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Final maps, which set in place district boundaries for the next decade, will need to be approved by Dec. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some takeaways on how the commission's lines could affect the political representation of Bay Area residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458651754443120641\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Congressional musical chairs \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The volunteer commissioners are responsible for drawing district lines that contain equal populations, protect the political voice of communities of color and language minorities and take into account \"communities of interest,\" such as cities, neighborhoods, demographic groups\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>or clusters of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895797\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/110521-Redistricting-Election-MG-CM-01-1020x765.jpg\"]They do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> consider the current location (or feelings) of incumbent politicians. 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Some early map ideas even paired the region with cities in the Central Valley like Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2021/11/02/tri-valley-mayors-highlight-regional-collaboration-during-annual-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wishes of the region's five mayors to remain in one district\u003c/a>, the draft maps put Pleasanton and Livermore in a separate Assembly and Congressional district from Danville, San Ramon and parts of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Tri-Valley advocates pushing for a change here: A representative with the group Bay Rising, which works to build political power for communities of color, asked the commission on Wednesday to separate the city of Hayward from the \"much richer, much whiter\" Tri-Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896022 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1285\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg 1285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1285px) 100vw, 1285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposed state Assembly district stretches north from Napa to more conservative counties. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Any chance for Republicans to represent the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No Republican has represented a piece of the Bay Area in Congress or the state legislature since 2018, when Tri-Valley Assemblymember Catharine Baker lost her bid for a third term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's any hope for Republicans in these new draft maps, it's in a proposed Assembly district which stretches more than 150 miles north from American Canyon, in southern Napa County, to conservative Tehama County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of population growth in the northern regions of the state forced the commission to pull district lines far south in order to loop in the required population. Despite this district's inclusion of red counties like Tehama, Colusa and Glenn, Democrats would still have a 16% voter registration advantage thanks to more liberal voters in Yolo and Napa counties being included, according to an analysis by the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>More community input 'really critical' \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As they neared their deadline to complete these draft maps, redistricting commissioners admitted they simply ran out of time to enact some changes they had been mulling over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, commissioners labored to combine Vallejo and Richmond into a state Assembly district (as they had done in the congressional maps) — citing a desire to unite historically Black communities and workers who commute daily up or down I-80, giving them a stronger say in a single district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a lengthy debate, the commissioners couldn't draw a district within the required population limits, and decided to table the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be an idea the commission revisits after hearing public feedback, which starts next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By approving these maps and going forward, it gives us 14 days to get community input from communities before we hit the holidays and I think that's really critical,\" said Commissioner Pedro Toledo.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A congressional map that splits Long Beach into two. The city of Fresno divided into three congressional districts. A state Assembly district in the Central Valley that could reduce the power of Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are only a few of the potential flash points as California’s independent redistricting commission slogs through its third week of working on early drafts of new legislative and congressional districts for the 2022 election and beyond — and as it prepares to release its official preliminary maps today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894003\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Bay_Area_by_Sentinel-2_2019-03-11_small_version-1020x720.jpeg\"]But redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere, or could even mean blowing up entire statewide maps. And the pressure is on because commissioners face a compressed timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their foremost duty is to ensure every district in the state — 52 for Congress, 80 for state Assembly and 40 for state Senate — has about the same number of people. That’s about 761,000 Californians in each congressional district, about 988,000 in state Senate districts and 494,000 in Assembly districts. That can get complicated fast while trying to meet other requirements, such as not diluting any ethnic group’s vote and keeping districts geographically compact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even more complex this year because California is losing a congressional seat for the first time ever — and much of the tension centers on those maps. A series of marathon and at-times confusing meetings isn’t helping matters, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners have been discussing rounds of regional “visualizations” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/11_7_9_21\">hypothetical scenarios based on their direction to the line-drawers\u003c/a> — while trying to incorporate some of the public input they’ve been receiving along the way, and in some cases going back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of visualizations, for example, two longtime Black members of Congress were put in the same district in Los Angeles. That was fixed in the second round, but had ripple effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel is reviewing \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1636074960/Agenda_-_Line_Drawing_Meetings_11.7-11.9.21_Final.pdf?1636074960\">the fourth set of these visualizations\u003c/a>, and worked late into Tuesday night. But there were apparently so many issues with \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQLTaP34jpKCHNLrR1rIcLur0WAB3Tja/view\">the third set of congressional districts\u003c/a> — where the biggest changes from existing districts are expected — that after a closed session Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457470063573749761?s=20\">the commission removed them from its website\u003c/a> until Monday.