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Once you're ready with a number you can click below to get the correct answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, the total pie includes the recently approved\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/10/03/govs-prop-30-tax-hike-more-for-schools-criminal-justice-or-more-money-misspent/\" target=\"_blank\"> Proposition 30\u003c/a> money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ready?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2012-2013 year, of every state dollar:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>41.4% goes to K-12 education \u003cem>plus another\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>10.3% is for higher education \u003cem>which means\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>51.7% total on education\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Yes that's right: \u003cem>slightly more than 50 percent\u003c/em> of state expenditures go to education in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I had known that education and health and human services were the top two expenditures in state government, but I somehow missed that education took up such a huge percentage of state expenditures. (Health and Human Services gets 29.2 percent of state funding.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Kaplan at the California Budget Project presented the education information at that \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpehn.org/pdfs/CBPPresentationOakland11-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">post-election briefing\u003c/a>. He stressed that lots of other people have no idea either, which made me feel somewhat better. He pointed me to an annual survey from the Public Policy Institute of California. Among other things, the PPIC asks this very question about state spending. Last January, only 16 percent of those surveyed correctly answered \"K-12 public education\" as the largest area of state spending. (Read it \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_112MBS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>, pg. 16.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Ehlers, in the education unit at the Legislative Analyst's Office confirmed that K-12 education gets roughly 41.4 percent of state expenditures. She says these are \"general fund\" monies -- personal income tax, corporate income tax and sales taxes. The state has other sources of money, including bond funds and special funds. But both those types of funds are earmarked for specific purposes. We often think of bond funds for transportation, for example. \"Special\" funds might be something like a fishing license, which then are spent in the Fish & Game Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, schools also get money from property taxes. Those monies are collected locally and mostly dispersed by local governments, so are not included in \"total state expenditures\" which are collected and spent by state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when you add the state, local and even the federal money California gets for schools, the state's per pupil expenditure is \u003ca href=\"http://www.edsource.org/data-ca-per-pupil-exp-compare-states.html\" target=\"_blank\">well below the national average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan says that since Prop. 13 was passed in 1978, the state has provided the largest share of school spending. In pre-Prop. 13 California, \u003cem>local\u003c/em> revenue was the largest share of school spending. \"Schools across the state are dependent on state budgets for the largest portion of their revenue,\" Kaplan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we're all aware, the recession has taken a big toll. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Laird Harrison and Jon Brooks\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78900\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 195px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitolFront.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-78900\" title=\"capitolFront\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitolFront.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitol building\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of all the stuff we've covered here at News Fix these past couple of years, only two stories have really prompted an actual state of incredulity among the people to whom we relate the crux of the matter for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first involved the Berkeley Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/jp/berkeley-police-chief-on-10-officers-searching-for-sons-iphone-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/\">sending 10 officers to search for the Police Chief's stolen iPhone\u003c/a>. The second are the findings from the long \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/calif-lawmakers-altered-their-votes-5000-times-after-bills-passed-or-failed/\">Associated Press report\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Hannah Dreier and Juliet Williams we posted last week. Their investigation discovered that California Assembly members add or even change their votes on legislation \u003cem>after\u003c/em> it's already passed or failed on the floor -- about 5,000 times this session, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who knew?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the AP investigation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The analysis, based on the AP's own tracking of every Assembly vote cast in 2012, revealed a number of patterns, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lawmakers running for a new seat in November were the most likely to switch their votes. Of the top 15 vote changers, 11 are seeking a new office outside of the Assembly. Of the 15 lawmakers who switched votes least often, 11 plan to stay put, although every member of the Assembly must run for their seats again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lawmakers regularly changed their votes on bills dealing with powerful lobbies or hot-button social issues. Among the bills that generated the most action after-the-fact were AB1963, which would have required the state to look into extending the sales tax to services, and AB1166, which would have prevented schools from including students' test scores