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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic leaders in the California Legislature on Friday threw their support behind Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to bring a potential \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049973/newsoms-break-the-glass-plan-sets-up-california-midterm-redistricting-fight\">redraw of the state’s congressional districts\u003c/a> to voters in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050346/will-newsoms-maps-bring-the-fight-democrats-desire\">urged lawmakers\u003c/a> to join a national fight over congressional district lines that could help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. The governor’s call for maps favoring Democrats appears to have won over legislators after some expressed early concerns about an accelerated push to set aside California’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\">nonpartisan \u003c/a>district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference in Sacramento, California Democratic leaders appeared alongside legislators from Texas, who fled their home state to delay a Republican-led redistricting effort aimed at boosting the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said he anticipates a new map favoring Democrats will be released next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not allow Trump’s Republican Party to rig this system and take permanent control of the U.S. House of Representatives,” he said. “We are prepared and we will fight fire with fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are racing to approve the redistricting measure. The Legislature returns from its summer recess on Aug. 18, and the secretary of state’s office has given lawmakers an Aug. 22 deadline to place the redistricting proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additional legislation is likely needed to set up a trigger mechanism that would only call the election if Texas or other Republican-led states proceed with gerrymandered maps. Lawmakers will also take a separate vote on the new congressional lines, which Newsom said will allow voters to see the finished map they are being asked to approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a San José Democrat who chairs the state’s Democratic caucus in Congress, said all of California’s Democratic congressmembers back the push for new district lines. She said a redraw could net Democrats five additional seats, which would match the gains that Republicans in Texas are targeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom first floated the idea of a Democratic gerrymander in July, after President Donald Trump encouraged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session to redraw Texas maps.[aside postID=news_12050346 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg']Some Democrats in California initially were skeptical of scrapping the district lines drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission. Voters approved a ballot measure in 2008 creating the commission to draw state legislative district lines, and expanded its power to congressional maps with a separate measure in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worried about the tight timeline to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049973/newsoms-break-the-glass-plan-sets-up-california-midterm-redistricting-fight\">place a measure before voters\u003c/a> and the added burden on local election officials to prepare for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent weeks, Democrats in the Legislature have rallied to the cause of partisan redistricting, as Trump and Republican leaders push to redraw maps across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a turn-the-other-cheek moment while they continue to send blow after blow to the foundations of democracy,” Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said. “Where I’m from in Los Angeles, when they go low, we squabble up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have criticized the push for new congressional lines. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Sacramento Republican seen by many as vulnerable in a redraw, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050983/californias-political-maps-are-drawn-independently-will-newsom-change-that\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill in Congress to block mid-decade redistricting nationwide. In a statement, Central Valley Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo said Newsom is “thumbing his nose at the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x979.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potential young voters get information at a voter registration desk at California State University, Los Angeles, on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some Democrats in California initially were skeptical of scrapping the district lines drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission. Voters approved a ballot measure in 2008 creating the commission to draw state legislative district lines, and expanded its power to congressional maps with a separate measure in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worried about the tight timeline to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049973/newsoms-break-the-glass-plan-sets-up-california-midterm-redistricting-fight\">place a measure before voters\u003c/a> and the added burden on local election officials to prepare for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent weeks, Democrats in the Legislature have rallied to the cause of partisan redistricting, as Trump and Republican leaders push to redraw maps across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a turn-the-other-cheek moment while they continue to send blow after blow to the foundations of democracy,” Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said. “Where I’m from in Los Angeles, when they go low, we squabble up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have criticized the push for new congressional lines. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Sacramento Republican seen by many as vulnerable in a redraw, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050983/californias-political-maps-are-drawn-independently-will-newsom-change-that\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill in Congress to block mid-decade redistricting nationwide. In a statement, Central Valley Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo said Newsom is “thumbing his nose at the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x979.