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Peter Aguilar and Ted Lieu as chairperson and vice chairperson of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dems.gov/who-we-are\">House Democratic Caucus\u003c/a>, respectively, said Democratic strategist Garry South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the seats that Democrats are going to have to flip … if they are going to take back the House,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fundraising by candidates is only part of the money game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressional Leadership Fund, a juggernaut Republican political action committee tied to House Speaker Johnson, plans to spend a total $40 million in California’s battleground districts — more than in any other state, a spokesperson confirmed to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California remains an essential battleground for holding the House majority, which is why we’ve made such substantial and comprehensive investments in the state,” Dan Conston, president of the group, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Majority PAC, its Democratic counterpart, has also booked more than $40 million in ads across the state, according to press secretary Alisha Heng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“House Democrats are well-positioned and have the momentum, and we will flip the House blue and elect Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker in November,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/101922_Rudy_Salas_Bakersfield_LV_CM__30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/101922_Rudy_Salas_Bakersfield_LV_CM__30.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/101922_Rudy_Salas_Bakersfield_LV_CM__30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/101922_Rudy_Salas_Bakersfield_LV_CM__30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/101922_Rudy_Salas_Bakersfield_LV_CM__30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/101922_Rudy_Salas_Bakersfield_LV_CM__30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic congressional candidate Rudy Salas speaks to a crowd of volunteers at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Bakersfield on Oct. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A similar rivalry is playing out between the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arms of House Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, the House Democratic campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00000935/?tab=spending#independent-expenditures\">had spent $6.3 million\u003c/a> airing ads in California’s Central Valley districts and has since launched a mobile billboard campaign across 27 swing districts nationwide — including \u003ca href=\"https://dccc.org/dccc-launches-billboard-campaign-targeting-house-republicans-project-2025/\">six in California\u003c/a> — to target the conservative \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">“Project 2025”\u003c/a> policy playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our California challengers are lapping the competition in fundraising and meeting voters where they are,” Dan Gottlieb, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its GOP counterpart had spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00075820/?tab=filings#notices\">$4 million\u003c/a> as of last week running ads in four districts in the Central Valley and northern Los Angeles County, according to federal campaign finance filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California House Republicans built strong fundraising totals this cycle, our message is resonating with voters and we have significant investments to reach voters in the final stretch,” said spokesperson Ben Petersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are also jumping into the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America PAC, a pro-Donald Trump super PAC created by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has spent $3 million boosting Republicans in three California House races — more than any other state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs//C00879510/independent-expenditures/2024\">according to data from OpenSecrets\u003c/a>. And cryptocurrency-linked super PACs have also invested millions of dollars supporting Republican incumbents in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/15/crypto-election-ads-fairshake-00183700\">three swing districts in California\u003c/a>: $2.8 million for Steel, $1.3 million for Valadao, and $1 million for Rep. Mike Garcia, POLITICO reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad blitzes by outside groups, however, aren’t always as cost-effective as candidates’ own spending, experts say. 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Farrell worked as a venture capitalist and served the city’s wealthy Marina district as supervisor, while Safaí, the only immigrant in the race with a background in labor organizing, oversees one of the city’s most prominently working class and diverse neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said their approach was designed to extend their appeal to voters they might not capture on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about alliances and partnerships, it’s about complementing,” Safaí said. “I’m going to spend time over the next month getting him in front of and having conversations with a number of my key constituencies that he might not have had history with so that they can ask him the tough questions and ultimately make their own decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Safaí recently took their plea to voters a step further, asking them to explicitly leave Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, the most progressive candidate in the race, off their ballots completely and calling for Lurie voters to rank Farrell second. 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That funding would be largely wiped out if voters approved Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Prop. 36 passes, it will impact all of the Prop. 47 funded programs that are in place to help individuals get their lives back,” said Donald Frazier, the founder and CEO of BOSS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 allowed for the reclassification of felonies like theft and drug possession to misdemeanors and required that state funds be allocated to public agencies specializing in mental health, substance abuse, and other treatment programs – virtually reversive to the tenets of Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier said that stripping programs like BOSS of its funding and instead reallocating those funds to incarceration centers would only perpetuate cycles of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At BOSS’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, several staffers, ACLU representatives and victim advocates stressed the importance of funding for centers that focus on rehabilitation and healing. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He stressed that rehabilitation services benefit more than just victims — many of the nonprofit’s patients are also formerly incarcerated individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The taxpayers have to make a decision,” he said. “Do we want to continue funding incarceration and not funding services for people with the understanding that people will be released and be back in the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through grants from the California Victims Compensation Board and Proposition 47, BOSS provides a range of services, including licensed clinicians and psychiatrists, housing and employment opportunities and other support to help victims recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its ribbon-cutting ceremony, several staffers, ACLU representatives and victim advocates stressed the importance of funding for centers like BOSS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latosha Spruell, a coordinator for Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, spoke at the BOSS ceremony on Wednesday. She lost several family members and friends to violence and drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california,Learn about the California Propositions' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Propositions-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 36 undermines the core principles of restorative justice. It perpetuates a system that focuses solely on punishment rather than rehabilitation and healing for both victims and offenders,” Spruell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in a justice system that does more than punish — it should heal entire communities. Accountability must be paired with restoration and support,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philippe Kelly, a formerly incarcerated organizer for human rights, said that centers like BOSS are more effective in addressing the effects of violent crime than the criminal justice system is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the solutions that keep our people safe. Prop. 36 will not do that. Having recovery centers like this is what’s going to help our people,” Kelly said. “These are the folks who know what it means to overcome, but they also know what it means to keep us safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, Proposition 36 would direct