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Four years later, after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87\">death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u003c/a>, Senate Republicans put the pedal to the metal just weeks before the election, rapidly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927640619/senate-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court\">pushing through the confirmation of judge, now Justice, Amy Coney Barrett\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, conservatives are just as determined to keep or expand their 6–to–3 Supreme Court majority. So what happens if Kamala Harris is elected president, but the Senate flips to Republican control?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll give you the Merrick Garland treatment,” says conservative scholar Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law, Houston. “We’ll have the seat open for three or four years,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Trump win and a Democratic Senate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Would the reverse happen if Trump is elected but the Senate remains in Democratic hands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats like to think of themselves as “more responsible” than Republicans, but the pressures would be enormous to do unto the Republicans what they did to the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans “essentially crossed the Rubicon” in 2016 with the Garland nomination, says Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, who has written extensively about the court’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that we’re in a world of … controversial revolutionary decisions, neither party would be likely to give a positive vote to a nominee of the president from the opposite party,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NYU law professor Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel for two years in the Obama administration, notes that institutional norms aren’t necessarily permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole notion that “a certain process has to be respected, regardless of the potential impact on one party or another,” he says. “It’s not a norm if it doesn’t command general adherence anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what if Trump is elected, and the Senate flips, as expected, to Republican control? The only thing then standing between nominating and confirming a new Trump-appointed justice would be two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. If the Republican margin in the Senate is 52–48, their votes aren’t needed; JD Vance would cast the tie-breaking vote as vice president even if Murkowski and Collins voted against the nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what recourse would the Democrats have in a situation like that? How would they fight a Trump nomination? After all, there is no filibuster anymore to block a vote. Democrats abolished the filibuster for lower court nominations in 2011 in response to Republicans routinely blocking judicial nominations. Republicans then abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017 after Trump was elected and nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat that GOP leader McConnell had held open after Scalia’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are only candid about this when speaking not for attribution. As one put it, “We would largely be left with the politics of personal destruction, investigating every aspect of a nominee’s life to find something that is disqualifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unforeseen circumstances\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, right now, there is no vacant seat at the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the deaths of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg prove that nothing is certain, they were far older than any member of the current court. Scalia was just days shy of turning 80 and Ginsburg was 87. In contrast, the oldest members of the current court are also among its most conservative. Justice Clarence Thomas is 76 and Justice Samuel Alito is 74, followed by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, and Chief Justice Roberts, 69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most politically active conservative thinkers would like to see Thomas and Alito step down for younger conservative judges who could serve for many decades longer and move the conservative needle even further to the right. They see as their “farm team” the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of appeals, populated with former Thomas and Alito clerks whose decisions are often reversed even by the current conservatives on the Supreme Court, including the men they once clerked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who know Thomas and Alito well are adamant that neither man would leave the court at this point. Several NPR spoke to would only speak candidly on condition of anonymity. “What would he do, go home and fly flags with his wife at the beach?” said one Alito ally, adding that the court is “Alito’s life.” As for Thomas, his friends and former clerks say he would see retirement as “caving into his critics” and being “driven off the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there are no retirements or unexpected health crises, the court could well remain as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A period of dysfunction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That leaves the lower courts, which get less attention than the Supreme Court, but decide many more cases. During the last year of the Obama administration, when Republicans controlled the Senate, not one nominee to a regional appeals court was confirmed, though 10 trial court judges, a tiny fraction of vacancies, were. The result was that on the day Trump was sworn in, there were 105 judicial vacancies to fill.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11992718,forum_2010101906513,news_12011637\"]Professor Blackman expects that if Harris is elected and Republicans control the Senate, something similar could happen for a full four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may just stop, confirming” any lower court judges, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other conservatives think that is far too dire a prediction. They expect that especially in states where both senators are Democrats, there would be horse-trading and a deal that allocates judicial seats — basically, the Democrats get one, for example, for every two or three GOP nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard’s Feldman says he sees no light at the end of the tunnel when the parties are split, with a president of one party, and a Senate controlled by the other party. But dysfunction, he thinks could lead to change … eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have what I call the incredible shrinking Supreme Court,” he says, adding that “if we have divided government and we have justices naturally retiring or dying and they don’t get replaced, we could go down to eight, to seven, to six and eventually the public might start to notice and complain about it, and then some sort of compromise formation might be reached.” That said, he acknowledges a process like that could take 15 or 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he’s right, the end of dysfunction is a long way of off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Justice Clarence Thomas, the most senior and seasoned Supreme Court justice, provides a lesson of longevity and power. If he serves another three years, he will break Justice William O. Douglas’ 36-year record for length of service on the court. 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"content": "\u003cp>The end of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">2024 election season\u003c/a> is just days away, bringing — for better or worse — a conclusion to the uncertainty over who will hold the offices of power come next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another ray of light awaits us just beyond the horizon: the unceasing avalanche of campaign flyers will finally stop. But in the meantime, where do they all end up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I check my mail lately, I’m confronted by a mass of colorful ads praising one candidate or measure or condemning another. And although I already know who I’m voting for, the flyers keep coming. They clog my mailbox and litter the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I know I’m not alone in this. Campaigns and political groups are sending out tons of these mailers, especially in San Francisco, where a contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">mayoral race\u003c/a> has become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">city’s most expensive in recent history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last two weeks of October alone, Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012016/aaron-peskin-sees-boost-in-final-stretch-for-sf-mayor-can-he-keep-momentum-up\">Aaron Peskin’s mayoral campaign\u003c/a> sent out over 225,000 mailers, according to public filings with the San Francisco Ethics Commission. They cost his campaign roughly $175,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron Peskin gets things done,” reads the mailer, showing the Board of Supervisors president shaking hands and smiling. The flip side includes quotes from notable supporters singing his praises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who live with roommates, as I do, it’s common to see duplicates of the same flyer addressed to each voting-age member of the household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, all of the mailers I receive end up in the recycling bin, off to parts unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Robert Reed, spokesperson for Recology, San Francisco’s recycling company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest season for campaign mailers … so, yes, we’re seeing more of them here,” Reed said during a recent tour of Recycle Central, a processing facility on Pier 96.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Recology, hundreds of tons of recycling is loaded daily onto conveyor belts where the materials are sorted. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every day, Recology trucks bring roughly 450 tons of recycling to the site. Those materials are then loaded onto conveyor belts, where nonrecyclable materials are pulled out, and the rest are separated into categories through a mix of by-hand and machine sorting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the conveyor belt, the boldly colored mailers stood out, dotting the blur of moving waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed explained that, as far as paper goes, recyclers are happy to get campaign mailers because they’re printed on high-grade stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These oversized postcards are printed on a paper called cardstock, and it has a long fiber, and it’s a heavy paper,” Reed said. “You can feel the quality of it. It is high-quality paper, and we want to make sure that it gets recycled.”[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed reached into the bunch and quickly plucked out a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They included one supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">Daniel Lurie’s campaign for mayor\u003c/a>, another denouncing Lurie as the “trust fund guy” — referencing the fact that he is heir to the Levi Strauss fortune — and another in support of Supervisor Catherine Stefani’s run for the California Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the paper products are isolated, they’re compressed into large bales and moved by forklift onto shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sort and bale over 100 bales of mixed paper here at Recycle Central every day. On a good day, it’s 130 bales,” Reed said. “They then go to a paper mill where they’re made into new paper products like cereal boxes. And that’s good. That saves trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who knows, maybe after a few cycles of paper reincarnation, that discarded paper will come back as a new mailer for the next election.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The end of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">2024 election season\u003c/a> is just days away, bringing — for better or worse — a conclusion to the uncertainty over who will hold the offices of power come next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another ray of light awaits us just beyond the horizon: the unceasing avalanche of campaign flyers will finally stop. But in the meantime, where do they all end up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I check my mail lately, I’m confronted by a mass of colorful ads praising one candidate or measure or condemning another. And although I already know who I’m voting for, the flyers keep coming. They clog my mailbox and litter the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I know I’m not alone in this. Campaigns and political groups are sending out tons of these mailers, especially in San Francisco, where a contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">mayoral race\u003c/a> has become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">city’s most expensive in recent history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last two weeks of October alone, Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012016/aaron-peskin-sees-boost-in-final-stretch-for-sf-mayor-can-he-keep-momentum-up\">Aaron Peskin’s mayoral campaign\u003c/a> sent out over 225,000 mailers, according to public filings with the San Francisco Ethics Commission. They cost his campaign roughly $175,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron Peskin gets things done,” reads the mailer, showing the Board of Supervisors president shaking hands and smiling. The flip side includes quotes from notable supporters singing his praises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who live with roommates, as I do, it’s common to see duplicates of the same flyer addressed to each voting-age member of the household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, all of the mailers I receive end up in the recycling bin, off to parts unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Robert Reed, spokesperson for Recology, San Francisco’s recycling company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest season for campaign mailers … so, yes, we’re seeing more of them here,” Reed said during a recent tour of Recycle Central, a processing facility on Pier 96.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Recology, hundreds of tons of recycling is loaded daily onto conveyor belts where the materials are sorted. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every day, Recology trucks bring roughly 450 tons of recycling to the site. Those materials are then loaded onto conveyor belts, where nonrecyclable materials are pulled out, and the rest are separated into categories through a mix of by-hand and machine sorting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the conveyor belt, the boldly colored mailers stood out, dotting the blur of moving waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed explained that, as far as paper goes, recyclers are happy to get campaign mailers because they’re printed on high-grade stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These oversized postcards are printed on a paper called cardstock, and it has a long fiber, and it’s a heavy paper,” Reed said. “You can feel the quality of it. It is high-quality paper, and we want to make sure that it gets recycled.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Moderate candidates in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">San Francisco’s mayoral race\u003c/a> — and their well-funded backers — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/sf-ads-farrell-lurie-trump-catch-19863235.php\">directing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/07/mark-farrell-ranked-choice-london-breed/\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/see-how-they-run-breed-and-farrells-mutual-attacks-overshadow-mayoral-debate/\">attacks\u003c/a> against one another in the final stretch of the race, leading some political analysts to see a pathway to victory for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003700/aaron-peskin-wants-to-lead-san-franciscos-journey-to-recovery\">sole progressive on the ticket\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin has trailed moderate opponents in voter polls for months. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010336/new-polls-san-francisco-mayors-race-peskin-lurie-surging\">recent polling shows an uptick in his support\u003c/a>, prompting his progressive allies across the city to amplify their unified messaging in hopes of reaching undecided and late voters. But Peskin, still an underdog in the race between Democrats, faces a tough fight in the final days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrative seven months ago when this race started was that the moderates were united and the progressives were divided. Well, seven months later, it is absolutely the opposite,” Peskin said at a party on Monday hosted by Small Business Forward, which \u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessforward.org/\">endorsed\u003c/a> him for mayor. “You hear all of this billionaire-on-billionaire violence going on. And meanwhile, we’ve really come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after announcing he would run, Peskin, who campaigns on policies like expanding rent control, became the target of his political rivals, such as the billionaire-backed political organizing group GrowSF’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986162/anybody-could-win-san-francisco-mayoral-race-poll-suggests-with-many-voters-undecided\">“anybody but Peskin”\u003c/a> message. Early polling showed incumbent Mayor London Breed neck-and-neck with former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, who has tacked himself to the right of Breed, while nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie, who has never run for elected office, led with voters’ second-choice picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, more recent polling shows that early enthusiasm for Farrell has waned while Peskin’s support has steadily increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s a fight to get into the top two, and it’s pretty clear three candidates that could get there are Lurie, Breed and Peskin,” said progressive political consultant Jim Ross. “It feels like Mark Farrell is fading in a lot of the polling we are seeing. Usually, in San Francisco politics, if you slide in the polls in the last two weeks, it’s really hard to regain that momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]That shift may be due to older, conservative-leaning voters tending to decide and vote earlier, while younger, more progressive voters often decide later, explained political consultant Eric Jaye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco mayoral campaigns, voters tend to break out into their key allegiances later in the campaign,” said Jaye, who works with a PAC formed by labor unions supporting Peskin. “Peskin’s core constituencies tend to be late-breaking. And Farrell coalesced his base early with the most conservative voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sprawling “Unity Rally” on Saturday, Peskin appeared alongside supporters for supervisor candidates Jackie Fielder, Stephen Torres, incumbents Dean Preston and Connie Chan, and other progressives on the November ballot. The campaigns gathered at a park in the Panhandle, holding signs and tabling for their candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is go time,” said rally attendee Christin Evans, a small business owner and city commissioner who is voting for Peskin and has been door-knocking for Fielder. “It feels exactly like the right time. We have been watching submissions of ballots to the Department of Elections and know people will vote the two weekends leading into the election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has elected Democratic mayors exclusively since 1964, and most in recent years have led moderate administrations. However, in 2019, voters elected a progressive-majority Board of Supervisors, and progressive leaders hope to retain that power in City Hall, even as the county’s official Democratic Party shifted to a moderate majority on its governing board this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re seeing much more participation of some of the wealthiest residents in this city’s politics,” political writer and analyst Steve Phillips said. “And [it] does have the effect of shifting the city’s political balance of power more to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the race enters its final phase, moderate candidates are increasingly targeting each other with attack ads on TV, text message blasts and mailers. Farrell, for example, has faced criticism for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. Farrell has repeatedly defended his strategy, saying that his legal team approved it. Meanwhile, text message ads from the Yes on D PAC criticized Lurie’s lack of government experience as “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed, and Aaron Peskin (right) on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phillips said Peskin isn’t the only one benefiting from the wave of anti-Farrell and anti-Lurie media. Breed, the only woman and person of color among the leading four candidates, has focused her campaign on understanding San Francisco’s biggest issues because she’s the only one on the ticket who has lived and overcome them firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008296]“My sister suffered from addiction. She lost her battle with drugs and lost her life,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008296/mayor-london-breed-says-shes-just-getting-started\">Breed told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “When I think about why I’m in public service in the first place, it’s because I’m trying to make sure this city makes the right kinds of investments to stop that kind of thing from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her track record of bringing that lived experience to programs and decisions at City Hall has resonated particularly among voters in the city’s Black and Latino communities. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/mayor-breed-black-latino-19858152.php\">October poll from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> found that nearly half of Black San Francisco voters listed Breed as their top pick for mayor, followed by 37% of Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a resident of San Francisco, there is a tsunami of materials coming in the mail, largely for the white guys, so it does bring in a reconsideration of London Breed in this context. I do think she may be getting a second look because of that,” Phillips said. “The challenge that Peskin faces is the challenge that white progressives face in this city. His base may not be wide enough to necessarily capture communities of color’s enthusiasm, and that will be a barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed has also faced pushback for championing punitive policing measures that in San Francisco are likely to fall disproportionately on communities of color, such as increasing arrests of drug users or requiring drug screening for welfare recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the shifts, most polls still show Peskin trailing Breed and Lurie for first-choice votes. And Lurie — an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who has raised more than any mayoral candidate in the city’s history — continues to poll strongly among both first and second-choice votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='san-francisco-mayor-election']Peskin’s campaign has fundraised a modest amount \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">in comparison to his billionaire-supported competitors\u003c/a>. He has nabbed big donations from labor unions and a broad base of small, individual contributions, totaling around $2.5 million — a far cry from a pro-Lurie PAC totaling nearly $10 million, which includes $8.7 million from his own fortune. Breed’s campaign has raised $3.1 million, including $1.45 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and $850,000 from cryptocurrency investor Chris Larsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell received nearly $1 million from conservative donor William Oberndorf and $500,000 from real estate investor Thomas Coates. Meanwhile, billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz, who penned an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/opinion/aaron-peskin-san-francisco-politics-housing.html\">op-ed in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> attacking Peskin in October\u003c/a>, has contributed nearly $3.1 million to Proposition D, a measure that would cut the number of city commissions in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only candidate with momentum at this point is Aaron Peskin and the candidate who is fading apparently under the weight of very, very serious allegations around campaign finance impropriety is Mark Farrell,” Jaye says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now, he said, remains: “Will Peskin’s momentum continue?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Moderate candidates in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">San Francisco’s mayoral race\u003c/a> — and their well-funded backers — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/sf-ads-farrell-lurie-trump-catch-19863235.php\">directing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/07/mark-farrell-ranked-choice-london-breed/\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/see-how-they-run-breed-and-farrells-mutual-attacks-overshadow-mayoral-debate/\">attacks\u003c/a> against one another in the final stretch of the race, leading some political analysts to see a pathway to victory for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003700/aaron-peskin-wants-to-lead-san-franciscos-journey-to-recovery\">sole progressive on the ticket\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin has trailed moderate opponents in voter polls for months. