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"content": "\u003cp>Alongside the beachgoers denied, the indignant gun shop owners and the house-bound pastors, Gov. Gavin Newsom now has yet another ticked-off challenger to face in court: an extremely disappointed bride-to-be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest filing to challenge the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Monica Six, an Orange County resident, is suing California’s Democratic governor for civil rights violations after his executive order “caused her significant financial hardship as well as ruined her idyllic wedding plans to get married in a special anniversary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In suing the state, Six is in crowded company. The state of California, and Newsom in particular, are facing down more than a dozen lawsuits over their response to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ca href=\"#tracker\">Find details on all of them in the tracker below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courtroom backlash is no surprise. The restrictions that the governor’s March 19 stay-at-home order have imposed on California civic and economic life are without precedent in state history. Many public health experts, both inside and outside the administration, say such drastic measures are necessary to tamp down the coronavirus pandemic and keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drastic measures they are. Beyond canceled weddings, it has spelled financial calamity for households, business owners, nonprofits and city governments across the state. They have also tested the limits of executive power and the negotiability of many constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the lawsuits against Newsom challenge the broad restrictions imposed by the shelter-in-place orders. Others contest the governor’s offer of state assistance to undocumented immigrants, his targeted closure of beaches in Orange County, the refusal to list gun shops as essential services and the arrest of two protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the state is taking flak from an array of aggrieved Californians — gondoliers, conservative politicians and a Butte County musician reduced to playing his saxophone over Zoom are among the plaintiffs — there is a common denominator for most of these lawsuits: Her name is Harmeet Dhillon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than a dozen shutdown lawsuits against Newsom thus far, the San Francisco attorney and Republican Party bigwig is representing plaintiffs in nine of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, Dhillon said, “went from ‘let’s flatten the curve for two weeks’ to ‘let’s put everyone under house arrest until we find a cure.’ ” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,500 Californians have died of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Dhillon said she does not make light of that tragedy, but does not believe it justifies shuttering society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not shut down our highways because people die in car accidents,” she said. “We do not ban commerce because people die of lung disease after buying cigarettes. There’s a whole range of health issues that we manage with an acceptable level of risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11817690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Damore, a former Google employee who wrote a controversial diversity memo, appears alongside attorney Harmeet Dhillon during a press conference on Jan. 8, 2018, in San Francisco, announcing a lawsuit against his former employer. \u003ccite>(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public health experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/this-coronavirus-is-unlike-anything-in-our-lifetime-and-we-have-to-stop-comparing-it-to-the-flu\">argue\u003c/a> that because the coronavirus is so contagious, unlike car accidents and lung cancer, “managing” the risk of an overwhelmed medical system requires tighter restrictions on social control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study published with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w26992?utm_campaign=Economic%20Studies&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87636981&utm_source=hs_email\">National Bureau of Economic Research\u003c/a> estimated that the state’s shelter-in-place order resulted in 1,661 fewer deaths, which, the authors reasoned, works out to “about 400 job losses per life saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon has long played the role of counter-puncher to the progressive ambitions of state Democrats, who now hold every state constitutional office and a big supermajority in the Legislature. When lawmakers passed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/11/california-trump-tax-return-law-struck-down/\">a bill requiring President Trump\u003c/a> to publish his taxes in order to appear on the ballot, it was Dhillon, the Republican Party’s national committeewoman from California, who filed suit on behalf of the California GOP. Last year, she \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/10/california-trump-taxes-illegal-votes-fraud-tax-return-conservatives-lawsuit/\">sued Secretary of State Alex Padilla\u003c/a> for, she argued, failing to do enough to exclude non-citizens from county voter rolls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Dhillon has cobbled together a small phalanx of California Republicans to help her wage war against the liberal powers that be. Mark Meuser, who ran for secretary of state in 2018 on an anti-voter-fraud plank, is on her team. In a handful of the pandemic-era cases she’s joined by Bill Essayli — a young former prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/2018/05/im-not-running-for-president-how-the-california-republican-party-tries-to-put-on-a-new-face-in-the-era-of-trump/\">who unsuccessfully ran for Assembly\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when she isn’t suing the state, Dhillon’s name has a way of popping up whenever a new culture war flashpoint breaks out in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall when software engineer James Damore sued Google after being fired for \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf\">circulating a memo\u003c/a> asserting that the underrepresentation of women in tech had a biological basis? Or the student groups who took \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/24/lawsuit-filed-against-uc-berkeley-for-canceling-ann-coulter-speech/\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> to court for canceling a planned talk by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter, citing security concerns? Or the Trump supporters in San Jose who got roughed up by counter protesters and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Trump-fans-assaulted-outside-San-Jose-rally-sue-8378730.php\">sued the police\u003c/a>? Or the Orange County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/11/abortion-law-california-settlement-nifla-becerra-daleiden-sekulow/\">anti-abortion activist\u003c/a> who sued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DaleidenCMPvGinde.pdf\">former Planned Parenthood doctor\u003c/a> for badmouthing him during a TEDx talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon is the plaintiffs’ lawyer in each of these cases. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon is in fact a regular on the conservative media circuit. She’s a contributor to Fox News and a frequent guest on that network’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and the “Ingraham Angle,” whose host, Laura Ingraham, Dhillon has cited as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/19/problematic-women-ladies-know-your-first-amendment-rights/\">long-time mentor\u003c/a>.” At the Conservative Political Action Conference last year, Dhillon earned what might be the most coveted of all endorsements on the American right: “She’s a great lawyer,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4783817/user-clip-donald-trump-hayden-williams-cpac-speech&fbclid=IwAR3JAUiQUeswjWY2e9tuV8-ruobH2fb6lz4BbBoqz274XayhQAwVgaelkzc\">President Trump said to Hayden Williams\u003c/a>, a conservative activist who was physically assaulted on UC Berkeley’s campus. “Sue the college, the university, and maybe sue the state.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t. “Not yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in India, Dhillon grew up in North Carolina before going to Dartmouth College where, like many members of the American right’s intelligentsia, she edited the Dartmouth Review. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going to the University of Virginia law school and working at various firms in New York and London, she opened her own office in San Francisco in 2006. Though her views have skewed right all her life, with a practice in the Bay Area, she has not always seamlessly fit in with the rest of her party. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the one, there’s the fact that she is a Sikh woman of color in a party dominated by white men. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the height of the War on Terror, she sat on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Northern California chapter, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/S-F-GOP-leader-slammed-by-Republicans-4254447.php\">chagrin of some GOP stalwarts\u003c/a>. When she ran for state Senate in San Francisco in 2012, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Republicans-seek-inroads-in-liberal-San-Francisco-3416932.php\">made an effort\u003c/a> to steer clear of incendiary social issues like abortion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t hear much aversion to controversy from her these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, more shutdown lawsuits against Newsom may soon be on the way. Dhillon said her office has been inundated with requests from potential clients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some quality control. We don’t just crank these out like sausages, even if it seems that way.” she said. “People are getting fed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Harmeet Dhillon, lawyer\"]‘We have some quality control. We don’t just crank these out like sausages, even if it seems that way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the cases brought by Dhillon are paid for by a nonprofit she founded, the Center for American Liberty. Dhillon said her law office is one of many hired by the center and that her office in turn works with other clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the center, which pays for her office’s legal services, comes from individual donors whose contributions to the nonprofit are tax exempt. Dhillon said that she is probably the top donor and that “more than 50 percent” of the center’s money comes from her seed funding and three other major donors, whom she would not name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filings with the IRS show that the center, under its prior name Publius Lex, received less than $50,000 in contributions in 2018 and was therefore not required to itemize its contributors. 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As both the state and counties begin to relax their various shelter-in-place orders, the complaints may be irrelevant before they reach a judicial conclusion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none have had much luck so far. Of those that have requested the court to freeze the state orders while the case plays itself out, none have been granted and — so far — four have been explicitly denied. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t surprising, said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School\"]‘Simply put, these lawsuits are very likely to lose, as most of these challenges around the country have failed’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, these lawsuits are very likely to lose, as most of these challenges around the country have failed,” he said in an email. “The government has broad powers to take emergency actions to stop the spread of communicable diseases. This includes the power to order quarantine or shelter in place, to order closure of businesses, and to limit assemblies, including for religious purposes. So long as the government’s action is reasonably related to stopping the spread of COVID-19, the government is likely to prevail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said she is playing the long game. A few state judges have slapped down her petitions to put the statewide order on hold — she said their rationales were “fairly lacking in analysis.” But where she loses, she may appeal to a higher court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she looks to court rulings in \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5823881/kansas-religious-gathering-people-limits/\">Kansas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-stay-at-home-order-pritzker-extension-judge-blocks/\">Illinois\u003c/a>, where judges have pushed back against public health decrees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I hope to find a judge in California who has a similarly broad view of the Constitution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tracker\">\u003c/a>This lawsuit tracker is reported by Ben Christopher and created by web developer John Osborn D’Agostino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://calmatters-covid-19-lawsuit-tracker.netlify.app/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11775375/trump-notches-win-in-bid-to-block-california-tax-return-law-for-presidential-candidates\"> also sued the state over the recent law\u003c/a> requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns in order to appear on the California primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla rejected the suit as a partisan attempt to suppress voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that under California's so-called\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/california-motor-voter/\"> Motor Voter law\u003c/a> — which automatically registers Californians applying for a driver's license or identification card at the DMV — people are being placed on the voter rolls without the secretary of state verifying that they are citizens. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump rarely passes up the chance to throw a sharp elbow at left-leaning California, but he showed Tuesday he’s more than happy to cash in here with a two-day fundraising blitz expected to scoop up $15 million from wealthy Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not been a president in living history that is as unpopular in the state of California as Trump,” said Mike Madrid, a GOP political consultant who is an outspoken Trump critic. “But our money spends the same as everyone else’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With protesters not far away, Trump kicked off his moneymaking with a $3 million Bay Area luncheon in Portola Valley, a wealthy community in San Mateo County, followed by a $5 million Beverly Hills dinner tonight at the home of real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer. He’s expected to bring in an additional $7 million on Wednesday with a breakfast in Los Angeles and luncheon in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Chris West, a Trump Protester\"]‘The message is that Trump is not welcome in California. We consider him a big overgrown baby.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 100 protesters turned out along the motorcade route, about a mile from Trump’s luncheon site, where they stood beneath a giant inflated Baby Trump and Trump Chicken balloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message is that Trump is not welcome in California. We consider him a big overgrown baby,” said Chris West, a member of the Backbone Campaign, a group of progressive artist activists from Washington State, that is following Trump with their balloons. “He’s dangerous though. I mean, he’s the most powerful person in the world with a five-year-old mentality. 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But demographic changes and an influx of new residents have helped drastically rework the political contours of the country’s most populated state, with the former GOP stronghold of Orange County now home to more registered Democrats than Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Republicans, who have been resigned to political irrelevance at the state level, a donation to Trump can amount to its own form of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By showing up to a fundraiser deep in the belly of the beast, one is saying: ‘I don’t care what the liberal politicians are saying and I want to show my support for him publicly,'” said California’s Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon, an ardent Trump supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “I sold $100,000 worth of [tickets], and I could have sold another $100,000 more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has long been a key fundraising hotbed for politicians of both parties, which have relied on the entertainment industry and wealthy industry heads to finance their political ambitions. 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"content": "\u003cp>With the June primary approaching, there is a fight underway for the identity of the California Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need bold ideas,” President Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, told cheering GOP activists at the state party convention last fall. “Ideas like Donald Trump ran on, like build the wall, right? Protect our southern border. Reduce legal immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, and 25 miles north, Republican Assemblyman Chad Mayes led a smaller gathering to offer an opposite message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us to be able to grow and expand, we have to move beyond this nationalist model,” said Mayes, elected in 2014 to represent parts of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. “We’ve got to start having conversations with folks of all different colors, creeds, sexual orientation. We have to go to folks who we don’t traditionally go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bannon gave the convention’s keynote address in a plush hotel ballroom room in Anaheim. Mayes organized his event at a youth center in Boyle Heights, a low-income, largely Latino neighborhood just east of downtown Los Angeles. About 200 people sat on folding chairs laid out across the center’s basketball court, their backs to the tattered ropes of a boxing ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contrasting scenes featured contrasting solutions to the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind Bannon, the convention’s backdrop read, “Electing Republicans in a Blue State” — a testament to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653105/how-the-home-of-reagan-turned-into-the-trump-resistance\">how much ground the GOP has lost\u003c/a> to Democrats in California over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state party officials and activists have aligned themselves with President Trump’s brand of conservatism to tap the enthusiasm of their base, Mayes wants to broaden the party’s appeal leftward, by taking stances that run counter to Trump’s and Bannon’s. Advocates for the two approaches are at odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Bannon speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim on Oct. 20, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-960x653.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-520x354.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Bannon speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim on Oct. 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Some Want to Change the Tune\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We are here because the soul of our great Republican Party that inspired each and every single one of us is worth fighting for,” said former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the keynote speaker in east L.A. at the first meeting of New Way California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Republican elected to California’s top office has long called for the party to moderate its tone and reach out to the state’s diverse pool of voters, who have increasingly turned away from the GOP over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today we are the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, but before the last bit of the ship submerged,” Schwarzenegger said, drawing chuckles. “But unlike the Titanic, we might be able to save Leonardo DiCaprio before he goes under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have not won a statewide election since 2010 and their share of registered voters has fallen to about 25 percent. Only 16 percent of Latinos, the state’s largest racial or ethnic demographic, are registered Republicans, according to a 2017 study by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653105/how-the-home-of-reagan-turned-into-the-trump-resistance\">How the Home of Reagan Turned Into the Trump Resistance\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653105/how-the-home-of-reagan-turned-into-the-trump-resistance\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/JerryBrownRonaldReagan-1180x934.