millions of taxpayer dollars into prison costs over the next decade — a cycle BOSS staffers described as “the revolving door of locking people up and releasing them without rehabilitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, said that the measure would create “the worst outcomes” yet for East Oakland and other communities deeply impacted by violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have issues in our community that require a different response. You cannot use a screwdriver when you need a hammer,” Hollins said. “So while we have a bunch of hammers driving around our communities, there are some screws that need to be put in place\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 allowed for the reclassification of felonies like theft and drug possession to misdemeanors and required that state funds be allocated to public agencies specializing in mental health, substance abuse, and other treatment programs – virtually reversive to the tenets of Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier said that stripping programs like BOSS of its funding and instead reallocating those funds to incarceration centers would only perpetuate cycles of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At BOSS’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, several staffers, ACLU representatives and victim advocates stressed the importance of funding for centers that focus on rehabilitation and healing. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He stressed that rehabilitation services benefit more than just victims — many of the nonprofit’s patients are also formerly incarcerated individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The taxpayers have to make a decision,” he said. “Do we want to continue funding incarceration and not funding services for people with the understanding that people will be released and be back in the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through grants from the California Victims Compensation Board and Proposition 47, BOSS provides a range of services, including licensed clinicians and psychiatrists, housing and employment opportunities and other support to help victims recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its ribbon-cutting ceremony, several staffers, ACLU representatives and victim advocates stressed the importance of funding for centers like BOSS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latosha Spruell, a coordinator for Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, spoke at the BOSS ceremony on Wednesday. She lost several family members and friends to violence and drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 36 undermines the core principles of restorative justice. It perpetuates a system that focuses solely on punishment rather than rehabilitation and healing for both victims and offenders,” Spruell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in a justice system that does more than punish — it should heal entire communities. Accountability must be paired with restoration and support,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philippe Kelly, a formerly incarcerated organizer for human rights, said that centers like BOSS are more effective in addressing the effects of violent crime than the criminal justice system is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the solutions that keep our people safe. Prop. 36 will not do that. Having recovery centers like this is what’s going to help our people,” Kelly said. “These are the folks who know what it means to overcome, but they also know what it means to keep us safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, Proposition 36 would direct millions of taxpayer dollars into prison costs over the next decade — a cycle BOSS staffers described as “the revolving door of locking people up and releasing them without rehabilitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, said that the measure would create “the worst outcomes” yet for East Oakland and other communities deeply impacted by violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have issues in our community that require a different response. You cannot use a screwdriver when you need a hammer,” Hollins said. “So while we have a bunch of hammers driving around our communities, there are some screws that need to be put in place\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voters in Alameda County and the city of Oakland could recall District Attorney Pamela Price and Mayor Sheng Thao in November. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Price and Thao are progressives who some residents blame for issues like crime, homelessness, and drug use. Opponents say the recalls are undemocratic and unfairly target two women of color who took office less than 2 years ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2043674944&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. It seems like crime and public safety are on just about everyone’s minds in the East Bay, and those issues are taking center stage there this November, when voters will decide whether to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] I think we’re seeing voters really question can the East Bay as kind of progressive bent, deliver the types of results on things like public safety, housing, homelessness, drug use? Can these progressive vision deliver these results or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] Today, KQED reporters Annalise Finney and Alex Hall explain the choice before voters and what this says about life in the East Bay right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] So we’re talking about two different recalls here. But there is, of course, some overlap and sort of the backdrop. So, Annelise, I want to start with you and sort of the broader context here. What has been going on in Alameda County in the last couple of years that’s relevant to both of these recall attempts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] A big part of both of these recalls are concerns about public safety. Crime in the East Bay has been a big topic of conversation over the last few years. 2023 was a particularly bad year. Now, since then, that has sort of began to decrease, particularly among violent crimes. But there’s still this narrative over the last few years that has shaped a lot of voters approach to this coming election and these recalls. And a lot of that has to do with the reality of crime and also a fear of crime that sometimes is somewhat separate from those statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Alex I feel like that feeling these fears around crime have been especially the case in Oakland, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:02:07] Definitely. That’s what the organizers of the recall talk about a lot. Illegal dumping, all kinds of stuff. Neighborhood blight in Oakland that it was never like this before that this is different and that, you know someone should be held accountable for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I do hear that idea a lot, that it’s never been this bad before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:02:29] I think it’s worth pointing out that and actually in Oakland, it has been worse than this before. What we’re seeing now is an uptick from recent years. But in the 1970s, 80s. What we’re seeing now isn’t that bad, but it still feels really bad to a lot of people now, and it is worse than recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] We want to dive in then first to the D.A. recall. And Annelise, I want to start with you here. Before everyone knew who Pamela Price was, right before she was D.A. So remind us, when she first ran, who she was as sort of a candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:01] So Pamela Price is a Yale and U.C. Berkeley educated lawyer for a long time, 30 years, she ran a civil rights practice in Oakland. And in that world, she did a lot of work defending people who had experienced sexual harassment and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Certainly for communities of color. We understand how the criminal justice system has had such a devastating impact on all of our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:25] When she was on the campaign trail, she talked a lot about her personal story. She talked about growing up in Ohio, being a survivor of the foster care system and the Ohio juvenile justice system. She then talked about her life in Alameda County and said that she’d been a survivor of domestic abuse and as part of that, had actually been prosecuted by the Alameda County D.A.. So she represented herself as somebody who both had experience the criminal justice system, as somebody who was being prosecuted and somebody on the other side seeking justice for victims, whether that’s of sexual harassment or racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Change is hard. It’s exciting. It’s a good thing for Alameda County. The reason why I ran was because I know how broken the system is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] So in 2022, she ran as a kind of progressive alternative to what the Alameda County D.A. had been. And she ultimately won with 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And when she won, it was kind of a big surprise, if I remember that correctly. Can you remind us what was the reaction to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Yeah, I