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The main complaint and the main theme expressed by the people that I’ve heard from is the impact on children, so with my limited resources I decided to focus on children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an initial matter we identified dispensaries that were very close to schools and parks and playgrounds. 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We can have grow operations, we can have dispensaries, we can do anything we want with respect to marijuana because the Department of Justice in 2009 in the Ogden memo said that the California U.S. attorneys will not take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was incorrect. And we felt that we needed to send a message that it wasn’t correct. I actually felt that it was more fair to send a message because, for example, I was hearing from Oakland that it was going to issue licenses and allow large-scale grow operations in warehouses. And what was described to me was that they were going to be quote “Walmart-sized.” And I was hearing that everyone believed that would be okay and that my office would not take any action. And I knew it isn’t okay, it is a violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re talking about that scale grow-operation across the bay in Oakland it wouldn’t be something that I could ignore. I didn’t think it was fair to stand by, be silent, let people pull licenses in Oakland, put millions of dollars into setting up a grow operation in a warehouse and then come in and take an enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yours was the first letter that went out. Did you think that within a few months of your letter to officials in Oakland that there would be this proliferation of similar letters from U.S. attorneys around the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I certainly only focus on my own district. I wasn’t focused on what my colleagues around the country might or might not do as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If there are people who are ill and they believe that marijuana will help them or their doctors believe it will help them, the U.S. attorneys are not ordinarily going to bring any kind of enforcement action. That’s really all that the Ogden memo says.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At your \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/#audio\">press conference\u003c/a> last fall, we heard the term “commercial industry” used quite a lot in relation to marijuana in California. What does that mean? Is it the scale, the way they operate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you actually read the so-called Ogden memo from 2009 from the Department of Justice, what it says is that U.S. attorneys will not ordinarily use their limited resources to bring actions against seriously ill individuals or their caregivers. That’s the direction we were given. And I think it was clear from the department and clear from Washington D.C. that if there are people who are ill and they believe that marijuana will help them or their doctors believe marijuana will help them, the U.S. attorneys are not ordinarily going to step into that fray and bring any kind of an enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s really at its heart all that the Ogden memo says. It also makes clear that a marijuana industry is not off-limits. And if we have significant grow operations, if we have for-profit operations, certainly if those operations are having negative impacts on their communities, that it isn’t something that we’re able to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have taken more actions recently…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When a dispensary comes to my attention that is close to a school, a park, a playground or children, that’s a line I’ve decided to draw.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The main theme that I was hearing from members of this community, members of our community in the northern district of California was a concern about children. And it has to do with marijuana use leading to other drugs, it has to do with brain development. I was hearing from psychologists who were sending me reports that find that brains are not fully developed until your mid 20s and use of marijuana or alcohol or anything else like that is more harmful than perhaps it is than when people are a little bit older and their brains are developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he other concern that people have expressed to me is safety. There is a belief, backed by facts, that marijuana operations are often times the victims of criminal activity. Armed robberies at dispensaries, armed robberies at grow operations, and people who are nearby are at risk as a result of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there have been some illustrations of that concern recently in my district. For example there’s a dispensary in Santa Cruz that is next to a preschool, and it came to my attention that dispensary was the subject of an armed robbery in the middle part of February. And I heard that the parents of the preschoolers, the operators of the preschool, and the community were very concerned. So I sent a letter to the owners and operators of that dispensary putting them on notice that the dispensary is close to a preschool that it’s in violation of federal law, giving them 45 days to close it down before we take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another end of the spectrum we indicted a case two weeks ago in Humboldt County. There’s a grower there who allegedly had a 1500-plant grow operation. He allegedly hired undocumented workers from Central America and the indictment alleges that when those workers came to him and asked to be paid, he instead pulled out a gun, shot and killed one of them, and chased the other one through the woods, shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe there’s this notion out there that the marijuana industry is just full of organic farmers who are peacefully growing an organic natural plant and that there’s no harm associated with that. And what I hear from people in the community is that there is harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">One thing we’ve heard in response is that this is a good dispensary. This is a dispensary that’s patient-run, or they consider themselves to be a good actor in the marijuana space. I hear them, but I have a hard time making that distinction. I’ve already drawn a line.