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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Driven in large part by criticism over Newsom’s handling of the pandemic, the recall effort gathered steam over the winter amid surging coronavirus cases and ongoing restrictions. In late April, the campaign officially gathered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870959/newsom-recall-campaign-officially-has-enough-valid-signatures-to-force-election\">enough valid signatures\u003c/a> to force an election later this year, likely in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will mark just the second time in state history that voters will decide if a sitting governor should be booted out of office before a regularly scheduled election. The first recall happened in 2003, when Gov. Gray Davis was replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC poll found that California’s markedly improving coronavirus rates, and increasing number of vaccinations — a dramatic turnaround from earlier this year — are likely working in Newsom’s favor. Overall, 55% of Californians say they approve of his overall performance as governor, while 64% specifically approve of his handling of the pandemic. And a full 75% of Californians think the state is doing an excellent or good job of distributing COVID-19 vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is increasing optimism that the worst is over with the COVID crisis,” Baldassare said, noting that more than 8 in 10 Californians believe the worst of the pandemic is behind them. There are, he added, “increasingly positive ratings of the state’s handling of the vaccine and increasingly positive perceptions about the future of the national economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that rosy outlook, the poll confirmed that distribution of the vaccine remains uneven, with just 56% of Black people and 60% of Latinos saying they had received at least one dose, as compared to 72% of whites and 80% of Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s an area that needs more work in our state, because we’re not seeing the kind of equal distribution that we need to,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of voters surveyed also expressed concern about California’s widening income gap, the poll found, with solid majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independent/no party preference voters saying the divide between rich and poor is growing wider. A larger percentage of Democrats, however, say the state should do more to address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC polled 1,705 California adult residents in English and Spanish by phone between May 9 and May 18. The poll has a margin of error of +/-3.2%.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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They say it will show how committed the Democrat is to meaningful action during his governorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: California is now the first state to declare an end to oil extraction in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we’re announcing that we will phase out all oil extraction — as part of a world-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality — and ban fracking by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1385671067147005953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At issue is whether California should impose a buffer zone between oil drilling sites and homes, schools or hospitals. Despite its reputation as a climate leader, California has no statewide limit, unlike other oil-producing states including Pennsylvania and Colorado. Even Texas bans wells within 467 feet of a property line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California environmentalists want a 2,500-foot space, which would be the largest of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These groups point to studies that show living near active drilling sites can elevate the risk of birth defects, cancer, respiratory problems and other health issues. That’s in addition to loud sounds and foul smells. It’s not clear how far the agency will go and whether any rules would apply to new drilling, existing wells or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1973279\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/03/RS47842_GettyImages-81078516-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]The agency’s direction holds political implications for Newsom as he faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874233/shirley-weber-appointed-by-gov-newsom-now-oversees-his-recall-election\">expected recall election\u003c/a> in the fall. Unions typically friendly with Newsom that represent workers are aligned with the powerful oil industry, which says a statewide rule on so-called setbacks would cost jobs and raise fuel prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Newsom stuck between two important Democratic voting blocs — labor and environmentalists — whose support he needs this year and, if he survives, in his 2022 reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How he moves is going to motivate and encourage voters or discourage them,” said Gladys Limon, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/\">California Environmental Justice Alliance\u003c/a>. “It will set the direction in which communities will move in for the next election.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil in a Blue State\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Newsom’s first year as governor, he changed the name and focus of California’s oil and gas agency. The Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources is now the\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/calgem\"> Geologic Energy Management Division\u003c/a>, or CalGEM, and Newsom made health and safety a part of its mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom specifically told the agency to consider prohibiting oil and gas activities near homes, schools, hospitals and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kevin Slagle, WSPA\"]‘A one-size-fits-all approach like that we think would be bad public policy and almost by definition it doesn’t take into account the science, data and what is really happening on the ground in a particular location.’