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They should put some of these people in jail. And I’m a moderate Democrat, but I’m tired of all this crime,” Lee told KQED at the Sunset Night Market, where mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie was out meeting voters on a recent Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market on Irving Street, Lee peppered Lurie with questions about how he plans to reduce street homelessness and crime, which she and other voters said they view as related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing beside retired San Francisco Police Commander Paul Yep, who is backing Lurie’s campaign, Lurie detailed his plans to staff up the police department, speed up 911 response times and find long-term solutions for the public disarray Lee and others are troubled by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to get (unhoused people) into shelter. We’re going to get them bus tickets home, and then we’re going to get those that are suffering on our streets into mental health and drug treatment beds,” Lurie said to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie shakes voter Diane Lee’s hand as he campaigns at the Sunset Night Market in San Francisco on Aug. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie, founder of the nonprofit Tipping Point and heir to the Levis Strauss clothing fortune, is a political outsider who hasn’t run for office before but said his background in nonprofit work has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">positioned him to bring new ideas to City Hall\u003c/a>. “We have the money. We have the resources to do this. That’s why I’m running, because all these folks who I’m running against, they had their chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other candidates are carving out more aggressive lanes when it comes to policing. Farrell, who recently won the endorsement from the Chinese American Democratic Club, has leaned into Chinese American voters’ frustration and fears around public safety. He plans to increase funding and staffing at the police department and said he will replace Police Chief Bill Scott and hopes to bring in armed National Guard troops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are incredibly fed up with day-to-day life in San Francisco,” Farrell told KQED, referring to the Chinese American voters he speaks to. “They want a mayor who’s going to bring change, and I will bring that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shifting politics and representation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rise in public safety as an issue among voters comes alongside the moderate takeover of San Francisco’s Democratic Party this past spring. Many of the new members have made broad calls for increased public safety and measures that give more powers to the mayor and police.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"san-francisco-mayor-election\"]It also comes as Asian representation among San Francisco officials has dropped — and none of the leading candidates in the race are Chinese American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 20 years ago, only a handful of San Francisco candidates even had literature of mailers in Chinese, and they were usually Chinese and Asian American candidates,” said former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who now serves as the California director of the Working Families Party. “Now, almost all campaigns try to hire Chinese bilingual organizers and come up with the best Chinese name” to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has given candidates the option to print their name — or a chosen name — in Chinese characters on the ballot for nearly 25 years in an attempt to appeal to Chinese-speaking voters. While \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/san-francisco-cracks-appropriation-chinese-names-gains-ballot-box-rcna128176\">the policy has met controversy\u003c/a>, it symbolizes how any serious candidate must make inroads with Chinese-speaking communities to have a shot in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s really about the network and community. Who are your neighbors and people you’re playing mahjong with and doing tai chi with? What are they saying? That’s how it’s really being relayed back to Asian voters,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, who is currently the only AAPI supervisor and running for reelection. “This is why endorsements are so critical and why the people that you know are so important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, Chan, along with Assmeblymember Phil Ting and former Supervisor Gordon Mar are all backing Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin hands out campaign fliers in multiple languages while visiting store owners on Clement Street in the Inner Richmond on Aug. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Breed has support from State Attorney General Rob Bonta, Sheriff Paul Miyamota and Board of Education Commissioner Jenny Lam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their backing, Breed faces a tough reelection battle this fall. She’s had to assuage some skeptical voters who are still reeling from the spike in attacks against Asian residents during the pandemic — which spurred one Chinatown rapper to put out a diss track against Breed. He later apologized for the song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they really need to do is listen to Chinese voters and understand their needs. They need to provide campaign information so voters become educated, and then they have to get out the vote with Chinese volunteers,” said Russell Jeung, an Asian American studies professor who teaches at San Francisco State University. “That’s the voter education our communities need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A wide range of views\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From 2010 to 2020, the Asian population in San Francisco had the highest growth rate among all ethnicities in the city, according to US Census data, and Chinese residents make up nearly 22% of the city’s overall population, making them a key voting bloc for mayoral hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, like any major demographic, opinions vary widely within the Chinese American community on issues like public safety and how that should be addressed. Having more representation within campaigns is important to understanding that, said Jeung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a range of different political views, and that, to me, shows the maturation of the community. You can’t just talk about the stereotypical Asian vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Chinese American voters, Supervisor Chan said, improving public safety isn’t about simply increasing police budgets or policies around harsher prosecutions. Often, she said, people’s general well-being — like the ability to pay the bills, access healthcare, walk on clean streets, attend good schools — shape feelings and conversations around safety and are part of solutions voters want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they consider as a safety issue is not just about incarceration or prosecution. It’s actually really more of a day-to-day, like, do I feel safe? Can I go shopping? Can I do my daily routine without being interrupted or any type of incident?” Chan said. “Those are more their top concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs for San Francisco mayoral candidates Ahsha Safaí and London Breed outside Hon’s Wun-Tun House in Chinatown in San Francisco on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For friends and San Francisco natives Richard Fong and David Zhao, public safety is a concern. However, the two said they are most interested in seeing a candidate who can provide housing to people who are homeless on the streets as a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone to get people off the street and into houses,” said Fong, who is heading off to college this fall but plans to place an absentee ballot for the mayor’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better capture those varying opinions among Asian voters, candidates are also stacking their campaigns with bilingual staffers and volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have volunteers and paid staff who do speak Cantonese, and that’s really helpful for us when we are in neighborhoods where the majority language is monolingual Cantonese,” said Lauren Chung, a Chinese American and the campaign manager for Ahsha Safaí, another leading mayoral candidate who currently serves on the board of supervisors. “It’s definitely something we need on a campaign in San Francisco so we don’t leave any communities out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayoral candidates also promise to increase Asian representation among department heads and other city positions if elected. On Monday, Breed announced the city’s first Chinese American to serve as interim Fire Chief, Sandy Tong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I become mayor, there is going to be representation of the API community at all levels of my administration,” said Lurie. “I’m not going to just pay lip service. There will not just be a seat at the table, but \u003cem>seats \u003c/em>at the table in terms of representation.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a progressive candidate, recently addressed supporters in a velvet-red banquet hall in Chinatown, championing his efforts to bring Cantonese-speaking officers to the neighborhood and increase veteran officer salaries. Across town, former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell, a moderate Democrat, echoed similar promises in a small Visitacion Valley park, vowing to boost multilingual police presence and greater support for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the candidates’ rhetoric around public safety varies, and Farrell has made increasing police to soothe crime fears a key part of his platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is a top concern for San Francisco. Homelessness is on the rise. Tent encampments have never been worse in San Francisco. A record number of people are dying from drug overdose. Deaths on our streets every single day in our city, and our economy is completely stuck in cement,” Farrell said, standing in front of a group of elderly Chinese supporters. “We need change in San Francisco, and we need a change of direction in City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of supporters hold signs for Mark Farrell outside a press conference in Visitacion Valley on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diane Lee, a longtime San Francisco resident and voter, told KQED that she feels less safe in the city today than ever before, even as police data shows that retail and violent crime rates are significantly down in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ridiculous. They should put some of these people in jail. And I’m a moderate Democrat, but I’m tired of all this crime,” Lee told KQED at the Sunset Night Market, where mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie was out meeting voters on a recent Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market on Irving Street, Lee peppered Lurie with questions about how he plans to reduce street homelessness and crime, which she and other voters said they view as related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing beside retired San Francisco Police Commander Paul Yep, who is backing Lurie’s campaign, Lurie detailed his plans to staff up the police department, speed up 911 response times and find long-term solutions for the public disarray Lee and others are troubled by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to get (unhoused people) into shelter. We’re going to get them bus tickets home, and then we’re going to get those that are suffering on our streets into mental health and drug treatment beds,” Lurie said to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie shakes voter Diane Lee’s hand as he campaigns at the Sunset Night Market in San Francisco on Aug. