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"content": "\u003cp>“I still get really nervous, even though I guess I’m supposed to be good at public speaking because I’m a politician now,” said newly-elected City Councilwoman Jewel Hurtado of the Fresno County city of Kingsburg, as she rushed in to give a talk at Fresno State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Kingsburg City Councilwoman Jewel Hurtado']‘It’s funny to see me — Jewel, brown, city council — in a Swedish village, but it’s about representation and that is why I ran.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado was getting ready to address graduate students about charting her own path in public service. Her son, Anthony III, and her fiance, Anthony Jr., were waiting outside. Baby Anthony was about to turn 1, and Hurtado still needed to nurse him, so his dad was watching him while she gave her speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a while since Hurtado was on the campaign trail making speeches regularly. But also, as she noted, most of these students are probably older than she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At age 20, Hurtado is balancing motherhood, city council and a part-time job, while still pursuing her own degree. But she wouldn’t have it any other way: She tells the students she wants to have a say in the community where her son is growing up, and she wants to give a platform to unheard voices, like her own as a young Latina mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny to see me — Jewel, brown, city council — in a Swedish village, but it’s about representation and that is why I ran,” she told the students. 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Hurtado now oversees this commission as one of her council assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get asked about Jewel — ‘How do you feel about having a 20-year-old on your city council?’ — and, well, I think it’s great, because she’s inspiring that next generation,” Roman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado’s skeptics have questioned her credentials because of her age, but politics and community organizing run in her blood. 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When Hurtado was growing up, Flores-Rivera toted her to union rallies and places she felt were historically and politically significant, like the room where Chavez did his hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had thought, maybe the day I retire I’m going to run for city council, and then [Jewel] says, ‘Nonni, I’m gonna be running for city council,’ and I go, ‘Well, I guess there goes my idea out the window! Yes, mija! Yes! We need young people out there.’ I was so happy!” Flores-Rivera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Kingsburg Mayor Michelle Roman']‘I get asked about Jewel — ‘How do you feel about having a 20-year-old on your city council?’ — and, well, I think it’s great, because she’s inspiring that next generation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said she ran on community, voices and values: “That’s not typical appearing in a campaign, I feel like, because usually we’re talking about jobs, or business or public safety, but all of those things fall under community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the enthusiastic support from family and friends, the campaign was a grueling one for Hurtado. She schlepped door-to-door with infant Anthony in the blistering heat of the Central Valley summer. 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"content": "\u003cp>This week, Nevada became the first state in the country with a female majority in its state Legislature. When the lawmakers were sworn in on Monday, the women outnumbered the men — holding just over 50 percent of the 63 seats in the Assembly and Senate combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are proud to usher in a milestone that brings representation of everyday Nevadans that much closer to true representative democracy. Yes, we are the first female majority legislature in the history of this country,” said Speaker of the Assembly Jason Frierson to his colleagues moments after being sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704561/election-2018-was-it-the-year-of-the-woman-in-california\">Election 2018: Was It the Year of the Woman in California?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704561/election-2018-was-it-the-year-of-the-woman-in-california\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/katiehill_getty-qut-1020x618.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nevada was able to achieve the milestone during last year’s pink wave. Across the U.S., more women were elected to office than in any other previous year. And in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11685402/the-long-run-record-numbers-of-women-running-for-office\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record numbers of women ran for office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw in 2018 is the very first time there was any kind of meaningful moving of the needle in terms of women’s representation in state legislatures,” said Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how did a state like Nevada – which has been historically red — reach such a milestone before California? One of the bluest states in the country, California has a Legislature where women hold just 30 percent of the seats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, the answer might be because Californians are moving east. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have clearly seen waves of Californians move to Nevada over the years,\" said Fred Lokken, a political scientist at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno. He says the influx of Californians to Clark and Washoe counties in Nevada has pushed the state into the blue. Previous waves of people moving from California to Nevada were made up mostly of disgruntled Republican business owners, he said, \"and so that benefited the Republican Party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around it's different. \"What we’ve seen now, I would say in the last 24 to 36 months, are folks coming from both Southern and Northern California that are drawn to the economy of Nevada ... and many of those tend to be Democrats this time,\" Lokken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada was not the only state with substantial gains by women in the Legislature last year. According to data collected by Sinzdak’s organization, women now account for roughly 28.5 percent of the total number of lawmakers in state legislatures nationwide – up more than 4 percent since 2016. In Western states, that rate is even higher – closer to 34.5 percent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are outliers, including California, which has just 36 women in its 120-member Legislature. What's happening, said Sinzdak, is California has been outpaced by other states that are growing their female representation faster. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only other western states with lower female representation are those dominated by Republicans — Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. That’s because the GOP has struggled in recent years to recruit women to run for office. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714052/democratic-women-gain-seats-in-california-city-governments\">Democratic Women Gain Seats in California City Governments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714052/democratic-women-gain-seats-in-california-city-governments\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/The-Long-Run_mosaic_3.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That’s certainly nothing new,\" Sinzdak said. \"It’s just the degree to which that gap’s widened is pretty dramatic. 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Seventy-five percent of the candidates were women of color, said Susannah Delano, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Close+the+Gap+CA&oq=Close+the+Gap+CA&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.326j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">Close the Gap CA\u003c/a>, a group focused on increasing the number of progressive women serving in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2018 will be the biggest single leap for women in state history,” Delano said Wednesday. “We’re seeing as many as eight or more women joining this year, which is more than any of the last decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delano said previous high totals of women winning state legislative office in one year had been five — which has happened three times in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Once the #MeToo allegations started hitting, there were more open seats than we anticipated. #MeToo really is a big part of the story.” Susannah Delano, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Close+the+Gap+CA&oq=Close+the+Gap+CA&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.326j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">Close the Gap CA\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The group normally targets open seats or those that are “purple” politically. At the beginning of 2018, only a few such seats were available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the #MeToo allegations started hitting, there were more open seats than we anticipated. #MeToo really is a big part of the story,” Delano said, adding that the group expanded its efforts as the Democrats’ so-called blue wave gained steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked to a few of the districts that overlapped with those national targets for work because we thought there would be more activity, more investment and more infrastructure to help push those women along,” she said. “And I think we’re seeing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11704802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffy Wicks, who won the Assembly District 15 seat, speaks to the crowd at her election night party in Berkeley on Nov. 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the eight seats female candidates picked up this year, women now make up 28 percent of the Legislature — up from 21 percent one year ago. (That number could go up, if women potentially pick up two more additional seats in races that are currently too close to call.) Those numbers put California above the national average for female representation at statehouses, which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-state-legislature-2018\">25 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been very strange for the past several decades where California’s actually had fewer women in office than many other states across the country,” said Kimberly Nalder, a political science professor at California State University, Sacramento. Even with the gains, 28 percent is a “pretty significant underrepresentation of women,” who make up more than half of the population, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, this curve starts to increase — become steeper — because otherwise we’re looking at the end of our lifetimes before women reach parity in the state Legislature at this pace,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Michelin, CEO of California Women Lead, a nonpartisan group that helps women seek elected or appointed office in the state, said more California women ran this cycle — but it wasn’t the huge wave who marched in the aftermath of the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think that materialized as much. I would give it kind of a mixed bag because I don’t want women to think, ‘Yes, this is the year of the woman and now our work is done’ — because it’s not,” she said. “We still have a lot of work to do and we still have a lot of places that we need to continue to have women getting politically engaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>While “it’s great that we’re moving forward in terms of gaining seats, we still haven’t cracked that 30 percent,” she said. “And we’re not even close to parity in terms of the representation in either house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statehouse gains come as a record number of women won congressional seats nationwide. At least 108 women have won their races for the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate, raising their representation from 20 percent to at least 22 percent in Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665019211/a-record-number-of-women-will-serve-in-congress-with-potentially-more-to-come?