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"content": "\u003cp>Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> proudly played up her East Bay roots at the Democratic National Convention, but her political career was launched in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Harris, then a relatively unknown prosecutor, challenged the city’s incumbent district attorney. To the surprise of many, she won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ rise from elected office in San Francisco is extraordinary. Next month, she could become the first Black and South Asian woman elected President of the United States. She reached the doorstep of the presidency by following a path forged by those who used the city’s cutthroat politics as a proving ground for seeking higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein was the first woman to serve as San Francisco mayor before making her mark in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/PelosiAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks at the North Carolina Democratic Unity Dinner fundraiser in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Karl B DeBlaker/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gavin Newsom climbed the ladder from an obscure city commission to become mayor and now governor of California with a national megaphone. He was elected mayor the same year Harris defeated her former boss, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11963548 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/110A3835-scaled-e1696541380321-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians have emerged from other California cities to establish a national profile — notably former President Ronald Reagan and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — but they were launched from Hollywood, not the Los Angeles political scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s political legacy raises the question: How can a relatively small city of 800,000 produce so many politicians with national and international prominence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city requires its elected officials to engage on a daily basis in complex discussions with informed constituents who will raise the most intricate of local issues, no matter if you are walking through the Presidio or attending an event at Delancey Street,” Harris said at the public memorial for Feinstein, who died in September 2023. “And this environment, I do believe, guided Dianne’s style of leadership, even after she reached the heights of national and global power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg\" alt=\"Woman speaks at lectern in front of building\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as San Francisco Mayor London Breed listens during the funeral for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein at City Hall in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who many would include on the city’s list of political titans, said the environment that launched Harris, Feinstein and many others can all be traced to one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phil Burton is the father of all of this — period. Literally,” Brown said recently, referring to the late Congressman who came within a vote of becoming House majority leader in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Burton began assembling what became known in San Francisco political circles as “the Burton Machine,” a coalition of religious leaders, unions and community activists who fine-tuned the art of winning elections. His brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage%7Chttps://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage\">John Burton\u003c/a>, an advocate for civil rights and environmental protections, served in the state Assembly and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Phil Burton expanded the city’s Democratic Party’s membership to include people who were largely ignored until the civil rights era. Burton, Brown said, “noticed that minorities were being left out. And he began to structure the world of politics that literally caused involvement by that collection of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834223 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg 501w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy, Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, Congressman Phil Burton and Art Agnos in the early 1980s. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were all church and labor. Then we added ‘misfits’ — people who were pushed on the outside,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was the first to invite Chinese American and gay communities to be in the Democratic coalition. Successfully navigating San Francisco’s multicultural communities, with all their complex, nuanced issues and concerns, helps prepare politicians for the national stage, Brown argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that the current vice president can be so effective during the course of dialog in a debate is that’s what she had to do to survive here,” he said.\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was first elected to Congress in 1964. He used his political power to author landmark legislation, including the bill that created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to protect the California coast — from northern Marin County to southern San Mateo County — from development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1962, Burton urged Brown, then a young defense attorney, to run to represent San Francisco in the state Assembly, a race he lost before being elected two years later. Burton also recruited Pelosi, then a homemaker living in Pacific Heights, to host fundraisers in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow flags line the plaza in front of the San Francisco City Hall following the rulings brought down by the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Burton died suddenly in 1983, his widow, Sala, replaced him in Congress. Just before she died of cancer in 1987, she encouraged Pelosi to run for the seat. By then, Pelosi had become a prolific Democratic Party fundraiser but told KQED she had never really thought of running for office herself. In a special election to fill the seat, she faced more than a dozen opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a live debate at KQED, one opponent, city Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, said Pelosi was out of touch with average San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can she relate to people like me, a single parent, working mother?”’ Silver asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another opponent, Supervisor Harry Britt, criticized Pelosi during a campaign appearance for using her connections for national races and issues more than local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would specifically challenge Nancy Pelosi to show one time in the last 20 years when those connections have been used, standing with the people of this community on issues of importance to this community,” Britt said. “One time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once elected, Pelosi leveraged relationships she made in San Francisco business circles, including in the emerging tech community, to become a prolific fundraiser for Democrats across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all paved the way for her to become the first female Speaker of the House. Three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8XCVjDs_I\">Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> that in her first race for Congress, she became the focus of all the other candidates once polls showed her leading the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita of the House, speaks with KQED Forum host Mina Kim at the KQED offices in San Francisco before a live broadcast on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Then I became the target by everybody, and they started saying all these things,” she recalled. “These are people I had in my home, that I had done events for, and all of a sudden, I didn’t know anything about anything, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race toughened up Pelosi for the rigors of Beltway politics in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said for Harris. She was a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office when she briefly dated Brown, then the Assembly speaker, in 1994 until after he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995. Brown was her political mentor and helped open doors for Harris to the circles that wielded a lot of influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Prozan, who worked with Harris on her early campaigns, said San Francisco politics is like an episode of \u003cem>Survivor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The caliber of people who run against each other have brass knuckles and are street fighters,” Prozan said. “And so when you have the kind of competition for elective office that you have in San Francisco, that prepares you for the next level and the next level and the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who previously served on the Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly, famously described the city’s politics as a “knife fight in a phone booth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are used to playing very hardball, rough and tumble politics. It is not genteel,” he said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu, who told KQED he encouraged Harris to run for DA, said the city’s size and liberal politics mean campaigns get nasty and personal fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just squished up against each other in the political spectrum and trying to carve minuscule distinctions between imperceptible shades of blue,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s vibrant and diverse Asian American communities have unique issues. For example, winning over Chinese American voters means campaigning in front of multiple political organizations, each with different priorities. Successful candidates in San Francisco have to navigate it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single one of those constituencies, which in most other places would be a constituency, has a diversity of constituencies within those constituencies,” Chiu noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ace Smith, who worked on campaigns for both Harris and Newsom, said San Francisco is to politics what the Dominican Republic is to baseball — a relatively small island that produces big league stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge amount of them make it to the majors and make a huge impact in the majors,” Smith said. “You had better be able to hit everything from the 100-mile-an-hour pitch to the nastiest curveball to the screwball and everything in between.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, currently running for mayor, said there’s no hiding because San Franciscans are so engaged in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot get away with being mediocre in San Francisco,” Peskin said. “You have to be the best of the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Sen. Barbara Boxer, who once represented a slice of San Francisco, along with Marin County, in Congress, noted that while the city is known as being extremely liberal by national standards, the politicians who climb the ladder don’t fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a progressive place, but it’s not progressive crazy,” Boxer told KQED recently. “I think the people who wind up winning are progressive pragmatists, not progressive dreamers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said San Francisco requires more of its politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recognition of competence and cultural competence — one size doesn’t fit all. Recognition of diversity, inclusivity,” he said. “And when you create an inclusive environment, you create an entrepreneurial environment, innovative environment. And inclusivity brings the best and the brightest from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you have that mashup of greatness as well. 