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie, founder of the nonprofit Tipping Point and heir to the Levis Strauss clothing fortune, is a political outsider who hasn’t run for office before but said his background in nonprofit work has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">positioned him to bring new ideas to City Hall\u003c/a>. “We have the money. We have the resources to do this. That’s why I’m running, because all these folks who I’m running against, they had their chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other candidates are carving out more aggressive lanes when it comes to policing. Farrell, who recently won the endorsement from the Chinese American Democratic Club, has leaned into Chinese American voters’ frustration and fears around public safety. He plans to increase funding and staffing at the police department and said he will replace Police Chief Bill Scott and hopes to bring in armed National Guard troops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are incredibly fed up with day-to-day life in San Francisco,” Farrell told KQED, referring to the Chinese American voters he speaks to. “They want a mayor who’s going to bring change, and I will bring that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shifting politics and representation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rise in public safety as an issue among voters comes alongside the moderate takeover of San Francisco’s Democratic Party this past spring. Many of the new members have made broad calls for increased public safety and measures that give more powers to the mayor and police.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Like many new political candidates at the time, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan first ran for the state Assembly in 2018 because she was troubled by the election of then-President Donald Trump and wanted California to fight back against his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that dynamic has flipped on its head. In the just-concluded regular legislative session, the San Ramon Democrat and her colleagues instead battled a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/08/california-conservatives-fight-back/\">surging rebellion from conservative California communities\u003c/a> against the state’s liberal governance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On issues including abortion access, election rules and LGBTQ rights, Democrats in Sacramento passed legislation this year to stifle emerging local policies that they argued undermine the state’s commitment to diversity, civil rights and other progressive values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In certain ways, we have the right to hold the line for our constituencies,” said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rebecca-bauer-kahan-165035\">Bauer-Kahan\u003c/a>, who compared the relationship between the Legislature and local governments to a system of checks and balances. “And I think that’s what we’re doing right now — we’re checking them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions over local control are nothing new in California politics, as anyone who has followed decades of debate about land use and housing development can attest. But the last few years have opened a new front of conflict around cultural grievances more typical of red states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republican power waning in California — the party hasn’t elected a candidate to statewide office since 2006 and labors under a superminority in the Legislature — conservatives are increasingly using the relative autonomy of city councils, county boards of supervisors and school boards to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">protest liberal state policymaking and assert a competing vision for their communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of built-up frustration and that’s one valve that’s being used,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/bill-essayli-165444\">Bill Essayli\u003c/a>, a Corona Republican who is often an outspoken opponent of bills to shut down conservative defiance. “We’re in an era in politics where you need an adversary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result has been local laws to require voter identification at the polls, block abortion clinics from opening, review children’s library books for sexual content and mandate parental notification when students change their gender identity at school — prompting legislative Democrats to respond with measures that would ban those policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t want free people to make up their own minds,” said Fresno County Supervisor Steve Brandau, who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">developed a library material review committee\u003c/a> for his county because he was disturbed by the children’s books included in a Pride Month display at a local library. “We’re fighting for our lives, we’re fighting for our livelihoods, we’re fighting for our beliefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clash began intensifying last year, with a showdown over an elementary school social studies textbook. When a Riverside County school board refused to adopt the state-approved curriculum because it referenced assassinated LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk, Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to send the textbook directly to students and bill the district, which then reversed course. Legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/09/california-book-bans/\">subsequently passed a law\u003c/a> to penalize school boards that ban books because they include the history or culture of LGBTQ people and other diverse groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also approved, and Newsom signed, a measure to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws/#c2120155-fc6a-4c1b-9323-6291c4b1efd8\">limit when local governments can count ballots by hand\u003c/a>, after Shasta County canceled its contract with a voting machine company because of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/shasta-county-election-administration/\">unfounded election fraud claims\u003c/a> pushed by Trump and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of legislation has followed this year, most controversially \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1955?slug=CA_202320240AB1955\">Assembly Bill 1955\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/christopher-ward-35497\">Chris Ward\u003c/a>, a San Diego Democrat, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/trans-youth-california/\">prevents school districts from alerting parents\u003c/a> when a student starts identifying as another gender. Such parental notification policies began sprouting up across California after the 2022 election, when Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/08/california-republicans-school-board-races/\">focused on winning control of school boards\u003c/a>, but critics argue they amount to forced outing. Essayli and Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/corey-jackson-165443\">Corey Jackson\u003c/a> nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article289582908.html\">came to blows on the Assembly floor\u003c/a> over AB 1955, which Newsom signed in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12002527,news_11995853,news_12001799\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other measures are headed to the governor’s desk after receiving final approval from the Legislature last week, including Bauer-Kahan’s \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2085?slug=CA_202320240AB2085\">AB 2085\u003c/a> to streamline the permitting process for reproductive health clinics. Though California has positioned itself as an “abortion sanctuary” since the U.S Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — even putting reproductive rights into the state constitution — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/abortion-rights-california-beverly-hills-clinic/\">local opposition has prevented clinics from opening\u003c/a> in cities such as Beverly Hills and Fontana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw the voters say they overwhelmingly support abortion rights, so it’s important that we as a state step in to ensure this access that they said they want,” Bauer-Kahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#f2de7f04-ca4b-4c20-b7e3-f75a528befe4\">Senate Bill 1174\u003c/a> by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/dave-min-165451\">Dave Min\u003c/a>, an Irvine Democrat, would prohibit local governments from requiring voter identification in municipal elections, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/california-election-huntington-beach/\">Huntington Beach adopted this past spring\u003c/a> as a security measure despite criticisms that it would create unnecessary hurdles for poor and minority voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#828d086d-0676-48b0-a25c-ddf15e45dc40\">AB 1825\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/al-muratsuchi-34399\">Al Muratsuchi\u003c/a>, would \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">outlaw the sort of citizen review panels\u003c/a> that Huntington Beach and Fresno County recently created to restrict access to library books with “sexual references” and “gender-identity content.” Supporters argue the committees can keep inappropriate material out of children’s hands, while opponents contend that they target books with LGBTQ themes for censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislators behind these bills say they support local control on some issues, but it can go too far when communities use their power to challenge people’s rights or the values that Californians have broadly affirmed. That’s when they believe the state should step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see it as our responsibility for the Legislature to establish protections for all kids regardless of where they live,” said Muratsuchi, a Torrance Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002787\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"Several people look toward a person at a podium with a microphone and a large screen behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Senate during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers suggested the growing confrontation could be a symptom of the divisive politics of the Trump era. They said many conservatives took a signal from Trump’s refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 presidential election and, like liberal states during the Trump administration, are picking up the mantle to lead a political resistance — which they believe, in many cases, has gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve seen a lot of these people really thumb their nose at the rule of law,” Min said. “They’re trying to get around that through sneaky little tactics.