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While most experts expect California to retain its 53 seats, a significant undercount could jeopardize that representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right']The deadline to \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/\">respond to the census is Oct. 15\u003c/a>.[/pullquote]\u003c/span>On top of that, because lawmakers use census population data to redraw legislative lines, political representation — both federally and on the state level — could shift away from undercounted areas, which are more \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/interactive/2020-census-maps-californias-hard-to-count-communities/\">likely\u003c/a> to be poorer communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, communities rely on the data to determine investment needs, such as where to build new roads, hospitals and schools. And businesses and nonprofit groups use it to inform where services are needed and to help identify consumer demand and job markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zuEo-lXtVjc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of past census counts have shown that certain demographic groups are particularly hard to reach, including immigrants, children, young men, renters and Latino and African American residents. And all of those groups have become a significantly larger portion of California’s population since the 2010 count, heightening concerns of a potential undercount and prompting California to invest in an unprecedented level of census outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>How and when do I fill out the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Census Bureau, a division of the Department of Commerce, runs the count. It asks respondents to answer questions based on their location on April 1 — Census Day — to capture an accurate snapshot of that moment in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first year the census is \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/?cid=20002:%2Bcensus:sem.ga:p:dm:en:&utm_source=sem.ga&utm_medium=p&utm_campaign=dm:en&utm_content=20002&utm_term=%2Bcensus\">available online\u003c/a>. Although the bureau expects the majority of respondents to submit it that way, it can also be filled out by mail or phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 census officially began in January in the tiny, remote \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/796703843/along-the-rim-of-alaska-the-once-a-decade-u-s-census-begins-in-toksook-bay\">fishing village\u003c/a> of Toksook Bay, Alaska. The vast majority of the population, though — roughly 95% of all U.S. households — received \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-12/2020-informational-invitation-letter.pdf\">invitations in the mail\u003c/a> in mid-March. For everyone else, including those without home addresses, census counters — called \"enumerators\" — will deliver forms in person. This has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic — \u003ca href=\"#covid\">read more on that below.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invitations sent to each household include a unique ID and instructions on how to respond. You may have also received a paper form along with your official invitation if you live in an area with historically low response rates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us\">This map\u003c/a> shows the current self-response rate of your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your unique ID is intended to help protect your identity and prevent duplicates from being submitted. However, if you don't know your ID when you fill out the census, you can use your street address instead. And if more than one person in a household submits multiple forms accidentally, the Census Bureau says it has procedures in place to resolve that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"covid\">\u003c/a>Is the coronavirus pandemic affecting census operations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The cutoff for responding by yourself online, by phone or mail \u003cem>was\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html\">extended from July 31 to Oct. 31.\u003c/a> But on Oct. 13 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/921428056/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-end-census-early\">a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to end the count early\u003c/a>, on Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enumerators had planned to start visiting households in mid-May, but this is now \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html\">postponed until Aug. 11\u003c/a>. The Census Bureau conducted online, paid trainings for its recently hired temporary employees in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/update-on-2020-census-field-operations.html\">suspended all field operations\u003c/a>, which includes counting the homeless population and people living in “group quarters,\" such as on-campus students, until June 1. The bureau said it will continue to evaluate field operations and communicate updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of many colleges across the country taking instruction online and closing on-campus housing, the Census Bureau adjusted operations to specifically make sure students are counted. More on that \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/modifying-2020-operations-for-counting-college-students.html\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While field operations are suspended, households were able to respond to the census online by themselves. This meant census takers had fewer houses to visit when the time comes — and less concern about virus transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>How do I know I'm being contacted by the actual Census Bureau (and not someone trying to con me)?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#contact\">For starters\u003c/a>, the Census Bureau will NEVER:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Send unsolicited emails\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask for your social security number, bank account or credit card numbers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request money or donations\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an enumerator knocks on your door, you can ask for an ID badge, which should have that person's photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark and an expiration date. You can also call 800-923-8282 to speak with a local Census Bureau representative about any concerns.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What questions are on the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-08/2020-informational-questionnaire.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here\u003c/a> for a sample census form and \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/about-questions.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explanation\u003c/a> of why each question is asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notable changes from the 2010 census include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A question allowing respondents — both married or unmarried — to select if they are in opposite or same-sex partnerships.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The option to differentiate between Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A space to write in racial origins under the race selection question.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"7\">\u003c/a>Will the citizenship question be on the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Definitely not!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration's yearlong effort to include a citizenship question on the census was ruled unconstitutional by three federal judges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/717635291/supreme-court-leaves-citizenship-question-blocked-from-2020-census\">a decision upheld\u003c/a> last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the federal government will NOT be able to determine a person's citizenship status based on census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"8\">\u003c/a>Is my information protected?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. The results of the census can only be used for statistical analysis. Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/privacy_confidentiality/title_13_us_code.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal privacy law\u003c/a>, employees of the Census Bureau are prohibited from releasing any collected information, even to law enforcement agencies. The law also protects your responses from being used against you in court or by any other government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census workers take a lifetime oath to protect individuals' information. A violation can result in up to five years in prison and/or a penalty of $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau says it has also taken major steps this year to ensure data security against hacking and cyberthreats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All data submitted online are encrypted to protect personal privacy, and our cybersecurity program meets the highest and most recent standards for protecting personal information,\" the Census Bureau's \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/factsheets/2019/comm/2020-confidentiality-factsheet.pdf\">website states\u003c/a>. \"Once the data are received, they are no longer online. From the moment the Census Bureau collects responses, our focus and legal obligation is to keep them safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805159481/watchdog-warns-census-faces-cybersecurity-hiring-risks-before-national-rollout\">a report\u003c/a> from the Government Accountability Office warned that the bureau is lagging in addressing IT and cybersecurity risks tied to last-minute shifts to a new backup system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"9\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How should someone from a single home that houses two families answer the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents are no stranger to shared housing arrangements, so let’s break this down: A housing unit is considered separate only if its residents live and eat separately from the other tenants in the building and have direct access outside, or through a common hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The occupants of a housing unit may include a single person, one family, unmarried partners, multiple families living together, multiple roommates — there are plenty of possibilities.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What if I don't respond or leave many questions blank?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Contrary to what many people think, filling out the census is not voluntary: It's actually required by law. If you don’t respond or send back a largely incomplete form, the Census Bureau will continue to send reminders, deliver a paper questionnaire, and eventually, begin to make in-person enumerator visits — up to six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although failing to respond can technically\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13/221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> result in a fine\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/jan/09/us-census-bureau/americans-must-answer-us-census-bureau-survey-law-/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no one has been prosecuted\u003c/a> since 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And businesses and nonprofit groups use it to inform where services are needed and to help identify consumer demand and job markets.