on building supportive housing, a policy funded through Measure A, a $950 million housing bond that was voted on in 2016 and that Chavez championed. And she has pointed to Santa Clara County’s smaller increase in homelessness compared to neighboring counties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The reason for that is we kept thousands of families from becoming homeless, and we kept moving our program forward,” she said. “We kept building and we kept putting people in housing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has honed in on the issue of police staffing in her attempt to tie Mahan with the current administration. Over the summer, she blamed Liccardo and Mahan for allowing “dangerously low staffing levels” in San José, which employs fewer officers than most cities of its size. Notably, the critiques came as San José’s Police Officers’ Association, which has endorsed Chavez and spent heavily on her behalf, negotiated a new contract with the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has promised to hire 45 new officers every year, arguing that, regardless of contract talks, “if you live in San José, you know that when you dial 911, you’re waiting longer than you should. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That is all about how many people we have that can respond to calls for service,” she added. “We do not have enough police officers, period.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928238\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11928238 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-1020x613.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-1536x923.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Council member Matt Mahan at his election night party in downtown San José for his campaign for mayor on June 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahan said he will also work to increase staffing at the department, but said the financial limitations the city faces in hiring new employees can be traced back to overly generous health and retirement benefits for police that Chavez voted for as a councilmember in the early 2000s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We could hire hundreds of police officers if we didn’t have the legacy of that accumulated debt,” Mahan said. “Let’s not rewrite history here or promise something to the public that isn’t realistic or fiscally responsible.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winner of the November 8 runoff faces a short runway to show results. Measure B, approved by city voters in June, will align future mayoral contests with presidential elections, beginning in 2024. San José’s mayor has few powers beyond that of a councilmember, but both candidates feel an urgency to show immediate results.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People will see a difference in the number of homeless people that we see on the streets, because I think that if we’re assertive about the programming that we’re doing and we’re collaborative with the county and the state and the federal government, that we’re going to be able to not just move the dial on paper, but people will be able to see the difference almost right away,” Chavez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the time pressure created by Measure B comes with a trade-off: The next mayor will be allowed to run for two additional terms after 2024, with the potential of holding office until early 2033. With construction of Google’s Downtown West development and the projected arrival of BART at Diridon Station, the city’s downtown stands to be transformed during the next administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I believe over the course of 10 years, if we fully staff our planning department, streamline some of those permitting processes, speed up our inspections, become a more business-friendly city, we could see a downtown that attracts the investment in housing and jobs and transit that we need, which can be transformative for our entire city,” Mahan said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As voting gets underway Monday in the runoff election for San José mayor, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San José City Council member Matt Mahan are hoping to convince voters that they can move city government in a new direction in the nation’s 10th-largest city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The question of which candidate is better positioned to be a force for change has assumed a central role in the race to lead a city grappling with rising homelessness, lack of affordable housing and\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thinly staffed city departments like police and planning.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In interviews with KQED, Mahan and Chavez laid out their immediate and long-term visions, with a recent amendment to the city charter giving the winner of this race an opportunity to hold office for a decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has served in local government for most of the last quarter-century, first winning election to the San José City Council in 1998. Still, she has billed herself as a departure from current Mayor Sam Liccardo — who is supporting Mahan — by promising to bolster city staffing and to bring harmony to the council. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahan is a relative newcomer to San José politics, having won election to the Council in 2020 after a career in the tech industry. Liccardo and his business-aligned allies have spent heavily to back Mahan, but the first-term councilmember has run on a vow to shake up the city bureaucracy \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in part by tying pay increases for city leaders, nearly all of whom are supporting Chavez, to progress on issues such as crime and homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With San José’s unhoused population \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/4103/4699#:~:text=The%20overall%20number%20of%20homeless,city%20limits%20of%20San%20Jos%C3%A9.%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising 11% during the pandemic\u003c/a>, Mahan has attacked Chavez’s focus on constructing permanent supportive housing with services and has instead advocated to house the unhoused in quick-build tiny homes known as emergency interim housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it’s really a crisis, let’s go after scalable, efficient solutions to get people indoors and then invest in the supportive services from mental health and addiction counseling to job training, job placement,” Mahan said. “We should be buying (homes) in bulk rather than what we do today, which is extremely incremental and still leans far too heavily on building brand-new apartments.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928237\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11928237 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-800x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59222_IMG_4462-qut.