on their ID cards and was supported by teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>—Republicans, the minority party in both houses of the Legislature, switched their votes at more than twice the rate as Democrats. GOP lawmakers accounted for about 65 percent of the 220 vote switches, although they make up just 35 percent of the Assembly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->As AP reports, it's perfectly legal for lawmakers to avail themselves of this procedure as often as they want, although they can't switch their vote if it would affect whether a bill passes or fails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no way for the general public to gain access to this information without undertaking the kind of investigative work Dreier and Williams did. Dreier told us the entire effort took nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Vote changes are technically public,\" she said. \"They're made either at a computer or spoken aloud on the floor, [and] then they're logged onto a daily file. So to figure out how often your lawmaker is changing, you'd have to go through every daily file for the entire session.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is what the two reporters did, entering each vote change by hand. \"It was incredibly time-consuming,\" she said. \"I think that's probably a big part of why nobody's tried to go through these changes in a comprehensive way before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missed votes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/calif-lawmakers-altered-their-votes-5000-times-after-bills-passed-or-failed/#list\">database released by AP\u003c/a> in conjunction with the story, some Bay Area lawmakers -- Jared Huffman, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/02/bay-area-assemblymembers-tell-us-why-they-change-their-votes-after-a-bill-passes-or-fails/#skinner\">Nancy Skinner\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/02/bay-area-assemblymembers-tell-us-why-they-change-their-votes-after-a-bill-passes-or-fails/#ammiano\">Tom Ammiano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/02/bay-area-assemblymembers-tell-us-why-they-change-their-votes-after-a-bill-passes-or-fails#hayashi\">Mary Hayashi\u003c/a> -- stick out for one reason or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the North Bay's Huffman, now running for a seat in the House of Representatives, \"changed his vote 144 times, more than twice the average rate,\" according to Dreier and Williams. All of Huffman's changes were \"adds,\" meaning he went from officially \"not voting\" to either a \"yes\" or \"no\" -- after the vote was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we asked Assemblymember Huffman, you know… what's up with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman said he feels the AP article conflates \"changes\" with \"adds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a big difference between a vote that is added on late after the roll is closed...because a legislator might be literally coming back from the bathroom or might have been in a meeting off the floor, and a vote that's actually changed after it's cast one way or another,\" he told us. \"In fact, [I had] zero vote changes this year; I almost never change my vote – the only time I've done it has been probably less than five times in six years where a mistake was made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why all the missed votes, creating a need to \"add on\" later?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of them [were] because I was busy doing legislative work, in some cases having multiple hearings going on in different committees while the floor session was pending, and I had to complete my hearings, run down to the floor and add on my votes. There's nothing unusual about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman said holding simultaneous committee meetings and floor votes is a big problem and should be changed. \"Assembly scheduling is a mess,\" he said. \"Often, especially during deadline times, all of [these committee meetings] can be happening concurrent with the floor session. Members are running around in an incredible fire drill and then rushing down to the floor to quickly cast their votes before session is gaveled down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our old pal and colleague John Myers, now the political editor at \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/common/elections/default.aspx\">KXTV News 10 Sacramento\u003c/a> and a longtime reporter assigned to the Legislature, told us he did think there were \"too many bills with too little time for legislators to process them and weigh in,\" and that resulted in clerical or procedural errors that necessitate changed votes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Dreier said scheduling conflicts contribute to the slew of Assembly \"adds\" in general. But she noted that there are lawmakers who manage to \"juggle their responsibilities off the floor with the votes that they have to take as legislators. For example, the Assembly Speaker John Pérez missed only six votes and he arguably has more responsibilities than any other lawmaker in the Assembly. Bill Monning is another example; he chairs the Health committee, which is a very important committee in the Legislature, and he missed only seven votes, then added on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yes to No and No to Yes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Huffman makes a clear distinction between adding on to a vote and actually changing it. He thinks the rule allowing changes should be reconsidered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where I think there begins something we should be concerned about is when this becomes a pattern,\" he said. \"Where votes are withheld or routinely changed. And there are colleagues who do that. There are some political advantages, some people think, to leveraging their vote that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Dreier said there is definitely a political element to some vote-switching. \"It seems like a lot of lawmakers use the process to avoid taking political risks. To avoid voting yes on legislation that fails or voting yes on legislation that doesn’t have true bipartisan support, or to take their votes off of legislation that is controversial and doesn't need their vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked to experts who say that lawmakers use this practice to appease lobbyists who are there looking at the bill, while also pleasing their constituents who will be only looking at the final votes. One professor told me that lawmakers will tell lobbyists that they won't be the deciding vote on a bill. But if a bill passes they will then add their vote on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreier said that while lawmakers would not admit to her that they changed votes for political reasons, some acknowledged they will switch after hearing from constituents. From the original AP report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Beth Gaines (R-Rocklin)...blamed the pervasiveness of mobile technology for her vote switches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now we have cellphones, we're able to communicate with our district and with our staff as the bills are being navigated through,\" she said. \"I can get text messages from my staff saying someone called in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rocklin Republican switched votes nine times last year, usually to reflect a more conservative stance... Sometimes you do flip-flop, but it's because people from your district are calling and saying, 'Wait a minute, that could really hurt my businesses,'\" she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"skinner\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Switching to \"Not Voting\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excluding \"adds,\" East Bay Assemblymember Nancy Skinner switched her votes seven times in the period analyzed by the Associated Press, at the high end of the scale. What's interesting about her changes is that they all went from either a yes or no to \"not voting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Caitlin Esch asked Skinner both why legislators would go on record as \"not voting\" and why they would switch their vote to that final status after initially voting yes or no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has different reasons\" for not voting, she said. \"In a way, I think for some of us, not voting is our ability to say either we don't think this policy was cooked right, either positively or negatively... It's the old 'none of the above.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner noted there is no provision in the Assembly to \"abstain\" on a vote, and \"not voting\" is the equivalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why someone would initially record a yes or no then switch to not voting after the fact, Skinner said it was often a matter of courtesy to bill authors who have the votes necessary to pass a particular piece of legislation that is held up for procedural reasons due to the lack of a quorum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're saying to the author, 'I know there's not enough people on the floor yet, [but] you've showed me you have the commitment to pass, so I'm giving you this courtesy. But I'm going to have the right to take myself off because I don’t think the bill's cooked yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Myers again, this time on the notion of \"courtesy\" as a rationale for legislators shifting votes. Without addressing any particular lawmakers' changes, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Should a lawmaker be able to weigh in on an issue, even if they had a scheduling conflict? Perhaps. Should a lawmaker be able to change their vote if he or she got confused and pushed the wrong button? Perhaps. But the line between courtesy and controversy seems to be getting pushed further and further. There are undoubtedly assemblymembers using courtesy as a way to avoid taking a potentially unpopular stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Vote switching] also not the only questionable use of legislative courtesy practices. There is also the practice of members who vote in place of someone not sitting at his or her desk – officially frowned on, but something that does happen. Or there are assemblymembers who sit at their seats and refuse to vote, in political parlance, ‘taking a walk’ or ‘laying off’ a bill rather than doing what they were sent to Sacramento to do.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"ammiano\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two more from the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Tom Ammiano changed his vote from a yes to a no or vice versa nine times, the fourth highest total in the Assembly in that particular category, according to AP's data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Ammiano did not want to talk to us about the issue; spokesperson Carlos Alcala from his office said \"his vote adds and changes are in line with the norm for the Legislature and there's a variety of legitimate reasons that that happens. His constituents know where he stands and his vote changes are not about trying to [hide] anything.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"hayashi\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAnd Assemblymember Mary Hayashi (D-Hayward), AP noted in its report, \"altered her vote more than any other member of the Assembly. She failed to vote on legislation 291 times and then changed the record afterward to reflect a \"yes\" vote nearly every time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Hayashi's office didn't return our call, but AP talked to her chief consultant, Ross Warren, who would only say, \"She's always recorded a vote. She's never missed a day of work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is this a big deal or not? We'll give the last word to John Myers, who says that what is basically a legislative amenity is no longer really practical in this day and age, when any potential \"gotcha\" is probably going to come to fruition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This is one of those “it’s no big deal until it’s a big deal” practices in the Assembly.... These practices get a lot more scrutiny in this digital era, where everything lawmakers do can be seen or heard pretty instantly. But legislative protocol is still very \"old school,\" and the existence of these practices seem to largely reflect a genteel time that’s long since gone.