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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update 7:18 p.m.:\u003c/strong> This article has been updated to clarify the requirements for talk show host Larry Elder to be placed on the list of certified candidates for governor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s top election official has released the list of candidates who filed to run for governor in the September recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Shirley Weber says a total of 41 people filed the paperwork needed to run for governor by the Friday afternoon deadline — far fewer than the 135 who ran in 2003, when Gov. 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If that question fails, the recall is over and Newsom remains in office, with the potential replacement candidates on the second ballot rendered irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom is recalled, then whoever on the list of potential replacements gets the most votes is the new governor of the nation’s most populous state. With numerous candidates and no clear front-runner, it’s possible the winner might get less than 25% of the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall date was set earlier this month after Republican organizers easily cleared the required 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place the proposal on the ballot. The push to oust Newsom is largely rooted in frustration with long-running school and business closures during the pandemic that overturned daily life for millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the leading Republican candidates have been campaigning for months, but no Democrat with political stature decided to run, giving Newsom what amounted to an important, incremental victory. In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was elected after voters recalled Democratic then-Gov. Gray Davis. Many believe Davis was damaged when a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, entered the race.[aside tag=\"recall\" label=\"More recall coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could also backfire. Polls have shown Newsom would beat back the recall. But should he lose in an upset, there would be no established Democrat among replacement candidates, potentially opening the way for a Republican to take the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some notable personalities, this year’s list lacks the panache of contenders in the state’s circus-like 2003 recall. Among the 135 names on the ballot that year were former child star Gary Coleman, pornographer Larry Flynt, former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and political pundit Arianna Huffington, who dropped out shortly before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls have shown many voters are ignoring this year’s contest, and there were no new candidates who emerged Saturday who appeared to have the potential to reorder the trajectory of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to requirements to run, the bar is relatively low. A candidate must be a citizen, registered or qualified to vote in California and not be convicted of felony bribery or theft of public money. Candidates must pay a filing fee of about $4,200 and submit at least 65 valid nomination signatures with their declaration of candidacy. 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The multimillionaire denies his run for office is a ploy to generate more publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Hewitt\u003c/strong>, 68, is a Riverside County supervisor. He wrote in The Orange County Register that he was entering the race because “this state no longer accommodates dreams, fosters ideas or solves problems.” He argues the state needs a new approach and, as a Libertarian, he is positioned to work with Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Ventresca\u003c/strong>, 69, is a Democrat though says he’s further to the left than Newsom and even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on some issues. “I consider Newsom a corporate, establishment, insider Democrat,” he says. Ventresca’s main campaign platform is providing free health care and education “cradle to grave” for everyone in California. He retired in 2018 from the San Francisco International Airport, where he held multiple roles, and he ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2019. He got 7% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Gallucci\u003c/strong>, 60, a Republican, is a former technology executive who is senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, California. He also runs services that provide assistance for at-risk women and children and migrants. In his tech career, he rose through the corporate ranks to become an executive vice president and general manager for software maker PeopleSoft. Oracle acquired the company for $10.3 billion in 2004. He says “the soul of our state has been lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlyn Jenner\u003c/strong>, 71, is a lifelong Republican trying to parlay her celebrity into a surprise win. She won the men’s decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, married into the Kardashian family and with them became reality TV stars, and then came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She has described herself as a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could also backfire. Polls have shown Newsom would beat back the recall. But should he lose in an upset, there would be no established Democrat among replacement candidates, potentially opening the way for a Republican to take the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some notable personalities, this year’s list lacks the panache of contenders in the state’s circus-like 2003 recall. Among the 135 names on the ballot that year were former child star Gary Coleman, pornographer Larry Flynt, former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and political pundit Arianna Huffington, who dropped out shortly before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls have shown many voters are ignoring this year’s contest, and there were no new candidates who emerged Saturday who appeared to have the potential to reorder the trajectory of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to requirements to run, the bar is relatively low. 