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010336/new-polls-san-francisco-mayors-race-peskin-lurie-surging\">recent polling shows an uptick in his support\u003c/a>, prompting his progressive allies across the city to amplify their unified messaging in hopes of reaching undecided and late voters. But Peskin, still an underdog in the race between Democrats, faces a tough fight in the final days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrative seven months ago when this race started was that the moderates were united and the progressives were divided. Well, seven months later, it is absolutely the opposite,” Peskin said at a party on Monday hosted by Small Business Forward, which \u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessforward.org/\">endorsed\u003c/a> him for mayor. “You hear all of this billionaire-on-billionaire violence going on. And meanwhile, we’ve really come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after announcing he would run, Peskin, who campaigns on policies like expanding rent control, became the target of his political rivals, such as the billionaire-backed political organizing group GrowSF’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986162/anybody-could-win-san-francisco-mayoral-race-poll-suggests-with-many-voters-undecided\">“anybody but Peskin”\u003c/a> message. Early polling showed incumbent Mayor London Breed neck-and-neck with former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, who has tacked himself to the right of Breed, while nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie, who has never run for elected office, led with voters’ second-choice picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, more recent polling shows that early enthusiasm for Farrell has waned while Peskin’s support has steadily increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s a fight to get into the top two, and it’s pretty clear three candidates that could get there are Lurie, Breed and Peskin,” said progressive political consultant Jim Ross. “It feels like Mark Farrell is fading in a lot of the polling we are seeing. Usually, in San Francisco politics, if you slide in the polls in the last two weeks, it’s really hard to regain that momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That shift may be due to older, conservative-leaning voters tending to decide and vote earlier, while younger, more progressive voters often decide later, explained political consultant Eric Jaye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco mayoral campaigns, voters tend to break out into their key allegiances later in the campaign,” said Jaye, who works with a PAC formed by labor unions supporting Peskin. “Peskin’s core constituencies tend to be late-breaking. And Farrell coalesced his base early with the most conservative voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sprawling “Unity Rally” on Saturday, Peskin appeared alongside supporters for supervisor candidates Jackie Fielder, Stephen Torres, incumbents Dean Preston and Connie Chan, and other progressives on the November ballot. The campaigns gathered at a park in the Panhandle, holding signs and tabling for their candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is go time,” said rally attendee Christin Evans, a small business owner and city commissioner who is voting for Peskin and has been door-knocking for Fielder. “It feels exactly like the right time. We have been watching submissions of ballots to the Department of Elections and know people will vote the two weekends leading into the election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has elected Democratic mayors exclusively since 1964, and most in recent years have led moderate administrations. However, in 2019, voters elected a progressive-majority Board of Supervisors, and progressive leaders hope to retain that power in City Hall, even as the county’s official Democratic Party shifted to a moderate majority on its governing board this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re seeing much more participation of some of the wealthiest residents in this city’s politics,” political writer and analyst Steve Phillips said. “And [it] does have the effect of shifting the city’s political balance of power more to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the race enters its final phase, moderate candidates are increasingly targeting each other with attack ads on TV, text message blasts and mailers. Farrell, for example, has faced criticism for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. Farrell has repeatedly defended his strategy, saying that his legal team approved it. Meanwhile, text message ads from the Yes on D PAC criticized Lurie’s lack of government experience as “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed, and Aaron Peskin (right) on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phillips said Peskin isn’t the only one benefiting from the wave of anti-Farrell and anti-Lurie media. Breed, the only woman and person of color among the leading four candidates, has focused her campaign on understanding San Francisco’s biggest issues because she’s the only one on the ticket who has lived and overcome them firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Backers of Proposition 36, appearing before voters on next week’s ballot, promise their tough-on-crime measure will create “real accountability” for retail theft, fentanyl use and homelessness. But with no funding for drug treatment, police hiring or housing, experts say the measure could instead reduce money for existing rehabilitation programs if it passes as is widely expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 would make it easier for prosecutors to send repeat shoplifters and drug users to jail or prison — and aims to use those felony charges to pressure drug addicts into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do that by rolling back provisions of a ballot initiative passed by state voters in 2014, known as Proposition 47. Proposition 47 downgraded low-level thefts and drug possession to misdemeanors, and it diverted state savings from incarcerating fewer people into programs, including mental health and drug treatment, school truancy and dropout prevention and victim services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Proposition 47’s passage, the state has rerouted approximately $800 million to those programs through grants — funding that could diminish significantly if Proposition 36 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfunded and unfortunately, it may impact some existing drug treatment and mental health services,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news conference on Oct. 28 when asked about his opposition to Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While critics, including the governor, frame the measure as a return to the tough-on-crime policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which led to overcrowded prisons, backers, including Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley, argue the ballot measure is “reasoned and thoughtful, designed to narrowly address issues that are reducing the quality of life of Californians.”[aside postID='elections_1915' label='2024 Voter Guide: California Propositions' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Propositions-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png' herolink='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california']At a Sept. 10 hearing in the state Capitol, Haley identified those issues as rising homelessness and retail theft and “a startling proliferation of opioid-related deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 36 incentivizes drug treatment for addicts by giving them choices, by giving them determinative agency in their own lives. … It allows prosecutors to treat an offender with a single theft differently than someone who is a serial offender,” she said. “And it allows prosecutors to treat fentanyl-like the scourge that it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say those promises may be difficult to keep without a huge influx of resources, given the state’s limited drug treatment capacity, its shortage of police officers and the ongoing housing crisis. Meanwhile, the ballot measure is likely to drive up jail and prison spending, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024\">according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO estimates Proposition 36 would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, partly by increasing the state prison population “by around a few thousand people,” roughly the capacity of one state prison. It would also increase the number of people in local jails and on probation supervision and decrease the money from Proposition 47 for treatment programs by tens of millions of dollars each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the state, as well as many local governments, are facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">budget shortfalls\u003c/a>. San Diego County supervisors recently declined to endorse Proposition 36 after conducting an analysis that concluded the ballot measure would cost the county $58 million a year, could push its jail population beyond its system capacity and would reduce funding for Proposition 47 programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Law enforcement staffing \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 36 argue that by making shoplifting and other low-level thefts misdemeanors, it has undercut police officers’ ability to hold people accountable for those crimes. But there’s nothing preventing police from arresting misdemeanor offenders now — except, according to many in law enforcement, their own resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper, a former lawmaker and longtime critic of criminal justice reforms, told lawmakers at the September hearing that his department doesn’t “have the resources to go after every misdemeanor offender” — and that when faced with a decision between responding to a violent offense or a property crime, they will choose the more serious incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the resources for the misdemeanor stuff, the day in and day out stuff because of Prop. 47,” he said. “We only have so much capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper blamed Proposition 47 for limiting police response to minor crimes. However, that measure didn’t directly impact police staffing, \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/wp-content/uploads/PORAC-Police-Staffing-Brief-2023-Updates.pdf\">which hit a 30-year low in California\u003c/a>, with 3,600 officers lost between 2020–2022, according to the Police Officers Research Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 wouldn’t change that staffing crisis said Tom Hoffman, who headed the state’s parole department from 2006–2009 and spent over 30 years as a police officer. The measure does not include any new money for police agencies — and in most cases, police officers will have no way of knowing when a shoplifting call comes in whether it will qualify as a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cases are the lowest priority,” he said, adding that they should be. “There are 35,000 (misdemeanor) warrants for people in Sacramento County alone for violations of these crimes. And the sheriff freely admits he’s not going to go find them, he’s not going to arrest them, and he won’t accept them being booked into his jail. And [Proposition] 36 isn’t going to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin Probation Chief Steve Jackson supports Proposition 36, saying it would “return balance” to the criminal justice system by allowing more severe penalties for repeat offenders. But he acknowledged that some of its promises may not be easy to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money written into it to fund any of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A solution to fentanyl and homelessness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 backers are leaning heavily on the ballot measure’s provisions related to drug possession and use — and what they frame as a connection to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They note that since Proposition 47 passed, there’s been a sharp decline in participation in drug courts and other diversion programs, which offer someone facing a criminal charge the option of participating in treatment and having those charges dropped. They connect that decline to the rise in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a massive explosion in drug addiction, particularly fentanyl, in the last ten years in California since Prop. 47 passed. And that’s associated also with a massive increase in homelessness,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who helped craft Proposition 36, said at an Oct. 23 news conference.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12005230,forum_2010101907188,news_12009603\"]“There are lots of reasons for people being homeless, but one of the reasons we know very well is serious addiction,” he added. “And because of Prop. 47, they can use fentanyl and heroin every single day, multiple times a day. And it’s a ticket. There’s literally no incentive for them to get help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 would let prosecutors charge someone with a felony if they’re caught possessing “hard drugs” like fentanyl more than twice — and offer them court-mandated drug treatment to avoid that felony. Reisig said this would fix what he sees as one of Proposition 47’s major shortcomings: that because drug possession was lowered to a misdemeanor, people have no reason to agree to treatment when they’re arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#courts\">A KQED analysis\u003c/a> of more than a dozen counties shows he’s right that drug court participation is down sharply since Proposition 47’s passage — but drug treatment programs are still widely utilized, said Gary McCoy, vice president of policy at HealthRIGHT 360, which provides substance use disorder treatment, mental health services and other health care to over 49,000 Californians annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in San Francisco, which has some of the most robust treatment networks in the state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.findtreatment-sf.org/\">fewer than 40 residential treatment beds are available\u003c/a> out of the city’s 575 total. And in some rural counties, the options are even slimmer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money to expand treatment in the proposition,” he said, noting that if someone can’t get into treatment and is facing a felony charge, they will likely be kept in jail. “It’s promising to incarcerate people again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisig rejects this argument, saying that Proposition 36 isn’t “reinventing the wheel” but simply bringing back programs that existed prior to 2014. Jackson, the probation chief, said some counties may struggle to find treatment space, but he believes many, including San Joaquin County, do have space available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue the measure’s only impact on homelessness would come through increased incarceration, noting it contains no provisions or funding for housing or shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point to recent state laws and initiatives to expand mental health and drug treatment options, including Proposition 1 in March, which Newsom wrote. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At a Sept. 10 hearing in the state Capitol, Haley identified those issues as rising homelessness and retail theft and “a startling proliferation of opioid-related deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 36 incentivizes drug treatment for addicts by giving them choices, by giving them determinative agency in their own lives. … It allows prosecutors to treat an offender with a single theft differently than someone who is a serial offender,” she said. “And it allows prosecutors to treat fentanyl-like the scourge that it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say those promises may be difficult to keep without a huge influx of resources, given the state’s limited drug treatment capacity, its shortage of police officers and the ongoing housing crisis. Meanwhile, the ballot measure is likely to drive up jail and prison spending, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024\">according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO estimates Proposition 36 would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, partly by increasing the state prison population “by around a few thousand people,” roughly the capacity of one state prison. It would also increase the number of people in local jails and on probation supervision and decrease the money from Proposition 47 for treatment programs by tens of millions of dollars each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the state, as well as many local governments, are facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">budget shortfalls\u003c/a>. San Diego County supervisors recently declined to endorse Proposition 36 after conducting an analysis that concluded the ballot measure would cost the county $58 million a year, could push its jail population beyond its system capacity and would reduce funding for Proposition 47 programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Law enforcement staffing \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 36 argue that by making shoplifting and other low-level thefts misdemeanors, it has undercut police officers’ ability to hold people accountable for those crimes. But there’s nothing preventing police from arresting misdemeanor offenders now — except, according to many in law enforcement, their own resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper, a former lawmaker and longtime critic of criminal justice reforms, told lawmakers at the September hearing that his department doesn’t “have the resources to go after every misdemeanor offender” — and that when faced with a decision between responding to a violent offense or a property crime, they will choose the more serious incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the resources for the misdemeanor stuff, the day in and day out stuff because of Prop. 47,” he said. “We only have so much capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper blamed Proposition 47 for limiting police response to minor crimes. However, that measure didn’t directly impact police staffing, \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/wp-content/uploads/PORAC-Police-Staffing-Brief-2023-Updates.pdf\">which hit a 30-year low in California\u003c/a>, with 3,600 officers lost between 2020–2022, according to the Police Officers Research Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 wouldn’t change that staffing crisis said Tom Hoffman, who headed the state’s parole department from 2006–2009 and spent over 30 years as a police officer. The measure does not include any new money for police agencies — and in most cases, police officers will have no way of knowing when a shoplifting call comes in whether it will qualify as a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cases are the lowest priority,” he said, adding that they should be. “There are 35,000 (misdemeanor) warrants for people in Sacramento County alone for violations of these crimes. And the sheriff freely admits he’s not going to go find them, he’s not going to arrest them, and he won’t accept them being booked into his jail. And [Proposition] 36 isn’t going to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin Probation Chief Steve Jackson supports Proposition 36, saying it would “return balance” to the criminal justice system by allowing more severe penalties for repeat offenders. But he acknowledged that some of its promises may not be easy to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money written into it to fund any of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A solution to fentanyl and homelessness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 backers are leaning heavily on the ballot measure’s provisions related to drug possession and use — and what they frame as a connection to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They note that since Proposition 47 passed, there’s been a sharp decline in participation in drug courts and other diversion programs, which offer someone facing a criminal charge the option of participating in treatment and having those charges dropped. They connect that decline to the rise in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a massive explosion in drug addiction, particularly fentanyl, in the last ten years in California since Prop. 47 passed. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Clara County is about to elect its first ever Vietnamese American to the Board of Supervisors. In District 2, which includes downtown San Jose and the east side, Madison Nguyen and Betty Duong are vying for a seat that is open for the first time in over a decade. Whoever wins will play a major role in overseeing how the county spends money on issues like health care, housing, and human services.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/propfest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop Fest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/voterguide\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Voter Guide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://kqed.applytojob.com/apply/ECNyMQ12yY/The-Bay-Podcast-Intern\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apply to be our intern\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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=KQINC6021388936&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:04] \u003c/em>I often think that, like County Board of Supervisors is a really overlooked position for local government because they really have the purse strings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:16] \u003c/em>Guy Marzorati is a politics and government correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:21] \u003c/em>The county has a huge budget, in this case, $12 billion roughly, that they’re spending every year. Roughly half of that is just on health care and the hospital system. But supervisors also do oversee other parts of county government, from the sheriffs to the county jails, the elections office and also in the South Bay and Santa Clara County. The board has gotten more involved in housing development in the last decade, using public funds to address the affordable housing shortfall we have in the South Bay. So there’s a huge responsibility and a huge kind of fiscal oversight that the county board has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:02] \u003c/em>There are two open seats now on this board of supervisors. One in District five, which represents Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, and District two, which is the the race we’re talking about today, which is entirely within San Jose and kind of a big deal, right, Guy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:25] \u003c/em>Yeah. I mean, San Jose is the only city in District two and this seat covers a real variety of neighborhoods. You have downtown San Jose, you have some neighborhoods south of downtown and in the city’s East side, Alum Rock, Little Saigon. So it’s really an ethnically and racially diverse district. Just looking at registered voters, it’s basically like a third Latino, a third Asian and a third white. So to win this seat, they’re going to need to run campaigns that really speak to voters across race and ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:58] \u003c/em>And what have voters in this part of the county told you about some of the issues that they’re thinking about this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:07] \u003c/em>Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of, you know, the same issues come up from voters, but from different perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aaron Resendez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:13] \u003c/em>You know, both are good candidates, but I’m voting for Madison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>So I talked to Aaron Resendez. He’s a longtime resident of the East Side. He’s been really involved in community politics. He’s a business consultant. He’s supporting Madison Nguyen in this race. And he talked about kind of just like the feeling of almost like shame he has, as a longtime resident of seeing homelessness and so much blight in his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aaron Resendez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:39] \u003c/em>But he did that, like with Cindy Chapman was that was not enough. And we just have the homeless population so bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:48] \u003c/em>I also talked to Christina Bui, who is a business owner, runs a bridal shop in Line Plaza, and she kind of pointed to the same conditions as Rezendes. But from a small business perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christina Bui: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:00] \u003c/em>We want our streets to be clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:03] \u003c/em>She says. You know, these same kind of issues of blight make it hard to run a business and be in this race is supporting Betty Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christina Bui: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>With the county and the city and their help. You know, we can make this place a better place for not just the community, but for our businesses as well. So let’s get into the race for this open seat in District two, then Guy, a seat that’s left open by supervisor Cindy Chavez, a longtime politician in the South Bay for the last 25 years. But she is turning out of the supervisor seat. What does it mean that she’s leaving?