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"content": "\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, who died Thursday night, was the longest-serving U.S. senator in California history. She was 90.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is celebrated for her legacy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">breaking the glass ceiling for women in politics\u003c/a> and for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963044/feinstein-remembered-for-mentoring-californias-women-leaders\">mentoring an entire generation of female leaders in the state\u003c/a>. But her \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php\">ability to do the job was called into question\u003c/a> in the final years of her career, although most of her colleagues declined to say so publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Feinstein, who became a nonagenarian in June, had to step away from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s work confirming judicial nominees when she was hospitalized in the spring due to shingles. Her absence led to a backlog and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democra\">prompted some of her Democrat colleagues, like South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna, to ask her to resign\u003c/a>. In August, she was hospitalized after a fall at her San Francisco home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, after a Texas judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pill-mifepristone-supreme-court-texas-436fe0de292379b469159a3ed7b62fef\">issued a ruling intended to roll back the Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill mifepristone\u003c/a>, Khanna said that the “extremist judge’s ruling has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democra\">He said that Feinstein was “unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read more: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">Here’s why you’re likely to vote four times on Feinstein’s replacement\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This scenario of octogenarian politicians being asked to step aside to make way for younger representatives is not unique to Feinstein. In fact, in the early 1980s, another California politician, Republican S.I. Hayakawa, received similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">pressure to retire at the end of his short-term stint as senator\u003c/a> after he was seen napping during meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 81, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196943532/sen-mitch-mcconnell-appears-to-freeze-again-while-talking-to-reporters-in-kentuc\">appeared to freeze twice in front of the press\u003c/a>. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who turns 84 in March, has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960895/nancy-pelosi-is-running-again-should-she-step-aside\"> faced criticism for announcing her intention to run again next year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Axios, the U.S. Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/09/29/feinstein-dies-oldest-senators-mcconnell\">now has three octogenarians and one nonagenarian\u003c/a>. More than half of the Senate is over 60.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those of us who want to see a new generation of leaders, it’s hard,” Aimee Allison from She the People, a group dedicated to getting women of color in office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960895/nancy-pelosi-is-running-again-should-she-step-aside\">told KQED after Pelosi said she would run again\u003c/a>. “We do need a new generation of leadership that looks like who lives in California, in the country. And that’s going to require people in their eighties to make space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The median age of Congress, 1919 to 2023\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-vOwTl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vOwTl/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate has 100 members, two from each state. Eight politicians, including Feinstein, are from the “Silent Generation,” the label given to people \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-gets-younger-senate-gets-older-a-look-at-the-age-and-generation-of-lawmakers-in-the-118th-congress/\">born between 1928 and 1945\u003c/a>. According to the Pew Research Center, 66 are Baby Boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1946 and 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the House, almost 45% of the 435 representatives are Baby Boomers. Twenty-one are from Feinstein’s generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is the age makeup of the current Congress?\" aria-label=\"Multiple Donuts\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-H0dqn\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H0dqn/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a big gap between the age of the voting age population and the age of representatives. And the age of representatives are significantly older,” said Daniel Stockemer, a professor at the University of Ottawa who studies demographics in governments across the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is the US an outlier among other countries?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. is one of the oldest democracies when it comes to the representatives, or the members of Congress,” Stockemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress convened in January 2023, the average age of those serving in the House of Representatives was 58, according to Stockemer. In the Senate, the average age was 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To give you the average age (of representatives) around the world, [it’s] around 50,” he said. “While representatives in nearly every country are older than the voting age population, the U.S. is a relatively extreme case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockemer also runs a database that tracks the ages of legislators, which the \u003cem>Financial Times\u003c/em> analyzed in September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/faa721e6-4fcf-4b9b-ae39-9ad6c44ed971\">showing that the United States has the oldest representatives among G7 countries\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://warpdataset.com/\">Stockemer’s latest available data\u003c/a>, the median age for U.S. legislators is 58. Japan’s most recent available data show the country was close behind at 57, in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Canada, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-canada-senators-age-term-limits-1.6920640#:~:text=Canadian%20age%20limit,legislation%20brought%20forward%20in%201965.\">set the mandatory retirement for senators at 75\u003c/a>, the median age of lawmakers was 54 in 2021. In Germany, it was 49.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United Kingdom in 2019, the median age was 50. In both France and Italy in 2022, the median age was around 49.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is it hard for younger people to run for office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Senior politicians can undoubtedly bring experience to their office, said Stockemer. It’s more that younger politicians need their spot too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockemer said that his data “just showed that there are some discrepancies in representation [and] it might want to be addressed.” He frames it as “a deficit in democratic equality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws in the U.S. also prevent younger candidates from running, Stockemer pointed out. Candidates must be 25 to run for the House and 30 for the Senate. Also, getting elected requires networking and financing that is an inherent disadvantage for younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s basically no limit on how much candidates can spend, and they spend more and more each election,” Stockemer said. “It’s very hard for younger members to keep up. … They don’t have the connections yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent politicians also have a major advantage in the U.S. since there is little turnover. Feinstein had been a senator since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='dianne-feinstein']And this can lead to a cycle. When younger people are not represented, they don’t turn out to vote. Current politicians may not reach out to them when formulating their policies, because there is no incentive, Stockemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median age in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-estimates-characteristics.html\">is just under 39\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This scenario of octogenarian politicians being asked to step aside to make way for younger representatives is not unique to Feinstein. In fact, in the early 1980s, another California politician, Republican S.I. Hayakawa, received similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">pressure to retire at the end of his short-term stint as senator\u003c/a> after he was seen napping during meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 81, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196943532/sen-mitch-mcconnell-appears-to-freeze-again-while-talking-to-reporters-in-kentuc\">appeared to freeze twice in front of the press\u003c/a>. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who turns 84 in March, has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960895/nancy-pelosi-is-running-again-should-she-step-aside\"> faced criticism for announcing her intention to run again next year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Axios, the U.S. Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/09/29/feinstein-dies-oldest-senators-mcconnell\">now has three octogenarians and one nonagenarian\u003c/a>. More than half of the Senate is over 60.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those of us who want to see a new generation of leaders, it’s hard,” Aimee Allison from She the People, a group dedicated to getting women of color in office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960895/nancy-pelosi-is-running-again-should-she-step-aside\">told KQED after Pelosi said she would run again\u003c/a>. “We do need a new generation of leadership that looks like who lives in California, in the country. And that’s going to require people in their eighties to make space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The median age of Congress, 1919 to 2023\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-vOwTl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vOwTl/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate has 100 members, two from each state. Eight politicians, including Feinstein, are from the “Silent Generation,” the label given to people \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-gets-younger-senate-gets-older-a-look-at-the-age-and-generation-of-lawmakers-in-the-118th-congress/\">born between 1928 and 1945\u003c/a>. According to the Pew Research Center, 66 are Baby Boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1946 and 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the House, almost 45% of the 435 representatives are Baby Boomers. Twenty-one are from Feinstein’s generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is the age makeup of the current Congress?\" aria-label=\"Multiple Donuts\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-H0dqn\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H0dqn/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a big gap between the age of the voting age population and the age of representatives. And the age of representatives are significantly older,” said Daniel Stockemer, a professor at the University of Ottawa who studies demographics in governments across the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is the US an outlier among other countries?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. is one of the oldest democracies when it comes to the representatives, or the members of Congress,” Stockemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress convened in January 2023, the average age of those serving in the House of Representatives was 58, according to Stockemer. In the Senate, the average age was 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To give you the average age (of representatives) around the world, [it’s] around 50,” he said. “While representatives in nearly every country are older than the voting age population, the U.S. is a relatively extreme case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockemer also runs a database that tracks the ages of legislators, which the \u003cem>Financial Times\u003c/em> analyzed in September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/faa721e6-4fcf-4b9b-ae39-9ad6c44ed971\">showing that the United States has the oldest representatives among G7 countries\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://warpdataset.com/\">Stockemer’s latest available data\u003c/a>, the median age for U.S. legislators is 58. Japan’s most recent available data show the country was close behind at 57, in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Canada, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-canada-senators-age-term-limits-1.6920640#:~:text=Canadian%20age%20limit,legislation%20brought%20forward%20in%201965.\">set the mandatory retirement for senators at 75\u003c/a>, the median age of lawmakers was 54 in 2021. In Germany, it was 49.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United Kingdom in 2019, the median age was 50. In both France and Italy in 2022, the median age was around 49.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is it hard for younger people to run for office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Senior politicians can undoubtedly bring experience to their office, said Stockemer. It’s more that younger politicians need their spot too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockemer said that his data “just showed that there are some discrepancies in representation [and] it might want to be addressed.” He frames it as “a deficit in democratic equality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws in the U.S. also prevent younger candidates from running, Stockemer pointed out. Candidates must be 25 to run for the House and 30 for the Senate. Also, getting elected requires networking and financing that is an inherent disadvantage for younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s basically no limit on how much candidates can spend, and they spend more and more each election,” Stockemer said. “It’s very hard for younger members to keep up. … They don’t have the connections yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent politicians also have a major advantage in the U.S. since there is little turnover. Feinstein had been a senator since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And this can lead to a cycle. When younger people are not represented, they don’t turn out to vote. Current politicians may not reach out to them when formulating their policies, because there is no incentive, Stockemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median age in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-estimates-characteristics.html\">is just under 39\u003c/a>. When policies are determined by a demographic that’s older on average than the population it serves, it can result in laws that are more geared to the interests of older people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockemer points to the lack of age diversity among U.S. politicians as one of many reasons why the interests of younger generations, like environmental protections and student loan relief, may not be a priority in their decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best example would be gun control,” said Stockemer. “I would bet probably if you had a [Congress] that’s 20 years younger, there would be a higher chance that this is seriously taken up and a higher chance that there would be some serious laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that age is of course not the only barrier to such change, given longstanding Republican opposition to gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We relate to people more who are the same age in general,” he said. “And the same is how we want to relate to politicians. That’s why senior people relate better to the current Congress, because it’s older.