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The multimillionaire denies his run for office is a ploy to generate more publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Hewitt\u003c/strong>, 68, is a Riverside County supervisor. He wrote in The Orange County Register that he was entering the race because “this state no longer accommodates dreams, fosters ideas or solves problems.” He argues the state needs a new approach and, as a Libertarian, he is positioned to work with Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Ventresca\u003c/strong>, 69, is a Democrat though says he’s further to the left than Newsom and even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on some issues. “I consider Newsom a corporate, establishment, insider Democrat,” he says. Ventresca’s main campaign platform is providing free health care and education “cradle to grave” for everyone in California. He retired in 2018 from the San Francisco International Airport, where he held multiple roles, and he ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2019. He got 7% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Gallucci\u003c/strong>, 60, a Republican, is a former technology executive who is senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, California. He also runs services that provide assistance for at-risk women and children and migrants. In his tech career, he rose through the corporate ranks to become an executive vice president and general manager for software maker PeopleSoft. Oracle acquired the company for $10.3 billion in 2004. He says “the soul of our state has been lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlyn Jenner\u003c/strong>, 71, is a lifelong Republican trying to parlay her celebrity into a surprise win. She won the men’s decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, married into the Kardashian family and with them became reality TV stars, and then came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She has described herself as a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wildfires. Heat waves. A massive energy utility emerging from bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s electric grid is under considerable strain, with energy operators facing mounting challenges in consistently keeping the lights on for millions of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is hardly the first time the state has faced an energy predicament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years ago, in 2001, a recently deregulated California energy market suddenly found itself without enough juice to power the state. Rolling blackouts shut down businesses, PG&E filed for bankruptcy (the first time around), the state’s economy contracted and the administration of then-Gov. Gray Davis spiraled into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Enron Corporation, a Houston-based energy company whose brokers created an artificial electricity shortage by taking power plants offline, thereby raising prices by 800% or more. The firm ultimately unraveled when whistleblowers revealed that its managers were cooking the books, but not before the company wreaked havoc on energy markets, including in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884358/20-years-after-enron-and-rolling-blackouts-what-have-we-learned\">KQED Forum guest host Lily Jamali\u003c/a> spoke to former government officials and a veteran journalist to gauge what the state may have learned from that tumultuous period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forum guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loretta Lynch\u003c/strong>, the former president of the California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Weissman\u003c/strong>, an energy expert at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, who directed the CPUC’s initial investigation into the 2001 energy crisis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>, a Wall Street Journal energy reporter, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2001 crisis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gray Davis\u003c/strong>, the former governor of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the energy crisis like from where you sat? It’s easy to see now what a calamity this was. But was the gravity of the problem clear to you in those early days?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gray Davis: \u003c/strong>That was the whole problem, we couldn’t figure out what was creating the blackouts. So six months after I left office, a video was released where Enron ordered that the power serving the city of San Francisco would go down and there were traffic accidents, and computers didn’t work and all kinds of problems ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason that date is important, it was four days after a whole bunch of us met in Washington [D.C.] to see if there couldn’t be some sort of settlement arrangement. And I had two Republicans and two Democrats and all five of us rejected the only proposal that Enron and the other energy providers suggested, which was to raise rates … five to 10 times what used to be paid for electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And none of us wanted the ratepayers to bear that burden because the ratepayers were not pushing for energy deregulation. That was the energy company. So I suspected all along that Enron was up to no good. I never thought they would be ordering blackouts, but that’s exactly what they did. And why did they do it? To drive up electricity prices.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Loretta Lynch, former CPUC president\"]‘We created an electricity market that has become a casino for the electricity traders. And we all pay and pay and pay. We have to shut down that casino or protect our people and our businesses.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>: I was actually worried about the California market from the moment it was deregulated. That happened, ironically, on April Fools Day in 1998. I was worried because I had watched the Legislature put together Assembly Bill 1890, which was the bill that deregulated California’s retail market. And after that law was passed, I interviewed people about the contents. I went through it literally line by line to try to understand everything that was included in that bill. And what I discovered was that the number of people in the Legislature whom I felt could actually show that they had a full understanding of that law, you could count the number of people on one hand. And I found that very worrisome, even though the thing passed nearly unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It sounds like you had a fairly clear view of just how dire the situation was, perhaps sooner than a lot of other players.