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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/steve-hilton\">Steve Hilton\u003c/a>, a leading Republican candidate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> governor, said he would allow Louisiana to extradite a Bay Area abortion doctor to face charges if he’s elected, despite state laws prohibiting cooperation and strong public support for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069971/california-lawmakers-defend-doctor-as-states-clash-over-abortion\">rejected\u003c/a> Louisiana’s request to send Healdsburg physician Dr. Rémy Coeytaux to face charges there. Coeytaux is accused of prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman in October 2023 and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/louisiana-abortion-pills-california-indictment.html\">indicted\u003c/a> by the state’s GOP attorney general earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In rejecting the request, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/14/governor-newsom-rejects-louisianas-attempt-to-extradite-california-doctor-for-providing-abortion-care/\">cited\u003c/a> an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6.27.22-EO-N-12-22-Reproductive-Freedom.pdf?emrc=4e1397\">executive order\u003c/a> he signed in 2022, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That executive order expressly bars the state from cooperating with extradition requests from other states investigating reproductive health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pointed to California’s telemedicine abortion \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB345\">shield law\u003c/a>, which protects anyone who provides or receives reproductive health care in the state. The law is part of a suite of protections lawmakers passed in response to the Supreme Court’s decision, though it took effect after Coeytaux allegedly mailed the abortion pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on KQED’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em> podcast, Hilton said he understands that California voters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\">enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution\u003c/a>, but said he would still “enforce the law” — referring to Louisiana’s law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana voted one way. California voted a different way. That’s the beauty of our federalist system, and I think that’s exactly right,” Hilton said. “But you can’t have one state imposing its will on another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006082 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton, a leading Republican candidate for California governor, said he would allow Louisiana to extradite a Bay Area abortion doctor if elected, despite California laws barring such cooperation and broad public support for reproductive rights. \u003ccite>(Studio One-One/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton said he’s always supported the “decentralization of power” and believes decisions should be made as close as possible to the people. He argued that’s what the Supreme Court did when it overturned Roe v. Wade, handing decisions over abortion access to the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, Hilton said by not honoring the extradition request, California is trying to impose its will on Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana is trying to uphold what its people voted for, and California is undermining it,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s right. Just as I wouldn’t want to see Louisiana coming in and undermining something that we voted for here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisiana has also tried to extradite a doctor from New York, a request that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/abortion-extradition-louisiana-doctor.html\">also refused\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12069984 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-KAISER-STRIKE-START-MD-06-KQED.jpg']Reproductive rights advocates slammed Hilton’s position. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California CEO and President Jodi Hicks accused Hilton of “brazenly” rejecting California’s “values and leadership as a reproductive freedom state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any governor or future governor’s job is to protect the values and principles here in California — and certainly ones that Californians have voted on,” Hicks said, noting that Proposition 1, which enshrined abortion access in the state constitution, passed with 67% support. “Their job is to protect those principles and anyone in California, including our California providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of the national group Reproductive Freedom for All, called Louisiana’s extradition attempts “outrageous and dangerous\u003cstrong>,” \u003c/strong>saying in a written statement that by leaving abortion to the states, President Donald Trump has given “anti-abortion extremists free rein to criminalize providers, terrorize patients, and reach beyond state lines to block care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a moment for capitulation,” she said. “The next governor of California must be an unequivocal champion for reproductive freedom, willing to push back against the extremists working to undermine our fundamental rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler, an expert on reproductive rights and laws, said California’s shield law may not technically prevent a governor from agreeing to an extradition order, but it would effectively prevent the extradition from happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the law prohibits state and local government employees and contractors from participating in an extradition relating to abortion care, meaning a judge would not legally be able to issue an arrest warrant, and police could not take someone into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s true that there’s an executive order that Newsom introduced that could be rescinded,” by a future governor, Ziegler said. “But then there’s just the statute, which the governor on his own couldn’t rescind … There are a lot of limits on what other actors can do in terms of arrest and extradition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A governor, she said, “isn’t going to roll up and arrest people and extradite them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler said Newsom likely cited the executive order in Coeytaux’s case because the alleged shipment of medication to Louisiana occurred in October 2023, months before California’s shield law took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, she said, the situation illustrates how complicated the legal landscape has become since Roe v. Wade was overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a zero-sum game,” Ziegler said. “One state is imposing its will on the other. It’s just a question of which one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the whole leaving it to the states thing wasn’t going to work, because the states were going to take diametrically opposed positions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton speaks with Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on Political Breakdown at KQED in San Francisco on Jan. 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton’s remarks come as the race to succeed Newsom remains wide open. Despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans nearly two-to-one in the state — and the fact that no Republican has won statewide office in California in 20 years — Hilton has \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2026-new-poll/\">led some recent polls\u003c/a>, along with another GOP candidate, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic field is large, and support among those candidates remains fractured, leading to some consternation among Democrats that the two GOP candidates could make it into a November runoff; California’s election system allows the top two vote-getters to advance, regardless of party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surveys also show a wide swath of the electorate is still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton has largely avoided talking about abortion on the campaign trail. But in an interview last summer with Orange County evangelical pastor Jack Hibbs, he\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMSzxq8PCuV/\"> talked about\u003c/a> moving the state “towards life.” He called abortion an “awful, awful outcome” and said he would encourage adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hibbs, the founder and senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=26039887812314763\">endorsed\u003c/a> Hilton last week, sharing an audio clip where Hilton also said he would end the use of taxpayer funds to promote what he called “abortion tourism” if elected governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pointed to California’s telemedicine abortion \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB345\">shield law\u003c/a>, which protects anyone who provides or receives reproductive health care in the state. The law is part of a suite of protections lawmakers passed in response to the Supreme Court’s decision, though it took effect after Coeytaux allegedly mailed the abortion pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on KQED’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em> podcast, Hilton said he understands that California voters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\">enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution\u003c/a>, but said he would still “enforce the law” — referring to Louisiana’s law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana voted one way. California voted a different way. That’s the beauty of our federalist system, and I think that’s exactly right,” Hilton said. “But you can’t have one state imposing its will on another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006082 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton, a leading Republican candidate for California governor, said he would allow Louisiana to extradite a Bay Area abortion doctor if elected, despite California laws barring such cooperation and broad public support for reproductive rights. \u003ccite>(Studio One-One/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton said he’s always supported the “decentralization of power” and believes decisions should be made as close as possible to the people. He argued that’s what the Supreme Court did when it overturned Roe v. Wade, handing decisions over abortion access to the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, Hilton said by not honoring the extradition request, California is trying to impose its will on Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana is trying to uphold what its people voted for, and California is undermining it,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s right. Just as I wouldn’t want to see Louisiana coming in and undermining something that we voted for here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisiana has also tried to extradite a doctor from New York, a request that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/abortion-extradition-louisiana-doctor.html\">also refused\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reproductive rights advocates slammed Hilton’s position. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California CEO and President Jodi Hicks accused Hilton of “brazenly” rejecting California’s “values and leadership as a reproductive freedom state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any governor or future governor’s job is to protect the values and principles here in California — and certainly ones that Californians have voted on,” Hicks said, noting that Proposition 1, which enshrined abortion access in the state constitution, passed with 67% support. “Their job is to protect those principles and anyone in California, including our California providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of the national group Reproductive Freedom for All, called Louisiana’s extradition attempts “outrageous and dangerous\u003cstrong>,” \u003c/strong>saying in a written statement that by leaving abortion to the states, President Donald Trump has given “anti-abortion extremists free rein to criminalize providers, terrorize patients, and reach beyond state lines to block care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a moment for capitulation,” she said. “The next governor of California must be an unequivocal champion for reproductive freedom, willing to push back against the extremists working to undermine our fundamental rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler, an expert on reproductive rights and laws, said California’s shield law may not technically prevent a governor from agreeing to an extradition order, but it would effectively prevent the extradition from happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the law prohibits state and local government employees and contractors from participating in an extradition relating to abortion care, meaning a judge would not legally be able to issue an arrest warrant, and police could not take someone into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s true that there’s an executive order that Newsom introduced that could be rescinded,” by a future governor, Ziegler said. “But then there’s just the statute, which the governor on his own couldn’t rescind … There are a lot of limits on what other actors can do in terms of arrest and extradition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A governor, she said, “isn’t going to roll up and arrest people and extradite them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler said Newsom likely cited the executive order in Coeytaux’s case because the alleged shipment of medication to Louisiana occurred in October 2023, months before California’s shield law took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, she said, the situation illustrates how complicated the legal landscape has become since Roe v. Wade was overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a zero-sum game,” Ziegler said. “One state is imposing its will on the other. It’s just a question of which one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the whole leaving it to the states thing wasn’t going to work, because the states were going to take diametrically opposed positions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton speaks with Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on Political Breakdown at KQED in San Francisco on Jan. 