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202907&fbclid=IwAR3vjuvksEOg6wOCW0PQo6Q5GyaE-QnHFt-lyQgFZNlkxCkzL4vZaApkBHw\">NPR reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, at least 17 female incumbents won their seats in Congress, while one — Republican Mimi Walters — was in a race against Democrat Katie Porter that wasn’t called as of Friday afternoon. Steven Knight conceded his seat in northern Los Angeles County to newcomer Katie Hill, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-midterm-election-day-updates-hold-ca-25-steve-knight-katie-hill-1541139209-htmlstory.html\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. Knight’s seat was one of seven that Democrats hoped to flip, and four women challengers — including one Republican woman — were hoping to win them. As of Friday afternoon, Republican Young Kim was leading Democrat Gil Cisneros \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/gen2018/results.htm\">54 to 46 percent\u003c/a> in the 39th District in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cawomenlead.org/resource/resmgr/docs/reports/2018_Post_General_Report.pdf\">California Women Lead\u003c/a> expects the state’s congressional delegation to grow by two to 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-800x973.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-800x973.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-160x195.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-1020x1241.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-986x1200.jpg 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican congressional candidate in California’s 39th District, Young Kim (R), arrives with her husband, Charles Kim, at an election night event in Rowland Heights, California, on Nov. 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generally, one to two California women get elected each cycle to Congress, Nalder said. Four would be an improvement, but it would barely change the overall percentage of women in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year you think, ‘Oh, this will be the year and then it isn’t,’ ” said Nalder. “Especially this year with the Kavanaugh hearings and the resist movement and all of that. It was a little bump, but it’s not this massive shift in the trajectory that I think people have been hoping for, for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more women were running for congressional seats in California than in previous years, most of those contests were in districts that weren’t favorable to them, she said. Of 13 women challengers who lost their bids, eight were Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is encouraging that more women ran even if they lost … because they got that electoral experience,” she said. “One of the big problems historically for having women in elected office is the concept of the pipeline. There just aren’t enough women with experience and expertise and that background in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women also won three of the eight statewide offices, with Eleni Kounalakis becoming California’s first female lieutenant governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>A record number of women ran for political office in 2018. KQED’s series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Long Run\u003c/a>” has focused on a handful of candidates from California, who were gunning for seats in everything from city council to Congress. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he number of California women holding statewide and federal office grew this year after several won seats in the midterm elections, with some advocates extolling the gains and others saying it didn’t go far enough to reach gender parity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the biggest moves came in the California State Legislature: After accounting for some losses, women were projected to win eight seats overall — four each in the Senate and the Assembly (not all of the races have been called), including two through earlier special elections. Seventy-five percent of the candidates were women of color, said Susannah Delano, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Close+the+Gap+CA&oq=Close+the+Gap+CA&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.326j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">Close the Gap CA\u003c/a>, a group focused on increasing the number of progressive women serving in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2018 will be the biggest single leap for women in state history,” Delano said Wednesday. “We’re seeing as many as eight or more women joining this year, which is more than any of the last decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delano said previous high totals of women winning state legislative office in one year had been five — which has happened three times in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Once the #MeToo allegations started hitting, there were more open seats than we anticipated. #MeToo really is a big part of the story.” Susannah Delano, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Close+the+Gap+CA&oq=Close+the+Gap+CA&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.326j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">Close the Gap CA\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The group normally targets open seats or those that are “purple” politically. At the beginning of 2018, only a few such seats were available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the #MeToo allegations started hitting, there were more open seats than we anticipated. #MeToo really is a big part of the story,” Delano said, adding that the group expanded its efforts as the Democrats’ so-called blue wave gained steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked to a few of the districts that overlapped with those national targets for work because we thought there would be more activity, more investment and more infrastructure to help push those women along,” she said. “And I think we’re seeing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11704802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/buffy.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffy Wicks, who won the Assembly District 15 seat, speaks to the crowd at her election night party in Berkeley on Nov. 