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loretta Lynch\u003c/strong>: That came from the private sector. I was a white-collar criminal defense lawyer before I joined the state government, so I knew a criminal when I saw one, and I knew that Enron was engaged in criminal activity. The question to me was, was it a criminal conspiracy? And it turned out, yes, it was. The problem is, the law that Rebecca Smith talked about almost let the criminals win. They designed the electricity market, which was brand new in the United States then. It was by them and they operated it. So not surprisingly, they got away with all sorts of fraud and it took government a really long time to catch up to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 years of Republicans before Gov. Davis was elected intentionally starved the regulatory agencies so that they would not be able to catch the crooks from 20 years ago, Enron and its cronies took advantage of California’s new electricity markets to defraud those systems for profit. And that severely damaged California’s economy and frankly, helped the historic recall. The political and economic fallout of their fraud was vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you get the sense that there was corruption involved in this on the part of the state Legislature and on the part of regulators? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>: No, I would not say I felt there was corruption, I felt what we saw was what we always see, which is that well-heeled interests that have money and that have an economic stake in outcomes are the most active forces in crafting legislation and participating in rulemaking proceedings. I mean, they’re the ones who have the time and the money to be active participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"energy\" label=\"Related coverage\"]So what we really need is to make sure that the organizations and agencies that are responsible for representing consumers, that they also receive the resources they need. We need the ratepayer advocate office of the U.S. and these other institutions to be well resourced. They have to be in the game. They have to be representing the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can we prevent future blackouts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Loretta Lynch: \u003c/b>Other Western states and other local government-owned utilities within California are not blacking their customers out and are not charging these exorbitant prices. This isn’t about climate change — the blackouts — because they all face droughts, wildfires and too little water to run their hydro systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference here is, California turned its electricity system over to a private corporation that answers to the feds. And we created an electricity market that has become a casino for the electricity traders. And we all pay and pay and pay. We have to shut down that casino or protect our people and our businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know from speaking with fire survivors in places like Paradise, in Sonoma County, they want nothing more than to not have to have PG&E provide their power. 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But some observers question whether a citizenship bill could be enacted through a procedure that skirts the possibility of a filibuster in that chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current plan, supported by the White House, would pay for clean energy projects to fight climate change, as well as “human infrastructure” programs including universal pre-kindergarten, community college grants and an expansion of health care for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of including immigration provisions in what is primarily a budget package argue that obtaining legal status is a key that opens opportunities for undocumented people, who are often low-income essential workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lorella Praeli, We Are Home co-chair\"]'We will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship is essential infrastructure for immigrant families. 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We expect — and demand — the inclusion of citizenship for undocumented youth, TPS holders, farmworkers and essential workers in the reconciliation package,” said Lorella Praeli, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearehome.us/about\">We Are Home\u003c/a> campaign.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"More immigration coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, we will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year,” warned Praeli, a formerly undocumented immigrant, adding that Democrats will lose credibility among Latino and immigrant voters if they don’t enact promised reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legalization program would create jobs and increase wages, with major economic benefits to the U.S., according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2021/07/01/501212/pathway-citizenship-economic-growth-budget-reconciliation/\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Davis and the left-leaning Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bill Hoagland, a senior vice president with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said reconciliation is reserved for policies that have a direct budgetary impact — increasing or lowering the federal government’s tax revenue and spending. And the procedure is not intended to make major policy changes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a stretch to use this process that was set up to set a fiscal blueprint to take on and make major changes in immigration policy,” said Hoagland, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. “I'm not arguing we shouldn't do it. I'm just saying this is not the tool to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether immigration and other Democratic policy ambitions meet the strict requirements of reconciliation will be largely up to Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971793277/who-the-senate-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-a-minimum-wage-increase\">Parliamentarian\u003c/a> Elizabeth MacDonough, whose job it is to interpret chamber rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenAlexPadilla/status/1415415818444316676\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22264074/poll-undocumented-immigrants-citizenship-stimulus-biden\">Polls\u003c/a> show a majority of likely voters support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. 