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zuEo-lXtVjc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zuEo-lXtVjc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The results of past census counts have shown that certain demographic groups are particularly hard to reach, including immigrants, children, young men, renters and Latino and African American residents. And all of those groups have become a significantly larger portion of California’s population since the 2010 count, heightening concerns of a potential undercount and prompting California to invest in an unprecedented level of census outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>How and when do I fill out the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Census Bureau, a division of the Department of Commerce, runs the count. It asks respondents to answer questions based on their location on April 1 — Census Day — to capture an accurate snapshot of that moment in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first year the census is \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/?cid=20002:%2Bcensus:sem.ga:p:dm:en:&utm_source=sem.ga&utm_medium=p&utm_campaign=dm:en&utm_content=20002&utm_term=%2Bcensus\">available online\u003c/a>. Although the bureau expects the majority of respondents to submit it that way, it can also be filled out by mail or phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 census officially began in January in the tiny, remote \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/796703843/along-the-rim-of-alaska-the-once-a-decade-u-s-census-begins-in-toksook-bay\">fishing village\u003c/a> of Toksook Bay, Alaska. The vast majority of the population, though — roughly 95% of all U.S. households — received \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-12/2020-informational-invitation-letter.pdf\">invitations in the mail\u003c/a> in mid-March. For everyone else, including those without home addresses, census counters — called \"enumerators\" — will deliver forms in person. This has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic — \u003ca href=\"#covid\">read more on that below.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invitations sent to each household include a unique ID and instructions on how to respond. You may have also received a paper form along with your official invitation if you live in an area with historically low response rates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us\">This map\u003c/a> shows the current self-response rate of your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your unique ID is intended to help protect your identity and prevent duplicates from being submitted. However, if you don't know your ID when you fill out the census, you can use your street address instead. 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These measures give local communities the authority to figure out how best to use resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures attempt to help some of the hundreds of thousands of children from low-income families in California who\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/only-a-fraction-of-california-children-eligible-receive-subsidized-child-care/608382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> never receive subsidies\u003c/a> for child care or preschool even though they are eligible. \u003ca href=\"https://gettingdowntofacts.com/sites/default/files/2018-09/GDTFII_Report_Reardon-Doss.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research\u003c/a> shows they are less prepared for kindergarten than their peers who attended preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_10977377\" label=\"Child Care Providers Struggle to Afford Rising Minimum Wage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County advocates are trying again to raise the sales tax to pay for more child care and preschool services, after narrowly failing to pass a similar measure in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_12_05_19/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/ROV_288363.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County’s Measure C\u003c/a> would add a half percent sales tax on local purchases — 50 cents for every $100 — to raise an estimated $30 million a year for pediatric health care and an estimated $120 million a year for improving child care workers’ wages and increasing the number of subsidized child care and preschool slots for low-income children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there is a huge gap between the need and the actual slots available currently. It would really be helpful to close the gap,” said Erika Kuempel, a spokeswoman for First 5 Alameda County, a county commission dedicated to helping families with children under 6 years old. The commission would administer the money if the measure passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.first5alameda.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First 5\u003c/a> Alameda County and the Alameda County Early Care and Education Program estimate that 4,000 to 5,000 more children would be able to enroll in subsidized child care or preschool if the measure passes, and 12,000 children who currently receive preschool subsidies from the state would receive additional money to cover more of their enrollment costs. 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Under the measure, championed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, property owners in the city’s roughly 40 \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/in-your-neighborhood/invest-in-neighborhoods/excelsior-strategy/EOMWG_PlanningCode720_ExcelsiorOuterMission.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neighborhood commercial districts\u003c/a> — including Union Street, Japantown and Haight Street — would have to pay $250 per linear foot of ground-floor retail space that has sat vacant for more than 182 days. That tax would double to $500 the following year and $1,000 annually thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure requires the approval a two-thirds supermajority and would take effect in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many parts of San Francisco, the Haight-Ashbury has its fair share of shuttered storefronts. 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The store on the right housed X Generation, which closed in 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The blame, she said, rests squarely on large real estate interests in the city that have caused rents to skyrocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So while sales are still very healthy, [and] Haight Street’s a very attractive place for people to come and spend their time, rents have gone up higher than the sales,” Evans said. “And so it makes it challenging for business owners to make a profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The empty storefronts don’t just create blight in the neighborhood, she added. They also impact her business by reducing foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would go to the kids clothing store and then come to the bookstore as well,” Evans said. “A good percentage of our customers were overlapping. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dale Carnegie could have been talking about Phil Ting when the positive-thinking guru said, decades ago, “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is that person. Sometimes he’s the California Assembly’s Don Quixote, chasing seemingly impossible dreams. He has tried to persuade skeptical colleagues to punish companies that do business with the Trump administration and to tell Californians to park their gas-fueled cars forever — even as he performs the more practical task of managing the Assembly’s purse strings as chairman of the powerful budget committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some practitioners, political accomplishment is a zero-sum proposition, with success measured by wins — legislation signed into law — and losses — bills that may die a lonely death in committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ting doesn’t see his work that way. He’s playing the long game. It’s a win, says Ting — a key figure in California’s fight to slash auto emissions in the battle against climate change and — if his legislation does nothing more than start a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d much rather raise the issue and have people pay attention,” he says. “Sometimes behavior changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11803067 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ting confers with fellow San Francisco Democrat David Chiu. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ting is perhaps best known for environmental legislation, but he also has a particular interest in California’s housing crisis. In that arena, he’s opted for an incremental approach, crafting small but consequential solutions. His bills helped make it easier for homeowners to construct backyard “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granny flats\u003c/a>” and made sure \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affordable housing projects\u003c/a> get priority when surplus government land becomes available. Both took effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 51-year-old San Francisco Democrat is a happy warrior as he works in his cluttered and busy Capitol office. Ting’s distinctive neckwear affords him a place in the Legislature’s Bow Tie Caucus and has the effect of making him appear whimsical. But colleagues have learned he’s a serious lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any meaningful thing takes time, and it takes persistence and it takes the ability to be strategic,” said Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Democratic senator from Santa Barbara. “Phil is one of those guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting worked with Jackson and Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, for years to establish an \u003ca href=\"https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2018-10-01-governor-signs-jackson-bill-create-first-statewide-industry-funded-drug-needles-take\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">industry-funded program\u003c/a> to provide safe disposal sites for pharmaceutical drugs and medical needles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Ting-fostered conversation may take a year or two, or three, but no matter. Peruse Ting’s website, and it’s possible to find the same \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposals\u003c/a>, reframed and reintroduced, over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we do legislation, we hope to change the world,” Ting said. “That’s what we are always after. But for me it’s about the end result ... . I’m a realist. I know that we can get small ideas done in a year. Big ideas or major changes will take longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting has a secret weapon: his Bay Area constituents, who have sent him to Sacramento four times with overwhelming electoral wins. In his 2018 race, he received \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2018-general/sov/68-state-assemblymember.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 84% of the vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That support gives him a wide ledge to balance on when his proposals, even the extreme, face significant obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, his 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clean Cars 2040 Act\u003c/a>, which would have required that all new passenger cars registered in the state after Jan. 1, 2040, be zero-emission vehicles — cars that don’t run on gasoline. The Western States Petroleum Association, an oil-industry group, dismissed the proposal as “crude and overly simplistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11803068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-2.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-2-160x233.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking on powerful oil interests would send some lawmakers fleeing. But Ting is undeterred; he hopes to maintain robust state rebates for buyers of electric vehicles and expand the network of charging stations for zero-emission cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very clear we have to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel in transportation,” he said. “There are billions of dollars at stake in the fossil-fuel industry; they are fighting for survival. (But) for me, it’s absolutely clear, this is what we need to do; it’s what is right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that forward-gazing former Gov. Jerry Brown was once called Governor Moonbeam, mocked for radical ideas that are now mainstream. “All those things he talked about became reality” later, Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have your whole legislative package so forward-thinking that it’s way too far ahead of its time,” he said. “But to have none of your bills do that is a travesty for the pulpit that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting used that legislative platform to offer a “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">border wall resistance\u003c/a>” measure in 2018 that would have barred companies from claiming tax credits and other California exemptions if they contracted to build President Trump’s wall along the southern border. But lacking sufficient support, Ting withdrew the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fortunate I come from a district that allows me to do more of the shooting-for-the-moon bills than other places, because those reflect my constituents’ values. I don’t go home and get yelled at for doing those bills. They wonder why they didn’t pass: What is everyone else thinking?