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potential young voters get information at a voter registration desk at California State University, Los Angeles, on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Governor Newsom’s redistricting scheme sets a dangerous precedent that will collapse the foundational principles of democracy into a zero-sum game of power politics,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, said even if voters approve California’s new lines, the districts will need to pass legal muster and not dilute the voting power of Black, Latino or Asian voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to need to keep an eye on the Voting Rights Act in ensuring that those new districts enable minority voters, if their population is large enough, to elect their candidates of choice,” Barreto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barreto acknowledged the necessary political forces were coalescing to bring the issue before California voters in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you are seeing this effort pick up a lot of momentum and a lot of willpower here in California,” he said. “So it looks like it could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic congressional leaders are chastising Republican House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mike-johnson\">Mike Johnson\u003c/a> for his abrupt shutdown of the House this week ahead of a vote for the public release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early release of the chamber comes after Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Silicon Valley, and Rep. 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The files, members of the administration have alleged, contain a list of Epstein’s “clients,” that many involved in the case have said never existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for the president to follow through on his campaign promise grew louder after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline\">Department of Justice\u003c/a> announced earlier this month that Epstein’s death in 2019 was caused by suicide — contradicting many wide-ranging theories — and that it would not be releasing further information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DonaldTrumpMikeJohnsonAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DonaldTrumpMikeJohnsonAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DonaldTrumpMikeJohnsonAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DonaldTrumpMikeJohnsonAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump shakes hands with House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, during a reception for Republican members of Congress in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, in Washington. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the outcry, the Trump administration asked federal judges to unseal transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to Epstein’s sex trafficking case. But for Democrats, Republicans and even some of Trump’s most notorious supporters, it wasn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The base will turn and there’s no going back,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, posted to social media platform \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1947259038321786982\">X\u003c/a>. “Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Khanna, the resolution drafted alongside Massie has garnered widespread bipartisan support in Congress. Nearly a dozen House Republicans agreed to sign a discharge petition that would force a vote on the floor, he said in an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5476768/rep-ro-khanna-discusses-resolution-he-co-sponsored-for-release-of-epstein-files\">NPR\u003c/a>.[aside postID=forum_2010101910661 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/07/epstein.png']The scrutiny over Epstein’s unreleased files has split the MAGA base, he said, adding that the public has lost its trust in the government. Even Republican leaders are fed up and calling on the president to be more transparent, Khanna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Releasing the files “is a step to restore the trust of the American public, even if there’s nothing in there,” Khanna said in the interview. “ If there are powerful and rich men who did engage in sex trafficking or were on Epstein’s plane or went to ‘Epstein Island,’ that information should come out and people should be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Schickler, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, said the bipartisan outrage around the Epstein case has been highly unusual but not unexpected. Many Republicans saw Trump as an “anti-elite” alternative to Democratic leaders who appear deeply entrenched in insider politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s refusal to fully release the Epstein files undercuts the narrative that has undergirded some of Trump’s appeal to voters disenchanted with modern politics, he said. The longer Republican leaders wait to address the issue head-on, the more it will appear as if Trump is involved in the case, Schickler added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a sense that things are being hidden,” he said. “The idea that you can just put a lid on it … that’s just not how these kinds of conspiracies or conspiracy thinking generally works. It’s a high hill for Trump and leaders like Johnson to get over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049436 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/JeffreyEpsteinGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/JeffreyEpsteinGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/JeffreyEpsteinGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/JeffreyEpsteinGetty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffrey Epstein on July 8, 2019, in New York City. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schickler said it’s unlikely that the fervor around the Epstein case will fade over the next few weeks. As congressional members return to their constituents, it’s possible the calls for transparency in the Epstein case will encourage even more bipartisan collaboration on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference on Tuesday, Johnson justified his decision to close the floor by describing the Democrats’ forceful push for a vote on the Epstein files as “political games.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans and Trump are committed to full transparency and to releasing the Epstein files as quickly as possible, Johnson said, adding that due diligence is needed to make sure that victims named in the documents are protected before the information is made public.