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government watchdog groups like Common Cause, you won't be surpised to learn, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21855007/groups-seek-reform-legislative-vote-changing\">calling for the practice of vote-changing to be reformed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Laird Harrison and Jon Brooks\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78900\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 195px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitolFront.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-78900\" title=\"capitolFront\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitolFront.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitol building\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of all the stuff we've covered here at News Fix these past couple of years, only two stories have really prompted an actual state of incredulity among the people to whom we relate the crux of the matter for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first involved the Berkeley Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/jp/berkeley-police-chief-on-10-officers-searching-for-sons-iphone-not-some-kind-of-preferential-treatment/\">sending 10 officers to search for the Police Chief's stolen iPhone\u003c/a>. The second are the findings from the long \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/calif-lawmakers-altered-their-votes-5000-times-after-bills-passed-or-failed/\">Associated Press report\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Hannah Dreier and Juliet Williams we posted last week. Their investigation discovered that California Assembly members add or even change their votes on legislation \u003cem>after\u003c/em> it's already passed or failed on the floor -- about 5,000 times this session, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who knew?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the AP investigation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The analysis, based on the AP's own tracking of every Assembly vote cast in 2012, revealed a number of patterns, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lawmakers running for a new seat in November were the most likely to switch their votes. Of the top 15 vote changers, 11 are seeking a new office outside of the Assembly. Of the 15 lawmakers who switched votes least often, 11 plan to stay put, although every member of the Assembly must run for their seats again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lawmakers regularly changed their votes on bills dealing with powerful lobbies or hot-button social issues. Among the bills that generated the most action after-the-fact were AB1963, which would have required the state to look into extending the sales tax to services, and AB1166, which would have prevented schools from including students' test scores on their ID cards and was supported by teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>—Republicans, the minority party in both houses of the Legislature, switched their votes at more than twice the rate as Democrats. GOP lawmakers accounted for about 65 percent of the 220 vote switches, although they make up just 35 percent of the Assembly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->As AP reports, it's perfectly legal for lawmakers to avail themselves of this procedure as often as they want, although they can't switch their vote if it would affect whether a bill passes or fails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no way for the general public to gain access to this information without undertaking the kind of investigative work Dreier and Williams did. Dreier told us the entire effort took nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Vote changes are technically public,\" she said. \"They're made either at a computer or spoken aloud on the floor, [and] then they're logged onto a daily file. So to figure out how often your lawmaker is changing, you'd have to go through every daily file for the entire session.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is what the two reporters did, entering each vote change by hand. \"It was incredibly time-consuming,\" she said. \"I think that's probably a big part of why nobody's tried to go through these changes in a comprehensive way before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missed votes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/calif-lawmakers-altered-their-votes-5000-times-after-bills-passed-or-failed/#list\">database released by AP\u003c/a> in conjunction with the story, some Bay Area lawmakers -- Jared Huffman, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/02/bay-area-assemblymembers-tell-us-why-they-change-their-votes-after-a-bill-passes-or-fails/#skinner\">Nancy Skinner\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/02/bay-area-assemblymembers-tell-us-why-they-change-their-votes-after-a-bill-passes-or-fails/#ammiano\">Tom Ammiano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/02/bay-area-assemblymembers-tell-us-why-they-change-their-votes-after-a-bill-passes-or-fails#hayashi\">Mary Hayashi\u003c/a> -- stick out for one reason or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the North Bay's Huffman, now running for a seat in the House of Representatives, \"changed his vote 144 times, more than twice the average rate,\" according to Dreier and Williams. All of Huffman's changes were \"adds,\" meaning he went from officially \"not voting\" to either a \"yes\" or \"no\" -- after the vote was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we asked Assemblymember Huffman, you know… what's up with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman said he feels the AP article conflates \"changes\" with \"adds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a big difference between a vote that is added on late after the roll is closed...because a legislator might be literally coming back from the bathroom or might have been in a meeting off the floor, and a vote that's actually changed after it's cast one way or another,\" he told us. \"In fact, [I had] zero vote changes this year; I almost never change my vote – the only time I've done it has been probably less than five times in six years where a mistake was made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why all the missed votes, creating a need to \"add on\" later?