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:25 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laphonza Butler, a former labor leader and Democratic strategist, was sworn in as California’s new U.S. Senator on Tuesday, days after she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963066/gov-newsom-names-laphonza-butler-to-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat\">appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve the remainder of a term\u003c/a> left open by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. Capitol, Butler took her oath from Vice President Kamala Harris, whose presidential campaign she helped lead in 2019. Butler, who is the first Black, openly lesbian member of the U.S. Senate, takes office amid mounting speculation over whether she will run for a full term next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and California Senator Alex Padilla, Butler recited her oath to applause in the Senate chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t help but think of how proud Senator Feinstein would be, seeing someone as brilliant, as accomplished, as history-making as Laphonza Butler take her place,” Schumer said. “I know that our old colleague is looking down at this moment with pride, now that her seat is in good hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked Monday if it would be good for the state if Butler decided to run, Newsom said “she’ll make that decision,” and reiterated that he placed “no constraints, no expectations” on Butler’s future plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Former State Sen. 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Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s candidacy could especially complicate the path forward for Lee, who has trailed Schiff and Porter in early polling and fundraising. Many Lee supporters who pushed Newsom to fulfill his promise of appointing a Black woman by tapping the East Bay progressive icon were nonetheless pleased with the governor’s selection of Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin did take us seriously. … and now we’re in this position of having this really, really, really dope leader,” said Molly Watson, deputy director for the California Donor Table, a network of progressive donors which has endorsed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrance of another Black progressive candidate into the race, Watson said, could force some difficult strategic decisions by the donors she works with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we’re able to figure something out here in California and not end up with Adam [Schiff] or Katie [Porter],” Watson said. “I’m not exactly sure what the dynamic is going to look like — this is absolutely going to have an effect on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11963066,news_11739580\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Lee told KQED she spoke with Butler on Monday and wished her well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what I’m doing is being singularly focused like I have been on winning my campaign for the Senate,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders cheered the appointment of Butler, who helmed SEIU 2015, a union of long-term caregivers, and later SEIU California, the state’s largest umbrella union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood the plight of low-wage workers,” said Carmen Roberts, executive vice president of SEIU 2015. “She listened and she had a voice and used that voice to carry those values — the things that were valuable to the care workers — to the governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU has yet to endorse a candidate for Senate, and Roberts did not want to speculate about Butler’s political future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I would be excited if she was one of the candidates,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other labor leaders said Butler’s entrance could lead to a reshuffling of endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senator Maria Elena Durazo, the former executive vice president of UNITE-HERE International, has already backed Schiff but didn’t rule out a future dual endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t discount doing it either,” Durazo said. “It’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s crowning achievement at SEIU was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10912372/brown-unions-announce-deal-on-15-per-hour-minimum-wage\">her role in high-stakes negotiations to raise the minimum wage\u003c/a> to $15 an hour in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former State Sen. Mark Leno, who wrote the minimum wage bill, said Butler’s drive to succeed played a key role — as well as labor’s gamble. Under Butler’s direction, the campaign used the threat of a minimum wage ballot measure to catapult a similar bill to approval in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She kept her eye on the prize,” Leno said. “There were all the other voices and all of this noise going on with regard to some of the internal tensions at SEIU. She just kept focused that we needed to get this done because it would impact so many millions of California workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno, who is an openly gay politician, said Butler will “dazzle” the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a Black queer woman in the U.S. Senate, just doing her job, it’s a very strong statement that our country is better than the hateful actions, unfortunately, of what I believe to be a very loud-mouth minority in this country,” Leno said. “And every day in the U.S. Senate, Laphonza Butler will be a reminder that we are better and bigger than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of Butler focused in part on her residency in Maryland. She moved to the East Coast in 2021 to lead EMILYs List but still owns a house in California. Butler is required to be a state resident, and Newsom said she would re-register to vote in California before taking office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher dubbed Butler “Maryland 3rd US Senator,” in a statement, adding “Out of 40 million California residents, Gavin Newsom seriously couldn’t find one to serve in the Senate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Republicans acknowledged that Butler’s residency wasn’t the only reason for their displeasure at Newsom’s pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course it gives me concern, but I think any appointment that he would have made, because I share a different perspective than he does politically, I would have had concern,” said Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a legal perspective, to represent the state, Butler must establish that California is her residence — and being registered to vote here is a key part of that, said Loyola Law School Professor Jessica Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at the Constitution and we look at the qualifications, the Constitution talks about being an inhabitant when you are elected. And I think that actually embraces more than a mere election. It embraces the entire official decision-making process, including the decision to appoint,” she said. “So if Gov. Newsom wants to use a belt-and-suspenders approach, what he should really do is make sure that the official appointment occurs after Ms. Butler changes her voter registration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Tyche Hendricks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Longtime Democratic adviser and labor leader Laphonza Butler will be California’s next U.S. Senator, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed late Sunday. She will become the second openly lesbian person to serve in the Senate and only the third Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, currently president of the pro-choice women’s fundraising group EMILY’S List, will fill the seat left empty by Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">Dianne Feinstein’s death\u003c/a> Thursday at the age of 90. She has advised Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and has close ties to Newsom’s inner circle.[aside postID=news_11739580 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Butler.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An advocate for women and girls, a second-generation fighter for working people, and a trusted adviser to Vice President Harris, Laphonza Butler represents the best of California, and she’ll represent us proudly in the United States Senate,” Newsom said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we mourn the enormous loss of Senator Feinstein, the very freedoms she fought for — reproductive freedom, equal protection, and safety from gun violence — have never been under greater assault. Laphonza will carry the baton left by Senator Feinstein, continue to break glass ceilings, and fight for all Californians in Washington D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s choice of Butler just two days after the news of Feinstein’s death was made public lets him fulfill a promise he made to appoint a Black woman to the seat. It also could scramble the race already underway to fill the seat Feinstein had planned to vacate at the end of her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allies of one of those candidates, Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, had lobbied hard for her to nab the appointment. But Newsom said he didn’t want to put his thumb on the scale in a race between Lee, Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter and Los Angeles Congressman Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was assumed that Newsom would ask an appointee not to run – but advisers to the governors said that he did not ask Butler to promise not to run. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement Sunday night, Lee wished Butler well and said she remains “singularly focused on winning her campaign for Senate.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1708708221870014894\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler is a Democratic powerhouse with progressive credentials who worked for years at the labor union SEIU. She also advised Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and for a time was a partner at Bearstar Strategies, Newsom’s top political consulting firm. Still, it could be tough to mount a senate campaign with just five months left before the primary election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trauma in Childhood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler was born in Magnolia, Miss., the youngest of three children. Her father battled heart disease and died when she was a teenager. Butler told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739580/laphonza-butler-on-her-move-from-labor-leadership-to-the-harris-campaign\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that her mother worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, in addition to caring for her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life was really lived through the eyes of a caregiver,” Butler said. “My mother was my father’s caregiver in the last years of his life, and having to understand what families everyday go through when it comes to issues like health care…really was the precursor to my professional career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That career took off in California. She arrived in the state in 2009, working as an organizer for long-term care workers with SEIU.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor Leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler quickly rose to leadership of the caregivers union and in 2013 was elected head of SEIU California, the state’s largest union, representing more than 700,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that position Butler led SEIU’s push to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the result of high-stakes negotiations between Butler and Gov. Jerry Brown’s chief of staff Nancy McFadden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were both working for the people of California,” Butler remembered in the Political Breakdown interview. “She represented way more than I did. But we all came into rooms of tension and disagreement and negotiation with Californians in mind and the best for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s choice of Butler earned the praise of Aimee Allison, who is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#newsom-faces-renewed-pressure-to-appoint-black-woman-to-senate-seat\">vocal ally\u003c/a> of Congresswoman Lee. Allison, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shethepeople.org/about\">She the People\u003c/a> – which helps elect women of color to office – had lobbied the governor to appoint Lee, and said Newsom kept his promise by tapping Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know Laphonza Butler, and her long history of commitments to working people, women, and the gay community, and her work behind the scenes to elect the Vice President. She is a well-respected leader here in California and understands our diverse, growing electorate and will do admirably in the Senate,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, who moved her family from Los Angeles to work in Washington, D.C., when she took over as EMILY’s List president in 2021, is currently registered in Maryland. Newsom’s office said she will re-register in California, where she still owns a home, before she is sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla said he’s “honored to welcome” Butler to the Senate, noting her longtime work for “working families, LGBTQ rights, and a champion for increasing women’s representation in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom’s swift action ensures that Californians maintain full representation in the Senate as we navigate a narrow Democratic majority. I look forward to working together to deliver for the people of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What this means for California voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With Newsom’s decision now out of the way, the next decider of that Senate seat will be California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2024, voters will have two choices to make: who will compete to fill out the remainder of Feinstein’s term and who will compete to fill the full term beginning in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, California voters will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">simultaneously vote in two primaries\u003c/a> on the March ballot and then in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">two general elections\u003c/a> on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidate that wins the November election to fulfill the remainder of Feinstein’s term will only serve for about two months. The candidate that wins the full term will be sworn in Jan. 3, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this feels somewhat familiar, it’s because a less complicated version of it happened in 2022. Sen. Alex Padilla was appointed by Newsom in December 2020 after then-Sen. Kamala Harris won Vice President, four years into her six-year senate term. Last November, Padilla ran to complete the last two months of that term and run for the next term that began in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, said the election process might be confusing to voters, but it prevents a gubernatorial appointment from serving for multiple years without a vote from the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It protects voters’ ability to have a say in who represents them in the Senate, whether it’s for two months or for four or five years,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Butler will run in any of these elections remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Butler told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739580/laphonza-butler-on-her-move-from-labor-leadership-to-the-harris-campaign\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that her mother worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, in addition to caring for her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life was really lived through the eyes of a caregiver,” Butler said. “My mother was my father’s caregiver in the last years of his life, and having to understand what families everyday go through when it comes to issues like health care…really was the precursor to my professional career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That career took off in California. She arrived in the state in 2009, working as an organizer for long-term care workers with SEIU.