[aside postID=news_12045032 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_1050-2000x1500.jpg']“There’s no need for Congress to push the [Trump administration] to do something that they’re already doing, and so this is for political gains,” he said during the conference. “We can both call for full transparency and also protect victims. 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Garamendi and two other California congressmen want clarity from federal health officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives was scheduled to be in session through Thursday before adjourning for a regular five-week recess. The decision to end early goes against the wishes of voters and prevents the House from voting on other important issues, Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government is expected to burn through the remainder of its funds by Sept. 30, he said, and House Republicans have yet to pass an appropriations bill that would fund services such as air traffic control and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Johnson could have simply released the Epstein files and kept his promise of a transparent government,” Garamendi said. “Instead, he chose to protect Trump and powerful elites rather than serve the American people, and sadly, this manufactured crisis will likely have real-world impacts for the people we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schickler said it’s unlikely that there will be long-term financial repercussions unless the closure somehow bleeds into September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress generally decides on budget issues at the last minute, he said, adding that there’s still time for motions to be made as long as the floor doesn’t get caught up in disagreements over Epstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037340/sf-democrats-push-for-change-debate-age-limits-for-elected-officials\">San Francisco Democrats \u003c/a>scrambling to coalesce their base ahead of the 2026 midterm elections have a target group in mind: young men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Central Committee on Wednesday night overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on their fellow Democrats to do more to address “societal challenges facing boys and men,” emphasizing the need for more job training opportunities, paternal leave and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost boys and men to the Republican Party. And if we want to win, we need to make our tent bigger and not smaller,” said DCCC member Emma Hare, who authored the resolution. “A lot of boys and men don’t feel heard by the Democratic Party right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of young men between the ages of 18–29 voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election — making a nearly 32% leap from 2020, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.americansurveycenter.org/newsletter/2024-election-edition-young-men-swing-toward-trump/\">Associated Press poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in deep-blue San Francisco, Trump gained ground between his first and second terms across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution calls on Democrats to draw men back to the party by expanding access to services such as universal paid parental leave and behavioral health resources for men, and recruiting more male teachers and child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also notes that men experience higher rates of addiction and suicide, incarceration and barriers to paid paternal leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of conversation about what are the issues you need for young men. And one, I think, is opportunity,” said Jim Ross, a political consultant. “Opportunity in terms of economics, opportunity in terms of access to education, opportunity for employment. All of those things are really important and really, I think crucial to the success, in particular, of young men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Fong, a freshman at UC Berkeley who grew up in San Francisco, said he doesn’t hear Democrats talking about the issues his male friends are experiencing in their everyday lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of my floormates and guys that I’ve talked to at Berkeley have been struggling with social isolation. 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Across the country, abortion rights have been rolled back, diversity efforts slashed in both public and private sectors and rights for transgender people and LGBTQ groups face constant threat from President Trump’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution does not acknowledge how Black and Latino men disproportionately experience the struggles all men face around mental health, college readiness and income disparity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Black men earn about 30% less in a given year compared with white men, according to the American Institute for Boys and Men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have that big of an issue with [the resolution], but from the Party perspective, I believe there’s a better way to support young men than describing symptoms of disaffection. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:45 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032892/billionaire-influence-deepens-divisions-among-san-francisco-democrats\">San Francisco’s Democratic Party\u003c/a> is one step closer to considering a mandatory retirement age for some elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party’s central committee voted Wednesday night to adopt a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1naDx-W2k2DLqM0hWqjlMJq9XEdPaMQeT/view\">resolution\u003c/a> by member Eric Kingsbury, who said local and state Democrats should consider an age cap for representatives after major losses the party faced in recent years. He pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993449/pelosi-suggests-time-is-running-short-for-biden-to-reconsider-campaign\">former President Joe Biden\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11644860/justice-ginsburg-signals-her-intent-to-work-for-years-more\">Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u003c/a> holding on to their seats after showing signs of mental and physical decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen our fundamental rights and our democracy put at risk … because we’ve had situations where there have been octogenarians in key roles who were unfortunately not able to perform any longer,” Kingsbury told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is non-binding and encourages local and state Democrats to explore an age limit for government representatives, but not at the federal level. It does not suggest a specific age for the retirement requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kingsbury said the idea is not directed at Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, who is 85. Pelosi is an ex officio member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee; her representative at the meeting voted against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11778714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Nancy Tung in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Nancy Tung, who chairs San Francisco’s Democratic Party. The party is ready to consider a mandatory retirement age for some elected officials. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If every politician at 85 were as capable and sharp and had the sort of fierce urgency that she does and is still so tapped into, then we wouldn’t have to have this conversation at all,” Kingsbury said. “Nancy Pelosi is not somebody that we should be having this conversation about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While uncommon for elected officials, mandatory retirement ages exist in other public professions, including airline pilots, state judges and public safety officers in some jurisdictions. “More than 30 U.S. states have implemented age limits for judges to balance institutional knowledge with public accountability,” the resolution reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, several party members including Supervisor Connie Chan balked at the idea, calling it ageist and offensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Age is not a problem. The problem is the quality of the candidate and their understanding of state, local and federal government,” said Chan, pointing to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">election last week of Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, 78, as mayor of Oakland. “Frankly it’s ageism and discrimination against people that have experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the vote, several residents also voiced opposition to the resolution during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South of Market resident Cole Bettles, who said he previously worked as an intern for Pelosi, criticized the proposal’s avoidance of federal representatives like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a huge fan of Pelosi, I worked for her … but this is a complete joke if this does not include Pelosi,” said Bettles, calling the speaker emerita’s omission “unhinged, serious butt kissing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, supporters plan to bring the idea to the state Democratic Party convention in May as part of a broader \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/17uDbEKLax_Jg4S6J1qwcTjx5ERYRvT3Z/view\">package of resolutions\u003c/a> from the local party, which is now controlled by moderate Democrats after progressives lost several seats last year. Other resolutions focus on combating public corruption, increasing public safety staffing, building more housing in California and increased support for public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan said she plans to fight against the proposal at the state level as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035273 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-05-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032892/billionaire-influence-deepens-divisions-among-san-francisco-democrats\">Democrats have struggled to coalesce\u003c/a> around a united strategy against Republicans and President Donald Trump. Locally, two prominent groups — the Rose Pak Asian American Club and the Latinx Democratic Club — recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033207/sf-latinx-club-leaves-local-democratic-party\">opted not to recharter with the local Democratic Party\u003c/a>, citing disagreements over local party direction and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although San Francisco is still overwhelmingly blue, the city had more voters choose Trump in the most recent presidential election than in prior years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important lesson for Democrats is that we have gotten too far away from the kitchen table concerns of working people, working families and individuals, young people and immigrants,” said Nancy Tung, who chairs San Francisco’s Democratic Party. “We really need to refocus not just our message but our actions around things that are tangible and things that make a difference in people’s lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung said shifts to the center reflect how voters want to see change in the party, locally and nationally. She and Kingsbury are both moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than at the group’s regular meeting place in a state building, local Democrats gathered Wednesday night to vote on the package of resolutions at West Bay Pilipino Multi Service Center, part of an effort to connect the party to local communities around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reorientation of the party, just like the reorientation of San Francisco, that has been a long time in the coming,” Tung said. “On the local level, we can change the conversation, or at least change the way that people feel about Democrats. And this has a trickle effect on state and national elections, that the Democratic Party is full of people who want the city to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is non-binding and encourages local and state Democrats to explore an age limit for government representatives, but not at the federal level. It does not suggest a specific age for the retirement requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kingsbury said the idea is not directed at Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, who is 85. Pelosi is an ex officio member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee; her representative at the meeting voted against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11778714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Nancy Tung in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Nancy Tung, who chairs San Francisco’s Democratic Party. The party is ready to consider a mandatory retirement age for some elected officials. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If every politician at 85 were as capable and sharp and had the sort of fierce urgency that she does and is still so tapped into, then we wouldn’t have to have this conversation at all,” Kingsbury said. “Nancy Pelosi is not somebody that we should be having this conversation about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While uncommon for elected officials, mandatory retirement ages exist in other public professions, including airline pilots, state judges and public safety officers in some jurisdictions. “More than 30 U.S. states have implemented age limits for judges to balance institutional knowledge with public accountability,” the resolution reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting, several party members including Supervisor Connie Chan balked at the idea, calling it ageist and offensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Age is not a problem. The problem is the quality of the candidate and their understanding of state, local and federal government,” said Chan, pointing to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">election last week of Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, 78, as mayor of Oakland. “Frankly it’s ageism and discrimination against people that have experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the vote, several residents also voiced opposition to the resolution during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South of Market resident Cole Bettles, who said he previously worked as an intern for Pelosi, criticized the proposal’s avoidance of federal representatives like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a huge fan of Pelosi, I worked for her … but this is a complete joke if this does not include Pelosi,” said Bettles, calling the speaker emerita’s omission “unhinged, serious butt kissing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, supporters plan to bring the idea to the state Democratic Party convention in May as part of a broader \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/17uDbEKLax_Jg4S6J1qwcTjx5ERYRvT3Z/view\">package of resolutions\u003c/a> from the local party, which is now controlled by moderate Democrats after progressives lost several seats last year. Other resolutions focus on combating public corruption, increasing public safety staffing, building more housing in California and increased support for public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan said she plans to fight against the proposal at the state level as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Cory Booker devoted all of Monday night and into Tuesday evening\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>on the Senate floor, delivering an impassioned speech in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. This effort, which also involves numerous other\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Democrats, has set a record for the longest speech on record given in the chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker wiped away tears and placed his hand over his heart as fellow Democrats, including House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, cheered. Some, like Sen. Tammy Baldwin, were seen crying, while Rep. Lucy McBath was seen comforting a woman beside her during the applause\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to not quite wrap this up yet,” he said, praising his staff for their support in preparing for the endurance speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New Jersey Democrat took the podium at 7 p.m. ET on Monday, vowing to speak “for as long as I am physically able.” More than 24-hours later, Booker, who appeared visibly emotional and affected by the exhaustive speech, had broken the record for lengthiest remarks delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker’s speech officially surpasses the previous record set\u003cstrong> i\u003c/strong>n 1957 by noted segregationist Strom Thurmond. Thurmond filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>oppose the Civil Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker’s achievement stands in stark contrast to Thurmond’s efforts to deny Black Americans equal protections under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., an ally and friend of the New Jersey Democrat Booker, took the floor briefly during the marathon speech to commend Booker for his perseverance and to highlight the difference between Booker’s advocacy for social justice and Thurmond’s attempts to uphold a status quo of racial inequity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have done here today, Sen. Booker, couldn’t be more different than what occurred on this floor in 1957. Strom Thurmond was standing in the way of inevitable progress towards equal political and economic rights for Black Americans,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, you are standing in the way, not of progress, but of retreat. You are standing in the way of retreat from the rule of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the evening,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>more than 115,000\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>people were watching Booker’s livestream on\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> YouTube \u003c/a>alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been hearing from people all over my state and indeed all over the nation calling upon folks in Congress to do more, to do things that recognize the urgency, the crisis of the moment,” Booker \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenBooker/status/1906847509395493318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a video\u003c/a> posted to social media beforehand. “And so we all have a responsibility, I believe, to do something different, to cause — as [late Rep.] \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/796954200/rep-john-lewis-fight-for-civil-rights-began-with-a-letter-to-martin-luther-king-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Lewis said\u003c/a> — ‘good trouble,’ and that includes me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker’s speech has taken aim at President Trump, White House senior adviser Elon Musk and policies that he says show a “complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution and the needs of the American people.”