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Brown suffers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">schizophrenia\u003c/a>, which among other things makes it difficult for a person to think clearly. Fortunately for him, Brown was thinking clearly enough that morning to head toward a local police station and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story made it to the Sacramento Bee through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>, a local provider of services to the homeless. The compelling nature of Brown’s adventure raised questions that went well beyond how one man got put on a bus to a city where he’d never been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no friends or family there. He had only a few days’ worth of medication and a few bottles of Ensure. He had no plan for continuing medical treatment. It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. So we had a feeling that this was not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Bee began reviewing five years’ worth of Greyhound bus receipts that Nevada’s \u003ca href=\"http://mhds.state.nv.us/\">mental health division\u003c/a> had purchased. The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) _ The federal agency that oversees Medicaid and Medicare compliance has put Nevada on notice of “serious deficiencies” at a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital following reports of patients being improperly discharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April 25 letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, first reported by The Sacramento Bee and obtain Friday by The Associated Press, gave Nevada 10 days to correct problems in its mental health discharge policies at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital or risk loss of federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether the story of James Flavy Coy Brown is an anomaly, as Nevada regulators claim, or if budget-stressed mental health service professionals are “dumping” disoriented, mentally ill people on the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing is certain, it’s that a lot of people are now actively engaged in answering that question. Among them: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas/\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, city attorney’s offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/hospitals.aspx\">commission\u003c/a> that certifies hospitals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s return to the beginning, to the story of a man who showed up at a Greyhound bus station in Sacramento on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/07/5322199/cast-out-by-nevada-he-finds-kindness.html\">Feb. 12\u003c/a>. Brown suffers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">schizophrenia\u003c/a>, which among other things makes it difficult for a person to think clearly. Fortunately for him, Brown was thinking clearly enough that morning to head toward a local police station and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story made it to the Sacramento Bee through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>, a local provider of services to the homeless. The compelling nature of Brown’s adventure raised questions that went well beyond how one man got put on a bus to a city where he’d never been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no friends or family there. He had only a few days’ worth of medication and a few bottles of Ensure. He had no plan for continuing medical treatment. It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. So we had a feeling that this was not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Bee began reviewing five years’ worth of Greyhound bus receipts that Nevada’s \u003ca href=\"http://mhds.state.nv.us/\">mental health division\u003c/a> had purchased. The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. 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"content": "\u003cp>If last month’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303040850/a\">gathering of California Republicans\u003c/a> had the feel of a postmortem, this weekend’s California Democratic convention seemed much more like a three-day end-zone dance. Speaker after speaker took to the podium to tout the party’s 2012 victories: supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, winning six House seats from Republicans, and the passage of Gov. Jerry Brown’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/politics/election2012/statepropositions-guide.jsp#1\">Proposition 30\u003c/a> tax measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94172\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/15/california-democrats-flex-muscles-and-talk-about-how-to-use-them/dempic1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94172\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94172\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/dempic1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"California's Democrats gathered in Sacramento this weekend\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s Democrats gathered in Sacramento this weekend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With Brown in China on a trade mission and neither of California’s U.S. senators speaking at the convention, the weekend gave up-and-coming Democrats a chance to step into the spotlight. In that sense, the weekend offered a preview of what a post-Brown gubernatorial primary might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The convention was highlighted by passionate speeches from two Democrats with clear ambition for higher office: Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom began his speech by joking about the six-day old “Newsom Administration” (he’s serving as acting governor with Brown abroad). Then he launched into a call for issues like the legalization of marijuana and repeal of the death penalty. “It’s not a deterrent. It’s not fool-proof. It is racially biased,” he said of capital punishment. “It costs more. And there’s no way to reverse a mistake when you put a wrongly accused person to death.” \u003c!