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor Leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler quickly rose to leadership of the caregivers union and in 2013 was elected head of SEIU California, the state’s largest union, representing more than 700,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that position Butler led SEIU’s push to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the result of high-stakes negotiations between Butler and Gov. Jerry Brown’s chief of staff Nancy McFadden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were both working for the people of California,” Butler remembered in the Political Breakdown interview. “She represented way more than I did. 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She is a well-respected leader here in California and understands our diverse, growing electorate and will do admirably in the Senate,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, who moved her family from Los Angeles to work in Washington, D.C., when she took over as EMILY’s List president in 2021, is currently registered in Maryland. Newsom’s office said she will re-register in California, where she still owns a home, before she is sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla said he’s “honored to welcome” Butler to the Senate, noting her longtime work for “working families, LGBTQ rights, and a champion for increasing women’s representation in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom’s swift action ensures that Californians maintain full representation in the Senate as we navigate a narrow Democratic majority. 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The world is being dumped into California: Prisoners, terrorists, mental patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that evening in a ballroom across the hallway, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continued the California castigation, calling the state a Petri dish for American liberalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our country’s in a state of decline, economic decline, cultural decline, military decline,” he said. “The California model represents more American decline. The Florida model represents a way for us to reverse American decline. 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He pledged to shoot robbers as they leave stores if he becomes president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The word that ‘they shoot you’ will get out within minutes and our nation in one day will be an entirely different place. There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting the loyalty of Trump’s base here, Gary-Pandol said she wasn’t offended by the former president’s blunt and sometimes violent rhetoric — though she did acknowledge she disagrees with Trump that robbers should be shot immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that I agree with that, but I do agree that crime needs to be illegal again and we need to enforce our laws. And I don’t want to shoot somebody in the back for stealing a purse from a store, but I immediately want them to be held accountable for robbing from somebody else,” she said.[aside tag=\"politics, GOP\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]The only candidate who didn’t frame California as an apocalyptic disaster was entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. When pressed about his view of the state after the speech, Ramaswamy said he disagrees with how state Democratic leaders have governed but didn’t want to focus on the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think California’s policies have been a disaster, just as I think the Biden administration has been a disaster,” he said. “But I mentioned neither Biden nor California in that speech because, as I said, I am leading us to something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically, though, Trump’s message is the one that seems to resonate with his base. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Sen. Dianne Feinstein is being eulogized for her long career in elected office, and her impact on gun control, water policy and other political issues, one Oakland family is remembering a more personal side of the late Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Highland Hospital oncology nurse María Mendoza reached out to Feinstein’s office for help when she and her husband Eusebio Sánchez, a truck driver, were at risk of deportation to Mexico. Feinstein advocated vigorously, even sponsoring a private bill, to keep the parents in the U.S. with their four children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill failed and, in August 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement warned the parents they would be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vianney Mendoza, now 29, remembers getting a call from the Senator’s staff the day before her parents were to board a plane. 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She hugged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1642px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-01-KQED.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sit on a sofa indoors and smile for the camera.\" width=\"1642\" height=\"1095\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-01-KQED.jpeg 1642w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-01-KQED-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-01-KQED-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-01-KQED-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1642px) 100vw, 1642px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (second from left) visited María Mendoza and her family at their home in Oakland in August 2017, the day before she and her husband flew to Mexico in the face of deportation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of María Mendoza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vianney said she was struck that Feinstein was not there for media recognition or to make a public statement, but because these were her constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She made my family feel like we mattered,” she said. “She made us feel like we did belong here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"María Mendoza \"]‘Senator Feinstein was the answer to my prayers. From the first time I reached out to her for help, she was there for us. … She will forever live in my heart.’[/pullquote]That fall, as Vianney, a new graduate from UC Santa Cruz, was struggling to raise her younger sisters, she got another call: Feinstein invited them to join her family’s Thanksgiving dinner in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget me and my siblings scrambling to think of what we were going to wear to such an event,” she recalled. “It was an intimate setting. And for the entertainment, she hired a magician. So before dinner, we all saw a magic show in her living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Feinstein’s help, a year and a half later, María Mendoza was able to return to California and her job at Highland Hospital on an H-1B visa, a temporary visa for skilled workers. Shortly afterward, in February 2019, the senator invited María to be her guest at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senator Feinstein was the answer to my prayers,” María said Friday. “From the first time I reached out to her for help, she was there for us. … She will forever live in my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Two people hug and pose for the camera in an indoor setting.\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1863\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2.jpeg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-800x1200.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-1020x1530.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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Vianney recalled that Feinstein turned to her during the meal and asked her what she wanted to do with her life, now that her mother was home and she could think about her own plans again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a very daunting question to be asked by a Senator,” said Vianney, who has temporary immigration status through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. “I didn’t have too much of an answer, but I just let her know that I want to use my experience of what we went through to help people in my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vianney said Feinstein gave it some thought, then turned to her staff and asked if there were any openings in her district office. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That fall, as Vianney, a new graduate from UC Santa Cruz, was struggling to raise her younger sisters, she got another call: Feinstein invited them to join her family’s Thanksgiving dinner in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget me and my siblings scrambling to think of what we were going to wear to such an event,” she recalled. “It was an intimate setting. And for the entertainment, she hired a magician. So before dinner, we all saw a magic show in her living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Feinstein’s help, a year and a half later, María Mendoza was able to return to California and her job at Highland Hospital on an H-1B visa, a temporary visa for skilled workers. Shortly afterward, in February 2019, the senator invited María to be her guest at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senator Feinstein was the answer to my prayers,” María said Friday. “From the first time I reached out to her for help, she was there for us. … She will forever live in my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Two people hug and pose for the camera in an indoor setting.\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1863\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2.jpeg 1242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-800x1200.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-1020x1530.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230929-DIANNE-FEINSTEIN-IMMIGRATION-02-KQED-2-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (left) poses with María Mendoza in her Washington, DC office before the State of the Union speech in February 2019, after Mendoza, an oncology nurse at Highland Hospital in Oakland, was able to return to the US on an H-1B visa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of María Mendoza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some time later, the Senator invited the family to lunch at Water Bar, a seafood restaurant on San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Vianney recalled that Feinstein turned to her during the meal and asked her what she wanted to do with her life, now that her mother was home and she could think about her own plans again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a very daunting question to be asked by a Senator,” said Vianney, who has temporary immigration status through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. “I didn’t have too much of an answer, but I just let her know that I want to use my experience of what we went through to help people in my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vianney said Feinstein gave it some thought, then turned to her staff and asked if there were any openings in her district office. Shortly afterwards, Vianney was offered an internship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience enabled Vianney to land a job at the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, where she still works today, assisting crime victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The senator is someone who, to this day I hold near and dear to my heart,” she said. “She truly demonstrated to me the impact that one person can have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:10 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline for Congress to act on funding the federal government is midnight Saturday night, meaning we could wake up Sunday morning — and Monday — to a range of shuttered services provided by the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And given the apparent unwillingness of right-wing Republicans to budge on deep spending cuts, it’s looking increasingly likely that there will in fact be a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how might that be felt here in California? The KQED newsroom has been checking with a wide range of federal agencies, as well as state government, to see how the impact will be felt — at least initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a survey of all our state departments and agencies,” said H.D. Palmer with the State Department of Finance (DOF), “and the upshot is that if a federal shutdown is relatively short in duration, our assessment is that there will not be any significant impact on state operations since most affected state programs have available balances that can cover their expenses for several weeks at a minimum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However,” he added, “there are still some short-term impacts that may occur to some programs as a result of this impasse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is an assessment of commonly-used programs, services and functions of the federal government and how they would respond if Congress fails to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greatly affected by government shutdown: Federal workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If federal employees learn on Monday morning that they are being furloughed, most will be given half a day to wrap things up and go home, according to agency contingency plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has roughly 175,000 federal workers who live in the state. Many of them and their families will be financially affected if their paychecks are stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Non-essential” functions will be suspended for these workers. In the last government shutdown that started a week before Christmas in 2018, 420,000 federal employees worked without pay. Another 350,000 were furloughed without pay. Working without pay will of course affect at least tens of thousands of families with government employees in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/2019-09-17%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20Government%20Shutdowns.pdf\">U.S. Senate investigation (PDF)\u003c/a> into the true cost of government shutdowns found that the three shutdowns from 2013–2018 (totaling 54 days) cost the government roughly $4 billion in lost revenue, administrative costs and (mostly) back pay to furloughed workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report notes that once the shutdown ends, Congress routinely provides full back pay both to federal employees required to show up for work and those required to stay home. But taxpayers bear the cost of lost productivity as a result of the furloughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/agency-contingency-plans/\">Read more from the Office of Management and Budget about executive branch agency contingency plans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947774\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view of El Capitan in Yosemite, a sheer rock face with a bright blue sky behind it. An orange car drives on the road in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Oct. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greatly affected \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>by government shutdown\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: National parks in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This could be the most immediate impact of the shutdown felt by average Californians: The closing of many \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/state/ca/index.htm\">national parks throughout the state.