[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nEighteen months later, regulators are still deliberating, and last year they approved nearly 300 new oil and gas permits within 2,500 feet of homes, schools and health care facilities, according to Earthjustice, an environmental law group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators delayed a planned release of the draft rules in December and now say they’ll come this spring, though no date has been set. Even then, the rules won’t be final, though they will signal the direction Newsom’s administration wants to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil has long posed a political conundrum for ruling Democrats in California, the seventh-largest oil-producing state. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, hailed internationally as a climate champion, faced pushback at home for not taking on the industry more aggressively. In the Legislature, efforts to establish setbacks have repeatedly failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> opposes a statewide mandate, saying such rules should be decided at the local level and based on health and environmental concerns specific to the area. It has an ally in the State Building and Construction Trades Council, a major union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A one-size-fits-all approach like that we think would be bad public policy and almost by definition it doesn’t take into account the science, data and what is really happening on the ground in a particular location,” said Kevin Slagle, WSPA’s vice president of strategic communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the group’s support for a Kern County process that requires every drilling project be evaluated for setback needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For Newsom, A Delicate Balancing act\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\" Ann Alexander, Litigator for the Natural Resources Defense Council\"]‘They can’t wait decades to get the oil wells out of their backyard.’[/pullquote]An estimated 2 million Californians live within 2,500 feet of an active oil well, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.vision-ca.org/\"> Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods\u003c/a>. Most active wells are in Los Angeles and Kern counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t wait decades to get the oil wells out of their backyard,” said Ann Alexander, a senior attorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom doesn’t go far enough, some environmentalists could rethink their political support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this spring, some discussed supporting an alterative recall candidate, said RL Miller, the former head of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus. That was before Newsom announced a 2024 ban on fracking — the process of extracting oil and gas embedded in rock deep underground — and called on state regulators to explore an end to oil production by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller supports Newsom, and many climate groups have endorsed him, if only because they see no viable alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the unions representing workers who rely on jobs related to the oil industry say a mandated buffer zone would risk good-paying jobs and raise the price of fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, a powerful force in Sacramento, represents about 100,000 people with industry-related jobs including laying pipes and electrical and ironwork, said President Robbie Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate-change']WSPA spent more than $1.3 million lobbying at the state Capitol in the first three months of the year. The state Building and Construction Trades Council spent $87,000. Meanwhile, the Natural Resources Defense Council spent $59,000, and the California Environmental Justice Alliance spent $13,500, according to state campaign finance filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building trades union opposes the recall, Hunter said. But that won’t stop his members from pushing Newsom and his administration to see their point of view. He charged environmentalists with holding “extreme opinions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, no prominent Democrats are challenging Newsom, but that could change if he appears more at risk as the election nears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is not directly involved in writing the regulations. The oil regulator is working with 15 public health experts and has taken more than 40,000 comments to inform its decision. 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Scott Walker defeated a recall attempt in the Badger State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican consultant Liz Mair was an adviser to Walker during the 2012 campaign, and recently analyzed Newsom’s prospects of keeping his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that he will survive recall,” Mair \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874587/liz-mair-on-the-newsom-and-walker-recalls-and-why-devin-nunes-is-suing-her\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “I just think that he is going to survive it by a much narrower margin than what he wants and what a lot of people are predicting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LISTEN TO FULL INTERVIEW HERE:\u003cbr>\n\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?p=KQINC9796326111\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fear the Parents\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A key similarity between the two recall campaigns, Mair said, is the groundswell of frustration among parents of school kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In both instances you had this undercurrent of fairly deep parental anger at certain sorts of institutions and organizations impacting state government,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wisconsin, Walker pushed through cuts to bargaining rights and benefits for public workers within weeks of taking office in 2011 as a way to reduce the state’s budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More recall coverage\" tag=\"newsom-recall\"]Democrats and allies in organized labor held massive rallies in response at the state Capitol, and eventually qualified the recall petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of parents who had been forced to take sick leave, unpaid time off, all of these kinds of things, because their teachers basically closed the schools, didn’t teach and went to Madison and went to the Capitol to protest and demonstrate against Scott Walker,” Mair said. “I want to say [that] accounted for like minimum 5% to 10% of Walker’s support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, I suspect you’ve got a similar undercurrent, but I