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative politicians counter that they are simply reacting to a state government that has pushed much further left than their constituents by listening to the LGBTQ rights movement and other activists rather than the people who elected them. Essayli said the Democratic supermajority in the Legislature is over-representative of a progressive ideology compared to California voters, only 46% of whom are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one side changing what the norm is,” he said. “Then we’re considered the instigators, the agitators, the provocateurs for saying, wait, that’s not the way it’s always been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom declined to comment on the legislation pending before him or when the governor thinks state intervention is necessary to override local policies. But even if he signs the bills on his desk, is it almost certainly not the end of this fight, as communities such as Huntington Beach — which has positioned itself over the past two years as a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">bulwark in the conservative war against “wokeism”\u003c/a> — consider lawsuits and other forms of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red dress holds a book while leaning against a desk with a stack of books and pictures in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracey Van Der Mark, Mayor Pro Tem, with books she believes should be banned from children’s sections of the library in Huntington Beach Nov. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2024-08-07/huntington-beach-city-council-majority-calls-for-creation-of-a-parents-right-to-know-ordinance\">introduced a “parents’ right to know” ordinance \u003c/a>as a direct challenge to AB 1955, the law prohibiting schools from reporting when students change their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her city is more at odds now with Sacramento because state politicians are trying to stamp out ideological diversity in California and force all parents to raise their children in a certain way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s none of the state’s business,” she said. “We’re sick and tired of it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Like many new political candidates at the time, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan first ran for the state Assembly in 2018 because she was troubled by the election of then-President Donald Trump and wanted California to fight back against his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that dynamic has flipped on its head. In the just-concluded regular legislative session, the San Ramon Democrat and her colleagues instead battled a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/08/california-conservatives-fight-back/\">surging rebellion from conservative California communities\u003c/a> against the state’s liberal governance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On issues including abortion access, election rules and LGBTQ rights, Democrats in Sacramento passed legislation this year to stifle emerging local policies that they argued undermine the state’s commitment to diversity, civil rights and other progressive values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In certain ways, we have the right to hold the line for our constituencies,” said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rebecca-bauer-kahan-165035\">Bauer-Kahan\u003c/a>, who compared the relationship between the Legislature and local governments to a system of checks and balances. “And I think that’s what we’re doing right now — we’re checking them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions over local control are nothing new in California politics, as anyone who has followed decades of debate about land use and housing development can attest. But the last few years have opened a new front of conflict around cultural grievances more typical of red states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republican power waning in California — the party hasn’t elected a candidate to statewide office since 2006 and labors under a superminority in the Legislature — conservatives are increasingly using the relative autonomy of city councils, county boards of supervisors and school boards to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">protest liberal state policymaking and assert a competing vision for their communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of built-up frustration and that’s one valve that’s being used,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/bill-essayli-165444\">Bill Essayli\u003c/a>, a Corona Republican who is often an outspoken opponent of bills to shut down conservative defiance. “We’re in an era in politics where you need an adversary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result has been local laws to require voter identification at the polls, block abortion clinics from opening, review children’s library books for sexual content and mandate parental notification when students change their gender identity at school — prompting legislative Democrats to respond with measures that would ban those policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t want free people to make up their own minds,” said Fresno County Supervisor Steve Brandau, who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">developed a library material review committee\u003c/a> for his county because he was disturbed by the children’s books included in a Pride Month display at a local library. “We’re fighting for our lives, we’re fighting for our livelihoods, we’re fighting for our beliefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clash began intensifying last year, with a showdown over an elementary school social studies textbook. When a Riverside County school board refused to adopt the state-approved curriculum because it referenced assassinated LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk, Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to send the textbook directly to students and bill the district, which then reversed course. Legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/09/california-book-bans/\">subsequently passed a law\u003c/a> to penalize school boards that ban books because they include the history or culture of LGBTQ people and other diverse groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also approved, and Newsom signed, a measure to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws/#c2120155-fc6a-4c1b-9323-6291c4b1efd8\">limit when local governments can count ballots by hand\u003c/a>, after Shasta County canceled its contract with a voting machine company because of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/shasta-county-election-administration/\">unfounded election fraud claims\u003c/a> pushed by Trump and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spate of legislation has followed this year, most controversially \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1955?slug=CA_202320240AB1955\">Assembly Bill 1955\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/christopher-ward-35497\">Chris Ward\u003c/a>, a San Diego Democrat, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/trans-youth-california/\">prevents school districts from alerting parents\u003c/a> when a student starts identifying as another gender. Such parental notification policies began sprouting up across California after the 2022 election, when Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/08/california-republicans-school-board-races/\">focused on winning control of school boards\u003c/a>, but critics argue they amount to forced outing. Essayli and Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/corey-jackson-165443\">Corey Jackson\u003c/a> nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article289582908.html\">came to blows on the Assembly floor\u003c/a> over AB 1955, which Newsom signed in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other measures are headed to the governor’s desk after receiving final approval from the Legislature last week, including Bauer-Kahan’s \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2085?slug=CA_202320240AB2085\">AB 2085\u003c/a> to streamline the permitting process for reproductive health clinics. Though California has positioned itself as an “abortion sanctuary” since the U.S Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — even putting reproductive rights into the state constitution — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/04/abortion-rights-california-beverly-hills-clinic/\">local opposition has prevented clinics from opening\u003c/a> in cities such as Beverly Hills and Fontana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw the voters say they overwhelmingly support abortion rights, so it’s important that we as a state step in to ensure this access that they said they want,” Bauer-Kahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#f2de7f04-ca4b-4c20-b7e3-f75a528befe4\">Senate Bill 1174\u003c/a> by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/dave-min-165451\">Dave Min\u003c/a>, an Irvine Democrat, would prohibit local governments from requiring voter identification in municipal elections, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/california-election-huntington-beach/\">Huntington Beach adopted this past spring\u003c/a> as a security measure despite criticisms that it would create unnecessary hurdles for poor and minority voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/new-california-laws-2024/#828d086d-0676-48b0-a25c-ddf15e45dc40\">AB 1825\u003c/a> by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/al-muratsuchi-34399\">Al Muratsuchi\u003c/a>, would \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/book-bans-california-libraries/\">outlaw the sort of citizen review panels\u003c/a> that Huntington