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Adults age 18 to 34, people who are renters, those without a post-high school degree, and Californians with an annual household income of $40,000 or lower tend to be less happy than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is breaking new ground in the United States. At least 12 state legislatures in the nation have committees focused on mental health and substance abuse issues, but no other state legislature has a committee devoted to happiness, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea to consider happiness in public policy isn’t unprecedented: The landlocked country of Bhutan in South Asia \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/travel-and-tourism-c488b061ba6d463b8af3beb363e7c750\">prioritizes happiness as a goal of public policy\u003c/a>, measuring it through something written into its constitution called the Gross National Happiness Index. 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The committee isn’t set on any solutions yet but plans to release a report with its findings after lawmakers adjourn for the year at the end of August, said Katie Talbot, Rendon’s spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, a Democrat representing part of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, hopes the committee’s work can address poor mental health among youth in California, which her 11-year-old daughter has told her is a big issue in her class at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true crisis that we have on our hands right now,” Schiavo said. “This is really getting to the heart of what that crisis is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research demonstrates that leisure activities, social relationships and life circumstances contribute to a person’s happiness, said Meliksah Demir, a professor of happiness at California State University, Sacramento. 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It’s time to get back in the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey entered a race dominated by three Democrats already representing California in Congress, Reps. 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When asked if he would vote for Trump against President Biden, Garvey replied, “I will look at the two opponents, I will determine what they did, and at that time, I will make my choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11978232,news_11978528,news_11973349\"]That prompted this sarcastic response from Congresswoman Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, California, I think what they say is true. ‘Once a Dodger, always a Dodger,'” receiving laughs from the debate audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Schiff, who built a national reputation as the former president’s leading adversary in Congress during his time as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, saw Garvey’s earlier support for Trump as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s primary system, the top two finishers in the March primary will face off in November, regardless of party. And Schiff — who led in pre-election polls — knew that facing the Republican Garvey would be a much easier lift than a runoff against another Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff then spent millions of dollars on television ads highlighting Garvey’s votes for Trump and claimed that Garvey was “too conservative for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads helped raise his profile among Republicans, elevating Garvey over other GOP candidates on the primary ballot. Porter argued that the ads actually helped consolidate Republican votes for Garvey, a view widely shared by campaign professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked, perhaps even better than Schiff could have imagined. Not only did it boost Garvey into the top two and a November runoff, as \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-senate\">ballots continue to be counted, \u003c/a>Garvey and Schiff are nearly tied for first place in two separate races for the open Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Steve Garvey\"]‘What you are feeling tonight is what it’s like to hit a walk-off home run. Keep in mind, this is the first game of a doubleheader, so keep the evening of Nov. 5th open.’[/pullquote]In November, voters have two Senate elections to decide who will finish the rest of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s term and who will fill a full six-year term starting in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Super Tuesday’s primary results, Schiff and Garvey are the top two candidates for both elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On election night following the primary, Garvey wasted no time celebrating the outcome — with yet more baseball metaphors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you are feeling tonight is what it’s like to hit a walk-off home run. Keep in mind, this is the first game of a doubleheader, so keep the evening of Nov. 5th open,” Garvey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46g7q3hk\">recent poll \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, 57% of voters think the state is “off on the wrong track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a debate earlier this year, he said he would vote against a national ban on abortions. 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Instead, the Vote Ceasefire campaign suggested that California primary voters write in the phrase “cease-fire” in the blank space below the presidential candidates on their ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But post-election, measuring exactly how many voters in California actually did this has not proved simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national movement in California’s primary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fresno resident Dennis Jeppson is one voter who said he used a write-in on their ballot to send a message on Gaza to Biden. “I’m very much a supporter of Biden,” Jeppson said. “I do think he’s done an excellent job. … It’s just Palestine is a very hard thing to overlook as a voter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeppson said he was motivated to write in “cease-fire” on his ballot by what he described as a constant stream of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/world/palestinians-x-tiktok-instagram-gaza-cec/index.html\">images and videos of “horrifying things” happening in Gaza\u003c/a> on his social media feed — and he said he is not seeing the U.S. doing anything to try and stop the violence actively. “It’s been a very, I feel, blasé response,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaza has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">bombarded by Israeli forces for five months now,\u003c/a> with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234159514/gaza-death-toll-30000-palestinians-israel-hamas-war#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Gaza%20death%20toll%20surpasses%2030%2C000%20but%20it's%20an%20incomplete%20count,under%20the%20weight%20of%20war.\">30,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> killed, according to the most recent numbers from Gaza’s health ministry. The violence has prompted thousands in the Bay Area to march in support of a cease-fire, and a UC Berkeley poll earlier this year found that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r03r3ss\">55% of registered California voters do not approve of President Biden’s handling of the conflict.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote Ceasefire’s campaign in California was preceded by the “Listen to Michigan” campaign, in which progressives in that state called upon residents to vote “uncommitted” on their Democratic primary ballot to indicate their support of a cease-fire. Michigan — a battleground state home to a large Arab American and Muslim population — saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/stateside/2024-03-01/stateside-podcast-100-000-michiganders-voted-uncommitted\">over 100,000 uncommitted votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the Michigan primary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1234822836/kamala-harris-benny-gantz-gaza-cease-fire-israel-hamas\">Vice President Kamala Harris showed support for a six-week temporary cease-fire\u003c/a>. On Tuesday, several senators called upon Biden to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/democrats-biden-israel-letter.html\">stop providing weapons to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Minsky, head of the national group Progressive Democrats of America, attributes those shifts to the Michigan result. “If there wasn’t a public outcry campaign, I don’t know when they ever would have moved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar campaigns have emerged in other states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/uncommitted-movement-growing-biden/\">Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington\u003c/a>, each tailored to that state’s ballot. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://voteceasefire.info/\">Vote Ceasefire\u003c/a> worked with local groups like Oakland Rising Action and Bay Resistance and suggested voters use a write-in option, as well as vote down the ballot for pro-cease-fire candidates. (Barbara Lee, for example, was a longtime congresswoman with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/barbara-lees-antiwar-campaign-for-the-senate\">prominent anti-war record in California\u003c/a>. However, she recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#east-bay-politicos-honor-barbara-lees-legacy\">lost her bid for Senate\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Syed Quadri, Santa Clara resident\"]‘If you are not calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire at this moment, then you are not a person of principle and of integrity.’[/pullquote]Santa Clara resident Syed Quadri handed out flyers about pro-cease-fire candidates on the weekend before the primary and told KQED he “want[ed] to make sure we use this opportunity to send a message that we need the platform of the Democratic Party in particular to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire at this moment, then you are not a person of principle and of integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno, Jeppson said he learned about the campaign from friends and advocates online. He said he knew the vote wouldn’t hurt Biden’s chances in a solidly Democratic state like California compared to more swing states like Michigan and North Carolina. “It’s really just hammering home that even in solid blue states, that there is a dissenting opinion on the issue of Palestine to the current policy that’s being undertaken,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same UC Berkeley poll also found that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r03r3ss\">55% of California Democratic voters support a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Measuring the results of the protest will be difficult in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A press release sent out by Vote Ceasefire the day before the California primary election stated that supporters of the campaign “argue that writing ‘ceasefire’ on the blank line below the names of presidential candidates listed on the ballot is an immediate, unmistakably clear message that will be counted and reported by state elections officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election officials told KQED that California does not track \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/gaza-ceasefire-democrats-california-election/\">unqualified write-in votes\u003c/a>, like writing in “cease-fire” on the presidential option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “we would be reporting out on how many people did not vote for a specific candidate in our statement of the vote,” Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Deva Proto said — votes that are called “undervotes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press office for the California Secretary of State Shirley Weber told KQED that “[c]ounties are not required to report undervotes nor are they required to report votes cast for non-qualified write-ins to our office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Secretary of State Shirley Weber\"]‘Only votes cast for qualified candidates and measures are required to be reported and will be published in the Statement of the Vote or the Supplemental Statement of the Vote.’[/pullquote]“Only votes cast for qualified candidates and measures are required to be reported and will be published in the Statement of the Vote or the Supplemental Statement of the Vote,” Weber’s press office wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something that also complicates counting any potential protest vote in California is the fact that Democratic voters who are officially registered as “no party preference” (NPP) must \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">request a cross-over ballot to vote in the Democratic presidential primary\u003c/a>. And tallying up the number of NPP voters who requested a Democratic ballot — whether to vote for Biden, to purposefully not choose a Democratic primary candidate or to write in a message like “cease-fire” — is not automatic, said elections data expert Paul Mitchell, vice president at Political Data, Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this election cycle, we got 129,000 people requesting a Democratic ballot, and that was only from some counties that gave [the data] to us,” Mitchell said. “The point is that we don’t — right now — have the data on even how many people \u003cem>had \u003c/em>Democratic ballots. … So that lack of knowing what the denominator is means that we can’t really tell you what percentage of under vote we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vote Ceasefire write-in campaign in California “probably won’t ever be quantified by anyone,” Mitchell said. “Because I don’t think anybody’s going to go through the trouble of going to all 58 counties and trying to identify exactly how many ballot requests they got for the Democratic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates are still pursuing options\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rachel Rybaczuk, Vote Ceasefire’s national coordinator, said she and her colleagues have still been trying to find a way to quantify the “cease-fire” write-in campaign. Specifically, Rybaczuk said they have reached out to the state by phone to request disaggregated numbers for the March 5 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11974081,news_11976562,news_11979206,news_11978645\"]The state, however, subsequently told KQED that they were “not aware” of such a request. The department also said it was not yet aware of any large turnout of “write-ins.” (For context, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978751/why-was-voter-turnout-so-low-for-californias-presidential-primary\">it takes around a month to count California’s votes fully\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk pointed to Los Angeles County’s vote count from the March 5 primary, noting that 21,168 write-ins appeared on those ballots — more than the number of votes cast in the county for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-06/minnesota-rep-dean-phillips-ends-democratic-primary-challenge-and-endorses-president-joe-biden\">Minnesota presidential candidate Dean Phillips, which stand at 15,892\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/gaza-ceasefire-california-election-results/\">A CalMatters analysis of the votes counted so far \u003c/a>in Los Angeles County found that about 15% of Democrats didn’t vote for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk said the write-in category has been used for jokes in the past but should be taken seriously by election officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have used it to write things like ‘Mickey Mouse,’” she said. “[But] this is a clear, unequivocal position. People are communicating to the administration that they are using their vote to demand a permanent, meaningful cease-fire for everybody involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California could also have a more effective voting system for presidential primaries, Political Data, Inc.’s Paul Mitchell said, by having the parties on the same ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that voters would be much better off if we had the same system,” he said, “rather than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">this goofy thing\u003c/a> where independents