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Today’s victory means they won’t have to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which brought the lawsuit, praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In America, free speech doesn’t just belong to the people who say things the government agrees with,” Fitzpatrick said in a release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11986286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestine encampment outside of Sproul hall in Berkeley, Calif. on May 11, 2024. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was counted out and underestimated by pollsters and pundits, despite having a sterling resume. Vastly outspent by a wealthy opponent, he languished in the polls before sprinting to the finish line near the front of the pack as the votes were counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I’m not talking about this week, but about 1998, when businessman Al Checchi, or “Al Checkbook” as he was called, spent $40 million — an eye-popping amount at the time — to win the Democratic nomination for an open governor’s seat. Lt. Gov. Gray Davis, a decidedly unflashy but steady technocrat, surprisingly won with the slogan, “Experience Money Can’t Buy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were echoes of that earlier campaign in this year’s topsy-turvy, chaotic and unpredictable race for governor, where former Health and Human Services Secretary and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra ignored calls for him to drop out lest Democrats split the vote and let Republicans take the top two spots in November. Timing, luck and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079746/rep-eric-swalwell-says-he-is-resigning-from-congress-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\">sudden implosion of frontrunner Eric Swalwell’s campaign\u003c/a> gave Becerra the oxygen he needed to stay alive and ultimately battle for first place in the preliminary returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his victory celebration in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, Becerra, the son of working-class parents from Mexico, reveled in his underdog story, which he called worthy of a Hollywood movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost immediately, he’s counted out. An afterthought. Overlooked by many. Outspent by a ton. Even called along the way to drop out and save us all the trouble,” Becerra said. “Well, guess what? The underdog stayed in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be days before we know for sure that Becerra will make the runoff — there’s still a chance Steyer could sneak into the top two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085541/california-governor-race-becerra-hilton-lead-early-with-millions-of-votes-to-be-counted\">when all the ballots are counted\u003c/a>. But for those who said Becerra represents the status quo, play-it-safe, corporate-controlled leadership, remember this: It’s been 150 years since California had a Latino governor — a Republican named \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romualdo_Pacheco\">Romualdo Pacheco\u003c/a> — as voters have chosen one white man after another to lead the state.[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor,Learn about the results of the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]Of course Becerra isn’t governor yet, but he’ll be the odds-on favorite if he faces Republican Hilton in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s building a really broad-based, multi-ethnic middle-class coalition,” said Mike Madrid, a Latino Republican political analyst who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. He noted that while Becerra attracted solid support from Latino voters, it was less than Antonio Villaraigosa did in 2018 when he ran a losing campaign for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid sees Becerra’s success as drawing from elements of the historic coalition that has been slipping away from Democrats recently — working-class, noncollege-educated whites, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s something very different happening in the redefinition of Democratic politics in California,” Madrid said. “It’s kind of a reemergence of this sort of FDR wing of the party. And it’s not just an ethnic identity thing; it’s really more of a middle-class identity thing. If there’s an identity, it’s no racial or ethnic anymore, it’s class, which is fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Becerra wins, he’ll become a national figure — a Latino governor of a state often targeted by a president who has made demonizing, demoralizing and deporting immigrants a fundamental priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is bigger than Trump. Our values are undeniable and undeportable,” Becerra said to supporters on Tuesday night. “To the people and voters of California, this is your state: Este es tu estado. We will not be bought, we will not be bullied, and we are never backing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in a San Francisco congressional race with national implications, another candidate with an immigrant background had a successful night. Supervisor Connie Chan, with a major boost from Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s late endorsement and solid union support, vaulted into second place in the 11th Congressional District with 29% of the vote. She’ll face state Sen. 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Sala Burton. Now, Wiener is hoping to be the city’s first openly gay member of Congress. Pelosi’s endorsement came with praise for Chan’s immigrant background, being a mother and understanding budgets (Wiener also chaired the state Senate’s budget committee) as reasons for her support. But some saw her determination to derail the candidacy of Saikat Chakrabarti, another Democrat she clashed with when he briefly worked for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that she’s accomplished that with Chakrabarti’s distant third-place finish, it remains to be seen how much political capital she’ll spend on what could be an uphill battle to defeat Wiener in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll wait for millions of remaining ballots to be counted before we know who will advance to November from the governor’s race to local congressional elections. The state’s top election official knows that can be frustrating, but she’s undaunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often hear, not only from the governor but from everyone else who (says) ‘we want you to count faster, Shirley,’” Secretary of State Shirley Weber told KQED this week. “Now what do you want? You want me to go fast, or do you want to be accurate? I choose accurate — (but) we’ll be accurate and fast at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\">\u003cstrong>Follow our election coverage as additional results come in\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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I mean, especially if you’ve got to drive a long way and you’re physically required to be at your job, then I think you’re really in a conundrum, because there aren’t the greatest mass public transit options. We’ve got some good ones, but they’re also expensive and point to point, they probably don’t get you exactly where you need to go if you’re driving, because if they did, you’d probably be doing that already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:03] \u003c/em>I mean, how much is gas averaging in California right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:07] \u003c/em>Average gas prices state-wide are $5.82 a gallon. That compares to $3.98 for the U.S., so we’ve got nearly a $2 gap there. So it’s certainly climbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:20] \u003c/em>And why is that Alejandro? Why is gas so much higher in California compared to the rest of the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:26] \u003c/em>I think everybody understands like the basics of why gas prices are high across the United States. The United States and Israel is in conflict with Iran. We have a significant global choke point with the Strait of Ormuz closed. So we’re seeing about one-fifth of the world oil supplies cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:52] \u003c/em>There are just a few fundamental, structural reasons why gas prices are higher here in the state. First and foremost, we have taxes. We have higher taxes than pretty much anywhere. We have the gas tax. We certain environmental or climate policies. We have a cap and trade, the low carbon fuel standard. We have a special cleaner gasoline blend that we use. And then fundamentally, we’re an isolated market to some degrees. We don’t have any major pipelines that connect us to the rest of the country. So we rely on our own refineries and we also rely quite a bit on imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:36] \u003c/em>On top of California’s programs and taxes that make gas more expensive, the state has identified a surcharge that oil companies have imposed on Californians. The companies say that charge is in place to pay for California’s extra taxes and compliance costs, but consumer watchdogs have accused the companies of price gouging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:04] \u003c/em>You mentioned a few taxes there that are very California specific. Why do these exist and where is the money from these taxes actually going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:15] \u003c/em>Right, well, so we do have a gas tax that adds about 61 cents to the gallon. That one largely goes to pay for road repairs. It’s become a political issue this year with some even Democratic gubernatorial candidates calling for the suspension of that tax. But experts say we would have to pay those road repairs and whatnot in another way. We have a cap-and-trade program, a low-carbon fuel standard program, and those climate programs, their intention is to fundamentally reduce emissions, CO2 emissions, and those add an extra cost. Those go on to pay for environmental programs, but those costs don’t add more than what refiners fundamentally add. Certainly, we have certain efforts, programs here to… That do increase the cost of gasoline, but they’re for certain purposes and they’ve been debated quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:18] \u003c/em>So, Alejandro, you’re mentioning these sort of structural things that make gas in California just inherently more expensive than the rest of the country. There’ve also been refinery closures in California, including an impending one here in the Bay Area in Benicia with the Valero refinery. Is that also a reason why gas is more expensive right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:41] \u003c/em>Well, I think I just could go back to the point that I think the reason gas is so expensive at the moment is because of this global conflict that we have. And I think most experts would point to that as the reason we’re seeing this price increase. Now, the refineries are coming up as an issue because that is a long-term structural concern for the state of California. We’ve lost something between like 15% to 20% of our refining capacity. It is state policy to transition away from burning fossil fuels, fundamentally. That’s what we’re talking about here. We’re going to be losing more and more refineries. That’s sort of the whole purpose. That’s California’s policy, is just to get us off fossil fuels. But as we do that, and as we lose refinerys, if that’s not managed well, yeah, we could see price spikes as well there. And that’s become a major, major concern of California state government. So absolutely, yeah, the refinery issue is kind of the like the main native California issue that, you know, state policymakers are trying to address right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:57] \u003c/em>Coming up, what tools California has to help consumers feeling it at the pump. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:11] \u003c/em>Does California have any laws on the books to sort of help consumers in moments like this when there is a war, for example, or a sort of global oil situation that gets just sort of messy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:26] \u003c/em>Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it depends on who you ask about helping, right? But California certainly went through an era of trying to crack down more on the oil industry. And from that era, we passed a law in 2023 that has a couple of components. One that takes aim at refineries and oil companies in the state, capping profits and penalizing excessive profits. And then another one, a component that manages supply and does some monitoring. So we have that law on the books, and it’s partially being used. There’s a monitoring component there. People are watching where gas prices are going. But there is what consumer advocates call the hammer portion. Which is, you know, the penalizing excess of profits. That was put on hold for five years last year in the midst of this concern about refinery closures. So yeah, that key part of the law is not being used, and I’ve certainly heard environmentalists and consumer advocates complaining about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:45] \u003c/em>Yeah, because it presumably would have been really, really helpful right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:49] \u003c/em>Well, I think it’s interesting. It’s nuanced, right? I mean, these gas price increases are being driven by the global price of oil. But I have talked to environmentalists and consumer advocates who are supportive of kind of this harder line against the oil industry. And they have said that, yes, exactly. This is that moment when you should have that law armed and ready to go. Why? Because it is during these moments of high prices where you can start to see excessive profit taking. And so someone from the Newsom administration would tell you, no, what we did was the right thing. And this is not the moment to be using that law. But other people have other opinions about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:34] \u003c/em>And I feel like that sort of gets at this tension that I feel keeps coming up in California, where you sort of want to protect consumers in moments like this, perhaps, but you also don’t want to necessarily drive out an industry that we can’t quite afford to lose yet. I’m wondering, Alejandro, what else could sort of help with that tension, because it seems like our reliance on oil is just causing… A lot of issues and sometimes it feels sort of inevitable in here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:08] \u003c/em>Right. Yeah. No, I think the tension that you’ve pointed to is one that has been popping up a lot over the last few years. And it’s one that I think is just kind of really getting a lot of tension now because we have seen gas prices go up so much. You know, I thing the tension is fundamentally that it’s good for the climate, for the state to move away from fossil fuels, right? Nevertheless, we’re still extraordinarily dependent on these fuels. In terms of a fix, certainly we’ve heard some ideas floated out there from a gas tax holiday to easing some of these climate regulations, obviously importing more fuel, finding ways to build storage, and then also enforcing these price gouging rules that consumer advocates have been calling for. Long term, the state has a solution which is to just reduce gas demand and move towards electrification. Electric cars are a huge part of California’s climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:12] \u003c/em>Yeah, it does sort of seem like these tensions are also sort of coming up against, I mean, another huge problem in California, which is affordability. And that really being a big conversation in this year’s election even. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran is leading to a global surge in gas prices, including in California, where the average is now $5.88 per gallon according to AAA. While the war with Iran is the main reason prices have increased, California has had more expensive gas for years, in part to policies that are meant to help the state reach its climate goals. Alejandro Lazo with CalMatters explains why gas is so expensive here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/03/california-iran-oil-profit-spike/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California passed a law to curb spikes in gas prices. Why isn’t it using those powers now?\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/california-governors-race-gas-taxes/\">Some California Democrats pitch gas price relief as prices at the pump soar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3584986713&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:38] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. I’ve been thinking a little more consciously lately about how and when I use my car because these gas prices are no joke. Since the war with Iran, the average price of gas in California has spiked to almost $6 a gallon, about a dollar higher since February. And average Californians are feeling the squeeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:13] \u003c/em>They’re always higher, right, but we just really notice in moments like this when they climb up significantly\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:21] \u003c/em>Californians pay more for gas than any other state. Today, we sit down with CalMatters climate reporter Alejandro Lazo to help us break down the numbers behind the pump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:44] \u003c/em>All right, Alejandro, well, I guess my first question for you, do you, how’d you get in this morning? Do you drive much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:51] \u003c/em>I don’t drive a whole lot, but yes, I drove here. I’ve got a 2000 Toyota Echo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:58] \u003c/em>Alejandro Lazo is a climate reporter for CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:03] \u003c/em>It is very, very efficient. So I hardly ever fill it up, but I did fill it last week and it certainly wins. I mean, in terms of anecdotes, I think the main one is just my wife who commutes in to her job in South San Francisco every single day. Yeah, it’s been not pleasant to kind of look at that rising price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:30] \u003c/em>I mean, yeah, I feel like when you’re just a person living in California, it’s kind of hard to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:36] \u003c/em>Absolutely. I mean, especially if you’ve got to drive a long way and you’re physically required to be at your job, then I think you’re really in a conundrum, because there aren’t the greatest mass public transit options. We’ve got some good ones, but they’re also expensive and point to point, they probably don’t get you exactly where you need to go if you’re driving, because if they did, you’d probably be doing that already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:03] \u003c/em>I mean, how much is gas averaging in California right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:07] \u003c/em>Average gas prices state-wide are $5.82 a gallon. That compares to $3.98 for the U.S., so we’ve got nearly a $2 gap there. So it’s certainly climbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:20] \u003c/em>And why is that Alejandro? Why is gas so much higher in California compared to the rest of the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:26] \u003c/em>I think everybody understands like the basics of why gas prices are high across the United States. The United States and Israel is in conflict with Iran. We have a significant global choke point with the Strait of Ormuz closed. So we’re seeing about one-fifth of the world oil supplies cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:52] \u003c/em>There are just a few fundamental, structural reasons why gas prices are higher here in the state. First and foremost, we have taxes. We have higher taxes than pretty much anywhere. We have the gas tax. We certain environmental or climate policies. We have a cap and trade, the low carbon fuel standard. We have a special cleaner gasoline blend that we use. And then fundamentally, we’re an isolated market to some degrees. We don’t have any major pipelines that connect us to the rest of the country. So we rely on our own refineries and we also rely quite a bit on imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:36] \u003c/em>On top of California’s programs and taxes that make gas more expensive, the state has identified a surcharge that oil companies have imposed on Californians. The companies say that charge is in place to pay for California’s extra taxes and compliance costs, but consumer watchdogs have accused the companies of price gouging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:04] \u003c/em>You mentioned a few taxes there that are very California specific. Why do these exist and where is the money from these taxes actually going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:15] \u003c/em>Right, well, so we do have a gas tax that adds about 61 cents to the gallon. That one largely goes to pay for road repairs. It’s become a political issue this year with some even Democratic gubernatorial candidates calling for the suspension of that tax. But experts say we would have to pay those road repairs and whatnot in another way. We have a cap-and-trade program, a low-carbon fuel standard program, and those climate programs, their intention is to fundamentally reduce emissions, CO2 emissions, and those add an extra cost. Those go on to pay for environmental programs, but those costs don’t add more than what refiners fundamentally add. Certainly, we have certain efforts, programs here to… That do increase the cost of gasoline, but they’re for certain purposes and they’ve been debated quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:18] \u003c/em>So, Alejandro, you’re mentioning these sort of structural things that make gas in California just inherently more expensive than the rest of the country. There’ve also been refinery closures in California, including an impending one here in the Bay Area in Benicia with the Valero refinery. Is that also a reason why gas is more expensive right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:41] \u003c/em>Well, I think I just could go back to the point that I think the reason gas is so expensive at the moment is because of this global conflict that we have. And I think most experts would point to that as the reason we’re seeing this price increase. Now, the refineries are coming up as an issue because that is a long-term structural concern for the state of California. We’ve lost something between like 15% to 20% of our refining capacity. It is state policy to transition away from burning fossil fuels, fundamentally. That’s what we’re talking about here. We’re going to be losing more and more refineries. That’s sort of the whole purpose. That’s California’s policy, is just to get us off fossil fuels. But as we do that, and as we lose refinerys, if that’s not managed well, yeah, we could see price spikes as well there. And that’s become a major, major concern of California state government. So absolutely, yeah, the refinery issue is kind of the like the main native California issue that, you know, state policymakers are trying to address right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:57] \u003c/em>Coming up, what tools California has to help consumers feeling it at the pump. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:11] \u003c/em>Does California have any laws on the books to sort of help consumers in moments like this when there is a war, for example, or a sort of global oil situation that gets just sort of messy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:26] \u003c/em>Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it depends on who you ask about helping, right? But California certainly went through an era of trying to crack down more on the oil industry. And from that era, we passed a law in 2023 that has a couple of components. One that takes aim at refineries and oil companies in the state, capping profits and penalizing excessive profits. And then another one, a component that manages supply and does some monitoring. So we have that law on the books, and it’s partially being used. There’s a monitoring component there. People are watching where gas prices are going. But there is what consumer advocates call the hammer portion. Which is, you know, the penalizing excess of profits. That was put on hold for five years last year in the midst of this concern about refinery closures. So yeah, that key part of the law is not being used, and I’ve certainly heard environmentalists and consumer advocates complaining about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:45] \u003c/em>Yeah, because it presumably would have been really, really helpful right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:49] \u003c/em>Well, I think it’s interesting. It’s nuanced, right? I mean, these gas price increases are being driven by the global price of oil. But I have talked to environmentalists and consumer advocates who are supportive of kind of this harder line against the oil industry. And they have said that, yes, exactly. This is that moment when you should have that law armed and ready to go. Why? Because it is during these moments of high prices where you can start to see excessive profit taking. And so someone from the Newsom administration would tell you, no, what we did was the right thing. And this is not the moment to be using that law. But other people have other opinions about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:34] \u003c/em>And I feel like that sort of gets at this tension that I feel keeps coming up in California, where you sort of want to protect consumers in moments like this, perhaps, but you also don’t want to necessarily drive out an industry that we can’t quite afford to lose yet. I’m wondering, Alejandro, what else could sort of help with that tension, because it seems like our reliance on oil is just causing… A lot of issues and sometimes it feels sort of inevitable in here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alejandro Lazo: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:08] \u003c/em>Right. Yeah. No, I think the tension that you’ve pointed to is one that has been popping up a lot over the last few years. And it’s one that I think is just kind of really getting a lot of tension now because we have seen gas prices go up so much. You know, I thing the tension is fundamentally that it’s good for the climate, for the state to move away from fossil fuels, right? Nevertheless, we’re still extraordinarily dependent on these fuels. In terms of a fix, certainly we’ve heard some ideas floated out there from a gas tax holiday to easing some of these climate regulations, obviously importing more fuel, finding ways to build storage, and then also enforcing these price gouging rules that consumer advocates have been calling for. Long term, the state has a solution which is to just reduce gas demand and move towards electrification. Electric cars are a huge part of California’s climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:12] \u003c/em>Yeah, it does sort of seem like these tensions are also sort of coming up against, I mean, another huge problem in California, which is affordability. And that really being a big conversation in this year’s election even. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> members of Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to launch coordinated U.S. strikes against Iran, warning the action risks another prolonged conflict and sidesteps Congress’ constitutional authority over war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States and Israel began major combat operations early Saturday, targeting Iranian military infrastructure and senior leaders in what the Pentagon called “Operation Epic Fury.” Trump, in a video statement posted to Truth Social, said the campaign aims to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, eliminate its naval power and prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iranian state media reported retaliatory missile strikes against U.S. bases in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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Regime change, he said, requires a sustained internal movement and, historically, years of engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has not explained his objectives in a way that is convincing to me, nor do I think they’ll be convincing to the American people,” Liccardo said. He added that achieving regime change would likely require ground forces — “the kind of engagement that the American public won’t support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo also argued the president bypassed Congress in authorizing the strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a president who does not care about the spirit or text of the Constitution,” he said. “Article One is very clear about congressional authority to declare war, and more importantly, for Congress to be consulted in a meaningful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said Saturday that the U.S.‑Israeli strikes on Iran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for nearly 37 years and a long‑time foe of both Israel and the United States — a development that could trigger a major political and regional shift, though Iran has not confirmed his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranians protest against attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in Tehran, as the government said it had launched missiles at regional U.S. military sites and Israel in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes across the country. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, a Vietnam combat veteran, said the strikes were not unexpected given the recent U.S. military buildup in the region, but he questioned the unilateral nature of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just don’t move that type of military presence into an area because you think it would be fun,” Thompson said. “This has been something that has been under consideration for some time.”\u003cbr>\nStill, Thompson said Congress must reassert its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president has shown no respect for the rule of law or the Constitution,” Thompson said. “I think that the Congress of the United States needs to reassert itself. This is not something that should be done unilaterally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned the escalation could draw the United States into another prolonged war, despite Trump’s past promises to end so-called forever wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is looking a lot like another forever war, and it should concern us all,” Thompson said. “I don’t think it is something that the American people want to do, and that is send their sons and daughters into combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises after Iran’s reported missile strike on the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Garamendi, a Democrat whose district represents parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties, said he has long supported political change in Iran but does not believe military force will achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been advocating a regime change in Iran for a long time, but I’ve never thought, and don’t agree today, that a military is going to achieve that goal,” Garamendi said. “It has to come from the people of Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi said the United States is now “involved in a war, and a very aggressive one,” and warned that American casualties are likely as Iran strikes back at U.S. targets in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military action unfolded as Washington remained in a partial government shutdown after lawmakers failed to reach agreement on funding for several federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security. The standoff has underscored tensions between the White House and Congress even as lawmakers face mounting pressure to address the expanding conflict overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rvasquez\">Rachael Vasquez\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">María Fernanda Bernal\u003c/a> contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Californians that voted for him in the 2024 US presidential election weigh in on how he’s doing this time around.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nurses working at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California and parts of Hawaii began their strike today, asking for better wages and more manageable workloads.