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton’s remarks come as the race to succeed Newsom remains wide open. Despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans nearly two-to-one in the state — and the fact that no Republican has won statewide office in California in 20 years — Hilton has \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2026-new-poll/\">led some recent polls\u003c/a>, along with another GOP candidate, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic field is large, and support among those candidates remains fractured, leading to some consternation among Democrats that the two GOP candidates could make it into a November runoff; California’s election system allows the top two vote-getters to advance, regardless of party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surveys also show a wide swath of the electorate is still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton has largely avoided talking about abortion on the campaign trail. But in an interview last summer with Orange County evangelical pastor Jack Hibbs, he\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMSzxq8PCuV/\"> talked about\u003c/a> moving the state “towards life.” He called abortion an “awful, awful outcome” and said he would encourage adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hibbs, the founder and senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=26039887812314763\">endorsed\u003c/a> Hilton last week, sharing an audio clip where Hilton also said he would end the use of taxpayer funds to promote what he called “abortion tourism” if elected governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One year into President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>’s second term, Californians who voted for him are mostly happy with how his policies have played out so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s support among California Republicans has slipped to 79%, down from 84% near the start of his term, according to a Public Policy Institute of California\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/\"> poll\u003c/a> released last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found that Californians name the cost of living and the economy as the most important issues facing the state today. Those concerns also dominated follow-up conversations KQED had with voters first interviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039390/do-california-trump-supporters-have-buyers-remorse-not-so-far\">100 days\u003c/a> into Trump’s second administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Southern California and the Central Valley to the North Coast, seven voters offer a mixed review of Trump’s performance. They weigh in on a range of issues, including sweeping tariffs, immigration raids, National Guard deployments and a redistricting battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is general support for his “America First” platform, they are divided on whether the president’s actions fulfill that mandate. Several also criticized Trump’s rhetoric and tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Emerson Green, 26, El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all of his expectations for Trump’s second term, Emerson Green had been most optimistic that the president would improve the economy. Instead, he said he’s deeply disappointed and believes Trump let him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I never voted for him,” Green said. “It’s not that he lied or he didn’t hold up his promise. It is that he did the exact opposite, with intent, of what he promised he was going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump returned to the White House, Green got engaged and is expecting a baby in May. The 26-year-old now works at O’Reilly Auto Parts after changing jobs twice last year. He said he’s noticed the cost of some car parts rising because of tariffs, though not as dramatically as he expected when Trump announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033974/trumps-april-2nd-liberation-day\">“Liberation Day” tariffs\u003c/a> last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s also noticed everyday expenses like groceries and medication becoming more expensive and has begun to see home ownership as nearly unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of owning a house at this point in my life seems like something that is, if I even do it, it might be 30 years out at this point,” Green said. “It’s probably as bleak as it gets for young people these days … and [Trump] has done nothing to improve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Green’s mom received an offer letter for a job with the Internal Revenue Service, but when Trump issued a government hiring freeze, her offer was rescinded. It took her a couple of months to find another job, and she now works in funeral insurance sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is really struggling to make ends meet,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his dissatisfaction with the economy, Green is most critical of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">military intervention in Venezuela\u003c/a>, which he sees as veering away from the president’s pledge to prioritize America first. On Jan. 3, Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning extraction that resulted in Venezuela’s leader facing federal charges in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a strategic benefit to it at all,” Green said. “I do think he did it as, like, a stunt to boost his approval ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green also faults Trump for repeatedly delaying the release of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910661/president-trump-tries-fails-to-stem-epstein-files-controversy\">Epstein files\u003c/a>, then issuing heavily redacted documents despite vows on the campaign trail to declassify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may as well have red hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ben Pino, 56, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, Ben Pino still stands behind the administration’s immigration tactics. The shooting marks the second killing this month of a Minneapolis resident during an operation after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino believes Pretti and Good were “antagonizing the feds,” echoing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015188497003319557\">statements\u003c/a> made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who said Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and claimed, without evidence, that he attacked officers with the intent to harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video footage shows Pretti holding a phone, with his concealed gun removed from his waistband by an agent, before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss of life is tragic. I think that those young people used poor judgment and got themselves killed,” Pino said. “I don’t understand the outrage, to be quite honest with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino lives in the Diamond District in Los Angeles and works in Carson. He supported Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">California National Guard\u003c/a> troops to Southern California, without the governor’s approval, to quell anti-ICE protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me, ICE needed some kind of protection because people were going nuts,” he said.[aside postID=news_12039390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_1018-1020x765.jpg']In December, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068845/trump-returns-control-of-california-national-guard-after-rare-supreme-court-loss\">a lower-court ruling\u003c/a> barring Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago without Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit surprised that they can take that kind of power away from the president of the United States. He is the ultimate leader of our country,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he bristled at limits on the president’s authority at home, Pino praised Trump for exercising that power abroad by ordering a military incursion into Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a president take an action like going into a foreign country, grabbing its Communist criminal leader and bringing them back to face trial,” Pino said. “It’s one of the most spectacular foreign policy events that I’ve seen any American president make in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, hopes Trump will intervene there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Cuban American, I feel that direct U.S. intervention should happen if you want to protect something that’s that close to your shores,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year in, Pino remains fully on board with the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approve of everything he’s done so far,” he said. “I’m a bigger fan now than you found me last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kim Durham is thankful to have Trump in office, but wants to see him temper his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he shoots himself in the foot by saying things he doesn’t need to say,” she said. “Decorum could be utilized a little bit in public speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration ranks among Durham’s top policy concerns, and she supports Trump’s rapid push to secure the southern border as well as his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060821/bay-area-advocates-head-to-court-to-halt-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\">aggressive approach to deportations\u003c/a>. Her daughter is a police officer, and Durham believes national media coverage has fueled hostility toward ICE that has spilled over to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just infuriating to watch just regular people in uniforms … have to fight through angry mobs of cars,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the killing of Pretti, Durham repeated Noem’s rhetoric, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for not coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’ve let ICE do the job that they’ve been called to do, this wouldn’t be happening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham would not condemn the individual officers involved, saying that a final judgment should come from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee that individually every ICE agent is gonna act perfect,” she said. “So, I don’t believe as a whole ICE is wrong. Or even necessarily overreaching.”