think a lot of people saw it as this kind of huge progressive win. It was part of this wave of progressive prosecutors across the country, also in Alameda County for a long time. There had never been somebody as head D.A. who hadn’t come from inside the office. There was this long term pattern of the incumbent deciding they were going to retire, retiring before the election, appointing somebody as their interim, and then that person ran essentially as an incumbent already. So when Pryce came into office, it represented a really big change in that office. She had things she wanted to change, like not charging young people as adults, like not charging special enhancements on crimes, which is this way to kind of lengthen a sentence later down the line when a case is at the sentencing stage in criminal court. But it was also this big change, just sort of internally and administratively in the office, but somebody coming from outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] And because of this change that she was promising, I do remember even early on, almost as soon as she won, people were already talking about recalling Pamela Price right? But then how did this turn and morph into an actual recall effort that qualified for the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Within a few months, there was this change.org Recall petition going around. It really got off the ground when two people that’s Brenda Grisham, who’s a victim’s rights advocate from East Oakland, and Carl Chan, who is a political leader in Oakland’s Chinatown, got together and started an official recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham \u003c/strong>[00:06:06] So we’re just not standing up for one community. We’re standing up for all of them with safe. It means safety for everybody. It means justice for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] They filed their paperwork with the county in July. So that’s about six months after Price began her work. And they said her progressive policies, these ideas like, you know, like I said, cutting down on sentencing enhancements, not charging young people as adults. They said that policies like that were contributing to crime in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:34] Her ideology and her way to empower the criminals, especially those who are serious killers, hurting every one of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:45] And they had the support of some victim advocates and also victims and their families who said that, you know what, they had experience working with the DA’s office felt disrespectful. They said there was a lack of communication. They said they weren’t seeing the types of case outcomes they wanted. They also said that they felt there was a fair amount of disorganization in the office, and that’s been a theme throughout the recall panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Price is incapable, incompetent, and she’s not qualified to be the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:14] So a lot of people sort of coalesced around this frustration with the DA’s office, and they ultimately were able to qualify a recall for the ballot. And that’s what we’ll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:24] And who since has also sort of come out in support of recalling Pamela Price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] Well, as I mentioned, there are victims family members who are part of this, and that group of people has sort of continued to grow. At first it was just a smattering. And now there’s a real handful of victims advocates and victims family members who are frustrated. There’s also some elected officials who are beginning to voice support for the recall, most notably a few weeks ago, U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell, who represents kind of the southeastern part of the county, said he supported the Price recall. And then we’re also seeing a lot of support from real estate investors. And that’s a big part of where the money for this recall has come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:08] Over the past year, D.A. Price’s office has dealt with a wave of bad press. Last fall, at a press conference, Price and some of her deputies banned a reporter from the Berkeley scanner, a website focused on crime news. There was also a dustup with Governor Gavin Newsom, who withdrew an offer to support Price’s office with drug prosecutions because of alleged dysfunction at the DA’s office. For her part, Price has said she’s received a lot of unfair media coverage and that news outlets don’t understand the role of district attorney. Then late last week, another news bombshell broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:54] Things did get even more messy, if you could imagine. Last week with these accusations of extortion against the district attorney. Can you explain what that is all about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Last week, a man filed some court paperwork alleging that D.A. Price had asked him for $25,000 as a contribution to her recall campaign. When he said no. He says that she allegedly made a kind of vague threat that he’d be hearing from her office just a few weeks later. These criminal charges arrived, charging him with something that happened about a year and a half before the charges were actually filed. This man is named Mario Juarez. He’s an East bay politico. He’s been on the political scene for a long time. He donates to campaigns and he’s run for office locally. Now, like I said, all of these are allegations and the man on trial is a long time nemesis of D.A. Price. They’ve both done different things at different times to try and disadvantage each other in political campaigns. But it paints a picture of this kind of back door political dealing that really doesn’t look good for price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And how has Price responded to the extortion accusations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Price’s office says they don’t comment on pending cases and they’re going to respond in court. But her campaign against the recall says Juarez just isn’t reliable. They released a very short statement that was just DA Price denies these claims. Do your own research. Mario Juarez is not a credible source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Who has been coming out in support of D.A. Price, basically who’s saying no to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] There is a coalition of people who support Price. One of them is Stewart Chen. He’s the president of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:10:41] The false narrative because of the crime rate, they’re going to push for this recall. That’s a bunch of baloney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] And what he and other supporters say is that reform is hard turning around a steamship of an office takes a really long time. And Price has been in office for less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Did they give them enough time to do the promises they set out to the policies that they’re going to do for us? These are sour grapes, guys. We have to stand together, united, together. This is undemocratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:17] They also say that this recall is funded by billionaires who they say are trying to change the outcome of the 2022 election. Congresswoman Barbara Lee said that she’s against recalls on principle. State Senator Nancy Skinner said essentially the same thing. She echoed Barbara Lee in a post on X. County Supervisor keith Carson has said that he also is against the recalls and supports price. And then the coalition that I mentioned that Stewart Chen is part of also includes the Oakland based Latino Task Force and a handful of other kind of church and Democratic clubs throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:51] How has Price herself responded to just this entire attempt to recall her just overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:58] When DA Price defends herself against the recall she has sort of a laundry list of things she says are contributing to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] We are living in an age of the politics of exploitation, where we see people with a political agenda exploiting people’s pain, weaponizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] She says people are blaming her for everything in Oakland. She says they’re coming after her because she’s a black woman. She says people are upset that she won the 2022 election fair and square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] We are trying to interrupt the cycles of violence and victimization. It takes time. It cannot be done in a month. This system was not broken in six months. There is no way I could have fixed it in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] Coming up, we’ll talk about the recall campaign against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and what these two elections have in common. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:05] Alex Hall I want to bring you in here. Voters in Oakland will have to decide whether or not they want to recall Pamela Price. But they will also have another recall to decide on with Mayor Sheng Thao. Remind us who Sheng Thao is and who she sort of was as a candidate when she ran for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:13:25] Yeah. So like Price, Sheng Thao was elected in 2022. She came into office having been on the city council for four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:33] I am a progressive. I am a progressive in the sense that I want to move the city forward for working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:13:38] She had a lot of backing, including financially from labor unions, and she campaigned on a platform of being kind of like a bridge builder, someone who could bring siloed groups in Oakland together to the negotiating table, business and labor unions, for example. And she also talked a lot about her personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] So when I ran for my city council seat. It was a lot of community who really pushed me to really run for that seat. And I’ll be very honest, you my response was, well, I don’t have any I don’t come from money and I don’t look like how politicians look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:12] You know, being the daughter of Hmong refugees from Stockton, having fled an abusive relationship, you know, at one point living in her car with her infant son and sleeping on people’s couches, you know, she was really able to excel and go to community college and eventually UC Berkeley and started interning and eventually working for At-Large Council member Rebecca Kaplan. And so she you know, she talked about how that would really help her connect with middle and working class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] As sort of similar to price actually as sort of these candidates who are bringing their personal experience into the job that they’re hoping to get. I do remember, though, Sheng Thao did not win in a landslide necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] Correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] What was the reaction at the time to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:01] So Oakland uses ranked choice voting, which means that people are able to vote for their first, second, third choices when they vote, not just one candidate. And Thao actually did not receive as many first choice votes as her opponent, Loren Taylor, eventually because of ranked choice voting. She did win, but it was she won by a very slim margin, something like just under 700 votes. And on and also, you know, she came in as a progressive city council member after moderate mayor. She her opponent was a moderate. And so, you know, I think there was this expectation of like, what is she going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:42] So how eventually then did the effort to recall Mayor Sheng Tao come about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:49] So the recall was officially launched in January and in June oust Oakland United to recall Shang. Tao said it qualified for the November ballot. The leader of the recall was Brenda Harbin-Forte who is a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge. She definitely clashed with Thao, specifically over the firing of former Oakland police chief LaRonne Armstrong. Brenda Harbin-Forte is actually no longer leading the recall effort, and she’s now running for Oakland City attorney. So now her sisters in charge, Gail Harbin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gail Harbin \u003c/strong>[00:16:24] And so the reason I got involved is because I saw all the harm it was doing to Oakland. Oakland looked like a ghost town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] There were other issues that came up that Harbin-Forte and Seneca Scott, who is the campaign spokesperson for Oust, were very critical of, namely Oakland’s failure to meet the deadline to apply for a state grant that would have given Oakland millions of dollars to fight retail theft. And, you know, I just said that, you know, Thao’s leadership had created a public safety crisis that, you know, wasn’t just dangerous for residents, but it was driving businesses out of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:04] We’ve never seen anything like this in Oakland before. And people are trying to act like it’s just happening because we’ve always had it coming. None of our surrounding cities are dealing with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] In-n-out shut down, the Hilton Hotel shut down, and basically Thaos, as they described it, incompetence had really hurt Oakland financially and continues to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:25] This progressive movement has failed. None of their policies have worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:31] I’ve asked voters at the town halls that she’s been having, you know, how do you feel about the recall? And a lot of people are like, well, I’m upset. I’m unhappy about X, Y, Z. That’s happening in Oakland, but do I know exactly how city government works? Do I know that that is actually Mayor Thao’s fault or what choices are actually made in the room at City Hall? I don’t know. And so I’m trying to figure that out. I think for the recall, the response that I’ve received is more it doesn’t matter because she is the captain of the ship and anything that happens in Oakland is her responsibility because she is the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Sort of a series of catalyzing events. It sounds like two. And I know another one is the FBI raid on Thao’s home. Tell me about that and what role that is sort of playing in the recall campaign now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:18:24] So the FBI executed search warrants on Mayor Thao’s home, but also on the homes of members of the Duong family who own California Waste Solutions, which is the recycling provider for the city of Oakland. The FBI has not said a single word publicly about what they were looking for, about what they are investigating. Thao has said that she’s innocent. She’s not been charged with a crime, and it’s really unclear at this point what’s going to happen with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:52] But obviously, I have to imagine for supporters of the recall is sort of just another thing that’s raising eyebrows and maybe adds just like another reason to move forward with recalling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:07] 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:13] And then who is coming out in support of Mayor Sheng Tao?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:16] So that’s an interesting question. I think that Thao was a little silent on the recall for most of this year. It seemed at that point that her strategy was really to show up to her job. She was hosting these town halls throughout Oakland and showing up alongside the city’s new police chief, the fire chief, and basically just saying, like, we’re here for you. We’re doing what we can. We hear you. We know that there are serious problems in Oakland. And, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:47] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:48] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:19:51] It’s a warm day today. We are out here because we know how important this fight is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:55] And then it wasn’t maybe less than two weeks ago that Oaklanders defending democracy Tao’s anti recall committee hired a spokesperson, held a press conference and actually came out and said, here we are, we are launching a campaign to fight this recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:11] Mayor Thao has been a champion for housing, justice, transportation, justice, climate justice…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:19] The people who has come out in defense of Sheng Thao is Igor Tregub, who is a Berkeley City Council member and also the chair of the Alameda County Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:30] Our Alameda County Democratic Party stands in solidarity with Mayor Thao and against this wasteful recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:43] Jean Quan has been really present and visible and vocal about how she experienced when she was mayor, an attempt to recall her. And so she has really been strongly supporting Mayor Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jean Quan \u003c/strong>[00:20:57] We have to stop this trend. So whether you love Sheng or not, you have to give her a fair chance to do good work. And she’s done some very good work for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:21:11] I mean, how has Mayor Thao herself responded to this campaign to recall her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:16] The mayor has really stressed that a lot of the problems that Oakland is facing, she inherited them as mayor and that the recall would essentially take Oakland backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:27] We met them head on, applied the solutions and the data shows the data shows that we are on the right track. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:36] And she’s also really strongly emphasized that crime is down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:40] We are on track this year for less than 100 homicides in Oakland, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:46] Another thing that she talks a lot about is Philip Dreyfuss, the hedge fund manager who has footed a lot of the bill for the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:56] Now, let’s be clear about this recall. It got started shortly after I was sworn into office just about a year ago. The recall is funded by one hedge fund manager who doesn’t live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:22:11] Calling him, you know, a Piedmont billionaire. You know, he’s this guy who doesn’t even live here. Speculation about his motives being some nefarious plot. You know, he doesn’t care about Oakland and Oakland isn’t for sale. And to be clear, Dreyfuss has not spoken publicly. I mean, trust me, we would have talked to him if he was willing to. He has not said anything about why he has been funding the recalls. And you know, we love to know. Philip, please call us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:22:47] Annelise, kind of coming back to you and bringing you back in here. What is the crossover that you see between these two recalls? Like how should voters, I guess, make sense of these concurrent recall efforts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:23:01] So another thing to note about these recalls is they are getting money from a lot of the same people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] I think we’re seeing voters really question can the East Bay as kind of progressive bent, deliver the types of results on things like public safety, housing, homelessness, drug use? Can these progressive vision deliver these results or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] Today, KQED reporters Annalise Finney and Alex Hall explain the choice before voters and what this says about life in the East Bay right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] So we’re talking about two different recalls here. But there is, of course, some overlap and sort of the backdrop. So, Annelise, I want to start with you and sort of the broader context here. What has been going on in Alameda County in the last couple of years that’s relevant to both of these recall attempts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] A big part of both of these recalls are concerns about public safety. Crime in the East Bay has been a big topic of conversation over the last few years. 2023 was a particularly bad year. Now, since then, that has sort of began to decrease, particularly among violent crimes. But there’s still this narrative over the last few years that has shaped a lot of voters approach to this coming election and these recalls. And a lot of that has to do with the reality of crime and also a fear of crime that sometimes is somewhat separate from those statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Alex I feel like that feeling these fears around crime have been especially the case in Oakland, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:02:07] Definitely. That’s what the organizers of the recall talk about a lot. Illegal dumping, all kinds of stuff. Neighborhood blight in Oakland that it was never like this before that this is different and that, you know someone should be held accountable for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I do hear that idea a lot, that it’s never been this bad before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:02:29] I think it’s worth pointing out that and actually in Oakland, it has been worse than this before. What we’re seeing now is an uptick from recent years. But in the 1970s, 80s. What we’re seeing now isn’t that bad, but it still feels really bad to a lot of people now, and it is worse than recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] We want to dive in then first to the D.A. recall. And Annelise, I want to start with you here. Before everyone knew who Pamela Price was, right before she was D.A. So remind us, when she first ran, who she was as sort of a candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:01] So Pamela Price is a Yale and U.C. Berkeley educated lawyer for a long time, 30 years, she ran a civil rights practice in Oakland. And in that world, she did a lot of work defending people who had experienced sexual harassment and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Certainly for communities of color. We understand how the criminal justice system has had such a devastating impact on all of our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:25] When she was on the campaign trail, she talked a lot about her personal story. She talked about growing up in Ohio, being a survivor of the foster care system and the Ohio juvenile justice system. She then talked about her life in Alameda County and said that she’d been a survivor of domestic abuse and as part of that, had actually been prosecuted by the Alameda County D.A.. So she represented herself as somebody who both had experience the criminal justice system, as somebody who was being prosecuted and somebody on the other side seeking justice for victims, whether that’s of sexual harassment or racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Change is hard. It’s exciting. It’s a good thing for Alameda County. The reason why I ran was because I know how broken the system is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] So in 2022, she ran as a kind of progressive alternative to what the Alameda County D.A. had been. And she ultimately won with 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And when she won, it was kind of a big surprise, if I remember that correctly. Can you remind us what was the reaction to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Yeah, I think a lot of people saw it as this kind of huge progressive win. It was part of this wave of progressive prosecutors across the country, also in Alameda County for a long time. There had never been somebody as head D.A. who hadn’t come from inside the office. There was this long term pattern of the incumbent deciding they were going to retire, retiring before the election, appointing somebody as their interim, and then that person ran essentially as an incumbent already. So when Pryce came into office, it represented a really big change in that office. She had things she wanted to change, like not charging young people as adults, like not charging special enhancements on crimes, which is this way to kind of lengthen a sentence later down the line when a case is at the sentencing stage in criminal court. But it was also this big change, just sort of internally and administratively in the office, but somebody coming from outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] And because of this change that she was promising, I do remember even early on, almost as soon as she won, people were already talking about recalling Pamela Price right? But then how did this turn and morph into an actual recall effort that qualified for the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Within a few months, there was this change.org Recall petition going around. It really got off the ground when two people that’s Brenda Grisham, who’s a victim’s rights advocate from East Oakland, and Carl Chan, who is a political leader in Oakland’s Chinatown, got together and started an official recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham \u003c/strong>[00:06:06] So we’re just not standing up for one community. We’re standing up for all of them with safe. It means safety for everybody. It means justice for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] They filed their paperwork with the county in July. So that’s about six months after Price began her work. And they said her progressive policies, these ideas like, you know, like I said, cutting down on sentencing enhancements, not charging young people as adults. They said that policies like that were contributing to crime in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:34] Her ideology and her way to empower the criminals, especially those who are serious killers, hurting every one of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:45] And they had the support of some victim advocates and also victims and their families who said that, you know what, they had experience working with the DA’s office felt disrespectful. They said there was a lack of communication. They said they weren’t seeing the types of case outcomes they wanted. They also said that they felt there was a fair amount of disorganization in the office, and that’s been a theme throughout the recall panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Price is incapable, incompetent, and she’s not qualified to be the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:14] So a lot of people sort of coalesced around this frustration with the DA’s office, and they ultimately were able to qualify a recall for the ballot. And that’s what we’ll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:24] And who since has also sort of come out in support of recalling Pamela Price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] Well, as I mentioned, there are victims family members who are part of this, and that group of people has sort of continued to grow. At first it was just a smattering. And now there’s a real handful of victims advocates and victims family members who are frustrated. There’s also some elected officials who are beginning to voice support for the recall, most notably a few weeks ago, U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell, who represents kind of the southeastern part of the county, said he supported the