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Arnold Schwarzenegger — but they were launched from Hollywood, not the Los Angeles political scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s political legacy raises the question: How can a relatively small city of 800,000 produce so many politicians with national and international prominence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city requires its elected officials to engage on a daily basis in complex discussions with informed constituents who will raise the most intricate of local issues, no matter if you are walking through the Presidio or attending an event at Delancey Street,” Harris said at the public memorial for Feinstein, who died in September 2023. “And this environment, I do believe, guided Dianne’s style of leadership, even after she reached the heights of national and global power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg\" alt=\"Woman speaks at lectern in front of building\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/feinstein-funeral1005-5-scaled-e1696542654619-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as San Francisco Mayor London Breed listens during the funeral for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein at City Hall in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who many would include on the city’s list of political titans, said the environment that launched Harris, Feinstein and many others can all be traced to one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phil Burton is the father of all of this — period. Literally,” Brown said recently, referring to the late Congressman who came within a vote of becoming House majority leader in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Burton began assembling what became known in San Francisco political circles as “the Burton Machine,” a coalition of religious leaders, unions and community activists who fine-tuned the art of winning elections. His brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage%7Chttps://www.kqed.org/news/11465091/democratic-heavyweight-john-burton-exiting-the-political-stage\">John Burton\u003c/a>, an advocate for civil rights and environmental protections, served in the state Assembly and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Phil Burton expanded the city’s Democratic Party’s membership to include people who were largely ignored until the civil rights era. Burton, Brown said, “noticed that minorities were being left out. And he began to structure the world of politics that literally caused involvement by that collection of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834223 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg 501w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy, Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, Congressman Phil Burton and Art Agnos in the early 1980s. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were all church and labor. Then we added ‘misfits’ — people who were pushed on the outside,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was the first to invite Chinese American and gay communities to be in the Democratic coalition. Successfully navigating San Francisco’s multicultural communities, with all their complex, nuanced issues and concerns, helps prepare politicians for the national stage, Brown argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that the current vice president can be so effective during the course of dialog in a debate is that’s what she had to do to survive here,” he said.\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton was first elected to Congress in 1964. He used his political power to author landmark legislation, including the bill that created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to protect the California coast — from northern Marin County to southern San Mateo County — from development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1962, Burton urged Brown, then a young defense attorney, to run to represent San Francisco in the state Assembly, a race he lost before being elected two years later. Burton also recruited Pelosi, then a homemaker living in Pacific Heights, to host fundraisers in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg\" alt=\"A row of flagpoles displaying rainbow flags stands in front of San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow flags line the plaza in front of the San Francisco City Hall following the rulings brought down by the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Burton died suddenly in 1983, his widow, Sala, replaced him in Congress. Just before she died of cancer in 1987, she encouraged Pelosi to run for the seat. By then, Pelosi had become a prolific Democratic Party fundraiser but told KQED she had never really thought of running for office herself. In a special election to fill the seat, she faced more than a dozen opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a live debate at KQED, one opponent, city Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, said Pelosi was out of touch with average San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can she relate to people like me, a single parent, working mother?”’ Silver asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another opponent, Supervisor Harry Britt, criticized Pelosi during a campaign appearance for using her connections for national races and issues more than local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would specifically challenge Nancy Pelosi to show one time in the last 20 years when those connections have been used, standing with the people of this community on issues of importance to this community,” Britt said. “One time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once elected, Pelosi leveraged relationships she made in San Francisco business circles, including in the emerging tech community, to become a prolific fundraiser for Democrats across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all paved the way for her to become the first female Speaker of the House. Three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8XCVjDs_I\">Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> that in her first race for Congress, she became the focus of all the other candidates once polls showed her leading the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240829-NancyPelosiForum-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita of the House, speaks with KQED Forum host Mina Kim at the KQED offices in San Francisco before a live broadcast on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Then I became the target by everybody, and they started saying all these things,” she recalled. “These are people I had in my home, that I had done events for, and all of a sudden, I didn’t know anything about anything, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race toughened up Pelosi for the rigors of Beltway politics in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said for Harris. She was a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office when she briefly dated Brown, then the Assembly speaker, in 1994 until after he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995. Brown was her political mentor and helped open doors for Harris to the circles that wielded a lot of influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Prozan, who worked with Harris on her early campaigns, said San Francisco politics is like an episode of \u003cem>Survivor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The caliber of people who run against each other have brass knuckles and are street fighters,” Prozan said. “And so when you have the kind of competition for elective office that you have in San Francisco, that prepares you for the next level and the next level and the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who previously served on the Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly, famously described the city’s politics as a “knife fight in a phone booth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are used to playing very hardball, rough and tumble politics. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s vibrant and diverse Asian American communities have unique issues. For example, winning over Chinese American voters means campaigning in front of multiple political organizations, each with different priorities. Successful candidates in San Francisco have to navigate it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single one of those constituencies, which in most other places would be a constituency, has a diversity of constituencies within those constituencies,” Chiu noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ace Smith, who worked on campaigns for both Harris and Newsom, said San Francisco is to politics what the Dominican Republic is to baseball — a relatively small island that produces big league stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge amount of them make it to the majors and make a huge impact in the majors,” Smith said. “You had better be able to hit everything from the 100-mile-an-hour pitch to the nastiest curveball to the screwball and everything in between.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, currently running for mayor, said there’s no hiding because San Franciscans are so engaged in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot get away with being mediocre in San Francisco,” Peskin said. “You have to be the best of the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Sen. Barbara Boxer, who once represented a slice of San Francisco, along with Marin County, in Congress, noted that while the city is known as being extremely liberal by national standards, the politicians who climb the ladder don’t fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a progressive place, but it’s not progressive crazy,” Boxer told KQED recently. “I think the people who wind up winning are progressive pragmatists, not progressive dreamers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said San Francisco requires more of its politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recognition of competence and cultural competence — one size doesn’t fit all. Recognition of diversity, inclusivity,” he said. “And when you create an inclusive environment, you create an entrepreneurial environment, innovative environment. And inclusivity brings the best and the brightest from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you have that mashup of greatness as well. And I think the politicians have to apply all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">\u003cem>This report contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party said mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mark-farrell\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a> used its logo on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004606/commission-reform-clash-heres-how-mayoral-candidates-want-to-rewrite-san-franciscos-charter\">ballot measure campaign\u003c/a> ad in a way that was “not authorized” and misleading to voters, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/155qoO2D-ufxswqIlryCVWFEADhdJ7kHQ/view\">letter\u003c/a> sent to the former interim mayor and San Francisco supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint adds to a growing list of ethics concerns that Farrell’s opponents have raised about the connections between his mayoral campaign and support for the ballot measure Proposition D, which is backed by millions of dollars in fundraising and aims to cut the number of city commissions by nearly half. Farrell’s backers maintain that their approach is fair and legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A photo of Farrell is featured prominently on the Yes on D mailer next to the SF Dems logo and text saying the party endorses the measure. The design looks similar to the party’s official endorsement seal and could mislead voters into thinking that the group endorsed Farrell for mayor, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We issued this letter to basically caution Mark Farrell and his team that we did think this particular flier and mailer was confusing, it could be misleading to voters, and to inform them of the penalties that could happen if they continue to do things along these lines,” SF Democratic Party Chair Nancy Tung told KQED. “The letter is an attempt for the party to protect the endorsement, not just for Prop. D, but also for our endorsement for mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004931\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12004931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/image-7-800x846.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/image-7-800x846.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/image-7-160x169.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/image-7.png 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Democratic Party says mayoral candidate Mark Farrell used its logo on campaign mailers in a way that was misleading and not authorized.