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would expect a federal shutdown (of parks) this weekend” if a government shutdown happens, said DOF’S H.D. Palmer. He noted that “not only does that affect people who are going into those parks, it would certainly have an economic impact to the communities that are around those parks for lodging or food or groceries or things of that sort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior official in the Department of the Interior said “the majority of national parks will be closed completely to public access” and that “thousands of park rangers will be furloughed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Yosemite, Point Reyes and Alcatraz will likely be closed, along with Joshua Tree and other national parks in California and across the country. Interior Department officials are discouraging people from visiting those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restroom, trash and visitor services in national parks will stop, according to the office of Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael). Access to some parks may be shut off entirely. During a partial government shutdown in 2019, parks like Yellowstone and Joshua Tree saw trash and vandalism with limited staff to supervise them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One exception is the Presidio of San Francisco, which will continue to essentially operate normally according to spokesperson Lisa Petrie. Visitors and tenants shouldn’t feel many impacts because the trust that manages the park earns its own revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Petrie said there “may not be Park Ranger talks at the Campfire at Presidio Tunnel Tops.” Also, the shutdown “may affect janitorial service at Crissy East and West Beaches and Baker Beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greatly affected by government shutdown: San Francisco Fleet Week\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Fleet Week, scheduled to start Monday and last through Oct. 10, could be disrupted if the organizers’ military partners are derailed by a shutdown. Brian Ferguson of the California Office of Emergency Services said that during previous government shutdowns, shows by the Blue Angels were canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s office said that in the event of a government shutdown, “some aspects of Fleet Week” could be “adjusted or canceled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs expected to see changes include the Air Show and the Parade of Ships and corresponding ship tours, as a result of the shutdown going into effect,” said Mayor Breed’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: Social safety net programs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected: \u003c/strong>Social Security and Medicare will not be affected by a government shutdown, as they have separate funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School lunches will also remain unaffected by a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> For people receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, October payments are funded — but November payments could be interrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) also has funding through October, but could be impacted if the shutdown continues into November. California has about 972,418 WIC recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Head Start program is administered solely by the federal government and could be affected by a disruption in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11943822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young Asian man with short dark hair and round glasses carries a 1-year-old girl, with tiny black pigtails, in a harness on his chest, with the girl facing out. They stand in the light of a vegetable display in a supermarket. The man holds a plastic container full of green vegetables, maybe cucumbers, smiling as his daughter reaches out to touch the box.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These social safety net programs won’t be affected by a government shutdown — yet. \u003ccite>(d3sign/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Security and defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected: \u003c/strong>According to the Biden administration, the Coast Guard will continue doing vital duties like search-and-rescue operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans will continue getting benefits and access to VA health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> California \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/26/extreme-republican-shutdown-would-force-troops-to-work-without-getting-paid-and-undermine-our-national-security/#:~:text=During%20an%20Extreme%20Republican%20Shutdown,paychecks%20until%20funding%20becomes%20available.\">has some 163,000 active duty service members here, \u003c/a>and they will be at risk of not being paid. Hundreds of thousands of civilian employees assisting national security operations also may not be paid until the government is funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the California National Guard, a spokesperson for the California Military Department told KQED that a shutdown could impact some of the National Guard’s non-critical duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Critical daily operations in support of State and Federal missions will continue,” said Major Robert Woodson, the department’s deputy director of communications. “Resources are available for our service members, employees, and their families to help avoid financial hardship during a shutdown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: The Department of Education (DOE) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected:\u003c/strong> Student loans will continue to be due as scheduled and can be processed without the DOE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Pell Grants for undergraduate students with financial hardships will continue without interruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> As a “non-essential” agency, the DOE will mostly cease operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People seeking loan forgiveness may see delays in processing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Airports \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Air traffic controllers will have to work without pay at airports, including those in San Francisco, San José and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel said security screening staff will continue to be paid because their contract with the TSA is already fully funded. TSA employees are part of DHS, which says they are generally exempt from furloughs — and will work through a shutdown — because they’re “Necessary for Safety of Human Life or Protection of Property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, staffing could be lighter and some air traffic controllers and TSA agents could call in sick if they’re not getting paid, causing potential delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A passenger jet with JETBLUE on the side takes off from a runway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A JetBlue passenger plane takes off from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: Federal courts, including immigration courts\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> Spokespeople for the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco would not comment, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judiciary-can-keep-operating-2-weeks-if-government-shuts-down-2023-09-19\">Reuters reports that the federal courts expect to have enough funds\u003c/a> from court fees to keep operating for two weeks. However they could be forced to close by Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. immigration courts are part of the Department of Justice and hear asylum claims and deportation cases. A spokeswoman for the court system said hearings will take place for cases of immigrants held in detention or those under electronic monitoring. But judges and court staff handling non-detained cases will be furloughed and those cases will be rescheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration judge Mimi Tsankov, speaking in her capacity as president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said, considering that the courts already have an unprecedented backlog of 2.6 million immigration cases nationally, rescheduling canceled cases will lead to further backlogs and imperil immigrants’ ability to mount a successful defense against deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the parties that are scheduled to appear for a hearing on Monday, if they don’t go forward, in some of those instances the parties have been waiting for years to have their case heard, and now their cases may get pushed to the end of the docket, which in some cases may be a couple of years away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking as president of NAIJ, Tsankov added: “It’s definitely inefficient and even worse than inefficient. I think it undermines the integrity of the system. … when a hearing can be scrapped, even though there’s been enormous preparation for it. So we worry about the impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mostly unaffected by government shutdown: FEMA and disaster response\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected:\u003c/strong> Direct government response to things like wildfires or earthquakes will not be affected in the event of a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a wildfire occurs either on state or federal lands, certainly Cal Fire would get planes of the air crews on the ground to fight those fires immediately,” said H.D. Palmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Rudman, Chair of California’s State Emergency Communications Committee Resources, also confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023\">FEMA’s nationwide test of its emergency alert systems on broadcast and cellphones\u003c/a>, scheduled for the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 4, should go ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> Second-level impacts could be felt — for example, reimbursements for previous disasters could be delayed for local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mostly unaffected by government shutdown: Border, immigration and passports\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected:\u003c/strong> Border and immigration enforcement will continue. The vast majority of Homeland Security staff will keep working (without a paycheck) during a shutdown. That includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents (including Border Patrol), as their law enforcement work is considered exempt from furloughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another branch of DHS is U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes applications for green cards, citizenship, humanitarian parole, DACA renewals and work permits for everyone from refugees to foreign students. Most USCIS officers are also exempt and will work through a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected: \u003c/strong>Passports and visas are issued by the U.S. Department of State, which says that as long as there are “sufficient fees to support operations,” passport offices will keep operating. But they \u003cem>could\u003c/em> shut down if they run out of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Unaffected by government shutdown: National labs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they don’t anticipate any immediate impacts and will continue to operate as usual because of their position as a federal contractor (meaning they aren’t officially part of the U.S. government).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Unaffected by a government shutdown: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Amtrak\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We are closely monitoring and plan to continue normal operations of the Amtrak passenger rail network,” Amtrak spokesperson Kelly told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passengers planning to travel on Amtrak trains in the Northeast Corridor and across the country in the coming days and weeks can be assured that Amtrak will remain open for business,” said Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED will continue monitoring the impact of a shutdown if it occurs. KQED’s Carly Severn contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:10 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline for Congress to act on funding the federal government is midnight Saturday night, meaning we could wake up Sunday morning — and Monday — to a range of shuttered services provided by the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And given the apparent unwillingness of right-wing Republicans to budge on deep spending cuts, it’s looking increasingly likely that there will in fact be a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how might that be felt here in California? The KQED newsroom has been checking with a wide range of federal agencies, as well as state government, to see how the impact will be felt — at least initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a survey of all our state departments and agencies,” said H.D. Palmer with the State Department of Finance (DOF), “and the upshot is that if a federal shutdown is relatively short in duration, our assessment is that there will not be any significant impact on state operations since most affected state programs have available balances that can cover their expenses for several weeks at a minimum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However,” he added, “there are still some short-term impacts that may occur to some programs as a result of this impasse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is an assessment of commonly-used programs, services and functions of the federal government and how they would respond if Congress fails to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greatly affected by government shutdown: Federal workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If federal employees learn on Monday morning that they are being furloughed, most will be given half a day to wrap things up and go home, according to agency contingency plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has roughly 175,000 federal workers who live in the state. Many of them and their families will be financially affected if their paychecks are stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Non-essential” functions will be suspended for these workers. In the last government shutdown that started a week before Christmas in 2018, 420,000 federal employees worked without pay. Another 350,000 were furloughed without pay. Working without pay will of course affect at least tens of thousands of families with government employees in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/2019-09-17%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20Government%20Shutdowns.pdf\">U.S. Senate investigation (PDF)\u003c/a> into the true cost of government shutdowns found that the three shutdowns from 2013–2018 (totaling 54 days) cost the government roughly $4 billion in lost revenue, administrative costs and (mostly) back pay to furloughed workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report notes that once the shutdown ends, Congress routinely provides full back pay both to federal employees required to show up for work and those required to stay home. But taxpayers bear the cost of lost productivity as a result of the furloughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/agency-contingency-plans/\">Read more from the Office of Management and Budget about executive branch agency contingency plans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947774\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view of El Capitan in Yosemite, a sheer rock face with a bright blue sky behind it. An orange car drives on the road in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64733_GettyImages-1244209043-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Oct. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greatly affected \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>by government shutdown\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: National parks in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This could be the most immediate impact of the shutdown felt by average Californians: The closing of many \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/state/ca/index.htm\">national parks throughout the state.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would expect a federal shutdown (of parks) this weekend” if a government shutdown happens, said DOF’S H.D. Palmer. He noted that “not only does that affect people who are going into those parks, it would certainly have an economic impact to the communities that are around those parks for lodging or food or groceries or things of that sort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior official in the Department of the Interior said “the majority of national parks will be closed completely to public access” and that “thousands of park rangers will be furloughed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Yosemite, Point Reyes and Alcatraz will likely be closed, along with Joshua Tree and other national parks in California and across the country. Interior Department officials are discouraging people from visiting those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restroom, trash and visitor services in national parks will stop, according to the office of Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael). Access to some parks may be shut off entirely. During a partial government shutdown in 2019, parks like Yellowstone and Joshua Tree saw trash and vandalism with limited staff to supervise them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One exception is the Presidio of San Francisco, which will continue to essentially operate normally according to spokesperson Lisa Petrie. Visitors and tenants shouldn’t feel many impacts because the trust that manages the park earns its own revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Petrie said there “may not be Park Ranger talks at the Campfire at Presidio Tunnel Tops.” Also, the shutdown “may affect janitorial service at Crissy East and West Beaches and Baker Beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Greatly affected by government shutdown: San Francisco Fleet Week\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Fleet Week, scheduled to start Monday and last through Oct. 10, could be disrupted if the organizers’ military partners are derailed by a shutdown. Brian Ferguson of the California Office of Emergency Services said that during previous government shutdowns, shows by the Blue Angels were canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s office said that in the event of a government shutdown, “some aspects of Fleet Week” could be “adjusted or canceled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs expected to see changes include the Air Show and the Parade of Ships and corresponding ship tours, as a result of the shutdown going into effect,” said Mayor Breed’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: Social safety net programs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected: \u003c/strong>Social Security and Medicare will not be affected by a government shutdown, as they have separate funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School lunches will also remain unaffected by a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> For people receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, October payments are funded — but November payments could be interrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) also has funding through October, but could be impacted if the shutdown continues into November. California has about 972,418 WIC recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Head Start program is administered solely by the federal government and could be affected by a disruption in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11943822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young Asian man with short dark hair and round glasses carries a 1-year-old girl, with tiny black pigtails, in a harness on his chest, with the girl facing out. They stand in the light of a vegetable display in a supermarket. The man holds a plastic container full of green vegetables, maybe cucumbers, smiling as his daughter reaches out to touch the box.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These social safety net programs won’t be affected by a government shutdown — yet. \u003ccite>(d3sign/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Security and defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected: \u003c/strong>According to the Biden administration, the Coast Guard will continue doing vital duties like search-and-rescue operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans will continue getting benefits and access to VA health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> California \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/26/extreme-republican-shutdown-would-force-troops-to-work-without-getting-paid-and-undermine-our-national-security/#:~:text=During%20an%20Extreme%20Republican%20Shutdown,paychecks%20until%20funding%20becomes%20available.\">has some 163,000 active duty service members here, \u003c/a>and they will be at risk of not being paid. Hundreds of thousands of civilian employees assisting national security operations also may not be paid until the government is funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the California National Guard, a spokesperson for the California Military Department told KQED that a shutdown could impact some of the National Guard’s non-critical duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Critical daily operations in support of State and Federal missions will continue,” said Major Robert Woodson, the department’s deputy director of communications. “Resources are available for our service members, employees, and their families to help avoid financial hardship during a shutdown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: The Department of Education (DOE) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected:\u003c/strong> Student loans will continue to be due as scheduled and can be processed without the DOE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Pell Grants for undergraduate students with financial hardships will continue without interruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> As a “non-essential” agency, the DOE will mostly cease operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People seeking loan forgiveness may see delays in processing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Airports \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Air traffic controllers will have to work without pay at airports, including those in San Francisco, San José and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel said security screening staff will continue to be paid because their contract with the TSA is already fully funded. TSA employees are part of DHS, which says they are generally exempt from furloughs — and will work through a shutdown — because they’re “Necessary for Safety of Human Life or Protection of Property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, staffing could be lighter and some air traffic controllers and TSA agents could call in sick if they’re not getting paid, causing potential delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A passenger jet with JETBLUE on the side takes off from a runway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1258924953-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A JetBlue passenger plane takes off from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Somewhat affected by government shutdown: Federal courts, including immigration courts\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> Spokespeople for the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco would not comment, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judiciary-can-keep-operating-2-weeks-if-government-shuts-down-2023-09-19\">Reuters reports that the federal courts expect to have enough funds\u003c/a> from court fees to keep operating for two weeks. However they could be forced to close by Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. immigration courts are part of the Department of Justice and hear asylum claims and deportation cases. A spokeswoman for the court system said hearings will take place for cases of immigrants held in detention or those under electronic monitoring. But judges and court staff handling non-detained cases will be furloughed and those cases will be rescheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration judge Mimi Tsankov, speaking in her capacity as president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said, considering that the courts already have an unprecedented backlog of 2.6 million immigration cases nationally, rescheduling canceled cases will lead to further backlogs and imperil immigrants’ ability to mount a successful defense against deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the parties that are scheduled to appear for a hearing on Monday, if they don’t go forward, in some of those instances the parties have been waiting for years to have their case heard, and now their cases may get pushed to the end of the docket, which in some cases may be a couple of years away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking as president of NAIJ, Tsankov added: “It’s definitely inefficient and even worse than inefficient. I think it undermines the integrity of the system. … when a hearing can be scrapped, even though there’s been enormous preparation for it. So we worry about the impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mostly unaffected by government shutdown: FEMA and disaster response\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected:\u003c/strong> Direct government response to things like wildfires or earthquakes will not be affected in the event of a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a wildfire occurs either on state or federal lands, certainly Cal Fire would get planes of the air crews on the ground to fight those fires immediately,” said H.D. Palmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Rudman, Chair of California’s State Emergency Communications Committee Resources, also confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023\">FEMA’s nationwide test of its emergency alert systems on broadcast and cellphones\u003c/a>, scheduled for the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 4, should go ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected:\u003c/strong> Second-level impacts could be felt — for example, reimbursements for previous disasters could be delayed for local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mostly unaffected by government shutdown: Border, immigration and passports\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffected:\u003c/strong> Border and immigration enforcement will continue. The vast majority of Homeland Security staff will keep working (without a paycheck) during a shutdown. That includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents (including Border Patrol), as their law enforcement work is considered exempt from furloughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another branch of DHS is U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes applications for green cards, citizenship, humanitarian parole, DACA renewals and work permits for everyone from refugees to foreign students. Most USCIS officers are also exempt and will work through a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could be affected: \u003c/strong>Passports and visas are issued by the U.S. Department of State, which says that as long as there are “sufficient fees to support operations,” passport offices will keep operating. But they \u003cem>could\u003c/em> shut down if they run out of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Unaffected by government shutdown: National labs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they don’t anticipate any immediate impacts and will continue to operate as usual because of their position as a federal contractor (meaning they aren’t officially part of the U.S. government).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Unaffected by a government shutdown: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Amtrak\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We are closely monitoring and plan to continue normal operations of the Amtrak passenger rail network,” Amtrak spokesperson Kelly told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passengers planning to travel on Amtrak trains in the Northeast Corridor and across the country in the coming days and weeks can be assured that Amtrak will remain open for business,” said Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, who died Thursday night at the age of 90, was the longest-serving female U.S. senator in history. But even before her 30-year run in the Senate, Feinstein had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">already had a distinguished career in San Francisco politics, one that also spanned decades\u003c/a>. And over the years, KQED Public Television was often there to capture it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the videos below, footage from the KQED 9 archives captures moments from Feinstein’s early years in San Francisco, beginning with her ascension to the city’s Board of Supervisors in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last two decades, Feinstein also sat down with KQED for a number of televised interviews. Those exchanges serve as a snapshot of the quickly changing political environment in California and the United States — both for politicians and voters — during that period of time. In those conversations, Feinstein weighed in on everything from Obamacare and her fears about the “radical” nature of the Romney-Ryan presidential ticket, to the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and the election of Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1970: Feinstein sworn in as San Francisco Supervisor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 1970, Dianne Feinstein was sworn into the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and became its first female president. This footage shows Feinstein introducing her daughter, Katherine Anne and husband Bertram, welcoming Mayor Joseph Alioto to the Board and being formally sworn in. “Let’s adjourn with good thoughts for the 1970s,” Feinstein said at the meeting’s close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FTldUbqZg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oct. 1978: Feinstein opens Pier 39 with Mayor Moscone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Okay, don’t look into the camera.” In this rough KQED 9 footage from October 1978, which ranges from B-roll to interviews, a costumed Feinstein and Mayor George Moscone are seen cutting the giant ribbon to formally open the Pier 39 tourist attraction in San Francisco. The archival footage also includes scenes of brass bands performing, and workers and onlookers offering their opinions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This video was taken less than two months before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708263/remembering-george-moscone-the-peoples-mayor-of-san-francisco\">Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by former supervisor Dan White\u003c/a> inside San Francisco City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0no9CO-A-jg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nov. 27, 1978: Shockwaves from the assassination of Milk and Moscone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, the day White murdered Milk and Moscone, storied journalist Belva Davis hosted the live show \u003cem>A Closer Look\u003c/em> later that night on KQED 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 45:50 time mark, Davis introduces Acting Mayor Feinstein who joins the program by phone and — after initial technical difficulties — speaks about that day, including her attempts to reach White that morning owing to her fears of a brewing confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she has a message for the people of San Francisco, Feinstein said, “If ever there was a time to end the divisiveness that’s plagued this city, this is it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73igO16bsE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nov. 27, 1978: Feinstein speaks at candlelight vigil at City Hall following the murders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the Nov. 27 murders of Moscone and Milk, mourners held a moving candlelight vigil from Castro Street to San Francisco City Hall. This KQED footage shows those gathered singing “Kumbaya,” and Feinstein being angrily heckled by some people in the crowd — who are then shushed by others — as she speaks outside City Hall (begins 1:21).