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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>A record number of women are running for political office in 2018. KQED's series \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>\" focuses on a handful of candidates from California, who are gunning for seats in everything from city council to Congress. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Betty Valencia decided to run for Orange City Council in Southern California, she never thought being an immigrant from Mexico would make her a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it has: Since late September, she said she has gotten emails and messages on social media asking about her legal status (she is a U.S. citizen) and her position on immigration enforcement, and she has been called a cancer and a poison. 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She had the idea for NAL before then as immigration reform continued to fail in Congress and a growing number of anti-immigrant bills moved through statehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt it was important we were showing up for ourselves to be the policymakers that we needed because we kept working on behalf of other candidates who were ostensibly allies but were not actually getting the job done,” she said, noting that the group’s aim was to build a pipeline of candidates “that reflect, that look like America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight of the group’s alums ran in 2016, with 68 percent winning; 54 of their graduates are running in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigrants are seeking office in California, like Republican Cristina Osmeña, who is challenging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat, and Farrah Khan who is vying for a seat on the Irvine City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barriers to Running\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For NAL’s participants, the three most common barriers to running for office are: markers of immigrant identity (like race, religion, legal status, appearance), a lack of money or financial network, and no political experience or knowledge, Bhojwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group tells would-be candidates they have what it takes. And they stress the value of their backgrounds: “That the immigrant experience is an asset rather than a deficit,” she said. “The immigrant narrative as part of the American story is a critical underpinning of our training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Young Kim, a South Korean immigrant who came to California via Guam and Hawaii. A Republican running for the (mostly) Orange County congressional seat now held by retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce. She already served in the State Assembly and if Kim wins this time, she will become the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said she \u003cem>wants\u003c/em> people to know she is an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very diverse district, which I think I understand having come from all different areas,” she said. “I know how hard it is to adjust and assimilate into a new country ... I can bring all of those different perspectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, her immigration policy would be shaped around what her constituents want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people will say because Young Kim is a Republican that I will go automatically with our Republican leadership or (what our) platform says,” she said “I am running as my own person because my district needs a representative who understands what our needs are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican candidate for US Congress Young Kim, 55, (R) takes a selfie with a supporter outside her campaign office in Yorba Linda, California, October 6, 2018. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in 1975, would be the first Korean-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives if she defeats her Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros in the race for the open seat in California's 39th Congressional District which includes parts of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. \u003ccite>( ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Alcantar, who is running for Cudahy City Council in L.A. County, talks with voters about her parents’ experiences in the U.S. as immigrants and her own as a second-generation American -- which mirror that of many in her mostly Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not see myself getting into city council being the end game,” said Alcantar, 25. “It's just the beginning of getting more young immigrant women in office -- here in Cudahy, but also in all the region here in the southeast. We need more of our own folks in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Represent Those Caravans to People’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened to Betty Valencia on the campaign trail wasn’t an isolated case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrah Khan, who came to the U.S. at three years-old from Pakistan with her mom in 1974, is one of five immigrants running for Irvine City Council this year after losing her first bid for a seat on it in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both campaigns, negative attacks falsely claimed she was associated with terrorist organizations. In her first run, those attacks were made in mailers. This time, they’ve moved onto social media, said Khan, 46, executive director of a nonprofit and interfaith council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're running for local office and it's something that you care about ... your neighborhoods, your neighbors,” said Khan, who is Muslim and a mother of four kids. “Race and religion has no place here. ... And so when they bring this into the picture it makes you kind of think twice like, ‘Is that really how some people see you?’ Before they even get to know you, are you already judged by the way you look or by the name that you have?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another immigrant candidate in Southern California has come under similar attacks: Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar who is challenging Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter. Hunter, who is under federal indictment for misusing campaign funds, has falsely claimed that Campa-Najjar is a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699097/indicted-rep-duncan-hunter-calls-his-opponent-a-muslim-infiltrator\">Muslim trying to “infiltrate” \u003c/a>\u003c/span>Congress. In fact, he is a Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant candidates in the past have faced a lot of discrimination, said Christabel Cruz, director of national education for women's leadership at the Center for American Women in Politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing, I think, more and more in this particular political climate ... discriminatory practices and language -- really hate speech in terms of characterization of immigrant candidates,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-520x389.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia, a candidate for Orange City Council, says this is an email she received asking about her immigration status. \u003ccite>(Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As “his rhetoric increases, we are feeling it,” Valencia, 47, said of President Trump. “I represent those caravans to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said the backlash against immigrant candidates may also be because more of them are running for office: “The more people fighting for their representation, the stronger the resistance to that representation is going to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the reason a number of the immigrants interviewed by KQED said they were running: representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘There’s No One in City Council That Looks Like Me’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said she decided to run for city council at 11:33 p.m. on April 10, 2018. That’s when the council passed a resolution saying it would seek to block enforcement of SB54 -- California’s sanctuary law -- pending a lawsuit brought by the federal government challenging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, Valencia looked at the councilmembers and thought: \"You are in my seat.\" “There’s no one in city council that looks like me,” said Valencia, who also identifies as a lesbian Latina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that unless someone like me -- with my perspective, my experience, my background -- was sitting there, that the population we have in the city of Orange -- which we have a high population of immigrants -- would not have a voice, would not have protection or would not even be counted,” said Valencia. “I wanted to make sure that at least I could use my voice to help others not feel the way I felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jaya Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento, representation is a driving factor, too. But she’s shied away from saying that’s why people should vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, with everything on the national forefront, I don't want the narrative to be a school board member wants to be known for her cultural heritage. And, because there is a growing body of Indian American or cultural ethnically Indian or South Asian students, therefore we should vote for her,” said Badiga, 44. “But that is a huge part of my identity. So there has been talk in the community from some members on the board that they're glad to see representation from the community. And I reciprocate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaya Badiga, center in white shirt, with supporters. Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen, is running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Jaya Badiga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All It Takes Is One Person to Win’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Muslim women vying for seats in Michigan and Minnesota could become the first elected to Congress -- and that is “inspiring for people even if they lost,” said Bhojwani of NAL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest reason that we're going to continue to see a growth in the number of immigrant and newcomers candidates is because they're going to be inspired by the people who have run this year and are winning,” she said. “All it takes is one person to win to make people feel that it's possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the campaign event in the park, where Valencia said the woman threatened her, a woman wearing a T-shirt reading “Be kind” approached her: “She says she came to meet me because she supported me and because she thinks it's time that we become a more inclusive community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That -- and other support from the community -- gave Valencia hope after the troubling incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a little bit to regroup, to re-energize and to refocus and say that our message continues: that we're going to stay positive, that I belong here just as anybody else and that I'm qualified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated to clarify information provided by New American Leaders on Cristina Osmeña, who isn't an alumni of their program.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>A record number of women are running for political office in 2018. KQED's series \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>\" focuses on a handful of candidates from California, who are gunning for seats in everything from city council to Congress. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen Betty Valencia decided to run for Orange City Council in Southern California, she never thought being an immigrant from Mexico would make her a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it has: Since late September, she said she has gotten emails and messages on social media asking about her legal status (she is a U.S. citizen) and her position on immigration enforcement, and she has been called a cancer and a poison. Some of the attacks have spilled over into real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign event in early October, Valencia says a woman and a man in a golf cart drove by as she was pushing her infant grandniece in a stroller. The woman pointed at her. “And then she said these words as loud as she could: ‘Trump is coming for you, Betty,’ and then they just sped away,” said Valencia, who took her words to mean deportation. “I think she was very much insinuating that I would go back to my country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants like Valencia are among a wave of newcomers running for political office in 2018, hoping to infuse new representation into every level of government, from city council to Congress. While they’re facing challenges common to first-timers, they’re also encountering hurdles due to their immigrant backgrounds -- now more so than ever with a charged national debate around immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Showing Up for Ourselves’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more immigrant candidates are seeking political office, said Sayu Bhojwani, founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.newamericanleaders.org/what-we-do/\">New American Leaders (NAL\u003c/a>), a nonpartisan group that trains naturalized citizens and people of color how to campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 100 first-generation immigrants are on the ballot in 2018, and many others on it are second- and third-generation immigrants of color, NAL estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that we've seen very clearly post-2016 is there's an incredible amount of energy in terms of running for office,” she said. “There's more boldness and more determination on the part of newcomer candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not the only factor in their decision to run, “the Trump administration's policies and rhetoric have been a big motivator for candidates,” Bhojwani said. “Running for office has definitely become one element of the resistance movement among immigrant leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhojwani started the group in 2010 shortly after Arizona passed its controversial \"Show me your papers\" law or (SB1070). She had the idea for NAL before then as immigration reform continued to fail in Congress and a growing number of anti-immigrant bills moved through statehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt it was important we were showing up for ourselves to be the policymakers that we needed because we kept working on behalf of other candidates who were ostensibly allies but were not actually getting the job done,” she said, noting that the group’s aim was to build a pipeline of candidates “that reflect, that look like America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight of the group’s alums ran in 2016, with 68 percent winning; 54 of their graduates are running in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigrants are seeking office in California, like Republican Cristina Osmeña, who is challenging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat, and Farrah Khan who is vying for a seat on the Irvine City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barriers to Running\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For NAL’s participants, the three most common barriers to running for office are: markers of immigrant identity (like race, religion, legal status, appearance), a lack of money or financial network, and no political experience or knowledge, Bhojwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group tells would-be candidates they have what it takes. And they stress the value of their backgrounds: “That the immigrant experience is an asset rather than a deficit,” she said. “The immigrant narrative as part of the American story is a critical underpinning of our training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Young Kim, a South Korean immigrant who came to California via Guam and Hawaii. A Republican running for the (mostly) Orange County congressional seat now held by retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce. She already served in the State Assembly and if Kim wins this time, she will become the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said she \u003cem>wants\u003c/em> people to know she is an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very diverse district, which I think I understand having come from all different areas,” she said. “I know how hard it is to adjust and assimilate into a new country ... I can bring all of those different perspectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, her immigration policy would be shaped around what her constituents want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people will say because Young Kim is a Republican that I will go automatically with our Republican leadership or (what our) platform says,” she said “I am running as my own person because my district needs a representative who understands what our needs are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican candidate for US Congress Young Kim, 55, (R) takes a selfie with a supporter outside her campaign office in Yorba Linda, California, October 6, 2018. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in 1975, would be the first Korean-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives if she defeats her Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros in the race for the open seat in California's 39th Congressional District which includes parts of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. \u003ccite>( ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Alcantar, who is running for Cudahy City Council in L.A. County, talks with voters about her parents’ experiences in the U.S. as immigrants and her own as a second-generation American -- which mirror that of many in her mostly Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not see myself getting into city council being the end game,” said Alcantar, 25. “It's just the beginning of getting more young immigrant women in office -- here in Cudahy, but also in all the region here in the southeast. We need more of our own folks in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Represent Those Caravans to People’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened to Betty Valencia on the campaign trail wasn’t an isolated case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrah Khan, who came to the U.S. at three years-old from Pakistan with her mom in 1974, is one of five immigrants running for Irvine City Council this year after losing her first bid for a seat on it in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both campaigns, negative attacks falsely claimed she was associated with terrorist organizations. In her first run, those attacks were made in mailers. This time, they’ve moved onto social media, said Khan, 46, executive director of a nonprofit and interfaith council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're running for local office and it's something that you care about ... your neighborhoods, your neighbors,” said Khan, who is Muslim and a mother of four kids. “Race and religion has no place here. ... And so when they bring this into the picture it makes you kind of think twice like, ‘Is that really how some people see you?’ Before they even get to know you, are you already judged by the way you look or by the name that you have?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another immigrant candidate in Southern California has come under similar attacks: Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar who is challenging Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter. Hunter, who is under federal indictment for misusing campaign funds, has falsely claimed that Campa-Najjar is a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699097/indicted-rep-duncan-hunter-calls-his-opponent-a-muslim-infiltrator\">Muslim trying to “infiltrate” \u003c/a>\u003c/span>Congress. In fact, he is a Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant candidates in the past have faced a lot of discrimination, said Christabel Cruz, director of national education for women's leadership at the Center for American Women in Politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing, I think, more and more in this particular political climate ... discriminatory practices and language -- really hate speech in terms of characterization of immigrant candidates,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-520x389.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia, a candidate for Orange City Council, says this is an email she received asking about her immigration status. \u003ccite>(Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As “his rhetoric increases, we are feeling it,” Valencia, 47, said of President Trump. “I represent those caravans to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said the backlash against immigrant candidates may also be because more of them are running for office: “The more people fighting for their representation, the stronger the resistance to that representation is going to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the reason a number of the immigrants interviewed by KQED said they were running: representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘There’s No One in City Council That Looks Like Me’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said she decided to run for city council at 11:33 p.m. on April 10, 2018. That’s when the council passed a resolution saying it would seek to block enforcement of SB54 -- California’s sanctuary law -- pending a lawsuit brought by the federal government challenging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, Valencia looked at the councilmembers and thought: \"You are in my seat.\" “There’s no one in city council that looks like me,” said Valencia, who also identifies as a lesbian Latina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that unless someone like me -- with my perspective, my experience, my background -- was sitting there, that the population we have in the city of Orange -- which we have a high population of immigrants -- would not have a voice, would not have protection or would not even be counted,” said Valencia. “I wanted to make sure that at least I could use my voice to help others not feel the way I felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jaya Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento, representation is a driving factor, too. But she’s shied away from saying that’s why people should vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, with everything on the national forefront, I don't want the narrative to be a school board member wants to be known for her cultural heritage. And, because there is a growing body of Indian American or cultural ethnically Indian or South Asian students, therefore we should vote for her,” said Badiga, 44. “But that is a huge part of my identity. So there has been talk in the community from some members on the board that they're glad to see representation from the community. 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"content": "\u003cp>Asian-Americans are the fastest growing ethnic group in California, now making up \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/ca\">more than 14 percent\u003c/a> of the population. It’s a slice of the demographic pie that has tripled since 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in historically red Orange County — where there are four races that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings\">Cook Political Report labels\u003c/a> as competitive — Democrats are hoping that \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/10/10/asian-american-vote-orange-county\">Asian-American voters\u003c/a> could help turn the county blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Asian-Americans now make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/orangecountycalifornia\">more than 20 percent\u003c/a> of Orange County residents. Mary Anne Foo, executive director of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, says that many of these families have roots in the Philippines, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan and more. This has been the case for decades, but the difference now is a greater number of those people were born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see more and more diversity here in Orange County,” she says, “and you’ll see more of a rise of second-generation [voters].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian-Americans \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/\">tend to vote\u003c/a> Democratic, according to data from the Pew Research Center, with 65 percent identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic and just 27 percent who identify as or sway Republican. When Pew first started tracking the Asian-American vote in 1998, 53 percent identified as Democrats compared with 33 percent Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Asian-Americans generally voted Democratic, those in Orange County are becoming even more progressive and politically active than their parents and grandparents, says Alex Kim, a Korean-American Republican who is currently the principal and CEO of Three Kings Public Affairs. He previously worked as a political consultant for Democrat James Hahn, the former mayor of Los Angeles, and former California Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Korean-Americans in Orange County at least, the first generation leans more conservatively for the same reasons that Cuban-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans do, Kim says. Their political views are informed by where they came from: countries torn apart by trauma, war and financial distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the first-generation Asian immigrants in Orange County are small-business owners running nail salons, dry cleaners and restaurants. Kim says they often use Korean community banks because decades ago it was difficult for them to get loans from American banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘As a Republican, I’m helping a Democrat because it’s not just about party … And having not a single Korean-American in Congress right now … I would like to see a Korean-American on there to represent me.’\u003ccite>Alex Kim, Korean-American Republican, CEO of Three Kings Public Affairs\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The younger generation also is influenced by their environment, but in the opposite way, Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these Korean-Americans that grew up in [the] second generation tend to grow up in urban areas,” he says. “Urban areas tend to focus more on progressive thinking than more of the conservative, suburban ideals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Asian-American voters on both sides of the aisle, one of the key issues on their minds is immigration, Kim says. Many are concerned about President Trump’s policies on family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border and “the thought of eliminating” chain migration, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of my relatives came here through chain migration, and the question of workforce and how a lot of the small businesses are [hiring] immigrants coming from that chain migration system,” Kim says. “It seems like Korean-Americans, the first generation, still are more majority loyal to Trump. They came here legally, a majority of them, and they believe that what he’s doing is fair for the country. But definitely my friends that lean more Democratic or liberal Republicans, progressive Republicans like myself, have definitely some qualms about that key issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11699059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/vietnamese_signs_wide-2b7b8ceeb1c70e0d745c0d58b14b1b4436375a56-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"In the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Saigon, signs for political candidates with Vietnamese names line an intersection. The state's growing Asian-American population is expected to have an impact on the midterms in November.