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayes says appealing to those groups requires finding compromises with Democrats — rather than operating as an opposition party — and moving away from divisive social debates over illegal immigration, affirmative action and same-sex marriage, which have coincided with an erosion in support from Latino, Asian and LGBT voters over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried for so long the yelling and screaming and telling people that don’t agree with us 100 percent of the time that they’re taking this country down the road to hell,” Mayes said. “And it seemed as Republicans were doing that, that our numbers were getting worse and worse and worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he wants to focus on poverty and the state’s record income inequality, making the case that taxes and regulations are to blame for California’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pitch found traction with Ruben Guerra, CEO of the Latin Business Association in Los Angeles and a Democrat who voted for Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these regulations and some of these laws, even I say c’mon guys, really? Wake up,” Guerra said. “I’ve been a Democrat all my life, but now I’m not loyal to that anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democratic and Republican party officials downplay the ability of New Way to catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is kind of ridiculous,” said Eric Bauman, the chairman of the California Democratic Party. “Do I think it’s the right way to go if I was the chair of the Republican Party? Sure. But the people who are the activists in the Republican Party and the people who are the elected officials in the Republican Party, this is not where they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ideologies Collide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayes and his party have already clashed heads over their competing approaches and platforms. Last year, when Mayes was the leader of Republicans in the state Assembly, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11613044/gop-leader-facing-a-coup-for-supporting-climate-change-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck a deal with Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>. He and six other Assembly members provided key votes to pass an extension of the climate change program, cap and trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayes describes it as a practical vote, which gave Republicans leverage to negotiate other tax cuts and credits in the deal and allows businesses, manufacturers and oil companies to cut emissions in their preferred manner. Those industries all supported the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think the tone of all of our legislators is... frankly too tame. I would make their tone more strident ... on what the Democrats are doing to destroy the state.'\u003ccite>Harmeet Dhillon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He joined Brown for a celebratory press conference after the vote. That infuriated party activists, who argue the vote raised costs on consumers, especially fuel prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the coup de grâce for Chad’s standing in the party was the open embrace of the governor at the press conference,” says Harmeet Dhillon, the Republican National Committeewoman from California. “And I think that really caused the rift in the party. He didn’t see it. He thought it was his own party to do with it what he wanted, even though his view was a minority view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon led the successful effort to oust Mayes as Assembly Republican leader — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11614857/ousted-leaders-advice-to-fellow-republicans-stop-repelling-californians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he stepped down\u003c/a> a month after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This election, Mayes faces two Republican primary challengers from his right, both challenging him due to the cap-and-trade vote. A local activist group, the Redlands Tea Party Patriots, has endorsed one of them, Andrew Kotyuk, a San Jacinto councilman, while urging the other, retired Palm Springs police chief Gary Jeandron, to drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local Republican Party committees in his district and the state party also voted for Mayes’ resignation as party leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Harmeet Dhillon, trial lawyer and member of the Republican National Committee. Rather than compromise with Democrats, she says GOP state lawmakers should heighten their opposition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-1200x806.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-960x645.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HarmeetDhillon-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harmeet Dhillon, trial lawyer and member of the Republican National Committee. Rather than compromise with Democrats, she says GOP state lawmakers should heighten their opposition. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Dhillon describes the New Way group as “Democrats-lite,” who are diverging from the values of the party. “We have to hold onto the seats that we have, but with a certain branding,” Dhillon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than compromise with Democrats, she says state lawmakers should heighten their opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the tone of all of our legislators in Sacramento is very measured and frankly too tame,” Dhillon said. “I would make their tone more strident, if anything, on what the Democrats are doing to destroy the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>GOP Seats Up for Grabs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The old and New Way approaches will face off in the June primary elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are targeting long-held Republican congressional seats in Orange County and northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One race, in particular, will be demonstrative. Longtime Republican congressman Darrell Issa, who funded the recall that led to Schwarzenegger’s election as governor and hounded President Obama as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, faces poor polling numbers and is retiring from a seat that was once solidly the GOP’s. The race to replace him includes several well-funded Democrats, including environmental attorney Mike Levin, former nonprofit CEO Sara Jacobs and retired Marine colonel Doug Applegate, who lost to Issa in the last general election by a mere 1,600 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Republican side, Board of Equalization member Diane Harkey has endorsements from the area’s prominent conservatives, including Issa and the county Republican parties, while San Diego County Board of Supervisors chairwoman Kristin Gaspar is another prominent conservative Republican who entered the race late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Straddling the middle is Republican Assemblyman Rocky Chavez, one of