[aside postID=news_12070426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-robbontapb-05-bl-KQED.jpg']Durham also backs Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles, and said she wishes state leaders would cooperate with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some that say he’s a dictator. Well, no, he’s not a dictator — we voted him in,” she said. “I think it would all be a lot better if we didn’t resist the federal government and instead just got together and said, ‘Hey, I’m with you … Let’s sit down, work together and clean it up instead of fight it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On health care, Durham said she’s glad to see the administration target Medicaid fraud. In July, Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, including an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Much of that reduction would come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new work requirements\u003c/a> and additional paperwork demands that would shrink enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly believe if all the fraud could be cut out of Medicaid and Medicare, we would be in a surplus of money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham also praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other-health/tracking-key-hhs-public-health-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/\">initiatives\u003c/a>, especially efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037182/rfk-jr-announced-phase-out-poisonous-food-dyes-critics-say-plan-lacks-teeth\">remove synthetic dyes\u003c/a> from the food supply and curb ultra-processed foods, raising concerns about what her grandchild eats. She’s also in favor of his updated childhood vaccine schedule, calling the previous standard “ridiculous” and saying families need choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cindy Cremona, 66, formerly San Diego County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cindy Cremona heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the November 2025 ballot measure approved by voters that redraws California’s congressional maps, she felt Republicans would never have a voice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for many, people just felt that it was going to lock in California as a blue state forever and ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Cremona moved from Encinitas, a coastal city in northern San Diego County, to Wellington, Florida. She had been considering the move since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019 and was even more compelled to leave during the pandemic, when she felt the state went too far with vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse, Durango, in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, she reached her breaking point and decided to move, citing “the politics, the taxes, the over-regulation, the traffic, the overdevelopment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona finds Florida’s housing costs and policies preferable to California’s. For instance, she took issue with last year’s passing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which makes it easier to build apartment buildings near major public transit stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s optimistic about Trump’s housing proposals, including a recent pledge to target institutional investors who buy up single-family homes. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">echoed a similar stance\u003c/a> toward corporate landlords in his State of the State address, a rare instance of political overlap between the Democratic governor and the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Cremona expressed confidence in the president’s ability to deliver on other economic promises, like lower food and energy costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think 2026 is the year where we’ll see some of those policies borne out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Debbie Pope, 60, Long Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Debbie Pope is deeply disillusioned with Trump’s first year back in office. At the beginning of 2025, she welcomed what she described as Trump’s “guns-a-blazing” return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071090\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Pope in her Long Beach home on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Debbie Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But her view shifted in the second half of the year, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055470/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-during-utah-college-event\">assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> and repeated delays in releasing the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a whole different view of Trump after that for some reason,” she said. “The biggest disappointment is the Epstein files. It’s just like, Trump, you’re in them. You’re in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but before that, she was a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her party switch was driven by a distaste for Hillary Clinton and Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, one of her top policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant, Pope supports stricter border enforcement — and thinks Trump has failed to deliver on promises of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to see the president focus on domestic issues, like ramping up deportations even more, rather than foreign military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s veered off the America First train, I think,” she said. “So yeah, I’m a little disappointed in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pope sees Trump as prioritizing the interests of billionaires over those of his constituents. She also points to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912301/whats-behind-president-trumps-aesthetic\">massive ballroom renovations\u003c/a> and putting his name on the Kennedy Center as diversions from America First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, we know you’re a narcissist, but really, you’re getting carried away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ron Dawson, 68, Eureka\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ron Dawson said he would give Trump’s performance in 2025 a B+. He feels his cost of living has improved since Trump took office, noting lower grocery and fuel prices. He still wants to see the president lower the federal deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson voted for Trump in 2024, but his preferred presidential candidate was Nikki Haley. He still favors the president over Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a Democrat like his parents, Dawson said the last time he voted blue was for Bill Clinton in 1996. Since then, he’s felt like the Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910306/can-the-left-win-back-working-class-voters\">Party has become elitist\u003c/a>, prioritizing identity politics and social justice issues, which he said have “nothing to do with running a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in Eureka six years ago, Dawson spent almost five decades in Southern California. He recalls working as a machinist in 1980 and losing the job to an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could work cheaper than I would accept,” he said. “I have a problem with the system. The system I recognized way back then is really broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Dawson approves of Trump’s secure border platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in far Northern California, Dawson is critical of Proposition 50 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">newly redrawn\u003c/a> 2nd Congressional District. Previously stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border, the new boundaries push further inland to the Nevada border, pulling in Siskiyou, Modoc and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressional representative, Jared Huffman — he already has a very, very large district and a lot of people say, like, you never see him, never hear from him,” Dawson said. “They didn’t stop and think, how does this one guy represent such a large area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns deepened following the recent death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068742/northern-california-republican-congressman-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\">Rep. Doug LaMalfa\u003c/a>, a Republican who represented rural Northern California for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mari Barke, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mari Barke, president of the Orange County Board of Education, has mostly positive things to say about the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He puts our country first, which to me is critically important of somebody who is president,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 864px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071083 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg 864w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mari Barke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Above all, she aligns with Trump’s education agenda, like his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> banning transgender athletes\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069570/california-advocates-fearful-as-supreme-court-weighs-bans-of-trans-student-athletes\"> from participating in girls’\u003c/a> and women’s sports and his push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">eliminate \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065920/trump-orders-dei-out-of-national-park-bookstores\">diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>. The administration has threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">withhold federal funding\u003c/a> from schools with DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to get rid of all the biases and just let people enter higher education based on merit,” Barke said, arguing that merit incentivizes students to work hard and reduces the likelihood of academic failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke is a staunch advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">parental notification policies\u003c/a>, which require school teachers and staff to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never think it’s a good idea to teach children to lie to their parents,” she said. “I think if a child is going through something like that, nothing is more important than having your parents’ love. I have a gay son who has a husband, and I love him to death, no matter who he is or what he decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her alignment with the administration, Barke occasionally finds fault with Trump’s delivery, suggesting he could behave “more presidential” so as not to offend people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It is that he did the exact opposite, with intent, of what he promised he was going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump returned to the White House, Green got engaged and is expecting a baby in May. The 26-year-old now works at O’Reilly Auto Parts after changing jobs twice last year. He said he’s noticed the cost of some car parts rising because of tariffs, though not as dramatically as he expected when Trump announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033974/trumps-april-2nd-liberation-day\">“Liberation Day” tariffs\u003c/a> last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s also noticed everyday expenses like groceries and medication becoming more expensive and has begun to see home ownership as nearly unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of owning a house at this point in my life seems like something that is, if I even do it, it might be 30 years out at this point,” Green said. “It’s probably as bleak as it gets for young people these days … and [Trump] has done nothing to improve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Green’s mom received an offer letter for a job with the Internal Revenue Service, but when Trump issued a government hiring freeze, her offer was rescinded. It took her a couple of months to find another job, and she now works in funeral insurance sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is really struggling to make ends meet,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his dissatisfaction with the economy, Green is most critical of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">military intervention in Venezuela\u003c/a>, which he sees as veering away from the president’s pledge to prioritize America first. On Jan. 3, Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning extraction that resulted in Venezuela’s leader facing federal charges in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a strategic benefit to it at all,” Green said. “I do think he did it as, like, a stunt to boost his approval ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green also faults Trump for repeatedly delaying the release of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910661/president-trump-tries-fails-to-stem-epstein-files-controversy\">Epstein files\u003c/a>, then issuing heavily redacted documents despite vows on the campaign trail to declassify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may as well have red hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ben Pino, 56, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, Ben Pino still stands behind the administration’s immigration tactics. The shooting marks the second killing this month of a Minneapolis resident during an operation after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino believes Pretti and Good were “antagonizing the feds,” echoing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015188497003319557\">statements\u003c/a> made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who said Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and claimed, without evidence, that he attacked officers with the intent to harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video footage