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']Redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“Basically what we’re saying is, ‘The map is a hot mess.’ Is that correct?” Commissioner Sara Sadhwani said at Monday’s meeting, referring to congressional districts in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the commission still plans to release its \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458227353285324804?s=20\">official preliminary maps on Wednesday\u003c/a>, ahead of a \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1635536062/Agenda_11.15.21_%28DRAFT_-1%29_%281%29.pdf?1635536062\">November 15 deadline\u003c/a>. After that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">no changes can be made for two weeks as public comment meetings start November 17\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there could still be significant changes between the preliminary maps and the final maps, which are due to the secretary of state’s office by a court-ordered deadline of December 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1456381250441134089\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially given the condensed timeline, the preliminary maps won’t be perfect, said Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission. The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1458206538867175425?s=20\">commission is already acknowledging\u003c/a> that some districts still need a lot of work and that it will be doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">a lot of line-drawing next month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fredy Ceja, communications director, California Citizens Redistricting Commission\"]‘You get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west.’[/pullquote]“The commissioners have been very, very responsive to the community. So if the community has said, ‘Hey, we want to stay lumped together with this community,’ they try to make that a possibility,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course, you get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west. They’re trying to weigh those conflicting opinions. But they’ve done it with a smile on their face nonetheless. I think they’re pretty excited to be at this juncture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t as thrilled — either by the potential districts or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457580057010978822?s=20\">the convoluted deliberations so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Partisan jockeying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the mapping being done by an independent commission with a mix of Republicans, Democrats and independent members, the changes in districts still have ramifications for both parties — and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">hidden partisanship that continues to creep in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895368\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\"]And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Kevin McCarthy — a Bakersfield Republican who hopes to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as House speaker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255545466.html\">claimed that any Democrat who won in 2020 by 16 percentage points or less would have to fight for their seat next year\u003c/a>. That would include six California House Democrats. But McCarthy, himself, could have a mostly new district, based on the latest draft maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California\">Republicans hold 11 of California’s 53 U.S. House seats\u003c/a>. The second round of maps suggested nine seats with an advantage for Republicans, according to an analysis by California Target Book, a political data firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third set of lines showed nine districts where incumbents — some Republicans including Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as Democrats including Rep. Mike Levin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/congressional.pdf\">could face more competitive races, based on voter registration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter check-in tent at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Diluting voting power?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After population numbers, the second highest criteria is that the district lines must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act — specifically, ensuring that people of color have equal access to electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the initial scenarios, observers quickly flagged that longtime Reps. Karen Bass and Maxine Waters — both prominent Black Democrats — ended up in the same Los Angeles district. While that potential conflict was lessened because Bass is already running for Los Angeles mayor, the draft map resulted in only one L.A. district with at least 30% African American voters and likely to elect a Black representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That criticism was resolved in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/myBlackCounts/status/1455699739651969027?s=20\">the second round of visualizations\u003c/a> released and debated last week, which included two LA districts with at least 30% Black voter registration. The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. But in the latest maps, they’re still together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County residents also called in with their opposition to the city of Fresno being split into three different congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Defining community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the cascading effects of preserving two Los Angeles congressional districts with sizable Black populations was breaking up Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners noted the community input they heard from a broad swath of people in Long Beach, including the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457461426159697920?s=20\">LGBTQ+\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://smallpdf.com/file#s=0c5a5a4e-768b-45d2-91b3-d69c04149535\">Latinx communities\u003c/a>, asking to unite the city in one congressional district. Now, Democrats Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Diaz Barragán represent parts of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this week’s maps, Long Beach was split into two congressional districts. While commissioners acknowledged that wasn’t ideal, they said they wanted to be fair to other cities that were divided, including Irvine and other smaller cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If commissioners want to preserve the districts in Los Angeles and keep Long Beach together, however, they may need to cross county lines, something they initially tried to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Long Beach could have a domino effect on the Vietnamese community in Orange County, which, despite residents’ calls to be grouped together as a community of interest, is primarily in a congressional district that divides Westminster and Garden Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another flash point is San Diego, where commissioners on Monday tried to create more Voting Rights Act districts with at least 50% voting-age populations of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-07/state-redistricting\">including one to preserve a Latino voting bloc in the southern part of the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='politics']This week’s discussions did yield wins for some groups. The commission was able to keep the Hmong community in Central California together. Across congressional and legislative maps, most Native American tribes also were kept together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the lines could change, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457401281274777601?s=20\">Equality California, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group, hailed the congressional districts in San Francisco\u003c/a> for keeping the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good draft for reactions,” commission Chair Trena Turner said Monday night after completing the latest round of congressional maps. “We feel better about the reactions.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. 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"content": "\u003cp>Elections officials announced Tuesday that a recall election against San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin will appear on the ballot in June, giving residents a chance to keep or oust the former public defender who has been a prosecutor for less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say Boudin, 41, has failed to prosecute repeat offenders, allowing them to commit more crimes that have contributed to the deterioration of the city’s quality of life. His supporters say his progressive policies of ending mass incarceration and promoting restorative justice are what San Francisco wants and that he’s being blamed unfairly for problems that have vexed the city for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894065\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-1020x765.jpeg\"]The recall effort was widely expected to make the ballot after backers submitted about 80,000 signatures in October, more than the 51,325 required. 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She was a champion for children, seniors, and those struggling to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mia Bonta, state Assemblymember\"]‘Supervisor Chan was a fierce warrior for children and families and elders, and what I will remember most about her is just the way that she was [so] no-nonsense, get it done, get it done right.’[/pullquote]Chan, 72, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895041/alameda-county-supervisor-wilma-chan-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle\">died last Wednesday after being struck by a car \u003c/a>while walking her dog across the street in the city of Alameda, where she lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political trailblazer, Chan in 1994 became the first Asian American to win a seat on the county Board of Supervisors, and later became the first Asian American majority leader of the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left Sacramento in 2006 after serving three terms in the Assembly, and four years later ran successfully again for her original seat on the Board of Supervisors, where she served until her death. 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Michelle Wu defeated fellow Democratic City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, a self-described first-generation Arab-Polish American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR’s Vanessa Romo reports, “For many, the race came down to competing visions of the future, with Essaibi George’s version cast as more of the old guard and Wu’s perceived as new-school Boston.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051720391/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-elected\">Here are some of Wu’s priorities.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pittsburgh elects Ed Gainey, the city’s first Black mayor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-984401086-scaled-e1635975938383.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-984401086-scaled-e1635975938383.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a suit and glasses stands at a podium with a microphone with several people behind and to the side of him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. 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It was a lopsided victory for Adams, a former state senator who is currently the Brooklyn borough president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/eric-adams-victory-nyc-mayor\">“I am you,” he told supporters Tuesday night\u003c/a>, according to the Gothamist website. “For a young man from south Jamaica Queens that grew up with all the challenges that New Yorkers face, it is not just a victory over adversity, it is a vindication of faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams ran on a promise to improve public safety and fight gun violence and to boost the efficiency of the city’s police force. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051678758/new-york-elects-eric-adams-as-its-second-black-mayor\">Read more on the New York City mayor’s race here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cincinnati elects Aftab Pureval as its first Asian American mayor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 39-year-old Democrat started his political career six years ago as an outsider, member station WVXU reports, and last night, he defeated 82-year-old opponent David Mann, “a longtime pillar of Cincinnati City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tibetan-Indian son of immigrants, Aftab Pureval earned his law degree and worked for Procter & Gamble before running successfully for Hamilton County Clerk of Courts in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is the fourth person to be elected under the direct election of the mayor system, in a race that saw remarkably low turnout at 24%. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2021-11-02/aftab-pureval-elected-cincinnati-mayor\">WVXU has more on Pureval.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Winsome Sears will be Virginia’s first Black woman lieutenant governor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/gettyimages-1350990431_wide-adac0d4d89ed057f794e2b4fa9319b9c1018a150-scaled-e1635975986599.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/gettyimages-1350990431_wide-adac0d4d89ed057f794e2b4fa9319b9c1018a150-scaled-e1635975986599.