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the eight seats female candidates picked up this year, women now make up 28 percent of the Legislature — up from 21 percent one year ago. (That number could go up, if women potentially pick up two more additional seats in races that are currently too close to call.) Those numbers put California above the national average for female representation at statehouses, which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-state-legislature-2018\">25 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been very strange for the past several decades where California’s actually had fewer women in office than many other states across the country,” said Kimberly Nalder, a political science professor at California State University, Sacramento. Even with the gains, 28 percent is a “pretty significant underrepresentation of women,” who make up more than half of the population, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, this curve starts to increase — become steeper — because otherwise we’re looking at the end of our lifetimes before women reach parity in the state Legislature at this pace,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Michelin, CEO of California Women Lead, a nonpartisan group that helps women seek elected or appointed office in the state, said more California women ran this cycle — but it wasn’t the huge wave who marched in the aftermath of the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think that materialized as much. I would give it kind of a mixed bag because I don’t want women to think, ‘Yes, this is the year of the woman and now our work is done’ — because it’s not,” she said. “We still have a lot of work to do and we still have a lot of places that we need to continue to have women getting politically engaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>While “it’s great that we’re moving forward in terms of gaining seats, we still haven’t cracked that 30 percent,” she said. “And we’re not even close to parity in terms of the representation in either house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statehouse gains come as a record number of women won congressional seats nationwide. At least 108 women have won their races for the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate, raising their representation from 20 percent to at least 22 percent in Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665019211/a-record-number-of-women-will-serve-in-congress-with-potentially-more-to-come?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202907&fbclid=IwAR3vjuvksEOg6wOCW0PQo6Q5GyaE-QnHFt-lyQgFZNlkxCkzL4vZaApkBHw\">NPR reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, at least 17 female incumbents won their seats in Congress, while one — Republican Mimi Walters — was in a race against Democrat Katie Porter that wasn’t called as of Friday afternoon. Steven Knight conceded his seat in northern Los Angeles County to newcomer Katie Hill, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-midterm-election-day-updates-hold-ca-25-steve-knight-katie-hill-1541139209-htmlstory.html\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. Knight’s seat was one of seven that Democrats hoped to flip, and four women challengers — including one Republican woman — were hoping to win them. As of Friday afternoon, Republican Young Kim was leading Democrat Gil Cisneros \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/gen2018/results.htm\">54 to 46 percent\u003c/a> in the 39th District in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cawomenlead.org/resource/resmgr/docs/reports/2018_Post_General_Report.pdf\">California Women Lead\u003c/a> expects the state’s congressional delegation to grow by two to 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-800x973.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-800x973.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-160x195.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-1020x1241.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut-986x1200.jpg 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33795_YoungKim_GettyImages-1058491182-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican congressional candidate in California’s 39th District, Young Kim (R), arrives with her husband, Charles Kim, at an election night event in Rowland Heights, California, on Nov. 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generally, one to two California women get elected each cycle to Congress, Nalder said. Four would be an improvement, but it would barely change the overall percentage of women in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year you think, ‘Oh, this will be the year and then it isn’t,’ ” said Nalder. “Especially this year with the Kavanaugh hearings and the resist movement and all of that. It was a little bump, but it’s not this massive shift in the trajectory that I think people have been hoping for, for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more women were running for congressional seats in California than in previous years, most of those contests were in districts that weren’t favorable to them, she said. Of 13 women challengers who lost their bids, eight were Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is encouraging that more women ran even if they lost … because they got that electoral experience,” she said. “One of the big problems historically for having women in elected office is the concept of the pipeline. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>A record number of women are running for political office in 2018. KQED's series \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>\" focuses on a handful of candidates from California, who are gunning for seats in everything from city council to Congress. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Betty Valencia decided to run for Orange City Council in Southern California, she never thought being an immigrant from Mexico would make her a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it has: Since late September, she said she has gotten emails and messages on social media asking about her legal status (she is a U.S. citizen) and her position on immigration enforcement, and she has been called a cancer and a poison. Some of the attacks have spilled over into real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign event in early October, Valencia says a woman and a man in a golf cart drove by as she was pushing her infant grandniece in a stroller. The woman pointed at her. “And then she said these words as loud as she could: ‘Trump is coming for you, Betty,’ and then they just sped away,” said Valencia, who took her words to mean deportation. “I think she was very much insinuating that I would go back to my country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants like Valencia are among a wave of newcomers running for political office in 2018, hoping to infuse new representation into every level of government, from city council to Congress. While they’re facing challenges common to first-timers, they’re also encountering hurdles due to their immigrant backgrounds -- now more so than ever with a charged national debate around immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Showing Up for Ourselves’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more immigrant candidates are seeking political office, said Sayu Bhojwani, founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.newamericanleaders.org/what-we-do/\">New