shows Pretti holding a phone, with his concealed gun removed from his waistband by an agent, before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss of life is tragic. I think that those young people used poor judgment and got themselves killed,” Pino said. “I don’t understand the outrage, to be quite honest with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino lives in the Diamond District in Los Angeles and works in Carson. He supported Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">California National Guard\u003c/a> troops to Southern California, without the governor’s approval, to quell anti-ICE protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me, ICE needed some kind of protection because people were going nuts,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Durham also backs Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles, and said she wishes state leaders would cooperate with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some that say he’s a dictator. Well, no, he’s not a dictator — we voted him in,” she said. “I think it would all be a lot better if we didn’t resist the federal government and instead just got together and said, ‘Hey, I’m with you … Let’s sit down, work together and clean it up instead of fight it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On health care, Durham said she’s glad to see the administration target Medicaid fraud. In July, Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, including an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Much of that reduction would come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new work requirements\u003c/a> and additional paperwork demands that would shrink enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly believe if all the fraud could be cut out of Medicaid and Medicare, we would be in a surplus of money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham also praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other-health/tracking-key-hhs-public-health-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/\">initiatives\u003c/a>, especially efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037182/rfk-jr-announced-phase-out-poisonous-food-dyes-critics-say-plan-lacks-teeth\">remove synthetic dyes\u003c/a> from the food supply and curb ultra-processed foods, raising concerns about what her grandchild eats. She’s also in favor of his updated childhood vaccine schedule, calling the previous standard “ridiculous” and saying families need choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cindy Cremona, 66, formerly San Diego County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cindy Cremona heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the November 2025 ballot measure approved by voters that redraws California’s congressional maps, she felt Republicans would never have a voice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for many, people just felt that it was going to lock in California as a blue state forever and ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Cremona moved from Encinitas, a coastal city in northern San Diego County, to Wellington, Florida. She had been considering the move since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019 and was even more compelled to leave during the pandemic, when she felt the state went too far with vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse, Durango, in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, she reached her breaking point and decided to move, citing “the politics, the taxes, the over-regulation, the traffic, the overdevelopment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona finds Florida’s housing costs and policies preferable to California’s. For instance, she took issue with last year’s passing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which makes it easier to build apartment buildings near major public transit stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s optimistic about Trump’s housing proposals, including a recent pledge to target institutional investors who buy up single-family homes. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">echoed a similar stance\u003c/a> toward corporate landlords in his State of the State address, a rare instance of political overlap between the Democratic governor and the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Cremona expressed confidence in the president’s ability to deliver on other economic promises, like lower food and energy costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think 2026 is the year where we’ll see some of those policies borne out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Debbie Pope, 60, Long Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Debbie Pope is deeply disillusioned with Trump’s first year back in office. At the beginning of 2025, she welcomed what she described as Trump’s “guns-a-blazing” return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071090\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Pope in her Long Beach home on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Debbie Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But her view shifted in the second half of the year, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055470/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-during-utah-college-event\">assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> and repeated delays in releasing the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a whole different view of Trump after that for some reason,” she said. “The biggest disappointment is the Epstein files. It’s just like, Trump, you’re in them. You’re in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but before that, she was a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her party switch was driven by a distaste for Hillary Clinton and Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, one of her top policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant, Pope supports stricter border enforcement — and thinks Trump has failed to deliver on promises of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to see the president focus on domestic issues, like ramping up deportations even more, rather than foreign military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s veered off the America First train, I think,” she said. “So yeah, I’m a little disappointed in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pope sees Trump as prioritizing the interests of billionaires over those of his constituents. She also points to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912301/whats-behind-president-trumps-aesthetic\">massive ballroom renovations\u003c/a> and putting his name on the Kennedy Center as diversions from America First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, we know you’re a narcissist, but really, you’re getting carried away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ron Dawson, 68, Eureka\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ron Dawson said he would give Trump’s performance in 2025 a B+. He feels his cost of living has improved since Trump took office, noting lower grocery and fuel prices. He still wants to see the president lower the federal deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson voted for Trump in 2024, but his preferred presidential candidate was Nikki Haley. He still favors the president over Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a Democrat like his parents, Dawson said the last time he voted blue was for Bill Clinton in 1996. Since then, he’s felt like the Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910306/can-the-left-win-back-working-class-voters\">Party has become elitist\u003c/a>, prioritizing identity politics and social justice issues, which he said have “nothing to do with running a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in Eureka six years ago, Dawson spent almost five decades in Southern California. He recalls working as a machinist in 1980 and losing the job to an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could work cheaper than I would accept,” he said. “I have a problem with the system. The system I recognized way back then is really broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Dawson approves of Trump’s secure border platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in far Northern California, Dawson is critical of Proposition 50 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">newly redrawn\u003c/a> 2nd Congressional District. Previously stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border, the new boundaries push further inland to the Nevada border, pulling in Siskiyou, Modoc and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressional representative, Jared Huffman — he already has a very, very large district and a lot of people say, like, you never see him, never hear from him,” Dawson said. “They didn’t stop and think, how does this one guy represent such a large area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns deepened following the recent death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068742/northern-california-republican-congressman-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\">Rep. Doug LaMalfa\u003c/a>, a Republican who represented rural Northern California for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mari Barke, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mari Barke, president of the Orange County Board of Education, has mostly positive things to say about the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He puts our country first, which to me is critically important of somebody who is president,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 864px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071083 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg 864w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mari Barke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Above all, she aligns with Trump’s education agenda, like his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> banning transgender athletes\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069570/california-advocates-fearful-as-supreme-court-weighs-bans-of-trans-student-athletes\"> from participating in girls’\u003c/a> and women’s sports and his push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">eliminate \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065920/trump-orders-dei-out-of-national-park-bookstores\">diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>. The administration has threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">withhold federal funding\u003c/a> from schools with DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to get rid of all the biases and just let people enter higher education based on merit,” Barke said, arguing that merit incentivizes students to work hard and reduces the likelihood of academic failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke is a staunch advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">parental notification policies\u003c/a>, which require school teachers and staff to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never think it’s a good idea to teach children to lie to their parents,” she said. “I think if a child is going through something like that, nothing is more important than having your parents’ love. 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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic candidates for California governor had harsh words for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Monday, after a Border Patrol officer shot and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071074/heres-what-california-leaders-said-about-latest-minneapolis-killing\">killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa compared masked federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “the Ku Klux Klan coming in with assault weapons [and] flash-bang grenades.” Investor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064558/billionaire-climate-activist-tom-steyer-enters-2026-california-governors-race\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a> called the operation “a threat to America.” And, if elected governor, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond promised to “get rid of ICE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vows of resistance came at a candidate forum in San Francisco, sponsored by the Urban League of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, a civil rights organization. The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation agenda is likely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069540/san-francisco-da-weighs-in-on-minneapolis-ice-shooting\">to remain a flashpoint\u003c/a> between the White House and whoever wins the wide-open race to become California’s next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Minnesota, federal officials have refused to partner with state agencies to investigate the killings of Pretti and Renee Good, who was shot by a federal agent earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a governor who will stand up and inspire people to fight back,” Villaraigosa said. “Not just in the courts, not just at the ballot box, we need to build a nonviolent movement and a governor who can support the effort that all of you have to lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071101\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles, speaks during a state gubernatorial forum with fellow candidates at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://Tune%20in%20to%20Forum%20to%20understand%20how%20the%20war%20in%20Ukraine%20is%20shaping%20lives%20%E2%80%94%20and%20the%20future.