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is an ardent supporter of electric vehicles (yes, he drives one). He has been tenacious in helping build California’s electric-vehicle charging network and wrote a law that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requested a state analysis\u003c/a> of how to increase adoption of electric cars. But his legislation directing air authorities to create a strategy for phasing out polluting cars failed, as did a move to punish automobile manufacturers that don’t conform to California’s tailpipe-emissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Magavern, policy director for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccair.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coalition for Clean Air\u003c/a>, has lobbied Ting in support of zero-emission vehicles and has observed the lawmaker’s penchant for swinging for the fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803069 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-1.jpg 725w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s shown he’s willing to push big ideas and think about the long term,” Magavern said, “in a building where a lot of people are only focused on the next election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting did not start out toward a life of public service. His parents fled political instability in their native Taiwan, arriving in California and starting a family. They wished for their son nothing less than a quiet, prosperous, safe life below the world’s radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in the Southern California beach town of Torrance, where he could be easily overlooked in a sea of white faces. He said he rarely saw other Chinese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until he arrived at UC Berkeley and merged with the Bay Area’s populous Asian community that he experienced what he describes as a cultural awakening. Ting took Asian Studies classes and read about the historical and social contributions of people who looked like him, discovering a rich ethnic history that until then, he said, had been “a blind spot for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“College is a time when many people find their identity,” Ting said. “My awakening was that I could make change happen. It gave me a purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from Berkeley, Ting attended Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He spent a summer organizing renters, advocating for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning to California, Ting was appointed assessor-recorder of San Francisco in 2005 by a young mayor he didn’t know, Gavin Newsom. The two coalesced over a shared interest in the environment and transformed San Francisco from a city with dormant participation in solar-power generation to one of the nation’s clean-energy leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Capitol, from his position at the helm of the budget committee, Ting is able to collect political chits, a stockpile he can go to in search of supporters for new proposals on homelessness, the state’s recycling programs and new forms of energy storage, not all of which are in bill form at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='climate' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Obernolte will likely oppose many of those proposals. The Republican Assemblyman from Big Bear, who is vice chair of the budget committee, sits at the opposite end of California’s political spectrum. But he said he appreciates Ting’s collegial approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a progressive liberal from the Bay Area; I’m a pretty conservative Republican from rural California. He’s got one of the biggest districts, and I represent one of the smallest,” Obernolte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the pair worked together on legislation that would have allowed cyclists in bike lanes to yield rather than come to a full halt at stop signs, a common practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that we are able to have constructive discussions about the issues is a testament to the power of a bipartisan approach,” Obernolte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill proved unpopular — opponents said it was dangerous — and in the end the authors pulled it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was not a defeat, Ting said, but the start of a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dale Carnegie could have been talking about Phil Ting when the positive-thinking guru said, decades ago, “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is that person. Sometimes he’s the California Assembly’s Don Quixote, chasing seemingly impossible dreams. He has tried to persuade skeptical colleagues to punish companies that do business with the Trump administration and to tell Californians to park their gas-fueled cars forever — even as he performs the more practical task of managing the Assembly’s purse strings as chairman of the powerful budget committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some practitioners, political accomplishment is a zero-sum proposition, with success measured by wins — legislation signed into law — and losses — bills that may die a lonely death in committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ting doesn’t see his work that way. He’s playing the long game. It’s a win, says Ting — a key figure in California’s fight to slash auto emissions in the battle against climate change and — if his legislation does nothing more than start a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d much rather raise the issue and have people pay attention,” he says. “Sometimes behavior changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11803067 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/TING-photo-2-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ting confers with fellow San Francisco Democrat David Chiu. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ting is perhaps best known for environmental legislation, but he also has a particular interest in California’s housing crisis. In that arena, he’s opted for an incremental approach, crafting small but consequential solutions. His bills helped make it easier for homeowners to construct backyard “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granny flats\u003c/a>” and made sure \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affordable housing projects\u003c/a> get priority when surplus government land becomes available. Both took effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 51-year-old San Francisco Democrat is a happy warrior as he works in his cluttered and busy Capitol office. Ting’s distinctive neckwear affords him a place in the Legislature’s Bow Tie Caucus and has the effect of making him appear whimsical. But colleagues have learned he’s a serious lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any meaningful thing takes time, and it takes persistence and it takes the ability to be strategic,” said Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Democratic senator from Santa Barbara. “Phil is one of those guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting worked with Jackson and Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, for years to establish an \u003ca href=\"https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2018-10-01-governor-signs-jackson-bill-create-first-statewide-industry-funded-drug-needles-take\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">industry-funded program\u003c/a> to provide safe disposal sites for pharmaceutical drugs and medical needles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Ting-fostered conversation may take a year or two, or three, but no matter. Peruse Ting’s website, and it’s possible to find the same \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposals\u003c/a>, reframed and reintroduced, over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we do legislation, we hope to change the world,” Ting said. “That’s what we are always after. But for me it’s about the end result ... . I’m a realist. I know that we can get small ideas done in a year. Big ideas or major changes will take longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting has a secret weapon: his Bay Area constituents, who have sent him to Sacramento four times with overwhelming electoral wins. In his 2018 race, he received \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2018-general/sov/68-state-assemblymember.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 84% of the vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That support gives him a wide ledge to balance on when his proposals, even the extreme, face significant obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, his 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clean Cars 2040 Act\u003c/a>, which would have required that all new passenger cars registered in the state after Jan. 1, 2040, be zero-emission vehicles — cars that don’t run on gasoline. The Western States Petroleum Association, an oil-industry group, dismissed the proposal as “crude and overly simplistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11803068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-2.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-2-160x233.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking on powerful oil interests would send some lawmakers fleeing. But Ting is undeterred; he hopes to maintain robust state rebates for buyers of electric vehicles and expand the network of charging stations for zero-emission cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very clear we have to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel in transportation,” he said. “There are billions of dollars at stake in the fossil-fuel industry; they are fighting for survival. (But) for me, it’s absolutely clear, this is what we need to do; it’s what is right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that forward-gazing former Gov. Jerry Brown was once called Governor Moonbeam, mocked for radical ideas that are now mainstream. “All those things he talked about became reality” later, Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have your whole legislative package so forward-thinking that it’s way too far ahead of its time,” he said. “But to have none of your bills do that is a travesty for the pulpit that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting used that legislative platform to offer a “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">border wall resistance\u003c/a>” measure in 2018 that would have barred companies from claiming tax credits and other California exemptions if they contracted to build President Trump’s wall along the southern border. But lacking sufficient support, Ting withdrew the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fortunate I come from a district that allows me to do more of the shooting-for-the-moon bills than other places, because those reflect my constituents’ values. I don’t go home and get yelled at for doing those bills. They wonder why they didn’t pass: What is everyone else thinking?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is an ardent supporter of electric vehicles (yes, he drives one). He has been tenacious in helping build California’s electric-vehicle charging network and wrote a law that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requested a state analysis\u003c/a> of how to increase adoption of electric cars. But his legislation directing air authorities to create a strategy for phasing out polluting cars failed, as did a move to punish automobile manufacturers that don’t conform to California’s tailpipe-emissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Magavern, policy director for the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccair.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coalition for Clean Air\u003c/a>, has lobbied Ting in support of zero-emission vehicles and has observed the lawmaker’s penchant for swinging for the fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803069 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-1.jpg 725w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-1-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s shown he’s willing to push big ideas and think about the long term,” Magavern said, “in a building where a lot of people are only focused on the next election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting did not start out toward a life of public service. His parents fled political instability in their native Taiwan, arriving in California and starting a family. They wished for their son nothing less than a quiet, prosperous, safe life below the world’s radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in the Southern California beach town of Torrance, where he could be easily overlooked in a sea of white faces. He said he rarely saw other Chinese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until he arrived at UC Berkeley and merged with the Bay Area’s populous Asian community that he experienced what he describes as a cultural awakening. Ting took Asian Studies classes and read about the historical and social contributions of people who looked like him, discovering a rich ethnic history that until then, he said, had been “a blind spot for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“College is a time when many people find their identity,” Ting said. “My awakening was that I could make change happen. It gave me a purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from Berkeley, Ting attended Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He spent a summer organizing renters, advocating for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning to California, Ting was appointed assessor-recorder of San Francisco in 2005 by a young mayor he didn’t know, Gavin Newsom. The two coalesced over a shared interest in the environment and transformed San Francisco from a city with dormant participation in solar-power generation to one of the nation’s clean-energy leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Capitol, from his position at the helm of the budget committee, Ting is able to collect political chits, a stockpile he can go to in search of supporters for new proposals on homelessness, the state’s recycling programs and new forms of energy storage, not all of which are in bill form at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘If this generation doesn’t step up, we’re in trouble. This is, after all, the generation that’s gonna be on the business end of climate change for as long as we live.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>—Pete Buttigieg, \u003ca href=\"https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=19-P13-00015&segmentID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, often talks about the surprising catastrophic flooding that hit his city twice in two years after he took office. A 1,000-year flood occurred in 2016. Then, in early 2018, a 500-year flood hit, costing millions and damaging thousands of homes. “For as long as we’re alive, and the younger you are the more you have on the line, you know our adult lives are going to be dominated by the increased severity and frequency of weather and even crazy chain reactions that happen,” Buttigieg wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Indiana is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=IN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavily coal reliant\u003c/a>, its state leadership across the board is Republican, and it has passed so-called \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/47/3/403/3852645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-emption laws \u003c/a>that curtail local initiatives to address climate change and fossil fuel use. Yet, Buttigieg set up an Office of Sustainability for South Bend. In the aftermath of the U.S. exit from the Paris climate accord, the city has jumped aboard campaigns by mayors to meet the treaty’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve continued to demonstrate our climate values by building LEED-certified fire stations, introducing free electric vehicle charging stations, empowering national service members to improve energy efficiency in low-income neighborhoods, and mentoring other Indiana cities seeking to lead on climate issues,” Buttigieg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration is also working to repair remaining damage from recent flooding and to ensure that vulnerable South Bend neighborhoods don’t get battered again. The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/a-year-after-historic-south-bend-area-floods-damage-remains/article_38db74dd-b1df-5062-ad7b-6acb91694ef7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a contract to install gates \u003c/a>on stormwater pipes that drain into the river, for the next time it reaches flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Buttigieg released a \u003ca href=\"https://peteforamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Climate-Plan-White-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate plan\u003c/a> in September in which he vowed to implement “a bold and achievable Green New Deal” and laid out an ambitious pathway to net zero emissions economy-wide by 2050 that focuses on expanding clean energy jobs and making the United States the world’s clean tech leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• By 2035, he envisions a zero-emissions electricity system and all new passenger vehicles being zero emissions, with help from electric vehicle tax credits of up to $10,000 per vehicle. By 2040, he sees requiring net zero emissions for all new heavy-duty vehicles, buses, trains, ships and aircraft, and having “a thriving carbon removal industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His plan to create 3 million new jobs includes a 10-year, $200 billion commitment to retrain workers displaced in the transition away from fossil fuels. 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Buttigieg says he would recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement and revitalize U.S. climate leadership in the Arctic Council “so we can reduce emissions and oppose drilling in that region.” A former U.S. Naval Reserve officer, Buttigieg wants to increase the military’s climate planning and create a senior climate security position in the Defense Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To nudge industries and consumers toward low-emissions choices, Buttigieg proposes an economy-wide carbon price with a dividend that would be sent to households to help offset higher costs. He also proposes a \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072018/trade-war-trump-tariffs-border-tax-carbon-footprint-fossil-fuels-climate-change-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">border adjustment tax\u003c/a> on any imports not already subject to a carbon price in their home country. He wants to launch a $250 billion national green bank to funnel financing for clean energy projects into disadvantaged communities “where private capital is reluctant to go,” particularly in middle America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• He also spells out the climate roles American farmers could play. “There are some estimates that through better soil management, soil could capture a level of carbon equivalent to the entire global transportation industry,” Buttigieg told a young questioner at an MSNBC town hall in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Buttigieg has said he would ban all new fossil fuel development on federal lands. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The people are on our side when it comes to climate change. Why? Because like you and I, they believe in science.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>—Amy Klobuchar, \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/10/amy-klobuchars-big-speech-today-heres-a-sneak-peak/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks of Fran, a woman she met in Pacific Junction, Iowa, along the Nebraska border during recent flooding. “Hanging there on her neck was this pair of binoculars. She had me look through them and she says, ‘This is my house, I bought it with my husband, our 4-year-old twins, we were going to retire in this house, and now it’s halfway underwater.'” It’s a personal connection, but is it enough to elevate the Minnesota senator above the other candidates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months into her first Senate term in 2007, Klobuchar introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/senate-bill/1387?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22klobuchar%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill\u003c/a> to start a carbon-tracking program as a step toward a cap-and-trade system to address climate change. Another bill of hers called for an expansion of renewable energy tax credits, provisions of which later became law as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Klobuchar’s “\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@AmyforAmerica/senator-klobuchars-plan-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-b1133845d2bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan to Tackle the Climate Crisis\u003c/a>,” released in September, stands out for its emphasis on using presidential powers to quickly restore climate and clean energy policies that the Trump administration has rolled back. She promises within her first 100 days to restore the Clean Power Plan to reduce power plant emissions; revive fuel economy standards for vehicles; strengthen enforcement of the Clean Air Act; and recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Her climate plan sets a goal of net zero emissions by 2050, along the lines of what \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102018/ipcc-climate-change-science-report-data-carbon-emissions-heat-waves-extreme-weather-oil-gas-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science says\u003c/a> is needed to meet the Paris goals, though she provides fewer details than other candidates on how to get there. She proposes a $1 trillion energy infrastructure package and talks about using grants, tax credits and model building codes to encourage investment in clean energy and energy efficiency. She also mentions streamlining the permitting process for renewable energy production on federal land and investing in electric vehicle infrastructure, public transit and revitalizing rail transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• While Klobuchar co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution in Congress, she hasn’t embraced it in her climate plan. She has called it aspirational rather than prescriptive, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/429719-klobuchar-on-green-new-deal-i-see-it-as-aspirational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN\u003c/a> that it doesn’t make sense to “get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years,” while it does make sense to “start doing concrete things, and put some aspirations out there on climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To help pay for energy infrastructure investments, Klobuchar says she would work with Congress to put a price on carbon pollution. Her plan doesn’t say what form that would take beyond stressing that it would not be regressive. She also proposes clean energy bonds to raise money and ending federal fossil fuel subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She answered a Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/climate-change/?utm_term=.609e4a1a6612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questionnaire\u003c/a> on fracking by saying she doesn’t want to ban the method of extracting oil and gas, but would like to regulate it better. Her climate plan does, however, propose banning new fossil fuel permitting on federal land. She has said that “safe nuclear power” along with “cleaner coal technologies” should continue to be developed as part of a comprehensive energy strategy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/homegrown-energy-environment-natural-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an issue brief\u003c/a> on her Senate website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She supports research into carbon capture and storage technology and co-sponsored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-promoting-carbon-capture-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 bill\u003c/a> to expand a tax credit to help carbon capture research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In her climate plan, Klobuchar also talks about the importance of bringing science back into decision-making in Washington. She says she wants to “hold the fossil fuel industry accountable” for climate change and mentions working to get a constitutional amendment “to get dark money out of our politics.” She signed the \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/444593-klobuchar-becomes-13th-democratic-candidate-to-pledge-not-to-accept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Fossil Fuel Funding\u003c/a> pledge in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2019-02-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes herself\u003c/a> as a progressive who can still win moderate voters in swing states such as Iowa and Wisconsin. On climate issues, however, her tone and some of her positions mean that much of the Democratic field is to her left. She is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution but says it shouldn’t be taken literally, and she shies away