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has lost two great leaders, and we question why,” she asked the crowd. “What is in a heart that can turn it to commit this kind of act?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJieV_6I7lE&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>2010 interview: ‘Out of fear comes this kind of belligerence’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this 2010 interview with KQED’s \u003cem>This Week in Northern California\u003c/em>, Feinstein spoke to Scott Shafer about the “anger” she was seeing nationally around Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also spoke about why she didn’t believe comprehensive immigration reform in Congress was “dead,” and discussed UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu’s nomination for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKXJMuiCqRo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>2012 interview: ‘Democrats really see the handwriting on the wall’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Sept. 2017, Belva Davis, of KQED’s \u003cem>This Week in Northern California\u003c/em>, sat down with Feinstein during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein spoke about the “radical agenda” of the Republican presidential campaign of Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, and weighed in on former Gov. Pete Wilson calling California a “failed state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef2rNCBxaWo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>2017 interview: ‘He appears to be very impetuous’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this \u003cem>KQED\u003c/em> \u003cem>Newsroom\u003c/em> interview, Feinstein said the election of President Donald Trump gave her “great pause.” Scott Shafer sat down with the veteran lawmaker in the nation’s Capitol — almost exactly four years before it would be attacked by Trump supporters in the Jan. 6 insurrection — to talk about her hopes for his first 100 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lCZkUddrg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>2018 interview: ‘What I want to do is be constructive and helpful to our nation’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As she appealed to voters to elect her to the Senate for a fifth term, Feinstein spoke to \u003cem>KQED\u003c/em> \u003cem>Newsroom\u003c/em> in Oct. 2018 about her high-profile role in the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings — and what she would have done differently given the chance. 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But other than that, I think they’re doing quite a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later spoke at length about what he claims is a “man-made drought” in California, and said people in Beverly Hills smell bad because they have to take short showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They’re told to hurry up. You’re only allowed a small amount of water when they shower. That’s why rich people from Beverly Hills, generally speaking, don’t smell so good, you know, typically. You ever notice they’re not great, their hygiene is not good, but it’s forced to be that way,” Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took particular aim at Pelosi, promising to “stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi who ruined San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How’s her husband doing anyway, anybody know?” he said to laughter, referring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939421/sf-court-releases-911-call-and-sfpd-body-cam-recordings-of-paul-pelosi-attack\">to the brutal 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi\u003c/a> at their San Francisco home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A host of additional Republican presidential candidates are also scheduled to speak at the state convention this weekend, including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Florida Gov. 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DeSantis appears to be the main casualty of that surge of support for the former president. The same poll shows the Florida governor’s support falling from 37% in February to just 16% in August, among GOP voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s growing support is even more important because of recent changes the state Republican Party made to the way it awards its delegates at next year’s national convention — changes pushed by the former president’s campaign. Under the new system, any Republican presidential candidate who receives more than 50% support in California’s March primary will lock up all 169 state delegates — the most of any state in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the previous system, used by the state’s GOP for about two decades, three delegates were awarded for each congressional district won in the primary — giving lower-tier GOP candidates more incentive to campaign here but also diluting the state’s influence in helping to pick a nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican National Committee Chair Harmeet Dhillon, from California, a staunch Trump ally whose law firm represents his campaign, said the energy around the former president shows that the other Republican candidates should step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for some of them to call it quits,” she said, adding that Republicans need to unify against Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is really the poster child of what’s wrong with America right now, with our rampant crime and high unaffordable rates of gasoline, food, housing, you name it, and terrible educational system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump’s speech was a big draw, the party is not actually taking any action to endorse a presidential candidate at its convention. Instead, the state GOP will consider adopting a new party platform — essentially a statement of principles. Even though most voters don’t even know about party platforms, the process is dividing the party and mirroring national fissures within the GOP over how to handle hot button issues like same-sex marriage and abortion, which has contributed to Republicans’ ballot-box losses — even in conservative states like Kansas and Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal adopted by a California GOP party committee in July, the platform would drop language spelling out opposition to a federally protected right to abortion. 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"content": "\u003cp>When California’s top education official, Tony Thurmond, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959851/tony-thurmond-on-culture-wars-in-california-schools\">showed up at a local school board meeting in Chino\u003c/a> this summer, he was ready for a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this conservative school board was ready, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like dozens of local school board candidates across the state, their president and other members were backed by both local religious leaders and national far-right groups. Frustrated by the domination of California Democrats in Sacramento and around the state, those groups have focused not on electing state lawmakers or even local city leaders, but instead on \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-29/despite-statewide-losses-california-conservatives-say-school-board-wars-arent-over\">putting conservative majorities\u003c/a> on local school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chino, that resulted in a ban on the pride flag and then, this summer, a policy to require teachers and school staff to alert parents if a student requests to be “identified or treated” as a gender other than the one listed on their birth certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some supporters argue the policy is necessary to keep parents abreast of what their kids are doing at school, while others have gone further to suggest that teachers are pushing students to change their gender identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thurmond, who this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962489/california-education-chief-tony-thurmond-announces-run-for-governor-in-2026-race\">announced his bid for governor\u003c/a> in the 2026 race, showed up to the board meeting in San Bernardino County to voice his opposition to the notification proposal, he was berated by board president Sonja Shaw. That evening, Chino Valley Unified School District passed the transgender reporting policy, which has now been adopted by a half-dozen districts across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Democrats are grappling with how to respond. While party leaders like Thurmond have spoken out strongly against the transgender notification policies — and the state attorney general is suing the district over its policy — the state Legislature recently ended its annual session without any concrete action on the parental notification issue. Lawmakers have also acknowledged the challenge of crafting responses on a fast-moving issue largely playing out on the local level. When recently asked if he thinks Democrats were caught off guard by the push, Thurmond was blunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/022_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"California Superintendent Tony Thurmond is pictured speaking from a wooden podium. He has a business suit and black face mask on. It's daytime.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/022_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/022_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/022_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/022_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/022_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Superintendent Tony Thurmond told KQED that Democrats and progressives need to come up with ways to counter what some are calling anti-trans policies throughout California that focus on LGBTQ students. Thurmond recently showed up to a school board meeting in San Bernardino County to voice his opposition to a transgender reporting policy, which has now been adopted by a half-dozen districts across California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the short answer is yes,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959851/tony-thurmond-on-culture-wars-in-california-schools\">said on KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “This is a scripted playbook. It is a nationally driven playbook by groups that have been losing at the ballot box in congressional races, and [for] the White House and in state legislatures. And they’ve made a decision that they’re going to wage war at the local level, at the school district level and the school board. And so, Democrats and progressives and others need to come back with ways to counter this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But countering what backers frame not as anti-trans policies, but simply “parental rights” is proving to be a more politically fraught conversation for Democrats than other conservative culture crusades, such as banning books or restricting abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond\"]‘It is a nationally driven playbook by groups that have been losing at the ballot box. … They’re going to wage war at the local level, at the school district level and the school board. And so, Democrats and progressives and others need to come back with ways to counter this.’[/pullquote]And Gov. Gavin Newsom — who normally relishes his role publicly baiting Republicans for issues he sees as politically expedient for the left — has acknowledged the political minefield that issues involving transgender students present for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While broadly defending transgender kids, the governor has also, at times, acknowledged the nuance of an issue that intersects with not one, but two, thorny political questions: One, the public’s general uneasiness with transgender issues, which were not even part of the broader political debate a few years ago. And two, the public support for including parents in conversations about their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last week, Newsom signed a bill requiring all public schools to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom, but vetoed legislation requiring courts to consider a parent’s affirmation of their child’s gender identity in custody and visitation decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent onstage interview with Politico, Newsom mocked Republican leaders for focusing on transgender kids over issues like academics and for obsessively talking about a group that makes up just a tiny fraction of the population. But he also said, that after talking to parents, he gets why they’re angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I totally understand why you were out there. If I were told those things, I would’ve been out there too,” he said. “People are being ginned up. And so, I’m not here to criticize them, but there’s a lot of misunderstanding, misrepresentation out there because people are weaponizing these grievances against vulnerable communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pictured speaking from a podium inside a conference room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Newsom signed Senate Bill 760 on Saturday, Sept. 23, that requires all public schools to have at least 1 gender-neutral bathroom. Newsom later vetoed legislation requiring courts to consider a parent’s affirmation of their child’s gender identity in custody and visitation decisions. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the state Capitol, Democrats lambasted the transgender reporting policies as an affront to student privacy that will potentially endanger kids and thrust teachers into the middle of delicate family conversations. A direct legislative response, however, was constrained by both the Capitol calendar and the power local governments have over decision-making in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County voted earlier this year to ban curriculum materials that referenced gay rights leader Harvey Milk, the state Legislature fired back, passing a bill to prevent book banning in the state. Newsom signed that bill Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘People are being ginned up. And so, I’m not here to criticize them, but there’s a lot of misunderstanding, misrepresentation out there because people are weaponizing these grievances against vulnerable communities.’