\">\u003cem>Listen to the Jan. 22 edition of Forum to understand how the war in Ukraine is shaping lives — and the future\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyiv, Ukraine — They say time helps to heal, but months have passed, and Alina Skytsko still struggles to talk about Nov. 2, 2024 — the day her mother was killed in the Russian shelling of Kherson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were nine explosions that night. Alina, her two cousins and her mother were hiding in a bathroom in Alina’s grandmother’s house when, in a flash, everything was covered in dirt and dust. Wounded in both legs, the 16-year-old shielded her mother, not realizing she had already died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years after Russia’s invasion, which reached its anniversary in February, thousands of children in Ukraine have been orphaned, many wounded, displaced or thrust into adult roles as caregivers and witnesses. As the fighting drags on, their lives unfold across hospitals, courtrooms and temporary homes, revealing the long-term human cost of the conflict far from the front lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This reporting draws on interviews with orphaned Ukrainian children in Kyiv, Odesa and Uzhhorod, many of whom witnessed their mothers being killed by Russian forces. From Kherson to Kramatorsk to Mariupol, their lives trace the war’s long aftershocks — a generation forced to recover, testify and raise siblings long before adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian forces have also been accused of forcibly removing Ukrainian children from occupied territories and transferring them to Russia or Russia-controlled areas. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine’s Humanitarian Research Lab say more than 19,000 Ukrainian children have been deported, with just over 1,200 returned, and warn the true number may be higher. The lab has documented thousands of children placed in institutions, foster care or adoptive families, often cut off from Ukrainian language and identity, as relatives search for them across borders and through courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070607 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An orphan boy hugs a soft toy as he waits on a train after fleeing the town of Polohy, which has come under Russian control, before evacuating on a train from Zaporizhzhia to western Ukraine, on March 26, 2022, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alina is one of about 2,000 Ukrainian children orphaned by the war, according to SOS Children’s Villages, a Vienna-based nongovernmental nonprofit that supports children without parental care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alina’s recovery and rehabilitation remain long and difficult. Books and online school classes no longer interest her. Both of her legs are skin and bones from the injuries. Another surgery is scheduled soon at Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmatdyt. On New Year’s Eve, she wished the war would end, that she would walk again and maybe return to her war-torn hometown on the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met Alina on her hospital ward in September. The night before the interview, she said she woke to the howling air-raid sirens. Her father helped her into a wheelchair, and they took the elevator to the basement. Hospital staff treat air alerts seriously, after the Russian missile strike in July 2024 destroyed several Okhmatdyt buildings, killing two people and injuring 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alina said her wounds were painful. A nerve was damaged in her right leg, and shrapnel tore a piece of muscle from it. Her shoulder was still sore and might also require surgery. A metal plate had been removed from her right arm. She had dyed her hair purple.[aside postID=news_12066997 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/UkraineGetty1.jpg']“That is life now. It’s hard to think of the future,” Alina said, shaking her head. She is relearning to walk on her thin, wounded legs, one step at a time. She wrote “loser” on her cast, then corrected “s” to “v.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about the future annoy her. There was only one thing that clearly made her happy, she said: music. “I am a music lover. Music helps. I prefer rap — the heavier the better,” she told us with a modest smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, hospital volunteer Natalia Zabolotna helped arrange Alina’s monthlong rehabilitation at the Koziavkin center in Truskavets, where Alina took her first steps. Wearing a hat with two furry ears, she likes to sit outside in her wheelchair, scrolling through social media or enjoying the rare sunshine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alina hopes she will be able to walk better after the next surgery,” Zabolotna said in an interview. “We offered Alina psychological aid, but she firmly rejected it. For now, Alina sees the world mostly out of the hospital window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen-year-old Kateryna Iorhu knows what Alina is going through. She was wounded in a Russian bombing and witnessed her mother’s death on April 8, 2022, when a ballistic missile with a cluster munition warhead exploded over a train station in Kramatorsk, according to a Human Rights Watch report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kateryna, who goes by Katia, and her sister, Yulia, keep a picture of their smiling mother holding a plastic cup of tea, taken minutes before the blast as they waited for an evacuation train. The explosion killed and wounded dozens. Katia tried to crawl to her mother across ground covered with victims’ bodies, but could not — she was badly wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Katia would not talk to anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-1536x1109.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital patient Kateryna Iorhu from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, during the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the National Children’s Specialized Hospital “Okhmatdyt,” Kyiv. \u003ccite>(Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I totally understand Alina not wanting to talk to a psychologist about her loss, her wounds,” she said. “But she should know that at some point it helps to make friends with the right psychologist, who she’d be able to watch animations with or discuss books, or play and chat about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialists said the details of such tragedies may fade over time. “We try not to bother the orphans until they are willing to speak with us,” said Valentyna Lutsenko, a senior doctor at Okhmatdyt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutsenko met Katia and Yulia in 2022, months after their mother was killed. Katia did not speak then. She moved through the hospital in a wheelchair or sat in her ward making bracelets of beads for doctors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We later met with the sisters in Kyiv’s Botanical Garden with their aunt and grandmother. With help from volunteers and private donors, Katia and Yulia, 11, live in a rented three-room apartment. Katia attends a design college in Kyiv, where she studies composition and painting and she ranks at the top of her class. Painting calms her, she said.[aside postID=news_12047685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong1.jpg']But fear returns at night. “We don’t have a bomb shelter near our house, so we were just sitting on the floor in the corridor all night,” Katia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since losing their mother, Yulia has spent hours online playing Roblox. To get Yulia away from screens, the family enrolled her in aikido classes. “Right now, it’s too slippery to go out — the roads are covered in ice — and we also have bad nights of shelling,” Katia said in an interview earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs and safe spaces outside the home, such as those offered by the Chabad Orphanage in Odesa, provide support for children coping with trauma. When we visited the Mishpacha Children’s Home, a Chabad-run institution that provides care for Jewish orphans in late September, Chaya Wolff, Mishpacha’s director, was playing with children on the playground, then mediated a dispute among teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children from across Ukraine come to the orphanage to learn Hebrew, observe Shabbat customs and live as siblings. Two children, ages 2 and 4, chased each other on the playground. According to Wolff, their father had nearly killed their mother after returning from the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their sister Sarah left this month to attend school in Israel. “Hopefully, the war in Israel is over soon,” Sarah, 16, said. “My parents abandoned me when I was 5. I feel for the children who lost their parents in this war in Ukraine. One day, I hope to become a teacher here and help Ukrainian children learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Ukrainian children, the war has meant not only the loss of parents, but also being uprooted and taken far from home by Russian forces. Ilya Matviyenko was 10 when his mother, Natalia, was mortally wounded during shelling in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on March 20, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civilians gather at the train station to be evacuated from combat zones in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine on April 6, 2022. Civilians search to board the first available train headed west. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were walking across our courtyard when a missile blew up nearby. We were both badly wounded,” Ilya told us during a September interview in Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine, the city he now calls home. “I believe that many more people should know what happened to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother pulled him into a neighbor’s house. There was no hospital or doctor nearby. Ilya held his mother, listening to her hoarse breathing. She died in his arms and was buried in the yard the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya suffered wounds to his hip and legs. Russian forces took him across the front line to Russia-occupied Donetsk, where he spent nearly a month alone in a hospital. His grandmother, Olena, traveled through four countries to bring Ilya to Kyiv, carrying him out because he was too weak to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ilya at Okhmatdyt and gave him an iPad. His case drew attention as one of the first Ukrainian children to be returned from occupied territory after Russia’s full-scale invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the scene after over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on April 8, 2022. Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to safer areas, according to Ukrainian Railways. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ilya now calls his new role “diplomatic.” He and his grandmother have traveled across Europe and to the United States. The war, his loss and his wounds have made him seem older than his years. Now 13, Ilya has new friends in Uzhhorod. They play in the courtyard, and Ilya likes football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend Eldar already has a mustache — me too. I’m 5 feet tall, already taller than my grandmother,” he said proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya was among the orphans who testified at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, telling the world about atrocities in Ukraine. He told us he hoped to meet with President Donald Trump later this year. He sees his role as an “ambassador for Ukrainian children” wounded or orphaned in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major mission, but I’m not getting carried away,” he said. “I’m just doing what needs to be done. I think it’s important to share this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in Uzhhorod, near the banks of the Tysa River, there is a popular cafe called Lypa. We met there with Viacheslav Yalov, 21, and his three siblings in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viacheslav Yalov, second from left, poses with three of his siblings — from left, Olivia, Nicole and Tymur. After losing their mother to a Russian shelling in Donetsk when he was 18, Viacheslav became the legal guardian of his four younger siblings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viacheslav’smother died from injuries sustained during shelling in the town of Verkhniotoretske in the Donetsk region in March 2022. She was 37. Viacheslav, who was 18 at the time, was left to care for his four younger brothers and sisters. He managed to evacuate himself and the children as the town came under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His struggle did not end there. Viacheslav went through several court proceedings to win custody of his siblings. “Because the most important thing for me was to keep my family together. I’m doing this for our mother. She always did everything and anything for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fleeing the Donetsk region, the family moved through Lviv, Kyiv and Dnipro, and finally Uzhhorod. For now, it is the safest place in the country, and Viacheslav works to protect his siblings’ sense of peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother, Danil, is now over 18 and studies in Kyiv. Viacheslav cares for the younger three: sisters Nicole and Olivia and brother Timur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_1-scaled-e1765582964804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viacheslav Yalov hugs his sister, Olivia, one of the four siblings he has cared for since their mother was killed in a Russian shelling in Donetsk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicole loves dancing, especially jazz and funk, but said she wants to become a lawyer. Olivia plays the piano and has learned \u003cem>The Pink Panther\u003c/em> and several Michael Jackson songs. Viacheslav plans to enroll Timur in robotics classes.