Beach and Fresno County recently created to restrict access to library books with “sexual references” and “gender-identity content.” Supporters argue the committees can keep inappropriate material out of children’s hands, while opponents contend that they target books with LGBTQ themes for censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislators behind these bills say they support local control on some issues, but it can go too far when communities use their power to challenge people’s rights or the values that Californians have broadly affirmed. That’s when they believe the state should step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see it as our responsibility for the Legislature to establish protections for all kids regardless of where they live,” said Muratsuchi, a Torrance Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002787\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"Several people look toward a person at a podium with a microphone and a large screen behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082924_StateCapitolSession_FM_CM-03-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state Senate during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers suggested the growing confrontation could be a symptom of the divisive politics of the Trump era. They said many conservatives took a signal from Trump’s refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 presidential election and, like liberal states during the Trump administration, are picking up the mantle to lead a political resistance — which they believe, in many cases, has gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve seen a lot of these people really thumb their nose at the rule of law,” Min said. “They’re trying to get around that through sneaky little tactics.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative politicians counter that they are simply reacting to a state government that has pushed much further left than their constituents by listening to the LGBTQ rights movement and other activists rather than the people who elected them. Essayli said the Democratic supermajority in the Legislature is over-representative of a progressive ideology compared to California voters, only 46% of whom are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one side changing what the norm is,” he said. “Then we’re considered the instigators, the agitators, the provocateurs for saying, wait, that’s not the way it’s always been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom declined to comment on the legislation pending before him or when the governor thinks state intervention is necessary to override local policies. But even if he signs the bills on his desk, is it almost certainly not the end of this fight, as communities such as Huntington Beach — which has positioned itself over the past two years as a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/huntington-beach-conservatives/\">bulwark in the conservative war against “wokeism”\u003c/a> — consider lawsuits and other forms of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red dress holds a book while leaning against a desk with a stack of books and pictures in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/111123_HuntingtonBeach_LJ_CM_5639-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracey Van Der Mark, Mayor Pro Tem, with books she believes should be banned from children’s sections of the library in Huntington Beach Nov. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Lauren Justice/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2024-08-07/huntington-beach-city-council-majority-calls-for-creation-of-a-parents-right-to-know-ordinance\">introduced a “parents’ right to know” ordinance \u003c/a>as a direct challenge to AB 1955, the law prohibiting schools from reporting when students change their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her city is more at odds now with Sacramento because state politicians are trying to stamp out ideological diversity in California and force all parents to raise their children in a certain way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s none of the state’s business,” she said. “We’re sick and tired of it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Outside contractors and grantees will face tighter scrutiny in order to receive city dollars, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25084138-executive-directive-24-04_nonprofit-grant-administration-reform\">a directive Mayor London Breed issued\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, which is effective immediately, comes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998148/arrested-sf-nonprofit-chief-also-ran-a-richmond-charity-it-too-had-questionable-spending\">after numerous high-profile scandals in City Hall\u003c/a>. Breed is facing a tight reelection this fall, and her move comes as opponents lay out their own competing plans to clean up corruption in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Misconduct from those that would wrongfully take advantage of City resources has not been tolerated during my administration, and these new efforts expand on this commitment,” Breed said in a statement. “We are putting stronger protections in place and expanding the guidance of our Departments to strengthen the public trust and improve accountability in how our government operates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s directive orders city departments to ensure by Nov. 1 that any staff involved with grant-making understands and complies with the City Controller’s standards for agreements with external nonprofits. Those standards include tracking performance measures, engaging in regular fiscal monitoring and retaining all records from the selection process. It also requires departments to follow these rules when payments are issued in advance and to give grantees clear written instructions about timelines for payments and invoices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By September 30, the City Administrator and City Attorney’s Office are also required to create a set of policy guidelines for conflicts of interest on grant selection panels for all departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Breed also announced legislation to support her directive that would require contractors to keep separate accounts for political activities, prevent them from using city funds for advertising or lobbying city officials, and bar contractors from receiving public funds if they do not follow the city’s competitive solicitation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moves are in response to multiple incidents in recent years where city grantees have misused funds, failed to pay workers, or sought reimbursement for ineligible work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the former leader of the nonprofit SF Safe, Kyra Worthy, was arrested for allegedly misusing public funds and donations intended for crime-prevention programs. Prosecutors allege that Worthy funneled more than $700,000 into her personal bank account and to throw lavish parties through a combination of fake invoices and employee wage theft.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"san-francisco-mayor-election\"]The city is also still working to earn back voters’ trust after a spiraling corruption scandal within the Department of Public Works and the Department of Building Inspection, which has led to convictions for Mohammed Nuru, former head of the Director of Public Works, and former Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who undermine our contracting processes and exploit public resources are not welcome to do business with our City and will be held accountable,” said City Attorney David Chiu. “I am proud of our attorneys and investigators who have worked diligently to root out corruption and maintain the integrity of City government”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, those hoping to unseat Breed in the mayoral election are laying out their own plans to combat corruption in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t solve the problem when you are the problem, and we can’t trust the same people who built this broken, corrupt bureaucracy to turn it around,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie said in a statement\u003c/a>. “I am the only candidate who will bring a new culture of accountability to City Hall on day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie wants to remove a campaign fundraising loophole where candidates are able to raise more than the $500 contribution limit through ballot measure initiatives. He also wants to raise candidate filing fees for those who have records of ethics misconduct, fully fund the Ethics Commission, require reporting for any meals costing over $500, and create an ethics enforcement dashboard to track campaign finance reports, lobbying disclosures, gifts, contracts and other areas for potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan explicitly targets \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/07/see-how-they-run-farrells-questionable-campaign-ethics-history/\">several of the ethics complaints that former interim mayor and supervisor Mark Farrell,\u003c/a> who is also running for mayor, has faced in the current election cycle. He has come under scrutiny for his ties to the moderate political organizing group Together SF Action, which has raised millions of dollars through a ballot initiative to slash the number of city commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-15-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times, moderate the San Francisco mayoral debate featuring Ahsha Safai, Mark Farrell, Daniel Lurie, London Breed and Aaron Peskin at the Sydney Goldstein Theater on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrell faced similar accusations for campaign finance violations during his bid in 2010 for San Francisco Supervisor. The Ethics Commission fined Farrell $191,000 – the largest in the city’s history – and he later paid the city $25,000 to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Farrell has sought to portray his candidacy as a break from past City Hall scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will bring new transparency and accountability from day one,” said Farrell, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000444/former-san-francisco-supervisor-mark-farrell-makes-a-comeback-bid-for-mayor\">defended his record on the current campaign trail\u003c/a>. “I will centralize all third party non profit contracts under the Office of the Mayor to reduce fraud and waste while bringing greater accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors running for mayor criticized Breed for the corruption that has come to light during her administration, pointing to their own efforts to weed out corruption in City Hall from within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our current mayor’s administration is one of the most corrupt in San Francisco history,” said