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"content": "\u003cp>Talk show host Larry Elder, the so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://larryelder.com/larrys-column/\">Sage from South Central,\u003c/a>” is the latest Republican to throw his hat in the ring in the recall election to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Los Angeles, Elder is the son of a Marine who grew up in the Jim Crow South. He describes himself as “fiscally conservative and socially moderate,” but is also a big supporter of Donald Trump and \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/person/e/larry-elder\">a regular commentator on Fox News\u003c/a>. Supporters say Elder can parlay his larger social media presence and lively personality to become a top-tier candidate on the second half of the recall ballot. Elder was in San Francisco this week and spoke to KQED Politics Editor Scott Shafer about his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview was edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>What brings you to San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Elder:\u003c/strong> Well, I'm going to go up and down the state. I'm going to go to Sacramento. I'm going to the Central Valley. I'm going to go to San Diego. I'm going to be the governor of California. And as a result, I don't want to be perceived as just an Angelino. I care about the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On your website, you're referred to as the “Sage from South Central.” What does that mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means great alliteration! I actually gave myself that name. It’s just kind of a tongue-in-cheek kind of thing. I think that I've got common sense. I think I've got good judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You were born and raised in LA. You're African American. How would those experiences affect the kind of governor you'd be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason I'm running is because I went to Crenshaw High School (in LA). And when I went there, everybody graduated on time. I'm not saying everybody could do math at grade level, but I didn't know anybody who couldn't. I picked up the L.A. Times a couple of years ago, (there was a) front-page article about Crenshaw High. Only 3% of kids can do math at grade level. Yet you are mandated if you're within a geographical area of that school to send your kid to a school where only 3% of kids can do math at grade level. It's ridiculous.\u003cbr>\nI support school choice. And the studies on school choice have shown that it certainly improves the education of the student, the graduation rates of the student improves the reading scores and math scores. It even improves the quality of the public schools because they don't want to lose the students. So that's one of my big issues, school choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this governor is totally beholden to the teachers union. They're the largest under his campaign. They adamantly oppose school choice. And you add to that the rising crime, the rising homelessness. And I had to get into this. Maybe, just maybe I can do something about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"recall\" label=\"More on the recall\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You're a political novice and I'm wondering why you think someone like you who has, as far as I know, no experience in government is …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hold on Scott. I ran for a fifth-grade class president and I carried three out of four rows! I'm going to get a guy named William Moore. They're still cleaning up the blood!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously though, Ronald Reagan had no experience. He was a great governor. And this governor was what, mayor? He was lieutenant governor for eight years and has been governor for two years. And look at what he's done. So experience with our common sense and good judgment is pretty useless in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The last governor who had no experience governing was Arnold Schwarzenegger. How do you think he did as governor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought he was lousy, a disaster. I felt that if he had put the hammer down when he got elected, he could have done something. He could have reined in some of these expenses. And then he shifted left, became a “green guy,\" became an environmental climate change alarmist. I don't know what the hell happened to him, but I was very disappointed in him and I was disappointed that I encouraged people to vote for him. Looking back at it. I wish I supported somebody like Tom McClintock. He was a disaster. 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But we have the lowest or one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. Would you say that some of that economic pain was worth it given where we are today on the pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don’t. I think he did not follow science. He shut down the schools, even though the CDC said schools could open. We lost an entire year of education because of the way in which he shut down schools against science. And I think people are stupid. I don't want to catch COVID, I got my shots. You don't have to tell people what to do this way. I think businesses could have reasonably remained open with precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just don't believe you had to lock down the state the way he did.\u003cbr>\nSo this governor made a lot of mistakes. I think what you tell people, give people the truth, give people the science, and allow people to make their own decisions, treat people like adults. He didn't. 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We are under-investing, investing in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We haven't had any significant additions to the structure for water, underground storage, that kind of thing when it rains, in almost 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have this CEQA, California Environmental Control (sic) Act that basically allows anybody to stop anything for any reason for an indefinite period of time. And as a result, we're not investing properly in our state's infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would declare a statewide emergency and suspend some of the CEQA laws so that we can encourage the construction of not only homes, but also the construction of more infrastructure. I believe droughts are God-made, but shortages are man-made. We should be planning better and we're not doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you were to become governor, you would still have to deal with a supermajority Democratic legislature. How would you navigate that? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"If any election official is asked to do something that is not clearly defined in the law, the appropriate thing to do is to ask them to seek a court order,\" Alexander said. \"That's the right response no matter \u003cem>who\u003c/em> is asking,\" she said, adding that she hoped the governor would ultimately get to include his party affiliation, \"since it is vital election information that helps voters make their decisions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB151\">Senate Bill 151\u003c/a>, the 2019 law Newsom signed that outlines recall election procedures, \"If the officer did not state a political party preference on the officer’s affidavit of registration, the statement shall read: 'Party Preference: None.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, that's worse than simply not including Newsom's party affiliation, since it could actually suggest to an uninformed voter that he doesn't belong to any party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not entirely clear how much the \"D\" next to Newsom's name would matter anyway, given the governor's strong name recognition among California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it would make a 2% to 5% difference maybe, at most,\" said Anne Dunsmore, a political consultant to the recall campaign. \"For those who are going to vote in this election, everyone knows who Gavin Newsom is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguelles is the same judge who last year granted recall proponents an extra 120 days to collect valid signatures, a decision that proved invaluable to their efforts. The petition drive caught fire when news of the governor's ill-advised visit to French Laundry became public. Newsom now acknowledges that dinner was a costly political blunder.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a strongly worded \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/rxssfku4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> sent to California fire officials last week, 18 firefighting professionals from federal, state and county agencies warned that proposed changes to fire safety road regulations will encourage housing development in high fire-prone areas and increase the risk to lives and property during wildfire evacuations.[pullquote align='right' citation='Doug Leisz, former associate chief of the U.S. Forest Service']‘It sets up a situation where you would be trying to get fire equipment to a fire and people evacuating and they couldn’t pass one another on the road. Well, that’s unconscionable.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter, which is signed by mostly retired fire officials and practicing fire consultants, claims that existing rules “provide reasonable protection and could use some strengthening,” whereas the proposed changes “frankly put lives at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They addressed the letter to the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (BOF), which is revising the Minimum Fire-Safe Regulations as part of a process overseen by the California Natural Resources Agency, which includes Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials are updating, or “refreshing” regulations first enacted in 1991 at a time when out-of-control wildfires are increasingly common in nearly every corner of the state — a rising crisis exacerbated by decades of fire-suppression policies that have loaded forests with fuel, and warming temperatures that prime that wood to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuations are a frightening yet commonplace occurrence for many people living in wildland areas of the Sierra and along the state’s northern coast. Lots of rural California towns were not designed for residents to make a hurried escape, and sit at the end of long, narrow, dead-end roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Camp Fire roared through Paradise in 2018, for example, people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1942547/in-the-age-of-the-crazy-fast-fire-a-good-evacuation-plan-may-not-be-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fled en masse\u003c/a> only to be caught in gridlock. Some residents abandoned their cars while others died in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of adequate ingress and egress for residents and first responders significantly contributed to the recent losses of lives and properties in California’s wildfires,” the letter from the fire officials states. “To claim that the (proposed) road standards are stronger is untrue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the proposed 2021 changes targeted by the letter are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reduce the 20-foot road width standard to 14 feet except for very large developments. The letter warns that 9-foot-wide firefighting equipment cannot possibly pass 6-foot wide passenger vehicles on a 14-foot wide road.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eliminate dead-end length limits for all existing roads, remove most turnaround requirements and eliminate length limitations for one-way roads. \u003cem>Current\u003c/em> regulations for existing roads have a one-mile length limit for dead-end roads and require turnarounds every 1,320 feet.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eliminate requirements for curve radius, gate openings and bridges except for very large developments.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The letter notes that the only place where proposed regulations are stricter is for newly built roads. Most new development occurs on existing roads, they state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the existing communities in the highest fire severity zones were never designed to safely support their current housing, commercial and industrial density, let alone additional development,” said Doug Leisz, retired associate chief of the U.S. Forest Service and a signer of the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities across the state need stronger protections, not loopholes that would allow new development to be built on substandard unsafe roads. Who will be held liable for the increased loss of lives and property?” Leisz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theirs is just one of a wide array of comments, criticisms and suggestions the BOF has received since it began updating its fire safety regulations. The demands from interest groups, including firefighters, developers, housing advocates, environmentalists and local officials, are often competing and conflicting, leaving policymakers with a somewhat impossible task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is basically no way that we can, make