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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called the scramble for supplies \"the wild, wild, west\"— a months-long free-for-all by state and local governments to purchase protective equipment, ventilators and testing supplies needed on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of coordination by the federal government left states like California on their own to negotiate contracts for goods desperately needed to protect health care workers and safeguard the reopening of businesses as the world attempts to respond to a global pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Into that void stepped some suppliers who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-23/coronavirus-california-masks-ppe-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged sky-high prices\u003c/a> for masks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963700/california-wired-456-9-million-to-a-fledgling-company-to-pay-for-masks-within-hours-the-deal-was-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Other deals fell through\u003c/a> entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all took off on a plane that we were building as we were flying,\" Newsom said on May 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another path may have been possible: the enactment of a state-level Defense Production Act, allowing California to marshal its enormous economy to mandate the production, and control the costs, of much-needed supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move would have been a challenge, but not impossible. The concept of a state-level act raises logistical and legal challenges that may have posed problems in the middle of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Defense Production Act, enacted in 1950 during the Korean War, gives the U.S. president wide powers to mobilize industry in order to prevent supply shortages. [aside tag=\"coronavirus, politics\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the act, the president can require businesses to prioritize government contracts above other orders, redistribute supplies to where they are most needed and even direct companies to produce vitally needed goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has been widely criticized for not using the law's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821285204/trump-sends-mixed-messages-about-invoking-defense-production-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full authority\u003c/a> in addressing a nationwide shortage of tests and protective equipment. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened and health care workers and epidemiologists pleaded for more masks and testing supplies, Trump told state officials they were responsible for procuring the goods they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, this led to a rush by the Newsom administration to secure contracts with manufacturers across the globe, while encouraging companies based in the Golden State to pitch in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/04/governor-newsom-launches-one-stop-website-for-donations-sales-of-essential-medical-supplies-in-fight-against-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched a website\u003c/a> to request donations and solicit offers for medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of companies voluntarily converted their production to meet the state's needs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809502/photos-gov-newsom-and-san-jose-mayor-sam-liccardo-tour-ventilator-refurbishing-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloom Energy\u003c/a>, a San Jose-based fuel cell generator company that switched to refurbishing ventilators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state largely focused on striking deals with existing suppliers of personal protective equipment, including many outside California. State legislators have pushed the governor for more transparency into some of the larger deals, like the $1 billion purchase of protective masks from a Chinese car company\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-06/california-coronavirus-mask-price-byd-coronavirus\"> disclosed on May 6\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other deals for equipment fell apart entirely, including a half-billion dollar payment for medical supplies to a company now under federal investigation, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/05/california-mask-deal-blue-flame-collapsed-republican-vendor-maryland-porter-gula-thomas/\">first reported by CalMatters.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some larger contracts that didn’t cost the taxpayers a penny but were cautionary tales,\" Newsom said when pressed about the deal this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing this cutthroat marketplace, some governors have longed for the certainty that could come from a state-level Defense Production Act: the potential to strong-arm suppliers within state lines and avoid an international bidding war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I had a Defense Production Act in the state, I would use it,\" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last month. \"I don't have that tool, the federal government does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate the national economy under the Commerce Clause. States have historically been prevented from taking actions that interfere with interstate business by a legal doctrine known as the Dormant Commerce Clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the idea of a state-level Defense Production Act could pass legal muster. \"California or other states could do something very much like the Defense Production Act,\" said Stanford Law School professor Bernadette Meyler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The principal aspects [of the DPA] that have been relevant on the federal level are price controls and trying to make sure that people aren't exploiting the emergency by raising the price of particular needed goods or essential items,\" Meyler said. \"The states could also do the same thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of competing in a marketplace against other states and nations all desperate for the same supplies, California would be able to ask suppliers within its borders to place the state at the front of the line for orders, or even require manufacturers to shift their production lines to create swabs, medical glass and masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any attempt by the state Legislature to create these new economic powers would likely face legal challenges from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General William Barr has warned states that his office is already \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/c76e764141179075244ecfd5f1bb5e19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the lookout\u003c/a> for any encroachment on the federal government's oversight of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do have a national economy which is the responsibility of the federal government. So it is possible that governors will take measures that impair interstate commerce,\" Barr said on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hughhewitt.com/attorney-general-william-barr-on-the-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hugh Hewitt Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. \"And just where that line is drawn, you know, remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Dormant Commerce Clause has not been understood to automatically override a state's interest in protecting public safety, said John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because a state does something that may impact interstate commerce does not mean it's automatically unconstitutional,\" said Yoo, who worked in the Department of Justice during the George W. 