[aside postID=news_12032718 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-21-KQED-5-1020x680.jpg']The speech has covered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide range of topics\u003c/a> from health care and Social Security to immigration, the economy, public education, free speech and foreign policy. And it included portions of letters that Booker said he had received from affected constituents, as well as public comments from world leaders, in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In just 71 days, the president has inflicted harm after harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the foundations of our democracy and any sense of common decency,” Booker said in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/video-booker-launches-floor-speech-by-saying-i-am-going-to-stand-here-until-i-no-longer-can-i-am-going-to-speak-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introductory remarks\u003c/a>. “These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Musk have not commented publicly on Booker’s speech. It comes at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tense time for Booker’s party\u003c/a>: Nine Democrats joined with Republicans to advance a Trump-backed spending bill last month, preventing a government shutdown but alienating constituents who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333880/colorado-constituents-press-democrats-on-the-partys-plan-to-oppose-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">want lawmakers to push back\u003c/a> against the president’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker did not pull out the \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memorable-filibusters-senate/story?id=46593736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phone book or children’s literature\u003c/a> to read from, as some of his predecessors have done on the Senate floor. He has stayed focused on the topic of Trump’s agenda and how he says it is hurting everyday Americans — weaving together domestic and foreign policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-header \">\n\u003cp>In the 15th hour, he said he still had “fuel in the tank.” About 16 hours and 24 minutes in, Booker looked at the time and said, “We are way behind the schedule of where we wanted to be at this point.” But he didn’t immediately move to wrap things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so to obey my staff, as senators are told to do, I want to move quickly to housing issues,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker paused for a brief prayer by the Senate chaplain at noon, following a long-standing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenatePress/status/1907103250735632467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate rule\u003c/a>. Chaplain Barry Black specifically thanked “floor staff, Capitol police, stenographers, the pages and all those who have worked throughout the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">What are the rules?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of long speeches to delay legislation, known as a filibuster, is a time-honored tradition in the Senate. But that’s not technically what Booker’s speech is, since he is not trying to block a specific bill or nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Senate rules, unless special limits on debate are in effect, a senator who has been recognized by the presiding officer can speak for as long as they wish, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL30360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Research Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They usually cannot be forced to cede the floor, or even be interrupted, without their consent,” it says.[aside postID=forum_2010101909183 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/GettyImages-1166902886-1-1020x574.jpg']They must meet a few requirements, however. For one, the senator must “remain standing and must speak more or less continuously,” the Congressional Research Service states, which becomes more difficult as the hours pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Murphy \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1906885826279325835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X on Monday night\u003c/a> that Booker had employed an “interesting tactic” to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cory had a Senate page take his chair away to eliminate any temptation to sit down,” he wrote, just under three hours into the speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker employed another strategy at various points: permitting his fellow Democrats to ask questions, which is the only way a senator can yield without losing the floor. But it’s only partial relief: The senator must remain standing while others are talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will yield for a question while retaining the floor,” Booker responded each time a senator asked for his permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailypress.senate.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen Democrats\u003c/a> participated in the proceedings throughout Tuesday morning, including Murphy, Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey, Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont, Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sens. Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland, Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">What did other Democrats say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The senators each spoke for several minutes about various issues Booker had mentioned, from Medicaid to tariffs to national security, veterans affairs, agriculture and housing. They asked Booker questions — giving him time to elaborate on their topics of choice — and applauded his persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thank the gentlemen for his fortitude, his strength and the crystalline brilliance with which he has shown the American people the huge dangers that face them with this Trump-DOGE-Musk administration,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said at the end of his second round of questioning on Tuesday morning, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk oversees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker also heaped praise on his colleagues, talking up their accomplishments and shared work experience. While the tone of his speech was somber, there were some moments of levity between lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Klobuchar — who had quoted Minnesota native Bob Dylan — asked Booker to name his favorite New Jersey musician, and he gracefully deflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, while responding to Schumer’s praise, Booker joked that “never before in history in America has a man from Brooklyn said so many complimentary things about a man from Newark.” When Schumer responded by saying they were both New York Giants fans, Booker reminded him that the team \u003ca href=\"https://www.metlifestadium.com/stadium/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plays in New Jersey\u003c/a> and would discuss it no further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a colloquy,” he said with mock seriousness as those in the room laughed. “I hold the floor — I do not yield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">How long can these speeches go?