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You’ve also taken action against dispensaries in San Francisco and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/berkeley-patients-group-marijuana-dispensary-to-close/\">Berkeley Patients Group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my concerns about dispensaries that are in proximity to schools and parks and playgrounds is the possibility they could be the target of violence or armed robbery. People in the community may be supportive of the dispensary being in their community until there’s a robbery and people come running out of the dispensary shooting guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m concerned about that circumstance with respect to every dispensary. I simply don’t have the resources to take action with respect to every dispensary in the northern district, so I’ve had to make some decisions about how to best use my resources. So I’ve decided to focus on dispensaries that are near kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people say “wait a minute, we’re doing fine.” For example, the situation in Berkeley. They say, “we haven’t had any problems.” The school across the street is happy with us. Why pick on us? Go somewhere else. What’s your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they’re full of marijuana and everybody knows that. And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have web sites, and everybody knows where they are. They are at risk of being robbed and many of them are robbed. I spoke to a police chief today about another topic and I asked him have you had any marijuana dispensaries robbed recently and he ticked off three in the last week in his community. Any given dispensary may not have been robbed to date, but they could very well be robbed in the near future and there very well could be violence associated with that. I’m concerned about the people in the dispensary, certainly; I’m also concerned about the people in the vicinity of the dispensary. Which is again why I’ve drawn this line. When a dispensary comes to my attention that is close to a school, a park, a playground or children, that’s a line I’ve decided to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean any dispensary that’s near a school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">-If a location is subject to one of these letters, can they move? That is, could that remove the issue cited in the letter?\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>-That’s correct.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We’ve sent letters to a number of dispensaries and we certainly hear back from most if not all of them, or lawyers representing them. And one thing we’ve heard in response is that this is a good dispensary. This is a dispensary that’s patient-run, or they consider themselves to be a good actor in the marijuana space. And I hear them, but I have a hard time making that distinction. I’ve already drawn a line. If it’s close to children then that’s a line we’re going to draw. If I then start trying to get in and figure out which ones are quote good or not, it’s just not something I’m capable of doing. So I’ve decided to keep that line fairly bright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a location is subject to one of these letters, can they move? That is, could that remove the issue cited in the letter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to marijuana cases, are you relying on civil forfeitures more than criminal prosecutions because they require fewer resources?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We take on many things in the U.S. Attorney’s office that are labor-intensive. We have a case that involves the failure of a bank and a nearly $500 million loss, where the discovery and data is measured in terabytes. And I could cite many other cases where the resources involved in bringing the case are significant and we take them on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re not really afraid of the use of resources. I don’t agree that we’re doing it because it’s easier. Marijuana is illegal under federal law and there are many things I could do as a result. I can bring a criminal action, I can bring a forfeiture action, or both. I just believe that it’s appropriate under these circumstances to bring a forfeiture action at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t promise going forward that it won’t change. I can’t promise that we very well may find an appropriate case for criminal prosecution. We very well may find a case where it’s appropriate to not give notice to the owner of the property but simply to institute an asset forfeiture action.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t want to send the message that if you are more than 1000 feet from a school you will not be targeted. I don’t know that.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I cannot promise that we will not bring actions against dispensaries that are not close to schools and parks and playgrounds but for some other reason we felt that it was appropriate to expand our look. So I don’t want to send the message to people that if you are more than 1000 feet from a school you will not be targeted. I don’t want to send the message that you will never be criminally prosecuted. I don’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, how would you assess the impact of this state-wide enforcement action?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We certainly got people’s attention. There’s one big positive from my perspective. And that is that I was hearing from a lot of people in this community that they believed that they could take a warehouse that they owned or a property that they owned and turn it into a large-scale marijuana grow operation and that there would be no repercussions. I was hearing from very upstanding members of the community that there were plans to do that kind of thing, to take a warehouse that they’d had trouble leasing in west Oakland and to lease it to a marijuana grow operation. I’m gratified to hear that people understand that they can’t do that and feel that nothing will ever happen. Something might happen. There might be a criminal prosecution. There might be an asset forfeiture action. It is illegal, whether you agree with it or not, under federal law, and it’s not something people should take lightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you say to the argument that your actions are preventing seriously ill people from getting their medicine?