Price recall. And then we’re also seeing a lot of support from real estate investors. And that’s a big part of where the money for this recall has come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:08] Over the past year, D.A. Price’s office has dealt with a wave of bad press. Last fall, at a press conference, Price and some of her deputies banned a reporter from the Berkeley scanner, a website focused on crime news. There was also a dustup with Governor Gavin Newsom, who withdrew an offer to support Price’s office with drug prosecutions because of alleged dysfunction at the DA’s office. For her part, Price has said she’s received a lot of unfair media coverage and that news outlets don’t understand the role of district attorney. Then late last week, another news bombshell broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:54] Things did get even more messy, if you could imagine. Last week with these accusations of extortion against the district attorney. Can you explain what that is all about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Last week, a man filed some court paperwork alleging that D.A. Price had asked him for $25,000 as a contribution to her recall campaign. When he said no. He says that she allegedly made a kind of vague threat that he’d be hearing from her office just a few weeks later. These criminal charges arrived, charging him with something that happened about a year and a half before the charges were actually filed. This man is named Mario Juarez. He’s an East bay politico. He’s been on the political scene for a long time. He donates to campaigns and he’s run for office locally. Now, like I said, all of these are allegations and the man on trial is a long time nemesis of D.A. Price. They’ve both done different things at different times to try and disadvantage each other in political campaigns. But it paints a picture of this kind of back door political dealing that really doesn’t look good for price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And how has Price responded to the extortion accusations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Price’s office says they don’t comment on pending cases and they’re going to respond in court. But her campaign against the recall says Juarez just isn’t reliable. They released a very short statement that was just DA Price denies these claims. Do your own research. Mario Juarez is not a credible source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Who has been coming out in support of D.A. Price, basically who’s saying no to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] There is a coalition of people who support Price. One of them is Stewart Chen. He’s the president of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:10:41] The false narrative because of the crime rate, they’re going to push for this recall. That’s a bunch of baloney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] And what he and other supporters say is that reform is hard turning around a steamship of an office takes a really long time. And Price has been in office for less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Did they give them enough time to do the promises they set out to the policies that they’re going to do for us? These are sour grapes, guys. We have to stand together, united, together. This is undemocratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:17] They also say that this recall is funded by billionaires who they say are trying to change the outcome of the 2022 election. Congresswoman Barbara Lee said that she’s against recalls on principle. State Senator Nancy Skinner said essentially the same thing. She echoed Barbara Lee in a post on X. County Supervisor keith Carson has said that he also is against the recalls and supports price. And then the coalition that I mentioned that Stewart Chen is part of also includes the Oakland based Latino Task Force and a handful of other kind of church and Democratic clubs throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:51] How has Price herself responded to just this entire attempt to recall her just overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:58] When DA Price defends herself against the recall she has sort of a laundry list of things she says are contributing to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] We are living in an age of the politics of exploitation, where we see people with a political agenda exploiting people’s pain, weaponizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] She says people are blaming her for everything in Oakland. She says they’re coming after her because she’s a black woman. She says people are upset that she won the 2022 election fair and square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] We are trying to interrupt the cycles of violence and victimization. It takes time. It cannot be done in a month. This system was not broken in six months. There is no way I could have fixed it in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] Coming up, we’ll talk about the recall campaign against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and what these two elections have in common. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:05] Alex Hall I want to bring you in here. Voters in Oakland will have to decide whether or not they want to recall Pamela Price. But they will also have another recall to decide on with Mayor Sheng Thao. 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And she also talked a lot about her personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] So when I ran for my city council seat. It was a lot of community who really pushed me to really run for that seat. And I’ll be very honest, you my response was, well, I don’t have any I don’t come from money and I don’t look like how politicians look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:12] You know, being the daughter of Hmong refugees from Stockton, having fled an abusive relationship, you know, at one point living in her car with her infant son and sleeping on people’s couches, you know, she was really able to excel and go to community college and eventually UC Berkeley and started interning and eventually working for At-Large Council member Rebecca Kaplan. And so she you know, she talked about how that would really help her connect with middle and working class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] As sort of similar to price actually as sort of these candidates who are bringing their personal experience into the job that they’re hoping to get. I do remember, though, Sheng Thao did not win in a landslide necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] Correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] What was the reaction at the time to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:01] So Oakland uses ranked choice voting, which means that people are able to vote for their first, second, third choices when they vote, not just one candidate. And Thao actually did not receive as many first choice votes as her opponent, Loren Taylor, eventually because of ranked choice voting. She did win, but it was she won by a very slim margin, something like just under 700 votes. And on and also, you know, she came in as a progressive city council member after moderate mayor. She her opponent was a moderate. And so, you know, I think there was this expectation of like, what is she going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:42] So how eventually then did the effort to recall Mayor Sheng Tao come about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:49] So the recall was officially launched in January and in June oust Oakland United to recall Shang. Tao said it qualified for the November ballot. The leader of the recall was Brenda Harbin-Forte who is a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge. She definitely clashed with Thao, specifically over the firing of former Oakland police chief LaRonne Armstrong. Brenda Harbin-Forte is actually no longer leading the recall effort, and she’s now running for Oakland City attorney. So now her sisters in charge, Gail Harbin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gail Harbin \u003c/strong>[00:16:24] And so the reason I got involved is because I saw all the harm it was doing to Oakland. Oakland looked like a ghost town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] There were other issues that came up that Harbin-Forte and Seneca Scott, who is the campaign spokesperson for Oust, were very critical of, namely Oakland’s failure to meet the deadline to apply for a state grant that would have given Oakland millions of dollars to fight retail theft. And, you know, I just said that, you know, Thao’s leadership had created a public safety crisis that, you know, wasn’t just dangerous for residents, but it was driving businesses out of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:04] We’ve never seen anything like this in Oakland before. And people are trying to act like it’s just happening because we’ve always had it coming. None of our surrounding cities are dealing with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] In-n-out shut down, the Hilton Hotel shut down, and basically Thaos, as they described it, incompetence had really hurt Oakland financially and continues to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:25] This progressive movement has failed. 