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the SF Democratic Party — also known as the Democratic County Central Committee, or DCCC — has endorsed Proposition D, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997349/london-breed-wins-key-endorsement-of-san-francisco-democratic-party-in-mayors-race\">selected incumbent Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> as its sole endorsement for mayor this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell suggested that the complaints were an effort by his opponents to smear his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is sad that Mayor Breed’s supporters are trying to make an issue out of nothing because they want to distract from her failed leadership for San Francisco. Anyone can clearly see that the logo on the mailer says that the Party endorsed Yes on D,” Jade Tu, a DCCC member and Farrell’s mayoral campaign manager, said in a statement. “As a member of the DCCC, I believe our body should be focused on delivering the change that we were elected to enact instead of throwing mud on behalf of Mayor Breed at one of her political opponents and a fellow Democrat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is legal for candidates to appear in campaign advertisements in support of ballot measures, and others running for mayor this year are also backing ballot proposals. A competing measure from Board of Supervisors president and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin, Proposition E, would set up a task force to evaluate and propose changes to the city’s commission system but does not set a cap on the number of commissions like Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell’s opponents, however, say his mayoral campaign is receiving an unfair boost by improperly using funds and resources intended for Proposition D, which is backed by the moderate political organizing group TogetherSF. Through multiple fundraising committees, the ballot measure is raking in millions of dollars from the likes of venture capitalist Michael Moritz, conservative donor William Oberndorf and other billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12004606 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-184795463-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic Party’s letter also mentions a previous Yes on D mailer featuring Farrell that did not include any mention of Proposition D on one side of the flier, which attorneys for other mayoral candidates said may violate campaign ethics laws, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/mark-farrell-ads-violate-campaign-law-opponents-say/\">Mission Local\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Farrell accused the local Democratic Party of acting on behalf of Breed, Tung said Breed’s campaign was not consulted or involved in the executive board’s decision to issue the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter states that there is “no nefarious intent behind the design” but that the executive board unanimously agreed the placement of the logo was misleading to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penalties are not off the table if future mailers raise the same concerns, Tung said. That could range from a more public admonishment or a press conference all the way up to revocation of the party’s endorsement of Proposition D, Tung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an issue about protecting the integrity of the San Francisco Democratic Party’s endorsement,” Tung said. “I would think that any candidate or ballot proposition would want us to pursue that and not dilute our endorsement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 16: The original version of this report attributed a quote to a statement from Mark Farrell. It was from Jade Tu, Farrell’s campaign manager.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The candidates appearing on party mailers this November will likely have pro-market rate housing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Chen, a member of the DCCC and co-author of its housing policy, told KQED he hopes candidates heed the party’s new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many candidates who are still movable, who have issue priorities that are not necessarily housing,” Chen said. “This is a chance for candidates to take feedback from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Most of the two dozen moderate Democrats who ran for the DCCC won in the March primary, flipping the board from its previous progressive majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new housing policy embraces the platform of San Francisco YIMBY, an advocacy group that said building market-rate developments as quickly as possible will help bring down rental prices. Progressive Democrats said market-rate construction is akin to luxury housing that most people can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed is a vocal supporter of YIMBY policies. The DCCC’s new approach to housing may benefit her when she seeks the party’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrats on the Democratic County Central Committee at their first meeting since the March primary on April 19. From left to right, Michael Lai, Cedric Akbar, Mike Chen, Lily Ho, Trevor Chandler, Matt Dorsey, Nancy Tung and Marjan Philhour. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who loses out: \u003c/strong>Some DCCC members may now think twice before backing the mayoral candidacy of Mark Farrell, a former mayor and supervisor. Farrell rankled pro-housing Democrats last month when he said he doesn’t believe San Francisco “needs to upzone every neighborhood” in an \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/mark-farrells-common-sense/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Power+Play&utm_content=p-text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard\">interview with Joe Eskenazi\u003c/a>, Mission Local’s managing editor and columnist, on stage at Manny’s. Upzoning is the process cities use to grant taller housing to be built in an area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other mayoral candidates, like Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who talks about protecting the character of neighborhoods from the construction of tall housing, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, are unlikely to gain the party’s backing. Safaí lacks the allies on the board to gain an endorsement. It’s unclear if Daniel Lurie, a mayoral candidate and philanthropist, has enough DCCC allies for an endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>A few progressives remain on the party board, including Peter Gallotta, who successfully got the moderate Democrats to write clauses supporting renters into the new housing policy. “I think it’s important that we reiterate and underscore that our party is also pro-tenant,” Gallotta said. “I do think we need to make sure we’re calling out our support for the protection of rent control in San Francisco, that we support preservation of our existing rent-controlled housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>The meeting was the party’s first since moderates flipped the board. The moderates flexed their newfound power by pushing for several new policies. Besides the housing platform, board members voted to approve a resolution backing more police officers for public safety and new bylaws that limit the amount of public comment they’ll listen to in a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public safety and housing policies have no actual teeth in changing San Francisco’s operations.[aside postID=news_11983000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-623874284_qut-1020x705.jpg']The moderate Democrats also voted in Nancy Tung as the new party chair. Tung is a career prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who ran for DA in 2019 but lost to Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party also passed a resolution backing the labor community. The policy statement angered Kim Tavaglione, the executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, a powerful group that unites labor unions across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said the policy lacks basic elements in the state Democratic Party platform, like endorsing specific training language for the building trades, a living wage recommendation and anti-charter school statements that public school teachers back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t appreciate labor’s voice, we don’t have to play with them,” Tavaglione said. “We’re happy to walk away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said she would recommend labor unions withhold resources from the DCCC, which would help progressive Democrats in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Soon after the March primary, state Senate candidate Lisa Middleton pitched her vision for Inland Empire transportation to the Pass Democratic Club in Beaumont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve not built the roadways we need to serve the growing population,” she said, referring to chronic congestion on Interstate 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton, a Palm Springs City Council member and former mayor, won applause describing how she secured $50 million for a storm-damaged bridge in Palm Springs. If elected, she vowed to build bridges for traffic as well as “bridges to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lastly, I’m a very proud member of the LGBTQ community, and I am transgender,” Middleton, 71, concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Thad Kousser, political science professor, UC San Diego\"]‘There have been so many people who have been groundbreaking in their identity that now they have the freedom just to be public servants.’[/pullquote]“If I’m elected, I’ll be the first transgender person in the state Legislature. That’s not a reason to vote for me. But in California, it is time that we stand up and say anyone can run. Everyone has a chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton does have a chance, although she has her work cut out for her. She earned 46.2% of the vote in the newly constituted \u003ca href=\"https://pp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-senate/district/19\">state Senate District 19\u003c/a>, against incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rosilicie-ochoa-bogh-165450\">Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh\u003c/a>’s 53.8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Middleton, Ochoa Bogh also knows something about breaking new ground in the Inland Empire. Since 2020, she has been the first Republican Latina lawmaker elected to the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their personal stories appear primed for a culture wars clash, but neither candidate is choosing that route. Instead they are campaigning on bread-and-butter issues, such as jobs, infrastructure and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t do theater; I don’t do drama,” Ochoa Bogh, 51, told CalMatters. “I will support policies that I think are good for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen LGBTQ representatives in the state Legislature, sexual and gender identity may no longer be a key factor in California races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That fits with where we are in California politics,” said Thad Kousser, a UC San Diego political science professor. “There have been so many people who have been groundbreaking in their identity that now they have the freedom just to be public servants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Smart politics or culture clash?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If these candidates’ campaign strategies seem quaint in an era of partisan polarization, that may be smart politics for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This district combines the liberal neighborhoods of Coachella Valley with conservative bedroom communities and industrial areas in San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time Inland Empire voters will cast ballots in this state Senate district, which was redrawn after the 2020 census. In a quirk of that process, it was designated a “deferred district,” with no elected senator since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh currently represents state Senate District 23, which partially overlaps with District 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter registration in the new district has shifted from predominantly Republican in 2008 to a 1.5-point Democratic advantage, making for a competitive race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Bernardino County, Ochoa Bogh prevailed with about 63% of the vote, but in Riverside County Middleton led with 53%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://californiatargetbook.com/\">California Target Book\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that every part of this district is purple; there’s blue and red mixed together,” Kousser said. “That makes political messaging really tricky. How do you come up with messages that work for commuter suburbs as well as Palm Springs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sense, Ochoa and Middleton’s messages aren’t that different. Both focus on quality of life, middle-class opportunity, and their life stories as examples of the American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM.jpg\" alt='A woman stands behind a podium that says \"Fix California\" on the front with people in the background.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-Yucaipa) addresses reporters about the public school system, during a press conference outside the 3rd District Court of Appeal building in Sacramento, on Jan. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/Sipa USA via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both candidates tout their working-class backgrounds, Ochoa Bogh as the daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and Middleton as the granddaughter of Dust Bowl refugees who settled in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-incumbent-experienced-homelessness\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Incumbent experienced homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh’s childhood included moves to California, Hawaii, Florida and Mexico. Once she lived with her mother and sister in a single room of an apartment shared with another family, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about homelessness, not having a place to live, I know what that’s like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She earned an undergraduate degree from UC Santa Barbara in 1996, then worked as a teacher and later a real estate agent while raising her young children. Volunteer work at her children’s school led to a seat on the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District Board and then election to state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t very politically engaged, but I was very civically engaged,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature offered a crash course in partisan politics. Shortly after her election she discovered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article269771152.html\">California Latino Legislative Caucus\u003c/a>, but learned that Republicans weren’t welcome in the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Legislature, there’s a lot of talk about diversity, inclusion,” Ochoa Bogh said, “but only if you think their way. If you think differently, you’re vilified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first term, Ochoa Bogh has \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills?author%5B%5D=165450\">passed about a dozen bills,\u003c/a> but her proposals to notify criminal defendants of possible murder charges for \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb44\">fentanyl-related deaths\u003c/a> and to increase penalties for \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb316\">shoplifters\u003c/a> failed to pass. This session she’s revisiting fentanyl addiction with bipartisan bills to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1468?slug=CA_202320240SB1468\">expedite drug treatment\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1442\">provide fentanyl tests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s very thoughtful, and does the very best job she can to represent the entire district, and make sure she listens to all of her constituents,” said Brian Jones, the Republican state Senate minority leader from San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Challenger grew up in union household\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Middleton grew up in the city of Bell Gardens, in Los Angeles County, where she said her blue-collar parents entered the middle class through union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982290\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket sits down with books in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Middleton, Palm Springs City Council member, at the Four Seasons in Beaumont on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She earned a BA from UCLA, then a master’s in public administration from the University of Southern California, she said. During a 36-year career with the State Compensation Insurance Fund, which administers workers’ compensation, she served as an auditor, claims officer and executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t get what you pay for; you get what you audit,” she told the Pass Democratic Club members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton made her gender transition in 1995 and said her biggest cheerleaders were her two children from a previous marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lifelong struggle that I finally accepted myself as who I was,” she said, “and I have been very fortunate in coming out to have been one of those folks who continued to have opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those opportunities expanded after she left her state job, moved to the desert and swapped what she expected to be a quiet retirement for a planning commission position. She later became a council member and mayor of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ticks off her accomplishments in that role: boosting salaries for Palm Springs police and fire departments, expanding the city’s financial reserves, and supporting the renovation of restaurants and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton is “literally one of the best elected officials I have worked with” over 40 years of policing, said Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills. He credits her with helping improve retention and morale in the department, which led to the local police association endorsing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers as well have a lot of confidence in her as an elected official, and that’s kind of rare,” he said. “But she’s that calming voice that tries to bring people together, rather than find the extremes and push people apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Senate candidates clash on environment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all their emphasis on the political middle ground, Ochoa and Middleton offer some sharp contrasts on environmental and social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Middleton, renewable energy projects such as wind and solar are win-win solutions that fight climate change and help union workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building out those industries is an opportunity for us to have well-paying jobs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so fast, said Ochoa Bogh, who argues that there’s a downside to renewable energy projects that raise the price of energy or require adoption of costly electric fleets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing all black holds a microphone and stands behind a podium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-1920x1299.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh speaks during the opening for Rep. Ken Calvert’s office in Palm Desert, on Jan. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Who doesn’t want to be green?” she asked. “But all of those goals have a huge financial impact on working Californians, and nobody talks about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton also points to differences in their positions on abortion, noting she supports California’s stance as a haven for reproductive freedom, including abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh did not state her position on abortion, but she has \u003ca href=\"https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/188758/rosilicie-ochoa-bogh?categoryId=2&type=V,S,R,E,F,P\">opposed bills aimed at reinforcing abortion rights\u003c/a> in California and has received a 0% rating from Planned Parenthood and a 100% rating from the California Pro-Life Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates identified \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/08/parental-rights-california/\">parental rights\u003c/a> as key to their campaigns, but they appear to diverge on what that means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For activists and lawmakers on the right, parental rights has focused on shielding students from what they consider to be inappropriate or sexually explicit materials, and notifying parents of changes to their children’s sexual or gender identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many on the left believe parental rights includes the ability to honor their children’s choices and expose them to diverse educational material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she didn’t elaborate on her position, Ochoa Bogh \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1435\">authored a bill\u003c/a> that would ban elementary and middle schools and libraries from offering what the bill defines as obscene material. Last year she also \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1078?slug=CA_202320240AB1078\">voted against\u003c/a> the new law that requires a supermajority of school board members to ban books and provides a process for parents to appeal those decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton argues that parents of transgender and LGBTQ children are being disenfranchised in other states by laws restricting their options for care and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are being told ‘you cannot make decisions for your child,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who can motivate Inland Empire voters?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the closely divided district, the race will hinge not only on whose message resonates, but also who can turn out their party base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunities are with us, doing the canvassing, texting, phone-banking and just having the boots on the ground,” said Jim Mercado, president of the Pass Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh says she doesn’t stop with her own base but knocks on doors of Democratic and No Party Preference voters as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no problem reaching out to them, because to me it’s about discussing ideas,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Republican, Ochoa Bogh maintains she can provide a counterweight to the Democratic supermajority, while also finding common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s done a very good job advocating for the conservative principles that she believes in, while also being effective at building relationships across the aisle,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Democratic Club meeting, Beaumont City Councilmember Julio Martinez agreed that Ochoa Bogh has worked well with local governments, but he worried that minority party members are at a disadvantage in state budget talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our region, how do we get our fair share of the money the state gives out?” he asked. “How much influence can a Republican have in this state?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cash, demographics and identity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For now, Ochoa Bogh has an overwhelming campaign cash advantage with $605,677 and has raised more than \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rosilicie-ochoa-bogh-165450#financials\">double the average\u003c/a> for state legislators, based on her most recent campaign finance report. Meanwhile Middleton’s campaign reported a cash balance of $53,053.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen how the candidates’ identities will intersect with the district’s demographics. About 38% of the electorate is Latino, and Ochoa Bogh believes her focus on education and business appeals to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I have a pretty strong hold on the Latino vote,” she said. “But I don’t take that for granted, which is why I knock on the doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Middleton would not only be the first transgender state legislator in California, but she’d be among only a handful in the country, said Sean Meloy, vice president of political programs for the Victory Fund, which helps elect LGBTQ politicians nationwide and is supporting her campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094870343/danica-roems-new-book-shares-her-journey-from-closet-case-trans-girl-to-legislat\">Danica Roem\u003c/a>, sworn in to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2018, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184291582/sarah-mcbride-transgender-congress\">Sarah McBride\u003c/a>, a Delaware state senator now running for Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meloy expects voters in Coachella Valley’s substantial LGBTQ community will be galvanized by Middleton’s historic race for state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in a place like Palm Springs there is a higher amount of LGBTQ people, and they’re yearning for some representation in the state Legislature,” he said. “And Lisa is a community leader with proven results who offers that opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people seated inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Pass Democratic Club during a meeting at the Four Seasons in Beaumont on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also enjoys the synergy of campaigning alongside other LGBTQ Democratic candidates in the region, including Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor challenging incumbent Rep. Ken Calvert for the 41st Congressional District, and Palm Springs Mayor Christy Holstedge, who is running for the 47th Assembly District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far Meloy said Middleton has not been subjected to attacks on her gender identity, adding he hopes that civility continues as the race heats up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton said she and her opponent have agreed to run “honestly and respectfully,” focusing on policy differences. For her part, Ochoa Bogh says that anti-LGBTQ rhetoric will play no part in her campaign strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can win this without vilifying my opponent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: The story was updated to reflect that Middleton, if elected, would be among only a handful of state legislators in the country who is transgender. The source quoted in the story originally said Middleton would be one of three, but information obtained later indicates there may be more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than a dozen LGBTQ representatives in the state Legislature, sexual and gender identity may no longer be a key factor in California races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That fits with where we are in California politics,” said Thad Kousser, a UC San Diego political science professor. “There have been so many people who have been groundbreaking in their identity that now they have the freedom just to be public servants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Smart politics or culture clash?