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a red dress and jacket extends her arms with the American flag behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Winsome Sears takes the stage during an election night rally at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on Nov. 2, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s the highest office a woman of color has won in Virginia’s history. Winsome Sears, a Republican, won a race that highlighted diversity: Her Democratic opponent, Hala Ayala, comes from a family with Salvadoran, North African, Irish and Lebanese heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-ed2110eca8b5e267a2d4b55aa02a4f99\">Just 10 Black women in the U.S. have ever held statewide office\u003c/a>,” member station \u003ca href=\"https://wamu.org/story/21/11/03/republican-winsome-sears-poised-to-win-historic-virginia-lieutenant-governor-race/\">WAMU reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you are looking at is the American dream,” Sears, a pro-Trump former Marine, said, according to WAMU. “I didn’t run to make history. I ran to leave it better than I found it … Help is on the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Abdullah Hammoud becomes the first Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Mich.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Detroit suburb boasts \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/decades-after-the-arab-problem-muslim-and-arab-americans-are-leading-political-change-in-metro-detroit\">one of the largest Arab communities\u003c/a> in the U.S., but that had never been reflected in the city’s highest office. Abdullah Hammoud, the son of Lebanese immigrants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.michiganradio.org/politics-government/2021-11-03/abdullah-hammoud-voted-first-arab-american-and-muslim-mayor-of-dearborn\">dedicated his victory speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night to “any young girls or boys who have been ridiculed for their faith or ethnicity.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waynecounty.com/elected/clerk/election-results.aspx\">Democratic state representative defeated his opponent\u003c/a>, longtime Michigan politician Gary Woronchak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tyrone Garner will be the first Black mayor of Kansas City, Kan.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his first political race, Tyrone Garner unseated one-term incumbent David Alvey in the race to lead Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County, which have a unified government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garner is a former high-ranking police officer. He retired as deputy chief in June 2019, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2021-11-02/tyrone-garner-elected-first-black-mayor-of-kansas-city-kansas\">member station KCUR\u003c/a>. His campaign focused not on getting tough on crime but on improving economic equity and public services, particularly for people in neglected neighborhoods. “I am a forward thinker that wants to be a unifying force to facilitate opportunity, equity and hope,” he told KCUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alvin Bragg is Manhattan’s new district attorney, the first Black person to hold the job\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A native of Harlem, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alvinbragg.com/about\">Alvin Bragg\u003c/a> was most recently the chief deputy attorney general of New York State. He’ll lead an office that’s currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998231343/criminal-investigation-into-the-trump-organization-in-new-york-what-we-know\">pursuing an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business practices\u003c/a>. Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced earlier this year that he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976389679/manhattan-da-cyrus-vance-jr-who-is-investigating-trump-wont-seek-reelection\">would not seek a fourth term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bruce Harrell seizes a big lead in Seattle’s mayoral race\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bruce Harrell would be the first Asian American and the second Black person to lead Seattle. All of the city’s votes are not yet counted, but Harrell has 65% of the tally as of early Wednesday morning, compared with 35% for Lorena González, who would become the city’s first Latina mayor if she manages to stage a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrell is a moderate who took González, a progressive, to task over her support for defunding the police. “I would say to the abolitionists and the defunders that we need to drive outcomes and invest in outcomes that we want,” he said, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-did-not-earn-its-reputation-as-a-progressive-city-on-election-night\">member station KUOW\u003c/a>. “We want culturally competent, deescalating officers who take their oath of office in such a way that they will protect all communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be days before Seattle’s vote is final, in part because ballots can still be mailed on Election Day. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 7:01 a.m. PT\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>People of color made history on election night in 2021, bringing diversity to leadership roles in some of America’s biggest cities, and in some states as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston, New York, Pittsburgh and Dearborn, Mich., were among the places that a majority of voters embraced candidates of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of some of the most high-profile wins — a list that we’ll be updating as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1051713890/election-analysis-virginia-new-jersey-democrats\">results continue to come in\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Michelle Wu is the first woman and person of color to be elected Boston’s mayor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city councilor and daughter of Taiwanese immigrants broke Boston’s 199-year streak of white, male city leaders. Michelle Wu defeated fellow Democratic City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, a self-described first-generation Arab-Polish American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR’s Vanessa Romo reports, “For many, the race came down to competing visions of the future, with Essaibi George’s version cast as more of the old guard and Wu’s perceived as new-school Boston.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051720391/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-elected\">Here are some of Wu’s priorities.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pittsburgh elects Ed Gainey, the city’s first Black mayor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-984401086-scaled-e1635975938383.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-984401086-scaled-e1635975938383.