everyone happy,” said Darcy Wheeles, a member of the Board of Forestry. Her message to stakeholders upset with the current draft regulations: “Please know that we’re listening. We’re hearing you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeles and other state officials say they have to take into account conflicting goals. “We have stakeholders who are asking us to simultaneously protect communities and allow development in areas that are going to burn and also not go crosswise with the governor’s and the state’s housing goals and climate goals,” Wheeles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the reality is that many counties simply ignore the existing regulations, building on long, windy roads that would not simultaneously accommodate both firefighting equipment and fleeing residents. Recognizing that reality, Wheeles says they’re hoping to develop updated safety regulations that can in fact be followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One size won’t fit all. So we can’t just be draconian. We need to provide flexibility as much as we can,” Wheeles said. Otherwise local permit reviewers might just ignore the regulations, as many do now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the number and severity of wildfires has caused scores of deaths and destroyed thousands of structures in California, policymakers, academics and others have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975443/millions-of-calif-homes-are-in-fire-prone-areas-researchers-say-its-time-to-reimagine-where-they-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned about “rebuilding as usual”\u003c/a> in fire-prone areas. The letter sent last week by firefighting professionals warns that the proposed changes will spur even more development in risky areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 22, four Southern California lawmakers — all Democrats — \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20983978-socal-legislators-letter1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the Board of Forestry, urging them to take into account recommendations from California fire chiefs and others they said would strengthen the regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned with any efforts that would further weaken fire safety regulations,” they wrote. “When roads are not upgraded and additional development is permitted this increases the number of vehicles that will need to use those roads for evacuations, which increases evacuation times for all existing residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That letter followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20983979-weiner-mcguire-dodd-chiu-leter-to-bof-state-fire-safe-regulations-public-comment-letter21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another one dated the day before\u003c/a> from three Northern California Democrats, including state Sen. 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Alameda Vice Mayor Malia Vella trailed with 16% of the vote, while Stephen Slauson, an electrical engineer and the lone Republican in the race, was at 11% at night's end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta celebrated the returns on Tuesday night at her campaign headquarters in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, alongside her husband Rob Bonta — California's newly appointed attorney general — and East Bay politicos including BART Board of Directors member Lateefah Simon and Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been so amazing to have so many supporters come out and just give testament to this amazing movement we've been creating together, so it feels like a blessing,\" Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead to the likely runoff with Ramachandran, Bonta said she would emphasize \"my experience, my connection to this district, the fact that I've been working in this district and with our community for over 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the common issue of being progressive leaders is something that we're going to have to duke it out about,\" she said of her probable opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just east of Lake Merritt, Ramachandran gathered with friends as well as supporters from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union at her apartment, which has served as a makeshift campaign headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This just shows to me that voters are excited for true progressive policies,\" she said. \"It shows to me that grassroots movements can win, that people power can win.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special election campaign kicked off in late March after Rob Bonta, the district's five-term assemblyman, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> to be the state's new attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight candidates who made it on the ballot campaigned in a three-month sprint as the region was emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. All candidate forums were held virtually, although many of the campaigns conducted in-person door-knocking efforts across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"Mia-Bonta\"]\"I've literally been door knocking every day since the start of this campaign,\" said Ramachandran. \"That's how we were able to get so far, because we've been out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18th Assembly District is one of the most liberal in the state (65% of voters are registered as Democrats), and the leading candidates have all vowed to be reliably progressive votes in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invested heavily in the race\u003c/a> — spreading endorsements between Bonta, Vella and Ramachandran, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Bonta and Vella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878950/east-bay-assembly-hopefuls-could-be-key-vote-on-contentious-housing-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">split in their approaches\u003c/a> to the vexing issue of housing development. Vella offered wholehearted support for two proposals in the state Legislature that would ease construction of duplexes and small apartment buildings, while Bonta and Ramachandran said they would push to amend the bills to add more affordable housing requirements before committing their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janani Ramachandran, candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District, takes a photo with campaign organizers in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran also broke from Bonta and Vella in her opposition to the Oakland A's