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are an awful lot of marijuana dispensaries in the Northern District of California, and the number that we have taken action against is relatively small. So I am assuming that people who need access to medical marijuana still have access to it through dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also think that the Ogden memo and frankly California state law contemplated a much smaller scale with respect to medical marijuana. When I read California state law, when I read the Ogden memo, what those look like to me is that what was contemplated was people believed they need marijuana, or whose doctors believe they could benefit from marijuana, would be growing it personally or a friend or a caregiver or community member or church member would be growing it for them and it would be relatively small scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we have seen is an absolute explosion of the marijuana industry in California where it is not at all small scale but instead huge swaths of farmland, huge grow operations in all of the counties north of San Francisco and indoor grow operations in the more urban areas, are really taking over and are really impacting negatively on communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think of calls from Kamala Harris and others for the state to tighten its laws or create a regulatory system when it comes to medical marijuana?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think I have to wait and see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you took this job in 2010, did you have any idea that a lot of time and attention would be required concerning something like marijuana?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had absolutely no idea. I can tell you that amount of press attention with respect to medical marijuana is completely disproportionate to the tiny percentage of resources of my office that is used to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part we’re prosecuting violent gangs, bringing gun and drug cases and gang-related cases, bringing significant white collar cases, bringing public corruption cases against law enforcement officers and others, bringing child exploitations, prosecutions against people who are abusing children, human-trafficking prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You and the other U.S. attorneys in California have been criticized for taking these enforcement actions against medical marijuana operators. Some people say the feds need to end the war on pot and other drugs. What’s your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I certainly read and understand that there are people who disagree with what I’ve done in terms of the enforcement actions we’ve taken. And most of those sentiments conclude that it should just be legalized. That is, “you shouldn’t be doing this, instead it should be legalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My answer to that is those people need to go to their representatives in Congress, who are the only people with the power and ability to change federal law. I don’t have the power and ability to change federal law.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to go back a little bit to let you know that my office receives phone calls, letters and emails from people every day expressing great concern about the explosion and proliferation of the marijuana industry as a result of the passage of legislation regarding medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In the view of the people that contact my office, the demand for medical marijuana in California is fueling an industry that’s ruining other parts of the state.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the view of the people that write to my office and call my office, the demand for medical marijuana in California is fueling an industry that is ruining other parts of the state. We have huge swaths of land in the Central Valley and in Northern California that are now devoted to the cultivation of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get letters that tell me that the writer lives in a small community and that community has six marijuana dispensaries. And they watch people come from all over the state and outside the state come and purchase marijuana in their small community and they express grave concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I receive letters from people who tell me things like my business is across the street from a high school and a dispensary and I watch kids all day long go in and out and then into the high school. And then I hear that they have a tremendous problem in that high school with marijuana use by the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana is illegal under federal law and I felt like I had to do something to respond to those members of my community that don’t support it and don’t support the impact they believe it’s having. The main complaint and the main theme expressed by the people that I’ve heard from is the impact on children, so with my limited resources I decided to focus on children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an initial matter we identified dispensaries that were very close to schools and parks and playgrounds. That’s what led to my decision and the effort we’ve engaged in in the Northern District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>We were hearing the U.S. attorneys are not going to take any actions with respect to marijuana in California because of the 2009 Ogden memo…We felt we needed to send a message that wasn’t correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The reason that the four California U.S. Attorneys announced our efforts together is that we were all experiencing the same thing, which is that everyone was saying we were hearing and everyone was saying the U.S. attorneys are not going to take any actions with respect to marijuana in California because of the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/192\">2009 Ogden memo [full text]\u003c/a>. So it’s fair game. We can have grow operations, we can have dispensaries, we can do anything we want with respect to marijuana because the Department of Justice in 2009 in the Ogden memo said that the California U.S. attorneys will not take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was incorrect. And we felt that we needed to send a message that it wasn’t correct. I actually felt that it was more fair to send a message because, for example, I was hearing from Oakland that it was going to issue licenses and allow large-scale grow operations in warehouses. And what was described to me was that they were going to be quote “Walmart-sized.” And I was hearing that