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Costs could be contained by the state's existing laws against price gouging, already activated by the governor's emergency declaration — prevent manufacturers from raising prices on medical supplies by more than 10% of their pre-disaster cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Meyler, the Stanford law professor said, \"If the states were able to provide just compensation, they could and should go ahead and mandate production of essential items.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the idea of a California Defense Production Act seems to have made little headway at the state Capitol, though not for legal reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's much-touted status as the world’s fifth-largest economy belies the reality that the state's manufacturing base has declined dramatically from the mid-20th century, when California factories churned out battleships, ammunition and canned food to power the military during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just don't think that the loss of manufacturing that we've had in the state of California really lends itself to the type of manufacturing that we're looking for here,\" said state Sen. 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[aside postID=\"news_11809423, news_11808531\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As coronavirus hospitalizations climbed in March and early April, state leaders felt they couldn't wait for a reshaping of the state's economy to provide the kind of large-scale production of equipment that was already being produced elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We considered it, but we felt there were a lot of things already happening, and the necessity to move quickly required us to use more of these traditional supply chains,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These very large-scale procurements of masks ... are in the tens of millions, hundreds of millions when we’re done with all of this,\" he added. \"We felt that was a better way of going to meet the immediate needs because of the time delay of getting these other companies up and moving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd said California's struggle to purchase emergency supplies has exposed the state and country's reliance on international markets — and could lead state leaders to reconsider the question in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're in a global pandemic, everybody needs the same thing you have and when you don't manufacture it at home, there are problems,\" Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That said, the demand for these items are not 365 days a year for 50 years straight, so it's a little more difficult,\" he added. \"But we need to be thinking about how we do this in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The fund, created by voters in 2014, and prudently managed by former Gov. 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Instead, the deficit forecast was released at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday night, just a few hours after releasing details of the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The imploding budget situation means Newsom will have to manage simultaneous crises, testing his ability to govern at a time when his popularity at home and national political stock had been rising as he and other governors filled a void left by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the bad news, in the way of rising unemployment and plunging revenues, is hardly over. Since shelter-in-place orders were issued in mid-March, shuttering much of the state’s economy, more than 4.2 million Californians have applied for unemployment benefits. Finance Department officials estimate unemployment levels will reach 18% statewide, up from just 3.9% earlier this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>The first California election of the coronavirus era is set to take place in the valleys north of Los Angeles, where Republicans are looking to reverse their recent string of electoral misfortunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up for grabs in the May 12 special election is a highly coveted vacant House seat in the 25th Congressional District, one that Democrats recently flipped. The unique timing and circumstances of the race, brought on by the high-profile resignation of former Rep. Katie Hill, a Santa Clarita Democrat who defeated Republican incumbent Steve Knight in 2018, has drawn national interest and big-name endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with Californians sheltering in their homes since mid-March, both candidates have run almost their entire campaigns virtually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swing district was already among the most competitive in California. Now, the outbreak of COVID-19 is reframing the campaign messages of Democrat Christy Smith and Republican Mike Garcia. Meanwhile the state’s stay-at-home order is requiring the election to take place almost exclusively through mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly been unusual,” said Smith, a state assemblywoman whose current district overlaps with a majority of the congressional district she’s vying to represent. “I’m a traditional candidate who likes doing a fair amount of door knocking, and not having that opportunity to do that, to host in-person town halls, to really get a feel for where the voters are in this moment has presented a unique set of challenges.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christy Smith, Democratic state assemblywoman\"]‘I’m a traditional candidate who likes doing a fair amount of door-knocking, and not having that opportunity to do that, to host in-person town halls, to really get a feel for where the voters are in this moment has presented a unique set of challenges.’