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Booker’s speech has been a marathon effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His efforts surpass those of Murphy, who led Democrats in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/15/482182468/live-video-democrats-to-hold-floor-indefinitely-in-push-for-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push for gun control legislation\u003c/a> that lasted 15 hours, after the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Booker was by his side for that entire speech and said Tuesday that Murphy had returned the favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas held the floor for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/09/25/226190945/a-tale-of-two-talks-ted-cruz-outlasts-rand-paul-by-8-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21 hours and 19 minutes\u003c/a> as he advocated unsuccessfully for defunding the Affordable Care Act in 2013 — more than eight hours longer than Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky did \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173693133/nearly-13-hours-later-sen-paul-ends-his-filibuster-heres-the-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when he filibustered\u003c/a> John Brennan’s CIA nomination months earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longest filibuster on record had been Thurmond’s 1957 speech that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173736882/how-did-strom-thurmond-last-through-his-24-hour-filibuster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported at the time\u003c/a> that Thurmond sustained himself with “diced pumpernickel and bits of cooked hamburger” and sips of orange juice. His aides set up a bucket in the cloakroom so he could keep a foot on the Senate floor if he needed to relieve himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The speech has covered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide range of topics\u003c/a> from health care and Social Security to immigration, the economy, public education, free speech and foreign policy. And it included portions of letters that Booker said he had received from affected constituents, as well as public comments from world leaders, in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In just 71 days, the president has inflicted harm after harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the foundations of our democracy and any sense of common decency,” Booker said in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/video-booker-launches-floor-speech-by-saying-i-am-going-to-stand-here-until-i-no-longer-can-i-am-going-to-speak-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introductory remarks\u003c/a>. “These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Musk have not commented publicly on Booker’s speech. It comes at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tense time for Booker’s party\u003c/a>: Nine Democrats joined with Republicans to advance a Trump-backed spending bill last month, preventing a government shutdown but alienating constituents who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333880/colorado-constituents-press-democrats-on-the-partys-plan-to-oppose-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">want lawmakers to push back\u003c/a> against the president’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker did not pull out the \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memorable-filibusters-senate/story?id=46593736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phone book or children’s literature\u003c/a> to read from, as some of his predecessors have done on the Senate floor. He has stayed focused on the topic of Trump’s agenda and how he says it is hurting everyday Americans — weaving together domestic and foreign policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-header \">\n\u003cp>In the 15th hour, he said he still had “fuel in the tank.” About 16 hours and 24 minutes in, Booker looked at the time and said, “We are way behind the schedule of where we wanted to be at this point.” But he didn’t immediately move to wrap things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so to obey my staff, as senators are told to do, I want to move quickly to housing issues,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker paused for a brief prayer by the Senate chaplain at noon, following a long-standing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenatePress/status/1907103250735632467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate rule\u003c/a>. Chaplain Barry Black specifically thanked “floor staff, Capitol police, stenographers, the pages and all those who have worked throughout the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">What are the rules?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of long speeches to delay legislation, known as a filibuster, is a time-honored tradition in the Senate. But that’s not technically what Booker’s speech is, since he is not trying to block a specific bill or nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Senate rules, unless special limits on debate are in effect, a senator who has been recognized by the presiding officer can speak for as long as they wish, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL30360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Research Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They usually cannot be forced to cede the floor, or even be interrupted, without their consent,” it says.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They must meet a few requirements, however. For one, the senator must “remain standing and must speak more or less continuously,” the Congressional Research Service states, which becomes more difficult as the hours pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Murphy \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1906885826279325835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X on Monday night\u003c/a> that Booker had employed an “interesting tactic” to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cory had a Senate page take his chair away to eliminate any temptation to sit down,” he wrote, just under three hours into the speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker employed another strategy at various points: permitting his fellow Democrats to ask questions, which is the only way a senator can yield without losing the floor. But it’s only partial relief: The senator must remain standing while others are talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will yield for a question while retaining the floor,” Booker responded each time a senator asked for his permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailypress.senate.