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She’s done amazing things running her organization inside of City Hall, and she’s a friend, and that’s it,” Farrell said after the event. When pressed to answer directly whether either of the Chengs coordinated with his campaign, he said “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> The forum gave San Franciscans their first public glimpse into the policies and character of the top contenders in the mayor’s race: Lurie, Farrell, Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Ahsha Safai and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong interviewed each candidate for 30 minutes in front of roughly 200 attendees, with no debate between candidates. The forum was announced after San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986393/first-sf-mayoral-debate-continues-to-crumble-as-third-candidate-may-drop-out\">first planned mayoral debate began to crumble\u003c/a> last week over the alleged ties between Farrell’s campaign and political advocacy organizations. That debate would have been hosted by TogetherSF Action until Breed and Peskin questioned its independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a novel election, as incumbent mayors are not usually challenged. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mayor-london-breed-election-18678601.php\">poll conducted for the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in February showed that 71% of San Franciscans did not approve of Breed’s job performance as mayor, a result mirrored in multiple polls, revealing Breed to be vulnerable to challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-mayors-race\"]\u003cstrong>Why it matters:\u003c/strong> Lurie’s opponents have publicly mocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/billionaire-mom-gives-1m-to-son-s-sf-mayoral-race-18638051.php\">a billboard funded by his mother, Mimi Haas\u003c/a>, touting her $1 million donation to a group supporting her son’s candidacy. The candidates have all taken turns alleging Lurie is unequipped to be mayor because he’s never held public office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s messaging during the forum previewed what he may say on the campaign trail to rebut those claims. Jim Ross, a political consultant who ran Gov. Gavin Newsom’s successful 2003 campaign for mayor, said every campaign has a question to answer, almost like a central thesis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s obvious question he has to answer is basically, ‘Is being rich enough of a qualification to be mayor?’” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Farrell, ethics laws bar certain types of cooperation between such groups. That firewall forms the backbone of campaign finance law that allows independent political groups to fundraise in any amount to support multiple candidates, as opposed to candidate-controlled campaigns, which can only accept a maximum donation of $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross said TogetherSF mishandled its bad press, saying that a statement backing Farrell might have eased off some of the scrutiny the group has come under.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because they kind of are trying to seem neutral or hide it and come off as independent, it’s making it a story,” Ross said. “It’s not the scandal, it’s the cover-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other candidates in the hot seat:\u003c/strong> Lurie and Farrell weren’t the only ones questioned on controversial topics by Kwong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong told Breed that progressive Democrats bristle at her support for police and her relatively silent treatment around the need for police reform after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer. Breed disagreed with Kwong’s characterization but ultimately doubled down on supporting police and public safety. Audience members shouted slogans against the police department during the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are hollering ‘defund the police,’” Breed said, “but let something happen to you, and you’re calling 911 and wondering why the police didn’t get there. I get that people have issues and concerns, and they’re not perfect, but I’ve worked really hard to build those bridges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said Peskin’s critics have characterized him as a NIMBY and dislike that he blocks housing in his home neighborhood, North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can grow San Francisco without destroying our neighborhoods,” Peskin said, who cited his work to build 10,000 housing units in the Mission, South of Market and Central Waterfront \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979849/peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing\">as part of the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan\u003c/a>, among other efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safai was challenged on his progressive bonafides. 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"content": "\u003cp>Daniel Lurie could become the third candidate to pull out of San Francisco’s first mayoral debate, saying the event’s planning has become increasingly disorganized as the group hosting it comes under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The May 20 debate was organized by political advocacy group TogetherSF Action, which faces questions over its ties to former mayor and Supervisor Mark Farrell, another candidate in November’s mayoral election. Mayor London Breed originally agreed to participate \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/mayor-breed-withdraws-from-togethersf-debate-citing-chaos-farrell-ties/\">but changed her mind on Tuesday\u003c/a>. 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However, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/mark-farrell-consultant-texts-that-togethersf-head-is-guiding-the-ship/\">reporting from Mission Local\u003c/a> last week revealed text messages from a political consultant for Farrell to an unknown second party, in which the consultant said that TogetherSF Action CEO Kanishka Cheng is “guiding the ship” for Farrell’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng did not return requests for comment by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986162,forum_2010101905375,news_11974740\"]Both Breed and Peskin shared concerns with KQED that Cheng would skew the debate to favor Farrell, whom she previously worked for as a legislative aide. Both Breed’s and Peskin’s campaigns said TogetherSF promised them only 20 tickets in a venue that seats 1,000, raising red flags over who would fill those other seats and whether they would be Farrell supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the collusion between the Farrell campaign and TogetherSF’s leadership gave the impression that Mark Farrell would clearly benefit much more from participating in this debate than all the other candidates on the stage,” said Joe Arellano, Breed’s campaign spokesperson. “Our campaign was not confident that TogetherSF’s leader, an individual recently mentioned as ‘guiding the ship’ for the Farrell campaign, could be trusted to organize a fair and balanced debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Stearns, a campaign consultant working on Peskin’s campaign, said TogetherSF staffers helped organize a small protest outside Peskin’s kickoff speech in Portsmouth Square last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TogetherSF is a partisan organization masquerading as nonpartisan,” Stearns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blistering critique from two mayoral campaigns of San Francisco’s topmost officials is a reputational hit to TogetherSF, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/togethersf-donors-want-to-empower-mayor-cut-commissions/article_5a108516-eb00-11ee-b303-4b939252db35.html\">a growing power player in city politics\u003c/a>. 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Despite the logistical and financial support from the program during her six months of operating as a pop-up, when it was time to negotiate her own lease, she found herself on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google was my best friend,” Flatley said. “I had to be the one working on talking to them, learning about how to read contracts, learning about how to negotiate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacant to Vibrant is a partnership between the mayor’s office, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and SF New Deal — a nonprofit that began during the early days of the pandemic as an effort to help keep local restaurants afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo has also pitched into the program’s budget and on Thursday committed an additional $1 million to support vendors who want to become permanent after the pop-up period ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nafy Flatley, owner of the Senegalese food pop-up Teranga, who was part of the first Vacant to Vibrant cohort, the incoming assistance will be much appreciated. Despite the logistical and financial support from the program during her six months of operating as a pop-up, when it was time to negotiate her own lease, she found herself on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google was my best friend,” Flatley said. “I had to be the one working on talking to them, learning about how to read contracts, learning about how to negotiate. I really became an expert in contracts and an expert in reading this fine print.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/IMG_6279_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nafy Flatley at the press event for Vacant to Vibrant on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Her Senegalese restaurant Teranga went from pop-up to permanent. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The space Flatley moved to at 4 Embarcadero Center is smaller than the one she was in as a pop-up, and she said she’ll have to downsize her staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the upcoming cohort, SF New Deal plans to offer more support to businesses that want to become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Previously, we weren’t sure after six months what people were going to be able to do,” said Jacob Bindman, co-founder and chief program officer of SF New Deal. The money from Wells Fargo will help the businesses “in terms of grant funding, in terms of technical assistance, to keep them here over the course of that first year or longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another change from the first cohort is an increase in the grant amounts given to the pop-ups, expected to be $8,000 to $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nine pop-ups that participated in the first cohort, seven have signed leases downtown, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Family housing subsidies. School public safety programs. Workforce development for youth. Childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With such city-funded youth and family services in danger of being cut back or eliminated entirely in San Francisco’s next budget, nearly 100 people rallied on City Hall’s steps Wednesday to call attention to the needs of some of the city’s most vulnerable. The rally attendees represented more than 40 nonprofit organizations, many of which administer the family support programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding cuts to the SF LGBT Center would make it harder for homeless queer and transgender youth to connect with services like housing, said Ruben Leon, 21, who is originally from Antioch and uses he/they pronouns. Leon told KQED they came to San Francisco in search of acceptance. They lived on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the SF LGBT Center helped Leon find housing and community, they became a youth leader there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went there and the first thing that I asked for was food. Literally food. I was starving and I hadn’t eaten for two days,” Leon said. “(I) just went inside and that changed my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mayor London Breed isn’t required to reveal her next fiscal year budget proposals until June, it’s no secret that the city’s economic condition is dire. In a December memo, Breed \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/webreports/details3.aspx?id=3333\">outlined a budget deficit of $1.3 billion over the next five years\u003c/a> and asked departments to freeze the creation of new positions and to make reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People’s Budget Coalition, which organized Wednesday’s rally, represents organizations that reach many vulnerable San Francisco youth communities, including Larkin Street Youth Services, the Chinese Progressive Association, Filipino Community Center, HIV/AIDS Provider Network, Latino Parity and Equity Coalition and Early Educators of SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current budget environment, the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families recently cut its grant funding by 35%, which the coalition said impacted many of the nonprofits that reach out to vulnerable youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s total budget was reduced from $210 million in the 2023-2024 fiscal year to $182 million in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Its grant funding was reduced by $26 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the deficit, Breed has committed $92 million to fund over 142 agencies and 231 programs citywide for youth workforce development, children enrichment programming, academic support and youth violence prevention, according to Parisa Safarzadeh, a spokesperson for the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, again, the city is facing an extremely challenging budget, but Mayor Breed is maximizing every dollar to make a positive impact on San Franciscan families across the city even when tough decisions have to be made,” Safarzadeh said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest served as an opener to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing on cuts to youth programming. Supervisor Connie Chan, the board’s budget chair, told the advocates that reductions to family services makes the city less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really hope the mayor will bridge the budget deficit without sacrificing all the people who came out for these programs today,” Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers during the three hours of public comment called out Breed and the supervisors for supporting the San Francisco Police Department while reducing the funding for crime prevention programs. Last year, the board approved Breed’s request for a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/sf-mayor-27m-police-overtime-proposal/\">$25 million budget supplemental for police overtime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the ones on the front line working with young people directly,” said Victorino Camilo Cartagena of CARECEN SF, a nonprofit serving Latinos. “Young people come to us before they go to police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Su, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, said some of the nonprofits funded by the department faced grant reductions. Others were denied requests for additional funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown’s post-COVID office exodus led to a drop in business taxes, a major factor in the city’s emptying coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeking to revitalize the city’s economic heart, yesterday Breed announced a ballot initiative formed with Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who is running against her in this year’s mayoral election, to reform San Francisco’s tax structure. If approved by voters this November, more than 2,500 small businesses would be exempt from some city taxes. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, Ericka, Maria and Alan talk about Berkeley’s newest (and youngest) District 7 City Council member, allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in death row sentencing in Alameda County, and efforts to bring giant pandas to San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8374431247\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links: \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/04/19/berkeley-district-7-election-results?mc_key=93888237\">Cecilia Lunaparra declares victory in District 7 race for Berkeley City Council\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983705/allegations-of-prosecutorial-bias-spark-review-of-death-penalty-convictions-in-alameda-county\">Allegations of Prosecutorial Bias Spark Review of Death Penalty Convictions in Alameda County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"c-link c-message_attachment__title_link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982778/sf-mayor-breed-talks-crime-tourism-and-pandas-ahead-of-china-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_title_link\">\u003cspan dir=\"auto\">SF Mayor Breed Talks Crime, Tourism and Pandas Ahead of China Trip\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"c-link c-message_attachment__title_link\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-zoo-safety-18986471.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_title_link\">\u003cspan dir=\"auto\">A grizzly bear chase. A dead penguin. Behind the scenes, the S.F. Zoo is in turmoil over safety\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our monthly news roundup. Today, me and the whole Bay team are going to take some time to talk about the other stories that we have been following in the month of April. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So let’s just dive right in here with Maria and the story out of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the story I’m bringing to you all today is about a very young person, Cecilia Lunaparra, who just won the district seven seat for Berkeley City Council. She is currently an undergraduate student. She’s a senior at UC Berkeley, and she will be the youngest person serving on the council at 22 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tell us a little bit more about who Cecilia is and also who ran against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So she’s a pretty vocal progressive socialist. She is the current president of the Cal Berkeley Democrats. She is a Latina queer woman of color, and she ran against James Chiang, who is also a student. But he’s a graduate student from the Haas Business School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So some of the things she talked about was she is a supporter of affordable housing, tenant protections, investing in mental health care as a way to address public safety. She ran on a really strong opposition to building housing on People’s Park. She formed a really close relation to the community around People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lunaparra: \u003c/strong>I moved here for the first time in January and I was so lonely. I didn’t know anybody. I had no community here and it was a cool calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And she talked a little bit about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lunaparra: \u003c/strong>And I started seeing that People’s Park had community events, they had cookouts. I was able to find a space that I loved, and I could I could hear all of myself into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And she also ran advocating for Berkeley to pass a strong cease fire resolution for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Tell me a little more about this district. It’s district seven, right. And I understand it has a lot of students in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So district seven is also known as a student district. This is also the district where People’s Park is. And this district seat was formerly held by Rachel Robinson, who was also elected at the age of 22. But he stepped down from his seat in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And I remember that being sort of, quite a story in, in Berkeley because of why he left. Right. Can you remind us why Rachel Robinson left his seat and basically left this door open for a special election in April?