who want to vote for the Republican primary have to re-register, go through those hoops, and independents who are leaning Democratic, have to request a ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a paperwork mess,” Mitchell said. “It doesn’t really empower voters, and it doesn’t help turnout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state, however, subsequently told KQED that they were “not aware” of such a request. The department also said it was not yet aware of any large turnout of “write-ins.” (For context, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978751/why-was-voter-turnout-so-low-for-californias-presidential-primary\">it takes around a month to count California’s votes fully\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk pointed to Los Angeles County’s vote count from the March 5 primary, noting that 21,168 write-ins appeared on those ballots — more than the number of votes cast in the county for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-06/minnesota-rep-dean-phillips-ends-democratic-primary-challenge-and-endorses-president-joe-biden\">Minnesota presidential candidate Dean Phillips, which stand at 15,892\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/gaza-ceasefire-california-election-results/\">A CalMatters analysis of the votes counted so far \u003c/a>in Los Angeles County found that about 15% of Democrats didn’t vote for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rybaczuk said the write-in category has been used for jokes in the past but should be taken seriously by election officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have used it to write things like ‘Mickey Mouse,’” she said. “[But] this is a clear, unequivocal position. People are communicating to the administration that they are using their vote to demand a permanent, meaningful cease-fire for everybody involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California could also have a more effective voting system for presidential primaries, Political Data, Inc.’s Paul Mitchell said, by having the parties on the same ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that voters would be much better off if we had the same system,” he said, “rather than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974134/no-party-preference-how-to-vote-california-presidential-primary\">this goofy thing\u003c/a> where independents who want to vote for the Republican primary have to re-register, go through those hoops, and independents who are leaning Democratic, have to request a ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a paperwork mess,” Mitchell said. “It doesn’t really empower voters, and it doesn’t help turnout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Today, we’re going to round up some of Alameda County’s local results from the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So traditionally, Alameda County has been pretty slow among Bay area counties to churn out election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Annelise Finney is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There’s a few things that contribute to that, but one is that the Alameda County Registrar of Voters has two jobs. He actually runs the IT department for the county and the elections, which is a lot of work. 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Before that, he served on the Oakland City Council. So he’s an old hat and local politics in the East Bay. And he’s known as like a little bit more of a moderate. He does a lot of focus on providing care to seniors in the community. Traditionally been a little bit more pro landlord in debates around housing. And he was challenged in this race by a woman named Jennifer Stein. Jennifer Stein was a sort of political newcomer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>She helps oversee the county’s mental health work. She herself is a psych nurse, so she provides mental health care to people who are in need. And she ran on a platform, essentially arguing that it’s time for change in the county, that we need term limits, we need new, fresh people and new, fresh ideas. 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This race was an open field, so Keith Carson, who previously had held this seat for around three decades, had decided to retire sort of close to the deadline that candidates had to enter into this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>When he said he was going to retire, there was this flurry of action, and a lot of East Bay officials suddenly threw their names in the ring. And there were a lot of people in this race who are elected officials in other parts of the county. Now, as we look at these early results, two of them have risen to the top. One in first place currently is Nikki Fortunato Bass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>She is the president of Oakland City Council, and behind her in second place is John Bowers. He is a councilman on Emeryville City Council. Close behind Bowers is Ben Bartlett. He’s a Berkeley city councilman. That race could still move around a little bit. Some of those margins are pretty close, but the top two there will go to a runoff in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Nikki Fortunato Bas currently in first. I think she’s pretty well known to anyone who’s active in Oakland City politics, but what issues that she talk about on the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So I visited with Nikki Fortunato Bas at her election watch party on election night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nikki Fortunato Bas: \u003c/strong>I feel terrific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Bas was saying that she made this decision quite quickly, but for her, it also felt like a clear one that she, as a city councilman, has seen the ways that county partnership with cities can really make a difference in what cities are able to offer to their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nikki Fortunato Bas: \u003c/strong>So I ultimately decided to run because I want Oakland in each of our cities and unincorporated areas to feel like they have that partner, to really work on those tough issues and deliver those coordinated services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So all this said, analyze what could the make up of the Board of Supervisors be if Nate Miley appears to be reelected, when do we have Nikki Fortunato Bas running in first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, one big difference this will make is that for the first time, there will be a majority of women of color on the Board of Supervisors. 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Beckles, on the other hand, and Lybarger, they really want to see construction of affordable housing over market rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>And all four said they support government development of public housing. So government owned housing that they rent out at affordable rates. But for Beckles and Lybarger, that was really the centerpiece of their housing proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Let’s talk about the money, because that is a huge part of this race. What did that look like in this state Senate election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>This race saw about $6 million of outside spending, and it mostly focused on two candidates. Jesse Aragon was the beneficiary of a lot of that money. He got about $1.4 million and Lee burger got about 2.6 million. The majority of the money that was spent in support of Katherine Lee Berger came from the UC Berkeley cooks, custodians and nursing assistants for Katherine Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So that’s a committee of people who are part of a union that represents UC Berkeley employees. But she also had a lot of funding against her, which is knowing that Aragon wasn’t up against. She had about $1.8 million being spent in attack ads and mailers that were describing her as an anti housing extremist, which obviously was a term that she disputed. The money that was spent on behalf of Arreguin came mostly from builders, as I mentioned before, from pro housing groups and then also a lot of it from Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Uber spent a bunch of money against Lyberger. So a big portion of that 1.8 against her came from them. And I