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If these candidates’ campaign strategies seem quaint in an era of partisan polarization, that may be smart politics for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This district combines the liberal neighborhoods of Coachella Valley with conservative bedroom communities and industrial areas in San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time Inland Empire voters will cast ballots in this state Senate district, which was redrawn after the 2020 census. In a quirk of that process, it was designated a “deferred district,” with no elected senator since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh currently represents state Senate District 23, which partially overlaps with District 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter registration in the new district has shifted from predominantly Republican in 2008 to a 1.5-point Democratic advantage, making for a competitive race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Bernardino County, Ochoa Bogh prevailed with about 63% of the vote, but in Riverside County Middleton led with 53%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://californiatargetbook.com/\">California Target Book\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that every part of this district is purple; there’s blue and red mixed together,” Kousser said. “That makes political messaging really tricky. How do you come up with messages that work for commuter suburbs as well as Palm Springs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sense, Ochoa and Middleton’s messages aren’t that different. Both focus on quality of life, middle-class opportunity, and their life stories as examples of the American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM.jpg\" alt='A woman stands behind a podium that says \"Fix California\" on the front with people in the background.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/012523-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-Yucaipa) addresses reporters about the public school system, during a press conference outside the 3rd District Court of Appeal building in Sacramento, on Jan. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/Sipa USA via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both candidates tout their working-class backgrounds, Ochoa Bogh as the daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and Middleton as the granddaughter of Dust Bowl refugees who settled in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-incumbent-experienced-homelessness\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Incumbent experienced homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh’s childhood included moves to California, Hawaii, Florida and Mexico. Once she lived with her mother and sister in a single room of an apartment shared with another family, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about homelessness, not having a place to live, I know what that’s like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She earned an undergraduate degree from UC Santa Barbara in 1996, then worked as a teacher and later a real estate agent while raising her young children. Volunteer work at her children’s school led to a seat on the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District Board and then election to state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t very politically engaged, but I was very civically engaged,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature offered a crash course in partisan politics. Shortly after her election she discovered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article269771152.html\">California Latino Legislative Caucus\u003c/a>, but learned that Republicans weren’t welcome in the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Legislature, there’s a lot of talk about diversity, inclusion,” Ochoa Bogh said, “but only if you think their way. If you think differently, you’re vilified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first term, Ochoa Bogh has \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills?author%5B%5D=165450\">passed about a dozen bills,\u003c/a> but her proposals to notify criminal defendants of possible murder charges for \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb44\">fentanyl-related deaths\u003c/a> and to increase penalties for \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb316\">shoplifters\u003c/a> failed to pass. This session she’s revisiting fentanyl addiction with bipartisan bills to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1468?slug=CA_202320240SB1468\">expedite drug treatment\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1442\">provide fentanyl tests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s very thoughtful, and does the very best job she can to represent the entire district, and make sure she listens to all of her constituents,” said Brian Jones, the Republican state Senate minority leader from San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Challenger grew up in union household\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Middleton grew up in the city of Bell Gardens, in Los Angeles County, where she said her blue-collar parents entered the middle class through union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982290\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket sits down with books in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_20-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Middleton, Palm Springs City Council member, at the Four Seasons in Beaumont on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She earned a BA from UCLA, then a master’s in public administration from the University of Southern California, she said. During a 36-year career with the State Compensation Insurance Fund, which administers workers’ compensation, she served as an auditor, claims officer and executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t get what you pay for; you get what you audit,” she told the Pass Democratic Club members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton made her gender transition in 1995 and said her biggest cheerleaders were her two children from a previous marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lifelong struggle that I finally accepted myself as who I was,” she said, “and I have been very fortunate in coming out to have been one of those folks who continued to have opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those opportunities expanded after she left her state job, moved to the desert and swapped what she expected to be a quiet retirement for a planning commission position. She later became a council member and mayor of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ticks off her accomplishments in that role: boosting salaries for Palm Springs police and fire departments, expanding the city’s financial reserves, and supporting the renovation of restaurants and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton is “literally one of the best elected officials I have worked with” over 40 years of policing, said Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills. He credits her with helping improve retention and morale in the department, which led to the local police association endorsing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers as well have a lot of confidence in her as an elected official, and that’s kind of rare,” he said. “But she’s that calming voice that tries to bring people together, rather than find the extremes and push people apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Senate candidates clash on environment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all their emphasis on the political middle ground, Ochoa and Middleton offer some sharp contrasts on environmental and social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Middleton, renewable energy projects such as wind and solar are win-win solutions that fight climate change and help union workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building out those industries is an opportunity for us to have well-paying jobs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so fast, said Ochoa Bogh, who argues that there’s a downside to renewable energy projects that raise the price of energy or require adoption of costly electric fleets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing all black holds a microphone and stands behind a podium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/011524-Rosilicie-Ochoa-Bogh-REUTERS-CM-01-1920x1299.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh speaks during the opening for Rep. Ken Calvert’s office in Palm Desert, on Jan. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun via Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Who doesn’t want to be green?” she asked. “But all of those goals have a huge financial impact on working Californians, and nobody talks about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton also points to differences in their positions on abortion, noting she supports California’s stance as a haven for reproductive freedom, including abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh did not state her position on abortion, but she has \u003ca href=\"https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/188758/rosilicie-ochoa-bogh?categoryId=2&type=V,S,R,E,F,P\">opposed bills aimed at reinforcing abortion rights\u003c/a> in California and has received a 0% rating from Planned Parenthood and a 100% rating from the California Pro-Life Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates identified \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/08/parental-rights-california/\">parental rights\u003c/a> as key to their campaigns, but they appear to diverge on what that means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For activists and lawmakers on the right, parental rights has focused on shielding students from what they consider to be inappropriate or sexually explicit materials, and notifying parents of changes to their children’s sexual or gender identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many on the left believe parental rights includes the ability to honor their children’s choices and expose them to diverse educational material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she didn’t elaborate on her position, Ochoa Bogh \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1435\">authored a bill\u003c/a> that would ban elementary and middle schools and libraries from offering what the bill defines as obscene material. Last year she also \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1078?slug=CA_202320240AB1078\">voted against\u003c/a> the new law that requires a supermajority of school board members to ban books and provides a process for parents to appeal those decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton argues that parents of transgender and LGBTQ children are being disenfranchised in other states by laws restricting their options for care and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are being told ‘you cannot make decisions for your child,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who can motivate Inland Empire voters?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the closely divided district, the race will hinge not only on whose message resonates, but also who can turn out their party base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunities are with us, doing the canvassing, texting, phone-banking and just having the boots on the ground,” said Jim Mercado, president of the Pass Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa Bogh says she doesn’t stop with her own base but knocks on doors of Democratic and No Party Preference voters as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no problem reaching out to them, because to me it’s about discussing ideas,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Republican, Ochoa Bogh maintains she can provide a counterweight to the Democratic supermajority, while also finding common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s done a very good job advocating for the conservative principles that she believes in, while also being effective at building relationships across the aisle,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Democratic Club meeting, Beaumont City Councilmember Julio Martinez agreed that Ochoa Bogh has worked well with local governments, but he worried that minority party members are at a disadvantage in state budget talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our region, how do we get our fair share of the money the state gives out?” he asked. “How much influence can a Republican have in this state?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cash, demographics and identity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For now, Ochoa Bogh has an overwhelming campaign cash advantage with $605,677 and has raised more than \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rosilicie-ochoa-bogh-165450#financials\">double the average\u003c/a> for state legislators, based on her most recent campaign finance report. Meanwhile Middleton’s campaign reported a cash balance of $53,053.