Supervisor Ahsha Safaí. “More of her senior officials have been convicted of corruption than in any other administration in modern times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Excelsior supervisor pointed to his efforts to maintain funding for the Ethics Commission when Breed attempted to reduce it and said mandating audits of nonprofits and other city contractors will be a priority if he is elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, meanwhile, is sponsoring Proposition C on the November ballot, which would create an Inspector General whose jobs would be to monitor for corruption and fraud and hold elected officials accountable, “so that we don’t need to rely on the FBI to maintain public integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After years of being bashed in conservative media and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/politics\">politics\u003c/a>, California politicians are on the offensive this election cycle — and relishing the opportunity to talk up the Golden State as one of their own runs for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may have to do so without the candidate’s help, however: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001556/harris-makes-her-case-for-president-emphasizing-freedom-and-middle-class-opportunity\">Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign\u003c/a> and national Democrats seem happy to tamp down most direct mentions of the lightning rod of a state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, and the Bay Area in particular, have long been held up by the right wing as a dystopic example of progressive failures. But at last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001412/kamala-harris-and-the-biggest-speech-of-her-life-5-takeaways-from-the-dnc\">Democratic National Convention\u003c/a> in Chicago, some of its leading Democrats were eager to make their case for why that characterization is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed, a longtime friend of Harris, was on a dual mission: support Harris and champion San Francisco. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has lived something of a parallel political life to Harris, declined an official speaking slot at the convention but spent much of its final days running around the United Center speaking to mainstream and right-wing media alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sen. Laphonza Butler, who was appointed by Newsom last year to the seat long held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000760/sen-laphonza-butler-on-the-rise-of-her-friend-kamala-harris\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that her story of California is a universal one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I start by telling a great story of California’s great diversity,” she said, noting that it’s not just ethnic and racial diversity. “We are cities and towns and suburbs and rural communities, and we’re a border state. And we have challenges of wildfires, challenges of earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are right on the Pacific Ocean, and we have beautiful beaches that are being eroded every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means California has things in common with places like Iowa, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Florida, Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our farmers are trying to find ways to make sure that they are able to water their cattle or their crops,” she continued. “That is true for Iowa. And Kansas. And so, to me, it is helping people to connect with the part of California that means something to them that they just don’t know about yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001032/at-dnc-roll-call-california-shines-as-harris-seals-nomination\">moment in the spotlight at the DNC came Tuesday night\u003c/a>, during the roll call on the convention floor where each state called out the number of delegates it was pledging to Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is customary, the nominee’s home state cast the votes — led by Newsom, who was bursting with California pride — that put Harris over the top for the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167653829_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing behind Rep. Maxine Waters and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, joins the California delegation as they cast their votes during the Ceremonial Roll Call of States on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are a state of dreamers and doers, of entrepreneurs and innovators, that pride themselves on being on the cutting edge of new ideas,” Newsom said to cheers. “California’s the most diverse state, in the world’s most diverse democracy. And we pride ourselves on our ability to live together and band together and prosper together across every conceivable and imaginable difference. But the thing we pride ourselves most on is that we believe the future happens in California first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris name-checked California twice in her speech. She has studiously \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-berkeley-hometown.html\">avoided direct references to Berkeley\u003c/a>, where she was born, but she spoke warmly of her time growing up in a working-class community in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats. A beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers. All who tended their lawns with pride,” she told the convention hall Thursday night as she accepted the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris noted that her single mother worked long hours, relying on her “trusted circle” to help raise her daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of them family by blood, and all of them family by love,” she said. “Family who taught us how to make gumbo, how to play chess — and sometimes even let us win. Family who loved us, believed in us and told us we could be anything and do anything. They instilled in us the values they personified — community, faith and the importance of treating others as you would want to be treated. With kindness, respect and compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Harris sought to tie her upbringing to a broader American story that can resonate in swing states and with persuadable voters, Breed leaned into San Francisco’s uniqueness. She had some help from a wealthy Bay Area entrepreneur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Larsen, the billionaire founder of financial tech company Ripple, hosted a private event billed to celebrate San Francisco at the nightclub Tao Chicago. Invitations proclaimed it a “Night of technology and truth” featuring a surprise performance by The Killers along with remarks by Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Trump is going to be attacking the city to attack Kamala unfairly,” Larsen told KQED before the event. “And we don’t want to let him get away with that because the city is actually on the upswing. We can’t let that narrative get away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12001412 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179824_qed-1020x676.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen and Breed emphasized San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996211/san-francisco-crime-is-down-significantly-but-its-not-clear-trend-will-last\">declining crime rate\u003c/a> and its status as a hub of tech innovation. Speaking as the crowd sipped sparkling wine and ate sushi, Breed played the role of cheerleader for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this moment in time, it is so critical that we talk about the truth about San Francisco ‘cause you know the Republicans are trying to turn San Francisco into something it’s not,” she said. “They’re trying to turn San Francisco into a bad word, yet everything that gets created, all the innovation, happens in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed went on to list all the companies with ties to the city by the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They pull out their iPhones, produced in the Bay Area and introduced in San Francisco, to call their Uber or Lyft, companies based in San Francisco,” she said. “And while they are riding to their Airbnb, a company in San Francisco, they’re tweeting bad things about our city, in a company that until recently was based in San Francisco,” she said to laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A relaxed and energetic Breed also declared San Francisco “the AI capital of the world — because I say so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked earlier that day why so much political talent comes out of the city, Breed had this zinger: “Because we’re San Francisco. That’s why everyone tries to come for us because we’re one of the most amazing cities anywhere in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who got his start in politics in San Francisco on a traffic commission, said it’s no surprise that the city produced a political star like Harris, whose first elected office was district attorney of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the successes of a city like San Francisco or a state like California that push its leaders to be bold, Newsom said. It’s also the challenges, like the desperation of HIV and AIDS or the homelessness crisis he’s been working to solve his whole career. So, while others are talking up California’s failures, he said he will be acknowledging them — and pushing for the next solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s in the DNA is sort of an established expectation of staying on leading, the cutting edge — there’s no grace for not being ahead of the curve. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, California politics and government senior editor Molly Solomon joins us to talk about how Kamala Harris tells her life story to a national audience — and why she might be reluctant to mention Berkeley. Also, we discuss a lead water crisis at Oakland schools, and why some journalists are dismayed with a deal Google just reached with state lawmakers to pay millions of dollars to support local news.