--more-->Newsom has clashed publicly with Brown, and at times he sounded more like an opposition candidate than a member of a governing administration. He burst the Democrats’ feel-good bubble by calling for action to address the state’s economic problems. “We not only have the highest homeless rate in America, but the highest poverty rate. Think about this: California has three of the top five impoverished metro areas in the entire nation: Fresno, Modesto and Bakersfield. … 1.8 million Californians actively seeking employment that cannot find work. Statewide unemployment rate of 9.6 percent. The nation’s highest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Use a Supermajority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wasn’t the only speaker calling for Democrats to use their majority to push for legislation on big, liberal issues. Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who bankrolled last year’s successful \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/politics/election2012/statepropositions-guide.jsp#10\">Proposition 39 \u003c/a>campaign, wants Democrats to use their two-thirds majority to pass an oil-severance tax. The issue is timely, he said, because of an anticipated rush to exploit Central California’s Monterey shale formation. “There has been a shale oil find in the state of California that is the biggest in the United States. It’s 15 billion barrels. Now, I have no idea if that can be safely or profitably extracted. But I do know we better put in the tax before we find out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I feel like if we kind of go crazy and get all kinds of liberal policies going, then we’ll absolutely lose the majority.\n\u003cp>–Candy Easter, Kern County Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But for all the bold initiatives that the party’s stars called for from the stage, many delegates seemed to agree with Gov. Brown’s advice to use caution in using the power of the supermajority, saying they want to let the economy continue to improve, and avoid pushing too many big, expensive ideas at once. “I feel like if we kind of go crazy and get all kinds of liberal policies going, then we’ll absolutely lose the majority,” said Candy Easter of Kern County. Bryan Ladlow with the Napa County Young Democrats said he felt the same way. “Of course progressive issues are important,” he said. “But I want to make sure we don’t go too far to the left and alienate the people in the middle who helped us get where we are right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone wants Democrats to keep the brakes on, of course. Barbara Wilson of Los Angeles County urged legislators to hike corporate and drilling taxes and to fund social programs. “Now that we have a two-thirds majority let’s get it done,” she said. “Let’s get that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The Waiting Is Over”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom focused on state issues during his speech, Attorney General Kamala Harris talked about national topics. Addressing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/26/audio-transcript-of-supreme-court-proposition-8-oral-arguments/\">the United States Supreme Court’s impending decision on same-sex marriage\u003c/a>, Harris said Proposition 8 supporters “want to tell the 50,000 California children of loving same-sex couples that their families don’t count as real families. The message to these families … if they want their fundamental rights, they’re going to have to wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we know justice cannot be served cold,” Harris continued. “We know each day is not equal. Dr. King said it best: the word ‘wait’ rings with a piercing familiarity for those who have long been denied their fundamental rights. We know ‘wait’ is just a substitute for ‘never.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sticking with a theme that “the waiting is over,” Harris made her way through a list of high-profile national issues. “We need to tell Congress this year—this month—it’s time. It’s time for comprehensive immigration reform. It’s time to stand with the people of Newtown for common-sense gun laws. Democrats, it’s time to stand up for workers and collective-bargaining rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94175\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/15/california-democrats-flex-muscles-and-talk-about-how-to-use-them/pelosi1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94175\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94175\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/pelosi1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters in Sacramento\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters in Sacramento\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while California Democrats are in a commanding position in Sacramento, it’s a different story in Washington. No one knows that better than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She fielded questions about immigration and gun legislation during the Sacramento convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi told reporters she’s hoping lawmakers can pass an immigration law by the time Congress adjourns for August recess. She hedged on the chances for strong gun control measures like a ban on assault weapons sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can we ban it? Are the votes there to do so?” Pelosi asked. “Well, Senator Feinstein is a very determined person. Sentiment is everything. If the public wants this, we will get to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wasn’t the only speaker calling for Democrats to use their majority to push for legislation on big, liberal issues. Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who bankrolled last year’s successful \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/politics/election2012/statepropositions-guide.jsp#10\">Proposition 39 \u003c/a>campaign, wants Democrats to use their two-thirds majority to pass an oil-severance tax. The issue is timely, he said, because of an anticipated rush to exploit Central California’s Monterey shale formation. “There has been a shale oil find in the state of California that is the biggest in the United States. It’s 15 billion barrels. Now, I have no idea if that can be safely or profitably extracted. 