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a suit and glasses stands at a podium with a microphone with several people behind and to the side of him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Ed Gainey speaks during a protest calling for justice for Antwon Rose II on June 26, 2018, in downtown Pittsburgh. \u003ccite>(Justin Merriman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The western Pennsylvania metropolis, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/pittsburghcitypennsylvania\">23% Black\u003c/a>, largely \u003ca href=\"https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/PA/Allegheny/111176/web.278093/#/summary?category=C_4&subcategory=C_4_8\">favored the Democrat Ed Gainey\u003c/a> over Republican challenger Tony Moreno. \u003ca href=\"https://gaineyformayor.com/meet-ed/\">Gainey was born and raised by a single mother in Pittsburgh\u003c/a>, where he lived in public housing and later found a career in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how people have talked about Pittsburgh, how siloed it is, how segregated it is,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2021-11-02/you-proved-that-we-can-have-a-city-for-all-gainey-becomes-pittsburghs-first-black-mayor\">Gainey told supporters\u003c/a> on Tuesday, according to NPR member station WESA. “But today, you changed that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Eric Adams becomes the second Black man to lead New York City\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>New Yorkers chose Democrat Eric Adams, a former police department captain, as the city’s second Black mayor. It was a lopsided victory for Adams, a former state senator who is currently the Brooklyn borough president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/eric-adams-victory-nyc-mayor\">“I am you,” he told supporters Tuesday night\u003c/a>, according to the Gothamist website. “For a young man from south Jamaica Queens that grew up with all the challenges that New Yorkers face, it is not just a victory over adversity, it is a vindication of faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams ran on a promise to improve public safety and fight gun violence and to boost the efficiency of the city’s police force. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051678758/new-york-elects-eric-adams-as-its-second-black-mayor\">Read more on the New York City mayor’s race here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cincinnati elects Aftab Pureval as its first Asian American mayor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 39-year-old Democrat started his political career six years ago as an outsider, member station WVXU reports, and last night, he defeated 82-year-old opponent David Mann, “a longtime pillar of Cincinnati City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tibetan-Indian son of immigrants, Aftab Pureval earned his law degree and worked for Procter & Gamble before running successfully for Hamilton County Clerk of Courts in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is the fourth person to be elected under the direct election of the mayor system, in a race that saw remarkably low turnout at 24%. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2021-11-02/aftab-pureval-elected-cincinnati-mayor\">WVXU has more on Pureval.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Winsome Sears will be Virginia’s first Black woman lieutenant governor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/gettyimages-1350990431_wide-adac0d4d89ed057f794e2b4fa9319b9c1018a150-scaled-e1635975986599.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/gettyimages-1350990431_wide-adac0d4d89ed057f794e2b4fa9319b9c1018a150-scaled-e1635975986599.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a red dress and jacket extends her arms with the American flag behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Winsome Sears takes the stage during an election night rally at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on Nov. 2, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s the highest office a woman of color has won in Virginia’s history. Winsome Sears, a Republican, won a race that highlighted diversity: Her Democratic opponent, Hala Ayala, comes from a family with Salvadoran, North African, Irish and Lebanese heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-ed2110eca8b5e267a2d4b55aa02a4f99\">Just 10 Black women in the U.S. have ever held statewide office\u003c/a>,” member station \u003ca href=\"https://wamu.org/story/21/11/03/republican-winsome-sears-poised-to-win-historic-virginia-lieutenant-governor-race/\">WAMU reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you are looking at is the American dream,” Sears, a pro-Trump former Marine, said, according to WAMU. “I didn’t run to make history. I ran to leave it better than I found it … Help is on the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Abdullah Hammoud becomes the first Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Mich.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Detroit suburb boasts \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/decades-after-the-arab-problem-muslim-and-arab-americans-are-leading-political-change-in-metro-detroit\">one of the largest Arab communities\u003c/a> in the U.S., but that had never been reflected in the city’s highest office. Abdullah Hammoud, the son of Lebanese immigrants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.michiganradio.org/politics-government/2021-11-03/abdullah-hammoud-voted-first-arab-american-and-muslim-mayor-of-dearborn\">dedicated his victory speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night to “any young girls or boys who have been ridiculed for their faith or ethnicity.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waynecounty.com/elected/clerk/election-results.aspx\">Democratic state representative defeated his opponent\u003c/a>, longtime Michigan politician Gary Woronchak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tyrone Garner will be the first Black mayor of Kansas City, Kan.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his first political race, Tyrone Garner unseated one-term incumbent David Alvey in the race to lead Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County, which have a unified government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garner is a former high-ranking police officer. He retired as deputy chief in June 2019, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2021-11-02/tyrone-garner-elected-first-black-mayor-of-kansas-city-kansas\">member station KCUR\u003c/a>. His campaign focused not on getting tough on crime but on improving economic equity and public services, particularly for people in neglected neighborhoods. “I am a forward thinker that wants to be a unifying force to facilitate opportunity, equity and hope,” he told KCUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alvin Bragg is Manhattan’s new district attorney, the first Black person to hold the job\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A native of Harlem, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alvinbragg.com/about\">Alvin Bragg\u003c/a> was most recently the chief deputy attorney general of New York State. He’ll lead an office that’s currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998231343/criminal-investigation-into-the-trump-organization-in-new-york-what-we-know\">pursuing an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business practices\u003c/a>. Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced earlier this year that he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976389679/manhattan-da-cyrus-vance-jr-who-is-investigating-trump-wont-seek-reelection\">would not seek a fourth term\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bruce Harrell seizes a big lead in Seattle’s mayoral race\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bruce Harrell would be the first Asian American and the second Black person to lead Seattle. All of the city’s votes are not yet counted, but Harrell has 65% of the tally as of early Wednesday morning, compared with 35% for Lorena González, who would become the city’s first Latina mayor if she manages to stage a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrell is a moderate who took González, a progressive, to task over her support for defunding the police. “I would say to the abolitionists and the defunders that we need to drive outcomes and invest in outcomes that we want,” he said, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-did-not-earn-its-reputation-as-a-progressive-city-on-election-night\">member station KUOW\u003c/a>. “We want culturally competent, deescalating officers who take their oath of office in such a way that they will protect all communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be days before Seattle’s vote is final, in part because ballots can still be mailed on Election Day. In recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/bruce-harrell-is-leading-m-lorena-gonzalez-in-seattle-mayor-race/\">no candidate has surmounted a 30% early deficit\u003c/a>, The Seattle Times says. KUOW says, “Seattle’s election night reflected a regional and national trend, of liberals getting trounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+elections+across+the+country%2C+candidates+of+color+made+history+Tuesday+night&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board has spent the past year in the national spotlight, garnering the attention of pundits from Fox News to the New York Times editorial pages for its controversial decisions on distance learning, school renamings and admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">The campaign to recall board members\u003c/a> Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, however, has relied on a donor network close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED analysis of campaign filings for the election, slated for Feb. 15, found that at least 76% of the pro-recall cash raised so far is coming from donors in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall, who haven’t started fundraising, will likely seek to portray the campaign as spearheaded by forces outside of the city — as has been the case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049078199/a-look-at-the-groups-supporting-school-board-protesters-nationwide\">a number of other recent school board protests across the country \u003c/a>— said Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, who reviewed KQED’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suspect they'll still do that message, but I do think that so far the fact that most of the donations ... are coming from people in San Francisco who are individuals will at least be a counterargument to that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Local networks'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the campaign finance reports filed with the city do reveal some potential political vulnerabilities for the recall campaign: Its top donors are wealthy venture capitalists who could serve as prime foils for the unions likely to bankroll the imperiled board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recall campaign, at least initially, appears to be more of an “amateur affair” than an orchestrated big money takeover of San Francisco schools, McDaniel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't mean that in an insulting way. There's not maybe a ton of political experience there,” he added. “But what that seems to be is that they're turning to their local networks. ... That's where they're getting their contributions from so far. I suspect that's pretty politically smart as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $581,240 raised by the recall committee through the end of September, at least $442,834 (76%) came from donors in the city, compared to at least $76,435 (13%) from outside of San Francisco. The remaining 11% of contributions were under $100 — classified as unitemized — meaning the donors did not have to disclose their names or location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1531\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png 1531w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-800x549.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-1020x700.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-160x110.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBy comparison, some 63% of the donations made to candidates running for school board last year originated in San Francisco, and local measures on the ballot last November got 60% of their cash from city donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of donors actually are just from our community,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco public school parent who is co-chair of the recall campaign. “These are parents, teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Hack, who spent 31 years working for the San Francisco Unified School District as a teacher, principal and department supervisor, said he kicked in $75 and volunteered to gather signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've never seen a board like this one,” he said, “and I've been through, over my years in the district, many school board meetings.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-school-board\"]Hack said the controversy surrounding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">school board Commissioner Alison Collins’s tweets\u003c/a>, which included derogatory comments about Asian people, moved him to action, but he has plenty of other gripes. And while he fundamentally backed the board’s controversial effort to rename schools and overhaul the admissions policy to increase diversity at Lowell High School, he questioned the timing and handling of both initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not typically ever support recalls, but this is different,” Hack said. “There needs to be a lesson here about their ongoing behavior and refusal to listen to the stakeholders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, national press coverage of the school board's recent controversies is helping to bring in money from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Dalzell of Dover, New Hampshire, has no personal ties to the district. He said he chipped in $500 after reading about the issue this summer in The Wall Street Journal. For him, it’s ideological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years Dalzell chaired the board of a Los Angeles charter school and said he grew frustrated with the district's school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always been interested in trying to get more advantages for kids in low-income areas,” he said, “and so I view San Francisco as representative of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Venture capitalists top donor list\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the recall’s biggest donors also have a history of involvement with education policy and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top two donors, Arthur Rock and David Sacks, have each put in $49,500. Rock, a self-employed venture capitalist with a record of funding education-related causes, has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee. Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist who runs Craft Ventures, contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and recently hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the top 10 contributors so far to the SF school board recall campaign — all of whom have given at least $10,000 — six identified as partners or investors at venture capital firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal bar chart showing top 10 donors to SF school board recall.\" width=\"1540\" height=\"915\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905147\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png 1540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-800x475.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nIn his campaign against the gubernatorial recall earlier this year, Newsom frequently invoked the donors of the campaign to oust him (including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and the Republican National Committee) as he attempted to tar the effort as out of step with the majority of California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the three school board members facing removal could point to the recall’s top donors as symbols of the city’s financial elite attempting to strong-arm a local election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it tells me is that so many of the people who live in San Francisco who are wealthy happen to come from that world,” McDaniel said. “I do think that's a potential vulnerability in terms of a political message. But right now, it does not feel like a very credible one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But venture capitalists aren’t the only big spenders. The Chinese American Democratic Club of San Francisco kicked in $10,000. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcadc.org/letter_to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CADC opposed the change to the Lowell admissions policy\u003c/a>, but CADC Education Committee Chair Seeyew Mo says the group's decision to donate was solely prompted by Collins's tweets.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about a policy disagreement in terms of Commissioner Alison Collins. This is about rooting out anti-Asian sentiment and ideology from public education,” Mo said, pointing out that many CADC members volunteered to collect signatures to recall Collins. “A lot of the grassroots movement that you heard about, a lot of them are Chinese Americans who have not been politically active until this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CADC will announce its position on the recall of Lopez and Moliga after holding a membership vote, Mo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group called San Francisco Common Sense Voter Guide, a committee supporting the recall of SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin, contributed $9,000 to the school board recall. That committee receives much of its funding from another political group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which is funded by a handful of wealthy San Francisco investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dropping self-imposed donation limits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially, the recall campaign placed a $99.99 cap on donations, even though there’s no legal limit on fundraising for this type of campaign. It was an attempt, leaders said, to prevent any donor from having an outsize voice in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there were practical reasons, too: Contributions under $100 don’t require record-keeping, which campaign leaders expected they’d have to do themselves and “didn’t want to screw it up,” said campaign co-chair Autumn Looijen, a San Francisco resident whose children live in Los Altos.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Larry Tramutola, political consultant\"]'This is far from a done deal. It's a lot easier collecting signatures for a recall than to recall someone. So I expect a battle royal.'[/pullquote]The self-imposed limit was later increased significantly, to $49,500, to fund paid signature gatherers. State law requires donations of $50,000 or more to be printed on the paper petitions, which Looijen said would leave less space for signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the campaign raised $61,971 in small-dollar donations (under $100). The balance between smaller and larger donations indicates strong grassroots support, said political consultant Larry Tramutola, though he added that larger donations are vital for building a campaign’s infrastructure and legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bigger contributions help you to get smaller contributions,” he added. “No one, even if they don't like the school board, is going to give $100 dollars, $200, if they feel it's a losing effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recall campaign eschewed its cap on larger contributions, the stream of donations under $100, typically a good barometer for grassroots engagement, has tailed off. The campaign reported raising $49,934 in unitemized donations through May 31, and just $12,038 since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The other side\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the campaign in support of Collins, Lopez and Moliga is just beginning to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents launched their own effort last week, calling themselves NoSchoolBoardRecall, a self-described “group of parents, educators, and concerned SF residents who care about the needs of our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s teachers union, United Educators of San Francisco, is not involved in that campaign, though it is opposed to the recall, said its president, Cassondra Curiel. Instead, union leaders have said they are currently focused on member and community education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to educate the community around why this recall is a waste of resources that should be spent on schools and is the first step on a path toward an ill-advised mayoral controlled school district,” Curiel said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel sees it as linked to the wave of recalls across