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:46] \u003c/em>Yeah, it’s a big deal. And when you think about kind of the two traditional wings of South Bay politics, the business moderate wing, the kind of labor progressive wing Cindy Chavez has been the face of that labor wing of politics in the South Bay. She’s been in this seat since 2013. So you have the fact of this, you know, longtime voice for labor and voice for these communities leaving. You also have this seat now that I think a lot of labor groups feel like we have to defend this seat on the county board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:18] \u003c/em>Right. And there are two women running to replace her. One is actually Chavez’s chief of staff, Betty Duong, and a former San Jose City Council member, Madison Nguyen. And before we get into the specifics of each candidate, they do have one thing in common, which is that if either of them wins, they’ll be the first Vietnamese-American on the board of supervisors, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:43] \u003c/em>That’s right. And it’s certainly, I think, definitely a moment of history for the Vietnamese-American community in the South Bay. There is roughly 140,000 Vietnamese Americans in Santa Clara County. San Jose, by some estimates, has the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. And this district, District two, has, it’s safe to say, has really been historically shaped by Vietnamese residents. Since they started arriving in the county in the mid-seventies after the fall of Saigon. You know, we saw initially a lot of refugees settle around downtown, really revitalized San Jose’s core in the late 70s. And then leading up to today, where you have these really thriving commercial districts in Little Saigon like Vietnam Town. So Vietnamese-American residents have shaped San Jose for decades and decades. And certainly this moment would be a big achievement in terms of political representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:33] \u003c/em>And both these candidates are really part of that legacy. And I want to talk more a little bit about who they are starting with, Madison Nguyen, what’s her sort of personal bio? 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Her family was then she was picking almonds, apricots, peaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Madison Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:22] \u003c/em>We live in a Section eight, you know, house that was that was subsidized by the local government. And I had, you know, free lunches at the elementary school, middle school and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:34] \u003c/em>She went to UC Santa Cruz. She was eventually a community college instructor at Danza and then eventually ran for this local school board seat in the Franklin McKinley School District. She became, at that time, the first Vietnamese-American woman in state history to hold public office. She also was the first Vietnamese-American council member in San Jose history when she won election in 2005, later became the city’s vice mayor. So she’s already, you know, made history and been a real name in South Bay politics before this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:05] \u003c/em>And how does when talk about the issues that matter to her in this race for board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:13] \u003c/em>So when really comes from that more moderate business flank of South Bay politics, although she had labor support earlier in her career, she’s more of a business aligned candidate at this point. 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But before we get there, we have to get them transitioned into temporary temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:59] \u003c/em>She’s also probably a little bit more to the center in terms of criminal justice and policing. She’s been an outspoken supporter of Proposition 36 to enact some tougher sentences statewide. So that’s kind of the framing policy wise in which she’s approaching this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Madison Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:16] \u003c/em>We need to get drug dealers off the street. We need to make sure that when people commit a felony, that they pay for their crime. And we need to be very diligent in working together to ensure that, you know, that that we provide public safety for our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:35] \u003c/em>And who’s coming out in support of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:37] \u003c/em>So we have seen support for Nguyen come from some of the leading moderate politicians in the region, most notably San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who’s endorsed her candidacy. And I think this speaks to really the integral relationship that the District two supervisor will have with the city of San Jose. Right. As the person representing downtown and much of the east side. Like that’s that’s a really important relationship. And then she’s also gotten financially more of the, you know, kind of traditional business backing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:15] \u003c/em>Coming up, what candidate Betty Duong is all about and how the two represent a shift in Vietnamese-American politics in the South Bay. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:35] \u003c/em>And what about Betty Duong? What is her personal bio and and what was her pathway into politics like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:43] \u003c/em>So my mom and dad came to Santa Clara County in the late 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:47] \u003c/em>Yeah. So Betty Duong is a San Jose native. Her family participated in this refugee resettlement program in Santa Clara County. Growing up in Section eight housing in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:57] \u003c/em>And at that time when we were growing up, we relied heavily on county services as well. So that actually comes with lots of visits from social workers, inspections just to make sure the family’s doing well. So that again, that was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:08] \u003c/em>I think it’s safe to say, like she probably has more government experience than most first time candidates. She’s been Cindy Chavez’s chief of staff. That means basically her like top deputy running her office. She previously ran the county’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. She also led the campaign back in 2016 to pass a huge, affordable housing bond. This was measure A, this really kickstarted the county’s efforts to be involved in the housing development business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:37] \u003c/em>We really were the first county to say, hey, we’re going to step in, even though nothing says it’s our job, we’re going to step and we’re going to take on housing as a response, playing a role for public safety, for health and for health and wellness and for just the humanity of it. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:52] \u003c/em>So the issues that she’s emphasizing, they align a lot with what Madison Women’s emphasized as far as housing, homelessness, public safety, the strategies and the policy views are a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:04] \u003c/em>So my priorities are to build more and more expanse and expand the type of housing that we’re going to build to be able to meet the needs of everybody who is housing insecure and unhoused right now and also build up prevention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:18] \u003c/em>Young would kind of more aligned with Cindy Chavez in supporting the development of affordable housing, putting more money towards prevention of homelessness, making sure that people have, you know, rent assistance and are not, you know, losing their apartments and ending up on the street and probably a kind of a staying the course as far as the county’s focus on permanent affordable housing rather than shifting towards a more shelter based approach in reducing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>I can tell you this, in the years that I have supported and been a part of the county’s housing efforts, helping someone stay house is going to be infinitely easier, right? Less costly, better outcomes and helping someone off the streets. I’m not saying we don’t do that still, but there’s an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:01] \u003c/em>And I imagine Labor is coming out in support of Betty Duong here. Who else?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>Yeah. So she certainly has the support of organized labor in the county and also of a lot of, you know, labor backed politicians, whether that’s Cindy Chavez, whether that’s Dave Cortez, the the state senator, and the labor spectrum, It really is across the board from home health care workers to teamsters to county employees. I think you are seeing a broad labor coalition get behind Yang’s candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:37] \u003c/em>Guy. How are both these candidates pitching themselves to voters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:43] \u003c/em>Yeah, well, one thing I’ve really been interested in watching is like that dynamic of how both of these candidates are pitching themselves as change candidates. Madison Nguyen has been clear the county needs a new approach, like that’s her change argument. She’s offering change on the policy front and a move away from maybe how Cindy Chavez represented the district. Then you have Betty Duong, who has said again and again, like I’m a first time candidate, she’s offering change, really on the personal front. You know, Madison win is a more established figure, but that kind of comes with all the baggage that you see in local politics. You maybe have more established support. You also have a lot of established opposition. I mean, Nguyen survived a recall while she was on the city council. There was a recall attempt against her in 2009 over her push to change the name of Little Saigon to the Saigon business district. You still have some people upset over that. So she has this longer life in public office. And I think Young’s case is the change candidates. I’m a new face on the elected stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:49] \u003c/em>And what about spending here? What’s that looking like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:53] \u003c/em>Yes. So spending’s been really interesting to track. Duong has spent around $460,000 Nguyen has spent around 400,000. So there has been a lot of campaign spending. And then when you look outside of that, like the outside groups who have no limits on their abilities to spend, Yang is definitely benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by labor groups, including groups who are county employees like sheriffs, for example. The real thing that stood out to me, though, and caught my eye in the campaign. Spending is this new dynamic of this group called the California Alliance of Family Owned Businesses. They are funded by fast food franchise owners, and they’ve poured more than half $1 million roughly into this campaign. Both money opposing Duong and also supporting Nguyen. As you all have talked about, like this issue of local fast food wages, labor standards, this is really getting heated up in local politics. And we’ve seen this fight over, you know, fast food working conditions now move to the local level, you know, whoever is going to be elected, the next supervisor. This could potentially be an issue coming before the board whether Santa Clara should enact more local protections for fast food workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:11] \u003c/em>And I mean, again, we are talking about a history making election here between these two. I mean, it would be a historic first, whoever it is who wins. There’s been media coverage about all this. But how front and center has this sort of representation factor been in the actual campaigning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:36] \u003c/em>It’s not the first thing that these candidates are interested in talking about. I think part of that is the fact that with two Vietnamese Americans in this general election, it’s a guarantee that history is going to be made. And I think in some ways that’s kind of opened up the dialog between the candidates to be more about the issues because it’s a foregone conclusion. Whoever wins will become the county’s first Vietnamese-American supervisor. I also think it’s it speaks to districts, to diversity. Right. And just winning the Vietnamese American vote is not going to be enough to win this district. And you’ve seen both candidates really bring to this race long histories of working across community lines. I mean, Madison Nguyen represented District seven on the council. A plurality of residents there are Latino. And so I think the work that she did, you know, backing housing projects in the district, those were not specifically like Vietnamese-American issues. Same thing with Betty Duong. She’s worked in this district to office. One of the issues the board is is working on right now is setting up a Latino wellness center. So I think both Duong and Nguyen understand deeply that getting elected and effectively serving this district to community is not going to be through the kind of narrow lens of Vietnamese-American representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:51] \u003c/em>Yeah, but it is interesting because you have these two candidates from the same community, but who represent sort of different kinds of politics. Like how do you see these two women representing the changes in politics within the Vietnamese-American community in San Jose over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, this was something I talked about with Phillip Nguyen who’s with the Vietnamese-American roundtable about this kind of being like a real second generation election within the communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:23] \u003c/em>For the younger generation, at least my generation of folk, right? There is a there is a hope. And in being able to see that sort of representation in the political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:31] \u003c/em>Process and we talked about that in two aspects. The first of which is the issues of, you know, Vietnam and some of the more polarizing issues around communism. Those are not front and center in this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:45] \u003c/em>Folks in San Jose probably have seen parades or cars with like flags going around like Eastridge Mall into Grand Central, Right. That are calling for freedom for Vietnam and like human rights for Vietnam, down with the communists. I think for that, for a long time, that was the only image of who Vietnamese Americans were in in San Jose. In San Jose. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:07] \u003c/em>You know, you have the candidates focused on issues that you would likely hear about from any supervisor candidate, housing, public safety. Those have been, at least by the candidates themselves, what they’ve been centering in their campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:20] \u003c/em>What I and I think a lot of the Vietnamese American community see and in both candidates is a lot of hope and a direction forward, a way to move forward while still acknowledging that we are not yet done with healing from the past. Right. That these these wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:35] \u003c/em>This the second piece of that, I think, is the fact that as you see Vietnamese-American candidates like white candidates, like Mexican-American candidates in San Jose fall within this kind of spectrum of labor and business. It just means really that this is just like a San Jose story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:52] \u003c/em>And I think those camps have emerged in a way that is in alignment with how San Jose politics has kind of fallen into. Right. The Vietnamese-American community is is conforming to that political discourse. Right. Of like Vietnamese Americans who support more business oriented interests and more labor oriented interests. And then who? Those folks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:11] \u003c/em>As you know, communities take hold within the region. You see kind of these broader political divides cut across different races, cut across different ethnicities. And I do think that’s something you definitely see at play here, even with two Vietnamese-American candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:31] \u003c/em>Okay. How might you summarize, I guess, the stakes of this specific election for San Jose and the South Bay more broadly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:39] \u003c/em>There’s a huge responsibility that the county board has. And so it makes it a really important position and one that could really define policy direction within Santa Clara County for a while, because these are seats in which the winner gets three terms. You get to run for three, four year terms. And so when you’re talking about the winner of this race potentially holding this office for more than a decade, you really start to understand the significant impacts that this election could have on this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:12] \u003c/em>Well, Guy, thank you so much for breaking this one down. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:16] \u003c/em>Guy Marzorati is a politics and government correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:21] \u003c/em>The county has a huge budget, in this case, $12 billion roughly, that they’re spending every year. Roughly half of that is just on health care and the hospital system. But supervisors also do oversee other parts of county government, from the sheriffs to the county jails, the elections office and also in the South Bay and Santa Clara County. The board has gotten more involved in housing development in the last decade, using public funds to address the affordable housing shortfall we have in the South Bay. So there’s a huge responsibility and a huge kind of fiscal oversight that the county board has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:02] \u003c/em>There are two open seats now on this board of supervisors. One in District five, which represents Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, and District two, which is the the race we’re talking about today, which is entirely within San Jose and kind of a big deal, right, Guy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:25] \u003c/em>Yeah. I mean, San Jose is the only city in District two and this seat covers a real variety of neighborhoods. You have downtown San Jose, you have some neighborhoods south of downtown and in the city’s East side, Alum Rock, Little Saigon. So it’s really an ethnically and racially diverse district. Just looking at registered voters, it’s basically like a third Latino, a third Asian and a third white. So to win this seat, they’re going to need to run campaigns that really speak to voters across race and ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:58] \u003c/em>And what have voters in this part of the county told you about some of the issues that they’re thinking about this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:07] \u003c/em>Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of, you know, the same issues come up from voters, but from different perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aaron Resendez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:13] \u003c/em>You know, both are good candidates, but I’m voting for Madison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>So I talked to Aaron Resendez. He’s a longtime resident of the East Side. He’s been really involved in community politics. He’s a business consultant. He’s supporting Madison Nguyen in this race. And he talked about kind of just like the feeling of almost like shame he has, as a longtime resident of seeing homelessness and so much blight in his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aaron Resendez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:39] \u003c/em>But he did that, like with Cindy Chapman was that was not enough. And we just have the homeless population so bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:48] \u003c/em>I also talked to Christina Bui, who is a business owner, runs a bridal shop in Line Plaza, and she kind of pointed to the same conditions as Rezendes. But from a small business perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christina Bui: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:00] \u003c/em>We want our streets to be clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:03] \u003c/em>She says. You know, these same kind of issues of blight make it hard to run a business and be in this race is supporting Betty Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christina Bui: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>With the county and the city and their help. You know, we can make this place a better place for not just the community, but for our businesses as well. So let’s get into the race for this open seat in District two, then Guy, a seat that’s left open by supervisor Cindy Chavez, a longtime politician in the South Bay for the last 25 years. But she is turning out of the supervisor seat. What does it mean that she’s leaving?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:46] \u003c/em>Yeah, it’s a big deal. And when you think about kind of the two traditional wings of South Bay politics, the business moderate wing, the kind of labor progressive wing Cindy Chavez has been the face of that labor wing of politics in the South Bay. She’s been in this seat since 2013. So you have the fact of this, you know, longtime voice for labor and voice for these communities leaving. You also have this seat now that I think a lot of labor groups feel like we have to defend this seat on the county board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:18] \u003c/em>Right. And there are two women running to replace her. One is actually Chavez’s chief of staff, Betty Duong, and a former San Jose City Council member, Madison Nguyen. And before we get into the specifics of each candidate, they do have one thing in common, which is that if either of them wins, they’ll be the first Vietnamese-American on the board of supervisors, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:43] \u003c/em>That’s right. And it’s certainly, I think, definitely a moment of history for the Vietnamese-American community in the South Bay. There is roughly 140,000 Vietnamese Americans in Santa Clara County. San Jose, by some estimates, has the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. And this district, District two, has, it’s safe to say, has really been historically shaped by Vietnamese residents. Since they started arriving in the county in the mid-seventies after the fall of Saigon. You know, we saw initially a lot of refugees settle around downtown, really revitalized San Jose’s core in the late 70s. And then leading up to today, where you have these really thriving commercial districts in Little Saigon like Vietnam Town. So Vietnamese-American residents have shaped San Jose for decades and decades. And certainly this moment would be a big achievement in terms of political representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:33] \u003c/em>And both these candidates are really part of that legacy. And I want to talk more a little bit about who they are starting with, Madison Nguyen, what’s her sort of personal bio? 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Her family was then she was picking almonds, apricots, peaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Madison Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:22] \u003c/em>We live in a Section eight, you know, house that was that was subsidized by the local government. And I had, you know, free lunches at the elementary school, middle school and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:34] \u003c/em>She went to UC Santa Cruz. She was eventually a community college instructor at Danza and then eventually ran for this local school board seat in the Franklin McKinley School District. She became, at that time, the first Vietnamese-American woman in state history to hold public office. She also was the first Vietnamese-American council member in San Jose history when she won election in 2005, later became the city’s vice mayor. So she’s already, you know, made history and been a real name in South Bay politics before this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:05] \u003c/em>And how does when talk about the issues that matter to her in this race for board of supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:13] \u003c/em>So when really comes from that more moderate business flank of South Bay politics, although she had labor support earlier in her career, she’s more of a business aligned candidate at this point. 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But before we get there, we have to get them transitioned into temporary temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:59] \u003c/em>She’s also probably a little bit more to the center in terms of criminal justice and policing. She’s been an outspoken supporter of Proposition 36 to enact some tougher sentences statewide. So that’s kind of the framing policy wise in which she’s approaching this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Madison Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:16] \u003c/em>We need to get drug dealers off the street. We need to make sure that when people commit a felony, that they pay for their crime. And we need to be very diligent in working together to ensure that, you know, that that we provide public safety for our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:35] \u003c/em>And who’s coming out in support of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:37] \u003c/em>So we have seen support for Nguyen come from some of the leading moderate politicians in the region, most notably San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who’s endorsed her candidacy. And I think this speaks to really the integral relationship that the District two supervisor will have with the city of San Jose. Right. As the person representing downtown and much of the east side. Like that’s that’s a really important relationship. And then she’s also gotten financially more of the, you know, kind of traditional business backing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:15] \u003c/em>Coming up, what candidate Betty Duong is all about and how the two represent a shift in Vietnamese-American politics in the South Bay. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:35] \u003c/em>And what about Betty Duong? What is her personal bio and and what was her pathway into politics like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:43] \u003c/em>So my mom and dad came to Santa Clara County in the late 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:47] \u003c/em>Yeah. So Betty Duong is a San Jose native. Her family participated in this refugee resettlement program in Santa Clara County. Growing up in Section eight housing in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:57] \u003c/em>And at that time when we were growing up, we relied heavily on county services as well. So that actually comes with lots of visits from social workers, inspections just to make sure the family’s doing well. So that again, that was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:08] \u003c/em>I think it’s safe to say, like she probably has more government experience than most first time candidates. She’s been Cindy Chavez’s chief of staff. That means basically her like top deputy running her office. She previously ran the county’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. She also led the campaign back in 2016 to pass a huge, affordable housing bond. This was measure A, this really kickstarted the county’s efforts to be involved in the housing development business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:37] \u003c/em>We really were the first county to say, hey, we’re going to step in, even though nothing says it’s our job, we’re going to step and we’re going to take on housing as a response, playing a role for public safety, for health and for health and wellness and for just the humanity of it. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:52] \u003c/em>So the issues that she’s emphasizing, they align a lot with what Madison Women’s emphasized as far as housing, homelessness, public safety, the strategies and the policy views are a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:04] \u003c/em>So my priorities are to build more and more expanse and expand the type of housing that we’re going to build to be able to meet the needs of everybody who is housing insecure and unhoused right now and also build up prevention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:18] \u003c/em>Young would kind of more aligned with Cindy Chavez in supporting the development of affordable housing, putting more money towards prevention of homelessness, making sure that people have, you know, rent assistance and are not, you know, losing their apartments and ending up on the street and probably a kind of a staying the course as far as the county’s focus on permanent affordable housing rather than shifting towards a more shelter based approach in reducing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Betty Duong: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>I can tell you this, in the years that I have supported and been a part of the county’s housing efforts, helping someone stay house is going to be infinitely easier, right? Less costly, better outcomes and helping someone off the streets. I’m not saying we don’t do that still, but there’s an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:01] \u003c/em>And I imagine Labor is coming out in support of Betty Duong here. Who else?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>Yeah. So she certainly has the support of organized labor in the county and also of a lot of, you know, labor backed politicians, whether that’s Cindy Chavez, whether that’s Dave Cortez, the the state senator, and the labor spectrum, It really is across the board from home health care workers to teamsters to county employees. I think you are seeing a broad labor coalition get behind Yang’s candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:37] \u003c/em>Guy. How are both these candidates pitching themselves to voters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:43] \u003c/em>Yeah, well, one thing I’ve really been interested in watching is like that dynamic of how both of these candidates are pitching themselves as change candidates. Madison Nguyen has been clear the county needs a new approach, like that’s her change argument. She’s offering change on the policy front and a move away from maybe how Cindy Chavez represented the district. Then you have Betty Duong, who has said again and again, like I’m a first time candidate, she’s offering change, really on the personal front. You know, Madison win is a more established figure, but that kind of comes with all the baggage that you see in local politics. You maybe have more established support. You also have a lot of established opposition. I mean, Nguyen survived a recall while she was on the city council. There was a recall attempt against her in 2009 over her push to change the name of Little Saigon to the Saigon business district. You still have some people upset over that. So she has this longer life in public office. And I think Young’s case is the change candidates. I’m a new face on the elected stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:49] \u003c/em>And what about spending here? What’s that looking like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:53] \u003c/em>Yes. So spending’s been really interesting to track. Duong has spent around $460,000 Nguyen has spent around 400,000. So there has been a lot of campaign spending. And then when you look outside of that, like the outside groups who have no limits on their abilities to spend, Yang is definitely benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by labor groups, including groups who are county employees like sheriffs, for example. The real thing that stood out to me, though, and caught my eye in the campaign. Spending is this new dynamic of this group called the California Alliance of Family Owned Businesses. They are funded by fast food franchise owners, and they’ve poured more than half $1 million roughly into this campaign. Both money opposing Duong and also supporting Nguyen. As you all have talked about, like this issue of local fast food wages, labor standards, this is really getting heated up in local politics. And we’ve seen this fight over, you know, fast food working conditions now move to the local level, you know, whoever is going to be elected, the next supervisor. This could potentially be an issue coming before the board whether Santa Clara should enact more local protections for fast food workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:11] \u003c/em>And I mean, again, we are talking about a history making election here between these two. I mean, it would be a historic first, whoever it is who wins. There’s been media coverage about all this. But how front and center has this sort of representation factor been in the actual campaigning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:36] \u003c/em>It’s not the first thing that these candidates are interested in talking about. I think part of that is the fact that with two Vietnamese Americans in this general election, it’s a guarantee that history is going to be made. And I think in some ways that’s kind of opened up the dialog between the candidates to be more about the issues because it’s a foregone conclusion. Whoever wins will become the county’s first Vietnamese-American supervisor. I also think it’s it speaks to districts, to diversity. Right. And just winning the Vietnamese American vote is not going to be enough to win this district. And you’ve seen both candidates really bring to this race long histories of working across community lines. I mean, Madison Nguyen represented District seven on the council. A plurality of residents there are Latino. And so I think the work that she did, you know, backing housing projects in the district, those were not specifically like Vietnamese-American issues. Same thing with Betty Duong. She’s worked in this district to office. One of the issues the board is is working on right now is setting up a Latino wellness center. So I think both Duong and Nguyen understand deeply that getting elected and effectively serving this district to community is not going to be through the kind of narrow lens of Vietnamese-American representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:51] \u003c/em>Yeah, but it is interesting because you have these two candidates from the same community, but who represent sort of different kinds of politics. Like how do you see these two women representing the changes in politics within the Vietnamese-American community in San Jose over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, this was something I talked about with Phillip Nguyen who’s with the Vietnamese-American roundtable about this kind of being like a real second generation election within the communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:23] \u003c/em>For the younger generation, at least my generation of folk, right? There is a there is a hope. And in being able to see that sort of representation in the political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:31] \u003c/em>Process and we talked about that in two aspects. The first of which is the issues of, you know, Vietnam and some of the more polarizing issues around communism. Those are not front and center in this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:45] \u003c/em>Folks in San Jose probably have seen parades or cars with like flags going around like Eastridge Mall into Grand Central, Right. That are calling for freedom for Vietnam and like human rights for Vietnam, down with the communists. I think for that, for a long time, that was the only image of who Vietnamese Americans were in in San Jose. In San Jose. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:07] \u003c/em>You know, you have the candidates focused on issues that you would likely hear about from any supervisor candidate, housing, public safety. Those have been, at least by the candidates themselves, what they’ve been centering in their campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:20] \u003c/em>What I and I think a lot of the Vietnamese American community see and in both candidates is a lot of hope and a direction forward, a way to move forward while still acknowledging that we are not yet done with healing from the past. Right. That these these wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:35] \u003c/em>This the second piece of that, I think, is the fact that as you see Vietnamese-American candidates like white candidates, like Mexican-American candidates in San Jose fall within this kind of spectrum of labor and business. It just means really that this is just like a San Jose story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Philip Nguyen: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:52] \u003c/em>And I think those camps have emerged in a way that is in alignment with how San Jose politics has kind of fallen into. Right. The Vietnamese-American community is is conforming to that political discourse. Right. Of like Vietnamese Americans who support more business oriented interests and more labor oriented interests. And then who? Those folks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:11] \u003c/em>As you know, communities take hold within the region. You see kind of these broader political divides cut across different races, cut across different ethnicities. And I do think that’s something you definitely see at play here, even with two Vietnamese-American candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:31] \u003c/em>Okay. How might you summarize, I guess, the stakes of this specific election for San Jose and the South Bay more broadly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:20:39] \u003c/em>There’s a huge responsibility that the county board has. And so it makes it a really important position and one that could really define policy direction within Santa Clara County for a while, because these are seats in which the winner gets three terms. You get to run for three, four year terms. And so when you’re talking about the winner of this race potentially holding this office for more than a decade, you really start to understand the significant impacts that this election could have on this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:12] \u003c/em>Well, Guy, thank you so much for breaking this one down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’re almost there, folks. Two years of nonstop campaigning for the White House will finally come to a close this Tuesday, Nov. 5, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">Election Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Pew Research Center found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-dismal-views-of-the-nations-politics/\">65% of Americans say they always or often feel “exhausted” when thinking about politics\u003c/a>. And that was before all the dramatic twists and turns of 2024 that have given us the present circumstances: Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/poll-harris-trump-times-siena.html\">deadlocked in the polls of every single swing state\u003c/a>, leaving even the most experienced political analysts with little clue of who will be the next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But besides election exhaustion, there are other feelings felt across the political spectrum, from anxiety and frustration to straight-up fear. Among many undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families, for example, there’s a lot of nervousness about Trump enacting what he calls “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpORNvI26w\">the largest deportation program in American history\u003c/a>.” After the former president survived a public assassination attempt in July at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, a large number of his most ardent supporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-the-assassination-attempt-against-trump-anger-and-anxiety-loom-over-the-republican-convention\">fear that Trump could be targeted again\u003c/a>. And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011576/what-do-young-voters-care-about-most-in-this-presidential-election\">millions of Gen Z Americans prepare to cast their votes for the first time\u003c/a>, many have shared \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967133/charli-xcx-fans-election-2024-harris-trump\">their frustration that neither candidate may do enough to protect the lives of Palestinians in Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re feeling these big emotions, you’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s normalize [feeling] anxious because it is a very high-stakes election,” said Kelli McLean, a California marriage and family therapist who works on issues relating to trauma, anxiety and depression with her clients. “This is anxiety-provoking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times when we’re feeling a certain type of way about something, it comes out in other ways we don’t expect,” said Ioanna Angelakis, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in San Francisco. “So it’s really important to be honest and truthful with yourself and others about what’s going on and to formulate a plan, so you have something to fall back on — should the worst thing happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for expert advice on the things you can do before, on and after Nov. 5 to help manage anxiety about the 2024 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Try to consume less election news\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When something is very important to us, it’s normal for us to keep checking on it as much as we can. In a presidential election as unpredictable as this one, we may have the TV on all the time or be constantly checking social media to see if there’s any tiny piece of new information that will give us hope that things will “go our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seeking out this feeling of control — in a situation that frankly cannot be controlled by any one single individual — can lead to us feeling even more helpless, McClean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a direct correlation between how much anxiety people are feeling to what they’re watching,” she said. “The election is everywhere, and people are inundating themselves with this. It’s information overload.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recommendation McLean has been sharing with her clients is to stay away from social media as much as they can — or as much as they can bear — for the next few days. “They’re limiting their exposure to these 24-hour news cycles, which can be anxiety-provoking for people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember, polls aren’t crystal balls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/3825/what-is-the-electoral-college-and-is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-it\">seven swing states that are key to winning the election\u003c/a>, polls have switched back and forth between a Trump lead and a Harris lead for weeks now. While you may look for any sliver of hope in new polls, keep in mind that most recent polls \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harris-trump-poll-pennsylvania-29-10-2024/\">have only changed by 1 or 2 percentage points\u003c/a>, which is within a poll’s margin of error — the window of uncertainty your poll results may have. For example, in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harris-poll-gender-gap/\">Oct. 28 CBS News/YouGov poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, Harris and Trump are tied 49%–49%, but the margin of error is 2.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls are, after all, surveys of smaller groups meant to reflect a larger population. While Harris and Trump are tied among the smaller group surveyed, that doesn’t mean that in all of Pennsylvania, there’s a perfect tie among those who plan to vote for Harris and Trump. The margin of error tells us that the candidates’ numbers could actually be a little higher or a little lower — within that 2.6% range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this goes to say that it’s probably a good idea to limit how much we look at polls. Remember: the 2016 and 2020 elections delivered many electoral surprises that polls didn’t predict. Since then, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/370649/trust-polls-2016-2020-election-2024-pollster-polling-miss\">pollsters have refined their methods\u003c/a> — but even they say that polls are not “perfectly predictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why therapists like Angelakis are reminding their clients to accept the uncertainty in this major event and work from there. “The future is unpredictable and unknown — it’s a mystery,” she said. “All we can do is just stay grounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enjoy the weekend before Election Day as much as you can\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, the first Tuesday of November could be historic for the country. But let’s not forget that the first \u003cem>weekend\u003c/em> of November is quite special in its own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diwali, the Hindu festival that celebrates light triumphing over darkness, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/diwali-deepavali-hindu-festival-19854481.php\">begins this year in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 31\u003c/a>, and lasts until the next morning. Halloween is also on Thursday — a perfect excuse for families and friends to get together ahead of the weekend.[aside postID=science_1995033 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/10/Claremont-Canyon-by-Fred-Rowe-East-Bay-Regional-Park-District-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dia-de-los-muertos\">Día de los Muertos\u003c/a> will be celebrated across California, with cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dayofthedeadsf.org/\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/program/diaoakland/\">Oakland\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://diasanjose.com/\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://boyleheightsbeat.com/your-guide-to-free-dia-de-los-muertos-events-on-the-eastside/\">Los Angeles \u003c/a>hosting community-led celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enjoy your weekend,” Angelakis said. “Don’t let these fears take you over because they’re just fears right now … they’re not your reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967439/merlin-the-pig-northern-california-animals-house-pig-mina-alali-davis\">some joyful things going on to distract you\u003c/a>, and most importantly, find ways to laugh with your loved ones, she recommended. Even try to “poke fun at your fears,” Angelakis said, “and you can let out steam that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read our guide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995033/12-bay-area-hikes-for-escaping-the-election-even-for-a-few-hours\">the outdoor spots in the Bay Area that might bring you a little calm and peace\u003c/a> in the run-up to Election Day and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parents and caregivers: Keep in mind the needs of your little ones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if your family doesn’t talk too much about politics at the dinner table, there’s still a chance that your child may be hearing about the election from their friends or classmates. Whether they share this directly with you or not, they may be absorbing the anxiety of others around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids are the spokespeople of their parents and their family’s fears,” Angelakis said. “When your child is acting out, or when your child is isolating, these are signs that your child is worried about something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when it’s very important to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\">age-appropriate conversations about what’s happening out in the world\u003c/a>, McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11764070]“If you’re dealing with a small child, know that a lot of this is too much for them to fully take in, and it can be traumatizing,” she said. “You can explain to them the process without going into scary details: ‘Two people are competing and they have different beliefs. People can get very mad and nervous about it. But you’re still going to be safe in this home with your parents.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to lie to them or over-promise, but just not expose them to things that are not appropriate on the news or social media,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\">\u003cem>Read KQED’s bilingual guide on how to talk to kids during difficult or scary major moments.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watch your anxiety levels on Election Day itself …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s Nov. 5. You — or those around — have already voted. And results of the presidential election start coming in at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, when the polls close on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every major TV network will have nonstop coverage of the results throughout the night, and it’s very likely that most restaurants, bars and community spaces with a television will be showing this coverage. But remember: you can choose how much of this coverage you consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you know that waiting hours into the early morning for the results of each swing state — which just a few thousand votes could decide — will really set your anxiety spiraling, take breaks from watching. What might be even better for you is making a plan with family or friends to do something completely different on Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how much (or little) news you consume on Tuesday, remember: there will still be results at the end of the vote count — which could take days, like it did in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and focus on your breathing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another strategy that Angelakis recommends is giving yourself time for breathing exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take two breaths in and one breath out,” she said, adding that you can do as many of these exercises until you start feeling a little more grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you try that breathing, it feels really good,” Angelakis said. “It calms your nervous system down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She especially recommends doing these breathing exercises if anxious thoughts start coming in throughout Election Night. When you feel these thoughts rising, “visualize the best possible outcome in a day of your life,” she said, “from every last detail that you wake up until the moment you go to bed at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why: By bringing back our focus to our own lives and our own actions, we remind ourselves what is in our own control — and let go of worries about things out of our control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t forget the power you have in your own community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The results of this general election will not impact everyone equally — and this is true far beyond the presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking to folks from communities that are most vulnerable to policy shifts, McLean hears how folks sometimes feel disconnected from the decisions happening in Washington, D.C. “They feel powerless,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, “we are not powerless,” McClean said. “Getting involved in grassroots activism, something local in your own community, can help with these feelings of powerlessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']And remember that even if you can’t vote — whether it’s because of your immigration status, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009162/election-2024-what-are-the-voting-rights-of-current-and-formerly-incarcerated-californians\">criminal record\u003c/a> or age — you still have a lot of power. 