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11699059\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Saigon, signs for political candidates with Vietnamese names line an intersection. The state’s growing Asian-American population is expected to have an impact on the midterms in November. \u003ccite>(Chris Bentley/Here & Now)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Vietnamese-Americans in Orange County, the politics also are shifting by generation, say Tam and Sonny Nguyen, Vietnamese-Americans who own businesses in the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Saigon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were born in Vietnam but raised in the U.S., Sonny says. “So we understand what it means to be an American, but we also understand our parents and where they came from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonny says they can see a “stark difference” between the older and younger generations in not just their political views, but in how they do business. Vietnamese-American businesses were historically isolated because their owners came from a country where you couldn’t trust the government or corporations, he says. That’s why you’ll notice a lot of the businesses in Little Saigon are cash only, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First generations, they’re known to be very fragmented, and you don’t want to collaborate,” he says. “And being an American and having inclusivity, I think that’s one of the reasons why we have grown, is because we do collaborate, and we’re showing our first [generation], our parents, that look, ‘We work closely with the cities. We are sharing our best practices.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets of Little Saigon, the fence at a busy intersection is covered in political campaign signs. Nearly every candidate’s name is Vietnamese, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694478/gop-retirement-leaves-socal-congressional-seat-up-for-grabs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only Asian-American running for Congress in Orange County this year\u003c/a> is 55-year-old Young Kim, a Korean-American Republican who worked for the lawmaker she is running to replace, Rep. Ed Royce.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694478/gop-retirement-leaves-socal-congressional-seat-up-for-grabs\">GOP Retirement Leaves SoCal Congressional Seat Up for Grabs\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694478/gop-retirement-leaves-socal-congressional-seat-up-for-grabs\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/kim-pic-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There hasn’t been a Korean-American in Congress since 1999, but three are on the ballot this November. Alex Kim says some Asian-American voters are more inclined to support a candidate that looks like them, regardless of party. Even though he’s a Republican, Alex Kim is working with a Korean-American Democrat who is running for office in Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Republican, I’m helping a Democrat because it’s not just about party, it’s about also this connection, this ethnic connection,” he says. “And having not a single Korean-American in Congress right now, I’d rather, it doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat, Republican, I would like to see a Korean-American on there to represent me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is in part a reaction to the way many Asian-Americans have been treated in this country as outsiders, Foo says. They still face discrimination in the workplace, education and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asian-Americans, no matter how long they’ve been here, they get the question of you know, ‘Where are you really from?’ ” she says. “I’m fourth generation, my family’s been here since 1861, and I still get it. And so it makes people feel that they’re not really accepted, or they’re not really American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians on both sides have a lot to gain from these Asian-American communities in Orange County, Foo says, adding that those who haven’t paid attention to them in the past are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Democrats expect to flip conservative districts in Orange County, they will have to convince Asian-Americans to show up on Election Day. Voter turnout among Asian-Americans has been \u003ca href=\"http://aapidata.com/blog/voting-gains-gaps/\">historically low\u003c/a> compared with other groups — just 49 percent in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foo says the global political situation across Asia, particularly the trade war with China and the situation in North Korea, is expected to drive more Asian-Americans to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it makes people more interested in voting because they’re really concerned about what’s going to happen with trade, what’s going to happen with the relationships with [their] home country,” she says. “So you’ll see more people participating.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+Democrats+Hope+Asian-American+Voters+Can+Help+Flip+Red+Districts&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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Kim says they often use Korean community banks because decades ago it was difficult for them to get loans from American banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘As a Republican, I’m helping a Democrat because it’s not just about party … And having not a single Korean-American in Congress right now … I would like to see a Korean-American on there to represent me.’\u003ccite>Alex Kim, Korean-American Republican, CEO of Three Kings Public Affairs\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The younger generation also is influenced by their environment, but in the opposite way, Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these Korean-Americans that grew up in [the] second generation tend to grow up in urban areas,” he says. “Urban areas tend to focus more on progressive thinking than more of the conservative, suburban ideals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Asian-American voters on both sides of the aisle, one of the key issues on their minds is immigration, Kim says. Many are concerned about President Trump’s policies on family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border and “the thought of eliminating” chain migration, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of my relatives came here through chain migration, and the question of workforce and how a lot of the small businesses are [hiring] immigrants coming from that chain migration system,” Kim says. “It seems like Korean-Americans, the first generation, still are more majority loyal to Trump. They came here legally, a majority of them, and they believe that what he’s doing is fair for the country. But definitely my friends that lean more Democratic or liberal Republicans, progressive Republicans like myself, have definitely some qualms about that key issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11699059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/vietnamese_signs_wide-2b7b8ceeb1c70e0d745c0d58b14b1b4436375a56-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"In the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Saigon, signs for political candidates with Vietnamese names line an intersection. The state's growing Asian-American population is expected to have an impact on the midterms in November.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11699059\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Saigon, signs for political candidates with Vietnamese names line an intersection. The state’s growing Asian-American population is expected to have an impact on the midterms in November. \u003ccite>(Chris Bentley/Here & Now)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Vietnamese-Americans in Orange County, the politics also are shifting by generation, say Tam and Sonny Nguyen, Vietnamese-Americans who own businesses in the Orange County neighborhood known as Little Saigon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were born in Vietnam but raised in the U.S., Sonny says. “So we understand what it means to be an American, but we also understand our parents and where they came from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonny says they can see a “stark difference” between the older and younger generations in not just their political views, but in how they do business. Vietnamese-American businesses were historically isolated because their owners came from a country where you couldn’t trust the government or corporations, he says. That’s why you’ll notice a lot of the businesses in Little Saigon are cash only, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First generations, they’re known to be very fragmented, and you don’t want to collaborate,” he says. “And being an American and having inclusivity, I think that’s one of the reasons why we have grown, is because we do collaborate, and we’re showing our first [generation], our parents, that look, ‘We work closely with the cities. We are sharing our best practices.