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>He resigned from his seat because he said he was facing harassment, stalking and threats, and part of it was related to his support for building housing at People’s Park. And so, yeah, he just ended up leaving his seat and it led to a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I know one other reason this race made headlines is that turnout was super low, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So as of last Wednesday, Cecilia was leading with 291 votes to 197, making it a total of about 500. There’s about 3000 registered voters in district seven. So yeah, the numbers are not great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Pretty low. She has since declared victory. What do we know about what she hopes to do in office and how she talks about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>When she won, she released a statement on her Instagram. She talks about how she ran an openly socialist and abolitionist campaign. And I think a big thing for her is representing student voices. She talks a lot about how student voices have been really missing from city Council and have not really represented them. And so I think she really hopes to represent the things that progressive students want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After the break, we will talk about why Alameda County is reviewing death penalty convictions and pandas potentially coming to San Francisco. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to The Bay’s monthly news roundup. The next story we’ve got is out of Alameda County, where a federal judge has directed District Attorney Pamela Price to review all death penalty convictions for signs of prosecutorial misconduct. Our colleague and reporter Annalise Finney reported this story for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>A judge, Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court of Northern California basically came to the district attorney with this request, after evidence showing and indicating that Alameda County prosecutors may have systematically excluded Black and Jewish jurors in cases where people were later sentenced to death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>That seems like a pretty big deal. How did they figure out that this was happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So there were notes discovered in a case of a man named Ernest Dikes, who was convicted in 1995 for murder and attempted murder. Dikes is currently on death row, and his case is one that has kind of risen to the forefront because of notes in his case file, which showed prosecutors essentially taking note of potential jurors for his trial notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That kind of appeared to document whether the prosecutor believed that the potential juror was Jewish or not. And price said that some of these notes also appeared to indicate a disdain for black women. And this has led to these allegations that there was this essentially systemic attempt by prosecutors in the county to single out certain jurors from others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>The idea being these prosecutors thought black and Jewish jurors might make it harder for me to secure a death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. That’s exactly right. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So California hasn’t had an execution since 2006. So I have to imagine some of these folks are on death row, but still alive. So how many cases are we talking about and what could happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, we’re talking about people who have just been languishing in death row. Currently, 37 people on death row were convicted in Alameda County, including dikes. Price’s office told KQED that it is now reviewing 35 of those 37 cases. And this could actually lead to resentencing or retrials in these cases. And that’s a huge deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The review began about a month ago, so I think it will take a while before we actually see that happening. But these allegations seem to be an open secret. And Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Prices has vowed to really review them. Well, that was my story. And last but not least, Alan’s got a fun story for us today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah, we’re going to have a major tonal shift to something a little more fun, like, exciting news for the Bay area, especially San Francisco. Earlier this month, Mayor London Breed announced that the San Francisco Zoo will get two giant pandas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s very, very exciting. Oh my gosh, for some reason, maybe it’s this reason I’ve been seeing so many pandas on my Twitter feed and they’re so clumsy and so cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Have either of you seen pandas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Not in real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I’ve always wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I definitely did like a little report on pandas and like the second or third grade. And I was definitely obsessed for a little while. But besides the fact that Maureen and I are excited, why is this such a big deal, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I mean, giant pandas are a big deal. They’re, first of all, an extremely rare species. At this point. There’s somewhere around 2000 wild pandas left in the whole world. Giant pandas are really only native to these sort of very specific mountainous regions in China. They’re also very rare in this country. There’s only four pandas in the United States. They’re all in Atlanta. San Diego is scheduled to get two more later this year. So San Francisco getting two giant pandas is pretty significant, I would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So how exactly did this negotiation happen for these pandas to eventually get here to San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So there’s been some speculation for a while that getting pandas was a major priority for Mayor London Breed, even going all the way back to apex, which was the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit hosted in San Francisco. members of 21 countries, including many in the Asia Pacific, came here. And there was some speculation among reporters, political watchers, that one of the goals of London Breed in meeting with Chinese officials was to see if it’d be possible to get pandas in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>Here in Beijing, China. And guess what, San Franciscans, I have some really exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This announcement came on the heels of Mayor Breed’s recent trip to China. So she was in China for a few weeks. She very, among many other important things like tourism, economic development also made this very exciting announcement that, hey, we’ve reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>We have some cute, cuddly, black and white beauties come to our city. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome pandas to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s no exact date yet. Probably around 2025. If everything goes smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Cool. And if everything goes smoothly, how could it maybe not go so smoothly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot that needs to happen before giant pandas arrive at the San Francisco Zoo and become available for all to see and visit. It’s all cute and exciting, and it brings tourism to the west side and to the city. It’s all great. A lot of stuff has to happen first. First of all, it is very expensive to host pandas. It’s going to cost an estimated $25 million to build a facility for these pandas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>US zoos have to pay $1 million per year to China as well as an annual fee. So it’s going to take a minute. And currently, London Breed is trying to raise money to pay for this, including from private donors. 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Because not to put too fine a point on it, but these are basically like VIP guests. It’s really important to, the zoo and also to San Francisco’s image as well, that these pandas are safe and nothing bad happens to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Talking about, San Francisco’s image, something that has been a priority for London breed, especially since she will be running for reelection, is, people speculate that this is part of her reelection campaign. What do you what do you have to say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I mean, there’s different ways to think about that question. I mean, we know that London breeds polling numbers are not great as she faces a tough reelection fight. And any candidate. Mayor breed really wants to do well among Chinese voters in the city. I do think that when a mayor comes back from a foreign visit, you know, they’re really trying to talk up the city. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our monthly news roundup. Today, me and the whole Bay team are going to take some time to talk about the other stories that we have been following in the month of April. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So let’s just dive right in here with Maria and the story out of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the story I’m bringing to you all today is about a very young person, Cecilia Lunaparra, who just won the district seven seat for Berkeley City Council. She is currently an undergraduate student. She’s a senior at UC Berkeley, and she will be the youngest person serving on the council at 22 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tell us a little bit more about who Cecilia is and also who ran against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So she’s a pretty vocal progressive socialist. She is the current president of the Cal Berkeley Democrats. She is a Latina queer woman of color, and she ran against James Chiang, who is also a student. But he’s a graduate student from the Haas Business School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So some of the things she talked about was she is a supporter of affordable housing, tenant protections, investing in mental health care as a way to address public safety. She ran on a really strong opposition to building housing on People’s Park. She formed a really close relation to the community around People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lunaparra: \u003c/strong>I moved here for the first time in January and I was so lonely. I didn’t know anybody. I had no community here and it was a cool calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And she talked a little bit about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lunaparra: \u003c/strong>And I started seeing that People’s Park had community events, they had cookouts. I was able to find a space that I loved, and I could I could hear all of myself into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And she also ran advocating for Berkeley to pass a strong cease fire resolution for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Tell me a little more about this district. It’s district seven, right. And I understand it has a lot of students in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So district seven is also known as a student district. This is also the district where People’s Park is. And this district seat was formerly held by Rachel Robinson, who was also elected at the age of 22. But he stepped down from his seat in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And I remember that being sort of, quite a story in, in Berkeley because of why he left. Right. Can you remind us why Rachel Robinson left his seat and basically left this door open for a special election in April?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>He resigned from his seat because he said he was facing harassment, stalking and threats, and part of it was related to his support for building housing at People’s Park. And so, yeah, he just ended up leaving his seat and it led to a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I know one other reason this race made headlines is that turnout was super low, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So as of last Wednesday, Cecilia was leading with 291 votes to 197, making it a total of about 500. There’s about 3000 registered voters in district seven. So yeah, the numbers are not great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Pretty low. She has since declared victory. What do we know about what she hopes to do in office and how she talks about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>When she won, she released a statement on her Instagram. She talks about how she ran an openly socialist and abolitionist campaign. And I think a big thing for her is representing student voices. She talks a lot about how student voices have been really missing from city Council and have not really represented them. And so I think she really hopes to represent the things that progressive students want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After the break, we will talk about why Alameda County is reviewing death penalty convictions and pandas potentially coming to San Francisco. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to The Bay’s monthly news roundup. The next story we’ve got is out of Alameda County, where a federal judge has directed District Attorney Pamela Price to review all death penalty convictions for signs of prosecutorial misconduct. Our colleague and reporter Annalise Finney reported this story for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>A judge, Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court of Northern California basically came to the district attorney with this request, after evidence showing and indicating that Alameda County prosecutors may have systematically excluded Black and Jewish jurors in cases where people were later sentenced to death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>That seems like a pretty big deal. How did they figure out that this was happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So there were notes discovered in a case of a man named Ernest Dikes, who was convicted in 1995 for murder and attempted murder. 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Oh my gosh, for some reason, maybe it’s this reason I’ve been seeing so many pandas on my Twitter feed and they’re so clumsy and so cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Have either of you seen pandas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Not in real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I’ve always wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I definitely did like a little report on pandas and like the second or third grade. And I was definitely obsessed for a little while. But besides the fact that Maureen and I are excited, why is this such a big deal, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I mean, giant pandas are a big deal. They’re, first of all, an extremely rare species. At this point. There’s somewhere around 2000 wild pandas left in the whole world. Giant pandas are really only native to these sort of very specific mountainous regions in China. They’re also very rare in this country. There’s only four pandas in the United States. They’re all in Atlanta. San Diego is scheduled to get two more later this year. So San Francisco getting two giant pandas is pretty significant, I would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So how exactly did this negotiation happen for these pandas to eventually get here to San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So there’s been some speculation for a while that getting pandas was a major priority for Mayor London Breed, even going all the way back to apex, which was the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit hosted in San Francisco. members of 21 countries, including many in the Asia Pacific, came here. And there was some speculation among reporters, political watchers, that one of the goals of London Breed in meeting with Chinese officials was to see if it’d be possible to get pandas in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>Here in Beijing, China. And guess what, San Franciscans, I have some really exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This announcement came on the heels of Mayor Breed’s recent trip to China. So she was in China for a few weeks. She very, among many other important things like tourism, economic development also made this very exciting announcement that, hey, we’ve reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>We have some cute, cuddly, black and white beauties come to our city. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome pandas to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There’s no exact date yet. Probably around 2025. 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But the other wrinkle here is San Francisco Zoo, where these pandas would be housed, might not be in great shape right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>The day before this news about pandas came out, actually, the Chronicle published a story about problems with maintaining staff concerns over the safety of animals and guests. They even reported on an example from last May, where a door was left open and a grizzly bear chased around a worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Oh my God.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, this is actually all in surveillance footage. And, you know, the worker was was unharmed. But there’s some real concerns about the state of the San Francisco Zoo. So obviously, if and when these pandas arrive in 2025, there’s a huge incentive for everyone to make sure that the zoo is in good shape. Because not to put too fine a point on it, but these are basically like VIP guests. It’s really important to, the zoo and also to San Francisco’s image as well, that these pandas are safe and nothing bad happens to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Talking about, San Francisco’s image, something that has been a priority for London breed, especially since she will be running for reelection, is, people speculate that this is part of her reelection campaign. What do you what do you have to say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I mean, there’s different ways to think about that question. I mean, we know that London breeds polling numbers are not great as she faces a tough reelection fight. And any candidate. Mayor breed really wants to do well among Chinese voters in the city. I do think that when a mayor comes back from a foreign visit, you know, they’re really trying to talk up the city. They’re trying to attract tourism. They’re trying to attract business. And in that way, you know, that does affect, you know, how a city is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I don’t think getting pandas means that London breed is going to win the Chinese vote in San Francisco. And certainly even if, you know, if and when the pandas arrive, it would be after the election anyway. But, you know, if if all goes well with getting the pandas here and the zoo is great and people want to come and visit, you know, that could attract dollars and visitors to the city. And I think, you know, any mayor would see that as a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Alan, thank you so much for that news. And, Maria, of course, as always, thank you for joining me as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This episode was produced by me, Maria Esquinca and Alan Monticello, with music courtesy of The Audio Network. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. Thanks so much for listening. Peace.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin announced his entry into the race for mayor in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin has been in San Francisco politics for a long time, and is the first prominent mayoral candidate from the city’s progressive camp. KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez tells us how Peskin shakes up this mayoral race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9910333216\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982144/chinatown-rally-launches-aaron-peskin-mayoral-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinatown Rally Launches Aaron Peskin Mayoral Run\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981946/sf-supervisor-aaron-peskin-announces-mayoral-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin Announces Mayoral Run\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For a while, variety wasn’t a word I’d use to describe the slate of candidates running for mayor in San Francisco. Moderates who want to prove they’re tough on crime have pretty much dominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You’ve got the incumbent mayor, London Breed Mark Farrell, former interim mayor and venture capitalist, philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, and San Francisco supervisor Usha Safai. But there is a new flavor in town. After San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin threw his hat in the ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Having Aaron Peskin in the race really does change the tenor of everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, I talk with KQED politics reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez about how Aaron Peskin run for mayor shakes things up. Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez is a politics reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I, I counted the crowd and was well over 500 attendees. Peskin himself has had some higher counts, but I would say it was more than 500 attendees. It was. It was packed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Peskin represents Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, little slices of some other neighborhoods like the tenderloin. And there’s Chinatown. So Peskin had his, opening rally there, and it’s not a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who was at this rally in Chinatown, Joe? And what would you say was the vibe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>For those who’ve been around the city for a long time, you might think of like a k fog concert. This is like people all of slightly older crowd listening to like, soft rock, but like really digging it. They’ve got like a big wide brimmed sun hat and sunglasses and some gray beards, but they’re still having a great time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, there was a lot of North Beach folks. I saw a guy who was in the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, and he had like a sign that said Paris or Peskin was his little joke there. There was like 200 plus folks from the Chinese community. You could see many of them were brought by the, community, a tenants association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then it was of course, Aaron Peskin turned to speak. How would you, Joe, I guess, describe the tone of his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So Peskin really leaned into his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>And recovery is something I know a little something about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He is a recovering alcoholic. It’s been three years now since he sought sobriety and has been sober, and he leaned into that in his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>And recovery only works when we’re all honest with ourselves and each other. And I know that recovery is not about anger and hatred. It’s not about harboring good grudges and petty vendettas. To recover, you need to be firm and draw clear lines, but always stay compassionate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It was about positivity, which is interesting because in politics you want to have contrasts. Things are not doing well, but we can we can make it better. And some of the candidates have been leaning into this. We need more police. We need a government that works. Government is the worst it’s ever been. They really have been leaning into the idea that things are not well, which he also did, but he transitioned it into a very positive bent. Based on his experience in recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>I am so deeply and sincerely grateful to have received the support I needed to recover and become sober, and it has inspired me to dedicate the next chapter of my life to the recovery of this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk a little bit more about who Aaron Peskin is. Joe. How long has he been in office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in the year 2000. Now, that doesn’t mean he’s been in office for 24 years. He served two terms and then was out of office for a bit. And then, because the rules say there’s nothing to stop you from serving another two terms, you just can’t do more than two consecutively. He ran again and was in office another two terms. And he’s in office right now for his essentially fourth term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He knows government so well. I just read an article where a former planning director essentially said, Aaron Peskin knows the planning department code better than I do. He also knows so many people. I was just talking to a advocate of just a neighbor who lives on the West Side and advocates for certain housing changes, and he was telling me, yeah, I’ve been having lunch off and on with Aaron Peskin since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk about Aaron Peskin’s record, Joe. What policy issues are most important to him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think about this a lot. Like, you know, we use a lot of labels in San Francisco. Moderate Democrat, progressive Democrat. Peskin belongs to the Capitol progressive wing of Democrats in San Francisco. But it’s not necessarily the same as a lowercase p progressive in the nation. One of the things near and dear to Peskin, and something he talked about in his speech at the rally was preserving neighborhood character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>The archipelago of our neighborhoods and cultural districts is what makes the tapestry of this city of San Francisco so incredibly rich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He believes that housing can be built in San Francisco in ways that preserve the neighborhoods that neighbors love. And what that means is not necessarily putting taller buildings than is normal for a neighborhood, or putting large developments in neighborhoods that may have single family homes and duplexes. You know, he would say he is for affordable housing over market rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>We don’t have to destroy this city to save it. If you look at my record, rather than listen to my billionaire and real estate funded critics, you will see I have personally voted to increase our housing capacity by over 100,000 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Another thing that is near and dear to Peskin is tenants rights. He’s one of the strongest tenants advocates in the Board of Supervisors. He personally negotiated with Veritas, which is at one time San Francisco’s largest landlord, to save hundreds. Might have been more than that. Tenants from eviction, who missed their rent during the pandemic. And he has said and he told me that if, certain state laws are changed over the next year, which is possible, they are in the works that he would expand rent control in San Francisco to new buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about his stance on public safety, which, as we’ve been talking about as well, has been a really big issue in this mayor’s race, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, you see that top of mind for most San Franciscans as public safety on that front. That’s another place where I say, you know, the lowercase p. Progressives might be a little disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>For me, public safety is a progressive value. I voted to support increased police budgets, police overtime, greater police staffing, and an emergency declaration in the tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>If you ask him about police, the first thing he’ll do is just start rattling off some of his favorite cops. He knows he knows them in his neighborhood, right? He’s like officer So-and-so and Sergeant this and that. And you know, he can he can really just kind of go at it. He has voted to increase funding to the police department. He has been in favor of salary increases for the police department. At the same time, he doesn’t want to go as far as London breed and some of the other candidates have described on the Public Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>I support arresting fentanyl dealers and holding them accountable. But arresting drug users and doing nothing