from stances that could be branded as extreme, such as banning fracking. But she can argue that her actions on climate and the environment are progressive, as shown by her 96 percent lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters and her early support for a cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Amy Klobuchar’s \u003ca href=\"https://amyklobuchar.com/combating-climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Klobuchar’s “\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@AmyforAmerica/senator-klobuchars-plan-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-b1133845d2bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan to Tackle the Climate Crisis\u003c/a>,” released in September, stands out for its emphasis on using presidential powers to quickly restore climate and clean energy policies that the Trump administration has rolled back. She promises within her first 100 days to restore the Clean Power Plan to reduce power plant emissions; revive fuel economy standards for vehicles; strengthen enforcement of the Clean Air Act; and recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Her climate plan sets a goal of net zero emissions by 2050, along the lines of what \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102018/ipcc-climate-change-science-report-data-carbon-emissions-heat-waves-extreme-weather-oil-gas-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science says\u003c/a> is needed to meet the Paris goals, though she provides fewer details than other candidates on how to get there. She proposes a $1 trillion energy infrastructure package and talks about using grants, tax credits and model building codes to encourage investment in clean energy and energy efficiency. She also mentions streamlining the permitting process for renewable energy production on federal land and investing in electric vehicle infrastructure, public transit and revitalizing rail transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• While Klobuchar co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution in Congress, she hasn’t embraced it in her climate plan. She has called it aspirational rather than prescriptive, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/429719-klobuchar-on-green-new-deal-i-see-it-as-aspirational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN\u003c/a> that it doesn’t make sense to “get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years,” while it does make sense to “start doing concrete things, and put some aspirations out there on climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To help pay for energy infrastructure investments, Klobuchar says she would work with Congress to put a price on carbon pollution. Her plan doesn’t say what form that would take beyond stressing that it would not be regressive. She also proposes clean energy bonds to raise money and ending federal fossil fuel subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She answered a Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/climate-change/?utm_term=.609e4a1a6612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questionnaire\u003c/a> on fracking by saying she doesn’t want to ban the method of extracting oil and gas, but would like to regulate it better. Her climate plan does, however, propose banning new fossil fuel permitting on federal land. She has said that “safe nuclear power” along with “cleaner coal technologies” should continue to be developed as part of a comprehensive energy strategy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/homegrown-energy-environment-natural-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an issue brief\u003c/a> on her Senate website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She supports research into carbon capture and storage technology and co-sponsored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-promoting-carbon-capture-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 bill\u003c/a> to expand a tax credit to help carbon capture research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In her climate plan, Klobuchar also talks about the importance of bringing science back into decision-making in Washington. She says she wants to “hold the fossil fuel industry accountable” for climate change and mentions working to get a constitutional amendment “to get dark money out of our politics.” She signed the \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/444593-klobuchar-becomes-13th-democratic-candidate-to-pledge-not-to-accept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Fossil Fuel Funding\u003c/a> pledge in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2019-02-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes herself\u003c/a> as a progressive who can still win moderate voters in swing states such as Iowa and Wisconsin. On climate issues, however, her tone and some of her positions mean that much of the Democratic field is to her left. She is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution but says it shouldn’t be taken literally, and she shies away from stances that could be branded as extreme, such as banning fracking. But she can argue that her actions on climate and the environment are progressive, as shown by her 96 percent lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters and her early support for a cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Amy Klobuchar’s \u003ca href=\"https://amyklobuchar.com/combating-climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With two weeks to go before Election Day in California, businesses, labor unions, mega-wealthy political donors and other coalitions of deep-pocketed interests seeking a say in state lawmaking have opened the spigots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopting benign names like “Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class,” “Keep California Golden” and “Taxpayers for Ethical Government,” groups are allowed to raise and spend unlimited sums of cash in state elections so long as they don’t coordinate their activities with any candidate. From the beginning of the year through Wednesday, these “independent expenditure” committees have spent $12.5 million to determine who wins seats in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though California may be known as a bastion of green, progressive policy making, this year’s money wars are dominated by the industries of the old guard: Together, oil and gas producers, Realtors and car dealers are responsible for nearly half of all outside spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the money traces the fault lines of California politics, where the biggest conflicts aren’t Democrat versus Republican, but different shades of blue. The most expensive race so far is not a purple swing seat in coastal Orange County or the burbs of San Diego, but a Democratic lock in east Los Angeles County. The main players: organized labor versus virtually every business interest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $12.5 million-and-counting on legislative races isn’t much by presidential standards. Last year, White House contenders spent roughly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-presidential-campaign-donations-data-visualizations-primary-campaign-zip-code/\">eight times that sum in California\u003c/a> — $99.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in less publicized contests further down the ballot, where the outcome may hinge on name recognition alone, that kind of money can go a long way, said Doug Morrow, who runs the political research group DSM Analytics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s particularly true if the fire hose of cash is aimed at just a handful of contested seats. Which it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance data published by the state and tabulated by Morrow, seven races — four for the state Senate and three for Assembly seats — have received nearly three-quarters of all the money spent by outside groups so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law caps the amount that anyone can contribute directly to a legislative campaign at $4,700 per election (primary and general contests are considered separate elections). Because independent expenditure committees can spend as much as they can raise, they are the preferred avenue for interest groups hoping to have their say before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrow said he has never seen so much money pumped into California legislative races this early in the year. Why the mad dash? California’s earlier-than-usual presidential primary and voters’ habit of casting their ballots weeks out from Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know people are going to put their ballots in the mail,” he said. “You’ve got to make your case and close that deal early on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Picking the right 'brand' of Democrat\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the most heated (and expensive) battles for California legislative seats, the key question for big outside spenders isn’t whether to back a Republican or a Democrat — but which kind of Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a reflection of the Democratic Party’s dominance of state politics in California. For businesses that might have once prioritized the election of Republicans, backing a business-inclined Democrat is now often their best bet for ensuring a friendly vote in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to get your particular brand of Democrat to emerge in the run off,” said David Townsend, who directs the Californians for Jobs and a Strong Economy, a committee that backs moderate Democrats. In races where business interests and organized labor pick different candidates, he said, “it’s an arms race. When one side spends more, you have to spend more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"bp-page-2\" class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"2\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"textLayer\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11803015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-1.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-1-160x425.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>As of this week, the most expensive arms race in the state is the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-assembly-elections-2020-voter-guide/#AD57\">contest to replace Assemblyman Ian Calderon\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Whittier in southeast Los Angeles County. The outside money tally so far: more than $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dynastic names have attracted all the outside spending. Lisa Calderon, the incumbent’s stepmother, has the backing of labor groups like the Service Employees International Union, while Sylvia Rubio, the sister of two state lawmakers, has financial supporters that include oil and gas producers, credit unions and charter school advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s a crowded field. Calderon and Rubio are running against six other Democrats and one Republican. In state and congressional races in California, only the top two candidates move on to the November general election. And though registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district by more than two-to-one, the sheer number of Democrats in the field may sufficiently dice up the Democratic vote to give Delphine Martinez, the lone GOP candidate, one of those two spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, the race is on to pump campaign cash into the district now, while the contest is still up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Morrow’s “independent expenditure” tabulations, more than $1.1 million has been spent to boost Rubio, making her the biggest beneficiary of outside spending in any legislative race in California this year. More than $218,000 has been spent opposing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor groups have spent some $615,000 to help Calderon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a race like that, where fewer than 100,000 people are going to vote, that’s a lot of money,” said Townsend, whose PAC is backing Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil is king\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nevermind California’s green cred; the petroleum industry has been the state’s biggest source of independent campaign spending this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent Petroleum Association’s two major committees (somewhat duplicatively called the “Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class” and the “Restore California’s Middle Class Coalition,” respectively) have spent more than $3.7 million on state legislative races. That’s 29% of all independent spending in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11803016 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-160x229.