think one way you can sort of analyze this is to say that, you know, we know Uber from its past political spending really doesn’t want people in office who are going to push against its business model. So somebody like Katherine Lee Berger, who is widely supported by unions, I think you can assume that Uber would see a candidate like that as a potential threat to its business model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jesse Arreguin: \u003c/strong>It’s kind of surprising, given that I wrote that the tax in Berkeley to tax Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>I talked to Jesse out again about this spending by Uber on his behalf, and he sort of disavowed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jesse Arreguin: \u003c/strong>I did condemn those attack ads and some of his indepen expenditures. I think we should run on our on our record and our message and our vision for for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, we don’t exactly know what happened behind the scenes here, but. One can surmise that perhaps Uber saw Aragon as the best competitor and the most likely to win against Libre. So it’s not necessarily that they endorse him, but just that they don’t endorse her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You mentioned earlier $6 million in total for a state Senate race. I mean, that’s just a lot of money for anybody. I suspect it’s a lot of money for a state Senate seat. Does it look like the November runoff will be Jesse ad again versus somebody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>That is kind of where we are at. Me and our colleague here at KQED, Dan Brekke, you were doing some calculating based on the Secretary of State’s vote count so far. And our guess was that there are about 70,000 votes left to count. So that margin between Jovana Beckles and Dan Kalb of about 200 votes, that could easily change as the vote count continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>But if there is a runoff in November between Beckles and Jesse yet again, it would be an interesting one. I mean, Beckles is slightly to the left of Oregon. She would probably go after some of this money and corporate spending that we’ve just been talking about, and it would make for very likely a pretty lively November runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And now, Annelise we come to measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>My favorite topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Which is about recall election rules. So what is it? And do you know if it passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So measure B is looking like it will pass. It has about 60% of the vote so far. And what measure B will do is get rid of the counties recall rules and replace them with the state’s recall rules. And practically what that means is it would raise the number of signatures required to put a recall on the ballot. It would also extend some timelines about when the registrar can schedule recall elections if they qualify for a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So why did this change to recall rules get put on the ballot this past election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There are a number of different recall efforts underway in the county. The registrar saw this coming, as did lawyers who advised the county, and they decided to take a look at the recall rules the county has on the books. Alameda County has never had a recall election. There have been a few attempts, but nothing that actually made it to the ballot. So these rules that the county had on the books had basically never been tested, and they were written in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So when the lawyers take a look at these rules, what they found is that a lot of them are infeasible. They were designed for a county that was about a quarter of the size it is today. That’s kind of why it has these tight timelines that require the registrar to tabulate votes in a pretty quick amount of time. It also has some provisions that have been found illegal in other counties. So if the county tried to impose them, they could be sued by people who point out that these rules have been found illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, and it seems like this inevitably is caught up in the politics of current recall campaigns. Right. There’s the campaign against District Attorney Pamela Price. There’s one against Oakland Mayor Shang Tao. How did that play a role in measure B?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, there was a lot of debate on the Board of Supervisors about whether or not to put this measure on the ballot right now, and that’s because of the ongoing recalls. A lot of members on the Board of Supervisors felt having people vote on this now might kind of come off as election interference, because it’s not exactly clear how a rule change will affect these ongoing recalls. That’s something that the Board of Supervisors is going to have to figure out if measure B passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So yes or no. Does measure B passing mean that the rules for the upcoming recall campaigns? Are the rules for those recalls going to change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, I really wish I could give you a yes or no. I think everybody wants there to be a yes or no for this. But the county has not been clear about that. The county has said that, you know, this rule change would not affect the count of signatures that have already been submitted to the registrar by the effort to recall D.A. Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>But depending on when measure B is certified and when a recall election might be certified, the county may decide to use state rules when they schedule the recall election. They may not. It’s still something the county is deciding, but it’s certainly caused a lot of confusion in both campaigns and the campaign for the recall and against it. Both campaigns have also said that they’re willing to sue if the rules change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Oh, what a mess. All right, wrapping up here. And so we’ve talked about elections in three different three different areas. Is there a through line here? It feels like to me at least that these results there isn’t maybe a clean, tidy narrative to pull out of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah. You know, I’ve been talking to my colleagues who’ve been covering elections in other parts of the Bay area. And and one thing that seems sort of interesting about Alameda County is Alameda County is proving to be pretty consistent. The areas that are traditionally more conservative voted in the more moderate incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The areas that are more progressive are leaning towards more progressive candidates like Nikki Fortunato Bas or even Jesse out again, who, you know, in that race perhaps might appear more moderate, but really in and of himself is a very progressive candidate. So, you know, I think this shift that we’re seeing in San Francisco towards more moderate measures that are being passed, we’re not really seeing that in Alameda County quite yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So do you have any, you know, takeaways from the results we’ve talked about here, especially going into November?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, I think as I look at this election, one thing that I’m seeing that’s really standing out to me is the low voter turnout. That is a problem. I think the county wants residents to participate in the election process. And if that’s not happening, to some extent, that’s a failure of the county to make this accessible, to make sure people know that this is happening and to make sure voters feel educated about the issues on the ballot, so that when they go into the ballot box, they feel empowered and not confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So I think that there’s space for growth here in Alameda County has been inching towards that with this election commission. But I think a major takeaway is that there’s a lot to be done in Alameda County to ensure voters come out, and also to ensure that the votes are turned out quickly. For a lot of voters, it’s very confusing when we have, you know, initial results that are reported out the night or the day after. And then sometimes those changed dramatically because the vote count can take so long. And Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well. Annelise. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was KQED reporter Annelise Finney. There are, of course, so many other election results that we haven’t had time to get to. Everything from Lateefah Simon finishing first in the race for Barbara Lee’s old House seat to a sales tax in Sonoma County to fund fire protection. If you want to keep checking out those results, visit kqed.org/election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This conversation was cut down and edited by our intern, Ellie Prickett-Morgan. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored it and added the tape. Music courtesy of Audio Network. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There isn’t one clean story you could tell about the entire region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, I think this shift that we’re seeing in San Francisco towards more moderate measures that are being passed, we’re not really seeing that in Alameda County quite yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But there’s still a lot to talk about, including the county Board of Supervisors, an expensive state Senate race, and some potential changes to recall election rules. Today, we’re going to round up some of Alameda County’s local results from the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So traditionally, Alameda County has been pretty slow among Bay area counties to churn out election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Annelise Finney is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There’s a few things that contribute to that, but one is that the Alameda County Registrar of Voters has two jobs. He actually runs the IT department for the county and the elections, which is a lot of work. Back in 2022, there was a pretty big snafu where there was a miscount of votes in an Oakland city election, and that led voters and Alameda County to have some more skepticism of the registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Since then, the county created an elections commission to try and have more public oversight of the office, to fix some of the things that might be contributing to the slowness. But that Elections Commission has had a lot of trouble getting off the ground. So there’s a lot still to be fixed with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The races I was watching this year were two open seats on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, a state Senate seat representing district seven. So that covers parts of the East Bay. And then finally, I was watching a measure in Alameda County called measure B, which has to do with how the county runs recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>All right. So let’s go through them. Let’s start with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. There were two competitive races in districts four and five. Let’s start with district four. First. Can you just tell me a little bit about it, where it is and what it’s like politically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Sure. So district four in the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is a district that stretches from sort of deep East Oakland into the southeast portion of the county that goes all the way to Pleasanton. It also includes a lot of unincorporated areas like Mount Eden and Castro Valley. And in those areas, there’s no city government, so they depend on the county for infrastructure and law enforcement. Alameda County is a very progressive place, but this area tends to swing a little bit more suburban and in that way also a little bit more conservative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Tell me a bit about that race, who ran and what were some of the big issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>That race had a long time incumbent. So an interesting thing to know about the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is that there’s no term limits. I think that’s part of the reason why people often don’t really know who’s on the board of supervisors is because we don’t have races that are open races that frequently, and when it’s not an open race, an incumbent usually has a pretty big advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So in this race, there was an incumbent, Nate Miley. He’s the president of the Board of Supervisors, and he’s been on the board for about 20 years. Before that, he served on the Oakland City Council. So he’s an old hat and local politics in the East Bay. And he’s known as like a little bit more of a moderate. He does a lot of focus on providing care to seniors in the community. Traditionally been a little bit more pro landlord in debates around housing. And he was challenged in this race by a woman named Jennifer Stein. Jennifer Stein was a sort of political newcomer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>She helps oversee the county’s mental health work. She herself is a psych nurse, so she provides mental health care to people who are in need. And she ran on a platform, essentially arguing that it’s time for change in the county, that we need term limits, we need new, fresh people and new, fresh ideas. 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Also Katherine Lee Barker. So Lee Barker of those three is a pretty new name in this scene. She’s the president of the California Labor Federation. And prior to this election, I don’t think a lot of people knew who she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So she had an uphill battle here, getting voters familiar with her name and the things that she represents. Oregon has a pretty handy lead. He has about 30% of the vote. And behind him in second place right now is Jovana Beckles, but she’s only ahead of Dan Kalb in third place by about 200 votes. So that could change a fair amount. And then labor also isn’t that far behind Beckles and Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>These top four you mentioned are also all Democrats. What differences can we tease out between the four of them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>These politicians all have pretty similar policy positions, and they differ in rather subtle ways. One thing you can look at to kind of differentiate between them is housing, and the way they view how the state should respond to the housing crisis. Jesse Aragon, as mayor of Berkeley, has overseen the city’s largest housing boom in decades. He supports building housing for people at all income levels, and his campaign was very supported by people who work in the housing industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Dan Kalb has also been pro housing, but he also strongly stands for tenant rights. He helped oversee Oakland’s eviction moratorium during the pandemic, which was one of the strongest in the Bay area. And Oakland has struggled a little bit more with building housing. When you compare it to a place like Berkeley. 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And I think one way you can sort of analyze this is to say that, you know, we know Uber from its past political spending really doesn’t want people in office who are going to push against its business model. So somebody like Katherine Lee Berger, who is widely supported by unions, I think you can assume that Uber would see a candidate like that as a potential threat to its business model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jesse Arreguin: \u003c/strong>It’s kind of surprising, given that I wrote that the tax in Berkeley to tax Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>I talked to Jesse out again about this spending by Uber on his behalf, and he sort of disavowed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jesse Arreguin: \u003c/strong>I did condemn those attack ads and some of his indepen expenditures. 