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets of Little Saigon, the fence at a busy intersection is covered in political campaign signs. Nearly every candidate’s name is Vietnamese, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694478/gop-retirement-leaves-socal-congressional-seat-up-for-grabs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only Asian-American running for Congress in Orange County this year\u003c/a> is 55-year-old Young Kim, a Korean-American Republican who worked for the lawmaker she is running to replace, Rep. 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Porter is one of four Democrats targeting Republican-held congressional seats in historically red Orange County. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fran Sdao, who chairs the local Democratic party, said President Trump’s low popularity with many voters has helped the party register more Democrats and even encouraged some Republicans to jump ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if it feels different to tell people she’s a Democrat in Orange County than it did a decade ago, Sdao laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, first of all you wouldn’t have said it out loud,” she said, offering an example of how quickly the vibe has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A couple of years ago we had a new Democratic Club — the Democratic Women of South County — and we had women who didn’t want their husbands to know that they were joining a Democratic Club,” she said. “And some of it was because they owned businesses in their town, and it might not help their business — which is you know really hard as the chair of the party to hear. But that’s indicative of the attitude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Sdao added, “The demographics in Orange County are changing. The older white Republicans are dying off — not to be mean, but they are. And you know new younger folks are moving in and in looking at things very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So now we’re loud and proud. We are out of the closet. We are on the street corner. We are marching in the streets, we’re on the beaches, we’re the malls,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Fred Whitaker, who heads up the county Republican party, disagreed that the decline in GOP voters will necessarily mean a blue wave washing over this county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still control 66.6 percent of all seats,” he said “I think that we’re going to hold all of the seats because we have great organizational methods. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's series \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Long Run\u003c/a>\" highlights women candidates in California running for local office for the first time.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2016 election, something changed for Betty Valencia. While at a city council meeting, watching her city's leaders vote to oppose California's sanctuary policies, she decided the only thing to do was to run for city council. She looked at the city council that night, and said \"you're in my seat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked Betty to keep an audio diary for us while she’s out campaigning in her signature red shoes. The following is an excerpt from her audio diary. 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I am an immigrant, I am gay. All of those identities are under attack. if not me, then who?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On shaking things up in her city:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that for a long time people have been afraid in Orange. 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I sought out advice from somebody who's in this field. One of the thing they said was 'Don't say anything about LGBTQ rights.' I did exactly the opposite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On running in a historically conservative city:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I feel like I'm put through the wringer, honestly. But I have to stay honest, stay focused, and repeat my message: I am a qualified candidate and I'm running as I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 756px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11689805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut.jpg 756w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia meeting with congressional candidate, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On meeting congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found this common thread that we both came from these stories where the likelihood of having this success isn't necessarily something people expect. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 28 years old and I'm 47. But we're both willing to work for what we believe in, which is to be included and heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On receiving Dolores Huerta's endorsement:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She asked, 'You're going to have house gatherings?' I said, 'Absolutely I'm going to have house gatherings.' And she says, 'Ok, how are we going to do this?' And when she said the words 'how are we going to do this.' I just about busted up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-800x1065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-800x1065.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-1020x1358.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-901x1200.jpg 901w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-1180x1571.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-960x1279.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-375x499.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty with a campaign volunteer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On organizing a diverse coalition:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know what it feels like to be excluded, one way or the other. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On shaking things up in her city:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that for a long time people have been afraid in Orange. And I think we're tearing down that fear to say, 'you can be you in Orange.'''\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32644_group-qut-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty and her team of volunteers canvas the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On being vocal about LGBTQ issues:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At first I was deterred from running because of my identities. I sought out advice from somebody who's in this field. One of the thing they said was 'Don't say anything about LGBTQ rights.' I did exactly the opposite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On running in a historically conservative city:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I feel like I'm put through the wringer, honestly. But I have to stay honest, stay focused, and repeat my message: I am a qualified candidate and I'm running as I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 756px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11689805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut.jpg 756w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32647_alexandria-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia meeting with congressional candidate, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On meeting congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found this common thread that we both came from these stories where the likelihood of having this success isn't necessarily something people expect. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 28 years old and I'm 47. But we're both willing to work for what we believe in, which is to be included and heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On receiving Dolores Huerta's endorsement:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She asked, 'You're going to have house gatherings?' I said, 'Absolutely I'm going to have house gatherings.' And she says, 'Ok, how are we going to do this?' And when she said the words 'how are we going to do this.' I just about busted up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-800x1065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-800x1065.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-1020x1358.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-901x1200.jpg 901w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-1180x1571.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-960x1279.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-375x499.