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of them [were] because I was busy doing legislative work, in some cases having multiple hearings going on in different committees while the floor session was pending, and I had to complete my hearings, run down to the floor and add on my votes. There's nothing unusual about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman said holding simultaneous committee meetings and floor votes is a big problem and should be changed. \"Assembly scheduling is a mess,\" he said. \"Often, especially during deadline times, all of [these committee meetings] can be happening concurrent with the floor session. Members are running around in an incredible fire drill and then rushing down to the floor to quickly cast their votes before session is gaveled down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our old pal and colleague John Myers, now the political editor at \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/common/elections/default.aspx\">KXTV News 10 Sacramento\u003c/a> and a longtime reporter assigned to the Legislature, told us he did think there were \"too many bills with too little time for legislators to process them and weigh in,\" and that resulted in clerical or procedural errors that necessitate changed votes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Dreier said scheduling conflicts contribute to the slew of Assembly \"adds\" in general. But she noted that there are lawmakers who manage to \"juggle their responsibilities off the floor with the votes that they have to take as legislators. For example, the Assembly Speaker John Pérez missed only six votes and he arguably has more responsibilities than any other lawmaker in the Assembly. Bill Monning is another example; he chairs the Health committee, which is a very important committee in the Legislature, and he missed only seven votes, then added on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yes to No and No to Yes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Huffman makes a clear distinction between adding on to a vote and actually changing it. He thinks the rule allowing changes should be reconsidered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where I think there begins something we should be concerned about is when this becomes a pattern,\" he said. \"Where votes are withheld or routinely changed. And there are colleagues who do that. There are some political advantages, some people think, to leveraging their vote that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Dreier said there is definitely a political element to some vote-switching. \"It seems like a lot of lawmakers use the process to avoid taking political risks. To avoid voting yes on legislation that fails or voting yes on legislation that doesn’t have true bipartisan support, or to take their votes off of legislation that is controversial and doesn't need their vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked to experts who say that lawmakers use this practice to appease lobbyists who are there looking at the bill, while also pleasing their constituents who will be only looking at the final votes. One professor told me that lawmakers will tell lobbyists that they won't be the deciding vote on a bill. But if a bill passes they will then add their vote on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreier said that while lawmakers would not admit to her that they changed votes for political reasons, some acknowledged they will switch after hearing from constituents. From the original AP report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Beth Gaines (R-Rocklin)...blamed the pervasiveness of mobile technology for her vote switches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now we have cellphones, we're able to communicate with our district and with our staff as the bills are being navigated through,\" she said. \"I can get text messages from my staff saying someone called in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rocklin Republican switched votes nine times last year, usually to reflect a more conservative stance... Sometimes you do flip-flop, but it's because people from your district are calling and saying, 'Wait a minute, that could really hurt my businesses,'\" she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"skinner\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Switching to \"Not Voting\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excluding \"adds,\" East Bay Assemblymember Nancy Skinner switched her votes seven times in the period analyzed by the Associated Press, at the high end of the scale. What's interesting about her changes is that they all went from either a yes or no to \"not voting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Caitlin Esch asked Skinner both why legislators would go on record as \"not voting\" and why they would switch their vote to that final status after initially voting yes or no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has different reasons\" for not voting, she said. \"In a way, I think for some of us, not voting is our ability to say either we don't think this policy was cooked right, either positively or negatively... It's the old 'none of the above.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner noted there is no provision in the Assembly to \"abstain\" on a vote, and \"not voting\" is the equivalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why someone would initially record a yes or no then switch to not voting after the fact, Skinner said it was often a matter of courtesy to bill authors who have the votes necessary to pass a particular piece of legislation that is held up for procedural reasons due to the lack of a quorum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're saying to the author, 'I know there's not enough people on the floor yet, [but] you've showed me you have the commitment to pass, so I'm giving you this courtesy. But I'm going to have the right to take myself off because I don’t think the bill's cooked yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Myers again, this time on the notion of \"courtesy\" as a rationale for legislators shifting votes. Without addressing any particular lawmakers' changes, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Should a lawmaker be able to weigh in on an issue, even if they had a scheduling conflict? Perhaps. Should a lawmaker be able to change their vote if he or she got confused and pushed the wrong button? Perhaps. But the line between courtesy and controversy seems to be getting pushed further and further. There are undoubtedly assemblymembers using courtesy as a way to avoid taking a potentially unpopular stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Vote switching] also not the only questionable use of legislative courtesy practices. There is also the practice of members who vote in place of someone not sitting at his or her desk – officially frowned on, but something that does happen. Or there are assemblymembers who sit at their seats and refuse to vote, in political parlance, ‘taking a walk’ or ‘laying off’ a bill rather than doing what they were sent to Sacramento to do.