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Bryan Ladlow with the Napa County Young Democrats said he felt the same way. “Of course progressive issues are important,” he said. “But I want to make sure we don’t go too far to the left and alienate the people in the middle who helped us get where we are right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone wants Democrats to keep the brakes on, of course. Barbara Wilson of Los Angeles County urged legislators to hike corporate and drilling taxes and to fund social programs. “Now that we have a two-thirds majority let’s get it done,” she said. “Let’s get that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The Waiting Is Over”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom focused on state issues during his speech, Attorney General Kamala Harris talked about national topics. 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(AP)—California Republicans on Sunday turned to a familiar face to lead the party back from the brink of irrelevance in a state that once was a GOP stronghold but is now home to a powerful Democratic political machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90670\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 136px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/04/california-gop-puts-turn-around-hopes-in-ex-lawmaker/brulte-headshot/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90670\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90670 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Brulte-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Brulte headshot\" width=\"136\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Brulte (California Republican Party)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 delegates to the state party’s spring convention elected former state lawmaker Jim Brulte as party chairman and charged him with repairing the state’s finances and image while recruiting a more diverse pool of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hall in the Sacramento Convention Center erupted in applause when his election was announced. It was a rare moment of optimism for the party faithful, coming four months after an election that dropped Republicans to just a third of the state Legislature and cost them a handful of congressional seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party holds no statewide office and dropped to less than 30 percent of all registered voters in California last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to be successful at winning elections, we have to get out of our comfort zone and stop only talking to the choir and going and talking to the people who don’t necessarily share our views, because if we share not only our head, but we share our heart, we will make converts,” Brulte told the delegates after his election.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will focus on fundraising and remaking the party’s voter outreach and candidate recruitment. Of particular concern is reaching Latinos, the fastest-growing segment of the electorate and a demographic that has generally shunned the party as its political clout has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte, from the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Cucamonga, also promised to help the party regain seats in the Legislature, saying Democrats controlling both houses and the governor’s office “is a recipe for disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in California is important to Republicans nationally because the state has the largest share of electoral votes, at 55. It has not voted for a Republican nominee for president since George H.W. Bush in 1988, and GOP registration has been sliding since it hit 40 percent in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Munger Jr., the chairman of the Santa Clara County Republican Party who is among the party’s most generous donors, said he was confident that Brulte will lift the party from its dire condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brulte knows how to win elections, how to talk to activists, how to talk to people who care about business and how to bring in large contributors,” said Munger, the son of the Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman who has given millions of dollars to moderate candidates and political causes over the last few years. “He knows how to get everybody together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte has pegged the party’s debt in the hundreds of thousands of dollars but declined to specify a number during a news conference following his election Sunday. He said he has commitments of about $200,000 in contributions that he expects to receive within the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one sign of an attempt to evolve with the times, the state party delegates also elected the first woman and first Sikh, Harmeet Dhillon, to serve as the party’s vice-chairwoman. Dhillon, of San Francisco, wants the party to use technology to modernize its registration and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her candidacy drew unwanted attention to the party’s meeting after the president of the party’s San Bernardino County women’s group called Dhillon a “Taj Mahal princess” in an online post. That posting featured a photograph of an Islamic terrorist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of mudslinging in this campaign, frankly, and I think the more that we try to shun people and ostracize people because they may not agree with us 100 percent, that’s why we’re at 29.3 percent registration in this state,” Dhillon told a small gathering of conservatives Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party faithful are banking on Brulte to restore their party’s luster and its finances, but wide divisions remain among members about whether the California GOP needs a total overhaul or a quick makeover. The party’s platform still includes opposition to abortion and gay marriage _ positions that are counter to the majority opinion, according to public opinion surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte appeared to be targeting the right areas for improvement and has “the benefit of extremely low expectations,” said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College. Recent comments such as the smears against Dhillon, however, could detract from his efforts to remake the GOP’s image and connect with a new base of voters, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Above all, do no harm,: Pitney said. “His first challenge is to keep Republicans from saying stupid things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A roster of