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen how the candidates’ identities will intersect with the district’s demographics. About 38% of the electorate is Latino, and Ochoa Bogh believes her focus on education and business appeals to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I have a pretty strong hold on the Latino vote,” she said. “But I don’t take that for granted, which is why I knock on the doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Middleton would not only be the first transgender state legislator in California, but she’d be among only a handful in the country, said Sean Meloy, vice president of political programs for the Victory Fund, which helps elect LGBTQ politicians nationwide and is supporting her campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094870343/danica-roems-new-book-shares-her-journey-from-closet-case-trans-girl-to-legislat\">Danica Roem\u003c/a>, sworn in to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2018, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184291582/sarah-mcbride-transgender-congress\">Sarah McBride\u003c/a>, a Delaware state senator now running for Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meloy expects voters in Coachella Valley’s substantial LGBTQ community will be galvanized by Middleton’s historic race for state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in a place like Palm Springs there is a higher amount of LGBTQ people, and they’re yearning for some representation in the state Legislature,” he said. “And Lisa is a community leader with proven results who offers that opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people seated inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/032724_Inland-Empire-Election_EF_CM_02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Pass Democratic Club during a meeting at the Four Seasons in Beaumont on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also enjoys the synergy of campaigning alongside other LGBTQ Democratic candidates in the region, including Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor challenging incumbent Rep. Ken Calvert for the 41st Congressional District, and Palm Springs Mayor Christy Holstedge, who is running for the 47th Assembly District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far Meloy said Middleton has not been subjected to attacks on her gender identity, adding he hopes that civility continues as the race heats up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton said she and her opponent have agreed to run “honestly and respectfully,” focusing on policy differences. For her part, Ochoa Bogh says that anti-LGBTQ rhetoric will play no part in her campaign strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can win this without vilifying my opponent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: The story was updated to reflect that Middleton, if elected, would be among only a handful of state legislators in the country who is transgender. The source quoted in the story originally said Middleton would be one of three, but information obtained later indicates there may be more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With a growing backlog of unconfirmed judicial nominees bottled up in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a> issued a statement Wednesday saying she’s asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the panel until she is able to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was first diagnosed with shingles, I expected to return by the end of the March work period. Unfortunately, my return to Washington has been delayed due to continued complications related to my diagnosis,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pressure on Feinstein to step aside more permanently is mounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Democrat Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Wednesday called on Feinstein to give up the seat she has held for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna, who has endorsed East Bay U.S. Rep. 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While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties,” Khanna said on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna noted the recent decision from a Trump-appointed judge to reverse the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling by an extremist judge in Texas has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion. Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign,” Khanna said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont)\"]‘Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign.’[/pullquote]Even if Schumer appoints another Democrat to take Feinstein’s spot on the Judiciary Committee, it’s by no means certain that would fix the problem with confirming judges. Senate rules require unanimous consent from all senators to change a committee member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with that is that any Republican can object to that,” said Khanna. “I anticipate they will object to that. And that is what is my concern. Now, what happens if they object to it and we have the same problem, that we don’t have our judges being confirmed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without unanimous consent to replace Feinstein on the committee, Democrats would need to pursue another track, which would require 60 votes, meaning several Republicans would need to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is often out of lockstep with his party. In 2021, he was the last Democrat in California’s congressional delegation to endorse U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was up for election after being appointed to the job by Gov. 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But for more than a year, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">whispers from her Senate colleagues\u003c/a> — mostly unnamed — that the 89-year-old senator has been losing her mental acuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some deterioration in her mental acuity. Many senators, many of her colleagues, have mentioned that to me,” said congressional scholar Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot force her to resign,” he added. “You cannot expel her. But what you can do is move her off the [Judiciary] committee. 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And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.’[/pullquote]“We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary,” Ornstein said. “And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Constitution Society (ACS) tracks vacancies in the federal judiciary and the progress of judicial nominations. According to the ACS, there are now 36 pending vacancies awaiting a vote by the Judiciary Committee and 18 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. Six more nominees are waiting for a hearing by the Judiciary Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ongoing absences are impairing not only the Senate’s ability to confirm judges, but the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ability to advance nominations,” said ACS President Russ Feingold, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin who served with Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee before he was defeated in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946594 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with light, brown hair and a blue business suit stands next to another man with gray hair and a gray suit. 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Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, announced she will not run for reelection next year, marking the end of one of the state’s most storied political careers. Despite ongoing health concerns, she plans to remain in office through the end of her term. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Senator Feinstein expects to be unable to participate in Judiciary Committee activities much longer, she could significantly help the situation by taking the necessary steps to enable another senator to take her seat on the Committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Feinstein is vowing to return to work in Washington, it’s by no means certain that she’ll be able to. If she decides to resign before her term ends, Newsom could choose someone to fill out her term. In 2021, Newsom said he would name a Black woman to the seat if he had the opportunity. At the time, Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 51st District in San Diego County includes portions of both representatives’ current districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuffling of the district borders already has resulted in changes in the delegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-serving California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress, announced Monday she will not seek reelection in her Los Angeles-area district. The decision by the 80-year-old Democratic congresswoman came as her district was largely dismantled by the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting district boundary lines appear to have played a role in other House departures. Among them: Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who was one of former President Donald Trump’s most ardent loyalists in Congress, is leaving the House at the end of this year to join Trump’s fledgling media company, and Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal, who represents a district anchored in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, announced he would retire at the end of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ripple effects continue, and some candidates in key races could shift to nearby districts in search of a more favorable political climate. Republican U.S. Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel, who captured Democratic seats all or partly in Orange County in 2020, have yet to announce their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the shifting lines had little effect on the state’s marquee names in the House. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s overwhelmingly Democratic district anchored in San Francisco remained overwhelmingly Democratic. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s district, anchored in Bakersfield, became more solidly Republican in the new maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most attention has focused on California’s loss of a congressional seat, analysts said the legislative maps drawn for 40 state senators and 80 state Assembly members mark big wins for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maps essentially lock in Democratic supermajorities for the next 10 years, said Rob Pyers, research director of the nonpartisan California Target Book, which closely tracks redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have been teetering on the brink of irrelevance in the heavily Democratic state for years, and Democrats control every statewide office and dominate the Legislature and congressional delegations. Republicans make up less than a quarter of registered voters, and have lost support in what used to be Republican-leaning suburbs, said Mitchell, of Redistricting Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new lines will have a “chilling effect” on Republican hopes of gaining ground in the Legislature, Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new lines also recognize the state’s increasing diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said Latinos, the largest racial or ethnic group in California, now represent majorities in 16 House districts. Three districts group together areas with large Asian populations, and two do the same for communities with large numbers of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The borders of Fresno area districts represented by Democratic Rep. Jim Costa and Republican Reps. David Valadao and Devin Nunes shifted significantly. Costa on Tuesday announced he would run in the new 21st District, anchored in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press Writer Don Thompson in Sacramento contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t have time to read the whole post? Jump to a specific recall election scenario:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#wins\">Newsom defeats the election by a lot.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#little\">Newsom survives — but by a small margin.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#loses\">Newsom is removed from office.