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Meanwhile, if judges vacate their seats in the middle of their six-year terms, the governor typically appoints their replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in the Superior Court system often rotate through different assignments and oversee various civil and criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates in this race both work for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office: Boyarsky, 59, is the chief assistant district attorney and has worked in the office for 30 years, and Stebbins, 55, is a deputy district attorney who has 26 years of experience in the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebbins, 55, told KQED she wants to become a judge because she’s done all she can do in her current role as a deputy district attorney. In her 26 years in the office, Stebbins said, she prosecuted a vast range of criminal cases — from domestic violence and murder to environmental and consumer protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t really think of any crimes left that I haven’t prosecuted,” said Stebbins, who also teaches law enforcement agencies how to investigate sexual assault, child molestation and internet crimes cases. “But I’m not done with public service. I’m not done with the law. I specifically became a D.A. because I wanted to be in the courtroom.”[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara,Santa Clara County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Santa-Clara-County-1200x1200-1.png]“I feel like my breadth of knowledge, the things that I teach, the things that I do, my experience in the courtroom, make moving on to judge a natural progression,” she added “And I think I could be an asset to the bench.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky, the chief assistant district attorney, began working in the DA’s office in 1994 and told KQED he quickly became interested in prosecuting hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually the one main reason I wanted to become a prosecutor, is I wanted to stand up for people who were victimized simply because of who they were,” said Boyarsky, adding that he later also developed a knack for prosecuting sexual offenders, child molesters and rapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky also ran Jeff Rosen’s successful campaign for DA in 2011 and was subsequently promoted by Rosen — who he calls his “best friend” — to his current position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It all ended up working out way better than I ever could have thought because I got to help transform and improve the District Attorney’s Office,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky said becoming a judge feels like an excellent way to continue his work in public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to try to make the community and the world better. And I owe that in light of the sacrifice that my father and his generation made for freedom, for democracy, for the rule of law, and to serve this country,” said Boyarsky, whose father fought in World War II and helped liberate Jewish people from Nazi concentration camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky, who first ran unsuccessfully for judgeship in 2008, also applied for a governor’s appointment to the bench in 2007 and 2023 but was not selected either time. He said the latest application is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate has received a hefty tranche of endorsements: Both have gotten the support of roughly 30 current and former judges. Rosen and George Kennedy have also endorsed Boyarsky — the DA before him — along with several other current and former district attorneys throughout the state and a broad array of politicians and civil rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebbins, meanwhile, is endorsed by Chiarello — the judge vacating the bench — along with Dolores Carr, a former county DA. And although the unions representing officers of the county’s two largest law enforcement agencies — San José Police and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office — endorsed both candidates, Stebbins underscores that she collected the sole endorsement of all other police unions in the county, along with the county union that represents both deputy district attorneys and public defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it speaks volumes as to how law enforcement thinks (the DA’s office is) doing that they do not support the second in command to the top law enforcement official in the county,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']Stebbins said judges need to listen to both sides carefully and be willing to work fairly with each party without getting “run over” by either side, a skill she said she has consistently demonstrated throughout her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebbins argues she has the on-the-ground experience to become an effective judge, noting that she still practices law daily and works in courtrooms with judges, public defenders, defendants and victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the courtroom every day, and a lot has changed in the law in the last decade,” she said. “So I’m actually seeing how that all plays out and what changes have been made and how that’s affecting all of the stakeholders in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience is also the basis for her biggest criticism of Boyarsky, who she said is too far removed from the current day-to-day realities of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s “supervising the supervisors that supervise,” she said. “I’m the surgeon doing the surgeries every day. … “He’s in the medical office blocks away, hiring the doctors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also argues that Boyarsky’s rise to chief assistant “was not a rise based on merit” but rather on “a friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Boyarsky points to his extensive administrative and management experience overseeing 190 attorneys as a major strength that will contribute to his efficacy on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I do is I make a lot of decisions every day, and I communicate them,” he said. “And they’re about people’s lives. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a tough few weeks for Alameda County District Attorney Price, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda/races#district-attorney-recall\">faces a recall election\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall has been endorsed by her longtime political opponent, former Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010683/former-alameda-county-da-nancy-omalley-endorses-recall-pamela-price\">Nancy O’Malley\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/endorsement-pamela-price-recall-alameda-da-19831707.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/25/alameda-county-district-attorney-recall-pamela-price-editorial/\">\u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin), who represents southeastern Alameda County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007542/recall-targeting-alameda-county-da-is-endorsed-by-east-bay-congressman\">supports the recall\u003c/a> and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g5dfnv45ya1mpn74zxf8l/SWALWELL-Price-Ltr-FINAL.pdf?rlkey=ytiyanej1fmu9o486crarpuww&e=1&st=mcxu8m10&dl=0\">threatening to sue\u003c/a> Price for defamation after her anti-recall campaign suggested in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=845953397720684&set=a.159982962984401\">Facebook post\u003c/a> that Swalwell engaged in misconduct during his time as a deputy district attorney under O’Malley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a poll released last week by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, 56% of Oakland voters support the recall. Oakland is the county’s largest city and was home to much of her \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/12/23/berkeley-vote-california-alameda-county-election-2022-maps\">base\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 16% of Alameda County voters have returned their ballots, according to Political Data, Inc. That could mean the vast majority of voters are still making up their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Price’s inauguration in January 2023, KQED spoke to her about her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935709/change-is-hard-alameda-da-elect-pamela-price-talks-about-the-road-ahead\">vision for the office\u003c/a>. In an Oct. 24 conversation with KQED, Price described the challenges of leading the office through a transition, responded to criticism and outlined what she will do if she defeats the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making big transitions in any office is hard, especially when some of the people who are in office don’t want that change. What have you prioritized?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first priority was to stabilize the workforce. We had to calm everybody down and make sure that we were addressing what people’s fears were, what their needs were and that they had a decent place to work. There’s a lot of trauma in the office, and it may be that it’s secondary trauma from the work that we do. So, we amplified the mental health resources. We did a lot of improvements to the physical plant and started majorly working on the technology because the office was, as my IT person says, literally in the Stone Age in terms of how they use the technology. A lot of training needed to happen and still needs to happen to get people to use the technology, and then also to be able to work more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009700 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-11_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some things that you had to let go of?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are practices in this office that I think I know are not serving this community, but it’s how we’ve always done it. This issue around arrest warrants in this county — we mail out notifications to people that they have a court date. And if they don’t come to a court date, a bench warrant may be issued, but we don’t communicate that very well. Bail is another problem in this community. We had to say, “OK, what is the long-term impact of changing money bail, and how does that interact with our other partners in the criminal justice system?” It’s been a longer discussion around how we fix money bail out in Alameda County. It’s also been a longer discussion about how we address some of the in-custody deaths at Santa Rosa County Jail. Very serious issues, but we just kind of scratched the surface. My sense is that we’ve done amazing things, but we would have been able to move faster if we did not have so much resistance both within and without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think the last two years would have been different if you hadn’t had to focus on responding to a recall effort?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the anxiety that people in office are feeling now would not have ever risen to this level, and it would have allowed them to be more open about the challenges that they were facing. I think that once the people who no longer wanted to be here found an opportunity and got support for having a recall, it undermined the stability of the people who were here. That they were under pressure. We have 422 employees. These folks come to work every day committed to do their job the best that they can do. And on the outside, all that they are hearing over and over again — that they’re doing a terrible job. That the DA is creating a hostile work environment. It demoralizes my team. I think that we would have been able to heal and reduce some of the anxiety that people felt about change and the transition if we had not had a lot of fomenting from the outside and people trying to destabilize the office. There’s a lot to do, and we’ve stayed focused, and we have done a lot. I don’t know that we would have done more, but I think it just would have been a lot easier for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a dark, sleeveless floral-printed dress, stands with her hands together in an office filled with books.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price at her office in Oakland on July 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your administration has had some caustic exchanges, sometimes on social media, with the county sheriff’s office, the governor, the California Highway Patrol, and the former district attorney you replaced, Nancy O’Malley. Why do you think there have been so many disagreements between high-level officials and your administration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement has for decades controlled the decision-making and the conversation about what justice looks like in district attorney’s offices. In November of 2022, the voters said we want to have a different conversation. It was driven by our efforts in 2018 to show people that the district attorney’s office is an elected office, and that it belongs to this community, and that we should have a voice in determining what kind of justice we’re going to be receiving from our district attorney’s office. The conversation became more intense nationally in the George Floyd period. For the most part, law enforcement and police unions weren’t really part of that conversation. Not in Alameda County. So it was only after we won that suddenly they woke up and said, “Wait a minute, somebody else who we don’t control is now leading that conversation.” I think that that’s part of the backlash and what people have to anticipate when you have a change as dramatic as the one that we’ve had in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> Price unsuccessfully ran against O’Malley in 2018.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12001150 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Critics have accused you of nepotism, in part because of the hiring of Antwon Cloird, with whom you have a personal relationship. They’ve also accused you of hiring unqualified employees. In response, you’ve pointed out that O’Malley hired her sister and said you are being held to a double standard. Do you think it’s unfair for the public to want those practices to stop?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know that the public is requesting that it not happen anymore. I think that the critics are political operatives and have made this a political issue. My predecessor hired far more family members than just her sister. Her predecessor hired the family members of judges in this county. That was a way of creating the kind of familial relationships between this office and the Alameda County bench that continue to exist. I have 11 employees whose parents were either judges or they worked in this office. This was a legacy office for many, many decades. The branch head of our East County Hall of Justice is Jim Meehan. His father hired him 38 years ago. So it’s not something that just recently happened. The county has never had an anti-nepotism policy. So, I think that to the extent that some people have expressed concerns about my hiring practices, I just find it interesting that no one was concerned about the hiring practices until the Black woman became the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> John J. Meehan, the father of Jim Meehan, served as Alameda County District Attorney between 1981-1994. KQED could not confirm that an additional 10 employees in the office are related to judges or have family members who are current or former employees.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham and Carl Chan, leaders of the campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, join demonstrators as they yell chants during a kickoff rally outside the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on June 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The San Francisco Chronicle reported that more than 1,000 misdemeanor crimes will go unevaluated and uncharged after your office allows the statute of limitations on them to expire. You’ve acknowledged there is a backlog and an unknown number of police reports have now passed the statute of limitations. Why should Alameda County residents who may become the victims of crime trust your office will evaluate their case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because that is what we do every day. We receive over 12,000 police reports from 22 different police agencies. The problem that was identified and highlighted at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse apparently has existed for decades, and it was only revealed to us when we began asking questions about certain cases. We started digging into it, and what I found is that a backlog of unreviewed reports had become normalized because of the workload. It was normalized for people to be overwhelmed in the work that they were doing. And they didn’t have the kind of systems in place to support them in their work. What the public should know is that now we understand what the problem is, and we’ve done a deep dive. The team that I said I would put on to this problem on Monday, Oct. 21, actually has started. We now have four and five lawyers who are going to address the backlog. My IT team successfully modified the computer system Wednesday, Oct. 23. We’ve determined it’s not a thousand cases [that passed the statute of limitations], but it appears to be under 600. We will clean this up by Dec. 31, if not sooner. We fix the problem as we find problems, as we have been doing for the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> In August, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement to KQED that 72% of cases referred to the Alameda County DA since February 2024 hadn’t been acted on. Price told KQED that the CHP complaint is what tipped her off to the problem in her office’s law enforcement report review process at Wiley W. Manuel. At a press conference on Oct. 16, Price told reporters she was expanding the number of attorneys working to address the backlog and updating the office’s case management software to better track how long attorneys have to charge a case before the statute of limitations kicks in.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda,Alameda County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking forward, what do you think a well-functioning criminal justice system in Alameda County would look like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A well-running criminal justice system in Alameda County, number one, would respect the people who we impact, both victims and defendants. Victims are not well treated in this system. My office will do more to make sure we bring an online text messaging system so that people don’t show up at court and there’s no court, or they show up at court and the court date gets continued. We want to expand the number of victim-witness advocates. My goal is to have 50. We only have 33 who are hands-on, trauma-informed right now. The other 11 are claims people. So, for me, a fully functional, well-running criminal justice system would have at least 100 advocates, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would have a full, robust, collaborative court program that has a full menu of options for young people ages 18 to 26. Right now, we have two, maybe 1 1/2 courts that actually address the needs or really respond to criminal activity by transitional-aged youth. We need far more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing that I think will reflect a fully functioning, appropriate criminal justice system for this community will be a fully functioning restorative justice process that is embedded in the DA’s office. A restorative justice process is about healing for victims. It’s not about the defendant. The defendant ultimately is going to be held accountable, whatever that looks like. But it really is an opportunity for the victims to not just be tools and witnesses and people who come to court and see something — then they have got to go out and fix their own lives. They actually get to participate in the process. And at some point, if the process is successful, they get to ask the person, “Why did you kill my loved one?” And it’s starting to happen. We’ve got one case I can’t really talk about, but it’s happening. In five years, we hope we will have a fully functioning restorative justice practice inside the DA’s office. And 10 years from now, people will look back and say, “How come they didn’t have restorative justice back then?” It will be normalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been a tough few weeks for Alameda County District Attorney Price, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda/races#district-attorney-recall\">faces a recall election\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall has been endorsed by her longtime political opponent, former Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010683/former-alameda-county-da-nancy-omalley-endorses-recall-pamela-price\">Nancy O’Malley\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/endorsement-pamela-price-recall-alameda-da-19831707.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/25/alameda-county-district-attorney-recall-pamela-price-editorial/\">\u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin), who represents southeastern Alameda County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007542/recall-targeting-alameda-county-da-is-endorsed-by-east-bay-congressman\">supports the recall\u003c/a> and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g5dfnv45ya1mpn74zxf8l/SWALWELL-Price-Ltr-FINAL.pdf?rlkey=ytiyanej1fmu9o486crarpuww&e=1&st=mcxu8m10&dl=0\">threatening to sue\u003c/a> Price for defamation after her anti-recall campaign suggested in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=845953397720684&set=a.159982962984401\">Facebook post\u003c/a> that Swalwell engaged in misconduct during his time as a deputy district attorney under O’Malley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a poll released last week by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, 56% of Oakland voters support the recall. Oakland is the county’s largest city and was home to much of her \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/12/23/berkeley-vote-california-alameda-county-election-2022-maps\">base\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 16% of Alameda County voters have returned their ballots, according to Political Data, Inc. That could mean the vast majority of voters are still making up their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Price’s inauguration in January 2023, KQED spoke to her about her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935709/change-is-hard-alameda-da-elect-pamela-price-talks-about-the-road-ahead\">vision for the office\u003c/a>. In an Oct. 24 conversation with KQED, Price described the challenges of leading the office through a transition, responded to criticism and outlined what she will do if she defeats the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making big transitions in any office is hard, especially when some of the people who are in office don’t want that change. What have you prioritized?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first priority was to stabilize the workforce. We had to calm everybody down and make sure that we were addressing what people’s fears were, what their needs were and that they had a decent place to work. There’s a lot of trauma in the office, and it may be that it’s secondary trauma from the work that we do. So, we amplified the mental health resources. We did a lot of improvements to the physical plant and started majorly working on the technology because the office was, as my IT person says, literally in the Stone Age in terms of how they use the technology. A lot of training needed to happen and still needs to happen to get people to use the technology, and then also to be able to work more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some things that you had to let go of?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are practices in this office that I think I know are not serving this community, but it’s how we’ve always done it. This issue around arrest warrants in this county — we mail out notifications to people that they have a court date. And if they don’t come to a court date, a bench warrant may be issued, but we don’t communicate that very well. Bail is another problem in this community. We had to say, “OK, what is the long-term impact of changing money bail, and how does that interact with our other partners in the criminal justice system?” It’s been a longer discussion around how we fix money bail out in Alameda County. It’s also been a longer discussion about how we address some of the in-custody deaths at Santa Rosa County Jail. Very serious issues, but we just kind of scratched the surface. My sense is that we’ve done amazing things, but we would have been able to move faster if we did not have so much resistance both within and without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think the last two years would have been different if you hadn’t had to focus on responding to a recall effort?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the anxiety that people in office are feeling now would not have ever risen to this level, and it would have allowed them to be more open about the challenges that they were facing. I think that once the people who no longer wanted to be here found an opportunity and got support for having a recall, it undermined the stability of the people who were here. That they were under pressure. We have 422 employees. These folks come to work every day committed to do their job the best that they can do. And on the outside, all that they are hearing over and over again — that they’re doing a terrible job. That the DA is creating a hostile work environment. It demoralizes my team. I think that we would have been able to heal and reduce some of the anxiety that people felt about change and the transition if we had not had a lot of fomenting from the outside and people trying to destabilize the office. There’s a lot to do, and we’ve stayed focused, and we have done a lot. I don’t know that we would have done more, but I think it just would have been a lot easier for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a dark, sleeveless floral-printed dress, stands with her hands together in an office filled with books.