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\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=KQINC3489421666&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-berkeley-hometown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Kamala Harris Claims Oakland, Berkeley Forgives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/08/29/ousd-has-failed-at-its-most-basic-job-families-teachers-demand-answers-on-lead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘OUSD has failed at its most basic job’: Families, teachers demand answers on lead\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/california-journalism-deal-legislature-google/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California tried to make Google pay news outlets. The company cut a deal that includes funding AI\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted and welcome to our August news roundup where me and the rest of the Bay team sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we have been following this month. I am joined by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And we’re also joined by a very special guest today, senior editor of KQED’s California politics and government desk, Molly Solomon. What’s up, Molly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>My thank you so much for taking the time. You guys have been super busy over there at the Politics desk, and I know your time is very precious. Can you talk about what you all have been up to this last month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Busy is like the understatement of the year. It has been a busy, busy week slash man slash. This election has probably aged me like a decade, but this I think more recently, the excitement on our team was being able to go to Chicago to cover in person the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think clearly the big story for us has also been this really quick, sudden ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket, replacing Biden. So obviously with her connections and her roots to San Francisco politics, to the Bay Area, that’s been a big story for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are times when I go throughout my day and I realize, again, that that happened, that Biden dropped out and that Harris is the nominee. And I still kind of can’t believe that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And that was a month ago. Allen What is time? Yeah, it’s wild. The last two months have been have been a roller coaster ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, while we are on the topic, why don’t you kick us off with the first story of our news roundup, Molly, that you’ve been watching very closely this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>The story that caught my eye. This last month is really this issue of how Kamala Harris is telling her story. And I think more specifically how she seems to be, as some people say, downplaying or even just saying the name of her hometown where she’s from, Berkeley. I just think it’s been fascinating because all of us, you know, reporters here, especially some of the local reporters on our team, have been covering her for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I just find it very fascinating the way she decides to tell her story, especially now that she’s on this national stage, including, you know, more recently, I was kind of watching for that when she was giving her speech at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris: \u003c/strong>Before she could finally afford to buy a home. She rented a small apartment in the east bay. In the bay, in the bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>A beautiful I think I had actually sent out a tweet when we got the transcript of her speech and I was like, Hey, like, shout out to Berkeley Flatlands. And people immediately, even just in that tweet that I sent out were like, actually, she did not specifically say Berkeley in her speech. So they were already really, like keen to, like, highlight what she was and was not saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>She was actually born in a hospital in Oakland. You know, when she was younger, they did spend some time actually, and then moved to the Midwest. She did end up moving back to Berkeley when her parents divorced and she lived with her mom in this now iconic yellow duplex house on Bancroft in kind of a southwest corner of Berkeley. After that, you know, she spent some of her adolescence actually in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Her mom had gotten a teaching research job at one of the universities there before. You know, the stage that she’s on now, like Harris has talked about growing up in Berkeley, like she wrote about it in her autobiography. She’s talked about, you know, going to protests with her parents in a stroller. Obviously, she moved back and was an adult and lived in Oakland as she was a prosecutor in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And she was also, I think, as a young child, she was part of this integrated bussing program in Berkeley. And she was actually bussed from, you know, her home in southwest Berkeley up to the wealthier North Berkeley Hills to go to school. So it has played a part in, you know, how she’s talked about her childhood in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I just think it’s more interesting because it seems like there has been this deliberate omission of it. I mean, even in just how she referred to where she’s from in her speech, she said the bay and other times, you know, she’s called herself a daughter of Oakland. So for whatever reason and we can talk about it, it seems like she’s downplaying naming the city that she spent most of her time growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why is that? Like, why not? Claim Berkeley as much now, or even Oakland explicitly for that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think it’s pretty strategic. You know, there is a political strategy here of emphasizing, you know, Oakland over Berkeley or maybe neither and just saying East Bay, there’s this idea that it’s just a bunch of like hippies and radical leftist that are in Berkeley. It’s got the nickname, bizarrely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I think if she is trying to, you know, as a candidate, make herself palatable to people that don’t live in the Bay Area, especially like one of the more progressive parts of California, she might want to distance herself from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I think from a political strategy standpoint, I could see her either wanting to paint herself with a broader brush or just maybe not even naming that city as a way to connect herself to to this bigger audience that she’s now speaking to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But, you know, it’s not like Harris is the first candidate to overplay or downplay certain parts of her background as someone from Berkeley. Molly, how does this make you feel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think there’s like an immense amount of pride for this place for people that have grown up in Berkeley. I mean, for people that have grown up in the Bay, I’m sure you feel this, too, from where you grew up. But, you know, to me, it’s like that is always been this thing that you claim, you know, and that you tell everybody about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I’m from Berkeley, I’m from the bay, you know, almost to the point of like annoyance from my husband or anyone else that is not grown up here. So so I think about it with with this, you know, I think this is something that’s interesting to me and sort of stood out to me because, you know, it tells me a little bit also about how Kamala Harris is choosing to show different parts of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I mean, not just with the hometown thing and being from Berkeley. And I’m sure that, like they were quoted in this article that I read to a lot of people in Berkeley were like, we get it. It’s fine. Our feelings are not hurt. We understand you got an election to win, whatever. But I think it’s just interesting to see the way that like what she chooses to claim and reveal about herself. You know, she’s really leaned into this law and order prosecutor role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think that has a lot to do with the current climate around crime being a mixed race woman, South Asian, black woman. I think these are parts of her identity, what she is publicly claiming and telling us who she is as a national candidate says something. So that’s why it stood out to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Molly, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll talk about a lead crisis at Oakland schools and a deal that Google just cut with the state to help California’s struggling local news industry. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the Bay’s Monthly News roundup, where we sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Alan Kids are back to school and it’s been a pretty chaotic return for students in Oakland. What’s going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there is lead in the drinking water at dozens of Oakland public schools. You know, it has obviously kids, parents, teachers, very frustrated with the district, afraid for their kids safety. I mean, not a great start to the school year in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how many schools are we talking about here? How bad and widespread is this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, as of now, we know of at least 30. There’s been a lot of reporting on this from the Oakland side. KQED has done some reporting as well. Now, the district has a policy that if the lead in drinking water is five parts per billion, just the concentration of lead or higher that the district needs to basically get rid of the fountains and replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>We know of more than 30 schools in Oakland that are above that five parts per billion number. Some of the schools have much, much higher concentrations of lead. One school, a Lincoln Elementary, tested for 930 parts per billion. And there are at least a dozen that have about 50 parts per million, which is, you know, ten times the district’s sort of minimum level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So how were parents and students finding out about these high levels of lead in the school’s drinking water?