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For nearly 25 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom rose through the ranks of California politics without ever losing an election, buoyed by connections to powerful San Francisco Democrats and a willingness to take risks — like sanctioning marriage equality — that put him at the vanguard of his party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attention-grabbing style — implementing the nation’s first stay-at-home order in March 2020, then dining at an exclusive wine country restaurant as he told people to stay home to avoid a winter surge — rubbed enough Californians the wrong way that 1.7 million voters launched the second gubernatorial recall in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight back, the Democratic leader of one of the nation’s bluest states returned to what helped him succeed in the early days: connections to fellow Democrats and well-calculated policy risks — this time, to fight COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign rally in Long Beach on Monday night, President Joe Biden heaped praise on Newsom’s management of the pandemic. Newsom this summer made California the first state in the nation to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-vaccine-requirements-workers/\">require vaccines for health care workers and state employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom has had the courage to lead, to stand up for science,” Biden said. “He’s been one of the leading governors in the nation protecting people and vaccinating his state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing Newsom’s campaign message framing the GOP-led recall as an act of “Trumpism,” Biden described the leading Republican candidate — talk radio host \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-larry-elder/\">Larry Elder\u003c/a> — as “the clone of Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine him being governor of this state? You can’t let that happen,” said Biden, who beat Trump in California last year \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/sov/18-presidential.pdf\">by 30 points\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom, waving, smile as they stand stand before an American flag.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom wave to the crowd as they campaign to keep the governor in office at Long Beach City College on the eve of the last day of the special election to recall the governor on Sept. 13, 2021, in Long Beach. Forty-six candidates, mostly Republicans, ran to overthrow the governor in the recall election a year ahead of the regularly scheduled gubernatorial vote. \u003ccite>( David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosting the president the day before the election is just one sign of how much the power of incumbency has boosted Newsom in this race. With no legal cap on his fundraising against the recall, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\">raised five times as much as all his opponents combined\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s team managed to haul $5.5 million from the Democratic Governors Association, $3 million from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and more than $7.6 million from public employee unions. He ran ads featuring nationally known Democrats including former President Barack Obama and U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the governor used the trappings of his office in unusual, attention-grabbing ways. He blasted critics “promoting partisan political power grabs” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/03/newsom-pandemic-response-voters/\">during a State of the State speech\u003c/a> on the field of Dodger Stadium that served as an unofficial campaign kickoff. He \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">used an enormous $76 billion state budget surplus\u003c/a> to address pandemic-induced hardships, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-retirees-stimulus-payments/\">sending $600 stimulus payments to most Californians\u003c/a> — checks that landed just before the election.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn the final days of the campaign, Newsom leaned into COVID even further, contrasting his vaccine and mask requirements with his GOP opponents who say they’ll repeal them — and hammering a message of fear. “What’s at stake in the Sept. 14 recall? It’s a matter of life and death,” \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8DbZC0alxSE\">one Newsom ad says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rob Stutzman, Republican consultant\"]‘One of the ironies of this recall is that COVID got him into trouble and COVID is going to … probably help him defeat this thing in a landslide.’[/pullquote]Having persuaded prominent Democrats to stay out of the race to replace him, Newsom finished the campaign betting that the pandemic that fueled populist angst to take him down will also stimulate the support he needs to keep his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ironies of this recall is that COVID got him into trouble and COVID is going to, in the end, probably help him defeat this thing in a landslide,” said GOP consultant Rob Stutzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Newsom’s strategy work? We’ll find out after polls close tonight at 8 p.m. It may take elections officials a few days to determine the results, depending on how close the race is. Here’s a look at the three possible scenarios:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888552 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Newsom throws a few small lottery balls into the air in front of the Universal Studios globe statue.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom attends a press conference marking the official reopening of the state of California at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 2021, in Universal City. At the press conference, Newsom also selected 10 state residents to receive $1.5 million each as part of the final cash prize drawing in the state’s Vax for the Win program. \u003ccite>(Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"wins\">\u003c/a>Newsom defeats the election by a lot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s effort to win reelection in 2022 kicks off as soon as the recall votes are tallied. If the governor beats back the recall by a double-digit margin — \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/california-recall-polls/?cid=rrpromo\">as recent polls indicate is likely\u003c/a> — he could claim an authority that could empower him in at least two ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he could continue governing the final year of this term with the same priorities he’s had all along — for enacting progressive social policy and taking a relatively strict approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. Second, he could coast toward the 2022 campaign without fear of a credible challenger from his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888162\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51414_005_Oakland_ItzelDiazandFamily_09092021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]An overwhelming victory also could demonstrate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/the-california-recall-could-be-a-road-map-for-democrats/620020/\">other Democrats on the ballot\u003c/a> next year that leaning into COVID vaccine mandates — and painting GOP resistance to them as a public health danger — is a successful strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great thing when good public policy winds up with good politics,” said Ace Smith, Newsom’s longtime political strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stutzman agreed, saying that a big margin for Newsom would show that voters favor his strict approach on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His team figured out that once a majority of voters were vaccinated, it becomes a popular idea to put forward policies that are in the best interest of those who are vaccinated,” said Stutzman, who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful campaign in the 2003 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They figured it out before the White House did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-business-health-travel-a1670ffa08f1f2eab42c675d99f1d9ad\">required federal government employees to get vaccinated\u003c/a> days after Newsom’s first announcement. He then followed it up last week with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine-federal-workers.html\">broader mandate for employees at private companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Newsom pulls through by a large margin, a show of strength now does not guarantee long-term political success. Any ambitions Newsom may have to run for president will be shaped by a lot more than defeating this recall, said Democratic strategist Paul Maslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What he does on a host of issues that are very difficult over the next year — or the next five years if he has a second term — will be much more important to how he is judged,” Maslin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Maslin, Democratic strategist\"]‘If [Newsom] does win by a significant margin, it will reinforce [his] status … what it says about the rest of his career is unknowable.’[/pullquote]“Ultimately I don’t know that it will mean that much in the story of Gavin Newsom or California. It will be sort of a diversion that he had to respond to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maslin, who worked on campaigns against the 2003 recall of former Gov. Gray Davis and for the failed recall of Republican former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, pointed to the example of Walker, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/06/05/154384654/live-blog-wisconsin-decides-governors-fate-in-recall-vote\">beat back a recall in 2012\u003c/a>, won reelection in 2014 and was seen as a strong contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Walker’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/21/442313437/reports-scott-walker-ending-presidential-campaign\">presidential campaign flopped\u003c/a>. And then in 2018, he ran for reelection as governor — and lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom was always going to be the huge favorite for reelection, and if he does win by a significant margin, it will reinforce that status,” Maslin said. “What it says about the rest of his career is unknowable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888553 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-scaled.jpg\" alt='Gov. Gavin Newsom stands at a podium with a stern look, a large lighted sign beyond him that says, \"Vote.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a campaign event with President Joe Biden at Long Beach City College in Long Beach on Sept. 13, 2021. “If [Newsom] limps out of this, there will be some blood in the water,” said Steve Maviglio, a Democratic political consultant. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"little\">\u003c/a>Newsom survives by a little\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defeating the recall by a narrow margin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2018-general/sov/21-governor.pdf\">significantly less than his 24-percentage-point\u003c/a> win over Republican \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-john-cox/\">John Cox in 2018\u003c/a> — could weaken Newsom as he heads into reelection next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he limps out of this, there will be some blood in the water,” said Steve Maviglio, a Democratic political consultant. “Another Democrat will think they could do better and they can take him on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888182\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Capitol-1180x787-3-1020x680.jpeg\"]Republicans who backed the recall could claim a kind of victory from weakening the governor, even if they failed to throw him out of office. Some of them already are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s spent $80 million, he’s in the fight of his life, he’s called in the president and the vice president,” said Anne Dunsmore, a recall campaign manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s taking it seriously and he’s using a lot of resources to combat us … We’ve already won. We’ve made our point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A narrow win would also likely trigger lawsuits over the validity of the election results. Conservative commentators have already begun saying, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/newsom-recall-election-fraud-myths/\">with no evidence\u003c/a>, that voter fraud \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/gop-voter-fraud-california-recall.html\">will be to blame if Newsom\u003c/a> remains in office. Former President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LATSeema/status/1437461490232037380?s=20\">issued a statement\u003c/a> Monday calling the recall “another giant Election Scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder has said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/larry-elder-claims-california-recall/index.html\">plans to file lawsuits over election irregularities\u003c/a>. His website \u003ca href=\"https://stopcafraud.com/\">links to another site\u003c/a> that asks voters to sign a petition “demanding a special session of the California legislature to investigate and ameliorate the twisted results of this 2021 Recall Election of Governor Gavin Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called Elder’s stance “an extension of the Big Lie” that Trump stoked about his loss last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election hasn’t even happened and now they’re all fanning election fraud,” Newsom said Friday. “I encourage voters to come out in overwhelming numbers … So we can put all this nonsense to rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888537\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888537 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-scaled.jpg\" alt='Larry Elder stands near a podium sign that reads, \"Yes on Recall, The People v. Newsom.