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32635_32632_transform-qut-1-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty with a campaign volunteer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On organizing a diverse coalition:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know what it feels like to be excluded, one way or the other. So, I bring this new perspective and the amazing power of communication to include people and to be a bridge builder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On reaching out to undocumented Orange residents who can't vote:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very well aware that when I knock on the door perhaps they're going to be able to vote and maybe not. But here's what I tell them: 'It's okay if you can't vote for me. Can you walk with me? Can you advocate for me?' I don't exclude anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the rise of women candidates running for local office:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we lose, we're going to land on safety nets of other women. I want to make sure that everyone knows that we're not going to be alone and we're not going to stop this movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note\u003c/strong>: A link in this story about identification of John and Jane Does contains photos that may be disturbing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, at least 195 homeless people — and probably over 200 — died in Orange County. While most were claimed by their families, at least 17 were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the people who the county classifies as “indigent,” meaning their families could not afford or refused to claim their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have no estate, they have no assets, these are just people living day to day,” says Richard Rodriguez. He’s been working at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocsd.org/divisions/fieldops/coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orange County Coroner’s Office\u003c/a> for 37 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no family. There’s no one that’s willing to take responsibility to move forward with this person’s final destination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to be clear, not every person found dead in Orange County goes to the coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a long list of reasons why a body might end up here. For example, if the death is associated with a crime. If they die of starvation, contagious disease or a drug overdose. Whatever the reason, once they’re wheeled into the coroner’s Santa Ana office, the work begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first step is \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocsd.org/divisions/fieldops/coroner/ud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identification\u003c/a>. It starts with running fingerprints and then, if the deceased is still unidentifiable, looks to other clues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scars or tattoos or circumstances surrounding the death of this individual,” says Rodriguez. “There may be people who know him, maybe offer some guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that doesn’t work, there are dental records Rodriguez and his colleagues can use. They can search through hospital, arrest or DMV records. But finding out who they are? That’s just step one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s office tries to piece together what happened at the end of each person’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, they try to find the families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re obligated to search. According to the coroner’s office, they “can’t just take the burden” of the remains on themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes it can be difficult to get a family to agree to claim their loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be 20 or 30 some-odd years before they even had contact,” explains Rodriguez. “And a lot of times we see because of their history of either drug abuse … problems that they have, a lot of them are mental issues sometimes, and some people just prefer to just live on their own and don’t want to be exposed or known … it’s just in their chemistry, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes families can’t afford the costs associated with claiming their loved one, which can get expensive quickly. Aside from transportation fees, there’s the death certificate, paying for cremation or burial, and other costs associated with saying goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a body is declared “indigent,” it’s turned over to a mortuary. Local mortuaries apply to be part of the program that contracts with the county and operate on one-month rotations, taking the indigent dead to their final resting place for $450 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Gonzalez is the owner, funeral director and embalmer for Reflections Funeral Home in Anaheim. His mortuary is currently on rotation with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they get the call that there’s an indigent death, they make the arrangements: Bodies are cremated and the remains held for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those two years “we charter a boat,” says Gonzalez. “The captain and mates will take out the cremated remains and he’ll have a ceremony in private to scatter those cremated remains at sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire journey can take a couple of years: from cold storage, to an urn, to that final trip out to sea.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Years later they secured $15 million to build the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocsd.org/divisions/fieldops/coroner/cctc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Coroner Training Center\u003c/a>. The doors opened in 2004, and so did the opportunity to provide hands-on courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'There's No Real Dead People in Here'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"What we did is we built just one big wide open room,\" said Assistant Chief Deputy Coroner for Orange County Bruce Lyle on a recent tour. \"There's a drain in the floor in case we needed blood or fluids -- fake fluids -- to mock it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyle, who teaches some of the courses, quickly added, \"There's no real dead people in here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contained inside the room is a set of a two-bedroom apartment built out of plywood. From the outside it doesn't look like much, but inside the place is decorated and furnished with furniture, props and eerily realistic latex dummies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's not a very clean person,\" Lyle said of one dummy. \"He's kind of grubby. He's got a 5 o'clock shadow. You can feel it on his face.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dummy's name, Emmanuel Quin -- or \"Manny\" Quin for short -- provides comic relief to the otherwise grim task of identifying the decedent and determining how long ago he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are certain changes in the body\" Lyle explained, \"and one of them is the decomposition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dummy was commissioned by Burbank's \u003ca href=\"https://www.burmanfoam.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burman Studio\u003c/a> to exhibit signs of decomposition, including discoloration of the skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trainers load the set with other clues, including cigarette butts, an empty bottle of tequila, a dated prescription for pills, and a dried-out slice of pizza in a box on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyle said the barrage of stimuli simulates what investigators typically encounter at the scene of someone's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to sort of teach people to cut through all that business and get to the important stuff,\" Lyle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"The California Coroner's Training Facility in Orange County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg-375x229.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg-520x317.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CoronerTrainingBldg.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Coroner Training Center in Orange County trains coroners from across California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's Dept.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When trainings are in session, actors play bereaved relatives or roommates with information the investigator has to elicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last thing I want to do is have somebody come in and just look at the body and think that that's the extent of their investigation,\" Lyle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the death investigators that come for the training work for one of 41 counties in California where the sheriff and coroner’s office are one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyle, who is also incoming president of the California State Coroners Association, says the philosophy for the training is to get attendees to apply their experience investigating crimes to death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Orange County Sheriff's Department website, \"The ultimate vision of the Training Center’s leadership is to 'raise the bar' in the coroner profession by improving the caliber of investigations conducted throughout the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Varying Levels of Expertise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The level of expertise in death investigations varies widely from county to county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the larger sheriff's departments in Orange County and San Bernardino County created a separate coroner's division and assigned dedicated deputies to investigate deaths, which allowed them to develop expertise over years, even decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648821/how-families-in-san-joaquin-county-pay-for-coroner-mistakes\">How Families Pay for San Joaquin Coroner Mistakes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648821/how-families-in-san-joaquin-county-pay-for-coroner-mistakes\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29311_alt_681-1180x1573.