everyone believed that would be okay and that my office would not take any action. And I knew it isn’t okay, it is a violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re talking about that scale grow-operation across the bay in Oakland it wouldn’t be something that I could ignore. I didn’t think it was fair to stand by, be silent, let people pull licenses in Oakland, put millions of dollars into setting up a grow operation in a warehouse and then come in and take an enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yours was the first letter that went out. Did you think that within a few months of your letter to officials in Oakland that there would be this proliferation of similar letters from U.S. attorneys around the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I certainly only focus on my own district. I wasn’t focused on what my colleagues around the country might or might not do as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If there are people who are ill and they believe that marijuana will help them or their doctors believe it will help them, the U.S. attorneys are not ordinarily going to bring any kind of enforcement action. That’s really all that the Ogden memo says.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At your \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/#audio\">press conference\u003c/a> last fall, we heard the term “commercial industry” used quite a lot in relation to marijuana in California. What does that mean? Is it the scale, the way they operate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you actually read the so-called Ogden memo from 2009 from the Department of Justice, what it says is that U.S. attorneys will not ordinarily use their limited resources to bring actions against seriously ill individuals or their caregivers. That’s the direction we were given. And I think it was clear from the department and clear from Washington D.C. that if there are people who are ill and they believe that marijuana will help them or their doctors believe marijuana will help them, the U.S. attorneys are not ordinarily going to step into that fray and bring any kind of an enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s really at its heart all that the Ogden memo says. It also makes clear that a marijuana industry is not off-limits. And if we have significant grow operations, if we have for-profit operations, certainly if those operations are having negative impacts on their communities, that it isn’t something that we’re able to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have taken more actions recently…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When a dispensary comes to my attention that is close to a school, a park, a playground or children, that’s a line I’ve decided to draw.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The main theme that I was hearing from members of this community, members of our community in the northern district of California was a concern about children. And it has to do with marijuana use leading to other drugs, it has to do with brain development. 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And I heard that the parents of the preschoolers, the operators of the preschool, and the community were very concerned. So I sent a letter to the owners and operators of that dispensary putting them on notice that the dispensary is close to a preschool that it’s in violation of federal law, giving them 45 days to close it down before we take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another end of the spectrum we indicted a case two weeks ago in Humboldt County. There’s a grower there who allegedly had a 1500-plant grow operation. He allegedly hired undocumented workers from Central America and the indictment alleges that when those workers came to him and asked to be paid, he instead pulled out a gun, shot and killed one of them, and chased the other one through the woods, shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe there’s this notion out there that the marijuana industry is just full of organic farmers who are peacefully growing an organic natural plant and that there’s no harm associated with that. 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In fact, cataloguing her recent woes is no small task: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19089606\">Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts resigns\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/25/police-arrest-protesters-tear-down-occupy-oakland-tent-city/\">Police and Occupy Demonstrators Clash in Oakland\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-10-27/news/30331150_1_police-raid-oakland-mayor-jean-quan-police-officers\">Occupy Oakland: Jean Quan ‘I don’t know everything’\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/10/mayor_jean_quan_apologizes_to.php\">Mayor Jean Quan Apologizes to Occupy Oakland, Gets Booed Off Stage\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.com%2Farticles%2F242783%2F20111103%2Foakland-mayor-criticized-police-officers-response-occupy.htm&ei=sHPFTo2eEISWiQKbivHgBQ&usg=AFQjCNEkjhNrimRQZFhDpjk5YOEboaOgyQ&sig2=RkrX1Yt76jEX-iSE1JbSlg\">Oakland Mayor criticized by Police Officers for Her Response to Occupy Oakland\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19184212\">Quan opponents file for her recall, hoping to turn 71 signatures into 20,000\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/mayor-jean-quans-oakland-dream-turned-nightmare/2011/10/28/gIQAfQBJPM_blog.html\">Mayor Jean Quan’s ‘Oakland dream turned nightmare’\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6454230-quan-approval-rating-stays-low-despite-2nd-occupy-raid/\">CBS 5 Poll: Oaklanders Unhappy With Mayor Quan, Handling Of Protests\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/250038/20111115/occupy-oakland-deputy-mayor-quits-hours-quan.htm/\">Deputy Mayor Quits Hours After Quan’s Senior Legal Adviser\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_19344174\">Oakland Mayor Jean Quan loses her choice for port commission\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6454230-quan-approval-rating-stays-low-despite-2nd-occupy-raid/\">Quan Approval Rating Stays Low Despite 2nd Occupy Raid\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/92510/archives/2011/04/06/wednesday-must-read-quans-parcel-tax-voted-down-abc-security-loses-city-contract\">Quan’s parcel tax voted down\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_47613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/jeanquanSM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/jeanquanSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jeanquanSM\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47613\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I