[/pullquote]But that legislation was the product of months of compromise — which led to the removal of language placing tougher restrictions on districts, in the face of opposition from the group representing California school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the transgender reporting policies began to proliferate this summer, Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-San José) said his colleagues in the Legislative LGBTQ caucus had conversations with fellow Democrats and the Newsom administration about a legislative response, but decided that more time was needed to craft a bill that could pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really playing kind of a whack-a-mole approach to it — when they come up with new ways to hurt LGBTQ families and kids, we have to make sure we are approaching it with much more sensitivity and much more nuance,” Lee said. “So, there is more time and delay when we’re coming up with [a] new policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee vowed “quick, decisive action” on the issue when the Legislature reconvenes in January, though he acknowledged a political response on the local level will be critical as LGBTQ rights debates continue to serve as flashpoints in districts up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on LGBTQ Students’ Rights' tag='lgbtq-students']“I really hope that folks will take that to heart and really get involved in local school districts,” Lee added. “Local control does matter, so it really matters who actually runs for school board, who’s involved in that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chino, the board was swung toward a conservative majority in last year’s election \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922860/california-republicans-are-betting-big-on-local-school-board-races\">through the organizing work of the California Republican Party\u003c/a> and Real Impact, a political group run by local pastor Jack Hibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chino’s transgender reporting policy followed a ban on the display of certain flags, including the LGBTQ pride flag. The moves came after a series of tense meetings marked by personal attacks and heightened rhetoric. On both issues, the lone dissenting vote on the five-member board was cast by Donald Bridge, the former president of the local teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the policies pushed by the board majority worry this year’s raucous debates could stymie efforts to reverse the political balance of the board in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When potential candidates look at what he’s going through, are they going to jump in? I wouldn’t,” said Brenda Walker, current president of the Associated Chino Teachers union. “So, yes, it’s going to be difficult to find candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said her members have already noticed a chilling effect on both students and teachers compared to last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the concerns are moot: A superior court judge in San Bernardino County has put Chino’s transgender notification policy on hold after California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit arguing the policy violates the privacy rights of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters of similar policies are hoping to expand their campaign beyond this initial series of local skirmishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two dozen conservative and religious groups, including Real Impact, have formed the Coalition for Parental Rights, to encourage more California school districts to adopt transgender reporting policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of that group are also attempting to qualify three statewide initiatives for the November ballot: a transgender notification law, a ban on transgender students from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity, and a ban on puberty blockers and sexual reassignment surgery for minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Friday, who heads the group Our Duty, and who is sponsoring the notification ballot measure, said she’s turning to California voters after a similar policy was blocked by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re ignoring [us] and saying that we’re right-wing bigots,” Friday said. “And that’s just not true. We’re parents who are safeguarding the bodily integrity of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rob Stutzman, GOP consultant\"]‘If voters are presented with a specific question about, you know, ‘Should parents be notified if their minor child identifies as transgender?’ I think that’s likely to pass.’[/pullquote]If the transgender reporting law qualifies for the ballot, progressives would be wise to define the effort as an attack on LGBTQ children, said GOP consultant Rob Stutzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that it starts to become a backlash to LGBTQ citizens, that’s not going to fly in California,” Stutzman said. “But if voters are presented with a specific question about, you know, ‘Should parents be notified if their minor child identifies as transgender?’ I think that’s likely to pass. Now, the people running the campaign could be distasteful enough that it clouds out the actual policy question before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who have been involved in education leadership say that while the details of the current dustup are new, the broad contours are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11936552 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/122622-Eli-Erlick-TH-01-CM-1020x680.jpg']Camille Maben served on the Rocklin School Board for nearly 30 years, starting in the early 1990s. She recalled a debate 20 years ago over sex education curriculum at the board that also made national headlines. The conservative majority at the time, she said, voted to institute an “abstinence only” curriculum — and were promptly voted out of power in the next election. The new board repealed the abstinence-only class in lieu of a more “well-rounded” approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it did really was kind of reset our community’s look at education … and work to have a board that was balanced, that put students first always,” she said. “When an issue takes off and becomes part of a bigger conversation or agenda … it’s easy to lose sight of … you’re locally elected to serve the people within your community and do your best for those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maben said the current debate seems strikingly similar. Rocklin’s new conservative majority recently passed a policy nearly identical to the Chino Hills one, also requiring school staff to notify parents of a change to a kid’s gender status. Teachers and others are already planning to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel said in any community, school board members would do well to listen to the entire community — not just their allies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And Gov. Gavin Newsom — who normally relishes his role publicly baiting Republicans for issues he sees as politically expedient for the left — has acknowledged the political minefield that issues involving transgender students present for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While broadly defending transgender kids, the governor has also, at times, acknowledged the nuance of an issue that intersects with not one, but two, thorny political questions: One, the public’s general uneasiness with transgender issues, which were not even part of the broader political debate a few years ago. And two, the public support for including parents in conversations about their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last week, Newsom signed a bill requiring all public schools to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom, but vetoed legislation requiring courts to consider a parent’s affirmation of their child’s gender identity in custody and visitation decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent onstage interview with Politico, Newsom mocked Republican leaders for focusing on transgender kids over issues like academics and for obsessively talking about a group that makes up just a tiny fraction of the population. But he also said, that after talking to parents, he gets why they’re angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I totally understand why you were out there. If I were told those things, I would’ve been out there too,” he said. “People are being ginned up. And so, I’m not here to criticize them, but there’s a lot of misunderstanding, misrepresentation out there because people are weaponizing these grievances against vulnerable communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pictured speaking from a podium inside a conference room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Newsom signed Senate Bill 760 on Saturday, Sept. 23, that requires all public schools to have at least 1 gender-neutral bathroom. Newsom later vetoed legislation requiring courts to consider a parent’s affirmation of their child’s gender identity in custody and visitation decisions. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the state Capitol, Democrats lambasted the transgender reporting policies as an affront to student privacy that will potentially endanger kids and thrust teachers into the middle of delicate family conversations. A direct legislative response, however, was constrained by both the Capitol calendar and the power local governments have over decision-making in California schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County voted earlier this year to ban curriculum materials that referenced gay rights leader Harvey Milk, the state Legislature fired back, passing a bill to prevent book banning in the state. Newsom signed that bill Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Philanthropist Daniel Lurie, who founded the anti-poverty organization Tipping Point Community, announced Tuesday that he will run for mayor of San Francisco, challenging incumbent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893348/s-f-mayor-london-breed-on-how-to-prevent-an-economic-doom-loop-and-her-new-budget\">London Breed\u003c/a> in next year’s election at a time of widespread dissatisfaction with city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fundamentally believe we are facing a crisis in leadership and the direction that we’re headed is deeply concerning to me,” Lurie told KQED. “I really believe that if we continue in this direction, that my children will not love San Francisco the way that I always have.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Daniel Lurie, San Francisco mayoral candidate\"]‘I fundamentally believe we are facing a crisis in leadership and the direction that we’re headed is deeply concerning to me.’[/pullquote] The 46-year-old, who was born and raised in San Francisco, is heir to the Levi Strauss fortune through his mother, Mimi Haas. He says his top priority as mayor would be public safety, adding that open drug dealing and property crimes in parts of the city creates the feeling that “there are no rules — there is this sense of disorder and chaos that we are all feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way Lurie sees it, Mayor Breed has failed to lead a concerted, organized effort against crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a serious lack of coordination across the criminal justice system,” he said. “We have department heads who are off doing whatever it is that they want and they’re siloed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His pledge to hold weekly department head meetings in the mayor’s office is unlikely to ignite a groundswell of support for Lurie’s candidacy. But his campaign is hoping that given widespread discontent with city government, Lurie will appeal to voters who simply want better results on key problems facing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is a lane that is more about effectiveness and good government, that’s his lane,” said Lurie’s pollster David Binder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has a long way to go in raising his name ID among voters, but he’ll have time before the November 2024 election. Binder thinks Lurie’s work with Tipping Point — addressing poverty, education and homelessness, among other things — will get voters’ attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It provides an opportunity for someone like Daniel really coming from the outside, not being an elected official to take an interest in curiosity among the voters,” Binder said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binder said Lurie will try to avoid defining himself as progressive or moderate, but he might find that difficult in the world of San Francisco politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959648 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/20230823-HomelessLawsuit-05-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In an interview with KQED, for example, Lurie said he supported the recall of three San Francisco School Board members in 2022. But when asked whether he supported the recall of ousted District Attorney Chesa Boudin, Lurie pivoted to say he supported Suzy Loftus — Breed’s appointee to the position — whom Boudin narrowly defeated when she faced voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressed on his position, Lurie said he \u003cem>did\u003c/em> vote to recall Boudin, adding that while he supports criminal justice reform “I think how [Boudin] went about [running the DA’s office] was kind of blowing up the system and not having a plan in place to fill that system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On dealing with the city’s large unhoused population, an issue that has vexed San Francisco mayors since the 1980s, Lurie offered few specifics or new ideas, saying it was important to create more shelter beds and hold organizations funded by the city accountable for better results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will have plenty of time to sharpen his positions and ideas — the election is more than a year away — and present himself as someone willing to shake up the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to be able to look at these issues and solutions with a fresh perspective. And I will not be beholden to interests that are holding our city back,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962480\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Daniel Lurie hold up signs as he announces his candidacy for Mayor of San Francisco at the Portrero Hill Neighborhood House in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Maggie Muir, who is managing Breed’s reelection campaign, says a political outsider like Lurie will have to convince voters he’s up to the challenge of managing a city like San Francisco with its $14 billion budget and byzantine bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the issue with a candidate like Daniel Lurie, who may have great intentions and be a real nice guy, is he essentially has no experience, or the level of experience needed to make progress on the challenges that are facing the city,” Muir said. “He’s never had to address and resolve issues at this level of seriousness and complexity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, founder of the Bayview Child Health Center in San Francisco, noted that Lurie’s Tipping Point foundation was an early supporter of that effort and the Center for Youth Wellness, an organization she started later. Harris said Lurie not only helped fund programs addressing hardships the city faces, but also demanded accountability and results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said Lurie would be “a fantastic mayor.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maggie Muir, reelection campaign manager, London Breed\"]‘I think the issue with a candidate like Daniel Lurie, who may have great intentions and be a real nice guy, is he essentially has no experience or the level of experience needed to make progress on the challenges that are facing the city.’[/pullquote]“He cares deeply, deeply, deeply and passionately about the city of San Francisco and its people and its future,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, a pediatrician and the former surgeon general of California, said Lurie has the skills to be an effective leader. “He’s smart. He knows how to get things done. He knows how to bring people together. And I think that he’s a good bridge,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris added that previously she supported Breed and voted for her, but while she “respects and admires her tremendously on a personal level, I think San Francisco needs new leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie has never before sought elected office, he’s been active for years in civic affairs. In 2013, he spearheaded the city’s successful effort to host the 50th Super Bowl. Then-Mayor Ed Lee then tapped him to chair the Bay Area Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, where he helped raise $13 million to invest in lower-income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie considered running for mayor in 2019 but ultimately chose not to because, he said, he knew London Breed and was inspired by her candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really excited about the prospect of Mayor Breed. … to see a woman in charge, a woman leading our city. 