think that’s going to be more pointed at Newsom and not working in his favor,” Mair added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been among the slowest states in the country to fully reopen schools. But polling has been mixed on assigning blame to Newsom: A late-April \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California found that 57% of Californians approve of Newsom’s handling of schools, while a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1m66w3d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies in May found just 31% of voters think the governor is doing a good or excellent job handing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are two factors around schools that could work in Newsom’s favor: his apparent willingness to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873813/newsom-proposes-a-return-to-in-person-learning-beginning-next-school-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buck teachers unions and end most distance learning\u003c/a> options for next year, and the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873677/newsom-unveils-revised-budget-proposal-touting-historic-windfall\">enormous budget surplus\u003c/a>, which will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873432/newsom-proposes-universal-transitional-kindergarten-new-programs-for-low-income-students\">benefit schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breaking the Seal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before 2012, no Wisconsin governor had faced a recall vote. Mair said the Walker campaign benefited from voter hesitance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did actually have people who had not voted for Scott Walker when he was first elected, who then voted in our favor on the recall,” Mair said. “They just felt that it wasn’t right to cut the guy off midterm. That just wasn’t something that was done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, of course, has been through the recall ringer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you’ve had the experience of doing a recall … you can kind of imagine doing it again — whether it’s ziplining [or] skydiving,” Mair said. “I suspect that this sort of mentality and psychology of voters is going to be a little bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Expectations Matter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In all likelihood, Mair said, the Newsom recall could be heading toward a similar conclusion to the 2012 challenge to Walker. Both governors \u003ca href=\"https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2012/01/25/walker-and-obama-have-single-digit-leads-in-marquette-law-school-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entered their recall campaigns\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873005/statewide-poll-finds-good-news-for-newsom-bad-news-for-gop-opponents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">positive approval numbers\u003c/a>, despite facing pitched anger from the opposing political party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if the percentage that Walker won and stayed up by [53%] looks very similar to what Newsom ends up winning and stayed up by,” Mair said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference, argues the veteran GOP consultant, is a matter of expectations. Walker entered the bruising recall fight in a swing state that hadn’t voted for a Republican president in decades, less than two years after he had scraped out a victory to take office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Liz Mair, Republican consultant\"]‘Once you’ve had the experience of doing a recall … you can kind of imagine doing it again — whether it’s ziplining [or] skydiving.’[/pullquote]Newsom cruised into office with 62% of the vote in 2018, in a state where Republicans make up less than a quarter of the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walker’s margin was not huge,” Mair said. “We were perfectly satisfied with it — it was basically what we anticipated the whole way through based on what we were seeing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was success in the expectations game, Mair said, that launched Walker’s star. 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The result was a circus-like field of 135 candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State\"]'We want to make sure people understand the process, understand what is being asked of them. And we want to have a great turnout so that it truly is a mandate from the people one way or the other.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>At the time, the California Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=1849513&doc_no=S117834&request_token=NiIwLSEmTkw7WyBNSCJNVE5IIFA0UDxfIiMuJzlSMCAgCg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected a legal challenge\u003c/a> to Shelley's threshold, finding \"The Secretary of State is the constitutional officer charged with administering California's election laws, and his interpretations of those laws are entitled to substantial judicial deference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Stracener, a senior fellow at \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/california-constitution-center/\">Berkeley Law's California Constitution Center\u003c/a>, said despite the lack of clear statutory guidance on candidate qualifications in a recall election, Weber may face a legal challenge if she sets a higher threshold than existed in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Secretaries of state historically have chosen the safe maximal-democracy approach, making it easy for replacement candidates to qualify,\" said Stracener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Weber sees little flexibility to change the requirements and potentially limit the field of candidates vying to replace Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of a power that would allow me to just change the requirements for running for office,\" she said. \"So will we avoid the 135 [candidates] or whatever it was last time? I would love to say we would and could, but I guess folks are already lining up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber is right about that: The number of people filing papers indicating their intent to run is nearing 60, even with the recall election still months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said she does plan to enforce a new requirement on the gubernatorial hopefuls: that all candidates hoping to appear on the ballot submit five years of tax returns to her