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-800x467.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1020x595.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1536x897.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-2048x1196.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1920x1121.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder looks on as he is introduced at an event in Monterey Park, California, on Sept. 13, 2021, the last day before the Sept. 14 recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"loses\">\u003c/a>Newsom is removed from office\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>More recent polls have consistently indicated that it’s unlikely the recall will prevail. If voters do throw Newsom out of office, it will show\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/newsom-recall-poll-campaign/\"> how difficult it is for pollsters to predict an unusual election\u003c/a> such as a gubernatorial recall, where it can be hard to measure how many voters will turn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, older and white voters are returning their ballots at a higher rate than other demographic groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politicaldata.com/2021-special-election-tracker/\">according to tabulations by Political Data Inc.\u003c/a> If the recall is successful, it may be because \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-young-voters/\">younger voters\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">Latino voters\u003c/a> — key blocs in the Democratic coalition — don’t cast ballots, or vote to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886134\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-2586310-1020x740.jpg\"]A successful recall would be a huge victory for the California GOP, which has been beleaguered and shrinking for many years. If Newsom is recalled, the new governor — most likely talk radio host Elder — would be sworn in by the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a Republican governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/newsom-recall-republicans-govern/\">would face many hurdles enacting new laws\u003c/a> because of the huge majority Democrats have in the Legislature, he could have the chance to make a significant political appointment, should Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is 88, become unable to finish her term. Elder has said he would appoint a Republican to her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Democrat Christine Pelosi said that if Newsom is recalled, California lawmakers should immediately call a special session and change the rules for how political vacancies are filled in the Senate and state constitutional offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, there are few limits on whom the governor can appoint to those positions. Pelosi, the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an officer with the California Democratic Party, said the rules could be changed to require replacement by someone from the same party as the outgoing official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature can do that,” she said. “And in my view they should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every governor since 1960 has faced an attempted recall, but most efforts fell short of the signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. Would liberal activists try to recall a Republican winner of this recall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible. But it seems unlikely, given the time involved in mounting a recall and the regularly scheduled gubernatorial election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Timing wise, it doesn’t make sense,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>And no matter what …\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expect California lawmakers to begin working on possible changes to the recall process. Whether there will be bipartisan support for an overhaul is unclear. But Democratic leaders said they intend to start examining the recall rules later this year or early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='recall-election']“We’ve heard that people want change, and we in the Legislature will take a look at that,” state Senate leader Toni Atkins told reporters on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon echoed her view, saying the recall system “was set up a century ago. The extent to which it’s still valid in its current form … merits discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys have shown that California voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.igs.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-igs-poll\">support changing the recall rules\u003c/a>. Potential changes could include a runoff if no replacement candidate receives a majority of the vote, making it harder for recalls to qualify for the ballot and limiting recalls to situations where a public official has broken the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such changes would require approval from voters. So any plan that lawmakers come up with would likely go on the ballot next year in the form of a statewide initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right: Voting in the recall election ends this Tuesday. But recall rules may be on the ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom rose through the ranks of California politics without ever losing an election, buoyed by connections to powerful San Francisco Democrats and a willingness to take risks — like sanctioning marriage equality — that put him at the vanguard of his party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attention-grabbing style — implementing the nation’s first stay-at-home order in March 2020, then dining at an exclusive wine country restaurant as he told people to stay home to avoid a winter surge — rubbed enough Californians the wrong way that 1.7 million voters launched the second gubernatorial recall in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight back, the Democratic leader of one of the nation’s bluest states returned to what helped him succeed in the early days: connections to fellow Democrats and well-calculated policy risks — this time, to fight COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign rally in Long Beach on Monday night, President Joe Biden heaped praise on Newsom’s management of the pandemic. Newsom this summer made California the first state in the nation to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-vaccine-requirements-workers/\">require vaccines for health care workers and state employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom has had the courage to lead, to stand up for science,” Biden said. “He’s been one of the leading governors in the nation protecting people and vaccinating his state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing Newsom’s campaign message framing the GOP-led recall as an act of “Trumpism,” Biden described the leading Republican candidate — talk radio host \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-larry-elder/\">Larry Elder\u003c/a> — as “the clone of Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine him being governor of this state? You can’t let that happen,” said Biden, who beat Trump in California last year \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/sov/18-presidential.pdf\">by 30 points\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden and Gov. 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Gavin Newsom wave to the crowd as they campaign to keep the governor in office at Long Beach City College on the eve of the last day of the special election to recall the governor on Sept. 13, 2021, in Long Beach. Forty-six candidates, mostly Republicans, ran to overthrow the governor in the recall election a year ahead of the regularly scheduled gubernatorial vote. \u003ccite>( David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosting the president the day before the election is just one sign of how much the power of incumbency has boosted Newsom in this race. With no legal cap on his fundraising against the recall, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\">raised five times as much as all his opponents combined\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s team managed to haul $5.5 million from the Democratic Governors Association, $3 million from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and more than $7.6 million from public employee unions. He ran ads featuring nationally known Democrats including former President Barack Obama and U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the governor used the trappings of his office in unusual, attention-grabbing ways. He blasted critics “promoting partisan political power grabs” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/03/newsom-pandemic-response-voters/\">during a State of the State speech\u003c/a> on the field of Dodger Stadium that served as an unofficial campaign kickoff. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Having persuaded prominent Democrats to stay out of the race to replace him, Newsom finished the campaign betting that the pandemic that fueled populist angst to take him down will also stimulate the support he needs to keep his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ironies of this recall is that COVID got him into trouble and COVID is going to, in the end, probably help him defeat this thing in a landslide,” said GOP consultant Rob Stutzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Newsom’s strategy work? We’ll find out after polls close tonight at 8 p.m. It may take elections officials a few days to determine the results, depending on how close the race is. Here’s a look at the three possible scenarios:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888552 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Newsom throws a few small lottery balls into the air in front of the Universal Studios globe statue.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom attends a press conference marking the official reopening of the state of California at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 2021, in Universal City. At the press conference, Newsom also selected 10 state residents to receive $1.5 million each as part of the final cash prize drawing in the state’s Vax for the Win program. \u003ccite>(Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"wins\">\u003c/a>Newsom defeats the election by a lot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s effort to win reelection in 2022 kicks off as soon as the recall votes are tallied. If the governor beats back the recall by a double-digit margin — \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/california-recall-polls/?cid=rrpromo\">as recent polls indicate is likely\u003c/a> — he could claim an authority that could empower him in at least two ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he could continue governing the final year of this term with the same priorities he’s had all along — for enacting progressive social policy and taking a relatively strict approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. Second, he could coast toward the 2022 campaign without fear of a credible challenger from his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An overwhelming victory also could demonstrate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/the-california-recall-could-be-a-road-map-for-democrats/620020/\">other Democrats on the ballot\u003c/a> next year that leaning into COVID vaccine mandates — and painting GOP resistance to them as a public health danger — is a successful strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great thing when good public policy winds up with good politics,” said Ace Smith, Newsom’s longtime political strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stutzman agreed, saying that a big margin for Newsom would show that voters favor his strict approach on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His team figured out that once a majority of voters were vaccinated, it becomes a popular idea to put forward policies that are in the best interest of those who are vaccinated,” said Stutzman, who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful campaign in the 2003 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They figured it out before the White House did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-business-health-travel-a1670ffa08f1f2eab42c675d99f1d9ad\">required federal government employees to get vaccinated\u003c/a> days after Newsom’s first announcement. He then followed it up last week with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine-federal-workers.html\">broader mandate for employees at private companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Newsom pulls through by a large margin, a show of strength now does not guarantee long-term political success. Any ambitions Newsom may have to run for president will be shaped by a lot more than defeating this recall, said Democratic strategist Paul Maslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What he does on a host of issues that are very difficult over the next year — or the next five years if he has a second term — will be much more important to how he is judged,” Maslin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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