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Roberts, a spokesperson for Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, declined a request for an interview, but said in a written statement that the committee “supports leaders who have protected California jobs and the middle class and share our commitment to policies that help businesses thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even that number may understate the oil and gas industry’s financial footprint. Many of the state’s largest political action committees are not sponsored by a single industry, but are joint ventures that pool the political spending of like-minded businesses. Townsend’s committee, for example, has been the eighth biggest independent election spender this year. Over the last two campaign cycles, its largest contributor has been Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry probably can’t count on a wholesale reversal of state climate policy through their legislative spending. But in an era of Democratic supremacy in Sacramento, moderate Democrats have been a vital bulwark for oil and petroleum producers to check more progressive lawmakers’ most aggressively green impulses — for example, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/02/california-phil-ting-electric-cars-climate-change/\">proposed ban on gas-powered cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the industry’s two political action committees have focused their spending on five races. And like their peers in other industries, they are supporting moderate Democrats in four of them: Rubio in Whittier, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-senate-elections-2020-voter-guide/#SD15\">Nora Campos\u003c/a>, who is running to replace a termed-out Sen. Jim Beall in San Jose, and two Stockton-area Democrats: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-senate-elections-2020-voter-guide/#SD05\">Mani Grewal\u003c/a> who is running for Senate and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-assembly-elections-2020-voter-guide/#AD13\">Carlos Villapudua\u003c/a> who is running for Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Spending may not always be what is seems\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When a candidate’s campaign spends its own money in a race, the goal is generally self-evident: to get its contender elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent spending can be harder to parse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a committee sponsored by the industry group representing the state’s landlords dropped nearly $45,000 in support of Jim Ridenour, a little-known Republican candidate for Senate in Modesto who has done next to no public campaigning and has raised only $7,900 on his own. That only adds to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2020/01/stockton-senate-california-top-two-dirty-tricks-sd5/\">ongoing speculation\u003c/a> that support for Ridenour may be a way to split up the Republican vote, ensuring that the moderate Democrat in the race, Mani Grewal, will make it into the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the state Association of Realtors’ decision to \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2454597&amendid=0\">spend more than $30,000\u003c/a> to help Simi Valley Democrat Steve Fox, who is hoping to beat vulnerable Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey. But Fox is saddled with a history of sexual harassment allegations. That prompted an outraged response from Democratic consultant Bill Wong on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BillWongLLC/status/1230535710886645762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1230535710886645762&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fblogs%2Fcalifornia-election-2020%2F2020%2F02%2Fcalifornia-legislative-campaigns-outside-spending-soars-oil-realtors-car-dealers%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the California Alliance for Progress and Education, a committee sponsored by the state’s New Car Dealers Association, has spent some $468,000 alternately propping up, or dropping the hammer on, a wide ideological range of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one race, the car dealers are attacking Andrew Kotyuk, a Republican running against Assemblyman Chad Mayes, who recently \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/12/chad-mayes-leaves-california-gop-defection-former-party-leader/\">left the GOP\u003c/a> to become a political independent. In northeastern California, they’ve spent 10 times as much against another political independent, Paul Dhanuka, whose entry into the Assembly race there threatens to upend what would otherwise be a typical Democrat versus Republican standoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another beneficiary of the group’s spending: Julie Mobley, a little-known Republican running a longshot race against Sen. Steve Glazer. Mobley is being backed by the car dealers, along with committees representing oil and gas producers and other major business interests, to the tune of about $155,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to California’s top two election system, improving Mobley’s chances of getting first or second place could end up helping the incumbent senator, who hopes to ward off a challenge from the left from progressive activist Marisol Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California New Car Dealers Association wouldn’t say whether that was the group’s intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to decline to comment and let the campaign filings speak for themselves,” said spokesperson Jenny Dudikoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the filings really do speak for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a committee sponsored by Lyft spent more than $34,000 on a mailer attacking Republican Assemblyman Tyler Diep in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft did not respond to a request for comment, but it isn’t hard to read between the lines. Last year, Diep was the lone Republican to vote for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2019/09/whos-in-whos-out-of-ab-5/\">a bill\u003c/a> that makes it harder for the ride-hailing service to designate its drivers as independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A few tycoons are spending big\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Diep’s electoral fight for reelection was already bound to be an expensive one before Lyft weighed in. That’s thanks in part to Kieu Hoang, a Vietnamese immigrant who became a California pharmaceutical, nutritional supplement and wine magnate with a penchant for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/03/whos-that-rich-vietnamese-guy-in-snazzy-pants-who-gave-5-million-to-san-jose-flood-victims/\">snazzy pants\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent expenditure committees typically give businesses, labor groups or other organized groups with political interests the chance to pool their resources and influence elections. But nowhere in California law does it say that a single wealthy individual with a particular electoral vision can’t do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in January, two independent expenditure committees popped up to oppose Diep and to fund his conservative challenger, former state Sen. Janet Nguyen, a fellow Republican. Together, the two groups have spent more than $197,000. According to campaign finance filings, all but $8,000 has come from Hoang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t Hoang’s only political venture. He has also contributed $100,000 to a Super PAC committed to reelecting President Trump and is currently \u003ca href=\"https://voiceofoc.org/2020/01/eleven-candidates-hope-to-replace-three-westminster-council-members-in-special-recall-election/\">funding the recall\u003c/a> efforts of local elected officials in Westminster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike my opponent, I don’t have a billionaire from China funding my campaign,” said Diep. He’s referring to Hoang, who lives in California but whose company, RAAS Blood Products, is based in Shanghai. “I am proud that my reelection effort is being lifted by small businesses, healthcare providers and working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, two committees have spent some $240,000 defending Diep. The largest donors to these committees are industry groups representing the state’s doctors, dentists and landlords, as well as Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoang is not the only person to plow some of his personal fortune into a competitive legislative race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Silicon Valley senate race to replace outgoing Sen. Jerry Hill, a committee funded by venture capitalist Reid Hoffman has spent $366,000 to boost the candidacy of Josh Becker, a Democrat. And in the same race, Michael Brownrigg, a Burlingame city councilman and also a Democrat benefited from $457,400 in spending from a source that is “independent” only in the strictest legal sense: his mother, Linda Brownrigg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the maternal support at a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/05/senate-candidates-clash-over-housing-policies-and-pges-future-at-palo-alto-forum\">town hall forum\u003c/a> co-sponsored by CalMatters, Brownrigg said it was better to be funded by a parent than a special interest group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys can all be sure that the most my mom will ask of me is that come visit more often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Get ready to cast your California ballot with our \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/voter-guide-2020-california-primary/\">insightful primary voter\u003c/a> guide. You’ll find our coverage of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-assembly-elections-2020-voter-guide/\">hot state Assembly races here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-senate-elections-2020-voter-guide/\">hot state Senate races here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With two weeks to go before Election Day in California, businesses, labor unions, mega-wealthy political donors and other coalitions of deep-pocketed interests seeking a say in state lawmaking have opened the spigots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopting benign names like “Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class,” “Keep California Golden” and “Taxpayers for Ethical Government,” groups are allowed to raise and spend unlimited sums of cash in state elections so long as they don’t coordinate their activities with any candidate. From the beginning of the year through Wednesday, these “independent expenditure” committees have spent $12.5 million to determine who wins seats in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though California may be known as a bastion of green, progressive policy making, this year’s money wars are dominated by the industries of the old guard: Together, oil and gas producers, Realtors and car dealers are responsible for nearly half of all outside spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the money traces the fault lines of California politics, where the biggest conflicts aren’t Democrat versus Republican, but different shades of blue. The most expensive race so far is not a purple swing seat in coastal Orange County or the burbs of San Diego, but a Democratic lock in east Los Angeles County. The main players: organized labor versus virtually every business interest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $12.5 million-and-counting on legislative races isn’t much by presidential standards. Last year, White House contenders spent roughly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-presidential-campaign-donations-data-visualizations-primary-campaign-zip-code/\">eight times that sum in California\u003c/a> — $99.