office, per a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">law signed by Newsom\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"shirley-weber\" label=\"Related coverage\"]Parts of the law relating to the tax returns of presidential candidates were gutted by the California Supreme Court, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some legal experts have questioned\u003c/a> whether the requirements on gubernatorial candidates apply to a recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to follow the law ... and not just say, well, this is a different kind of election so people can just do anything that they want to do,\" Weber added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an appointee and political ally of Newsom, Weber's actions in the recall will come under scrutiny, particularly by the governor's opponents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We want to make sure people understand the process, understand what is being asked of them,\" said Weber, in an interview. \"And we want to have a great turnout so that it truly is a mandate from the people one way or the other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state's 2003 recall election, 61% of registered voters cast ballots, a level of turnout in line with most gubernatorial elections in the state. And the table is set for high levels of voter participation this time after California voters turned out in historic numbers during the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like last year, California voters will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860552/state-legislature-votes-to-extend-universal-vote-by-mail-through-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">again receive a ballot in the mail\u003c/a> by default for the recall election, a practice that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869522/touting-voter-turnout-vote-by-mail-advocates-seek-permanent-change-to-california-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">driven spikes in turnout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with nearly two decades having passed since the last recall, the challenge for Weber and local election officials will be to convey the \"nuts and bolts\" of the ballot, said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The date of the recall election likely won't be announced by Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis until the fall, leaving Weber just a couple of months to spread the word about voting deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the recall ballot will also look different from a typical gubernatorial election: Voters will first choose whether they support removing Newsom from office. They then must select their preferred candidate to replace the governor should the recall question win support from 50% plus one of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people feel unsure about what their vote even means, that could also potentially deter some people from participating,\" Romero said. \"And for people who aren't as aware of [the election], that tends to, generally speaking, disproportionately impact chronically underrepresented groups,\" like Black and Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes of announcing that the recall campaign had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870959/newsom-recall-campaign-officially-has-enough-valid-signatures-to-force-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collected enough valid signatures to force an election\u003c/a>, Weber's office tweeted a timeline of the recall's path to the ballot, which includes a period for voters to withdraw their signatures from the recall petition and months for state analysts to determine the election's cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THREAD: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrustedInfo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TrustedInfo\u003c/a> on potential gubernatorial \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/recall?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#recall\u003c/a> election - status and next steps from the official election source! [1/8]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>👇👇👇👇👇👇👇\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CA SOS Vote (@CASOSvote) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CASOSvote/status/1386818767099863041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I've discovered that a lot of folks don't understand the process,\" Weber said. \"Even friends and family members have called me and asked, 'Did the governor get recalled? In other words, is it over? What happened? Did we miss something?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the election nears, Weber could play a more active role in shaping the field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Secretary of State can set the qualifications for candidates hoping to get on the replacement ballot, for instance. In 2003, then-Secretary of State Kevin Shelley set the bar low: 65 voter signatures and a $3,500 filing fee. The result was a circus-like field of 135 candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s roaring back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California Roars Back” has become\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/05/14/california-roars-back-governor-newsom-presents-100-billion-california-comeback-plan/\"> the slogan of Newsom’s campaign\u003c/a> to beat the drive to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870959/newsom-recall-campaign-officially-has-enough-valid-signatures-to-force-election\">recall him from office.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By any standard, it’s a remarkable fiscal turnaround in a state that just one year ago was facing a $54 billion deficit, induced by rising expenditures and collapsing revenues due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the respected nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released its budget analysis Monday, stating that the \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> surplus was only $38 billion — half what Newsom cited — it triggered an inevitable social media storm of accusations, mischaracterizations and worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how could there possibly be such a large discrepancy in the size of California’s budget surplus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet she would later delete, Bloomberg reporter Tiffany Stecker on Monday wrote, “@CAgovernor miscalculated the state’s surplus by double — it should be $38B, not $76B.