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Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have protected some immigrants from federal authorities if they’re released from prison under state criminal justice reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles), the bill’s author, said she was disappointed in Newsom’s decision to veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946255/california-bill-would-protect-immigrants-freed-under-criminal-justice-reforms-from-being-handed-to-ice\">AB 1306, known as the HOME Act\u003c/a>, saying collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amounts to “double punishment” for immigrants who have earned parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never the intention of the Legislature to exclude immigrants from restorative justice reform policies,” Carrillo said. “I am committed to re-introducing the policy and ending a dual system of justice in California that treats immigrants as less than and unworthy of a second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"ICE Out of California Coalition\"]‘The Governor may claim that he supports rehabilitation and second chances. Yet he cannot praise rehabilitation in one breath, but condone the racist targeting of immigrants for detention and deportation in the next.’[/pullquote]The bill would have required the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to let noncitizens return to their homes and communities, as U.S. citizens do, if they earn clemency from the governor or resentencing under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714104/jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california\">recent laws aimed at rehabilitation and reducing mass incarceration\u003c/a> and racial disparities in sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current practice, prison officials alert federal authorities and arrange to transfer noncitizen inmates to immigration custody upon their release. Even longtime legal residents with green cards can spend months or years in ICE detention, and many are eventually deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the bill Friday evening and issued a statement explaining the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill would prevent information sharing and coordination upon a person’s release from CDCR custody for a significant number of people and, as a result, would impede CDCR’s interaction with a federal law enforcement agency charged with assessing public safety risks,” he wrote. “I believe current law strikes the right balance on limiting interaction to support community trust and cooperation between law enforcement and local communities. For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates called Newsom’s veto a calculated move to protect his presidential aspirations. A statement from the ICE Out of California Coalition reads in part: “We denounce Gov. 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CDCR documents recently obtained under public records laws by the ACLU of Northern California show that in just two months last year California turned over 200 people to ICE after they’d served their time in prison. In addition, the records show, incarcerated people who have been flagged for ICE are barred from many re-entry programs in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor may claim that he supports rehabilitation and second chances,” said the ICE Out of California Coalition. “Yet he cannot praise rehabilitation in one breath, but condone the racist targeting of immigrants for detention and deportation in the next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who knows the toll of the current policy is Los Angeles resident Sandra Castañeda. She served 19 years of a 40-year murder sentence she received for driving a van out of which a man shot and killed someone. But her conviction was vacated after California reformed a law that had caused people like her to be sentenced for murders they did not commit. In addition, Newsom commuted her sentence, based on her rehabilitation in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11943030,news_11946255]But instead of going home, Castañeda, who’s had a legal green card since she was 9, spent an additional year in ICE detention fighting until her deportation case was dropped by an immigration judge last year. She said she feels devastated for other immigrants who will suffer a similar fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a slap in the face,” she said of the governor’s veto. “He commuted me! We’ve been rehabilitated, and then you want us to get deported? But the fight doesn’t stop here. Hopefully someday somebody will realize that this law should pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another criminal justice bill that was well on its way to the governor’s desk was pulled back at the last minute. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lawmakers and immigrant advocates vow to persist after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have protected some immigrants from federal authorities if they’re released from prison under state criminal justice reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles), the bill’s author, said she was disappointed in Newsom’s decision to veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946255/california-bill-would-protect-immigrants-freed-under-criminal-justice-reforms-from-being-handed-to-ice\">AB 1306, known as the HOME Act\u003c/a>, saying collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amounts to “double punishment” for immigrants who have earned parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never the intention of the Legislature to exclude immigrants from restorative justice reform policies,” Carrillo said. “I am committed to re-introducing the policy and ending a dual system of justice in California that treats immigrants as less than and unworthy of a second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill would have required the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to let noncitizens return to their homes and communities, as U.S. citizens do, if they earn clemency from the governor or resentencing under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714104/jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california\">recent laws aimed at rehabilitation and reducing mass incarceration\u003c/a> and racial disparities in sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current practice, prison officials alert federal authorities and arrange to transfer noncitizen inmates to immigration custody upon their release. Even longtime legal residents with green cards can spend months or years in ICE detention, and many are eventually deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the bill Friday evening and issued a statement explaining the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill would prevent information sharing and coordination upon a person’s release from CDCR custody for a significant number of people and, as a result, would impede CDCR’s interaction with a federal law enforcement agency charged with assessing public safety risks,” he wrote. “I believe current law strikes the right balance on limiting interaction to support community trust and cooperation between law enforcement and local communities. For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates called Newsom’s veto a calculated move to protect his presidential aspirations. A statement from the ICE Out of California Coalition reads in part: “We denounce Gov. Newsom’s cruel, callous and cowardly decision to veto this common-sense solution. When policy-making is driven by vanity and crass ambition rather than sound judgment, all Californians suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco will continue clearing tents from sidewalks and enforce the city’s sit-lie laws when people refuse offers of shelter, Mayor London Breed declared Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s announcement follows recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959120/judge-partially-denies-motion-to-more-strictly-enforce-ban-on-homeless-encampment-sweeps\">guidance from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals\u003c/a> on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">lawsuit started in September 2022\u003c/a>, when the Coalition on Homelessness sued the city of San Francisco for violating its own ordinances around clearing homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu ordered an injunction to prevent the city from enforcing sit-lie laws if no shelter is offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For this entire year, a federal injunction has limited the city from enforcing certain laws against those who refuse shelter on our streets,” Breed tweeted on Monday. “The good news: a recent clarification from the court now sets a path forward for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor underscored that city workers will receive updated training on how to clear sidewalks and engage with unhoused people in a way that complies with the temporary injunction barring the city from forcefully moving someone living on the street without first offering them a genuine shelter option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Judge Ryu ordered the city to do exactly that, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959120/judge-partially-denies-motion-to-more-strictly-enforce-ban-on-homeless-encampment-sweeps\">the city’s appeal against the overall injunction is under review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our city workers have been doing the best job they can in carrying out encampment resolutions under the injunction, and they are now getting prepared to enforce these laws in light of this recent clarification by the Ninth Circuit,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1706354197409698280?s=20\">Breed wrote on Monday on X\u003c/a>, the social media website formerly known as Twitter. “This preparation is necessary so our workers understand what has changed, but also because the plaintiffs in this case will still be out interfering with their work. Filming them. Trying to tell our workers what they can and cannot do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Coalition on Homelessness, representing both the ACLU and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, argue that the city has violated federal precedent by not providing appropriate shelter before removing unhoused people, and that the city trashed personal belongings during its sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where we continue to see political theater from the city is this assumption or at least this articulation in the press that there are mass shelter refusals,” Zal Shroff, interim legal director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, told KQED on Monday. “That doesn’t actually pan out in the data, even remotely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is still thousands of temporary shelter beds and housing units short of meeting the current need. There are only about 3,500 shelter beds in San Francisco’s overloaded system, and as of Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">nearly 400 people were on the online shelter wait list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials representing the city, including the mayor and City Attorney David Chiu, said that the lawsuit and temporary ban on sweeps when shelter is not available have thwarted the city’s ability to keep sidewalks clean and free of hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An issue throughout the legal conflict has been whether or not the city can forcefully move people who are considered “involuntarily homeless” and what that means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='homelessness']Last month, the Ninth Circuit clarified that people who reject a valid shelter offering cannot be considered involuntarily homeless and, therefore, the city can enforce its laws against public sleeping and camping on sidewalks and in parks, in those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reviewing San Francisco’s appeal, Ryu asked the city to report how it trains law enforcement and street clearing crews, and to also identify which city workers have and have not been trained on the specifics of the injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the injunction, the city has been able to carry out most of its street cleaning and public safety operations, and can enforce many of its laws governing street and sidewalk activity. For example, under the injunction, the city can still clear encampments for accessibility, such as in the case of an emergency or providing room for a wheelchair passage, if they give 72 hours notice. The injunction does not impact law enforcement around health and safety codes, including drug use, and the city can still clear encampments for certain health or safety reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom — formerly the mayor of San Francisco — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1696600790188822690\">meanwhile has also criticized the judge’s rulings\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s homelessness lawsuit, as well as similar cases and rulings that have provided the basis for Ryu’s decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cases include \u003ca href=\"https://homelesslaw.org/supreme-court-martin-v-boise/\">Martin v. Boise\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/09/28/20-35752.pdf\">Johnson v. Grants Pass (PDF)\u003c/a>, which both have directed cities not to force unhoused residents to move unless they are offered shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/280288/20230922163648635_Amicus%20Brief%20for%20Governor%20Newsom%20-%20Grants%20Pass_Final.pdf\">Newsom issued an amicus brief (PDF)\u003c/a> asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Grants Pass, Oregon case and urging the court to give cities more freedom to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I agree with the basic principle that a city shouldn’t criminalize homeless individuals for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go within that city’s boundaries, courts continue to reach well beyond that narrow limit to block any number of reasonable efforts to protect homeless individuals and the broader public from the harms of uncontrolled encampments,” Newsom said in a press announcement. “It’s time for the courts to stop these confusing, impractical and costly rulings that only serve to worsen this humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/injunction-update-our-path-forward-11b7a7ce9f14\">wrote on Monday on Medium\u003c/a> that “over the next few weeks we will be reiterating and updating [city workers’] training and making sure they understand what they can and cannot do in line with the injunction and Ninth Circuit’s recent clarification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shroff, the plaintiffs’ attorney, said that there’s never been any dispute over the definition of involuntarily homeless, and agreed the city can enforce sit-lie laws when someone rejects an appropriate shelter option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He disagreed, however, with the idea that shelter is commonly rejected. Instead, he argues that the city has continued to sweep encampments without following protocols outlined in the city’s own policies, which include to offer shelter and to “bag and tag” personal belongings rather than disposing of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelter system is at capacity every single day of the year because there is such a high demand for shelter and because for decades the city has failed to meaningfully invest in affordable housing for vulnerable residents of the city during the time of a tech boom and unprecedented and skyrocketing rents,” Shroff said. “They’re clearly seeking some justification for their continuing enforcement operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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