party officials took the stage Sunday to say that they do not believe the party needs to change any of its principles, just communicate better and with different people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to reaching minorities, national committeeman Shawn Steel said California Republicans should talk to single, divorced and widowed women whom the party hasn’t talked to “in decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need to communicate with a wider audience also was the message on Saturday from Republican strategist Karl Rove, who told party activists they need to field more diverse candidates and reach out to non-white and female voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the tactical things of a better turnout operation … we’ve got a strategic issue,” Rove told delegates and party activists. “We have great principles, but we sometimes talk about those principles in a way that makes it sound like it’s 1968, 1980 or 2000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the party’s losses give the GOP an opportunity to re-evaluate everything from the ground up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Laura Olson contributed to this story.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will focus on fundraising and remaking the party’s voter outreach and candidate recruitment. Of particular concern is reaching Latinos, the fastest-growing segment of the electorate and a demographic that has generally shunned the party as its political clout has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte, from the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Cucamonga, also promised to help the party regain seats in the Legislature, saying Democrats controlling both houses and the governor’s office “is a recipe for disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in California is important to Republicans nationally because the state has the largest share of electoral votes, at 55. It has not voted for a Republican nominee for president since George H.W. Bush in 1988, and GOP registration has been sliding since it hit 40 percent in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Munger Jr., the chairman of the Santa Clara County Republican Party who is among the party’s most generous donors, said he was confident that Brulte will lift the party from its dire condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brulte knows how to win elections, how to talk to activists, how to talk to people who care about business and how to bring in large contributors,” said Munger, the son of the Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman who has given millions of dollars to moderate candidates and political causes over the last few years. “He knows how to get everybody together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte has pegged the party’s debt in the hundreds of thousands of dollars but declined to specify a number during a news conference following his election Sunday. He said he has commitments of about $200,000 in contributions that he expects to receive within the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one sign of an attempt to evolve with the times, the state party delegates also elected the first woman and first Sikh, Harmeet Dhillon, to serve as the party’s vice-chairwoman. Dhillon, of San Francisco, wants the party to use technology to modernize its registration and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her candidacy drew unwanted attention to the party’s meeting after the president of the party’s San Bernardino County women’s group called Dhillon a “Taj Mahal princess” in an online post. That posting featured a photograph of an Islamic terrorist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of mudslinging in this campaign, frankly, and I think the more that we try to shun people and ostracize people because they may not agree with us 100 percent, that’s why we’re at 29.3 percent registration in this state,” Dhillon told a small gathering of conservatives Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party faithful are banking on Brulte to restore their party’s luster and its finances, but wide divisions remain among members about whether the California GOP needs a total overhaul or a quick makeover. The party’s platform still includes opposition to abortion and gay marriage _ positions that are counter to the majority opinion, according to public opinion surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte appeared to be targeting the right areas for improvement and has “the benefit of extremely low expectations,” said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College. Recent comments such as the smears against Dhillon, however, could detract from his efforts to remake the GOP’s image and connect with a new base of voters, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Above all, do no harm,: Pitney said. “His first challenge is to keep Republicans from saying stupid things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A roster of party officials took the stage Sunday to say that they do not believe the party needs to change any of its principles, just communicate better and with different people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to reaching minorities, national committeeman Shawn Steel said California Republicans should talk to single, divorced and widowed women whom the party hasn’t talked to “in decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need to communicate with a wider audience also was the message on Saturday from Republican strategist Karl Rove, who told party activists they need to field more diverse candidates and reach out to non-white and female voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the tactical things of a better turnout operation … we’ve got a strategic issue,” Rove told delegates and party activists. “We have great principles, but we sometimes talk about those principles in a way that makes it sound like it’s 1968, 1980 or 2000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the party’s losses give the GOP an opportunity to re-evaluate everything from the ground up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Laura Olson contributed to this story.