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874129 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Stecker-1-800x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Stecker-1-800x142.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Stecker-1-1020x182.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Stecker-1-160x28.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Stecker-1.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThat set others in the Twitterverse off and running, lobbing accusations that Newsom “lied” — or at least misled — California voters. 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The election was held on Oct. 7, 2003, which, according to an analysis co-written by Stracener, gave potential candidates \u003ca href=\"http://scocablog.com/two-state-officials-will-shape-the-recall-election/\">16 days to qualify\u003c/a> for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stracener said, this time, he thinks the lieutenant governor will try to strike a balance when deciding when the election will be held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not denying ballot access to any serious candidate, but perhaps there could be a consideration for not overwhelming the voters with a number of non-serious vanity candidates as well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who won’t be a candidate — Kounalakis herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike her 2003 counterpart, Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870960/should-a-democrat-run-in-the-newsom-recall-we-asked-cruz-bustamante\">Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante\u003c/a>, Kounalakis said she will not run. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And while she has a 20-day window to set the election, Kounalakis said the exact date shouldn’t affect the process too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell you the truth, it’s hard for me to believe that 20 days, one way or another, really will make much of a difference,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brandon Stracener, a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center, a non-partisan academic research institution \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/california-constitution-center/\">based out of Berkeley Law\u003c/a>, said it actually might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting the election further back in the 20-day window would give candidates more time to file papers needed to qualify for the ballot. That could result in a large number of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s what happened in the 2003 recall when 135 candidates clogged up the ballot. The election was held on Oct. 7, 2003, which, according to an analysis co-written by Stracener, gave potential candidates \u003ca href=\"http://scocablog.com/two-state-officials-will-shape-the-recall-election/\">16 days to qualify\u003c/a> for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stracener said, this time, he thinks the lieutenant governor will try to strike a balance when deciding when the election will be held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not denying ballot access to any serious candidate, but perhaps there could be a consideration for not overwhelming the voters with a number of non-serious vanity candidates as well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who won’t be a candidate — Kounalakis herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike her 2003 counterpart, Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870960/should-a-democrat-run-in-the-newsom-recall-we-asked-cruz-bustamante\">Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante\u003c/a>, Kounalakis said she will not run. Bustamante ran as sort of an insurance policy to prevent Republicans from winning the office if then-Gov. Gray Davis was recalled — which he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger easily beat Bustamante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Bustamante’s critics maintain his entrance in the race may have contributed to Davis’ defeat. Kounalakis said Democrats know better this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our insurance policy is that we all recognize that Gov. Newsom has been doing a very good job during an unprecedentedly difficult time,” she said. “Our insurance policy is let’s vote no on the recall and make sure that Gov. Newsom can continue to do his job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">California Democrats are banding together to fight against the Republican recall. Find out how to join us here: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/RRwU7ZlVrk\">https://t.co/RRwU7ZlVrk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Eleni Kounalakis (@EleniForCA) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EleniForCA/status/1371499298521759747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On social media, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis has expressed her strong support for Gov. Gavin Newsom and has labeled the recall effort as a Republican effort.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it appears Democratic voters feel differently about the issue than party leadership does. A recent UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873005/statewide-poll-finds-good-news-for-newsom-bad-news-for-gop-opponents\">48% of registered Democrats\u003c/a> said they preferred having another Democrat on the ballot in case Newsom is recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, just because Kounalakis doesn’t plan to jump into the race, that doesn’t mean another Democrat won’t decide to, especially if Newsom looks vulnerable.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But many have resisted, and the Republican candidates hoping to unseat Newsom in this year's recall election have paraded the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.returntolearntracker.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">low rates of traditional instruction\u003c/a>. The governor, having granted districts authority for distance learning in last year's state budget, was left at the mercy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863474/local-control-in-reopening-debate-puts-scrutiny-on-elected-school-boards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local reopening deliberations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Newsom said he does not want to repeat the distance learning allowance in the state's next spending plan, and instead wants a return to a default of in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On June 30, midnight, the statute in the state of California will make that crystal clear that that is indeed a requirement,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the governor acknowledged that many parents would not wholeheartedly embrace a return to class for their children, either because of health concerns, or because they have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">come to prefer distance learning. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to assuage concerns by spending $2 billion on improving school building ventilation and coronavirus testing. And he is proposing to reform the state's traditional remote learning option, called independent study, in anticipation of heightened interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We recognize we got a lot more work still to do to deal with anxiety, not just with teachers but with parents, about our ability to safely bring back kids into full-time in-person instruction,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's announcement was celebrated by parent groups who have advocated for a full return to in-person instruction. Those groups have argued that allowing school districts the flexibility to offer distance learning has led to predominately remote or hybrid instruction in districts like Fremont, Oakland and San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with disastrous impacts on learning\u003c/a> and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a done deal and the devil’s in the final details, but this is a good sign,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sf_dtd/status/1393270457646735362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted \u003c/a>Decreasing the Distance, a San Francisco-based group advocating for re-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's proposal would revert the state's school guidelines to their pre-pandemic norm, in which school funding is determined by in-person attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the hybrid instruction in which some teachers or students are not physically in the classroom (sometimes called \"Zoom in a Room\") will not be accepted as in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, school districts will be allowed (but not required) to offer an independent study option for families who want to stick with distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like the governor is pointing toward a fair compromise which should prioritize full-time in-person instruction for all families who want it, while still leaving open existing options for school districts to provide some form of online learning and virtual academies for those families who feel it works better for their situation,\" said Troy Flint, spokesman for the California School Boards Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent study was first authorized in 1976 as an alternative for students with unique circumstances, such as child actors or athletes, who were unable to make it into class every day. It remains a limited program; in 2015, just 2% of students received a majority of their instruction through independent study, according to the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of higher interest in independent study next year, the Newsom administration is proposing more guardrails on the program, requiring districts to provide internet connectivity to students and track their daily interaction with teachers. [aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More Politics Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're talking about a well-developed, comprehensive program that does have direct teacher interaction and is designed from the ground-up to work virtually, not something that is ported over from in-person instruction to deal with this crisis situation,\" Flint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, some districts make a determination on each student's application to participate in independent study. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom spent this week crisscrossing California, detailing how he wants to spend the state’s staggering $75.7 billion surplus, a tour that culminated in Sacramento on Friday, where he announced a record $267.8 billion state spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a briefing that lasted more than two hours, Newsom touted what he described as a \"historic, unprecedented, generational and transformational budget.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'I expect optimism in our future. 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Newsom this week has already announced a bonanza of new spending proposals, including returning $8.1 billion to taxpayers in the form of tax rebates and spending \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-health-coronavirus-pandemic-government-and-politics-5ce86f5447d5cf3505e59fdc22876788\">$12 billion\u003c/a> to tackle the state's homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's kindergarten expansion proposal fulfills a promise that he and Democratic legislative leaders made to foot the bill for universal 4-year-old kindergarten across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's transitional kindergarten program now enrolls \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/california-lags-behind-other-states-in-quality-and-access-to-state-funded-preschool/611306\">just over a third\u003c/a> of the state's 4-year-olds — about 91,000 students. 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A state survey found that 56% of those who retired cited the difficulty of teaching during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s plan would try to address that problem by giving $1.1 billion to certain underserved school districts to hire more staff, his administration said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not require anyone to go to school until age 6. But school districts are required to offer kindergarten programs for students who turn 5 by Sept. 2 of each year and a two-year transitional kindergarten program for students who turn 5 by Dec. 2. Newsom’s plan would eventually make all children who turn 4 by Sept. 1 eligible — but not required — to enroll in the transitional kindergarten program, his administration said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would be rolled out in phases, making more children eligible for kindergarten each year until the plan is fully implemented in the 2024-25 school year. 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