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So in mid-August, when almost was starting the new school year, families were getting notified that that there was lead or unsafe levels of lead in the drinking water in some of their schools. In many cases, the testing had actually been done much, much earlier. One example of this is at the Frick United Academy of Language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So on August 12th, which is, you know, the first day of school, teachers say they found out that six water fixtures at their schools tested over the safe limit of lead. But the testing was done in April. So teachers find this out on day one and they’re furious because, A, we have to now tell all of the kids on the first day of school, hey, do not drink the water from the fountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And B, kids were probably drinking it during the end of the school year during summer school. So the firestorm of anger in the district is not just about the fact that there is lead in the water. I mean, it should get fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, this happens when pipes are old, but that the notification didn’t happen in an efficient way. They found out months later. And that’s something that the district has even copped to, that they did not communicate the test results fast enough to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think, like if I’m a parent and I have a kid in an Oakland school that has like, you know, maybe one of these schools that has a high amount, like you mentioned, should I be worried? I mean, is this dangerous? Is my child affected by this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there are no safe levels of lead in drinking water. I mean, the county health department even recommended that parents who have kids at one of these schools have them tested for lead exposure and that they actually bring along the communication from the district to their primary care doctor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>The fountains that are known to have this lead in it have been shut down. But, you know, in in many cases, it’s possible that the kids have already drink the water that has led in it, because the way the district communicated this was so late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, what has the district said about why it took them so long to notify parents, students and sounds like even teachers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>As of now, we don’t totally know what went wrong here with the notification process. I should say we’re taping this before. Superintendent Kyla Johnson Tremmel is set to give a presentation to the public. The district has promised now that they will notify families within three days of testing and they will publish all of the results on a public dashboard. They say they’ll get this set up by January, but right now we don’t really know why this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Okay. So it sounds like there’s some plans in the works a little farther off. But what’s being done now about all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, I think for the district, just in the immediate term, there’s just the basic like explaining to families what happened here and trying to reassure them. In the meantime, there’s still more testing going on as of this taping. Not all of that. Schools have been fully tested yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And in terms of just being at school, the district is also providing filtered water dispensers at schools that have been affected. I think for teachers and kids, it’s just trying to get through the first month of school with this, you know, huge inconvenience that in many cases a lot of your drinking fountains are unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, we’ll definitely continue to follow that story as it develops. Thank you so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, will cap off our news roundup with a story about an effort to try and force big tech to help the state’s struggling local news industry. This is a story that I have been following this month in a deal with state lawmakers. Google has agreed to pay $55 million over five years to a fund that would be distributed to local newsrooms and also fund AA technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This deal comes after this effort by two Bay Area lawmakers to try and force the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley to really pay up essentially for the impact that some of these tech companies have had on our really I mean, faltering local news industry here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What role have they played specifically that led to some state lawmakers in California saying, hey, you guys got to pay up or at least help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So some of the context here, I mean, the state of California has lost like about a third of its local newspapers since 2005. And as we know very well, I mean, news organizations are really trying to keep up with the changing media ecosystem. I mean, advertising has always been a huge source of revenue for newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But now publishers argue that search engines and social media platforms have really harmed the journalism business by hogging up all that advertising revenue while also benefiting from news content that they don’t pay for. And so to local lawmakers in the Bay Area tried to put forward these two laws that were really set up to try and secure a cut of tech money, really to kind of help prop up California’s struggling local news industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So one of them would have forced Google and Medha to negotiate a so-called usage fee with news outlets directly. Basically, Google pays a local news outlet for how many clicks it gets on Google when a user searches for a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Another lawmaker from the Bay Area proposed a separate law that would have enforced a fee on major platforms like Google and Meta to basically provide a news outlet tax credit to help employ local journalists. And that ad actually would have raised $500 million a year, according to some estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I mean, it sounds like the original idea is not exactly what they ended up agreeing on in the end. Could you kind of walk us through what those changes were? Was there pushback and how they ended up landing on this new deal? That has, you know, I as a part of it as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Basically, Google is going to be paying much less than this. The original two bills that these lawmakers proposed. What’s happening instead is that the tech giant has agreed to pay $55 million over five years to support local media outlets. This money is going to be administered by UC Berkeley and kind of distributed to local news outlets from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And it’s also going to help start an artificial intelligence program. The idea is to basically give some of these outlets some financial support to see how I can help them in their work. And there are kind of two big reasons I’d say why the original plan kind of failed. One being that Google has spent a lot of money lobbying against these bills. They spent about $2.1 million in response to Buffy Wicks bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And once Buffy Wicks is, Bill actually passed it in the state Assembly. Google actually retaliated and temporarily removed some links to California news websites from its search results. So there was just a lot of concern about how willing Google would be to kind of go along with this idea. And there was concern about whether Governor Newsom would have been willing to support this idea to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Calmatters actually reported that proponents said that it was actually really unlikely that Newsom would support any one of these bills because he pledged no tax increases this year. So those are two kind of big reasons why their original idea didn’t kind of come to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Where were journalists in these negotiations? I mean, you know, this is a little bit of a meta conversation. I didn’t get a call about going to talk about this bill. I assume neither of you did either. What groups, if any, were weighing in on behalf of journalists who would be affected by this? Well, this now new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some groups representing journalists across California are really not happy about this deal. One really outspoken opponent is the Media Guild of the West, which represents reporters down in Southern California. The guild said that it was particularly concerned about this part of the deal involving artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And they sort of have concerns about what promoting A.I. could further do to the local news industry. They saw it as sort of a concession to the tech industry in that way that could actually lead to even more devastation to the local news industry and maybe even a further loss of of jobs among, like, reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, yeah, I mean, basically, like there are a bunch of unions and and other groups sort of representing journalists across the the state who are accusing California lawmakers of kind of settling and others who say that, you know, local media is not really in a position to say no to more money either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So there’s a lot more work to be done to kind of help local news organizations across the state to to be as healthy as we need them to be, especially in an election year. And that is it for our August news roundup. Thank you so much, Alan and Molly, for joining me, it was fun guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Thanks so much for having me. This was fun, you guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is made by me and Alan Montecillo. We get support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad and Holly Kernan Music courtesy of Audio Network. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra…peace.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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What’s up, Molly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>My thank you so much for taking the time. You guys have been super busy over there at the Politics desk, and I know your time is very precious. Can you talk about what you all have been up to this last month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Busy is like the understatement of the year. It has been a busy, busy week slash man slash. This election has probably aged me like a decade, but this I think more recently, the excitement on our team was being able to go to Chicago to cover in person the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think clearly the big story for us has also been this really quick, sudden ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket, replacing Biden. So obviously with her connections and her roots to San Francisco politics, to the Bay Area, that’s been a big story for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are times when I go throughout my day and I realize, again, that that happened, that Biden dropped out and that Harris is the nominee. And I still kind of can’t believe that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And that was a month ago. Allen What is time? Yeah, it’s wild. The last two months have been have been a roller coaster ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, while we are on the topic, why don’t you kick us off with the first story of our news roundup, Molly, that you’ve been watching very closely this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>The story that caught my eye. This last month is really this issue of how Kamala Harris is telling her story. And I think more specifically how she seems to be, as some people say, downplaying or even just saying the name of her hometown where she’s from, Berkeley. I just think it’s been fascinating because all of us, you know, reporters here, especially some of the local reporters on our team, have been covering her for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I just find it very fascinating the way she decides to tell her story, especially now that she’s on this national stage, including, you know, more recently, I was kind of watching for that when she was giving her speech at the Democratic National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris: \u003c/strong>Before she could finally afford to buy a home. She rented a small apartment in the east bay. In the bay, in the bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands. 