[/pullquote]In 2018, Democrats picked up seven House seats in California — running campaigns that attacked Republican incumbents for their votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Hill, among that group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783343/democratic-congresswoman-katie-hill-resigns-over-inappropriate-relationships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned her seat\u003c/a> in October amid allegations of an improper sexual relationship with a congressional aide (which she denied) and after conservative outlets published nude photos of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the special election to fill Hill’s seat, Democrats are again running on a platform to expand health care coverage. The spread of the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 1,000 lives in Los Angeles County, has further clarified the issue’s importance, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Easy access to health care is a huge priority for me, as is adding a public option,” Smith said. “I think this moment, more than any other in my lifetime, certainly speaks to the need for everybody to be able to have health care as a human right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot, who declined to be interviewed, has advocated for repealing the Affordable Care Act. \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/thetalkofsantaclarita\">In a 2019 interview\u003c/a> with “The Talk of Santa Clarita” podcast, he called it “flawed enough to start over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent nearly $1 million on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcWN1hipY0&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local cable ad\u003c/a> attacking Garcia’s health care positions, while declaring that “more than ever, we need a leader who will put our health and safety first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But eager to retake the seat, Republicans are leveraging the coronavirus-induced economic crash to sharpen their focus on Smith’s most controversial vote in the state Legislature: her support of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 5\u003c/a>, which limits the number of California workers who are classified as independent contractors, rather than employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make it easier right now for the gig economy to restart — to have independent contractors be able to go to work in whatever capacity they can during the stay at home,” Garcia said last week, during the lone debate of the special election campaign, which took place via video conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ad buy from the National Republican Congressional Committee on cable and broadcast TV \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlCsb9rl_Q&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slammed Smith\u003c/a> for “threatening jobs” with her vote, and asked voters to “imagine her recklessness during these frightening times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the debate, Smith responded that if companies aren’t classifying workers as employees, they aren’t paying into “the very critical programs that we are trying to utilize in this exact moment, like our state’s unemployment insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding elected office has given Smith opportunities to project leadership during the pandemic. She’s held volunteer events in the district and was among the bipartisan group of assemblymembers who convened in Sacramento last week to demand more say in how Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813179/state-lawmakers-want-more-say-in-californias-covid-19-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spending money\u003c/a> in response to the crisis — moves her campaign was quick to tout in an ad \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUcG_KKQO_g&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a time when what we need is leaders who are willing to step up and roll up their sleeves and get to work,” Smith said. “And so when I was called by my local senior center to say, ‘Hey, could you come spend an afternoon with us handing out meals for our Meals on Wheels program?’ I was all in.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBut Republicans have questioned Smith’s leadership ability by pointing to the cancellation of a March 4 hearing of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management, which she chairs. The meeting was scheduled to review an audit detailing the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you’ve seen Christy Smith absolutely fail to lead on coronavirus,” said NRCC spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair. “She could have changed the meeting for it to be focused on the coronavirus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the committee has no direct oversight over the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which has taken a leading role in the state’s pandemic response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spread of the coronavirus and the state’s subsequent stay-at-home order have precipitated more dramatic changes in how the election will be conducted — and in the ways both sides have tried to reach voters during a condensed campaign calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under an executive order signed by Newsom in late March, every voter in the 25th District will receive a mail-in ballot with a postage-paid return envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both \u003ca href=\"https://lavote.net/home/voting-elections/voting-options/early-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://recorder.countyofventura.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CD-25-VBM-Information-For-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ventura\u003c/a> counties, where the seat resides, will also offer limited opportunities for in-person voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/will-mail-in-ballots-benefit-one-party/\">recent studies have suggested\u003c/a> that neither party necessarily benefits from all-mail elections, Democrats familiar with the district worry that a special election conducted predominately by mail will produce an older and whiter electorate that is more friendly to Garcia. It could also make a surge in turnout unlikely in the more Democratic cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, which were key to Hill’s 2018 victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the coronavirus, I think health care will be an issue. But that’s not what’s going to affect it, it’s going to be turnout,” said Steve Fox, the former Democratic assemblyman from Lancaster. “Republicans tend to vote by mail, they’re going to have a higher turnout because of that. Democrats are not going to come out during this virus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent data on vote-by-mail patterns in the 25th District back that up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a little less than two weeks before the election, 29% of Republicans have returned their ballots — compared to 18% of Democrats, according to Political Data, Inc., a voter information firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary, Democratic voters in the district mailed back just 23% of ballots they received, compared with 33% sent back by Republican mail voters, a trend also reflected in the 2018 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motivating voters to send in their ballots has taken on a different look since California’s stay-at-home order went into effect — just weeks after Smith and Garcia finished atop the March 3 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Like so many people are, we’re doing all kinds of Zoom get togethers, and we’re using the telephone quite a bit more than we ever had before,” Smith said. “So it has absolutely changed the way that we operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=news_11815155,news_11812489,news_11813179] Conversations with supporters that might have taken place in living rooms or on canvass walks just months ago are now happening virtually — accompanied by the typical pitfalls. On Wednesday, Smith released an