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 03-01-2013\u003c/strong>: Kevin Johnson did indeed produce the \"whales\" at the State of the City speech on Thursday night, and the bid was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/01/5228653/proud-day-for-sacramento-mastrov.html\" target=\"_blank\">submitted to the NBA toda\u003c/a>y. In addition to a plan to buy the team and build a new arena in downtown Sacramento, the new ownership would revive the Monarchs WNBA franchise. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/01/5227508/mayors-team-wants-downtown-plaza.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some details from the Sacramento Bee. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/kings/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90465\">Here's a link to my radio story: KQED Radio 02-28-2013\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the Sacramento Kings basketball team is up in the air. Its majority owners, the Maloof family, made a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/sports/basketball/maloof-family-selling-sacramento-kings-to-seattle-investor.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">surprise announcement in mid-January\u003c/a> that they were selling their stake to a group of investors who plan to move the team to Seattle. But Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former star of the NBA, is determined not to lose the Kings, and has organized a rival investor group to put in their own bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/sorryseattle/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90420\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90420 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/SorrySeattle-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"SorrySeattle\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/27/5220647/sacramento-council-approves-arena.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles\" target=\"_blank\">the city council authorized negotiations\u003c/a> with that group on public-private financing for a new arena near downtown. This is complicated by the fact that no one other than the mayor knows for sure who the investors are, although speculation centers on businessman \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Burkle\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Burkle\u003c/a> and 24 Hour Fitness founder \u003ca href=\"http://www.success.com/articles/1481-from-the-corner-office-24-hours-fitness-s-mark-mastrov\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Mastrov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson referred to the mystery investors several weeks ago as \"whales\" -- because they're big. The term has caught on among Kings fans, who communicate via an impressive social media network of blogs such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sactownroyalty.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sactown Royalty\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cowbell Kingdom\u003c/a>, arena supporters such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.crowndowntown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Downtown\u003c/a>, and daily podcasts from a former host at KHTK known as \u003ca href=\"http://carmichaeldave.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Carmichael Dave\u003c/a>. Johnson is expected to reveal the whales this week, perhaps at Thursday evening's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/25/5214226/this-week-kings-saga-may-be-state.html\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City\u003c/a> speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/kevinjohnson/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90429\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/KevinJohnson-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"KevinJohnson\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/whales/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90430\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90430 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/whales-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"whales\" width=\"291\" height=\"217\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait for the whales to surface, the Kings fan community is providing them with some krill, so to speak. Supporters attempted to sell out the February 9 game against the Utah Jazz. They called the effort \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.herewebuy.org/\">Here We Buy Night\u003c/a>,\" and it started with a tailgate party \u003c!--more-->before the game, where I interviewed several fans. Some had made signs referencing the battle with Seattle, such as this one that used the Starbucks logo to represent the northern rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/starbuckssign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90421\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90421 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/StarbucksSign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"StarbucksSign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>Noah Justin was one of several people handing out flyers instructing the crowd what to chant, and when. \"We have the SAC-RA-MEN-TO chant, and that's basically saying we want them to stay here,\" he explained. \"We have a chant during the second quarter for LET US MATCH, because we need to show everyone that we deserve to match that offer that [lead investor] Chris Hansen has for the Maloofs. Then we have HERE WE STAY, when the Jazz have free throws in the third quarter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that Kings fans usually need a cheat sheet to make noise. As Christina Dunn of Chico pointed out, they've put their arena into the Guinness Book of Records for loudest sports venue. \"Something like 130 decibels,\" she says, \"which is just incredibly loud. And it's just so much fun, you really can't beat it, even when the crowd is not maybe that big -- when it's a close game at the end, it is loud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/bestfanssign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90416\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90416 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/BestFanssign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"BestFanssign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>The chanting is supplemented with cowbells, a Sacramento tradition. Tyler Brant of Granite Bay is too young to remember when it started, but he's heard the story. \"The other cities were saying we were just a cow town,\" he says. \"So everyone brought their cowbells, saying we'll show you a cow town. We rung 'em all loud, and every coach in the league didn't want to play in here because it was so loud. That's what we're trying to bring back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here We Buy\" organizer Kevin Fippin told me he understands the NBA, like the rest of pro sports, is a business. They'll make decisions based on the bottom line, not sentiment. But Fippin says the Kings fans have to act on their feelings. \"What are we supposed to do?