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in less publicized contests further down the ballot, where the outcome may hinge on name recognition alone, that kind of money can go a long way, said Doug Morrow, who runs the political research group DSM Analytics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s particularly true if the fire hose of cash is aimed at just a handful of contested seats. Which it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance data published by the state and tabulated by Morrow, seven races — four for the state Senate and three for Assembly seats — have received nearly three-quarters of all the money spent by outside groups so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law caps the amount that anyone can contribute directly to a legislative campaign at $4,700 per election (primary and general contests are considered separate elections). Because independent expenditure committees can spend as much as they can raise, they are the preferred avenue for interest groups hoping to have their say before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrow said he has never seen so much money pumped into California legislative races this early in the year. Why the mad dash? California’s earlier-than-usual presidential primary and voters’ habit of casting their ballots weeks out from Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know people are going to put their ballots in the mail,” he said. “You’ve got to make your case and close that deal early on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Picking the right 'brand' of Democrat\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the most heated (and expensive) battles for California legislative seats, the key question for big outside spenders isn’t whether to back a Republican or a Democrat — but which kind of Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a reflection of the Democratic Party’s dominance of state politics in California. For businesses that might have once prioritized the election of Republicans, backing a business-inclined Democrat is now often their best bet for ensuring a friendly vote in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to get your particular brand of Democrat to emerge in the run off,” said David Townsend, who directs the Californians for Jobs and a Strong Economy, a committee that backs moderate Democrats. In races where business interests and organized labor pick different candidates, he said, “it’s an arms race. When one side spends more, you have to spend more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"bp-page-2\" class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"2\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"textLayer\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11803015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-1.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-1-1-160x425.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>As of this week, the most expensive arms race in the state is the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-assembly-elections-2020-voter-guide/#AD57\">contest to replace Assemblyman Ian Calderon\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Whittier in southeast Los Angeles County. The outside money tally so far: more than $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dynastic names have attracted all the outside spending. Lisa Calderon, the incumbent’s stepmother, has the backing of labor groups like the Service Employees International Union, while Sylvia Rubio, the sister of two state lawmakers, has financial supporters that include oil and gas producers, credit unions and charter school advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s a crowded field. Calderon and Rubio are running against six other Democrats and one Republican. In state and congressional races in California, only the top two candidates move on to the November general election. And though registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district by more than two-to-one, the sheer number of Democrats in the field may sufficiently dice up the Democratic vote to give Delphine Martinez, the lone GOP candidate, one of those two spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, the race is on to pump campaign cash into the district now, while the contest is still up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Morrow’s “independent expenditure” tabulations, more than $1.1 million has been spent to boost Rubio, making her the biggest beneficiary of outside spending in any legislative race in California this year. More than $218,000 has been spent opposing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor groups have spent some $615,000 to help Calderon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a race like that, where fewer than 100,000 people are going to vote, that’s a lot of money,” said Townsend, whose PAC is backing Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil is king\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nevermind California’s green cred; the petroleum industry has been the state’s biggest source of independent campaign spending this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent Petroleum Association’s two major committees (somewhat duplicatively called the “Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class” and the “Restore California’s Middle Class Coalition,” respectively) have spent more than $3.7 million on state legislative races. That’s 29% of all independent spending in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11803016 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Graphic-2-160x229.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Roberts, a spokesperson for Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, declined a request for an interview, but said in a written statement that the committee “supports leaders who have protected California jobs and the middle class and share our commitment to policies that help businesses thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even that number may understate the oil and gas industry’s financial footprint. Many of the state’s largest political action committees are not sponsored by a single industry, but are joint ventures that pool the political spending of like-minded businesses. Townsend’s committee, for example, has been the eighth biggest independent election spender this year. Over the last two campaign cycles, its largest contributor has been Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry probably can’t count on a wholesale reversal of state climate policy through their legislative spending. But in an era of Democratic supremacy in Sacramento, moderate Democrats have been a vital bulwark for oil and petroleum producers to check more progressive lawmakers’ most aggressively green impulses — for example, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/02/california-phil-ting-electric-cars-climate-change/\">proposed ban on gas-powered cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the industry’s two political action committees have focused their spending on five races. And like their peers in other industries, they are supporting moderate Democrats in four of them: Rubio in Whittier, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-senate-elections-2020-voter-guide/#SD15\">Nora Campos\u003c/a>, who is running to replace a termed-out Sen. Jim Beall in San Jose, and two Stockton-area Democrats: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-senate-elections-2020-voter-guide/#SD05\">Mani Grewal\u003c/a> who is running for Senate and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-assembly-elections-2020-voter-guide/#AD13\">Carlos Villapudua\u003c/a> who is running for Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Spending may not always be what is seems\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When a candidate’s campaign spends its own money in a race, the goal is generally self-evident: to get its contender elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent spending can be harder to parse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a committee sponsored by the industry group representing the state’s landlords dropped nearly $45,000 in support of Jim Ridenour, a little-known Republican candidate for Senate in Modesto who has done next to no public campaigning and has raised only $7,900 on his own. That only adds to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2020/01/stockton-senate-california-top-two-dirty-tricks-sd5/\">ongoing speculation\u003c/a> that support for Ridenour may be a way to split up the Republican vote, ensuring that the moderate Democrat in the race, Mani Grewal, will make it into the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the state Association of Realtors’ decision to \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2454597&amendid=0\">spend more than $30,000\u003c/a> to help Simi Valley Democrat Steve Fox, who is hoping to beat vulnerable Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey. But Fox is saddled with a history of sexual harassment allegations. That prompted an outraged response from Democratic consultant Bill Wong on Twitter.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Last year, Diep was the lone Republican to vote for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2019/09/whos-in-whos-out-of-ab-5/\">a bill\u003c/a> that makes it harder for the ride-hailing service to designate its drivers as independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A few tycoons are spending big\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Diep’s electoral fight for reelection was already bound to be an expensive one before Lyft weighed in. That’s thanks in part to Kieu Hoang, a Vietnamese immigrant who became a California pharmaceutical, nutritional supplement and wine magnate with a penchant for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/03/whos-that-rich-vietnamese-guy-in-snazzy-pants-who-gave-5-million-to-san-jose-flood-victims/\">snazzy pants\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent expenditure committees typically give businesses, labor groups or other organized groups with political interests the chance to pool their resources and influence elections. 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"content": "\u003cp>A day after President Trump visited Central Valley growers to celebrate providing more water to farms, California sued his administration to block the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949697/trump-water-rules-erode-protection-for-endangered-salmon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rules\u003c/a> that would do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949697/trump-water-rules-erode-protection-for-endangered-salmon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contentious\u003c/a> new rules govern how much water can be pumped out of the watersheds of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which flow from the Sierra Nevada to the San Francisco Bay, controlling irrigation for millions of acres of farmland in the country’s biggest agricultural economy, drinking water for two-thirds of Californians from Silicon Valley to San Diego, and the fate of endangered salmon and other fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, argues that pumping more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms would drive endangered populations of delta smelt, Chinook salmon and steelhead trout to the brink extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California won’t silently spectate as the Trump administration adopts scientifically challenged biological opinions that push species to extinction and harm our natural resources and waterways,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who filed the suit in partnership with the state's Environmental Protection and Natural Resources agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules have been under fire for more than a year, as President Trump first ordered them to be prepared with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1938750/trump-pressure-on-california-water-plan-excludes-public-rushes-science-emails-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unprecedented speed\u003c/a>, then removed and replaced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944278/trumps-pending-rules-on-california-water-marked-by-missing-documents-and-hurried-reviews-say-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal biologists\u003c/a> who had concluded the rules would threaten endangered salmon. Last fall, when the Trump administration announced the plan, officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949697/trump-water-rules-erode-protection-for-endangered-salmon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">couldn't promise\u003c/a> it would, in fact, deliver more water to agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Conant, regional director for the Bureau of Reclamation, says the plan will have to be in place for awhile before he could say whether it will give more water to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could very well in certain years decrease it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rivers that feed the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as well as the Delta itself, are home to a variety of state and federally protected fish species, whose numbers have been dwindling since humans began building dams and reservoirs to control flooding and send water throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two massive networks of dams and canals determine how much water gets taken out, with one system run by the state and the other run by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal continues to be to realize enforceable voluntary agreements that provide the best immediate protection for species, reliable and safe drinking water, and dependable water sources for our farmers for economic prosperity,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement Thursday. “This is the best path forward to sustain our communities, our environment and our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Trump visited Bakersfield to fete the rule change, and signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-promoting-reliable-supply-delivery-water-west/\">a memo\u003c/a> that goes further, directing \"the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality to help deliver and develop more water supplies in California’s Central Valley,\" according to a U.S. Interior Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/trump-administration-optimizes-water-delivery-and-increases-species-protection\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Four More Years'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a stage adorned with a giant American flag, stacks of produce boxes and large blue tractors on either end, Trump addressed an audience of local supporters and growers who stand to benefit from the directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jim Erickson, Madera Irrigation District\"]'It’s going to give us more flexibility, give us some more water, which we are all in dire need of in California.