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The US Department of Justice has just ended its efforts to obtain the medical records for more than 3,000 people who had been provided gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump’s Second Term Evokes Mixed Reactions from Supporters in the Golden State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s second term in office has been one marked with a string of unprecedented occurrences. The Trump Administration’s actions over the course of the first year into his second term have made seismic shifts to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24/nx-s1-5687236/canada-china-tariffs-trump\"> trade\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24/nx-s1-5687168/trump-administration-defense-strategy\">foreign relations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/15/nx-s1-5677230/state-department-memo-pauses-immigrant-visas-for-75-countries\">immigration policies\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html\">New York Times/Sienna University poll\u003c/a> shows that, nationally, about 40 percent of registered American voters approve of how the president and his administration is handling the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republican voters are still standing strong in the president’s corner–even in California. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/\">poll conducted last month by the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows that Trump has a 79-percent approval rating among Republicans in the Golden State, even when his statewide approval rating sits at 25 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Izzy Bloom circled back with Trump voters she spoke with last year, on how they think his first year back in the White House went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://unacuhcp.org/news/15501/\">\u003cstrong>Kaiser Permanente Nurses Begin “Unfair Labor Practice” Strike\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers walked out of Kaiser Permanente hospitals and facilities in California and Hawaii this morning, kicking off an indefinite strike over better staffing numbers and the healthcare giant’s alleged unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, the organization representing the striking workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070263/union-of-31000-kaiser-workers-to-go-on-indefinite-strike\">voted on January 16th\u003c/a> to walk off the job. The absence of staff is expected to be felt \u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/southern-california/alerts/p2/labor-strike-from-the-united-nurses-associations-of-california-u\">at around 20 Kaiser hospitals and 200 clinics across both states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNAC/UHCP says that Kaiser attempted to sidestep good-faith negotiation practices when it suspended national bargaining last month. The move spurred \u003ca href=\"https://unacuhcp.org/news/unac-uhcp-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-kaiser-permanente-for-bypassing-bargaining-and-undermining-good-faith-negotiations/\">the Alliance of Health Care Unions to file a case against the healthcare provide with the National Labor Relations Board.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charmaine Morales, who’s President of UNAC/UHCP, said in a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070263/union-of-31000-kaiser-workers-to-go-on-indefinite-strike\">when the strike was first announced\u003c/a> that the union is striking to “win staffing that protects patients, win workload standards that stop moral injury, and win the respect and dignity Kaiser has denied for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The healthcare provider said in \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/who-we-are/labor-relations/alliance-national-bargaining/media-statements/kaiser-permanente-statement-on-best-way-forward-alliance-bargaining\">a statement last week\u003c/a> that its offer to workers includes a 21-percent pay increase, and that company leadership is willing to meet union leaders for local bargaining negotiations, even as strikes continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser alleges that \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/who-we-are/labor-relations/alliance-national-bargaining/videos/why-we-paused-bargaining\">it halted national bargaining after a union official threatened to release evidence that the company has engaged in unethical practices. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2026/01/childrens-hospital-transgender-patients-california/\">\u003cstrong>DOJ Drops Pursuit of Trans Patients Medical Records from California Hospital\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender patients of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles secured a win this week after the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to end its efforts to obtain personal and medical information of more than 3,000 young patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the federal Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-involved-performing-transgender-medical\">announced that it sent subpoenas\u003c/a> to more than 20 medical providers that offered gender-affirming care for minors. At the time, the department said it was doing so to investigate “healthcare fraud” and “false statements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven families whose children have received gender-affirming services at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles sued in November to quash the subpoena to protect their information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department never provided evidence of fraud, said Khadijah Silver, director of Gender Justice & Health Equity at Lawyers for Good Government, one of the firms representing families in the class action lawsuit. The hospital did not not turn over the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was basically a fishing expedition,” Silver said. “Without any probable cause, they did not have the authority to be seeking medical information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles did not immediately return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department subpoena demanded the hospital provide a large range of documents, including patient intake forms, insurance claims and “documents sufficient to identify each patient (by name, date of birth, social security number, address, and parent/guardian information) who was prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy,” court documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Notice-of-Dismissal.pdf\">filed in federal court this past Thursday\u003c/a>, the Justice Department will withdraw requests for documents that identified patients or their families through 2029.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And the political ads are everywhere… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>President Obama in advertisement: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California, the whole nation is counting on you. Democracy is on the ballot Nov. 4. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Narrator voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California voters stopped rigged elections with an independent commission run by citizens. Prop 50 cancels this historic reform. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Narrator voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vota sí a la proposición cincuenta.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Proposition 50 would redistrict California with an eye towards the upcoming midterm elections. And its sponsors don’t mince words. It’s designed to give Democrats the best chance possible to pick up seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Today on Bay Curious, we explore the ins and outs of Proposition 50. By the end, you’ll understand how district maps are drawn, the impacts this proposition would have on the Bay Area, and how this singleton proposition got on the ballot in a year when normally we’d have a break from propositions. Stay with us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPONSOR\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Today we’re shedding light on California’s Proposition 50. On your ballot, it reads like this. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’s partisan redistricting. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining me today is Guy Marzorati, correspondent on KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk. He’s been covering Proposition 50 for KQED. Welcome, Guy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thanks so much for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to start with a quick refresher for folks on a few basic concepts related to Proposition 50. First off, what is redistricting? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So redistricting is the drawing of political maps to reflect changes in population. So we know that every state gets divided into congressional districts. These congressional districts have equal size. So California is a big state. We have 52 congressional districts. What happens is we take a measurement of the population, that’s the census, and then when the population changes, people move around. So districts have to change too to make sure they’re still equal sizes. And there’s a couple of different ways you can do redistricting. In a lot of cases, it’s the state legislatures that are drawing maps. And they sometimes have a couple different goals. One is: help whatever party’s in power. That’s called gerrymandering. Basically, when the lines are being drawn to either help Republicans or help Democrats, or in some cases to help everyone who’s in office just stay in office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s one path. But then there’s another way to do redistricting, which is how we have it in California. And we have a commission of average citizens who get together, take input from residents, and draw districts based on what they’re hearing from people who are living here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What’s really changing right now in 2025 is we’re seeing this battle over redistricting break out across the country in the middle of a decade, right? We haven’t taken a new census. This is simply different states that are trying to gain partisan advantage in their political maps, either by helping Democrats or helping Republicans. And Prop 50 is in the middle of this national redistricting fight where Democrats in California are trying to redraw the maps to help their party win more seats in Congress. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And this acceleration of gerrymandering is in part because of some rulings from the Supreme Court that really set the stage for more gerrymandering, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s right. The Supreme Court has said they don’t really want to wade into fights over partisan redistricting. So they’re not gonna take up challenges to maps that are unquestionably biased towards Republicans or biased towards Democrats. And so what we’ve seen is states continue along this path of doing gerrymandered maps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, it’s been practiced for decades by both political parties. But what we’ve seen this year is President Trump take the unprecedented step of actually going to states and saying, I want you to redraw your lines to help Republicans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it started in Texas – Trump you know, went and asked the Texas legislature to redraw their lines to give Republicans five additional seats in Congress. But this just keeps escalating, beyond Texas, beyond California. Republicans are pursuing seats through a redraw of maps in Missouri, in redistricting in Kansas, in North Carolina – Democrats have introduced plans to pick up a seat in Maryland. And the Supreme Court is also considering a case about the use of race in drawing congressional maps that could potentially change how gerrymandered maps are challenged in the future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in the language of the proposition, it states that this is in response to actions taken in Texas. Can you walk us through what happened in Texas and why it matters here in California? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House is very closely divided right now, and any alteration to the map, any kind of change to the district lines could really decide the control of Congress in 2026. So Trump went to Texas, pressured them to take this move. Texas responded, redrew their map to help Republicans. As this was happening, Governor Gavin Newsom in California, other Democrats in California, started having meetings and discussing, ‘okay, what can we do to respond to this?’ And ultimately that resulted in Proposition 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The legislature voted to put this on the ballot. The key difference between California and Texas is: in California, this change has to happen only with the permission of voters. California has this independent commission that draws district lines. Voters created that system. So it has to be taken to voters if any change is going to be made to that. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music break\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so let’s dig in on what exactly the proposition would do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This would redraw California’s congressional maps. And it’s worth noting, the commission also draws lines for the state legislature. Those are not being affected at all by Proposition 50. This is just for US congressional maps, House districts. So it’s estimated that these new maps would favor Democrats by helping them pick up up to five new seats that are currently held by Republicans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In doing so, it puts a pause on the current maps that we have that were created by the Independent Commission back in 2021 and that were really regarded as fair, I think, by a lot of election analysts and that have really created very competitive elections, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you draw maps in order to favor one party or the other, you’re gonna result often in fewer competitive elections. And if you compare California to other large states such as Texas, such as Florida, just in the last decade, we’ve had far more competitive House elections than these other states because our lines are not drawn to protect political incumbents. They’re not drawn to help Democrats or Republicans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so what this Proposition 50 is saying is let’s set aside the independent maps for the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections and put in place these maps favoring Democrats. The way the measure is written, we’d go back to the citizen redistricting process after 2030 — that’s because there would be a new census in 2030, the commission meets after that and draws new lines for the 2032 elections.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So How exactly does the California Citizens Redistricting Commission create these fairer maps? Like how are they made up? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So the commission itself is made up of 14 members. You have five Democrats, five Republicans, and then four who are not registered with either political party. And so this commission, it’s citizens from around the state who apply, who get chosen to be on the commission. And one of the key metrics or key things that the commission really focuses on is this idea of communities of interest. And I talked to Pedro Toledo, who’s the current chair of the independent commission, and he explained kind of how commissioners think about these communities of interest and why they matter when you’re drawing political maps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pedro Toledo:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Every community is different. The issues that a community in the Central Valley might care about, maybe water or some of the healthcare issues that are prevalent out there, some of the lack of healthcare, the lack of infrastructure, might be very different in a more urban settings. And that matters because one would hope that the elected official that a community elects would represent those issues in Congress. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And I’ll note, you know, Princeton University rates the different redistrictings in each state. They gave California a B score on partisan fairness. But if adopted, they say the Proposition 50 maps would get an F. So it gives you a sense of the direction California would be going when it comes to nonpartisan maps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In theory, you know ,Proposition 50 would replace the work of the commission until 2030. But there is a lot of skepticism, I think, from opponents of this who feel like when is the deescalation going to happen, right? We see states just competing, competing, trying to change their maps in more and more partisan ways. Is California really gonna step away from that and go back to more of an independent system? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So this is really a departure from what was a fairly non partisan way of redistricting to one that is overtly partisan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, that’s right. And I think look, even like supporters of Proposition 50 realize that in a vacuum, doing away with citizens drawn maps is unpopular. What I think they would argue is this is not happening in a vacuum. This is happening as part of a wider fight across the country. This battle for control of the House of Representatives, and Democrats who are supporting Prop 50 say: ‘The stakes are too high for us to just simply be focusing on good governance. We need to retake the House of Representatives.’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What kind of local impacts could this have on the Bay Area? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> One is in Sonoma County, where Sonoma is now gonna be paired with communities in the northern part of the state: Butte County, Tehama County. And really the point there is to take a district, currently the first district that’s controlled by a Republican, and dragging the lines down south into Sonoma County and therefore picking up all of these Democratic voters who live in Sonoma. So that’s a key part of redistricting when you’re trying to do it for partisan gain. You’re trying to bring voters from one party into a new district in hopes that they’ll change the outcome of it. And really the hope is that district would go from currently represented by a Republican to being represented by a Democrat in 2026. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s another change that that’s happening in eastern Contra Costa County, where you have a lot of communities around the Carquinez Strait, the northern waterfront – from Martinez, Pittsburgh, Antioch, even across into Solano County, Vallejo that are currently grouped in this district that the commission created back in 2021 with the explicit goal of putting together working class communities that are racially diverse. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They got a lot of input from residents who felt like, you know, communities like Richmond, Vallejo, Pittsburgh, Antioch have a lot in common and should be included in one congressional district to kind of maximize the voice of people living there. So their shared concerns about living around refineries, their shared concerns about means of transportation. If all those voters would be in the same district, whoever wins that seat would have no choice but to listen to the concerns of the community. So that was what the commission thought when they’re creating this 8th district. That district would be broken up under the Proposition 50 map. And the reason is because voters in Antioch and Pittsburgh would be moved into a Central Valley district. The strategy behind that is these are heavily Democratic voters in Pittsburgh and Antioch. They’d be moved into a Central Valley district to help a vulnerable Democratic incumbent have an easier path to re-election. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there’s two kinds of things at play here with Proposition 50. There’s targeting seats that are currently held by Republicans, trying to flip them to Democratic seats. There’s also seats that Democrats currently hold, but they’re a little bit tenuous. They’re kind of close competitive seats. Proposition 50 would make them less competitive. So give those Democrats an easier path to re-election. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those local impacts are actually really, really interesting, but we don’t actually hear people talking about the local impacts that much. I would say most of the campaigning for this proposition has been about the balance of power in Washington. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Absolutely. And that’s by design. Look, the supporters of Proposition 50 are really framing this as part of the national fight over the House of Representatives, over gerrymandering that’s breaking out in Republican states. And they want to talk about the need to win these House seats for Democrats in order to break Republican hold on power in Washington. And that’s really the argument that you’re hearing coming from the Yes on 50 campaign. The phrase they love to use is ‘you have to fight fire with fire.’ Some of the ads for Proposition 50 don’t even mention redistricting. They highlight a lot of the actions the president have t has taken that are unpopular in California and are basically saying to voters, look, you need we need to stop this, vote yes on Prop 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It’s worth noting though that just because you redraw the districts doesn’t mean that somebody automatically wins. I mean, these candidates still have to run. They still have to convince voters to vote for them. So let’s just, you know, slow our roll a little bit, you know. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That’s a great point. You still actually have to have the campaigns, right? When we talk about redistricting, the end result is just okay, ‘how many Democrats live in this district and how many Republicans.’ But to your point, there still needs to be candidates that are running. There’s still everything that’s happening in the world that influences how people vote in an election. So all of that will still have to play out no matter how Proposition 50 fares. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so we’ve heard a lot about what the yes side is doing. What argument is the no side making? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, the no side is really making a good government argument against gerrymandering. They’re supporting the system that we currently have right now, these maps drawn by citizens that are not focusing on helping Republicans or helping Democrats, and they say they want to keep the system that way. Now, that’s not to say that the opponents of Prop 50 don’t have partisan interests in mind. A lot of Republicans are opposing Prop 50 because if this passes, they will probably lose seats in Congress. So there is a lot of partisan interest in the opposition, but the messaging they’re putting out there is really about maintaining this system of good governance that we have. And a key messenger in that is former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Narrator in advertisement:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The politicians want their power back.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in political advertisement: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s what they want to do is take us backwards. That is why it is important to vote no on Proposition 50. Democracy. You’ve got to protect it and we’ve got to go and fight for it. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schwarzenegger was the one who helped create the Independent Commission back in 2008. And he has actually spoken out against Proposition 50. He said he opposes it, basically along the lines of two wrongs don’t make a right, just because Texas and Republican states are gerrymandering, California shouldn’t go down this path. But I’ll say it’s interesting the way in which Schwarzenegger has come out and talked about this. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He spoke at an event at the University of Southern California. He said he’s against Prop 50. He encouraged the no vote. And it was actually the ‘No on 50’ campaign was in the crowd. They were filming it, and they used that video for an advertisement. They scrubbed out the background so it doesn’t say USC anymore, it says No on 50. But that’s interesting because Schwarzenegger himself has been a little bit hesitant to actually engage in the campaign. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He didn’t, you know, meet up with the No on 50 campaign and create that ad. He hasn’t been out barnstorming against Prop 50. And I think that’s because he feels perhaps a little bit uncomfortable in that this has really become a Democratic versus Republican fight. Schwarzenegger does not like President Trump, not a big fan, and he’s always tried to keep a little distance from the Republican Party establishment, especially now. So he probably feels maybe caught in the middle in some way, even as he opposes Prop 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, let’s talk about campaign finance. What kind of money is being spent on the race and by whom? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lot of big money pouring into this campaign. There’s been more money in support of it than against Prop 50. The yes side has like a two to one financial edge. And you’ve really seen Governor Newsom rally the Democratic establishment to give to Prop 50. We’ve seen major Democratic donors like George Soros, Tom Steyer spend a lot to support Prop 50. We’ve also seen a lot of grassroots energy. There have been small dollar donations from every single state in the country supporting Prop 50, which I do think speaks to like, yes, this is a state ballot measure. But we’re in a year where there’s not much else on the ballot. And this has gotten a lot of attention, I think, from Democrats across the country who again want to feel like they’re a part of something that’s pushing back against the administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the no side, it’s really been one big donor opposing Prop 50. That’s Charles Munger Jr. He’s a philanthropist, big Republican donor in the Bay Area. He bankrolled the measures that created the Citizens Commission back in 2008. So I think he feels this is his baby to some extent. He really supports this idea, and he’s putting a lot of money, at this point more than $30 million, to oppose Prop 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, Guy Marzorati, correspondent on KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk, thanks for breaking this down for us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thanks for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a nutshell, a vote yes on Proposition 50 means you want to adopt a new legislatively-drawn districting map that could make it easier for Democrats to win seats in the House of Representatives through 2030. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vote no on Prop 50 means you want to keep our current map and keep redistricting in the hands of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s it for our episode on Prop 50. You can cast your vote in person or by mail. Registered voters should have received their ballots by now, and those must be filled out and postmarked on or before November 4th. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our show is made in San Francisco at Member Supported KQED. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale, Olivia Allen-Price, and me, Katrina Schwartz, with extra support Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m Katrina Schwartz. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Right now, voters are being called to the polls or in the era of mail-in ballots to their dining room tables to cast a vote in one single statewide election, Proposition 50. And the political ads are everywhere… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>President Obama in advertisement: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California, the whole nation is counting on you. Democracy is on the ballot Nov. 4. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Narrator voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California voters stopped rigged elections with an independent commission run by citizens. Prop 50 cancels this historic reform. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Narrator voice: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vota sí a la proposición cincuenta.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Proposition 50 would redistrict California with an eye towards the upcoming midterm elections. And its sponsors don’t mince words. It’s designed to give Democrats the best chance possible to pick up seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Today on Bay Curious, we explore the ins and outs of Proposition 50. By the end, you’ll understand how district maps are drawn, the impacts this proposition would have on the Bay Area, and how this singleton proposition got on the ballot in a year when normally we’d have a break from propositions. Stay with us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPONSOR\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Today we’re shedding light on California’s Proposition 50. On your ballot, it reads like this. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Gabriela Glueck: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’s partisan redistricting. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining me today is Guy Marzorati, correspondent on KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk. He’s been covering Proposition 50 for KQED. Welcome, Guy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thanks so much for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to start with a quick refresher for folks on a few basic concepts related to Proposition 50. First off, what is redistricting? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So redistricting is the drawing of political maps to reflect changes in population. So we know that every state gets divided into congressional districts. These congressional districts have equal size. So California is a big state. We have 52 congressional districts. What happens is we take a measurement of the population, that’s the census, and then when the population changes, people move around. So districts have to change too to make sure they’re still equal sizes. And there’s a couple of different ways you can do redistricting. In a lot of cases, it’s the state legislatures that are drawing maps. And they sometimes have a couple different goals. One is: help whatever party’s in power. That’s called gerrymandering. Basically, when the lines are being drawn to either help Republicans or help Democrats, or in some cases to help everyone who’s in office just stay in office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s one path. But then there’s another way to do redistricting, which is how we have it in California. And we have a commission of average citizens who get together, take input from residents, and draw districts based on what they’re hearing from people who are living here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What’s really changing right now in 2025 is we’re seeing this battle over redistricting break out across the country in the middle of a decade, right? We haven’t taken a new census. This is simply different states that are trying to gain partisan advantage in their political maps, either by helping Democrats or helping Republicans. And Prop 50 is in the middle of this national redistricting fight where Democrats in California are trying to redraw the maps to help their party win more seats in Congress. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And this acceleration of gerrymandering is in part because of some rulings from the Supreme Court that really set the stage for more gerrymandering, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s right. The Supreme Court has said they don’t really want to wade into fights over partisan redistricting. So they’re not gonna take up challenges to maps that are unquestionably biased towards Republicans or biased towards Democrats. And so what we’ve seen is states continue along this path of doing gerrymandered maps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, it’s been practiced for decades by both political parties. But what we’ve seen this year is President Trump take the unprecedented step of actually going to states and saying, I want you to redraw your lines to help Republicans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it started in Texas – Trump you know, went and asked the Texas legislature to redraw their lines to give Republicans five additional seats in Congress. But this just keeps escalating, beyond Texas, beyond California. Republicans are pursuing seats through a redraw of maps in Missouri, in redistricting in Kansas, in North Carolina – Democrats have introduced plans to pick up a seat in Maryland. And the Supreme Court is also considering a case about the use of race in drawing congressional maps that could potentially change how gerrymandered maps are challenged in the future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in the language of the proposition, it states that this is in response to actions taken in Texas. Can you walk us through what happened in Texas and why it matters here in California? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House is very closely divided right now, and any alteration to the map, any kind of change to the district lines could really decide the control of Congress in 2026. So Trump went to Texas, pressured them to take this move. Texas responded, redrew their map to help Republicans. As this was happening, Governor Gavin Newsom in California, other Democrats in California, started having meetings and discussing, ‘okay, what can we do to respond to this?’ And ultimately that resulted in Proposition 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The legislature voted to put this on the ballot. The key difference between California and Texas is: in California, this change has to happen only with the permission of voters. California has this independent commission that draws district lines. Voters created that system. So it has to be taken to voters if any change is going to be made to that. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music break\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so let’s dig in on what exactly the proposition would do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This would redraw California’s congressional maps. And it’s worth noting, the commission also draws lines for the state legislature. Those are not being affected at all by Proposition 50. This is just for US congressional maps, House districts. So it’s estimated that these new maps would favor Democrats by helping them pick up up to five new seats that are currently held by Republicans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In doing so, it puts a pause on the current maps that we have that were created by the Independent Commission back in 2021 and that were really regarded as fair, I think, by a lot of election analysts and that have really created very competitive elections, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you draw maps in order to favor one party or the other, you’re gonna result often in fewer competitive elections. And if you compare California to other large states such as Texas, such as Florida, just in the last decade, we’ve had far more competitive House elections than these other states because our lines are not drawn to protect political incumbents. They’re not drawn to help Democrats or Republicans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so what this Proposition 50 is saying is let’s set aside the independent maps for the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections and put in place these maps favoring Democrats. The way the measure is written, we’d go back to the citizen redistricting process after 2030 — that’s because there would be a new census in 2030, the commission meets after that and draws new lines for the 2032 elections.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So How exactly does the California Citizens Redistricting Commission create these fairer maps? Like how are they made up? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So the commission itself is made up of 14 members. You have five Democrats, five Republicans, and then four who are not registered with either political party. And so this commission, it’s citizens from around the state who apply, who get chosen to be on the commission. And one of the key metrics or key things that the commission really focuses on is this idea of communities of interest. And I talked to Pedro Toledo, who’s the current chair of the independent commission, and he explained kind of how commissioners think about these communities of interest and why they matter when you’re drawing political maps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pedro Toledo:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Every community is different. The issues that a community in the Central Valley might care about, maybe water or some of the healthcare issues that are prevalent out there, some of the lack of healthcare, the lack of infrastructure, might be very different in a more urban settings. And that matters because one would hope that the elected official that a community elects would represent those issues in Congress. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And I’ll note, you know, Princeton University rates the different redistrictings in each state. They gave California a B score on partisan fairness. But if adopted, they say the Proposition 50 maps would get an F. So it gives you a sense of the direction California would be going when it comes to nonpartisan maps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In theory, you know ,Proposition 50 would replace the work of the commission until 2030. But there is a lot of skepticism, I think, from opponents of this who feel like when is the deescalation going to happen, right? We see states just competing, competing, trying to change their maps in more and more partisan ways. Is California really gonna step away from that and go back to more of an independent system? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So this is really a departure from what was a fairly non partisan way of redistricting to one that is overtly partisan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, that’s right. And I think look, even like supporters of Proposition 50 realize that in a vacuum, doing away with citizens drawn maps is unpopular. What I think they would argue is this is not happening in a vacuum. This is happening as part of a wider fight across the country. This battle for control of the House of Representatives, and Democrats who are supporting Prop 50 say: ‘The stakes are too high for us to just simply be focusing on good governance. We need to retake the House of Representatives.’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What kind of local impacts could this have on the Bay Area? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> One is in Sonoma County, where Sonoma is now gonna be paired with communities in the northern part of the state: Butte County, Tehama County. And really the point there is to take a district, currently the first district that’s controlled by a Republican, and dragging the lines down south into Sonoma County and therefore picking up all of these Democratic voters who live in Sonoma. So that’s a key part of redistricting when you’re trying to do it for partisan gain. You’re trying to bring voters from one party into a new district in hopes that they’ll change the outcome of it. And really the hope is that district would go from currently represented by a Republican to being represented by a Democrat in 2026. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s another change that that’s happening in eastern Contra Costa County, where you have a lot of communities around the Carquinez Strait, the northern waterfront – from Martinez, Pittsburgh, Antioch, even across into Solano County, Vallejo that are currently grouped in this district that the commission created back in 2021 with the explicit goal of putting together working class communities that are racially diverse. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They got a lot of input from residents who felt like, you know, communities like Richmond, Vallejo, Pittsburgh, Antioch have a lot in common and should be included in one congressional district to kind of maximize the voice of people living there. So their shared concerns about living around refineries, their shared concerns about means of transportation. If all those voters would be in the same district, whoever wins that seat would have no choice but to listen to the concerns of the community. So that was what the commission thought when they’re creating this 8th district. That district would be broken up under the Proposition 50 map. And the reason is because voters in Antioch and Pittsburgh would be moved into a Central Valley district. The strategy behind that is these are heavily Democratic voters in Pittsburgh and Antioch. They’d be moved into a Central Valley district to help a vulnerable Democratic incumbent have an easier path to re-election. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there’s two kinds of things at play here with Proposition 50. There’s targeting seats that are currently held by Republicans, trying to flip them to Democratic seats. There’s also seats that Democrats currently hold, but they’re a little bit tenuous. They’re kind of close competitive seats. Proposition 50 would make them less competitive. So give those Democrats an easier path to re-election. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those local impacts are actually really, really interesting, but we don’t actually hear people talking about the local impacts that much. I would say most of the campaigning for this proposition has been about the balance of power in Washington. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Absolutely. And that’s by design. Look, the supporters of Proposition 50 are really framing this as part of the national fight over the House of Representatives, over gerrymandering that’s breaking out in Republican states. And they want to talk about the need to win these House seats for Democrats in order to break Republican hold on power in Washington. And that’s really the argument that you’re hearing coming from the Yes on 50 campaign. The phrase they love to use is ‘you have to fight fire with fire.’ Some of the ads for Proposition 50 don’t even mention redistricting. They highlight a lot of the actions the president have t has taken that are unpopular in California and are basically saying to voters, look, you need we need to stop this, vote yes on Prop 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It’s worth noting though that just because you redraw the districts doesn’t mean that somebody automatically wins. I mean, these candidates still have to run. They still have to convince voters to vote for them. So let’s just, you know, slow our roll a little bit, you know. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That’s a great point. You still actually have to have the campaigns, right? When we talk about redistricting, the end result is just okay, ‘how many Democrats live in this district and how many Republicans.’ But to your point, there still needs to be candidates that are running. There’s still everything that’s happening in the world that influences how people vote in an election. So all of that will still have to play out no matter how Proposition 50 fares. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so we’ve heard a lot about what the yes side is doing. What argument is the no side making? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, the no side is really making a good government argument against gerrymandering. They’re supporting the system that we currently have right now, these maps drawn by citizens that are not focusing on helping Republicans or helping Democrats, and they say they want to keep the system that way. Now, that’s not to say that the opponents of Prop 50 don’t have partisan interests in mind. A lot of Republicans are opposing Prop 50 because if this passes, they will probably lose seats in Congress. So there is a lot of partisan interest in the opposition, but the messaging they’re putting out there is really about maintaining this system of good governance that we have. And a key messenger in that is former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Narrator in advertisement:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The politicians want their power back.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in political advertisement: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s what they want to do is take us backwards. That is why it is important to vote no on Proposition 50. Democracy. You’ve got to protect it and we’ve got to go and fight for it. \u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schwarzenegger was the one who helped create the Independent Commission back in 2008. And he has actually spoken out against Proposition 50. He said he opposes it, basically along the lines of two wrongs don’t make a right, just because Texas and Republican states are gerrymandering, California shouldn’t go down this path. But I’ll say it’s interesting the way in which Schwarzenegger has come out and talked about this. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He spoke at an event at the University of Southern California. He said he’s against Prop 50. He encouraged the no vote. And it was actually the ‘No on 50’ campaign was in the crowd. They were filming it, and they used that video for an advertisement. They scrubbed out the background so it doesn’t say USC anymore, it says No on 50. But that’s interesting because Schwarzenegger himself has been a little bit hesitant to actually engage in the campaign. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He didn’t, you know, meet up with the No on 50 campaign and create that ad. He hasn’t been out barnstorming against Prop 50. And I think that’s because he feels perhaps a little bit uncomfortable in that this has really become a Democratic versus Republican fight. Schwarzenegger does not like President Trump, not a big fan, and he’s always tried to keep a little distance from the Republican Party establishment, especially now. So he probably feels maybe caught in the middle in some way, even as he opposes Prop 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, let’s talk about campaign finance. What kind of money is being spent on the race and by whom? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lot of big money pouring into this campaign. There’s been more money in support of it than against Prop 50. The yes side has like a two to one financial edge. And you’ve really seen Governor Newsom rally the Democratic establishment to give to Prop 50. We’ve seen major Democratic donors like George Soros, Tom Steyer spend a lot to support Prop 50. We’ve also seen a lot of grassroots energy. There have been small dollar donations from every single state in the country supporting Prop 50, which I do think speaks to like, yes, this is a state ballot measure. But we’re in a year where there’s not much else on the ballot. And this has gotten a lot of attention, I think, from Democrats across the country who again want to feel like they’re a part of something that’s pushing back against the administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the no side, it’s really been one big donor opposing Prop 50. That’s Charles Munger Jr. He’s a philanthropist, big Republican donor in the Bay Area. He bankrolled the measures that created the Citizens Commission back in 2008. So I think he feels this is his baby to some extent. He really supports this idea, and he’s putting a lot of money, at this point more than $30 million, to oppose Prop 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, Guy Marzorati, correspondent on KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk, thanks for breaking this down for us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thanks for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a nutshell, a vote yes on Proposition 50 means you want to adopt a new legislatively-drawn districting map that could make it easier for Democrats to win seats in the House of Representatives through 2030. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vote no on Prop 50 means you want to keep our current map and keep redistricting in the hands of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s it for our episode on Prop 50. You can cast your vote in person or by mail. Registered voters should have received their ballots by now, and those must be filled out and postmarked on or before November 4th. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our show is made in San Francisco at Member Supported KQED. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale, Olivia Allen-Price, and me, Katrina Schwartz, with extra support Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m Katrina Schwartz. Have a great week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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Sixty-five percent of Democrats said they wanted leaders to hold their ground, compared with 32% who preferred consensus-building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-07_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-07_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-07_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-07_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. 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The goal: frame the map fight about Democrats vs. Republicans, California vs. Texas — not fair mapmaking vs. partisan redraws.[aside postID=news_12030198 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/KamalaHarrisAP4.jpg']“California cannot stand by with one hand tied behind its back, playing by a different set of rules,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday. “While Texas runs roughshod over the political redistricting process to clearly try to get political advantage to prevail in the next set of elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge for the potential “no” campaign will be convincing California Democrats that the benefits of nonpartisan mapmaking outweigh the urge to win back the House at all costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\">I covered the Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> as it drew California’s current political lines. The group heard months of testimony — largely on Zoom — about the local ties that Californians felt should inform their political maps: the geographic borders, business corridors and places of worship that defined what the commission called “communities of interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not an Emmy-worthy viewing experience. But there are success stories to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Berryessa neighborhood of San José, a predominantly Asian community with sizable Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2010, when our political lines were drawn to benefit incumbents, Berryessa was split among four state Assembly and two state Senate districts. That fragmentation left Berryessa residents with too little clout in any one district to command the attention of their representatives in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the independent redistricting panel took over after the 2010 census, commissioners responded to appeals from Berryessa residents and consolidated the community into a single House, Senate and Assembly district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/230906-BERRYESSA-BART-URBAN-VILLAGE-MD-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/230906-BERRYESSA-BART-URBAN-VILLAGE-MD-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/230906-BERRYESSA-BART-URBAN-VILLAGE-MD-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/230906-BERRYESSA-BART-URBAN-VILLAGE-MD-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/230906-BERRYESSA-BART-URBAN-VILLAGE-MD-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/230906-BERRYESSA-BART-URBAN-VILLAGE-MD-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recently built housing developments along Berryessa Road near the Berryessa BART station are pictured in San José on Sept. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Handing redistricting back to politicians, said former redistricting commissioner Patricia Sinay, “will make it harder for communities to advocate for resources they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Alex Lee, who now represents Berryessa, was one of the first Democrats to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/newsom-jolts-california-house-maps-texas-00458927\">oppose\u003c/a> Newsom’s move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loudest opposition so far has been from California Republicans, who stand to be wiped off the political map in a potential redraw.[aside postID=news_12049973 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GavinNewsomAPJuly2025.jpg']On \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050110/can-newsom-really-redraw-californias-congressional-districts\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, political data analyst Paul Mitchell said he believes California Democrats could flip five seats into their column through a partisan gerrymander, a crucial margin in a closely divided House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the lowest-hanging targets is the 3rd Congressional District, currently held by Republican Rep. 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Consultant Vance Ulrich \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/VanceUlrich/status/1947031951430554025\">posted\u003c/a> a hypothetical map on X that would give Democrats a registration advantage in 49 of the state’s 52 congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to keep in mind that registration on a map doesn’t tell us who will actually cast a ballot next year — or how they’ll vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All this work in Texas or in California to create seats that are going to be potentially pickups for the parties, those need also elections and candidates,” Mitchell said. “So they aren’t just magically a Democrat or Republican seat until after you have an election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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