\" he asks. \"We support this team, and what else are we going to do except fight? And this is the way we fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/trucksign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90422\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90422 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/TruckSign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"TruckSign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>Fippin's co-organizer Ed Montes says Sacramento's smaller than Seattle, but it could be a better market for the NBA. Unlike Seattle, fans here don't have major league baseball, football, or hockey competing for their attention, and their dollars. \"Sacramento's a one-team town,\" he says. \"We have the Kings and that's it. So they might not be a good team, they might have been a bad team for a long time, but you know what? This is all we have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many others at the tailgate, Tim Ghiorso of Fair Oaks sympathizes with Seattle fans, who lost their team to Oklahoma City in 2008. But Ghiorso says if the NBA wants to repair the damage done to Seattle, they should give them a new expansion team and stop shuffling franchises. \"It really hurts the NBA brand,\" he says. \"If I'm in another city (watching the Kings leave) I'm thinking there's nothing I can do to keep my team, it's up to some billionaires who might move it. So why should I get into this sport?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/ourtownsign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90419\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90419 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/OurTownsign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OurTownsign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>Nancy Daley from Elk Grove has been a season ticket holder since 2006. She's worried about the economic impact if the Kings pack up. \"The coaches and the players, they're all going to be fine,\" says Daley. \"But we know our usher. We run into him around town. This is the way they support their families, so the real pain for us would be watching those people lose their jobs, and possibly having to leave town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daley's optimistic that the Kings fans won't go unnoticed by the NBA, who have the final say in relocation matters. \"Just the other day David Stern, the NBA commissioner, said support was a big factor when they consider purchases and relocation,\" she says. \"It's hard to say that we're not passionate supporters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>February 9th's \"Here We Buy\" night came a little short of a sellout - about 16,000 of the 17,000 seats at Sleep Train Arena were sold. Several hundred were donated to youth groups by fans who bought extra tickets. Still, it was enough of a success that the fans are organizing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2013/2/12/3980166/here-we-buy-night-2-march-24-vs-sixers\" target=\"_blank\">Here We Buy Night #2 for March 24th\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 03-01-2013\u003c/strong>: Kevin Johnson did indeed produce the \"whales\" at the State of the City speech on Thursday night, and the bid was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/01/5228653/proud-day-for-sacramento-mastrov.html\" target=\"_blank\">submitted to the NBA toda\u003c/a>y. In addition to a plan to buy the team and build a new arena in downtown Sacramento, the new ownership would revive the Monarchs WNBA franchise. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/01/5227508/mayors-team-wants-downtown-plaza.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some details from the Sacramento Bee. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/kings/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90465\">Here's a link to my radio story: KQED Radio 02-28-2013\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the Sacramento Kings basketball team is up in the air. Its majority owners, the Maloof family, made a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/sports/basketball/maloof-family-selling-sacramento-kings-to-seattle-investor.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">surprise announcement in mid-January\u003c/a> that they were selling their stake to a group of investors who plan to move the team to Seattle. But Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former star of the NBA, is determined not to lose the Kings, and has organized a rival investor group to put in their own bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/sorryseattle/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90420\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90420 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/SorrySeattle-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"SorrySeattle\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/27/5220647/sacramento-council-approves-arena.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles\" target=\"_blank\">the city council authorized negotiations\u003c/a> with that group on public-private financing for a new arena near downtown. This is complicated by the fact that no one other than the mayor knows for sure who the investors are, although speculation centers on businessman \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Burkle\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Burkle\u003c/a> and 24 Hour Fitness founder \u003ca href=\"http://www.success.com/articles/1481-from-the-corner-office-24-hours-fitness-s-mark-mastrov\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Mastrov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson referred to the mystery investors several weeks ago as \"whales\" -- because they're big. The term has caught on among Kings fans, who communicate via an impressive social media network of blogs such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sactownroyalty.