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to be signing a very important piece of legislation that is going to give you a lot of water and a lot of dam and a lot of everything,” Trump told excited members of the audience. “And you’ll be able to farm your land — you’ll be able to do things you never thought possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was joined onstage by California Republican Reps. Devin Nunes of Tulare and Tom McClintock of Elk Grove, as well as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and other active and aspiring local Republican politicians. At one point, Trump called up former Central Valley Republican Rep. David Valadao, who was ousted by a Democrat in the 2018 midterm elections and is now running to regain his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41454_TRUMP-2020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41454_TRUMP-2020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41454_TRUMP-2020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41454_TRUMP-2020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41454_TRUMP-2020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of the president came out to Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield wearing ‘Trump 2020’ campaign swag (Alexandra Hall/KQED). \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The event, in a hot, crowded hangar at Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, had all the signs of a campaign rally. Chants of “four more years” rang out from a crowd of well over a thousand supporters wearing red \"Make America Great Again\" hats, \"Women for Trump\" shirts and \"Trump 2020\" swag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to show he had fulfilled his 2016 campaign promise to deliver more water to Central Valley ranchers, Trump brought several local farmers on stage to talk about the importance of water to the region’s agricultural economy and laud the president’s support of America’s farming families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before the event, officials with the federal Bureau of Reclamation signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/includes/documentShow.php?Doc_ID=42324\">record of decision\u003c/a> that formally adopted the biological opinions unveiled by the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949697/trump-water-rules-erode-protection-for-endangered-salmon\">last year\u003c/a>, dictating how much and when water can be pumped out of the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Battles Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It also set the stage for more court battles between the administration, on one side, and environmental groups and the state of California on the other. Environmental groups have fought to limit pumping because of the danger posed to endangered fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s revised biological opinion was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949697/trump-water-rules-erode-protection-for-endangered-salmon\">unveiled\u003c/a> in October 2019, after federal scientists, who had found the Delta water plan would jeopardize endangered salmon, were removed from the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of environmental groups, including the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and Natural Resources Defense Council\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/pccfa-v-ross-complaint-20191202.pdf\"> sued\u003c/a> the administration in December in an effort to stop the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These new rules sacrifice the Bay-Delta and its most endangered species for the financial interests of the President’s political backers and Secretary Bernhardt’s former clients,\" NRDC said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/media/2020/200219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> following Trump's visit Wednesday. \"The Newsom Administration has the tools it needs to protect California from Trump’s latest assault on the environment, and we’re looking forward to working with the Governor to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Poole, senior director of the Nature Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that if the administration's plan goes into effect, it will cause significant harm and possibly the extinction of salmon and other species in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What he signed was actually just a memorandum that doesn't really do a whole lot other than say they're going to try to further increase water deliveries even beyond what these biological opinions do. And they're going to pursue more water storage,” Poole said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Trump's Supporters: He ‘Gets Things Done’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Farmers and other local residents who waited in a long line of ticket holders to see Trump in Bakersfield were ecstatic that he would make time to revisit the Central Valley. Many told KQED they are pleased with the president’s actions on water and his performance overall, as a leader who “gets things done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"water\"]“We're here to support the Trump administration and their efforts to help us get more local water supply to our growers,” said Aaron Fukuda, general manager of the Tulare Irrigation District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These biological opinions that we're looking at, we believe they improve our habitat and bring more water down to our farmers. It's a win-win for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Erickson, director of the Madera Irrigation District, and a fourth-generation farmer who grows almonds, olives, grapes, pistachios, oats and prunes, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to give us more flexibility, give us some more water, which we are all in dire need of in California,” Erickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11802782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Erickson (left) and Aaron Fukuda (right) are both general managers of local irrigation districts in favor of delivering more water to Central Valley farmers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Conant, regional director for the Bureau of Reclamation, says the plan will have to be in place for awhile before he could say whether it will give more water to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could very well in certain years decrease it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rivers that feed the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as well as the Delta itself, are home to a variety of state and federally protected fish species, whose numbers have been dwindling since humans began building dams and reservoirs to control flooding and send water throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two massive networks of dams and canals determine how much water gets taken out, with one system run by the state and the other run by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal continues to be to realize enforceable voluntary agreements that provide the best immediate protection for species, reliable and safe drinking water, and dependable water sources for our farmers for economic prosperity,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement Thursday. “This is the best path forward to sustain our communities, our environment and our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Trump visited Bakersfield to fete the rule change, and signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-promoting-reliable-supply-delivery-water-west/\">a memo\u003c/a> that goes further, directing \"the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality to help deliver and develop more water supplies in California’s Central Valley,\" according to a U.S. Interior Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/trump-administration-optimizes-water-delivery-and-increases-species-protection\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Four More Years'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a stage adorned with a giant American flag, stacks of produce boxes and large blue tractors on either end, Trump addressed an audience of local supporters and growers who stand to benefit from the directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We're here to support the Trump administration and their efforts to help us get more local water supply to our growers,” said Aaron Fukuda, general manager of the Tulare Irrigation District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These biological opinions that we're looking at, we believe they improve our habitat and bring more water down to our farmers. It's a win-win for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Erickson, director of the Madera Irrigation District, and a fourth-generation farmer who grows almonds, olives, grapes, pistachios, oats and prunes, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to give us more flexibility, give us some more water, which we are all in dire need of in California,” Erickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11802782 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41456_Irrigation-guys-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Erickson (left) and Aaron Fukuda (right) are both general managers of local irrigation districts in favor of delivering more water to Central Valley farmers. Both said they planned to vote for President Trump in November (Alexandra Hall/KQED). \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came out, he said he was going to work on this, he listened and he’s doing it,” Erickson added, referring to Trump’s 2016 campaign visit to Fresno when he committed to delivering more water to local ranchers. “I'm hopeful that [the state will] back off and realize that this is good for all of us and keep the economy going here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Valley politicians also reacted to Trump’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Andreas Borgeas, R-Fresno, said he appreciated Trump visiting the San Joaquin Valley and the federal government “finally taking action to provide more water for valley farmers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The ball is now in Gov. Newsom's court to provide clean, reliable and ample water supplies to valley farmers and communities,” Borgeas said. “The state must ensure that infrastructure and storage are a top priority. It's simple: no water, no farms, and no food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two freshman Democratic congressmen who flipped their districts in the 2018 midterm elections took a more diplomatic stance, rather than committing to one side of the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biological opinions needed to be updated with better, newer science,\" TJ Cox and Josh Harder said in a joint statement, \"We would prefer the parties work together in a meeting room rather than square up as rivals in the courtroom. ... We stand ready to help all parties reach a resolution in any way we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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