[aside postID=forum_2010101912711 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Image-from-iOS-16.jpg']Before the invasion, Viacheslav studied medicine and completed two of three years of training to become a paramedic. He now works several jobs to support his family and volunteers with a charity, but his focus remains on his siblings. They have lunch together once a week. On Sundays, they share what they didn’t have time to talk about during the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are all I have, and they are my motivation to keep going,” he said, gesturing to his siblings as they ate pastries and fruit tea. “Times are tough for everyone right now. There’s no time to sit around and complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the best not only for myself, but also for others,” he continued. “Ukraine will need to be rebuilt. The country will need young people who want to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maria Kostenko is a freelance journalist who has worked with CNN since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researching and reporting on the war. She and the CNN Worldwide Ukraine team received the Dupont Columbia Award for broadcast, documentary and online journalism. She is an \u003c/em>\u003cem>International Women’s Media Foundation\u003c/em>\u003cem> grantee this year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anna Nemtsova is The Daily Beast’s Eastern Europe correspondent and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Her Ukraine reporting has also appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Politico. She is a recipient of the Persephone Miel Fellowship and the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award, and is an IWMF grantee this year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“That is life now. It’s hard to think of the future,” Alina said, shaking her head. She is relearning to walk on her thin, wounded legs, one step at a time. She wrote “loser” on her cast, then corrected “s” to “v.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about the future annoy her. There was only one thing that clearly made her happy, she said: music. “I am a music lover. Music helps. I prefer rap — the heavier the better,” she told us with a modest smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, hospital volunteer Natalia Zabolotna helped arrange Alina’s monthlong rehabilitation at the Koziavkin center in Truskavets, where Alina took her first steps. Wearing a hat with two furry ears, she likes to sit outside in her wheelchair, scrolling through social media or enjoying the rare sunshine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alina hopes she will be able to walk better after the next surgery,” Zabolotna said in an interview. “We offered Alina psychological aid, but she firmly rejected it. For now, Alina sees the world mostly out of the hospital window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen-year-old Kateryna Iorhu knows what Alina is going through. She was wounded in a Russian bombing and witnessed her mother’s death on April 8, 2022, when a ballistic missile with a cluster munition warhead exploded over a train station in Kramatorsk, according to a Human Rights Watch report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kateryna, who goes by Katia, and her sister, Yulia, keep a picture of their smiling mother holding a plastic cup of tea, taken minutes before the blast as they waited for an evacuation train. The explosion killed and wounded dozens. Katia tried to crawl to her mother across ground covered with victims’ bodies, but could not — she was badly wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Katia would not talk to anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-1536x1109.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital patient Kateryna Iorhu from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, during the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the National Children’s Specialized Hospital “Okhmatdyt,” Kyiv. \u003ccite>(Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I totally understand Alina not wanting to talk to a psychologist about her loss, her wounds,” she said. “But she should know that at some point it helps to make friends with the right psychologist, who she’d be able to watch animations with or discuss books, or play and chat about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialists said the details of such tragedies may fade over time. “We try not to bother the orphans until they are willing to speak with us,” said Valentyna Lutsenko, a senior doctor at Okhmatdyt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutsenko met Katia and Yulia in 2022, months after their mother was killed. Katia did not speak then. She moved through the hospital in a wheelchair or sat in her ward making bracelets of beads for doctors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We later met with the sisters in Kyiv’s Botanical Garden with their aunt and grandmother. With help from volunteers and private donors, Katia and Yulia, 11, live in a rented three-room apartment. Katia attends a design college in Kyiv, where she studies composition and painting and she ranks at the top of her class. Painting calms her, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When we visited the Mishpacha Children’s Home, a Chabad-run institution that provides care for Jewish orphans in late September, Chaya Wolff, Mishpacha’s director, was playing with children on the playground, then mediated a dispute among teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children from across Ukraine come to the orphanage to learn Hebrew, observe Shabbat customs and live as siblings. Two children, ages 2 and 4, chased each other on the playground. According to Wolff, their father had nearly killed their mother after returning from the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their sister Sarah left this month to attend school in Israel. “Hopefully, the war in Israel is over soon,” Sarah, 16, said. “My parents abandoned me when I was 5. I feel for the children who lost their parents in this war in Ukraine. One day, I hope to become a teacher here and help Ukrainian children learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Ukrainian children, the war has meant not only the loss of parents, but also being uprooted and taken far from home by Russian forces. Ilya Matviyenko was 10 when his mother, Natalia, was mortally wounded during shelling in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on March 20, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civilians gather at the train station to be evacuated from combat zones in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine on April 6, 2022. Civilians search to board the first available train headed west. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were walking across our courtyard when a missile blew up nearby. We were both badly wounded,” Ilya told us during a September interview in Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine, the city he now calls home. “I believe that many more people should know what happened to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother pulled him into a neighbor’s house. There was no hospital or doctor nearby. Ilya held his mother, listening to her hoarse breathing. She died in his arms and was buried in the yard the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya suffered wounds to his hip and legs. Russian forces took him across the front line to Russia-occupied Donetsk, where he spent nearly a month alone in a hospital. His grandmother, Olena, traveled through four countries to bring Ilya to Kyiv, carrying him out because he was too weak to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ilya at Okhmatdyt and gave him an iPad. His case drew attention as one of the first Ukrainian children to be returned from occupied territory after Russia’s full-scale invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the scene after over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on April 8, 2022. Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to safer areas, according to Ukrainian Railways. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ilya now calls his new role “diplomatic.” He and his grandmother have traveled across Europe and to the United States. The war, his loss and his wounds have made him seem older than his years. Now 13, Ilya has new friends in Uzhhorod. They play in the courtyard, and Ilya likes football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend Eldar already has a mustache — me too. I’m 5 feet tall, already taller than my grandmother,” he said proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya was among the orphans who testified at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, telling the world about atrocities in Ukraine. He told us he hoped to meet with President Donald Trump later this year. He sees his role as an “ambassador for Ukrainian children” wounded or orphaned in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major mission, but I’m not getting carried away,” he said. “I’m just doing what needs to be done. I think it’s important to share this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in Uzhhorod, near the banks of the Tysa River, there is a popular cafe called Lypa. We met there with Viacheslav Yalov, 21, and his three siblings in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viacheslav Yalov, second from left, poses with three of his siblings — from left, Olivia, Nicole and Tymur. After losing their mother to a Russian shelling in Donetsk when he was 18, Viacheslav became the legal guardian of his four younger siblings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viacheslav’smother died from injuries sustained during shelling in the town of Verkhniotoretske in the Donetsk region in March 2022. She was 37. Viacheslav, who was 18 at the time, was left to care for his four younger brothers and sisters. He managed to evacuate himself and the children as the town came under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His struggle did not end there. Viacheslav went through several court proceedings to win custody of his siblings. “Because the most important thing for me was to keep my family together. I’m doing this for our mother. She always did everything and anything for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fleeing the Donetsk region, the family moved through Lviv, Kyiv and Dnipro, and finally Uzhhorod. For now, it is the safest place in the country, and Viacheslav works to protect his siblings’ sense of peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother, Danil, is now over 18 and studies in Kyiv. Viacheslav cares for the younger three: sisters Nicole and Olivia and brother Timur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_1-scaled-e1765582964804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viacheslav Yalov hugs his sister, Olivia, one of the four siblings he has cared for since their mother was killed in a Russian shelling in Donetsk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicole loves dancing, especially jazz and funk, but said she wants to become a lawyer. Olivia plays the piano and has learned \u003cem>The Pink Panther\u003c/em> and several Michael Jackson songs. Viacheslav plans to enroll Timur in robotics classes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Before the invasion, Viacheslav studied medicine and completed two of three years of training to become a paramedic. He now works several jobs to support his family and volunteers with a charity, but his focus remains on his siblings. They have lunch together once a week. On Sundays, they share what they didn’t have