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez at an election night party for her campaign for mayor, at the San José Woman’s Club on June 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the tiny-home policy has still generated predictable pushback from residents who don’t want unhoused people in their neighborhoods. When the City Council voted in June on four new and expanded emergency interim housing sites, Mahan was one of two “no” votes, asking city staff to spend more time exploring an alternative to the site proposed in his council district. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has defended the county’s focus on building supportive housing, a policy funded through Measure A, a $950 million housing bond that was voted on in 2016 and that Chavez championed. And she has pointed to Santa Clara County’s smaller increase in homelessness compared to neighboring counties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The reason for that is we kept thousands of families from becoming homeless, and we kept moving our program forward,” she said. “We kept building and we kept putting people in housing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has honed in on the issue of police staffing in her attempt to tie Mahan with the current administration. Over the summer, she blamed Liccardo and Mahan for allowing “dangerously low staffing levels” in San José, which employs fewer officers than most cities of its size. Notably, the critiques came as San José’s Police Officers’ Association, which has endorsed Chavez and spent heavily on her behalf, negotiated a new contract with the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chavez has promised to hire 45 new officers every year, arguing that, regardless of contract talks, “if you live in San José, you know that when you dial 911, you’re waiting longer than you should. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That is all about how many people we have that can respond to calls for service,” she added. “We do not have enough police officers, period.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928238\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11928238 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-1020x613.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut-1536x923.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59221_IMG_4461-qut.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Council member Matt Mahan at his election night party in downtown San José for his campaign for mayor on June 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahan said he will also work to increase staffing at the department, but said the financial limitations the city faces in hiring new employees can be traced back to overly generous health and retirement benefits for police that Chavez voted for as a councilmember in the early 2000s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We could hire hundreds of police officers if we didn’t have the legacy of that accumulated debt,” Mahan said. “Let’s not rewrite history here or promise something to the public that isn’t realistic or fiscally responsible.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winner of the November 8 runoff faces a short runway to show results. Measure B, approved by city voters in June, will align future mayoral contests with presidential elections, beginning in 2024. San José’s mayor has few powers beyond that of a councilmember, but both candidates feel an urgency to show immediate results.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People will see a difference in the number of homeless people that we see on the streets, because I think that if we’re assertive about the programming that we’re doing and we’re collaborative with the county and the state and the federal government, that we’re going to be able to not just move the dial on paper, but people will be able to see the difference almost right away,” Chavez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the time pressure created by Measure B comes with a trade-off: The next mayor will be allowed to run for two additional terms after 2024, with the potential of holding office until early 2033. 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"content": "\u003cp>The end of September marks a major milestone in campaigns across California, as legal deadlines require candidates’ campaigns to reveal how much money they’ve raised over the past few months, tallying that alongside expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a roundup of some key races both large and small — from Gov. 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He has just $408,741 to spend between now and the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, Newsom has almost 57 times more cash than Dahle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These financial reports do not include independent expenditures made for or against these candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State Controller\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the race to succeed termed-out State Controller Betty Yee, it’s the Republican candidate who has the huge cash advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1439261&session=2021&psort=AMOUNT&view=general\">Lanhee Chen\u003c/a>, a Stanford scholar and GOP political advisor who worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, reports raising $4.15 million overall, including $1.14 million in the third quarter. He has just over $3 million cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1437983&session=2021\">Democrat Malia Cohen\u003c/a> has raised $1.2 million in all of 2022, including $559,943 in the third quarter, with a relatively small $529,468 cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen will need every penny of that cash and more to overcome the structural deficit his party faces among registered voters in California. As of May, the breakdown is roughly 47% registered Democratic, 24% Republican and 23% no party preference voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These financial reports do not include independent expenditures made for or against these candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area Mayor Races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Filings also show spending ramping up in the region’s two high-profile mayor races, in San Jose and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915899/cindy-chavez-and-matt-mahan-headed-to-runoff-in-san-jose-mayoral-race\">The two contenders for the top job in San Jose\u003c/a>, City Council member Matt Mahan and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, both enter the final stretch of the campaign with ample war chests. Mahan reported raising $672,914 over the summer, while Chavez brought in close to $557,679. With just over a week until voting begins, Chavez is sitting on over $458,282 while Mahan reported nearly $444,552 on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the primary, voters saw a deluge of spending from outside groups: Labor unions spent heavily in support of Chavez while current Mayor Sam Liccardo recruited business and developer dollars into his super PAC supporting Mahan. The outside spending cooled off over the summer, but filings this week show that could change. On Tuesday, the San Francisco 49ers dropped a whopping $420,000 into their committee backing Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, filings show City Council members Loren Taylor and Sheng Thao emerging as the leading fundraisers in the 10-candidate field. So far this year, Taylor has raised $266,141 and spent $168,143, ending the filing period with $276,602 on hand. Thao has raised $242,700, spent $209,841 and reported $161,693 on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Thao has been the beneficiary of outside spending by a group called “Working Families for a Better Oakland,” which is bankrolled by some of the region’s leading labor unions. The committee reported spending $190,271 to support Thao’s run.