actually could go on, but you get the picture…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201111041630/a\">Josh Richman recently told KQED’s Scott Shafer\u003c/a> that he didn’t know if there’s anything Quan can do to recover. Still, Quan is only one year into a four-year term. Crisis communications consultant Chris Lehane — who knows from political low points (think Monica Lewinsky. He helped manage that scandal in the Clinton White House) — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/07/interview-political-consultant-chris-lehane-on-how-big-city-mayors-should-handle-occupy-wall-street-protests/\">told Scott Shafer last week\u003c/a> that Quan can still come back from the Occupy Oakland crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ultimately people in these positions will be evaluated over the long term,” Lehane said. “She’s apologized, which is important, particularly for politicians, who almost never apologize. This situation is so big, there’s going to be little she can do in the day to day. Politicians have to realize you’re not going to immediately come back, they have to have a long-term strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given her history, that she came up through community activism, she’s someone who can step up with an interesting policy or program and seize the moment in a positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, KQED’s Joshua Johnson interviewed Quan fresh off her defeat on Measure I, a $60 million parcel tax that would have been used for a range of services related to public safety, city services, and infrastructure needs. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing in particular I found interesting about the mayor’s answers, as well as those she gave in a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/09/mayor-quan-on-all-things-considered-weve-got-the-extended-interview/\">national interview with NPR\u003c/a>, is how sympathetic she appears to be to the Occupy movement’s goals and even its internal processes, going so far in the NPR segment as to explain in detail the reasoning behind the Occupy Oakland general assembly’s refusal to let her address the encampment. To which All Things Considered correspondent Martin Kaste said, almost incredulously, “but you’re the mayor!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Joshua Johnson’s interview. A transcript follows the audio. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/quanjohnson.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Jean Quan on Failure of Measure I, Occupy Oakland, and the City’s Economy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/quanjohnson.mp3|titles=quanjohnson]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your thoughts on the outcome of the Measure I election? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising. Even the San Francisco tax measures went down. In Oakland we’ve been a little distracted so the people who normally would have been out there campaigning for this didn’t have much time to work for it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it means we will not be able to restore some of the services we cut. At the beginning of the year I put out several options, including an all-cuts budget. Luckily the employees of the city gave back 10 %., undertaking for the first time major pension reform relief in the city. Even the police are now paying into their pension. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could have restored some of the cuts, some full-time senior programs, some road and tree people, some park maintenance people, to add and upgrade our technology at the libraries, which needs constant funding to keep the internet and other services going. And probably most importantly for Oaklanders, it was going to allow us the extra money for police recruitment and training. The baby boomers are retiring and the replacement of police officers are probably the most expensive cost. It costs us about 100k to train and recruit new police officers. With boomers retiring at a higher rate, we really don’t necessarily have enough money right now to keep up with that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My biggest hope is that the economy in Oakland swings up a bit. We’re hoping to make a couple of good announcements on new projects in Oakland and eventually we’ll be able to cover that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems like all of this has been something of a double whammy. You’ve got the Occupy protesters which scared off some business….\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we had this perfect storm. I think it would have been hard to pass Measure I anyway. But we thought we had to try to give Oaklanders a chance to try to step up. It would have been a quarter a day. Otherwise what we have now is an all-cuts budget. We have the potential loss of a couple of businesses downtown. And a lot of small businesses are really hurting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you have the cost of Occupy Oakland, which will probably be several million dollars. Luckily for the first time in many years we have a full reserve and it will mean other things won’t get done in the city unfortunately\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you see the opportunity for Oakland to bounce back and keep growing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is in the center of the Bay Area and we’re an amazing city. Downtown Oakland is one of the most exciting places in the Bay Area. Just six months ago the New York Times said we have some of the best restaurants in the Bay area. We have a thriving art scene. If you come down on First Friday, you’ll see thousands of people visiting our art galleries and enjoying music and nightclubs downtown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland was one of the few cities predicted by the Association of Bay Area Governments to continue to grow in jobs and housing over the next decade. I think that’s going to happen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately there’s a national stereotype about Oakland. But it’s one of the most diverse, exciting cities in the country. We’re going to come back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have any concerns as to Occupy protesters either at Snow Park or a retrenching at Frank Ogawa?