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After that, you know, she spent some of her adolescence actually in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Her mom had gotten a teaching research job at one of the universities there before. You know, the stage that she’s on now, like Harris has talked about growing up in Berkeley, like she wrote about it in her autobiography. She’s talked about, you know, going to protests with her parents in a stroller. Obviously, she moved back and was an adult and lived in Oakland as she was a prosecutor in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>And she was also, I think, as a young child, she was part of this integrated bussing program in Berkeley. And she was actually bussed from, you know, her home in southwest Berkeley up to the wealthier North Berkeley Hills to go to school. 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You know, there is a political strategy here of emphasizing, you know, Oakland over Berkeley or maybe neither and just saying East Bay, there’s this idea that it’s just a bunch of like hippies and radical leftist that are in Berkeley. It’s got the nickname, bizarrely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I think if she is trying to, you know, as a candidate, make herself palatable to people that don’t live in the Bay Area, especially like one of the more progressive parts of California, she might want to distance herself from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>So I think from a political strategy standpoint, I could see her either wanting to paint herself with a broader brush or just maybe not even naming that city as a way to connect herself to to this bigger audience that she’s now speaking to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But, you know, it’s not like Harris is the first candidate to overplay or downplay certain parts of her background as someone from Berkeley. 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So so I think about it with with this, you know, I think this is something that’s interesting to me and sort of stood out to me because, you know, it tells me a little bit also about how Kamala Harris is choosing to show different parts of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I mean, not just with the hometown thing and being from Berkeley. And I’m sure that, like they were quoted in this article that I read to a lot of people in Berkeley were like, we get it. It’s fine. Our feelings are not hurt. We understand you got an election to win, whatever. But I think it’s just interesting to see the way that like what she chooses to claim and reveal about herself. You know, she’s really leaned into this law and order prosecutor role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think that has a lot to do with the current climate around crime being a mixed race woman, South Asian, black woman. I think these are parts of her identity, what she is publicly claiming and telling us who she is as a national candidate says something. So that’s why it stood out to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Molly, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll talk about a lead crisis at Oakland schools and a deal that Google just cut with the state to help California’s struggling local news industry. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the Bay’s Monthly News roundup, where we sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Alan Kids are back to school and it’s been a pretty chaotic return for students in Oakland. What’s going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there is lead in the drinking water at dozens of Oakland public schools. You know, it has obviously kids, parents, teachers, very frustrated with the district, afraid for their kids safety. I mean, not a great start to the school year in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how many schools are we talking about here? How bad and widespread is this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, as of now, we know of at least 30. There’s been a lot of reporting on this from the Oakland side. KQED has done some reporting as well. Now, the district has a policy that if the lead in drinking water is five parts per billion, just the concentration of lead or higher that the district needs to basically get rid of the fountains and replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>We know of more than 30 schools in Oakland that are above that five parts per billion number. Some of the schools have much, much higher concentrations of lead. One school, a Lincoln Elementary, tested for 930 parts per billion. 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So teachers find this out on day one and they’re furious because, A, we have to now tell all of the kids on the first day of school, hey, do not drink the water from the fountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And B, kids were probably drinking it during the end of the school year during summer school. So the firestorm of anger in the district is not just about the fact that there is lead in the water. I mean, it should get fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, this happens when pipes are old, but that the notification didn’t happen in an efficient way. They found out months later. And that’s something that the district has even copped to, that they did not communicate the test results fast enough to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>I think, like if I’m a parent and I have a kid in an Oakland school that has like, you know, maybe one of these schools that has a high amount, like you mentioned, should I be worried? I mean, is this dangerous? Is my child affected by this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, there are no safe levels of lead in drinking water. I mean, the county health department even recommended that parents who have kids at one of these schools have them tested for lead exposure and that they actually bring along the communication from the district to their primary care doctor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>The fountains that are known to have this lead in it have been shut down. But, you know, in in many cases, it’s possible that the kids have already drink the water that has led in it, because the way the district communicated this was so late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, what has the district said about why it took them so long to notify parents, students and sounds like even teachers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>As of now, we don’t totally know what went wrong here with the notification process. I should say we’re taping this before. Superintendent Kyla Johnson Tremmel is set to give a presentation to the public. The district has promised now that they will notify families within three days of testing and they will publish all of the results on a public dashboard. They say they’ll get this set up by January, but right now we don’t really know why this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Solomon: \u003c/strong>Okay. So it sounds like there’s some plans in the works a little farther off. But what’s being done now about all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, I think for the district, just in the immediate term, there’s just the basic like explaining to families what happened here and trying to reassure them. In the meantime, there’s still more testing going on as of this taping. Not all of that. Schools have been fully tested yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And in terms of just being at school, the district is also providing filtered water dispensers at schools that have been affected. I think for teachers and kids, it’s just trying to get through the first month of school with this, you know, huge inconvenience that in many cases a lot of your drinking fountains are unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, we’ll definitely continue to follow that story as it develops. 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The original two bills that these lawmakers proposed. What’s happening instead is that the tech giant has agreed to pay $55 million over five years to support local media outlets. This money is going to be administered by UC Berkeley and kind of distributed to local news outlets from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And it’s also going to help start an artificial intelligence program. The idea is to basically give some of these outlets some financial support to see how I can help them in their work. And there are kind of two big reasons I’d say why the original plan kind of failed. One being that Google has spent a lot of money lobbying against these bills. They spent about $2.1 million in response to Buffy Wicks bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And once Buffy Wicks is, Bill actually passed it in the state Assembly. 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What groups, if any, were weighing in on behalf of journalists who would be affected by this? Well, this now new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some groups representing journalists across California are really not happy about this deal. One really outspoken opponent is the Media Guild of the West, which represents reporters down in Southern California. The guild said that it was particularly concerned about this part of the deal involving artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And they sort of have concerns about what promoting A.I. could further do to the local news industry. They saw it as sort of a concession to the tech industry in that way that could actually lead to even more devastation to the local news industry and maybe even a further loss of of jobs among, like, reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, yeah, I mean, basically, like there are a bunch of unions and and other groups sort of representing journalists across the the state who are accusing California lawmakers of kind of settling and others who say that, you know, local media is not really in a position to say no to more money either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So there’s a lot more work to be done to kind of help local news organizations across the state to to be as healthy as we need them to be, especially in an election year. And that is it for our August news roundup. 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