apology for comments she made about Garcia’s military service that were captured on a video conference with supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia’s campaign is also investing in phone banking to reach voters at home, said Mark Hershey, a local Republican activist, who chairs the GOP’s 38th Assembly District Central Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hershey said President Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement of Garcia could also help drive Republicans to vote in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Knight’s campaign] tried to stay noncommittal, and the Trump voters probably didn’t come out like they could or should or would have if they had been more supportive,” Hershey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith questions that logic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s an endorsement that helps that much,” Smith said. “The president lost this district resoundingly in 2016, and I don’t think voters have gained any affinity for him, particularly in the moment of this crisis, where the response has not only been lackluster, but it has put more Americans at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As voter mobilization is pursued virtually, the two parties have also sparred over the California law that allows voters to designate someone else to return their ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have called on Newsom to suspend what they call the “ballot harvesting” law in order to maintain physical distancing, but a spokesman for the California Secretary of State’s Office confirmed that the practice will remain on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the millions spent by both parties on the special election, the outcome could have little impact on the November rematch between Garcia and Smith, who will again face off in the general election for the full two-year term beginning in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing spread and evolving toll of the coronavirus could reshape voter perceptions and necessitate changes to how the November election is conducted. And unlike a special election in May, the presidential election in November will have a higher voter turnout, which typically helps Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And whoever is elected in May will likely have to go on the record with positions on a range of issues responding to the pandemic. Votes on bills to provide aid to state and local governments or legislation on liability protections to shield hospitals and businesses from lawsuits could provide fodder for a whole new round of attack ads come fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the statewide stay-at-home order extends into May, cities and counties across the Bay Area are beginning to see millions of dollars in lost economic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities and their leaders are on the front lines of the coronavirus because they are the ones issuing stay-at-home orders and shuttering businesses,” said Brooks Rainwater, director of the advocacy group National League of Cities’ Center for City Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because local governments took early action to slow the spread of COVID-19, they’re facing steep drops in sales and property transfer taxes. Now they’re planning budget cuts in the coming months — and years — as they forecast for an economic recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a snapshot of what city governments around the Bay Area are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Oakland \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">has already laid off several hundred part-time employees at recreational centers and libraries and has implemented a citywide hiring freeze, according to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistant City Administrator Ed Reiskin. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new memo projects an $80 million budget shortfall over the next 14 months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a virtual city council meeting this week, Reiskin said the city needs to start making “challenging decisions” as revenues from sales and property tax continue to fall. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“None of us have ever seen such a precipitous drop in revenues in such a short time. … And the sooner we make those decisions, the better. Because delaying the budget adjustments means cutting deeper,” he told city council members. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the meeting, Councilmember Dan Kalb urged his colleagues to begin assessing what city services are “truly vital” as they begin to discuss layoffs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councilmember Sheng Thao added, “It’s crucial that we include our city employees and the local unions in the conversation as we move forward.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reiskin and the city’s director of finance, Adam Benson, said they will continue to work with Mayor Libby Schaaf on balancing the proposed budget for the next fiscal year, which is expected to be released in mid-May\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, new projections predict the city’s deficit will double, growing to between $1.1 and $1.7 billion over the next two fiscal years, according to San Francisco Controller Ben Rosenfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those deficit calculations only reflect anticipated lost revenue from hotel and property transfer taxes due to the shelter-in-place order, said Rosenfield. Expenditures related to the public health crisis — such as acquiring hotel rooms for healthcare workers and homeless people — are not included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman of District 8 said the city is prepared to start tapping into its reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will also need to make changes to this current year’s budget to get us through to the end [of the year],” said Mandelman. “None of that is going to be pleasant, but the really hard part is going to be putting together the budget for next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a budget committee meeting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807140/the-bay-area-prepares-for-remote-governance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held remotely\u003c/a> in early April, Mayor London Breed’s budget director Kelly Kirkpatrick presented a plan to curb current year spending by placing a hiring freeze on non-essential workers, prioritizing essential capital projects and halting other new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed plans to introduce a balanced budget for the next fiscal year in early August. [aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Santa Clara\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, Santa Clara City Manager Deanna Santana said the city has a one-time $80 million reserve to draw from as emergency response costs continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has rallied to the national call to provide more hospital space, setting aside sites like the Santa Clara Convention Center to serve as medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santana said her office estimates that the city’s deficit will quadruple to between $8 and $10 million