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"ammiano\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two more from the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Tom Ammiano changed his vote from a yes to a no or vice versa nine times, the fourth highest total in the Assembly in that particular category, according to AP's data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Ammiano did not want to talk to us about the issue; spokesperson Carlos Alcala from his office said \"his vote adds and changes are in line with the norm for the Legislature and there's a variety of legitimate reasons that that happens. His constituents know where he stands and his vote changes are not about trying to [hide] anything.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"hayashi\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAnd Assemblymember Mary Hayashi (D-Hayward), AP noted in its report, \"altered her vote more than any other member of the Assembly. She failed to vote on legislation 291 times and then changed the record afterward to reflect a \"yes\" vote nearly every time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Hayashi's office didn't return our call, but AP talked to her chief consultant, Ross Warren, who would only say, \"She's always recorded a vote. She's never missed a day of work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is this a big deal or not? We'll give the last word to John Myers, who says that what is basically a legislative amenity is no longer really practical in this day and age, when any potential \"gotcha\" is probably going to come to fruition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This is one of those “it’s no big deal until it’s a big deal” practices in the Assembly.... These practices get a lot more scrutiny in this digital era, where everything lawmakers do can be seen or heard pretty instantly. But legislative protocol is still very \"old school,\" and the existence of these practices seem to largely reflect a genteel time that’s long since gone.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a hard time to find an affordable place in the city. Rents have \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/10/23/109957/san_francisco_rental_market_drives_applicants_to_extremes?category=economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climbed 10 percent\u003c/a>at a time of year when they’re normally going down. Exacerbating the problem, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfredevelopment.org/index.aspx?page=75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost millions of dollars\u003c/a> in low-income housing funding when Gov. Jerry Brown dissolved redevelopment agencies back in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, “affordable housing” is mainly a network of low-cost apartments spread throughout the city that house a variety of residents from the elderly, disabled, veterans, families, formerly homeless to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when there was redevelopment funding, it was still difficult for low-income residents to land an apartment. For instance at Crocker Amazon Seniors \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=e1d59af7daae4cd08611543a75604eaf&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sfgate.com%2frealestate%2frentals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apartments\u003c/a> there were 1,600 applicants for 37 studio and one-bedroom apartments when it opened in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/10/23/san-francisco-propositions-local-races/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition C\u003c/a> on the Nov. 6 ballot are asking voters to earmark funding for affordable housing and down payment assistance. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/\">Mayor Ed Lee’s\u003c/a> proposal would create a Housing Trust Fund which would amount to $1.4 billion over the next 30 years. 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Prior to the Curran House, they lived at a different \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a> (TNDC) building called Franciscan Towers. A fire broke out at the Franciscan Towers last year, displacing all of the residents (more than 100 households). The DeJamcos were entered into a lottery along with the other displaced tenants. They were relocated to the Curran House with the winning ticket #29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The Curran House is an affordable housing development for low-income families. It is a 67-unit complex with 14 studios, 15 one-bedrooms, 14 two-bedrooms and 24 three-bedroom apartments. Residents have access to on-site support services such as after school programs and social workers. It was completed in 2005 and cost $22.6 million to develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79508\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Lorenzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79509\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Gabby-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name\u003c/strong>: Lorenzo Listana (age 52) and Gabbie Listana (age 4)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>: The Curran House, 3-bedroom apartment for four people\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rent\u003c/strong>: $1,222/month\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorenzo Listana and his family have lived in the Tenderloin for the past six years. 