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sactown Royalty\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cowbell Kingdom\u003c/a>, arena supporters such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.crowndowntown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Downtown\u003c/a>, and daily podcasts from a former host at KHTK known as \u003ca href=\"http://carmichaeldave.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Carmichael Dave\u003c/a>. Johnson is expected to reveal the whales this week, perhaps at Thursday evening's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/25/5214226/this-week-kings-saga-may-be-state.html\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City\u003c/a> speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/kevinjohnson/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90429\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/KevinJohnson-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"KevinJohnson\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/whales/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90430\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90430 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/whales-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"whales\" width=\"291\" height=\"217\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait for the whales to surface, the Kings fan community is providing them with some krill, so to speak. Supporters attempted to sell out the February 9 game against the Utah Jazz. They called the effort \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.herewebuy.org/\">Here We Buy Night\u003c/a>,\" and it started with a tailgate party \u003c!--more-->before the game, where I interviewed several fans. Some had made signs referencing the battle with Seattle, such as this one that used the Starbucks logo to represent the northern rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/starbuckssign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90421\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90421 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/StarbucksSign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"StarbucksSign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>Noah Justin was one of several people handing out flyers instructing the crowd what to chant, and when. \"We have the SAC-RA-MEN-TO chant, and that's basically saying we want them to stay here,\" he explained. \"We have a chant during the second quarter for LET US MATCH, because we need to show everyone that we deserve to match that offer that [lead investor] Chris Hansen has for the Maloofs. Then we have HERE WE STAY, when the Jazz have free throws in the third quarter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that Kings fans usually need a cheat sheet to make noise. As Christina Dunn of Chico pointed out, they've put their arena into the Guinness Book of Records for loudest sports venue. \"Something like 130 decibels,\" she says, \"which is just incredibly loud. And it's just so much fun, you really can't beat it, even when the crowd is not maybe that big -- when it's a close game at the end, it is loud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/bestfanssign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90416\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90416 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/BestFanssign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"BestFanssign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>The chanting is supplemented with cowbells, a Sacramento tradition. Tyler Brant of Granite Bay is too young to remember when it started, but he's heard the story. \"The other cities were saying we were just a cow town,\" he says. \"So everyone brought their cowbells, saying we'll show you a cow town. We rung 'em all loud, and every coach in the league didn't want to play in here because it was so loud. That's what we're trying to bring back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here We Buy\" organizer Kevin Fippin told me he understands the NBA, like the rest of pro sports, is a business. They'll make decisions based on the bottom line, not sentiment. But Fippin says the Kings fans have to act on their feelings. \"What are we supposed to do?\" he asks. \"We support this team, and what else are we going to do except fight? And this is the way we fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/trucksign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90422\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90422 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/TruckSign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"TruckSign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>Fippin's co-organizer Ed Montes says Sacramento's smaller than Seattle, but it could be a better market for the NBA. Unlike Seattle, fans here don't have major league baseball, football, or hockey competing for their attention, and their dollars. \"Sacramento's a one-team town,\" he says. \"We have the Kings and that's it. So they might not be a good team, they might have been a bad team for a long time, but you know what? This is all we have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many others at the tailgate, Tim Ghiorso of Fair Oaks sympathizes with Seattle fans, who lost their team to Oklahoma City in 2008. But Ghiorso says if the NBA wants to repair the damage done to Seattle, they should give them a new expansion team and stop shuffling franchises. \"It really hurts the NBA brand,\" he says. \"If I'm in another city (watching the Kings leave) I'm thinking there's nothing I can do to keep my team, it's up to some billionaires who might move it. So why should I get into this sport?