time to talk about during the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are all I have, and they are my motivation to keep going,” he said, gesturing to his siblings as they ate pastries and fruit tea. “Times are tough for everyone right now. There’s no time to sit around and complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the best not only for myself, but also for others,” he continued. “Ukraine will need to be rebuilt. The country will need young people who want to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maria Kostenko is a freelance journalist who has worked with CNN since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researching and reporting on the war. She and the CNN Worldwide Ukraine team received the Dupont Columbia Award for broadcast, documentary and online journalism. She is an \u003c/em>\u003cem>International Women’s Media Foundation\u003c/em>\u003cem> grantee this year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anna Nemtsova is The Daily Beast’s Eastern Europe correspondent and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Her Ukraine reporting has also appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Politico. She is a recipient of the Persephone Miel Fellowship and the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award, and is an IWMF grantee this year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/ZUh1Bsth8-A?si=PTZ2K3iIUmhwGT_J&t=1418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To watch the video on YouTube, click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of San Francisco serving as a punching bag for political pundits, Mayor Daniel Lurie is adamant that those who wanted to see the city fail are now eating their words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all stuck it out during a brutal time,” Lurie said Wednesday night at KQED’s Mission District headquarters. “People bet against us, and that was a bad bet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political outsider who had never worked in government before becoming mayor, Lurie said crime has decreased to historic lows and proudly praised what he described as “a different vibe in City Hall.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6022\">He joined\u003c/a> KQED’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for an in-depth discussion about his administration one year into his four-year term and what he’s focused on for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are off to a strong start. One year of momentum is good, but it is not enough. We still have a long way to go” the mayor said. “I know the challenges we’re all facing on our streets, not only with public safety but the behavioral health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On behavioral health and San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overdoses in the city have leveled off, but remain at high and devastating levels. Lurie acknowledged San Francisco still has a long way to go to provide adequate housing and mental and behavioral health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure on the city’s care system came to a tragic flashpoint in December, when a social worker at San Francisco General Hospital was stabbed by a patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was maybe the worst day for me of my first year, without question, and the days that followed,” Lurie said, revealing that he held the hand of the slain social worker, Alberto Rangel, before he died. “Those who are taking care of us shouldn’t fear for their safety at any point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070742\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One year into his term, Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"729\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incident has led to much debate over how the city should allocate resources to better protect first responders. Lurie said that the hospital could benefit from more security, but also said keeping services that help vulnerable populations easy to access is an important part of getting people to utilize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nurses and social workers at SF General are incredible people,” he said, “and I want to keep them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie pointed to the need for increased locked subacute beds, which the city is currently working to increase at San Francisco General, and other tools like conservatorship and court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when asked about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Care Court program, Lurie didn’t seem enthusiastic about its results. “It’s a whole process, DPH and judges have to get involved,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On homelessness and outdoor drug use\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of Lurie’s first legislative moves was passing an ordinance giving the mayor more powers to bypass certain bureaucratic approvals to speed up contracting and funding services that address drug addiction and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9dHECqx2JmsJ8xxjcQiQHEkA68?domain=sf.gov\">Breaking the Cycle plan\u003c/a>, the mayor has also set up a mental health drop-in center in the Tenderloin and is planning to open another stabilization center this spring, where police can drop off people they find on the street experiencing a drug-related crisis.[aside postID=news_12070144 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NEWSOMLURIEPRESSER-14-BL-KQED.jpg']“I am far from satisfied, but I am really optimistic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also moved to integrate the city’s various street outreach teams under one agency and moved to stop providing safer \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/0XlPCyPmRxsArQQ5iyF7HxSByv?domain=sf.gov\">smoking supplies\u003c/a> outdoors and mandate counseling in exchange for any harm reduction supply distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has cleared more tent encampments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">fueling high approval numbers\u003c/a> in Lurie’s first year. But the results have been met with some pushback from supervisors who said they’ve seen homelessness and street-level crime shuffle to neighborhoods in their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take all of us to send a message that we aren’t going to tolerate this behavior in our city. We still have work to do at 16th [Street], 24th [Street] and SoMa,” Lurie said. “It is better, but we have a long way to go. The Mission deserves better, the Tenderloin deserves better … If something bad happens, it’s on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Donald Trump and the Bay Area’s billionaires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Trump administration walked back its plans to send the National Guard to San Francisco as part of an immigration enforcement blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor leaned on his connections to billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who made headlines when he said the president should send troops to the city just days before backpedaling, to convince the president to hold off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070745\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"102\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Marc after those comments, and I said those are comments that may have been true a few years ago, but people lost the plot on San Francisco,” Lurie said of his conversation with Benioff. “They weren’t seeing what we were seeing, which is that crime was going down, and the economic recovery was going in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He carefully acknowledged that he continues to worry about the possibility of a future enforcement blitz in the city and residents’ safety. But the mayor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">never publicly mentioned President Donald Trump\u003c/a> by name, and hosts pressed him on his strategy Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know you two are trying to get something out of me,” Lurie said to the hosts. “I’m going to try to stay clear of as much noise as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On budget woes and affordability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is facing a nearly $936.6 million budget deficit in the next two fiscal years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Joint_Report_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30.pdf\">city report\u003c/a> released in December 2025. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064324/its-devastating-more-than-100m-for-housing-homeless-at-risk-under-new-hud-policy\">Trump administration’s cuts\u003c/a> through the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ are also projected to pull nearly $300 million from the city’s budget for programs like food assistance and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to fade on any San Francisco values as long as I’m mayor,” he said, still avoiding responding directly to questions about the Trump administration and federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is backing a property tax to fund MUNI, which is also facing a fiscal cliff, and is also working with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan on a regional funding proposal for BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"437\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026, as he marks one year in office amid debates over public safety and City Hall reforms. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“MUNI is non-negotiable. We need to fund it,” Lurie said, marking a shift from previous comments suggesting MUNI should be responsible for addressing its own challenges. “We do not want to see service cuts, and this proposal has such a broad base of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016350/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-commits-to-1-annual-salary\">takes a $1 salary\u003c/a> as mayor, said he’s focused on making San Francisco more affordable for working families. During his recent State of the City address, the mayor detailed his plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069711/san-francisco-expands-child-care-subsidies-to-tackle-affordability-issues\">increase child care subsidies\u003c/a>, a welcome shift to many middle-income households. But the plan, funded through a ballot measure voters passed in 2018, is projected to run out of dollars by 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, Lurie faced one of his toughest legislative battles last fall with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066478/san-francisco-passed-a-new-zoning-plan-how-will-it-change-the-city\">plan to upzone\u003c/a> residential neighborhoods to make way for more housing. Supporters say it’s needed to build more homes in areas that have avoided development for decades, and in order to meet state housing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the plan could lead to real estate speculation that could displace low-income residents and small businesses, and fails to protect all of the city’s rent-controlled housing stock from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a lawsuit and other interest from community groups around a potential ballot measure to challenge the zoning plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been litigated for years in San Francisco, and there are people that want no new housing in their neighborhoods,” Lurie said. “It’s a tired argument. And that’s the politics of the old, and that’s what we are trying to fight against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On westside politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the city’s Richmond District and other neighborhoods went without power for several days this winter, Lurie, who often maintains a calm demeanor, said the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric failed to adequately communicate the issue with the city and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What upset me the most was the communication,” he said, noting that it was difficult for residents to claim the offer of a hotel room during the widespread power outage. “We were going to give vouchers to people and told them to call 211 and they were not going through. They were being told they don’t qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s first year has brought fresh faces to the Board of Supervisors, as he navigated recalls and his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064108/mayor-daniel-luries-pick-for-sunset-supervisor-resigns-after-1-week\">appointment flop last fall in Beya Alcaraz\u003c/a>, who briefly represented the Sunset District before resigning after one week on the job amid controversy that marked the mayor’s first real, widely acknowledged misstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070744\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An audience listens as Mayor Daniel Lurie joins \u003cem data-start=\"409\" data-end=\"430\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for a wide-ranging conversation