New Way’s founding members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be an early test of which kind of Republican remains viable with California voters, if any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contrasting scenes featured contrasting solutions to the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind Bannon, the convention’s backdrop read, “Electing Republicans in a Blue State” — a testament to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653105/how-the-home-of-reagan-turned-into-the-trump-resistance\">how much ground the GOP has lost\u003c/a> to Democrats in California over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state party officials and activists have aligned themselves with President Trump’s brand of conservatism to tap the enthusiasm of their base, Mayes wants to broaden the party’s appeal leftward, by taking stances that run counter to Trump’s and Bannon’s. Advocates for the two approaches are at odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Bannon speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim on Oct. 20, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-960x653.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP-520x354.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/BannonAtGOP.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Bannon speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim on Oct. 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Some Want to Change the Tune\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We are here because the soul of our great Republican Party that inspired each and every single one of us is worth fighting for,” said former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the keynote speaker in east L.A. at the first meeting of New Way California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Republican elected to California’s top office has long called for the party to moderate its tone and reach out to the state’s diverse pool of voters, who have increasingly turned away from the GOP over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today we are the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, but before the last bit of the ship submerged,” Schwarzenegger said, drawing chuckles. “But unlike the Titanic, we might be able to save Leonardo DiCaprio before he goes under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have not won a statewide election since 2010 and their share of registered voters has fallen to about 25 percent. Only 16 percent of Latinos, the state’s largest racial or ethnic demographic, are registered Republicans, according to a 2017 study by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653105/how-the-home-of-reagan-turned-into-the-trump-resistance\">How the Home of Reagan Turned Into the Trump Resistance\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653105/how-the-home-of-reagan-turned-into-the-trump-resistance\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/JerryBrownRonaldReagan-1180x934.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayes says appealing to those groups requires finding compromises with Democrats — rather than operating as an opposition party — and moving away from divisive social debates over illegal immigration, affirmative action and same-sex marriage, which have coincided with an erosion in support from Latino, Asian and LGBT voters over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried for so long the yelling and screaming and telling people that don’t agree with us 100 percent of the time that they’re taking this country down the road to hell,” Mayes said. “And it seemed as Republicans were doing that, that our numbers were getting worse and worse and worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he wants to focus on poverty and the state’s record income inequality, making the case that taxes and regulations are to blame for California’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pitch found traction with Ruben Guerra, CEO of the Latin Business Association in Los Angeles and a Democrat who voted for Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these regulations and some of these laws, even I say c’mon guys, really? Wake up,” Guerra said. “I’ve been a Democrat all my life, but now I’m not loyal to that anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democratic and Republican party officials downplay the ability of New Way to catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is kind of ridiculous,” said Eric Bauman, the chairman of the California Democratic Party. “Do I think it’s the right way to go if I was the chair of the Republican Party? Sure. But the people who are the activists in the Republican Party and the people who are the elected officials in the Republican Party, this is not where they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ideologies Collide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayes and his party have already clashed heads over their competing approaches and platforms. Last year, when Mayes was the leader of Republicans in the state Assembly, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11613044/gop-leader-facing-a-coup-for-supporting-climate-change-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck a deal with Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>. He and six other Assembly members provided key votes to pass an extension of the climate change program, cap and trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayes describes it as a practical vote, which gave Republicans leverage to negotiate other tax cuts and credits in the deal and allows businesses, manufacturers and oil companies to cut emissions in their preferred manner. Those industries all supported the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think the tone of all of our legislators is... frankly too tame. I would make their tone more strident ... on what the Democrats are doing to destroy the state.'\u003ccite>Harmeet Dhillon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He joined Brown for a celebratory press conference after the vote. That infuriated party activists, who argue the vote raised costs on consumers, especially fuel prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the coup de grâce for Chad’s standing in the party was the open embrace of the governor at the press conference,” says Harmeet Dhillon, the Republican National Committeewoman from California. “And I think that really caused the rift in the party. He didn’t see it. He thought it was his own party to do with it what he wanted, even though his view was a minority view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon led the successful effort to oust Mayes as Assembly Republican leader — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11614857/ousted-leaders-advice-to-fellow-republicans-stop-repelling-californians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he stepped down\u003c/a> a month after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This election, Mayes faces two Republican primary challengers from his right, both challenging him due to the cap-and-trade vote. 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