more is a cynical and dangerous policy that often results in more overdoses and not more treatment for addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>As much as he supports the police. He thinks that arresting drug users is detrimental to their health in recovering from addiction. He also has, you know, been, a backer of controls of police. He, embraced, controls on surveillance, making kind of a stricter approvals process so that the police couldn’t just put up cameras anywhere they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We just saw that rolled back by proposition E, which was put on the ballot by Maryland to Breed in March, which is essentially allowing the police to circumvent the Board of Supervisors controls on surveillance that Peskin helped institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll hear from voters who are excited and not so excited about the idea of a mayor. Aaron Peskin, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who do you talk to? Joe, who’s excited about Aaron Peskin run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>At the rally, I talked to a woman named Connie Liu, who spoke to me through a translator in Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Liu: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She is a San Francisco resident, a resident of the neighborhood, and said that as a constituent of Peskin for many years, she felt that he had represented her interests well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Liu: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>There are also community leaders in Chinatown who spoke out for Peskin, including Wing Hoo Leung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wing Hoo Leung: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Wing Hoo Leung is the president of the Community Tenants Association. Again, this group with more than 1700 tenant members, citywide, many of them, Chinese, many of them Cantonese monolingual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wing Hoo Leung: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Wing Hoo Leung really looks up to Peskin. Peskin was there for him when he was just a tenant, and he was, facing eviction from his own home. And that situation led Liang to decide to become a housing leader in San Francisco. And he’s been so for more than a decade. And he spoke very highly of Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Translator: \u003c/strong>He has always stood with CTA, whether it’s advocating for tenants right, resisting on unjustified evictions and expanding affordable housing for us all, he truly cares about our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, I mean, it sounds like Peskin is really counting on support from his constituents in Chinatown, who he has built these really strong relationships with over the years. Who else, though, is Peskin hoping to get votes from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, so Peskin kind of walks into the mayor’s race with a coalition built of a few kind of distinct, San Francisco constituencies, Chinese tenants and progressive linked Chinese community groups, West side neighbors who don’t want to see a lot of dense housing construction happen in their neighborhoods, and progressives, progressives who are looking for an alternative on a lot of these issues that really hasn’t emerged with the current crop of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So he walks in with those three groups, and his challenge then will be peeling off some other folks in constituencies that might otherwise support Farrell or Brede or Suffi or, Daniel Lurie. That includes labor. That includes, Chinese homeowners and merchant groups who might be a little more conservative and not inclined to support Peskin right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yimby’s and younger voters, younger progressives. As a presidential election, you’re going to see a lot of young progressive voters, so we’ll see how animated they are about Peskin. He walks in with a strong base. But his challenge then is to add a bit to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who’s not so excited about his mayoral bid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Definitely. Yimby’s. The. Yes, in my backyard. Folks who want to see more housing built. 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We had a very important recall of Chesa Boudin, and he decided to stand by chaser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>For those folks like William Brega, who I spoke to at the protest of Peskin this mayoral launch, Peskin is someone who was ideologically opposed to the most important issue to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>William Brega: \u003c/strong>As a community activist, we saw that that was the most, beneficial way for our community to heal was by finding a new D.A. who would, denounce Asian hate, and prosecute criminals, who are attacking our seniors. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know another area where his opponents are attacking him is on housing. What can you tell us about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Urbanists. People who value dense construction of buildings to build more homes and more transit. Who may also use the term yimby’s? Yes, in my backyard, supporters are pretty disappointed. They’re pretty angry right now. The state has mandated that San Francisco build 82,000 units of housing over the next decade or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>With that housing goal in mind, a lot of, yimby’s and politicians who are aligned with the Yimby movement say that we need to build more housing faster at every turn, at every opportunity. And Peskin is saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow your roll. We should build it some places, but not others. We should be smart about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We should, you know, make sure that we’re building it where it doesn’t disturb. Peskin has voted against a lot of housing projects in San Francisco that Yimby say are needed, and even bees really don’t like that, and neither do the politicians are aligned with them. And another group that is saying anybody by Peskin is gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And this is one of those groups that took in, you know, millions of dollars from billionaires and millionaire, tech investors and is looking to spend big bucks against Peskin in this race. He is going to encounter a ocean, a tidal wave of money against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why, Joe? Why do people seem to hate Aaron Peskin so much? Like, why does he inspire so much anger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s one of two things. One is NIMBYs and urbanists, for reasons that we’ve outlined already. But the second moderate Democrats really hate Peskin, I think, because he’s really good at what he does. Whether you agree or disagree with his politics, people will describe him as hyper competent at maneuvering in City Hall to people who hate him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>They say he’s Machiavellian. He’s the shadow puppet master pulling the strings of supervisors to marshal the votes. Someone who’s so skilled that they fear him. But, you know, to people who like him, he’s an extremely skilled negotiator who is able to bring folks together from different views and different backgrounds to come to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what’s the race ahead going to look like for Peskin, Joe? Like, do you think he has a good chance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, this race is so squirrely. I think if anyone told you they knew how it was going to turn out, I would have a rust colored bridge to sell you. He comes into things with a strong hand because he has these built up alliances over years. He has huge relationships over years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But then again, the same thing that gives him that strength that long time in office, those long relationships. That’s also a weakness, right? Because people know who he is. People know what he is. They know what he’s about. It may be hard for him to make his case if you’ve already made up your mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But it does seem like either way, whether Peskin does well or he does poorly, it feels like it will say a lot about where San Francisco is at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think I think you’re right. I think how San Francisco votes on Peskin may actually give us more insight into this big question people have been asking, Is San Francisco lurching rightward? You know, I would say that that strain has always been with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The idea that San Francisco was a liberal bastion, a progressive bastion, I think has always been a little inflated. We have always been this mix of constituencies and emotions, just like anywhere else. But I think that when we see the vote for Peskin or the other mayors, we may get a little more insight into just how much we’re lurching rightward right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Joe, thank you so much as always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, a politics reporter for KQED. This 35 minute conversation with Joe was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca s our producer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For a while, variety wasn’t a word I’d use to describe the slate of candidates running for mayor in San Francisco. Moderates who want to prove they’re tough on crime have pretty much dominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You’ve got the incumbent mayor, London Breed Mark Farrell, former interim mayor and venture capitalist, philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, and San Francisco supervisor Usha Safai. But there is a new flavor in town. After San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin threw his hat in the ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Having Aaron Peskin in the race really does change the tenor of everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, I talk with KQED politics reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez about how Aaron Peskin run for mayor shakes things up. Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez is a politics reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I, I counted the crowd and was well over 500 attendees. Peskin himself has had some higher counts, but I would say it was more than 500 attendees. It was. It was packed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Peskin represents Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, little slices of some other neighborhoods like the tenderloin. And there’s Chinatown. So Peskin had his, opening rally there, and it’s not a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who was at this rally in Chinatown, Joe? And what would you say was the vibe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>For those who’ve been around the city for a long time, you might think of like a k fog concert. This is like people all of slightly older crowd listening to like, soft rock, but like really digging it. They’ve got like a big wide brimmed sun hat and sunglasses and some gray beards, but they’re still having a great time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, there was a lot of North Beach folks. I saw a guy who was in the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, and he had like a sign that said Paris or Peskin was his little joke there. There was like 200 plus folks from the Chinese community. You could see many of them were brought by the, community, a tenants association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then it was of course, Aaron Peskin turned to speak. How would you, Joe, I guess, describe the tone of his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So Peskin really leaned into his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>And recovery is something I know a little something about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He is a recovering alcoholic. It’s been three years now since he sought sobriety and has been sober, and he leaned into that in his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>And recovery only works when we’re all honest with ourselves and each other. And I know that recovery is not about anger and hatred. It’s not about harboring good grudges and petty vendettas. To recover, you need to be firm and draw clear lines, but always stay compassionate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It was about positivity, which is interesting because in politics you want to have contrasts. Things are not doing well, but we can we can make it better. And some of the candidates have been leaning into this. We need more police. We need a government that works. Government is the worst it’s ever been. They really have been leaning into the idea that things are not well, which he also did, but he transitioned it into a very positive bent. Based on his experience in recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>I am so deeply and sincerely grateful to have received the support I needed to recover and become sober, and it has inspired me to dedicate the next chapter of my life to the recovery of this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk a little bit more about who Aaron Peskin is. Joe. How long has he been in office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in the year 2000. Now, that doesn’t mean he’s been in office for 24 years. He served two terms and then was out of office for a bit. And then, because the rules say there’s nothing to stop you from serving another two terms, you just can’t do more than two consecutively. He ran again and was in office another two terms. And he’s in office right now for his essentially fourth term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He knows government so well. I just read an article where a former planning director essentially said, Aaron Peskin knows the planning department code better than I do. He also knows so many people. I was just talking to a advocate of just a neighbor who lives on the West Side and advocates for certain housing changes, and he was telling me, yeah, I’ve been having lunch off and on with Aaron Peskin since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk about Aaron Peskin’s record, Joe. What policy issues are most important to him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think about this a lot. Like, you know, we use a lot of labels in San Francisco. Moderate Democrat, progressive Democrat. Peskin belongs to the Capitol progressive wing of Democrats in San Francisco. But it’s not necessarily the same as a lowercase p progressive in the nation. One of the things near and dear to Peskin, and something he talked about in his speech at the rally was preserving neighborhood character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>The archipelago of our neighborhoods and cultural districts is what makes the tapestry of this city of San Francisco so incredibly rich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>He believes that housing can be built in San Francisco in ways that preserve the neighborhoods that neighbors love. And what that means is not necessarily putting taller buildings than is normal for a neighborhood, or putting large developments in neighborhoods that may have single family homes and duplexes. You know, he would say he is for affordable housing over market rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>We don’t have to destroy this city to save it. If you look at my record, rather than listen to my billionaire and real estate funded critics, you will see I have personally voted to increase our housing capacity by over 100,000 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Another thing that is near and dear to Peskin is tenants rights. He’s one of the strongest tenants advocates in the Board of Supervisors. He personally negotiated with Veritas, which is at one time San Francisco’s largest landlord, to save hundreds. Might have been more than that. Tenants from eviction, who missed their rent during the pandemic. And he has said and he told me that if, certain state laws are changed over the next year, which is possible, they are in the works that he would expand rent control in San Francisco to new buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about his stance on public safety, which, as we’ve been talking about as well, has been a really big issue in this mayor’s race, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, you see that top of mind for most San Franciscans as public safety on that front. That’s another place where I say, you know, the lowercase p. Progressives might be a little disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>For me, public safety is a progressive value. I voted to support increased police budgets, police overtime, greater police staffing, and an emergency declaration in the tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>If you ask him about police, the first thing he’ll do is just start rattling off some of his favorite cops. He knows he knows them in his neighborhood, right? He’s like officer So-and-so and Sergeant this and that. And you know, he can he can really just kind of go at it. He has voted to increase funding to the police department. He has been in favor of salary increases for the police department. At the same time, he doesn’t want to go as far as London breed and some of the other candidates have described on the Public Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>I support arresting fentanyl dealers and holding them accountable. But arresting drug users and doing nothing more is a cynical and dangerous policy that often results in more overdoses and not more treatment for addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>As much as he supports the police. He thinks that arresting drug users is detrimental to their health in recovering from addiction. He also has, you know, been, a backer of controls of police. He, embraced, controls on surveillance, making kind of a stricter approvals process so that the police couldn’t just put up cameras anywhere they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We just saw that rolled back by proposition E, which was put on the ballot by Maryland to Breed in March, which is essentially allowing the police to circumvent the Board of Supervisors controls on surveillance that Peskin helped institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll hear from voters who are excited and not so excited about the idea of a mayor. Aaron Peskin, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who do you talk to? Joe, who’s excited about Aaron Peskin run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>At the rally, I talked to a woman named Connie Liu, who spoke to me through a translator in Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Liu: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She is a San Francisco resident, a resident of the neighborhood, and said that as a constituent of Peskin for many years, she felt that he had represented her interests well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Liu: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>There are also community leaders in Chinatown who spoke out for Peskin, including Wing Hoo Leung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wing Hoo Leung: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Wing Hoo Leung is the president of the Community Tenants Association. Again, this group with more than 1700 tenant members, citywide, many of them, Chinese, many of them Cantonese monolingual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wing