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230715-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price at her office in Oakland on July 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your administration has had some caustic exchanges, sometimes on social media, with the county sheriff’s office, the governor, the California Highway Patrol, and the former district attorney you replaced, Nancy O’Malley. Why do you think there have been so many disagreements between high-level officials and your administration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement has for decades controlled the decision-making and the conversation about what justice looks like in district attorney’s offices. In November of 2022, the voters said we want to have a different conversation. It was driven by our efforts in 2018 to show people that the district attorney’s office is an elected office, and that it belongs to this community, and that we should have a voice in determining what kind of justice we’re going to be receiving from our district attorney’s office. The conversation became more intense nationally in the George Floyd period. For the most part, law enforcement and police unions weren’t really part of that conversation. Not in Alameda County. So it was only after we won that suddenly they woke up and said, “Wait a minute, somebody else who we don’t control is now leading that conversation.” I think that that’s part of the backlash and what people have to anticipate when you have a change as dramatic as the one that we’ve had in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> Price unsuccessfully ran against O’Malley in 2018.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Critics have accused you of nepotism, in part because of the hiring of Antwon Cloird, with whom you have a personal relationship. They’ve also accused you of hiring unqualified employees. In response, you’ve pointed out that O’Malley hired her sister and said you are being held to a double standard. Do you think it’s unfair for the public to want those practices to stop?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know that the public is requesting that it not happen anymore. I think that the critics are political operatives and have made this a political issue. My predecessor hired far more family members than just her sister. Her predecessor hired the family members of judges in this county. That was a way of creating the kind of familial relationships between this office and the Alameda County bench that continue to exist. I have 11 employees whose parents were either judges or they worked in this office. This was a legacy office for many, many decades. The branch head of our East County Hall of Justice is Jim Meehan. His father hired him 38 years ago. So it’s not something that just recently happened. The county has never had an anti-nepotism policy. So, I think that to the extent that some people have expressed concerns about my hiring practices, I just find it interesting that no one was concerned about the hiring practices until the Black woman became the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> John J. Meehan, the father of Jim Meehan, served as Alameda County District Attorney between 1981-1994. KQED could not confirm that an additional 10 employees in the office are related to judges or have family members who are current or former employees.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-35_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham and Carl Chan, leaders of the campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, join demonstrators as they yell chants during a kickoff rally outside the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on June 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The San Francisco Chronicle reported that more than 1,000 misdemeanor crimes will go unevaluated and uncharged after your office allows the statute of limitations on them to expire. You’ve acknowledged there is a backlog and an unknown number of police reports have now passed the statute of limitations. Why should Alameda County residents who may become the victims of crime trust your office will evaluate their case?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because that is what we do every day. We receive over 12,000 police reports from 22 different police agencies. The problem that was identified and highlighted at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse apparently has existed for decades, and it was only revealed to us when we began asking questions about certain cases. We started digging into it, and what I found is that a backlog of unreviewed reports had become normalized because of the workload. It was normalized for people to be overwhelmed in the work that they were doing. And they didn’t have the kind of systems in place to support them in their work. What the public should know is that now we understand what the problem is, and we’ve done a deep dive. The team that I said I would put on to this problem on Monday, Oct. 21, actually has started. We now have four and five lawyers who are going to address the backlog. My IT team successfully modified the computer system Wednesday, Oct. 23. We’ve determined it’s not a thousand cases [that passed the statute of limitations], but it appears to be under 600. We will clean this up by Dec. 31, if not sooner. We fix the problem as we find problems, as we have been doing for the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> In August, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement to KQED that 72% of cases referred to the Alameda County DA since February 2024 hadn’t been acted on. Price told KQED that the CHP complaint is what tipped her off to the problem in her office’s law enforcement report review process at Wiley W. Manuel. At a press conference on Oct. 16, Price told reporters she was expanding the number of attorneys working to address the backlog and updating the office’s case management software to better track how long attorneys have to charge a case before the statute of limitations kicks in.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking forward, what do you think a well-functioning criminal justice system in Alameda County would look like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A well-running criminal justice system in Alameda County, number one, would respect the people who we impact, both victims and defendants. Victims are not well treated in this system. My office will do more to make sure we bring an online text messaging system so that people don’t show up at court and there’s no court, or they show up at court and the court date gets continued. We want to expand the number of victim-witness advocates. My goal is to have 50. We only have 33 who are hands-on, trauma-informed right now. The other 11 are claims people. So, for me, a fully functional, well-running criminal justice system would have at least 100 advocates, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would have a full, robust, collaborative court program that has a full menu of options for young people ages 18 to 26. Right now, we have two, maybe 1 1/2 courts that actually address the needs or really respond to criminal activity by transitional-aged youth. We need far more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing that I think will reflect a fully functioning, appropriate criminal justice system for this community will be a fully functioning restorative justice process that is embedded in the DA’s office. A restorative justice process is about healing for victims. It’s not about the defendant. The defendant ultimately is going to be held accountable, whatever that looks like. But it really is an opportunity for the victims to not just be tools and witnesses and people who come to court and see something — then they have got to go out and fix their own lives. They actually get to participate in the process. And at some point, if the process is successful, they get to ask the person, “Why did you kill my loved one?” And it’s starting to happen. We’ve got one case I can’t really talk about, but it’s happening. In five years, we hope we will have a fully functioning restorative justice practice inside the DA’s office. And 10 years from now, people will look back and say, “How come they didn’t have restorative justice back then?” It will be normalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or years, only a couple of people would show up to observe staff at the Shasta County Elections office on election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after November 2020, the office saw a dramatic increase in observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the June 2022 primary, then-registrar of voters Cathy Darling Allen and her staff experienced bullying and interference from a group of residents who claimed they wanted to protect against election fraud, \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Cathy%20Darling%20Allen%20-%20Shasta%20County,%20CA.pdf\">according to prepared testimony she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee held a hearing entitled Protecting Our Democracy’s Frontline Workers, which featured testimony from elections officials across the country who had experienced threats and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen wrote that some poll workers had canceled or simply not shown up for work, possibly due to the behavior of observers who had attended a recent training. At one point in the night, someone attached a trail camera in the alley behind the elections office to surveil the back entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Election observation in Shasta County has become weaponized,” Darling Allen wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Cathy Darling Allen at the Lake Redding Boat Ramp in Redding. Right: Joanna Francescut displays a ballot envelope during a training session for an elections employee. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Shasta County has been a hotbed of election denialism, with a vocal minority of residents and the board of supervisors’ far-right majority encouraging distrust in California’s voting systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen retired earlier this year due to a heart failure diagnosis, citing a need to avoid work-related stress. To take her place, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991539/shasta-countys-new-registrar-of-voters-has-no-experience-running-elections\">the board appointed Tom Toller, a former county prosecutor with no experience running elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller, who came into the office with his own concerns about election integrity, said his perspective has changed after several months of working inside the office. Now, as he prepares for one of the most fraught elections in recent history, he finds himself pushing back on a tide of skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m constantly sent emails from people suggesting that I need to stop using this technology or I need to start implementing this other procedure,” Toller said. “My universal response has been, I don’t see any evidence of this. But if you can give me credible evidence that it’s happening here in Shasta County, I will definitely look into it. And if there’s a problem, I will resolve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Toller is appointed the new Shasta County clerk and registrar of voters by the county’s Board of Supervisors on June 19, 2024, in Redding. \u003ccite>(Roman Battaglia/JPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To accommodate the increase in observers, the county elections office in downtown Redding has been remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A black metal gate accessible only via key card separates the front entrance from an area where elections staff have been preparing to tabulate votes on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, observers can watch staff on four wall-mounted TV monitors. The county’s vote counting machines, set up in a room nicknamed “the bat cave,” are also visible through a window in the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar of voters, opens a metal doorway at the Shasta County Elections offices in Redding. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video cameras monitor the interior of the Shasta County Elections offices in Redding on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On election night, the office will be completely full with observers, assistant registrar Joanna Francescut said. But being here isn’t always enough to allay their fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of those people have been sitting here with us for multiple elections,” said Francescut, who worked for 16 years under Darling Allen and was passed over for the registrar job. “But they’re also not listening to what we have to say about what we’re actually doing. They’re trusting other things, other media that is going after them that has their attention in a different way. They’re trusting what’s being said on YouTube or Truth Social or whatever website they’re looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As ballots come in, observers will be allowed to view ballot tabulation and results reporting. Certain activities, like challenging signatures on vote-by-mail ballots, won’t be permitted, \u003ca href=\"https://elections.shastacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/11052024-Observer-Guidelines.pdf\">according to the elections office website (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller is facing pushback for not making more changes, with some of the strongest criticisms coming from Supervisor Patrick Jones, one of three members of the board who voted to appoint him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some people that are being placed at six feet apart, six feet from meaningful observation. It needs to be three. If that was his decision, then that is a bad decision,” Jones said. “The further you push people back, the further you’re trying to cover something up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A black box’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shasta County has been in conflict with the state of California over how to conduct its elections since at least 2023. That’s when the board of supervisors voted to end the county’s contract with Dominion Voting Systems, whose machines were the target of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was rigged. Supervisors voted to hand count ballots instead but were thwarted when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 969, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198395036/shasta-county-hand-counting-ballots-california-legislation\">urgent legislation that banned hand counting\u003c/a> except in narrow circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1866px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1866\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed.jpg 1866w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1866px) 100vw, 1866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors hang in the board offices in Redding. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the law, calls for the county to use hand counting persist. At a board meeting in late September, security guards wearing tactical vests flanked the dais as people approached the podium during public comment. Several insisted that the county use hand counting in this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One speaker detailed amateur sleuthing, which she said had uncovered voter registration tied to nonexistent addresses. Another read a letter calling on the county sheriff to launch a criminal investigation of Francescut for alleged perjury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day earlier, some of the same speakers had attended a meeting of the Shasta County Elections Commission, a panel Jones \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/resources/pdf/7e2ed968-3bfb-466b-b53b-054ffb022ebe-c4_ordinance_no._scc_202307.pdf\">pushed to create last year\u003c/a> to advise the board on elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, including a commissioner who resigned in March, have called the panel a \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/news/local/shasta-county-election-commission-criticized-disbandment-called-for-at-supervisors-meeting\">waste of time\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/former-shasta-county-elections-commissioner-resigns-claiming-it-was-a-waste-of-time-and-money/article_97c5a0a8-eb0a-11ee-949b-0b9f7ab7c413.html\">money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has recommended that the county not only hand count ballots but also return to limited absentee voting and one-day elections — all of which would violate California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think their attitude is that even if something is futile legally, it has some type of symbolic value,” Toller said about the commission. “And I understand why they’re doing what they’re doing. I just don’t think it’s going to bear much fruit. And it may have unintended consequences that would not necessarily be positive for our county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the board has not acted on the recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an October board meeting, commissioner Patty Plumb, a Jones appointee, expressed disappointment in Toller’s leadership of the elections office so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has really taken place to change our system of voting even though we did get a new [registrar of voters],” Plumb said. “We had our hopes that things would be changed. Nothing has really changed to make our voting system and our process transparent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees sort test ballots known as a ‘test deck’ at theShasta County Elections offices. The test ballots go through the ballot counting system to test the accuracy of the vote count. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees sort test ballots. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Distrust in Shasta County’s elections office had already begun to simmer in 2022, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902718/militia-led-recall-targets-republican-supervisor-in-shasta-county\">a campaign backed by a local militia successfully recalled Supervisor Leonard Moty\u003c/a>, a moderate Republican and former Redding police chief who they felt hadn’t pushed back hard enough on COVID-19 mandates, among other complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, after the county canceled its contract with Dominion, it signed a new contract to use voting machines from Texas-based Hart InterCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, skepticism about the trustworthiness of Dominion’s software and that of other voting machines lingers today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a black box,” Kari Chilson, a Shasta County property manager, told KQED in reference to Dominion’s machines after a recent meeting of the elections commission. “They’re proprietary software. And so the public is not even allowed to audit their machines, which is a huge red flag for anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re run by WiFi or internet,” said Antonia Palacio, who works in home care, about the machines. “It’s been proven that they can be hacked. If you don’t have an audit, hand counting, they can put in as many extra votes or whatever in there, and we would never know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shasta County resident Teresa Romero, right, points out to her husband Charles how the number increased by one on a Dominion voting machine to indicate that his ballot was successfully scanned after being entered into the machine on Nov. 8, 2022, at the Shasta County Elections offices \u003ccite>(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers and hackers have identified vulnerabilities in voting machines, but officials with the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say that because of the decentralized nature of the United States’ elections system, it would be impossible for hackers to have a material impact on the outcome of a presidential election without being detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Hart InterCivic, Dominion and ES&S, the three companies that supply voting machines to most California counties, told KQED that their machines do not connect to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked when they first became skeptical of the county’s voting processes, Chilson and Palacio described reports of “abnormalities” in the 2020 election and signed affidavits alleging voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements alleging irregularities or misconduct were a common element of the 64 legal cases brought by former President Donald Trump and his allies challenging the 2020 election. Plaintiffs prevailed in only one of those cases, which involved too few votes to overturn the results, according to a 2022 study.[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]Chilson also shared articles that had raised her suspicions from sites like The Epoch Times, One America News and The Gateway Pundit, all of which have promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Georgia election workers settled defamation lawsuits with The Gateway Pundit and OAN after each published stories falsely accusing them of ballot fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller said he spends a lot of time trying to reassure people that Shasta County’s voting machines don’t connect to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s compared the machines that count ballots to the ones that count money in casinos: they sort quicker than any human could, but they’re not connected to the internet, and they don’t misreport the number of $100 bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ultimately, probably the 80% of folks that are sort of the silent majority get that,” Toller said. “But there’s always going to be people sort of on the fringe who no amount of explanation is going to satisfy them. They simply want to return to the way it was years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also evaluated the county’s drop boxes and removed the ones that were underutilized. The elections office will replace the remaining 13 with a heavier version and a video camera that can monitor the ballot slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ballot drop box sits outside of the Shasta County Elections offices in Redding on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a situation where some people understand what I’m trying to do, and they recognize that it’s a more secure situation,” Toller said. “But other people are adamant that the only solution is to eliminate the boxes entirely. And you simply can’t do that in a county like ours that’s so large geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta isn’t the only California county that’s responded to drop box concerns. San Benito County created a ride-along program in 2021 for members of the public to observe elections staff collect vote-by-mail ballots from drop boxes. Last year, Kern County installed surveillance cameras at its drop boxes and allowed members of the public to view the footage at the elections office during business hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen said she is concerned that making concessions to quell skeptics could legitimize distrust in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent all of 2023 trying to beat back policy changes that were based on junk science and junk statistics and lies told around the nation about elections administration,” Darling Allen said. “We were somewhat successful, but at a pretty high cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Baptism by fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Toller interviewed for the job, he appeared willing to join in a potential fight over hand counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed out that AB 969 hadn’t been challenged in court and should the county decide to act, he would participate in any way the board wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would in no way be beholden to the Secretary of State in Sacramento as if her interpretation was chapter and verse of Holy Writ,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/community/page/4803/rov_applications_-_redacted.pdf\">read a cover letter submitted as part of Toller’s job application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about voting machines, Toller said he wasn’t a big fan and would consider hand counting if the law allowed it. The county has over 115,000 registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was good enough for years and years,” Toller said. “I think it’s a system that’s capable of being implemented and observed for transparency and fairness — and accurate. I don’t see any reason why it can’t go forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller was hired despite his lack of experience. He later told KQED that he considered himself the “compromise choice,” having beat out Francescut and Clint Curtis, a Florida attorney who appeared to be the choice of election skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar of voters, works in her office at the Shasta County Elections offices on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after four months on the job, Toller said some of his perspectives have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had my baptism by fire, so to speak,” Toller said. “I’ve actually rolled up my sleeves and gotten my hands underneath the hood, into the engine, and figured out how things work,” Toller said. “And in the process of doing that, I have learned an incredible amount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the things he said he has learned: hand counting is slow and expensive, and voting machines are fast — and accurate — when used properly by trained staff.