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/ourtownsign/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90419\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90419 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/OurTownsign-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OurTownsign\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>Nancy Daley from Elk Grove has been a season ticket holder since 2006. She's worried about the economic impact if the Kings pack up. \"The coaches and the players, they're all going to be fine,\" says Daley. \"But we know our usher. We run into him around town. This is the way they support their families, so the real pain for us would be watching those people lose their jobs, and possibly having to leave town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daley's optimistic that the Kings fans won't go unnoticed by the NBA, who have the final say in relocation matters. \"Just the other day David Stern, the NBA commissioner, said support was a big factor when they consider purchases and relocation,\" she says. \"It's hard to say that we're not passionate supporters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Maloof family, the majority owners of the Sacramento Kings basketball team, have \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8864092/sacramento-kings-owners-reach-agreement-seattle-group-buy-team-sources-say\">struck a deal\u003c/a> to sell the team to a group that would move it to Seattle. But Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson says his city won't give up so easily. The NBA must approve any deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86503\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/21/owners-agree-to-sell-kings-basketball-team-to-seattle-group/los-angeles-lakers-v-sacramento-kings/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86503\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Sacramento-Kings-Sign-0428-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fans have campaigned to keep the Kings basketball team in Sacramento. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans have campaigned to keep the Kings basketball team in Sacramento. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was a three-time All Star in his 12 years in the NBA, told \u003ca href=\"http://natomas.news10.net/news/news/109860-sacramento-kings-playtowin-campaign-gets-19m-down-payment\">a press conference\u003c/a> Tuesday afternoon that he has commitments from \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/city-beat/2013/01/investors-to-give-1-million-each-to-buy-sacramento-kings.html\">19 local investors\u003c/a> to put in a million dollars apiece to buy the team and keep it in the state capital. (After the press conference, Ryan Lillis of the Sacramento Bee tweeted that Johnson has secured a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ryan_Lillis/status/293873493727137792\" target=\"_blank\">twentieth investor\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>$20 million's a drop in the basket against the $340 million that the Maloofs have been offered by the Seattle group, but Johnson says he has at least one big-money investor – he refers to them as “whales” – who will be firmed up in the next week or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/23/5134027/sacramento-mayor-johnson-discloses.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that the \"whales\" might be Ron Burkle, a billionaire who is co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey club, and Mark Mastrov, the founder of the 24 Hour Fitness chain. Both have previously expressed an interest in the team. The Bee says they would not only buy the Kings, but also be involved in financing a new arena. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Ham writes about the Kings for NBA.com and the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/\">Cowbell Kingdom\u003c/a>, and co-produced a film about the team and its famously loyal fan base called “\u003ca href=\"http://smallmarketbigheart.com/\">Small Market, Big Heart.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor’s office was working on this long before the Seattle news came out,” he said after the press conference. “This has always been a possibility, that the Maloofs would decide to sell. I think that Sacramento and the mayor himself thought the Maloof family would have enough respect for all of the support and financial backing that this community has given them, to at least make Sacramento part of the conversation. Instead, they completely circumvented the mayor and just went straight to Seattle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle’s old NBA franchise, the SuperSonics, was bought by Oklahoma City investors in 2008 and became the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sonics fans have been longing for a new basketball team ever since. Ham says while Sacramento’s the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> largest TV market in the U.S. and Seattle’s the 12\u003csup>th \u003c/sup>largest, it isn’t a slam dunk that Seattle would be a better venue for the NBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the Seattle market, they have professional baseball, football, and soccer, and they may end up with a professional hockey team. That’s a lot of major league sports to not just divert fans, but support from the business community. In Sacramento, [the Kings] are the only game in town, and it’s always been that way. In the history of the two franchises, Sacramento had better attendance than Seattle in almost every season that the two teams existed at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the effort to keep the Kings \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=226217\" target=\"_blank\">gained an unlikely champion\u003c/a> on Tuesday. State Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg sent a letter to the state’s department of general services, suggesting that if the move to Seattle goes through, California might want to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2013/1/22/3903864/fight-to-keep-kings-in-sacramento-gets-political\">re-evaluate its purchase\u003c/a> of Microsoft products and services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one of the principals of the Seattle group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some less well-known fans have made a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYfVc2uoUGU\">music video\u003c/a> in support of the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NBA makes the final decision, and they've said they will listen to both cities. Presentations will likely take place in March.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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