Hoo Leung: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking Cantonese]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Wing Hoo Leung really looks up to Peskin. Peskin was there for him when he was just a tenant, and he was, facing eviction from his own home. And that situation led Liang to decide to become a housing leader in San Francisco. And he’s been so for more than a decade. And he spoke very highly of Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Translator: \u003c/strong>He has always stood with CTA, whether it’s advocating for tenants right, resisting on unjustified evictions and expanding affordable housing for us all, he truly cares about our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, I mean, it sounds like Peskin is really counting on support from his constituents in Chinatown, who he has built these really strong relationships with over the years. Who else, though, is Peskin hoping to get votes from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah, so Peskin kind of walks into the mayor’s race with a coalition built of a few kind of distinct, San Francisco constituencies, Chinese tenants and progressive linked Chinese community groups, West side neighbors who don’t want to see a lot of dense housing construction happen in their neighborhoods, and progressives, progressives who are looking for an alternative on a lot of these issues that really hasn’t emerged with the current crop of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So he walks in with those three groups, and his challenge then will be peeling off some other folks in constituencies that might otherwise support Farrell or Brede or Suffi or, Daniel Lurie. That includes labor. That includes, Chinese homeowners and merchant groups who might be a little more conservative and not inclined to support Peskin right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yimby’s and younger voters, younger progressives. As a presidential election, you’re going to see a lot of young progressive voters, so we’ll see how animated they are about Peskin. He walks in with a strong base. But his challenge then is to add a bit to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Who’s not so excited about his mayoral bid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Definitely. Yimby’s. The. Yes, in my backyard. Folks who want to see more housing built. But also there is a group of more conservative Chinese and also more broadly AAPI voters who really supported the Board of Education, recall, recall of Chesa Boudin, the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And for those folks who are, you know, very newly activated groups, you know, I’m not saying they didn’t vote, but they weren’t like activists at the time. They were really, really politically activated by those two recalls. And Peskin sat out the board of Ed recall, and he opposed the Chesa Boudin recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>William Brega: \u003c/strong>During the Stop Asian Hate movie. During Covid, when there are a lot of attacks against our seniors. We had a very important recall of Chesa Boudin, and he decided to stand by chaser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>For those folks like William Brega, who I spoke to at the protest of Peskin this mayoral launch, Peskin is someone who was ideologically opposed to the most important issue to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>William Brega: \u003c/strong>As a community activist, we saw that that was the most, beneficial way for our community to heal was by finding a new D.A. who would, denounce Asian hate, and prosecute criminals, who are attacking our seniors. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know another area where his opponents are attacking him is on housing. What can you tell us about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Urbanists. People who value dense construction of buildings to build more homes and more transit. Who may also use the term yimby’s? Yes, in my backyard, supporters are pretty disappointed. They’re pretty angry right now. The state has mandated that San Francisco build 82,000 units of housing over the next decade or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>With that housing goal in mind, a lot of, yimby’s and politicians who are aligned with the Yimby movement say that we need to build more housing faster at every turn, at every opportunity. And Peskin is saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow your roll. We should build it some places, but not others. We should be smart about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We should, you know, make sure that we’re building it where it doesn’t disturb. Peskin has voted against a lot of housing projects in San Francisco that Yimby say are needed, and even bees really don’t like that, and neither do the politicians are aligned with them. And another group that is saying anybody by Peskin is gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And this is one of those groups that took in, you know, millions of dollars from billionaires and millionaire, tech investors and is looking to spend big bucks against Peskin in this race. He is going to encounter a ocean, a tidal wave of money against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why, Joe? Why do people seem to hate Aaron Peskin so much? Like, why does he inspire so much anger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s one of two things. One is NIMBYs and urbanists, for reasons that we’ve outlined already. But the second moderate Democrats really hate Peskin, I think, because he’s really good at what he does. Whether you agree or disagree with his politics, people will describe him as hyper competent at maneuvering in City Hall to people who hate him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>They say he’s Machiavellian. He’s the shadow puppet master pulling the strings of supervisors to marshal the votes. Someone who’s so skilled that they fear him. But, you know, to people who like him, he’s an extremely skilled negotiator who is able to bring folks together from different views and different backgrounds to come to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what’s the race ahead going to look like for Peskin, Joe? Like, do you think he has a good chance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>You know, this race is so squirrely. I think if anyone told you they knew how it was going to turn out, I would have a rust colored bridge to sell you. He comes into things with a strong hand because he has these built up alliances over years. He has huge relationships over years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But then again, the same thing that gives him that strength that long time in office, those long relationships. That’s also a weakness, right? Because people know who he is. People know what he is. They know what he’s about. It may be hard for him to make his case if you’ve already made up your mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But it does seem like either way, whether Peskin does well or he does poorly, it feels like it will say a lot about where San Francisco is at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think I think you’re right. I think how San Francisco votes on Peskin may actually give us more insight into this big question people have been asking, Is San Francisco lurching rightward? You know, I would say that that strain has always been with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The idea that San Francisco was a liberal bastion, a progressive bastion, I think has always been a little inflated. We have always been this mix of constituencies and emotions, just like anywhere else. But I think that when we see the vote for Peskin or the other mayors, we may get a little more insight into just how much we’re lurching rightward right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Joe, thank you so much as always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, a politics reporter for KQED. This 35 minute conversation with Joe was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca s our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of The Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast team at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern Ellie Prickett-Morgan, The Bay’s production intern, and Holly Kernan, our chief content officer. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED. Consider becoming a member at kqed.org/donate. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Peace.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">London Breed\u003c/a> spent part of Thursday afternoon doing a time-honored routine of political candidates: the merchant walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed used a sprinkling of Mandarin and Cantonese phrases to greet people. She walked down Irving Street in the Sunset neighborhood, popping into cafes, grocery stores and restaurants asking, whoever would listen to put a “Breed for Mayor” sign in their window.[aside postID=news_11982563 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240320-WILLIE-BROWNS-90TH-MD-08_qut-1020x680.jpg']Many did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dogged by low approval ratings from voters weary from crime, homelessness and fentanyl dealing, the mayor is facing several serious candidates in what appears to be an uphill race to win a second four-year term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday, the mayor and a delegation of business and community leaders leave for a weeklong visit to China, where she hopes to drum up more tourism, investment, and, hopefully, score two or more panda bears for the San Francisco Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Scott Shafer sat down with Mayor Breed at a falafel shop on Irving Street on Thursday. 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