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was very heartened the night we cleared the park that the protesters were very peaceful, that they talked about getting on with the work of the 99%. I’ve been following all the tweets in the different groups; they’re going to start organizing around the school closures in Oakland. I understand there’s going to be some picketing of banks this weekend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Snow Park people have till Monday; they have a group of people that have been working really hard to find an alternative place. I hear one of the local churches may be willing to work with them. I think we move on, and it could be a model for the rest of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the movement’s gotten diverted on the encampments and across the country they haven’t really been able to contain the crime or the large homeless population and it becomes a whole sap on the resources instead of moving on with the organizing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, our winter shelter opened yesterday so we’re hoping that a large number of the homeless that were staying in Frank Ogawa Plaza will be sheltered there for the rest of the winter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHave you notified Snow Park that Monday is the day to go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They made a deal with the police chief. All last week we tried to get people to leave. I myself talked to nine or ten of the tents that were in Frank Ogawa Plaza. The police chief gave them a week to find a permanent home. We expect them to be gone by next Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Also known as “instant run-off voting,” voters will pick three candidates (instead of one), and rank them in order of preference, eliminating the need for a separate runoff election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although this is not the first time San Francisco has employed this system (RCV was first used in 2004 for a board of supervisors race and again in the 2007 mayoral race, when Gavin Newsom was reelected with 72% of the vote) it is the first time the city is using it to decide a competitive mayor’s race that has a large candidate pool. And many are waiting to see how well it all works out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, RCV has its discontents; some candidates stand to benefit more than others, and a variety of opponents have cried foul, calling the system too complex and undemocratic. Last year, the system survived a court challenge alleging that it violated voters’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest issue at play is that you no longer need to be the top vote-getter in the first round in order to win the election; instead you need the most-combined first, second, and third choice votes. And that significantly changes the calculus. Factor in that there are a grand total of 16 candidates running for mayor this year, and you’ve got yourself a pretty thick electoral swamp to wade through.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how’d this all begin? Well, San Franciscans voted on it (ah, the irony!). In 2002, residents approved Proposition A, effectively amending the city’s charter. The RCV system’s actually been used in smaller San Francisco elections since 2004, but never for such a high-stakes contest. It used to be you just voted for one candidate, and if no one received over 50% of the votes, a December runoff election was held, and the winner was then determined by whoever got the most votes. RCV will now be used to elect all of the city’s major elected positions, including members of the Board of Supervisors. But with Election Day just a few weeks away there still seem to be a whole lot of voters out there unfamiliar – or just flat out confused – with how RCV works. So, here’s our best stab at explaining the rules of the game:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, a quick preview of what the new ballot looks like. A good mock-up is available at San Francisco’s Department of Election’s site. The basic format is fairly simple: Three side-by-side columns (first-choice, second-choice and third-choice). 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But Quan – who anticipated this outcome and allied herself with other underdog candidates and their supporters – received far more second-choice votes than did Perata. And after all the elimination rounds, with second and third-choice votes factored in, Quan received 51% of the vote to Perata’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Critics\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSo is RCV a good thing? The jury’s still out. It really depends on who you ask. (Oakland’s Mayor Quan, I’m guessing would say yes; Don Perata … not so much. 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The first was if no new revenue comes in and if the fiscal reforms that Mayor Chuck Reed has proposed don’t get enacted. This is what the city is facing under that scenario: all libraries closed, all community centers closed or leased out to private directors, more police officers cut, no improvement done to city streets, maintenance and parks outsourced or just not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Deb Figone said “this is no way to run a city of a million people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">There was a push to sound the alarm and let people know this is for real, this is not political posturing.\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Is this just political posturing or do these numbers really add up? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the numbers are real.This is much earlier than they usually start on budget projections. 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It’s not going to be business as usual in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that journalists were kind of skeptical about early projections. There always seemed to be a little bit of crying wolf. Then when budget time came around they’d come up with the money. But I don’t see that; that’s not the case anymore. These are real numbers and real tough decisions that are going to have to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve already seen it in this current budget: the anti-gang task force, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.strongneighborhoods.org/\">Strong Neighborhoods\u003c/a> initiative, anti-graffiti and anti-litter programs that are nationally known and have been held up as models for providing city services have been decimated or at least drastically cut. 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