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Tell me about that and what role that is sort of playing in the recall campaign now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:18:24] So the FBI executed search warrants on Mayor Thao’s home, but also on the homes of members of the Duong family who own California Waste Solutions, which is the recycling provider for the city of Oakland. The FBI has not said a single word publicly about what they were looking for, about what they are investigating. Thao has said that she’s innocent. She’s not been charged with a crime, and it’s really unclear at this point what’s going to happen with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:52] But obviously, I have to imagine for supporters of the recall is sort of just another thing that’s raising eyebrows and maybe adds just like another reason to move forward with recalling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:07] 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:13] And then who is coming out in support of Mayor Sheng Tao?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:16] So that’s an interesting question. I think that Thao was a little silent on the recall for most of this year. It seemed at that point that her strategy was really to show up to her job. She was hosting these town halls throughout Oakland and showing up alongside the city’s new police chief, the fire chief, and basically just saying, like, we’re here for you. We’re doing what we can. We hear you. We know that there are serious problems in Oakland. And, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:47] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:48] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:19:51] It’s a warm day today. We are out here because we know how important this fight is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:55] And then it wasn’t maybe less than two weeks ago that Oaklanders defending democracy Tao’s anti recall committee hired a spokesperson, held a press conference and actually came out and said, here we are, we are launching a campaign to fight this recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:11] Mayor Thao has been a champion for housing, justice, transportation, justice, climate justice…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:19] The people who has come out in defense of Sheng Thao is Igor Tregub, who is a Berkeley City Council member and also the chair of the Alameda County Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:30] Our Alameda County Democratic Party stands in solidarity with Mayor Thao and against this wasteful recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:43] Jean Quan has been really present and visible and vocal about how she experienced when she was mayor, an attempt to recall her. 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"content": "\u003cp>PHOENIX — Standing in front of posters declaring “Country Over Party,” the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona, pointed to a young woman sitting at the front of the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Isn’t it amazing to have a leader in our country that we can point our young people to and say, emulate this person?” Mayor John Giles asked the crowd of several hundred Republicans, many of them Mormons, attending this luncheon event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They responded with hoots and cheers — and just a few minutes later, enthusiastically welcomed the Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris, on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was raised to believe that hard work is important. It is important to look out for each other. It is important to understand that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us,” Harris told the group. “There are some powerful forces that are trying to divide us as Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris acknowledged that the conservative crowd might not agree with her on everything. But, she said, they agree on some fundamentals — including the value of empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this kind of backward thinking coming from some folks that suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. Instead of what we know, which is the real measure of the strength of [a] leader is based on who you lift up,” she said to cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This event, at a golf club in Scottsdale, just outside Phoenix, is one of many ways the Harris campaign is trying to broaden its coalition with just weeks left until Election Day — and with polls showing the presidential race is locked in a dead heat. Sunbelt states like Arizona and Nevada are key battlegrounds for the campaign’s efforts to reach out to groups they need to peel away from former President Donald Trump to win: disaffected Republicans, independents and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Harris campaign isn’t doing it alone. About 25 minutes away, in a tiny strip mall, volunteers gather every day around noon. They’re preparing to walk Phoenix neighborhoods, often in triple-digit heat, knocking on doors to engage undecided voters and those who might not be planning to vote at all. It’s a joint effort between an Oakland-based group, Seed the Vote, which recruits and trains California volunteers and a union-affiliated, Arizona-based group called Worker Power. Seed the Vote has sent 3,000 volunteers out this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a white shirt and shorts stands next to a blue car outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-03-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roxy Moran with her Subaru — which she drove from Pleasanton to Phoenix to volunteer with Seed the Vote in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roxy Moran, 28, traveled from her hometown of Pleasanton to do this work. Currently, between jobs, she doesn’t want to sit out an election she believes will determine not just America’s next four years but the next generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran said that while Trump continues to emphasize immigration, the issues voters most frequently discuss with her are abortion rights and the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reproductive rights — it’s a big rallying call for a lot of people in Arizona. And even if they don’t agree with you on some other things, most people are like, this is so important,” she said. “The economy is huge. You know, everyone wants to talk about the cost of living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cerrito resident Vanessa Warheit is a canvass lead with Seed the Vote. She took a leave from her day job as a climate policy advocate to decamp to Arizona for the final weeks of this campaign. Warheit said that even in a swing state like Arizona, where campaign signs blanket the streets and political ads bombard the airwaves, some people manage to tune it all out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how they managed to avoid the maelstrom of toxic political ads. But I think partly it’s because they’re so toxic… it’s incessant,” she said. “A lot of people just tune them out because they’re like, it’s too toxic. I can’t deal. I don’t want to, and I’m not going to pay attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With competing attack ads making claims of all kinds, many people just don’t know what to believe, Warheit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just try to stick their heads down and just hope it’ll all go away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a white shirt and shorts holds flyers with two people seated behind her.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seed the Vote volunteers prepare to canvass in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of Moran and Warheit’s job is to educate voters — not just about Harris’ policy proposals but also about the rest of the Arizona ballot, which includes a race for U.S. Senate, key legislative races and a ballot measure that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution. Currently, abortion is illegal in Arizona after 15 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, both women said the issue of reproductive rights appears to be crossing traditional political lines and making Harris more attractive to voters who hadn’t seen it as a priority before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of support for abortion, it’s across gender lines,” Warheit said. “And it’s interesting because a lot of us before we got here sort of assumed that we were going to need to use kind of coded language like ‘reproductive rights.’ And for the most part, the words ‘abortion access’ resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the only issue that seems to be attracting strange bedfellows. At the GOP luncheon, the audience nodded along and clapped at Harris’ mentions of the Affordable Care Act and its mandate to cover people with preexisting conditions — legislation Republicans spent years trying to dismantle. However, an Arizona hero, the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, cast the deciding vote in 2017 to save the ACA — something that both Democrats and Republicans in the state remain incredibly proud of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mayor Giles introduced the vice president, he acknowledged the unlikely coalition.