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen Democrats\u003c/a> participated in the proceedings throughout Tuesday morning, including Murphy, Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey, Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont, Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sens. Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland, Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">What did other Democrats say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The senators each spoke for several minutes about various issues Booker had mentioned, from Medicaid to tariffs to national security, veterans affairs, agriculture and housing. They asked Booker questions — giving him time to elaborate on their topics of choice — and applauded his persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thank the gentlemen for his fortitude, his strength and the crystalline brilliance with which he has shown the American people the huge dangers that face them with this Trump-DOGE-Musk administration,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said at the end of his second round of questioning on Tuesday morning, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk oversees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker also heaped praise on his colleagues, talking up their accomplishments and shared work experience. While the tone of his speech was somber, there were some moments of levity between lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Klobuchar — who had quoted Minnesota native Bob Dylan — asked Booker to name his favorite New Jersey musician, and he gracefully deflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, while responding to Schumer’s praise, Booker joked that “never before in history in America has a man from Brooklyn said so many complimentary things about a man from Newark.” When Schumer responded by saying they were both New York Giants fans, Booker reminded him that the team \u003ca href=\"https://www.metlifestadium.com/stadium/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plays in New Jersey\u003c/a> and would discuss it no further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a colloquy,” he said with mock seriousness as those in the room laughed. “I hold the floor — I do not yield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">How long can these speeches go?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Booker’s speech has been a marathon effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His efforts surpass those of Murphy, who led Democrats in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/15/482182468/live-video-democrats-to-hold-floor-indefinitely-in-push-for-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push for gun control legislation\u003c/a> that lasted 15 hours, after the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Booker was by his side for that entire speech and said Tuesday that Murphy had returned the favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas held the floor for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/09/25/226190945/a-tale-of-two-talks-ted-cruz-outlasts-rand-paul-by-8-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21 hours and 19 minutes\u003c/a> as he advocated unsuccessfully for defunding the Affordable Care Act in 2013 — more than eight hours longer than Republican Sen. 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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. Ortiz called it a “weak response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung said the Latinx Club was very eager about rechartering prior to its announcement and felt the club’s about-face was “sudden.” The organization’s allegations that the party has done nothing to protect the city’s vulnerable communities are “not true and disappointing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To suddenly disrupt the process and not even give us the courtesy of a call is disappointing… It’s a privilege to be chartered with the Democratic Party locally, and we have a lot to offer in terms of helping them grow their membership and partnering on important issues,” Tung said. “All I can say is that I wish them well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“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. Ortiz called it a “weak response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung said the Latinx Club was very eager about rechartering prior to its announcement and felt the club’s about-face was “sudden.” The organization’s allegations that the party has done nothing to protect the city’s vulnerable communities are “not true and disappointing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To suddenly disrupt the process and not even give us the courtesy of a call is disappointing… It’s a privilege to be chartered with the Democratic Party locally, and we have a lot to offer in terms of helping them grow their membership and partnering on important issues,” Tung said. “All I can say is that I wish them well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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>In the short-term, Khanna is hoping strategic organizing efforts can strong-arm the Republican votes needed to block potential cuts to Medicaid, which covers health care for Americans with low incomes, disabilities or who live in nursing homes. 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. 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>As part of a budget roadmap that will allow the party to renew their 2017 tax cut law, Republicans set a target of $880 billion in cuts to programs under the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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. 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>In the short-term, Khanna is hoping strategic organizing efforts can strong-arm the Republican votes needed to block potential cuts to Medicaid, which covers health care for Americans with low incomes, disabilities or who live in nursing homes. 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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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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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