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And our guess was that there are about 70,000 votes left to count. So that margin between Jovana Beckles and Dan Kalb of about 200 votes, that could easily change as the vote count continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>But if there is a runoff in November between Beckles and Jesse yet again, it would be an interesting one. I mean, Beckles is slightly to the left of Oregon. She would probably go after some of this money and corporate spending that we’ve just been talking about, and it would make for very likely a pretty lively November runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And now, Annelise we come to measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>My favorite topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Which is about recall election rules. So what is it? And do you know if it passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So measure B is looking like it will pass. It has about 60% of the vote so far. And what measure B will do is get rid of the counties recall rules and replace them with the state’s recall rules. And practically what that means is it would raise the number of signatures required to put a recall on the ballot. It would also extend some timelines about when the registrar can schedule recall elections if they qualify for a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So why did this change to recall rules get put on the ballot this past election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>There are a number of different recall efforts underway in the county. The registrar saw this coming, as did lawyers who advised the county, and they decided to take a look at the recall rules the county has on the books. Alameda County has never had a recall election. There have been a few attempts, but nothing that actually made it to the ballot. So these rules that the county had on the books had basically never been tested, and they were written in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So when the lawyers take a look at these rules, what they found is that a lot of them are infeasible. They were designed for a county that was about a quarter of the size it is today. That’s kind of why it has these tight timelines that require the registrar to tabulate votes in a pretty quick amount of time. It also has some provisions that have been found illegal in other counties. So if the county tried to impose them, they could be sued by people who point out that these rules have been found illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, and it seems like this inevitably is caught up in the politics of current recall campaigns. Right. There’s the campaign against District Attorney Pamela Price. There’s one against Oakland Mayor Shang Tao. How did that play a role in measure B?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, there was a lot of debate on the Board of Supervisors about whether or not to put this measure on the ballot right now, and that’s because of the ongoing recalls. A lot of members on the Board of Supervisors felt having people vote on this now might kind of come off as election interference, because it’s not exactly clear how a rule change will affect these ongoing recalls. That’s something that the Board of Supervisors is going to have to figure out if measure B passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So yes or no. Does measure B passing mean that the rules for the upcoming recall campaigns? Are the rules for those recalls going to change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, I really wish I could give you a yes or no. I think everybody wants there to be a yes or no for this. But the county has not been clear about that. The county has said that, you know, this rule change would not affect the count of signatures that have already been submitted to the registrar by the effort to recall D.A. Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>But depending on when measure B is certified and when a recall election might be certified, the county may decide to use state rules when they schedule the recall election. They may not. It’s still something the county is deciding, but it’s certainly caused a lot of confusion in both campaigns and the campaign for the recall and against it. Both campaigns have also said that they’re willing to sue if the rules change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Oh, what a mess. All right, wrapping up here. And so we’ve talked about elections in three different three different areas. Is there a through line here? It feels like to me at least that these results there isn’t maybe a clean, tidy narrative to pull out of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Yeah. You know, I’ve been talking to my colleagues who’ve been covering elections in other parts of the Bay area. And and one thing that seems sort of interesting about Alameda County is Alameda County is proving to be pretty consistent. The areas that are traditionally more conservative voted in the more moderate incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>The areas that are more progressive are leaning towards more progressive candidates like Nikki Fortunato Bas or even Jesse out again, who, you know, in that race perhaps might appear more moderate, but really in and of himself is a very progressive candidate. So, you know, I think this shift that we’re seeing in San Francisco towards more moderate measures that are being passed, we’re not really seeing that in Alameda County quite yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So do you have any, you know, takeaways from the results we’ve talked about here, especially going into November?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>You know, I think as I look at this election, one thing that I’m seeing that’s really standing out to me is the low voter turnout. That is a problem. I think the county wants residents to participate in the election process. And if that’s not happening, to some extent, that’s a failure of the county to make this accessible, to make sure people know that this is happening and to make sure voters feel educated about the issues on the ballot, so that when they go into the ballot box, they feel empowered and not confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>So I think that there’s space for growth here in Alameda County has been inching towards that with this election commission. But I think a major takeaway is that there’s a lot to be done in Alameda County to ensure voters come out, and also to ensure that the votes are turned out quickly. For a lot of voters, it’s very confusing when we have, you know, initial results that are reported out the night or the day after. And then sometimes those changed dramatically because the vote count can take so long. And Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well. Annelise. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was KQED reporter Annelise Finney. There are, of course, so many other election results that we haven’t had time to get to. Everything from Lateefah Simon finishing first in the race for Barbara Lee’s old House seat to a sales tax in Sonoma County to fund fire protection. If you want to keep checking out those results, visit kqed.org/election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This conversation was cut down and edited by our intern, Ellie Prickett-Morgan. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored it and added the tape. Music courtesy of Audio Network. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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And that’s exactly why we’re not letting up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today we talk with KQED reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez about San Francisco’s election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So mayor London Breed authored propositions C, E, and F. See is a it’s an exemption from transfer tax so that officers can be converted into housing. Proposition E would expand police powers and prop F would drug screen and offer drug treatment for welfare users. And these more moderate conservative policies are on their way to passing. We haven’t seen every ballot counted, but by all intents and purposes, there’s really no way they’re going to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But these are all authored by London Breed, and I wouldn’t say people went to the ballot box and said, you know what? I really love that London Breed. I’m going to vote on all these things because the mayor authored them. That’s that’s probably not what happened. The reason we know that is because London Breed is really sagging in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>But what it does mean is that London Breed will be able to tout her successes every day from now leading into the November election. Also on election night, we saw, the moderate Democrat slate on the Democratic Party board, also called the Democratic County Central Committee do well. Proposition A, a $300 million housing bond, also passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>That’s a joint effort by the progressives and the moderates. The one exception to the whole law and order result in Tuesday’s election is the judges, in San Francisco Superior Court race. The incumbent judges actually won against challengers who are touting a tough on crime message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Are you surprised by these results, Joe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I’m not surprised by these results. We had a very low turnout because we had fewer people come out. The fewer people vote, the more often they’re what we think of as consistent voters. And consistent voters are more often white. They’re more often homeowners. There are more often business owners, people who get taxed. And those people tend to vote for law and order measures. And so when we saw that the turnout was going to be low, it became a lot clearer which propositions would succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, remind us, Joe, what props E and F will actually do, and how big of a change will this be for San Francisco residents? Starting with prop E, which we’ve talked about in a previous episode, contains a lot of changes to policing in San Francisco. What’s about to change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Proposition E is basically a grab bag of policies that affect police work that Mayor London Breed: put into one measure. It’s four prongs. It’s allowing more police surveillance powers without having to go for checks with the Board of Supervisors or approvals. It’s being able to do more vehicle pursuits. Used to be vehicle pursuits, really, only if life was in danger or someone did a violent crime. Now it’s essentially petty theft can urge up vehicle pursuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>It’s reduce paperwork for officers, which also on the flip side means less oversight because they have to file fewer reports. And the last prong is adding a very lengthy public process in every police precinct in San Francisco before the police commission can pass a new policy. And that essentially weakens the police commission and gives a lot of authority to the police department, because the chief can veto that lengthy public process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So essentially, if the chief likes a policy, he can veto that public process or pass it. Go ahead. And if the chief doesn’t like the policy from the oversight commission, then he can just be like, oh, well, why don’t you do public outreach before you pass this and really draw it out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, all those sound really about loosening restrictions on police, sort of broadening their powers. Right? Let’s move on then, to prop F, which is about drug testing and welfare. What will this do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Every county under state law is required to administer some amount of welfare. San Francisco gives about $700 a month to about 5000 individuals. You get $700 a month unless you’re homeless, in which case you get $100 a month and a housing voucher that’s worth about 600. Now, under prop F, if someone in county government or city government suspects that you’re using drugs and you are a recipient of Cap funding welfare funding, then they can ask that you be drug screened and go to drug treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>And if you don’t, then they can take away your welfare money. That could lead you to losing your housing, because now they have said that they can try to pay for housing while they wait for you to get back on the program, and that if they are the ones who administer your housing or give you housing, then they will not evict you for some amount of time. And it’s up to the human service agencies, but you’re really leaving a lot to the good graces of that program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Joe, how does London Breed: talk about. Props E and F now that they’ve passed, how do they fit into her vision for the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She talked about this at her state of the city address on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>And I hear your concerns. And that’s exactly why we’re not letting up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong> Really London Breed has tried to couch these measures as part of her aggressive tactics to ensure safety for folks to curbing drug use on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>Yes, offering people services is critical, but frankly, we must compel some people into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We to giving police more powers to tackle crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>We will be installing new public safety cameras in high crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break ins and other crimes, and changing police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She said she is tired of negativity, said San Francisco is a dragon spreading its wings, coming back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>I believe the past is a precursor to our rise. This is the year of the dragon and we will soar again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>She is facing a tough reelection right now from the right word flank of the Democratic Party. And soon, also, it’s rumored, the leftward flank of her Democratic Party from Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is rumored to be running for mayor. And we’ve seen that expressed in polls in a San Francisco Chronicle poll. London Breed: had 75% unfavorable. A lot of people don’t believe that she is bringing the city in the right direction right now, and she’s been honestly getting attacked on all sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how progressives reacted to the election results and why tech has gotten more involved in local elections. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What reactions did you see from more progressives in San Francisco in this, the aftermath of the primary?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>So I was out on election night, right? My whole thing, election night is going to these different parties where people are celebrating or drinking away their sorrows on the way the election went. And I tried to go to the progressives election night party, which was at this little food truck court across from the Costco there. And that thing had disbanded before I even got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>They had lost so badly, both on the Democratic Party board slate, where they had the moderates picked up at least 20 seats. I mean, the votes are still being counted, so we won’t know exactly how many seats until it’s done, but also on prop CNF. So I went to another bar on 16th Street and found some progressives still there celebrating Prop Day. And they were they were down in the doldrums, clinking glasses and kind of like staring into their beers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>The progressives, what they did not do is articulate a different vision. Think of it this way. Props E and F are an expression of Mayor London Breed’s vision on what a safe city should be. There is no counter proposition that says this is what progressives think public safety should be. This is our ethos. And that is their challenge going into November, when they do eventually run a candidate against Mayor London Breed:.