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Smaller counties such as San Joaquin County dedicated a handful of deputies for coroner's work who typically investigate more complex death scenes such as a homicide -- but often patrol deputies who received minimal training in death investigations respond to the scene of a death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's Office is working with the California State Coroners Association to establish an accreditation program for death investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Some Counties Could Be Required to End Sheriff's Role as Coroner\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of those offices could change under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state Senate Bill 1303\u003c/a>. The bill would force several large counties to create a completely separate medical examiner’s office for death investigations -- with a physician in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was introduced by Sen. Richard Pan in response to a scandal in Joaquin County that erupted last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two forensic pathologists who worked for Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633330/autopsy-doctor-quits-alleges-sheriff-interfered-in-death-probes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused him of pressuring them\u003c/a> to change their autopsy findings in deaths involving law enforcement officers. Moore denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors also faulted the inexperience among deputies responding to coroner calls for driving up costs and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648821/how-families-in-san-joaquin-county-pay-for-coroner-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creating backlogs and delays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, SB 1303 would not interfere with the plans to expand coroner training at the facility in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>His name is Cameron High. Says so on his driver’s license, and on his cannabis card. And he has the counterculture aura down pat: dreadlocks, the soft yeah-dude voice and bright conspiratorial smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what he was flashing a few months ago, kicking back on a thin strip of lawn outside a Starbucks on the outskirts of Anaheim. His drug of choice had been Xanax, he said, and since coming here from Georgia just two years ago to kick the habit, the 22-year-old has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call it the sober-living dance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At many of these group homes, he said, there’s no sober in sober living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re more like party houses, rife with the drugs and alcohol use they’re supposed to prevent — temptations that may have contributed to High’s problem: He was arraigned in a Santa Ana courtroom in April on felony drug charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the homes in question, privately owned and in nice residential areas, are unlicensed, unsupervised and nearly impossible to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Group-Homes/California-Land-Use-Laws-Related-to-Recovery-Facil\">regulate\u003c/a>. When residents’ or their parents’ cash or insurance money dries up, they’re dropped off in town and join the ranks of the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_SoberLivingReport_2016.pdf\">all over the state\u003c/a>, with the largest concentration of sober-living homes in Orange County. California lawmakers are considering ways to monitor them, with five proposals that would establish new guidelines for how they are run and impose fines on some practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes don’t provide drug-rehabilitation programs. They’re meant to offer a supportive environment for like-minded peers recovering from addiction, sometimes in conjunction with a 12-step program. Local officials and patient advocates note that many of these places, like many licensed homes, do good work. But not all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.’\u003ccite>Cameron High, former sobriety home resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A homeowner can make $10,000 a month or more by charging rent for typically six or so people, often through health insurance payments. They may find a supply of residents through “\u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/examining-concerns-patient-brokering-addiction-treatment-fraud/\">patient brokers\u003c/a>,” middlemen around the country who advertise to recruit drug-using, troubled youngsters looking for a change of scene in sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those brokers can “sell” a block of patients to a recovery facility. Licensed venues often have financial relationships with unlicensed ones, and patients are sometimes shifted between them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High was one of those recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Georgia, he was dealing pills and in constant trouble with his parents and the law. Over the past two years, he has leapfrogged from Huntington Beach to Laguna Beach to Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local chambers of commerce have named this area the Orange Coast. But with the proliferation of sober-living homes here in the past decade came another name: Rehab Riviera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is home to 1,028 licensed drug-rehabilitation facilities, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/Residential_and_Outpatient_Licensed_and_or_Certified_Facilities_List_092016.pdf\">state officials\u003c/a>, and some estimates peg the number of unlicensed sober-living homes at about \u003ca href=\"https://malibucity.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/2829?fileID=3471\">2,000 more\u003c/a>. Roughly 15 percent of those facilities call Orange County home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small beachside community of Costa Mesa alone (population about 113,000) has an estimated 160 sober-living homes and rehab facilities, half of them unlicensed, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.costamesaca.gov/index.aspx?page=2116\">city officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a huge problem for Costa Mesa, as it is for other cities, some of which have had limited success in curtailing the spread of such homes with zoning ordinances, mostly \u003ca href=\"http://192.168.1.1:8181/http:/www.costamesaca.gov/ftp/council/agenda/2017/2017-07-18/CC-5-Attach-2.pdf\">restricting\u003c/a> the concentration of them in certain areas. There are still complaints from neighbors about noise, secondhand smoke, too many cars. But the bigger issue is residents turned out to the streets, a practice called curbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a big challenge for a small city,” said Rick Francis, a former city administrator in Costa Mesa who recently switched to a quieter job as assistant airport director at the John Wayne Airport. He calls curbing the number-one cause of homelessness in Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You suddenly have a lot of young, drug-addicted people living on the street. That’s a problem for police, for hospitals, for social services,” adding as many as 200 newly homeless a year just in Costa Mesa, he said. “They end up using up a lot of city resources,” he said. “We don’t have the social-service infrastructure to handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis cautioned that “this is not happening in all of the unlicensed sober-living homes. 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And U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, a Pasadena Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4684\">bill\u003c/a> in Congress that would direct the federal Department of Health and Human Services to develop best-practices guidelines for recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sober-living homes are protected by the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1\">Fair Housing Act\u003c/a>. That law protects the right of individuals with disabilities to live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of concern with the group homes that are unlicensed, but they’re protected by the Fair Housing Act,” said state Sen. Ed Hernandez, an Azusa Democrat and author of the revocation proposal. “A drug dependency is considered a disability. … So there are limitations on what we can do in the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s as it should be, according to Sherry Daley, governmental affairs director for the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals, a trade group representing recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These homes are not licensed, and they shouldn’t be licensed,” Daley said. “They’re where people live and come together in a communal living arrangement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-in-my-back-yard sentiment from municipalities is understandable but unwarranted, she said. The homes are legal and here to stay, she said, so cities should work with them rather than against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just comes down to how do you achieve sober-living homes living with the community in harmony,” Daley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron High said he had to travel pretty far inland to find a sober-living home that really was sober, one in Anaheim where the residents are older and a little more serious about giving up drugs. For this reason, his drug use and attraction to the easy, big-money payoff for dealing them have grown during his time in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here it’s crazy,” High said. “Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thinking, I may have to go somewhere else,” he continued, “… because around here, there’s just too much stuff around, and too many people I know who pull at you, you know? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the homes in question, privately owned and in nice residential areas, are unlicensed, unsupervised and nearly impossible to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Group-Homes/California-Land-Use-Laws-Related-to-Recovery-Facil\">regulate\u003c/a>. When residents’ or their parents’ cash or insurance money dries up, they’re dropped off in town and join the ranks of the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_SoberLivingReport_2016.pdf\">all over the state\u003c/a>, with the largest concentration of sober-living homes in Orange County. California lawmakers are considering ways to monitor them, with five proposals that would establish new guidelines for how they are run and impose fines on some practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes don’t provide drug-rehabilitation programs. They’re meant to offer a supportive environment for like-minded peers recovering from addiction, sometimes in conjunction with a 12-step program. Local officials and patient advocates note that many of these places, like many licensed homes, do good work. But not all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.’\u003ccite>Cameron High, former sobriety home resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A homeowner can make $10,000 a month or more by charging rent for typically six or so people, often through health insurance payments. They may find a supply of residents through “\u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/examining-concerns-patient-brokering-addiction-treatment-fraud/\">patient brokers\u003c/a>,” middlemen around the country who advertise to recruit drug-using, troubled youngsters looking for a change of scene in sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those brokers can “sell” a block of patients to a recovery facility. Licensed venues often have financial relationships with unlicensed ones, and patients are sometimes shifted between them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High was one of those recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Georgia, he was dealing pills and in constant trouble with his parents and the law. Over the past two years, he has leapfrogged from Huntington Beach to Laguna Beach to Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local chambers of commerce have named this area the Orange Coast. But with the proliferation of sober-living homes here in the past decade came another name: Rehab Riviera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is home to 1,028 licensed drug-rehabilitation facilities, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/Residential_and_Outpatient_Licensed_and_or_Certified_Facilities_List_092016.pdf\">state officials\u003c/a>, and some estimates peg the number of unlicensed sober-living homes at about \u003ca href=\"https://malibucity.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/2829?fileID=3471\">2,000 more\u003c/a>. Roughly 15 percent of those facilities call Orange County home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small beachside community of Costa Mesa alone (population about 113,000) has an estimated 160 sober-living homes and rehab facilities, half of them unlicensed, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.costamesaca.gov/index.aspx?page=2116\">city officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a huge problem for Costa Mesa, as it is for other cities, some of which have had limited success in curtailing the spread of such homes with zoning ordinances, mostly \u003ca href=\"http://192.168.1.1:8181/http:/www.costamesaca.gov/ftp/council/agenda/2017/2017-07-18/CC-5-Attach-2.pdf\">restricting\u003c/a> the concentration of them in certain areas. There are still complaints from neighbors about noise, secondhand smoke, too many cars. But the bigger issue is residents turned out to the streets, a practice called curbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a big challenge for a small city,” said Rick Francis, a former city administrator in Costa Mesa who recently switched to a quieter job as assistant airport director at the John Wayne Airport. He calls curbing the number-one cause of homelessness in Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You suddenly have a lot of young, drug-addicted people living on the street. That’s a problem for police, for hospitals, for social services,” adding as many as 200 newly homeless a year just in Costa Mesa, he said. “They end up using up a lot of city resources,” he said. “We don’t have the social-service infrastructure to handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis cautioned that “this is not happening in all of the unlicensed sober-living homes. 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And U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, a Pasadena Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4684\">bill\u003c/a> in Congress that would direct the federal Department of Health and Human Services to develop best-practices guidelines for recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sober-living homes are protected by the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1\">Fair Housing Act\u003c/a>. That law protects the right of individuals with disabilities to live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of concern with the group homes that are unlicensed, but they’re protected by the Fair Housing Act,” said state Sen. 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Add to this what Orange County Board of Supervisors Chair Andrew Do calls a “failure” of civic leadership over many years, and a homelessness crisis has blossomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said the “good mayors” — the ones seeking solutions — were present in his courtroom for the hearing. He shamed those he called the “bad mayors” for being absent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayors from Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Tustin and Irvine stood at a podium in front of the judge and spoke about the shelters in their cities, what they had done, what they would like to do. Carter grilled them, praised them and reminded the courtroom that he could issue a temporary restraining order on any city’s anti-camping ordinance to get officials to step up and build shelters in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the talk was about money needed to create permanent supportive housing. Numbers flew around: Was there $500 million in an account? More? Less? 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It’s embarrassing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors recently pledged around $90.5 million to help find permanent supportive housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Judge Carter vs. Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The liveliest exchange came when Carter got Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner in his sights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagner told the judge that Irvine has identified at least one other potential place to put some beds, and he explained Irvine’s outcry at the idea of the temporary shelter in the context of past experience, when churches tried to help the homeless and had trouble with a few violent people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want this court to know that we appreciate you (Judge Carter) moving this forward and that Irvine stands ready to help,” said Wagner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then the judge questioned the mayor. Here’s how that went:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge David O. 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I’m blessed that I took those unorthodox walks down that (Santa Ana) river.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter recalled how people told him that police picked them up and told them to get down to the Santa Ana River. And he invited Wagner to go out to the Civic Plaza homeless encampment with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The third kind of dumping?” A fast transport system by some agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge Carter\u003c/strong>: “So, which kind of dumping are you talking about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor Wagner\u003c/strong>: “I’m going to tell you that we have done none of those things. I’ve been assured by our police that the only transport we do is contact the shelters in some of these other cities — do you have room? — and they are transported there. I am unaware of any efforts to transport them back. Irvine is fully behind the concept of regional centers. 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