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco District Attorney Race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918804/breed-taps-boudin-critic-brooke-jenkins-as-new-san-francisco-da\">District Attorney Brooke Jenkins\u003c/a> has outraised her opponents in the election for San Francisco district attorney, the newest numbers show — though, with a caveat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, the tough-on-crime district attorney appointed by Mayor London Breed to replace progressive DA Chesa Boudin after he was recalled, raised $126,000 through the end of September. Her challenger from the left, former police commissioner John Hamasaki, raised $87,000, and another former police commissioner, and former fire commissioner, Joe Alioto Veronese, raised $56,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may make it seem like Alioto Veronese is trailing behind in fundraising, this is where things get a little muddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, Friday, Alioto Veronese claimed he raised more money than Jenkins and Hamasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Early results of our campaign fundraiser are in and they’re good. We’ve outraised incumbent DA @BrookeUnionCity two-to-one and public defender @HamasakiLaw three-to-one. The momentum is strong in this one!” he wrote, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joeavero/status/1575938538121592841\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/joeavero/status/1575824490390376450\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s only half-true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you count the money he’s been raising since the start of the year — well before his opponents declared their intention to run in the race — then yes, he did outraise them financially. Veronese started his 2023 campaign committee in January this year. Jenkins started her campaign committee mid-July, and Hamasaki started in mid-August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent contributions are arguably the best indicator of momentum. Measured in that way, Jenkins is handily leading the pack, with Hamasaki close behind, and Alioto Veronese in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Alioto Veronese, on Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1575932326063722497\">Hamasaki touted\u003c/a> raising more than Jenkins in the period in which he raised money, since he filed to run later than Jenkins — not counting the total money she raised the month before. Maggie Muir, a campaign consultant for Jenkins, said Alioto Veronese and Hamasaki’s campaigns played fast and loose with the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hamasaki doesn’t seem to understand simple math. Joe Alioto Veronese is potentially illegally double dipping, counting the same donors twice. These two need to go back to school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED, Alioto Veronese countered that much of the funding from his older campaign accounts, though not all of it, can be transferred to the new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last note: Some independent groups have raised their own money to support candidates. Most notably, the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club has a cash balance of $41,492 to spend on candidates. They solely endorsed Jenkins for district attorney — expect to see her on their mailers advertising candidates to vote for. They’ve already spent roughly $5,000 on a billboard for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 6 and District 4\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the race to represent San Francisco’s District 6, including downtown, South of Market, Mission Bay, and Treasure Island neighborhoods, among others, candidate Honey Mahogany is leading, though not overwhelmingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany, a former aide to former supervisor and current Assembly member Matt Haney, has raised $389,000 so far. That sees Mahogany outraising the recently appointed District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who counts $348,000 in the bank. Roughly half of each of their contributions are through public financing provided by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accounting for how much they’ve spent already promoting their campaigns, Mahogany has a fairly sizable chunk of cash left in the bank relative to her opponent, with $233,000 compared to Dorsey’s $177,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the election to represent the Sunset, Parkside, and other west side neighborhoods of San Francisco’s District 4, challenger Joel Engardio has raised $376,000 compared to incumbent Supervisor Gordon Mar, who has raised $308,000. More than half of those funds for each candidate came from public financing provided by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as fundraising from voters — an often-times helpful indicator on voter support — Engardio raised $120,000 this year through September, and Mar raised $92,000. Engardio is hoping to generate momentum based on his support for the recall in the district, which records show voted overwhelmingly to remove Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924844/judge-bars-former-sf-supervisor-candidate-leanna-louie-from-appearing-on-november-ballot\">though she was stricken from the ballot by a judge\u003c/a> in early September for not living in the district she intended to represent in the required time period, former candidate Leanne Louie had previously raised $41,000, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alameda County District Attorney\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Terry Wiley and Pamela Price are competing for the seat previously held by Nancy O’Malley, who was Alameda County’s district attorney for 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/07/alameda-county-district-attorney-primary-election-results-2022/\">Pamela Price and Terry Wiley\u003c/a> both raised nearly half of their total fundraising this year in the last three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry Wiley is clearly out-fundraising Pamela Price, having raised just over $581,612 since the year began, more than $200,000 more than what Price raised in that same time period, roughly $314,580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving into the final month before the election, Wiley has $173,560 on hand. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The end of September marks a major milestone in campaigns across California, as legal deadlines require candidates’ campaigns to reveal how much money they’ve raised over the past few months, tallying that alongside expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a roundup of some key races both large and small — from Gov. Gavin Newsom defending his job against his Republican challenger, to Board of Supervisors races in the city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we’re focusing on campaign finance in the coverage below, we’ve also got extensive reporting of candidates’ positions on top issues in our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">KQED Election 2022 California Voter Guide.\u003c/a> Be sure to read it if you want to know what each candidate intends to do in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Governor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The governor’s race might top the ballot in November but the latest fundraising totals show why the contest between \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1414018&session=2021\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1444621&session=2021\">State Senator Brian Dahle\u003c/a> isn’t attracting much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d expect a Democratic governor to outraise a Republican counterpart, but the numbers show how the state and national Republican parties are ignoring this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom reports raising $2.1 million in the third quarter of 2022, bringing his total for the year to nearly $9 million. He has a whopping $23.2 million cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Dahle reports raising $590,579 in the last three months for a total of just over $2 million for the year. He has just $408,741 to spend between now and the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, Newsom has almost 57 times more cash than Dahle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These financial reports do not include independent expenditures made for or against these candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State Controller\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the race to succeed termed-out State Controller Betty Yee, it’s the Republican candidate who has the huge cash advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1439261&session=2021&psort=AMOUNT&view=general\">Lanhee Chen\u003c/a>, a Stanford scholar and GOP political advisor who worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, reports raising $4.15 million overall, including $1.14 million in the third quarter. He has just over $3 million cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1437983&session=2021\">Democrat Malia Cohen\u003c/a> has raised $1.2 million in all of 2022, including $559,943 in the third quarter, with a relatively small $529,468 cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen will need every penny of that cash and more to overcome the structural deficit his party faces among registered voters in California. As of May, the breakdown is roughly 47% registered Democratic, 24% Republican and 23% no party preference voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These financial reports do not include independent expenditures made for or against these candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area Mayor Races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Filings also show spending ramping up in the region’s two high-profile mayor races, in San Jose and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915899/cindy-chavez-and-matt-mahan-headed-to-runoff-in-san-jose-mayoral-race\">The two contenders for the top job in San Jose\u003c/a>, City Council member Matt Mahan and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, both enter the final stretch of the campaign with ample war chests. Mahan reported raising $672,914 over the summer, while Chavez brought in close to $557,679. With just over a week until voting begins, Chavez is sitting on over $458,282 while Mahan reported nearly $444,552 on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the primary, voters saw a deluge of spending from outside groups: Labor unions spent heavily in support of Chavez while current Mayor Sam Liccardo recruited business and developer dollars into his super PAC supporting Mahan. The outside spending cooled off over the summer, but filings this week show that could change. On Tuesday, the San Francisco 49ers dropped a whopping $420,000 into their committee backing Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, filings show City Council members Loren Taylor and Sheng Thao emerging as the leading fundraisers in the 10-candidate field. So far this year, Taylor has raised $266,141 and spent $168,143, ending the filing period with $276,602 on hand. Thao has raised $242,700, spent $209,841 and reported $161,693 on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Thao has been the beneficiary of outside spending by a group called “Working Families for a Better Oakland,” which is bankrolled by some of the region’s leading labor unions. The committee reported spending $190,271 to support Thao’s run.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco District Attorney Race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918804/breed-taps-boudin-critic-brooke-jenkins-as-new-san-francisco-da\">District Attorney Brooke Jenkins\u003c/a> has outraised her opponents in the election for San Francisco district attorney, the newest numbers show — though, with a caveat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, the tough-on-crime district attorney appointed by Mayor London Breed to replace progressive DA Chesa Boudin after he was recalled, raised $126,000 through the end of September. Her challenger from the left, former police commissioner John Hamasaki, raised $87,000, and another former police commissioner, and former fire commissioner, Joe Alioto Veronese, raised $56,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may make it seem like Alioto Veronese is trailing behind in fundraising, this is where things get a little muddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, Friday, Alioto Veronese claimed he raised more money than Jenkins and Hamasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Early results of our campaign fundraiser are in and they’re good. We’ve outraised incumbent DA @BrookeUnionCity two-to-one and public defender @HamasakiLaw three-to-one. The momentum is strong in this one!” he wrote, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joeavero/status/1575938538121592841\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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