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I want to talk about Joe. The amount of money that went into this race and what it says about what’s coming this November. Who are the biggest spenders in this primary and where did that money go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>There’s a number of groups. And we saw this data, from Michigan local and also, gathered by the Guardian who did a story on this. But there’s a network of groups like grow SF and together SF that, since I would say about 2020, have pulled more than $26 million to influence local elections. And to give you context in that these are small local races that sometimes didn’t see more than a few hundred thousand dollars spent on them, and now you’re seeing millions being poured into these races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Imagine how much money is going to come into the mayor’s races and other races for supervisor in San Francisco in November. It is incredible. A lot of that money from those groups ultimately comes from tech CEOs and angel investors like Ron Conway, who, made early bets on big tech companies like Facebook, like ripple, CEO Chris Larsen, like Gary Tan from Y Combinator, who is on the board of grow SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why do you think all of these people in tech are getting so involved in local politics right now? What do these groups want?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Yeah. You know when when you go to these groups and you say, well, what’s the deal with all this money you’re spending? Why are you spending so much money to upend local politics? Well, a lot of them will tell you they want is they just want a city that works. They want a city that is safe. They want a city where their kids can go to school. But that’s not all we’ve seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We’ve seen Republican money make its way into San Francisco during the recall of Chesa Boudin. We’ve seen it make its way into San Francisco in the recall of Board of Education members. There are some allies, ships happening very high level, where Republicans have gotten involved because they want to tarnish Democratic cities as a means to weakening Democrats on a national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you think these results tell us about how the next eight months are going to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>I think these results are not indicative of everything we’re going to see in November, but they’re indicative of what could happen. And I’ll give you an example of why, in the case of the propositions, as I said earlier, the progressives didn’t articulate a counter message. What is their vision of public safety? But in one race, we actually saw a battle of ideas, and that is in the judicial race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Incumbent judges Michael Bigot, a ten year judge on Gavin Newsom’s care courts now, and Patrick Thompson, these two incumbent judges, were defending their seats against tough on crime touting candidates Jean Roland and Albert Chip Zucker. And these candidates were making many of the same arguments that we heard for props. E.f. The streets aren’t safe. We need a change. Judges are letting criminals out into the streets. Michael beggar right now is leading over his over the challenger, Chip Zucker, by 20 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>We see ourselves moving slightly rightward in some of our policies, but that strain of rightward ness has always been in San Francisco. There have been, Republicans and centrists to right leaning Democrats in San Francisco since the city’s inception. We had a police chief was mayor Frank Jordan in the 1990s. This is this is not a new element in San Francisco. But what happens is that in the ebb and flow of power, sometimes that element researches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right, Joe, thank you so much for joining us. I know it’s been a long week, so I hope you get some rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: \u003c/strong>Thank you. Yeah, I got a nap with my name on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, a reporter for KQED. This 35 minute conversation with Joe was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Monticello is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of Bluedot Sessions and First Con Music. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. You can support our work by becoming a KQED member. Just go to KQED.org/Donate. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening to the Bay. Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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NPR’s Planet Money dubbed it “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin\">inflation’s devious cousin\u003c/a>.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"President Joe Biden\"]‘The snack companies think you won’t notice if they change the size of the bag and put a hell of a lot fewer — same size bag — put fewer chips in it.’[/pullquote]Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1147894382/walmart-price-inflation-supply-chain-economy\">NPR’s research found\u003c/a>, for instance, Dove shrunk its soap and Tide shrunk its laundry detergent jugs, while both also slightly raised prices. 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This could be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184027892/china-tariffs-biden-trump\">tariffs on Chinese imports\u003c/a> put by the Trump administration, the soaring price of shipping during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1054134188/stuck-in-transit-the-supply-chain-in-disarray\">supply-chain crisis\u003c/a>, higher wages to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1017985033/help-wanted-where-are-the-workers\">attract workers\u003c/a> or bad harvests of specific ingredients \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230120289/valentines-day-chocolate-cocoa-prices\">like cocoa\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cookie Monster, Sesame Street\"]‘Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller.’[/pullquote]Shrinkflation feels particularly painful at a time of high food prices overall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/16/1219574403/economy-inflation-prices-wages-disinflation-deflation-interest-rates\">Inflation has cooled significantly\u003c/a>, and wages have been climbing faster than prices. But prices are still inching up after inflation hit a four-decade high in 2022. Workers’ buying power has yet to fully recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And prices get sticky. Historically, it takes longer for companies to lower price tags after hiking them. For months, consumer goods companies found shoppers grumbling about higher prices, sure, but still buying stuff nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/24/1233702523/checking-in-on-the-economy-ahead-of-election-season\">some are starting to lose business\u003c/a> as more people have begun to walk away from pricier goods. More retailers are talking about “deflation” — reducing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrats blame ‘greedflation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The White House this week launched a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/07/fact-sheet-president-biden-is-taking-action-to-lower-costs-for-families-and-fight-corporate-rip-offs/\">strike force\u003c/a>” on pricing, which aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1235955054/biden-junk-fees-state-of-the-union\">junk fees\u003c/a>, credit card \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235973211/credit-card-late-fees-cap-junk-fees-cfpb\">late fees\u003c/a> and many \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/07/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-plan-to-lower-housing-costs-for-working-families/#:~:text=As%20part%20of%20the%20Strike,deceptive%2C%20or%20fraudulent%20business%20practices.\">other costs\u003c/a>. Biden is attempting to sway voters, who keep telling pollsters they disapprove of his handling of the economy despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1228587247/jobs-labor-employers-economy-inflation-interest-rates\">strong job gains\u003c/a>, low unemployment and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1228587247/jobs-labor-employers-economy-inflation-interest-rates\">faster GDP growth\u003c/a> than many forecasters had expected. [aside label='More on Politics' tag='politics']Bringing up shrinkflation in the State of the Union, the president once again backed \u003ca href=\"https://www.casey.senate.gov/news/releases/stop-shrinkflation-casey-introduces-legislation-to-crack-down-on-big-corporations-shrinking-products-without-reducing-prices\">a bill by Sen. 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