[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president,Learn about the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think many of the people in this room were initially attracted to this campaign because, frankly, we were anti-Trump,” he said. “We have very quickly become pro-Kamala, right? Kamala Harris will be a great president of the United States. Absolutely phenomenal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giles said Harris would prioritize the middle class, protect personal freedoms and promote “justice and equality” at the southern border. But he framed all those issues in terms of moral clarity and the U.S.’s role in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have an apparently unusual memory that lasts longer than four years. We can remember the humiliation that our country suffered for four years under a Trump presidency. And we’re committed to not letting that happen again,” he said. “(Harris) is someone who is aware of the moral leadership role that our country has traditionally held in this country and around the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01.jpg\" alt=\"Eight people sit inside a room talking to each other.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-01-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seed the Vote volunteers prepare to canvass in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vice president echoed that message in her remarks, stressing her commitment to including a diversity of voices in her administration. She promised to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet and told the group she also plans to create a bipartisan policy council to advise her if she’s elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are as a democracy (is) at play in this election,” she said. “Each of you have had the courage to say, hey, we may not agree on every single thing — that’s also what a democracy looks like. But foundational, first principles cannot be in question. Not for the sake of our children, not for the sake of our future and well-being, not for the sake of our standing in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country, not party, must be Americans first identity and priority, Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether she can convince enough voters in swing states like Arizona that she’s right could mean the difference between a Harris or Trump presidency come 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this kind of backward thinking coming from some folks that suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. Instead of what we know, which is the real measure of the strength of [a] leader is based on who you lift up,” she said to cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This event, at a golf club in Scottsdale, just outside Phoenix, is one of many ways the Harris campaign is trying to broaden its coalition with just weeks left until Election Day — and with polls showing the presidential race is locked in a dead heat. Sunbelt states like Arizona and Nevada are key battlegrounds for the campaign’s efforts to reach out to groups they need to peel away from former President Donald Trump to win: disaffected Republicans, independents and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Harris campaign isn’t doing it alone. About 25 minutes away, in a tiny strip mall, volunteers gather every day around noon. They’re preparing to walk Phoenix neighborhoods, often in triple-digit heat, knocking on doors to engage undecided voters and those who might not be planning to vote at all. It’s a joint effort between an Oakland-based group, Seed the Vote, which recruits and trains California volunteers and a union-affiliated, Arizona-based group called Worker Power. 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Currently, between jobs, she doesn’t want to sit out an election she believes will determine not just America’s next four years but the next generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran said that while Trump continues to emphasize immigration, the issues voters most frequently discuss with her are abortion rights and the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reproductive rights — it’s a big rallying call for a lot of people in Arizona. And even if they don’t agree with you on some other things, most people are like, this is so important,” she said. “The economy is huge. You know, everyone wants to talk about the cost of living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cerrito resident Vanessa Warheit is a canvass lead with Seed the Vote. She took a leave from her day job as a climate policy advocate to decamp to Arizona for the final weeks of this campaign. Warheit said that even in a swing state like Arizona, where campaign signs blanket the streets and political ads bombard the airwaves, some people manage to tune it all out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how they managed to avoid the maelstrom of toxic political ads. But I think partly it’s because they’re so toxic… it’s incessant,” she said. “A lot of people just tune them out because they’re like, it’s too toxic. I can’t deal. I don’t want to, and I’m not going to pay attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With competing attack ads making claims of all kinds, many people just don’t know what to believe, Warheit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just try to stick their heads down and just hope it’ll all go away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a white shirt and shorts holds flyers with two people seated behind her.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-HARRIS-AZ-CANVASSERS-ML-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seed the Vote volunteers prepare to canvass in Phoenix on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of Moran and Warheit’s job is to educate voters — not just about Harris’ policy proposals but also about the rest of the Arizona ballot, which includes a race for U.S. Senate, key legislative races and a ballot measure that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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"content": "\u003cp>With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, why would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> venture \u003ca href=\"https://interactives.ap.org/embeds/ziEfd/39/\">into California\u003c/a>, one of the most solidly Democratic states, just weeks before Election Day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that won’t change after his scheduled Saturday stop in Coachella, a desert city east of Los Angeles best known for the annual music festival bearing its name. Still, there are practical reasons for him to visit, despite the Republican nominee’s prospects Nov. 5 in the most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former president lost California in \u003ca href=\"https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/calling-the-2020-presidential-race-state-by-state\">a landslide in 2020\u003c/a>. He did get 6 million-plus votes, more than any GOP presidential candidate before, and his margins topped 70% in some rural counties that typically favor conservatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an enormous pool of potential volunteers to work on state races and participate in phone banks into the most contested states. And Trump is likely to draw extensive media coverage in the Los Angeles market, the second-largest in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is visiting Coachella in between stops in Nevada, at a roundtable in Las Vegas for Latinos earlier Saturday, and Arizona, for a rally Sunday in Prescott Valley. He narrowly lost those two swing states to Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden\">Joe Biden\u003c/a> in 2020.[aside postID='elections_1950' label='2024 Voter Guide: California, Bay Area and National General Election' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png' herolink='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide']Going to California gives Trump the “ability to swoop in and leverage this big population of Trump supporters,” said Tim Lineberger, who was communications director for Trump’s 2016 campaign in Michigan and also worked in the former president’s administration. He’s “coming here and activating that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lineberger recalled Californians making calls to Michigan voters in 2016 on Trump’s behalf and said the campaign’s decision to go into safe, Democratic turf at this point was “an aggressive, offensive play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also a fountain of campaign cash for both parties, and Trump will be fundraising. Photos with the former president in Coachella were priced at $25,000, which comes with special seating for two. A “VIP Experience” was priced at $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With congressional races in California in play that could determine which party controls the House, the Coachella rally “is a get-out-the-vote type of thing that motivates and energizes Republicans in California, when they are not as close to what is going on in the national campaign,” Republican consultant Tim Rosales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales also said to look for Trump to continue his long-running spat with Democratic Gov. 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