at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I made a mistake. I did not set her up for success, and that is completely on me,” Lurie said, adding that he could have “done a better job of vetting” and that his administration beefed up its search process in making his next pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel terrible about that, and I let the people of D4 down, and I think they have a good representative now who is working very hard,” he said, referring to the current District 4 supervisor, Alan Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for one of the city’s other ongoing power struggles, whether to put cars back on the Great Highway or leave it open as a public park, called Sunset Dunes, Lurie stayed out of the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if voters should weigh in on the issue again in a 2026 ballot measure, he said: “That’s up to the people… this is one of those things where you probably won’t like the answer. We have a billion-dollar budget deficit that I’m focused on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Instagram and economic recovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lurie has earned a reputation as the city’s hype man on social media, particularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048631/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-is-all-over-instagram-is-he-saying-enough\">Instagram\u003c/a>, where he frequently promotes San Francisco’s economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night, Lagos and Shafer played one of Lurie’s social media videos where he speaks with a Tenderloin falafel shop owner, hyping up a local business owner with his signature tag line, “Let’s go, San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get to meet people like him and get little hits of inspiration from small business owners. It’s incredible,” Lurie said, crediting some of the younger members on his staff who are helping drive his social media strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070739\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with Political Breakdown hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These people are working their tails off and I want them to have a partner in City Hall,” he said, referring to the businesses. “This is a way to get our message out unfiltered and I think it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business vacancies remain high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067981/san-francisco-recovery-slumps-as-the-future-of-its-downtown-mall-hangs-in-limbo\">downtown revitalization\u003c/a> remains one of his top concerns. And Lurie still doesn’t have an answer for what should happen to the now-empty mall at Powell and Market streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do not want me dictating what goes into a mall or what goes into that center,” he said, adding that his administration is focused on “creating conditions” that make businesses want to develop the site into something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are hearing the news about San Francisco,” he said. “They are investing in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even with his growing social media presence, Lurie has managed to dodge one of the internet’s current crazes: \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in a lightning round of questions if he’s seen the wildly popular gay hockey show, Lurie said: “I haven’t watched it. Apparently I need to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6022\">Watch the conversation on Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On behavioral health and San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overdoses in the city have leveled off, but remain at high and devastating levels. Lurie acknowledged San Francisco still has a long way to go to provide adequate housing and mental and behavioral health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure on the city’s care system came to a tragic flashpoint in December, when a social worker at San Francisco General Hospital was stabbed by a patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was maybe the worst day for me of my first year, without question, and the days that followed,” Lurie said, revealing that he held the hand of the slain social worker, Alberto Rangel, before he died. “Those who are taking care of us shouldn’t fear for their safety at any point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070742\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One year into his term, Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"729\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incident has led to much debate over how the city should allocate resources to better protect first responders. Lurie said that the hospital could benefit from more security, but also said keeping services that help vulnerable populations easy to access is an important part of getting people to utilize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nurses and social workers at SF General are incredible people,” he said, “and I want to keep them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie pointed to the need for increased locked subacute beds, which the city is currently working to increase at San Francisco General, and other tools like conservatorship and court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when asked about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Care Court program, Lurie didn’t seem enthusiastic about its results. “It’s a whole process, DPH and judges have to get involved,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On homelessness and outdoor drug use\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of Lurie’s first legislative moves was passing an ordinance giving the mayor more powers to bypass certain bureaucratic approvals to speed up contracting and funding services that address drug addiction and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9dHECqx2JmsJ8xxjcQiQHEkA68?domain=sf.gov\">Breaking the Cycle plan\u003c/a>, the mayor has also set up a mental health drop-in center in the Tenderloin and is planning to open another stabilization center this spring, where police can drop off people they find on the street experiencing a drug-related crisis.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I am far from satisfied, but I am really optimistic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also moved to integrate the city’s various street outreach teams under one agency and moved to stop providing safer \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/0XlPCyPmRxsArQQ5iyF7HxSByv?domain=sf.gov\">smoking supplies\u003c/a> outdoors and mandate counseling in exchange for any harm reduction supply distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has cleared more tent encampments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">fueling high approval numbers\u003c/a> in Lurie’s first year. But the results have been met with some pushback from supervisors who said they’ve seen homelessness and street-level crime shuffle to neighborhoods in their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take all of us to send a message that we aren’t going to tolerate this behavior in our city. We still have work to do at 16th [Street], 24th [Street] and SoMa,” Lurie said. “It is better, but we have a long way to go. The Mission deserves better, the Tenderloin deserves better … If something bad happens, it’s on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Donald Trump and the Bay Area’s billionaires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Trump administration walked back its plans to send the National Guard to San Francisco as part of an immigration enforcement blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor leaned on his connections to billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who made headlines when he said the president should send troops to the city just days before backpedaling, to convince the president to hold off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070745\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"102\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Marc after those comments, and I said those are comments that may have been true a few years ago, but people lost the plot on San Francisco,” Lurie said of his conversation with Benioff. “They weren’t seeing what we were seeing, which is that crime was going down, and the economic recovery was going in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He carefully acknowledged that he continues to worry about the possibility of a future enforcement blitz in the city and residents’ safety. But the mayor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">never publicly mentioned President Donald Trump\u003c/a> by name, and hosts pressed him on his strategy Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know you two are trying to get something out of me,” Lurie said to the hosts. “I’m going to try to stay clear of as much noise as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On budget woes and affordability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is facing a nearly $936.6 million budget deficit in the next two fiscal years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Joint_Report_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30.pdf\">city report\u003c/a> released in December 2025. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064324/its-devastating-more-than-100m-for-housing-homeless-at-risk-under-new-hud-policy\">Trump administration’s cuts\u003c/a> through the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ are also projected to pull nearly $300 million from the city’s budget for programs like food assistance and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to fade on any San Francisco values as long as I’m mayor,” he said, still avoiding responding directly to questions about the Trump administration and federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is backing a property tax to fund MUNI, which is also facing a fiscal cliff, and is also working with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan on a regional funding proposal for BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"437\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026, as he marks one year in office amid debates over public safety and City Hall reforms. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“MUNI is non-negotiable. We need to fund it,” Lurie said, marking a shift from previous comments suggesting MUNI should be responsible for addressing its own challenges. “We do not want to see service cuts, and this proposal has such a broad base of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016350/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-commits-to-1-annual-salary\">takes a $1 salary\u003c/a> as mayor, said he’s focused on making San Francisco more affordable for working families. During his recent State of the City address, the mayor detailed his plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069711/san-francisco-expands-child-care-subsidies-to-tackle-affordability-issues\">increase child care subsidies\u003c/a>, a welcome shift to many middle-income households. But the plan, funded through a ballot measure voters passed in 2018, is projected to run out of dollars by 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, Lurie faced one of his toughest legislative battles last fall with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066478/san-francisco-passed-a-new-zoning-plan-how-will-it-change-the-city\">plan to upzone\u003c/a> residential neighborhoods to make way for more housing. Supporters say it’s needed to build more homes in areas that have avoided development for decades, and in order to meet state housing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the plan could lead to real estate speculation that could displace low-income residents and small businesses, and fails to protect all of the city’s rent-controlled housing stock from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a lawsuit and other interest from community groups around a potential ballot measure to challenge the zoning plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been litigated for years in San Francisco, and there are people that want no new housing in their neighborhoods,” Lurie said. “It’s a tired argument. And that’s the politics of the old, and that’s what we are trying to fight against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On westside politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the city’s Richmond District and other neighborhoods went without power for several days this winter, Lurie, who often maintains a calm demeanor, said the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric failed to adequately communicate the issue with the city and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What upset me the most was the communication,” he said, noting that it was difficult for residents to claim the offer of a hotel room during the widespread power outage. “We were going to give vouchers to people and told them to call 211 and they were not going through. 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