proposed development at the Port of Oakland's Howard Terminal, where the team hopes to build a new stadium along with housing and office and retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta was boosted in the race by her name ID and her consistent advantage in campaign spending: Her 2021 campaign committee reported $324,272 in expenditures, compared to $220,018 for Vella and $57,473 for Ramachandran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, three independent super PACs, financed by groups representing teachers, school employees, and doctors and dentists, along with health insurers and card rooms, spent $398,620 to bolster Bonta's candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the race's front-runner from the moment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she launched her campaign\u003c/a>, Bonta weathered attacks from her opponents, who said she was benefiting from her husband's name and was receiving donations from companies who wanted to influence the new attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879887\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, vice mayor of Alameda, on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a candidate forum in late May, Vella alluded to her opponent benefiting from \"political patronage.\" And last week, Ramachandran launched a more direct broadside, charging Bonta with \"legalized corruption\" for accepting donations from companies who are pursuing future statewide ballot measures, for which the attorney general will write the title and summary seen by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta denied any impropriety and described the race as an opportunity to introduce her own personal story to the district's residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The competitiveness of the campaign did not spur Alameda County voters to the polls, despite the continued expansion of mail-in voting. Every voter in the district was sent a ballot by default, and the county set up 21 drop boxes and 10 voting locations for residents to drop off their ballots or vote in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the last returns released on Tuesday showed just 43,900 ballots cast, a turnout of about 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's in line with two prior special elections for state Assembly this year that saw low voter interest. In April, just 21% of voters cast ballots in a special election held in San Diego's 79th Assembly District. Last month, only 14% of registered voters in Los Angeles' 54th Assembly District voted in a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like a lot of people are distracted and we're seeing really low turnout,\" said Vella, at her election night gathering in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if she remains out of the top two, Vella said the runoff would be a \"great opportunity\" for two female candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I do know is that we're going to have more women in the state Legislature than ever before,\" she added. \"And we're going to have a woman of color.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mia Bonta, the president of the Alameda Unified School District's Board of Education, opened up an early lead on Tuesday in a special election to fill her husband's seat in the state Assembly. But early returns from the 18th District, which includes most of Oakland, San Leandro and Alameda, showed Bonta falling short of the majority vote needed to avoid a runoff later this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta captured 37% of the vote in the last results of the evening, released by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two finishers will face off in a runoff scheduled for Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social justice attorney Janani Ramachandran, who stands in second place with 21% of the vote, appeared headed to join Bonta in the runoff. Alameda Vice Mayor Malia Vella trailed with 16% of the vote, while Stephen Slauson, an electrical engineer and the lone Republican in the race, was at 11% at night's end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta celebrated the returns on Tuesday night at her campaign headquarters in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, alongside her husband Rob Bonta — California's newly appointed attorney general — and East Bay politicos including BART Board of Directors member Lateefah Simon and Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"I've literally been door knocking every day since the start of this campaign,\" said Ramachandran. \"That's how we were able to get so far, because we've been out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18th Assembly District is one of the most liberal in the state (65% of voters are registered as Democrats), and the leading candidates have all vowed to be reliably progressive votes in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invested heavily in the race\u003c/a> — spreading endorsements between Bonta, Vella and Ramachandran, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Bonta and Vella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878950/east-bay-assembly-hopefuls-could-be-key-vote-on-contentious-housing-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">split in their approaches\u003c/a> to the vexing issue of housing development. Vella offered wholehearted support for two proposals in the state Legislature that would ease construction of duplexes and small apartment buildings, while Bonta and Ramachandran said they would push to amend the bills to add more affordable housing requirements before committing their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50200_009_Oakland_JananiRamachandran_06262021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janani Ramachandran, candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District, takes a photo with campaign organizers in Oakland on June 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran also broke from Bonta and Vella in her opposition to the Oakland A's proposed development at the Port of Oakland's Howard Terminal, where the team hopes to build a new stadium along with housing and office and retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta was boosted in the race by her name ID and her consistent advantage in campaign spending: Her 2021 campaign committee reported $324,272 in expenditures, compared to $220,018 for Vella and $57,473 for Ramachandran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, three independent super PACs, financed by groups representing teachers, school employees, and doctors and dentists, along with health insurers and card rooms, spent $398,620 to bolster Bonta's candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the race's front-runner from the moment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she launched her campaign\u003c/a>, Bonta weathered attacks from her opponents, who said she was benefiting from her husband's name and was receiving donations from companies who wanted to influence the new attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879887\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50124_004_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, vice mayor of Alameda, on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a candidate forum in late May, Vella alluded to her opponent benefiting from \"political patronage.