[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']While Toller said he personally never bought into theories of mass election rigging, he did have concerns about election integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, while working on a campaign to unseat Shasta County’s district attorney, Toller said the official results from election night and in the days following, compared with early tabulation data posted at the individual precincts, raised questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now believes problems that cropped up in past elections were almost entirely due to the kind of mistakes that happen in a high-stress environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest switch I’ve made is rather than try to assume that there was any malfeasance or intentional activity with respect to election results, that most of the problems are a result of human error,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller told KQED he will make no major changes to how elections are administered in Shasta County prior to Tuesday, and so far, he hasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not pleasing his critics, including Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Patrick Jones in his family’s gun shop, Jones’ Fort, in Redding, on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we wanted to do things the same, we would have picked Joanna,” Jones said. “He knows the vast majority of us are looking for more transparency, meaningful observation, chain of custody. Will he deliver? That’s up to him. There will be a lot of criticism if he doesn’t live up to what he knows the public wants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A gut feeling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Toller and his office face pressure to successfully pull off the November election, the future of the board’s conservative majority, which has steered many of Shasta County’s recent decisions on elections, is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Jones will be replaced by Matt Plummer, a young moderate who ran on a platform of reducing homelessness, cutting crime and fixing Shasta County’s roads. Plummer said he knocked on over 9,000 doors while campaigning and those were the issues people brought up over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shasta County Supervisor-elect Matt Plummer stands on the Diestelhorst Bridge in Redding. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The other thing was, like, just stop the chaos and stop the craziness, which has kind of characterized our county board over the last three to four years,” Plummer said at a Redding ice cream shop one evening in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County election data show Jones lost his bid for reelection to Plummer in the primary by nearly 20%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jones alleged he won the election and will be stepping down because there was cheating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing is the effort does not match the result,” Jones said. “And your gut feeling is something’s not right when you outdo your opponent, and yet you did not prevail. And that’s just a gut feeling from the candidate that only the candidate would know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A November runoff between Supervisor Mary Rickert, a moderate incumbent, and Corkey Harmon, a political newcomer, could also shift the board’s makeup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The MAGA movement here is fading away faster than they ever thought it would be,” said Supervisor Tim Garman, who is stepping down at the end of his term because of redistricting. “Not as fast as I think some of us would like it to go, but it is fading away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Jones is already casting doubt on the results of Tuesday’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what happens this November, there will be no trust,” Jones said. “And what the public will do, I don’t know. Hopefully, all goes well, but we have not fixed our elections, and people are getting mad. They’re getting upset. Because we’re selecting people, we’re not voting them incorrectly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen said she believes Shasta County elections staff will be criticized, regardless of the outcome of any of the races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Jones] is going to say the election was a failure,” Darling Allen predicted. “Especially if he actually comes to believe that Mr. Toller is not going to carry the water for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope Mr. Toller continues to stand strong and continues to defend the process and follow the law,” she said. “And maybe Shasta County can become less well known for election problems or the attention on elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>or years, only a couple of people would show up to observe staff at the Shasta County Elections office on election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after November 2020, the office saw a dramatic increase in observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the June 2022 primary, then-registrar of voters Cathy Darling Allen and her staff experienced bullying and interference from a group of residents who claimed they wanted to protect against election fraud, \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Cathy%20Darling%20Allen%20-%20Shasta%20County,%20CA.pdf\">according to prepared testimony she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee held a hearing entitled Protecting Our Democracy’s Frontline Workers, which featured testimony from elections officials across the country who had experienced threats and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen wrote that some poll workers had canceled or simply not shown up for work, possibly due to the behavior of observers who had attended a recent training. At one point in the night, someone attached a trail camera in the alley behind the elections office to surveil the back entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Election observation in Shasta County has become weaponized,” Darling Allen wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Cathy Darling Allen at the Lake Redding Boat Ramp in Redding. Right: Joanna Francescut displays a ballot envelope during a training session for an elections employee. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Shasta County has been a hotbed of election denialism, with a vocal minority of residents and the board of supervisors’ far-right majority encouraging distrust in California’s voting systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen retired earlier this year due to a heart failure diagnosis, citing a need to avoid work-related stress. To take her place, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991539/shasta-countys-new-registrar-of-voters-has-no-experience-running-elections\">the board appointed Tom Toller, a former county prosecutor with no experience running elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller, who came into the office with his own concerns about election integrity, said his perspective has changed after several months of working inside the office. Now, as he prepares for one of the most fraught elections in recent history, he finds himself pushing back on a tide of skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m constantly sent emails from people suggesting that I need to stop using this technology or I need to start implementing this other procedure,” Toller said. “My universal response has been, I don’t see any evidence of this. But if you can give me credible evidence that it’s happening here in Shasta County, I will definitely look into it. And if there’s a problem, I will resolve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Toller is appointed the new Shasta County clerk and registrar of voters by the county’s Board of Supervisors on June 19, 2024, in Redding. \u003ccite>(Roman Battaglia/JPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To accommodate the increase in observers, the county elections office in downtown Redding has been remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A black metal gate accessible only via key card separates the front entrance from an area where elections staff have been preparing to tabulate votes on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, observers can watch staff on four wall-mounted TV monitors. The county’s vote counting machines, set up in a room nicknamed “the bat cave,” are also visible through a window in the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-86-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar of voters, opens a metal doorway at the Shasta County Elections offices in Redding. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video cameras monitor the interior of the Shasta County Elections offices in Redding on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On election night, the office will be completely full with observers, assistant registrar Joanna Francescut said. But being here isn’t always enough to allay their fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of those people have been sitting here with us for multiple elections,” said Francescut, who worked for 16 years under Darling Allen and was passed over for the registrar job. “But they’re also not listening to what we have to say about what we’re actually doing. They’re trusting other things, other media that is going after them that has their attention in a different way. They’re trusting what’s being said on YouTube or Truth Social or whatever website they’re looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As ballots come in, observers will be allowed to view ballot tabulation and results reporting. Certain activities, like challenging signatures on vote-by-mail ballots, won’t be permitted, \u003ca href=\"https://elections.shastacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/11052024-Observer-Guidelines.pdf\">according to the elections office website (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller is facing pushback for not making more changes, with some of the strongest criticisms coming from Supervisor Patrick Jones, one of three members of the board who voted to appoint him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some people that are being placed at six feet apart, six feet from meaningful observation. It needs to be three. If that was his decision, then that is a bad decision,” Jones said. “The further you push people back, the further you’re trying to cover something up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A black box’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shasta County has been in conflict with the state of California over how to conduct its elections since at least 2023. That’s when the board of supervisors voted to end the county’s contract with Dominion Voting Systems, whose machines were the target of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was rigged. Supervisors voted to hand count ballots instead but were thwarted when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 969, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198395036/shasta-county-hand-counting-ballots-california-legislation\">urgent legislation that banned hand counting\u003c/a> except in narrow circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1866px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1866\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed.jpg 1866w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-ShastaCountyElections-01-BL_qed-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1866px) 100vw, 1866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors hang in the board offices in Redding. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the law, calls for the county to use hand counting persist. At a board meeting in late September, security guards wearing tactical vests flanked the dais as people approached the podium during public comment. Several insisted that the county use hand counting in this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One speaker detailed amateur sleuthing, which she said had uncovered voter registration tied to nonexistent addresses. Another read a letter calling on the county sheriff to launch a criminal investigation of Francescut for alleged perjury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day earlier, some of the same speakers had attended a meeting of the Shasta County Elections Commission, a panel Jones \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/resources/pdf/7e2ed968-3bfb-466b-b53b-054ffb022ebe-c4_ordinance_no._scc_202307.pdf\">pushed to create last year\u003c/a> to advise the board on elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, including a commissioner who resigned in March, have called the panel a \u003ca href=\"https://krcrtv.com/news/local/shasta-county-election-commission-criticized-disbandment-called-for-at-supervisors-meeting\">waste of time\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/former-shasta-county-elections-commissioner-resigns-claiming-it-was-a-waste-of-time-and-money/article_97c5a0a8-eb0a-11ee-949b-0b9f7ab7c413.html\">money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has recommended that the county not only hand count ballots but also return to limited absentee voting and one-day elections — all of which would violate California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think their attitude is that even if something is futile legally, it has some type of symbolic value,” Toller said about the commission. “And I understand why they’re doing what they’re doing. I just don’t think it’s going to bear much fruit. And it may have unintended consequences that would not necessarily be positive for our county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the board has not acted on the recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an October board meeting, commissioner Patty Plumb, a Jones appointee, expressed disappointment in Toller’s leadership of the elections office so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing has really taken place to change our system of voting even though we did get a new [registrar of voters],” Plumb said. “We had our hopes that things would be changed. Nothing has really changed to make our voting system and our process transparent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-40-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees sort test ballots known as a ‘test deck’ at theShasta County Elections offices. The test ballots go through the ballot counting system to test the accuracy of the vote count. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-ShastaCountyElections-23-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees sort test ballots. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Distrust in Shasta County’s elections office had already begun to simmer in 2022, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902718/militia-led-recall-targets-republican-supervisor-in-shasta-county\">a campaign backed by a local militia successfully recalled Supervisor Leonard Moty\u003c/a>, a moderate Republican and former Redding police chief who they felt hadn’t pushed back hard enough on COVID-19 mandates, among other complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, after the county canceled its contract with Dominion, it signed a new contract to use voting machines from Texas-based Hart InterCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, skepticism about the trustworthiness of Dominion’s software and that of other voting machines lingers today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a black box,” Kari Chilson, a Shasta County property manager, told KQED in reference to Dominion’s machines after a recent meeting of the elections commission. “They’re proprietary software. And so the public is not even allowed to audit their machines, which is a huge red flag for anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re run by WiFi or internet,” said Antonia Palacio, who works in home care, about the machines. “It’s been proven that they can be hacked. If you don’t have an audit, hand counting, they can put in as many extra votes or whatever in there, and we would never know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shasta County resident Teresa Romero, right, points out to her husband Charles how the number increased by one on a Dominion voting machine to indicate that his ballot was successfully scanned after being entered into the machine on Nov. 8, 2022, at the Shasta County Elections offices \u003ccite>(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers and hackers have identified vulnerabilities in voting machines, but officials with the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say that because of the decentralized nature of the United States’ elections system, it would be impossible for hackers to have a material impact on the outcome of a presidential election without being detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Hart InterCivic, Dominion and ES&S, the three companies that supply voting machines to most California counties, told KQED that their machines do not connect to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked when they first became skeptical of the county’s voting processes, Chilson and Palacio described reports of “abnormalities” in the 2020 election and signed affidavits alleging voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements alleging irregularities or misconduct were a common element of the 64 legal cases brought by former President Donald Trump and his allies challenging the 2020 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chilson also shared articles that had raised her suspicions from sites like The Epoch Times, One America News and The Gateway Pundit, all of which have promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Georgia election workers settled defamation lawsuits with The Gateway Pundit and OAN after each published stories falsely accusing them of ballot fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller said he spends a lot of time trying to reassure people that Shasta County’s voting machines don’t connect to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s compared the machines that count ballots to the ones that count money in casinos: they sort quicker than any human could, but they’re not connected to the internet, and they don’t misreport the number of $100 bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ultimately, probably the 80% of folks that are sort of the silent majority get that,” Toller said. “But there’s always going to be people sort of on the fringe who no amount of explanation is going to satisfy them. They simply want to return to the way it was years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also evaluated the county’s drop boxes and removed the ones that were underutilized. The elections office will replace the remaining 13 with a heavier version and a video camera that can monitor the ballot slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ballot drop box sits outside of the Shasta County Elections offices in Redding on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a situation where some people understand what I’m trying to do, and they recognize that it’s a more secure situation,” Toller said. “But other people are adamant that the only solution is to eliminate the boxes entirely. And you simply can’t do that in a county like ours that’s so large geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta isn’t the only California county that’s responded to drop box concerns. San Benito County created a ride-along program in 2021 for members of the public to observe elections staff collect vote-by-mail ballots from drop boxes. Last year, Kern County installed surveillance cameras at its drop boxes and allowed members of the public to view the footage at the elections office during business hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen said she is concerned that making concessions to quell skeptics could legitimize distrust in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent all of 2023 trying to beat back policy changes that were based on junk science and junk statistics and lies told around the nation about elections administration,” Darling Allen said. “We were somewhat successful, but at a pretty high cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Baptism by fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Toller interviewed for the job, he appeared willing to join in a potential fight over hand counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed out that AB 969 hadn’t been challenged in court and should the county decide to act, he would participate in any way the board wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would in no way be beholden to the Secretary of State in Sacramento as if her interpretation was chapter and verse of Holy Writ,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.shastacounty.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/community/page/4803/rov_applications_-_redacted.pdf\">read a cover letter submitted as part of Toller’s job application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about voting machines, Toller said he wasn’t a big fan and would consider hand counting if the law allowed it. The county has over 115,000 registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was good enough for years and years,” Toller said. “I think it’s a system that’s capable of being implemented and observed for transparency and fairness — and accurate. I don’t see any reason why it can’t go forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller was hired despite his lack of experience. He later told KQED that he considered himself the “compromise choice,” having beat out Francescut and Clint Curtis, a Florida attorney who appeared to be the choice of election skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar of voters, works in her office at the Shasta County Elections offices on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after four months on the job, Toller said some of his perspectives have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had my baptism by fire, so to speak,” Toller said. “I’ve actually rolled up my sleeves and gotten my hands underneath the hood, into the engine, and figured out how things work,” Toller said. “And in the process of doing that, I have learned an incredible amount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the things he said he has learned: hand counting is slow and expensive, and voting machines are fast — and accurate — when used properly by trained staff.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While Toller said he personally never bought into theories of mass election rigging, he did have concerns about election integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, while working on a campaign to unseat Shasta County’s district attorney, Toller said the official results from election night and in the days following, compared with early tabulation data posted at the individual precincts, raised questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now believes problems that cropped up in past elections were almost entirely due to the kind of mistakes that happen in a high-stress environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest switch I’ve made is rather than try to assume that there was any malfeasance or intentional activity with respect to election results, that most of the problems are a result of human error,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller told KQED he will make no major changes to how elections are administered in Shasta County prior to Tuesday, and so far, he hasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not pleasing his critics, including Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Patrick Jones in his family’s gun shop, Jones’ Fort, in Redding, on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we wanted to do things the same, we would have picked Joanna,” Jones said. “He knows the vast majority of us are looking for more transparency, meaningful observation, chain of custody. Will he deliver? That’s up to him. There will be a lot of criticism if he doesn’t live up to what he knows the public wants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A gut feeling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Toller and his office face pressure to successfully pull off the November election, the future of the board’s conservative majority, which has steered many of Shasta County’s recent decisions on elections, is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Jones will be replaced by Matt Plummer, a young moderate who ran on a platform of reducing homelessness, cutting crime and fixing Shasta County’s roads. Plummer said he knocked on over 9,000 doors while campaigning and those were the issues people brought up over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-34-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shasta County Supervisor-elect Matt Plummer stands on the Diestelhorst Bridge in Redding. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The other thing was, like, just stop the chaos and stop the craziness, which has kind of characterized our county board over the last three to four years,” Plummer said at a Redding ice cream shop one evening in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County election data show Jones lost his bid for reelection to Plummer in the primary by nearly 20%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jones alleged he won the election and will be stepping down because there was cheating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing is the effort does not match the result,” Jones said. “And your gut feeling is something’s not right when you outdo your opponent, and yet you did not prevail. And that’s just a gut feeling from the candidate that only the candidate would know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A November runoff between Supervisor Mary Rickert, a moderate incumbent, and Corkey Harmon, a political newcomer, could also shift the board’s makeup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The MAGA movement here is fading away faster than they ever thought it would be,” said Supervisor Tim Garman, who is stepping down at the end of his term because of redistricting. “Not as fast as I think some of us would like it to go, but it is fading away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Jones is already casting doubt on the results of Tuesday’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what happens this November, there will be no trust,” Jones said. “And what the public will do, I don’t know. Hopefully, all goes well, but we have not fixed our elections, and people are getting mad. They’re getting upset. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a Sunday evening in early October, dozens of people mingled in a backyard overlooking a canyon in the posh Turtle Rock neighborhood of Irvine for a local Democratic club fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine is the largest city in the 47th Congressional District, one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/23/nx-s1-5155122/which-party-controls-the-house-could-be-determined-by-deeply-blue-california\">House swing seats in California that could decide control of Congress in November\u003c/a>. But on this balmy evening, conversation over wine and hors d’oeuvres drifted to the topic of the district’s second-largest city, just up the 405: Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One local school board member told of a recent trip to a Huntington Beach pickleball court, where she was alarmed to find a vendor selling Make America Great Again hats. Democratic elected officials warned those gathered of the conservative policies gaining traction in Huntington Beach: flag bans, voter ID law and lawsuits over transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re lucky to live in Irvine, where we don’t have the craziness,” Dave Min, the Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009870/dave-min-scott-baugh-vie-for-competitive-orange-county-house-seat\">running for Congress in the 47th District\u003c/a>, told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats and Republicans are evenly registered in the 47th District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008793/how-the-diploma-divide-is-shaping-a-toss-up-house-race-in-orange-county\">a stark political divide exists between its two largest cities\u003c/a>. In the 2022 election, incumbent Democrat Katie Porter carried Irvine by a margin of 63% to 37% on her way to victory over Republican Scott Baugh, a former state legislator. But in Huntington Beach, Baugh won 55% to 45%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To win the district this year, Min and Baugh will need to find a way to bridge the gap — or increase their margins in the polarized communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine, like Orange County as a whole, has moved leftward since the emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s standard bearer — reflecting suburban opposition to the former president and the GOP’s rightward move on issues like abortion. Huntington Beach appears to be moving in the opposite direction: the city is a hub for conservative activism and local voters have recently backed conservative councilmembers and ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘This tale of two cities’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The split between the two cities could be explained by a gap in educational attainment, which Jon Gould, dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, called the most important demarcation in OC politics. Over 72% of Irvine residents hold college degrees, compared to around 44% in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing happening here in Orange County is the real divide of left to right, Democrat to Republican, is college education versus non-college education,” said Gould, who heads the UC Irvine poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called “diploma divide” has helped shift Orange County from a GOP stronghold to a political battleground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that the college-educated would typically be more Republican,” Gould added. “What we’re seeing right now in the Trump era is the college-educated are much more strongly Democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polling conducted by Gould shows the education trend beginning to extend across racial and ethnic groups in a county where just 37% of residents are white. A UC Irvine poll of county voters in April found support for President Joe Biden’s reelection stood at 41% with both white and non-white voters without a college degree. Meanwhile, support for Biden among white and non-white voters with a diploma stood at 55% and 54%, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing this diploma divide actually overtake, in many instances, race and ethnicity as driving behavior,” said Mike Madrid, a longtime California political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This education gap, along with divergent trends in population growth and housing policy, has left Irvine and Huntington Beach at loggerheads: two communities embodying a larger divide in national politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why you’ve got this tale of two cities,” said Tammy Kim, an Irvine city council member.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With growth, Irvine moves to the left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irvine’s story is one of rapid growth. A master-planned community built on the Irvine Company Ranch, the city wasn’t officially incorporated until 1971. Since 1990, the city’s population has nearly tripled as city leaders have approved ambitious developments to house new residents, including many arriving from Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are building the most, not in terms of just market priced homes, but we are actually the regional leader in affordable housing,” said Kim, a native of Korea who is running to be Irvine’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we are growing, we’re growing to be more diverse and more progressive,” Kim added. “We have the largest Persian community anywhere in Orange County. We have the largest Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean communities here in Irvine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2024-08-16/the-nations-hottest-housing-market-irvine\">According to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Irvine has added more residents than any other California city in the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those new arrivals is Ren Kondo, who moved from Austin this summer to a house just down the street from the Turtle Rock fundraiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Irvine because I think Irvine is a very advanced and chill community for Asians,” said Kondo, who met the hosts of the Democratic gathering at his own housewarming party the week before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kim, what unites Irvine’s diverse residents is their shared emphasis on education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very highly educated people that make their way to Irvine,” she added. “They choose to have their home in Irvine, and they come here because of the education system so their children can also have access to the best education system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011656 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1058414852.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait in line to cast their ballot at a polling station on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, on Nov. 6, 2018, in Irvine, California, on Election Day. (Robyn Beck/Getty Contributor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine is the political heart of the congressional district for Democrats. Both Porter and Min were UC Irvine professors before launching campaigns for office. And Democratic success in the area can often hinge on whether candidates are able to drive a large enough turnout among student voters on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Irvine is this hot spot of youth voters who are really, really passionate about politics,” said Khushi Patel, activism director for the Orange County Young Democrats. “A lot of the voter percentage here is Democratic, so it’s really important that we’re making sure not only that everyone is registered to vote, but they’re educated on where to vote and also how to vote and all the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans see Huntington Beach as their counterweight to Irvine in the 47th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to offset the votes that go against Scott Baugh in Irvine, that we make sure we win dramatically here in Huntington Beach to get him across the finish line,” said Tony Strickland, a Huntington Beach city councilmember.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A working-class beach community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Huntington Beach was Surf City, it was Oil City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, oil derricks lined the coastline and drew workers from petroleum states like Texas and Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s working-class roots are still visible, from the oil drilling platforms on the horizon to the city’s high school mascot: the Oilers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a working-class community,” Strickland said. “It’s different than any other beach community, especially here in Orange County. It’s not Newport Beach. It’s not overwhelmingly wealthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12009870,news_12008793\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach was once one of the fastest-growing cities in California. In the 1960s, it expanded from 11,492 to 115,962 residents after the city annexed surrounding farmland and greenlit housing projects in seaside wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Ali arrived in town in the late ’60s. He came with “a few thousand dollars and a ‘65 Impala and a young wife,” and for years has run a beachside concession stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved to Huntington Beach, 95% of the population were middle-class working white people,” Ali said. “A lot of the people who came down here and bought houses in the ‘60s and the ‘70s are dying or selling their home, and [they] go somewhere else, and the kids take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more recent population growth has brought racial diversity to cities like Irvine, white residents still make up a majority in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Huntington Beach’s population growth has leveled off, city leaders have vehemently resisted efforts to plan for new housing. That has resulted in a series of legal clashes with Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943154/they-asked-for-this-california-sues-huntington-beach-for-flouting-laws-meant-to-ease-housing-crisis\">who has called the city “Exhibit A” among municipalities\u003c/a> failing to address housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a small town where people know each other, they watch for each other, there’s Neighborhood Watch,” Strickland said. “And even though we have 200,000 people, it has a suburban coastal community and kind of a neighborhood feel, unlike Irvine, which is…a lot of high-rise, high-density apartment buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A hub for conservative activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, Huntington Beach developed a reputation for right-wing extremism. A 1993\u003cem> Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-25-me-16750-story.html\">headline asked whether\u003c/a> it was the “Skinhead Capital of the County” and described the city as a gathering place for groups of white supremacists. Just last month, a man accused of leading a white supremacist group in the city pled guilty to a charge of inciting a riot during a political rally in the city in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many locals point to the pandemic as an inflection point for its role as a hub for conservative activism. The Huntington Beach waterfront and pier became a gathering spot for protests against beach and business closures and curfews that often doubled as rallies in support of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011663 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huntington Beach, California, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. As COVID-19 cases reached record numbers in the U.S. and California, hundreds gathered at the pier and Pacific Coast Highway to protest a State-mandated curfew of 10 p.m. (Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As opposed to, say, Newport Beach, where the Republicans there are what we would have previously called the ‘business Republicans’ or the ‘country club Republicans,’ there is a larger percentage of the Republicans in Huntington Beach who would be the Trump true believers who want to own the libs, who want to focus on particular social issues,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Garcia joined the protests in Huntington Beach after losing her job as a cook during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four months of waiting for the restaurant to reopen, she gathered her savings and started something new: a Trump merchandise stand with homemade hats and T-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stand now is a fixture at local rallies and Republican meetings — where she sells shirts like “MAGA Fight Club,” “Felon and Hillbilly 2024,” and her favorite, which depicts the biblical angel Gabriel draped over Trump during this year’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My values are family, marriage between a woman and a man, having kids, no abortion,” she said. “And I believe in God, so [Trump] represents everything that I believe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spirit of MAGA activism has infused the Huntington Beach city council. In 2022, conservatives won a majority on the local board and made headlines for laws \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/covid-mandate-ban\">banning local vaccine and mask requirements\u003c/a> — and more recently a \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/huntington-beach-sues-the-state-over-parental-notification-ban\">“notification” ordinance requiring city staff to alert parents\u003c/a> about a child’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing for the 47th District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many local Democrats believe the rightward swing in Huntington Beach is more fleeting than the consolidation of liberal strength in Irvine. They point to the close divide on the Huntington Beach city council (split four to three in favor of conservatives) and the Republican turnout edge in the 2022 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Strickland is confident the council majority has the backing of Surf City residents. After all, when proposals to restrict flags such as the Pride flag from city buildings and enact a local requirement for voter ID were put before voters in March, they both were approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people said we were out of step with our city, we put it to the vote,” Strickland said. “And overwhelmingly, the flag ordinance passed, I believe, by 14%. And even after all the money and everything was spent on the other side, voter ID passed by, I think, a healthy 7%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid predicts the diploma divide between communities like Irvine and Huntington Beach will continue to push cultural issues to the forefront of political campaigns, intensifying fights over changing gender and identity norms that “Democrats, in large part because of a function of the college education, are more comfortable with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024 and beyond, Madrid said he is watching to see if these education dividing lines begin to chip away at the longstanding ethnic, partisan loyalties that have defined politics in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This becomes the existential battle that you’re seeing in the 47th District or Orange County more broadly,” Madrid said. “And the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Over 72% of Irvine residents hold college degrees, compared to around 44% in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing happening here in Orange County is the real divide of left to right, Democrat to Republican, is college education versus non-college education,” said Gould, who heads the UC Irvine poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called “diploma divide” has helped shift Orange County from a GOP stronghold to a political battleground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that the college-educated would typically be more Republican,” Gould added. “What we’re seeing right now in the Trump era is the college-educated are much more strongly Democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polling conducted by Gould shows the education trend beginning to extend across racial and ethnic groups in a county where just 37% of residents are white. A UC Irvine poll of county voters in April found support for President Joe Biden’s reelection stood at 41% with both white and non-white voters without a college degree. Meanwhile, support for Biden among white and non-white voters with a diploma stood at 55% and 54%, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing this diploma divide actually overtake, in many instances, race and ethnicity as driving behavior,” said Mike Madrid, a longtime California political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This education gap, along with divergent trends in population growth and housing policy, has left Irvine and Huntington Beach at loggerheads: two communities embodying a larger divide in national politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why you’ve got this tale of two cities,” said Tammy Kim, an Irvine city council member.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With growth, Irvine moves to the left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irvine’s story is one of rapid growth. A master-planned community built on the Irvine Company Ranch, the city wasn’t officially incorporated until 1971. Since 1990, the city’s population has nearly tripled as city leaders have approved ambitious developments to house new residents, including many arriving from Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are building the most, not in terms of just market priced homes, but we are actually the regional leader in affordable housing,” said Kim, a native of Korea who is running to be Irvine’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we are growing, we’re growing to be more diverse and more progressive,” Kim added. “We have the largest Persian community anywhere in Orange County. 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(Robyn Beck/Getty Contributor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine is the political heart of the congressional district for Democrats. Both Porter and Min were UC Irvine professors before launching campaigns for office. And Democratic success in the area can often hinge on whether candidates are able to drive a large enough turnout among student voters on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Irvine is this hot spot of youth voters who are really, really passionate about politics,” said Khushi Patel, activism director for the Orange County Young Democrats. “A lot of the voter percentage here is Democratic, so it’s really important that we’re making sure not only that everyone is registered to vote, but they’re educated on where to vote and also how to vote and all the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans see Huntington Beach as their counterweight to Irvine in the 47th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to offset the votes that go against Scott Baugh in Irvine, that we make sure we win dramatically here in Huntington Beach to get him across the finish line,” said Tony Strickland, a Huntington Beach city councilmember.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A working-class beach community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Huntington Beach was Surf City, it was Oil City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, oil derricks lined the coastline and drew workers from petroleum states like Texas and Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s working-class roots are still visible, from the oil drilling platforms on the horizon to the city’s high school mascot: the Oilers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a working-class community,” Strickland said. “It’s different than any other beach community, especially here in Orange County. 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He came with “a few thousand dollars and a ‘65 Impala and a young wife,” and for years has run a beachside concession stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved to Huntington Beach, 95% of the population were middle-class working white people,” Ali said. “A lot of the people who came down here and bought houses in the ‘60s and the ‘70s are dying or selling their home, and [they] go somewhere else, and the kids take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more recent population growth has brought racial diversity to cities like Irvine, white residents still make up a majority in Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Huntington Beach’s population growth has leveled off, city leaders have vehemently resisted efforts to plan for new housing. That has resulted in a series of legal clashes with Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943154/they-asked-for-this-california-sues-huntington-beach-for-flouting-laws-meant-to-ease-housing-crisis\">who has called the city “Exhibit A” among municipalities\u003c/a> failing to address housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a small town where people know each other, they watch for each other, there’s Neighborhood Watch,” Strickland said. “And even though we have 200,000 people, it has a suburban coastal community and kind of a neighborhood feel, unlike Irvine, which is…a lot of high-rise, high-density apartment buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A hub for conservative activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, Huntington Beach developed a reputation for right-wing extremism. A 1993\u003cem> Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-25-me-16750-story.html\">headline asked whether\u003c/a> it was the “Skinhead Capital of the County” and described the city as a gathering place for groups of white supremacists. Just last month, a man accused of leading a white supremacist group in the city pled guilty to a charge of inciting a riot during a political rally in the city in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many locals point to the pandemic as an inflection point for its role as a hub for conservative activism. The Huntington Beach waterfront and pier became a gathering spot for protests against beach and business closures and curfews that often doubled as rallies in support of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011663 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1229732397.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huntington Beach, California, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. As COVID-19 cases reached record numbers in the U.S. and California, hundreds gathered at the pier and Pacific Coast Highway to protest a State-mandated curfew of 10 p.m. (Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As opposed to, say, Newport Beach, where the Republicans there are what we would have previously called the ‘business Republicans’ or the ‘country club Republicans,’ there is a larger percentage of the Republicans in Huntington Beach who would be the Trump true believers who want to own the libs, who want to focus on particular social issues,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Garcia joined the protests in Huntington Beach after losing her job as a cook during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four months of waiting for the restaurant to reopen, she gathered her savings and started something new: a Trump merchandise stand with homemade hats and T-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stand now is a fixture at local rallies and Republican meetings — where she sells shirts like “MAGA Fight Club,” “Felon and Hillbilly 2024,” and her favorite, which depicts the biblical angel Gabriel draped over Trump during this year’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My values are family, marriage between a woman and a man, having kids, no abortion,” she said. “And I believe in God, so [Trump] represents everything that I believe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spirit of MAGA activism has infused the Huntington Beach city council. In 2022, conservatives won a majority on the local board and made headlines for laws \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/covid-mandate-ban\">banning local vaccine and mask requirements\u003c/a> — and more recently a \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/huntington-beach-sues-the-state-over-parental-notification-ban\">“notification” ordinance requiring city staff to alert parents\u003c/a> about a child’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing for the 47th District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many local Democrats believe the rightward swing in Huntington Beach is more fleeting than the consolidation of liberal strength in Irvine. They point to the close divide on the Huntington Beach city council (split four to three in favor of conservatives) and the Republican turnout edge in the 2022 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Strickland is confident the council majority has the backing of Surf City residents. After all, when proposals to restrict flags such as the Pride flag from city buildings and enact a local requirement for voter ID were put before voters in March, they both were approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people said we were out of step with our city, we put it to the vote,” Strickland said. “And overwhelmingly, the flag ordinance passed, I believe, by 14%. And even after all the money and everything was spent on the other side, voter ID passed by, I think, a healthy 7%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid predicts the diploma divide between communities like Irvine and Huntington Beach will continue to push cultural issues to the forefront of political campaigns, intensifying fights over changing gender and identity norms that “Democrats, in large part because of a function of the college education, are more comfortable with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024 and beyond, Madrid said he is watching to see if these education dividing lines begin to chip away at the longstanding ethnic, partisan loyalties that have defined politics in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This becomes the existential battle that you’re seeing in the 47th District or Orange County more broadly,” Madrid said. “And the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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