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The room includes a kitchenette and a bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Moy came to San Francisco after retiring as a Blackjack dealer in Reno, Nevada. She immigrated to the United States from China in 1947. She has seven children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She volunteers her free time by distributing produce and making coffee for fellow Maria Manor residents. She also acts as a translator for many of her neighbors—approximately 40 percent of the tenants are monolingual Chinese speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maria Manor is a 119-unit complex for extremely low-income and disabled seniors. Renovation of this development was completed in 2003 at the cost of $12.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79511\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Guizhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name\u003c/strong>: Guizhi Shen (age 82)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>: Maria Manor, Studio apartment for one person\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rent\u003c/strong>: $300/month\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guizhi Shen has lived across the hallway from Connie Moy for the past 14 years. Her unit is the mirror-image of her neighbor’s but she has a view of trees rather than buildings. Before coming to San Francisco, Guizhi Shen was an Opera singer in Shenghui, China. She is actively involved with a social club for Maria Manor residents from Shenghui.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79512\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/ralph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name\u003c/strong>: Ralph Reyes (age 64)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>: Bishop Swing Community House, Studio apartment for one person\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rent\u003c/strong>: $380/month\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ralph Reyes has lived at the Bishop Swing Community House for the past year. Before renting his 349 square-foot unit, he lived with his grandmother for six years. After she passed away, he spent the next 18 months staying at two to three different shelters. Reyes served as a cook in the Army during the Korean War. His income comes from his pension, disability and unemployment benefits. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a closely contested state Senate campaign, Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani has been urging voters to judge her on her legislative achievements, saying on her website that she is \"proud to have a record of standing up for the people of my district.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78900\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 195px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitolFront.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitolFront.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"capitolFront\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78900\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitol building\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters who try to examine the record of the Central Valley Democrat may come away with the wrong impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They would not be able to tell that Galgiani remained silent during 136 votes, adding her vote to those pieces of legislation only after the bills had already passed or failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/calif-lawmakers-altered-their-votes-5000-times-after-bills-passed-or-failed/#list\">\u003cstrong>List of vote-switches by assemblymember\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nor would they see that she voted against a welfare to work bill supported by her party and voted for the establishment of a new school efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction fund. The reason: She changed her votes after the fact on both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her opponent in the 5th Senate District race, Republican Assemblyman Bill Berryhill, also did it, although less frequently. He added his vote to legislation that had already passed or failed 47 times this year and changed his vote twice. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I try not to make it a practice,\" he said. \"I don't think you want to play too many games up there. You should pretty much be making decisions before you get to the floor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galgiani's legislative office referred inquiries on the subject to her campaign manager, Tom Lawson, who declined a request for comment from The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those votes are among the 5,000 vote changes or additions made during this year's legislative session by lawmakers in the state Assembly, according to an analysis by the AP. Critics say the practice allows lawmakers to mislead their constituents by changing the official record of how they acted on specific pieces of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis, based on the AP's own tracking of every Assembly vote cast in 2012, revealed a number of patterns, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lawmakers running for a new seat in November were the most likely to switch their votes. Of the top 15 vote changers, 11 are seeking a new office outside of the Assembly. Of the 15 lawmakers who switched votes least often, 11 plan to stay put, although every member of the Assembly must run for their seats again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lawmakers regularly changed their votes on bills dealing with powerful lobbies or hot-button social issues. Among the bills that generated the most action after-the-fact were AB1963, which would have required the state to look into extending the sales tax to services, and AB1166, which would have prevented schools from including students' test scores on their ID cards and was supported by teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Republicans, the minority party in both houses of the Legislature, switched their votes at more than twice the rate as Democrats. GOP lawmakers accounted for about 65 percent of the 220 vote switches, although they make up just 35 percent of the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All lawmakers in California's 80-member Assembly are allowed to change or add votes after the fate of a bill has been decided an unlimited number of times, as long as it does not change the outcome of whether a bill passes or fails. 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