\" And last week, Ramachandran launched a more direct broadside, charging Bonta with \"legalized corruption\" for accepting donations from companies who are pursuing future statewide ballot measures, for which the attorney general will write the title and summary seen by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta denied any impropriety and described the race as an opportunity to introduce her own personal story to the district's residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The competitiveness of the campaign did not spur Alameda County voters to the polls, despite the continued expansion of mail-in voting. 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But they are excluded from the Affordable Care Act and they cannot purchase subsidized coverage through Covered California, the state’s ACA health exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the state began offering full-scope Medi-Cal – covering doctor’s visits, prescriptions, eye and dental care and other services – to low-income undocumented children and young adults up to age 26. But older immigrants have only been eligible for limited Medi-Cal, which only covers prenatal care and health emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest newly eligible seniors and older adults could access full coverage is May 2022, according to state Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, who championed the program’s expansion. 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CFAP currently provides food aid to thousands of legal immigrants and refugees who have been excluded from federally funded food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful to state leaders for seizing this historic opportunity to take tangible steps toward ensuring that undocumented immigrants – our neighbors, friends, colleagues, and important members of our California communities – are no longer denied basic food assistance,” said Jared Call, senior policy advocate with Nourish California, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Call, whose organization co-leads the Food for All campaign, said California is set to become the first state to offer food assistance to undocumented immigrants via a permanent program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the COVID pandemic in California, children in families that include undocumented immigrants were three to four times more likely to grow up with unmet basic needs compared to children in non-immigrant families, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/state-policymakers-can-provide-food-support-to-undocumented-and-mixed-status-california-families-blocked-by-federal-policies/\">report\u003c/a> by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that the process for newly eligible undocumented people to sign up for state-funded health coverage or food aid will be no different than for others applying for Medi-Cal or CalFresh. 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"content": "\u003cp>California schools are poised to get a record-breaking amount of money in the state budget to help students recover from 15 months of pandemic-related chaos, virtual classrooms, hybrid schedules and ever-shifting guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts with lots of high-needs students, including those with disabilities, stand to get even more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators will use some of the extra funding to hire counselors who are better suited to address the mental health impacts of the pandemic. Lawmakers hope the unprecedented funding will also help address the pre-pandemic costs of special education and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2018/07/california-teacher-pension-debt/\">employee pensions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic hit everybody, and everybody could use more mental health support and counseling,” said Sara Noguchi, superintendent of Modesto City Schools. “But the pension costs each year are also significant. And that is just one of the areas that’s been difficult to manage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Money Across the Board\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state will spend an unprecedented $93.7 billion from its general fund on education this year, with most California districts raking in millions of dollars in new funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modesto’s district, for example, which has close to 30,000 students, is getting an extra $16.5 million this year. And that money comes with almost no strings attached and can be spent on anything from payroll to maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s just the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state calculates funding for school districts using what’s called the Local Control Funding Formula. 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The plan would cost $2.7 billion once fully implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also spending billions to expand child care subsidies. This year, $1.5 billion will go toward 120,000 additional kids, mostly those of essential workers. Next year, child care subsidy spending would increase to $2.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen such an expansion and an attempt to improve the quality of child care, really since the advent of pre-K in the 1960s,” said Bruce Fuller, a professor of education at UC Berkeley. “The expansion of early education, in sheer dollar amounts, rivals the increases in K-12.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Easing the Fiscal Burden of Pensions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In past years, increases in overall education funding were dwarfed by the tens of millions of dollars some districts were required to pay to employee retirement funds. 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