in the coming fiscal year, due to loss of revenue from the use of public transit as well as sales and property taxes. To maintain essential services, Santa Clara has implemented a hiring freeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Mateo\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the Peninsula, San Mateo City Manager Drew Corbett said the city has lost $10 million in sales, hotel and property transfer tax revenue since the county’s shelter-in-place order was issued on March 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said approximately $88 million in general fund reserves will likely shield the city from immediate budget cuts and government layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real issue, said Corbett, is how San Mateo will recover from the economic impact after the pandemic ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take a few years for our revenues to get back to their baseline amount,” he told council members at a city council meeting at the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo city council members are also looking into using general fund reserves to support the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) which manages health and retirement benefits for employees in the public sector. It is largely funded by outside investors but given the current economic situation, Corbett said the city might have to start absorbing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Palo Alto\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Similarly in Palo Alto, city officials are calculating a $15 to $20 million loss to the city’s general fund in the current fiscal year. City Hall has already trimmed down its staff of about 1,100 employees to 600 essential workers, with roughly 100 of them working reduced hours. Council members are planning to continue paying all city employees to the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economic impacts of the pandemic have been “very stark and very immediate,” especially as downtown areas have turned into ghost towns, said the city’s Chief Financial Officer Kiely Nose at an early April meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted to look into “life support” programs for small businesses, including grants and discounts on utility bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Federal Help Needed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Across California, city officials are calling on the state and federal government to provide more funding as they project a collective $7 billion dollar revenue shortfall in the next two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report from the advocacy group League of California Cities forecasts that 9 out of 10 cities in the state will need to cut services and lay workers off to make up the shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league said currently only six out of 482 cities statewide qualify for relief funds from the federal coronavirus aid bill, which benefits local municipalities with over 500,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of those cities, but Vice Mayor Charles Jones said that with an expected $45 million dollar shortfall, the city council will still have to make difficult budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said “a lot of the hard work” the city has done to improve the quality of life, such as trash collection and street maintenance, will have to be “reduced or eliminated” if the city can’t receive additional financial support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the support of the state and the federal government to close that gap,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Things were looking up for Jenn Thomas. In September, she bought her first home in Citrus Heights, which is a part of Sacramento County. And for a while, her hair salon was getting lots of clients and making “pretty good money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a month ago today, county officials ordered all non-essential businesses to close in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This included Thomas’ business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a single mother with two young children, Thomas says that not being able to cut hair has put her in a tough financial position. Cash is running out to make her mortgage payments and she can’t afford to put her children into day care to then look for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to lose my house,” Thomas, 40, said. “It scares me to death. My livelihood is in dire straits. When is this going to end?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas joins a growing segment of Californians who are frustrated, anxious and confused with the state’s current shelter-in-place order. Some want to know just how much longer they won’t be able to work. Others question the seriousness of the COVID-19 virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to her growing fears, Thomas says she’ll be participating in a protest tomorrow at the state’s capitol, where hundreds are expected to show up — while promising to stay put in their cars — demanding that officials reopen the state’s businesses. Thomas also helps run a Facebook group called “Californians Against Excessive Quarantine,” which has over 5,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento event coincides with a much larger debate occurring across the country. Last Wednesday, in Lansing, Michigan, thousands of protestors carrying Trump flags, and in some cases, firearms, rallied against the state’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, whose most recent shelter-in-place order\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/politics/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is one of the most restrictive in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, President Trump has provided tacit support for these protests in a series of tweets on Friday when the president posted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA,” as well as Michigan and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11813080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1210050168-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1210050168-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1210050168-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1210050168-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1210050168-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People take part in a protest for 'Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine' at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Jeff Kowalsky/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While protesters with the most extreme views have been sucking up the media attention nationwide, a series of interviews with Californians critical of the restrictions shows that some in this movement carry a more nuanced view. All of the people KQED spoke to believed the threat of the coronavirus is real. Some of the people didn’t take issue with the initial order to shelter in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the restrictions easing the burden on the health care system, they are skeptical as to whether California should remain in complete shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the interviews, one point of doubt comes from the comparison of deaths from the flu, heart disease and cancer. Are they any deadlier than the new virus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a numbers standpoint, cancer and heart disease together kills close to 1 million U.S. adults per year, making the country’s coronavirus deaths, a little over 40,000, so far, look small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the uncertainty of COVID-19, experts say, that makes these comparisons not exactly appropriate. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">addressed this in a January press conference\u003c/a>, saying that the year-to-year deaths from the flu, for example, can be predicted, whereas calculations for COVID-19 deaths are harder to determine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And COVID-19 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has already killed more people\u003c/a> than the U.S. 2018-19 flu season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thomas and others say that with the health care systems stabilized, more weight needs to be given to the economic hardship and desperation a complete shutdown is creating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just continue to keep closing things up and disrupting people’s lives where [COVID-19] is not affecting people like myself physically,” said Thomas. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='covid-19' label='More Coronavirus Coverage']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas rents a small, 139-square-foot office space for her salon, and she is the only employee. She said that if she were to reopen, she would be happy to wear personal protective equipment while cutting hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which leads to the next question: Health experts said hospitals would be overloaded with COVID-19 patients. Has this actually happened in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manav Dutta, who also helps run “Californians Against Excessive Quarantine,” was taking precautions in response to the growing coronavirus threat. He maintained social distance and washed his hands regularly. But on March 19, the governor enacted a shelter-in-place order. Then, municipalities across the state started shutting down parks and beaches. And like Thomas, Dutta is concerned that these measures don’t take into account the need for people to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutta, a software engineer at the Georgia-based Movius, said that fears over the country’s health care system being overrun are “unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s partially right. As the COVID-19 threat started to grow in March, hospitals started canceling elective surgeries to free up beds for a potential surge. That left UCSF Medical Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962104/thousands-of-bay-area-patients-wait-for-surgery-while-hospitals-brace-for-coronavirus-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with hundreds of unused beds not filled by coronavirus patients\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Navy hospital ship docked in Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/navy-hospital-ship-los-angeles-scale-back-mission-70174804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may scale back its operations\u003c/a> since hospitals in the region are stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean a surge won’t still happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference in the beginning of April, Gov. 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Trump insists he took the pandemic seriously from the start, but that night he seemed to be sharing some wishful thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately expeditiously defeat this virus,\" Trump said with an oddly flat tone in his voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock market crashed, and the president has been on the defensive for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a president used to bragging about his accomplishments and mocking his opponents, the coronavirus is a different kind of adversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the hardest parts about this is you're having to give people a lot of bad news, which is normally not what a politician wants to do,\" said Matt James, former communications director for the Kaiser Family Foundation. He also worked for several elected officials and said the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique set of challenges for all politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're wrestling with a political crisis like I've never seen in my lifetime. Having been around a lot of politicians for a long time, this one is certainly different than almost anything I've ever seen,\" James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communications strategist Chris Lehane has managed his share of political crises, guiding Bill Clinton, Al Gore and many others through very choppy waters. He says in a situation like this, it’s all about an elected official’s credibility — and that people are drawn to leaders who are confident, realistic and focused on the common good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really understanding that we are in a moment where people are going to be looking for solutions, answers, leadership from government. And in particular, I do think that there is a togetherness here,\" Lehane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehane and many others say more than the president, it is the governors — like Andrew Cuomo in New York, Maryland's Larry Hogan and Gavin Newsom in California — who are transcending the usual political lines by sticking to facts without sugar coating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Newsom-Getty-1215224841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11812580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Newsom-Getty-1215224841.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Newsom-Getty-1215224841-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Newsom-Getty-1215224841-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Newsom-Getty-1215224841-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. 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And that is really the prism by which everything that you're doing needs to rise and fall around,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehane, citing Winston Churchill during World War II, said effective handling of a crisis either changes the way leaders are perceived or brings new appreciation for qualities people didn't especially find likable before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Churchill had a very checkered career and was perceived by many in not the most positive, flattering way, but his core strengths really were the right strengths for the moment,\" Lehane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James said the most effective communicators are those who show their humanity in a crisis — by letting down their guard a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chris Cuomo/Andrew Cuomo exchanges that they've had about everything from playing basketball and how terrible Andrew apparently is to, you know, their mom's spaghetti sauce recipe,\" James said of the Cuomo brothers. 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