the country — \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/School_board_recalls\">Ballotpedia has tracked 84 school board recall efforts\u003c/a> so far this year, the highest tally on record. Meanwhile, the California School Boards Association counts roughly 60 efforts in the state alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a political campaign committee called “Stop the Recall of Faauuga Moliga” filed with the city, an indication that the embattled board members may end up raising money separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Tramutola said, unions will provide the big money against the recall. And he said the local teachers union will likely flex its influence with the city’s Democratic clubs, which hold major sway with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the recall on the ballot, he said, the real fundraising will begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is far from a done deal. It's a lot easier collecting signatures for a recall than to recall someone,” he said. “So I expect a battle royal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s future political lines are being drawn and debated in a once-in-a-decade process that could strengthen political representation for the Bay Area’s growing Asian populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redistricting is being carried out by a citizen panel whose decisions are rooted in the population changes reflected in the 2020 Census. In the last decade, California’s population that identifies as “Asian alone” grew by 1.2 million (25%) including an increase from 1.6 million to 2.4 million in the nine-county Bay Area (29%). In addition, California saw a 37.9% jump in people who identified as “Asian in combination” with another race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In percentage terms, the state’s Native American population saw the largest growth (74%) of any group in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those trends could result in more districts where Asian voters are either a majority or a powerful voting bloc. That, in turn, would require candidates to prioritize the issues that unite the region’s diverse Asian communities, such as culturally specific social services and protection against anti-Asian violence — or directly lead to the election of more Asian representatives, said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But political line drawing comes with trade-offs, and the commission is sure to draw fire for the communities they chose to group and split in a series of draft maps released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Redistricting is more art than science,” said David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 850px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/SFmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894356 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/SFmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" 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also tries to keep cities, counties and self-described “communities of interest” together, and to draw the districts in compact shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state Legislature ran the district-drawing process in 2001, they prioritized the protection of their own incumbent lawmakers over uniting neighborhoods like Berryessa, a predominately Asian community in north San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That particular neighborhood got chopped up so that it was then put into four different state Assembly districts and two different state Senate districts,” remembers Richard Konda, executive director of the San José-based Asian Law Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berryessa residents and businesses were such a small voice in each of the districts that their concerns were easily overlooked by local representatives, said Konda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, members of the community brought their concerns to the new citizens’ commission, and new lines reunified Berryessa in the most heavily Asian populated Assembly, Senate and congressional districts in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, census results could push line-makers to draw more districts with a sizable share of Asian voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m thinking about the dynamics of the Bay Area, the main thing in my mind is what’s going to happen with [representation of people of color] — in particular, how is this growth in the Asian American community going to emerge?” said Eric McGhee, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut-800x917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"917\" 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the outcome of both elections and policy conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the commission must decide whether to draw districts with a majority of potential Asian voters or instead place slightly smaller shares of Asian residents into multiple districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the 17th Congressional District, represented by Democrat Ro Khanna. The South Bay seat currently includes Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, north San José, Milpitas and Fremont; almost half of the citizen voting-age population (CVAP) is Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite opposition from the AAPI & AMEMSA State Redistricting Collaborative, draft maps released this week separate the city of Fremont from the rest of the cities currently in the 17th Congressional District, resulting in two districts where the Asian CVAP is 43% and 37%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using that approach, said McGhee, “might actually get more influence overall for that group than if you put them all in one district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52163_IMG_3610-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894107 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52163_IMG_3610-qut-800x1122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52163_IMG_3610-qut-800x1122.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52163_IMG_3610-qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52163_IMG_3610-qut.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft map released by the Citizens Redistricting Commission on Oct, 26, 2021, combines cities from Gilroy to Tracy into a congressional district.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The growth of the South Bay’s Asian population, combined with the commission’s focus on grouping Latino communities in the state’s agricultural regions, also creates some interesting implications for the balance of power in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest maps, spillover population from Morgan Hill and Gilroy is grouped in a district that captures the Alameda County cities of Livermore and Sunol and then jumps across the Altamont Pass to Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove the liberal city of Tracy from the area currently represented by Democrat Rep. 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