American Leaders (NAL\u003c/a>), a nonpartisan group that trains naturalized citizens and people of color how to campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 100 first-generation immigrants are on the ballot in 2018, and many others on it are second- and third-generation immigrants of color, NAL estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that we've seen very clearly post-2016 is there's an incredible amount of energy in terms of running for office,” she said. “There's more boldness and more determination on the part of newcomer candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not the only factor in their decision to run, “the Trump administration's policies and rhetoric have been a big motivator for candidates,” Bhojwani said. “Running for office has definitely become one element of the resistance movement among immigrant leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhojwani started the group in 2010 shortly after Arizona passed its controversial \"Show me your papers\" law or (SB1070). She had the idea for NAL before then as immigration reform continued to fail in Congress and a growing number of anti-immigrant bills moved through statehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt it was important we were showing up for ourselves to be the policymakers that we needed because we kept working on behalf of other candidates who were ostensibly allies but were not actually getting the job done,” she said, noting that the group’s aim was to build a pipeline of candidates “that reflect, that look like America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight of the group’s alums ran in 2016, with 68 percent winning; 54 of their graduates are running in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigrants are seeking office in California, like Republican Cristina Osmeña, who is challenging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat, and Farrah Khan who is vying for a seat on the Irvine City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barriers to Running\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For NAL’s participants, the three most common barriers to running for office are: markers of immigrant identity (like race, religion, legal status, appearance), a lack of money or financial network, and no political experience or knowledge, Bhojwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group tells would-be candidates they have what it takes. And they stress the value of their backgrounds: “That the immigrant experience is an asset rather than a deficit,” she said. “The immigrant narrative as part of the American story is a critical underpinning of our training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Young Kim, a South Korean immigrant who came to California via Guam and Hawaii. A Republican running for the (mostly) Orange County congressional seat now held by retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce. She already served in the State Assembly and if Kim wins this time, she will become the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said she \u003cem>wants\u003c/em> people to know she is an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very diverse district, which I think I understand having come from all different areas,” she said. “I know how hard it is to adjust and assimilate into a new country ... I can bring all of those different perspectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, her immigration policy would be shaped around what her constituents want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people will say because Young Kim is a Republican that I will go automatically with our Republican leadership or (what our) platform says,” she said “I am running as my own person because my district needs a representative who understands what our needs are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican candidate for US Congress Young Kim, 55, (R) takes a selfie with a supporter outside her campaign office in Yorba Linda, California, October 6, 2018. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in 1975, would be the first Korean-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives if she defeats her Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros in the race for the open seat in California's 39th Congressional District which includes parts of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. \u003ccite>( ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Alcantar, who is running for Cudahy City Council in L.A. County, talks with voters about her parents’ experiences in the U.S. as immigrants and her own as a second-generation American -- which mirror that of many in her mostly Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not see myself getting into city council being the end game,” said Alcantar, 25. “It's just the beginning of getting more young immigrant women in office -- here in Cudahy, but also in all the region here in the southeast. We need more of our own folks in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Represent Those Caravans to People’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened to Betty Valencia on the campaign trail wasn’t an isolated case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrah Khan, who came to the U.S. at three years-old from Pakistan with her mom in 1974, is one of five immigrants running for Irvine City Council this year after losing her first bid for a seat on it in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both campaigns, negative attacks falsely claimed she was associated with terrorist organizations. In her first run, those attacks were made in mailers. This time, they’ve moved onto social media, said Khan, 46, executive director of a nonprofit and interfaith council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're running for local office and it's something that you care about ... your neighborhoods, your neighbors,” said Khan, who is Muslim and a mother of four kids. “Race and religion has no place here. ... And so when they bring this into the picture it makes you kind of think twice like, ‘Is that really how some people see you?’ Before they even get to know you, are you already judged by the way you look or by the name that you have?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another immigrant candidate in Southern California has come under similar attacks: Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar who is challenging Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter. Hunter, who is under federal indictment for misusing campaign funds, has falsely claimed that Campa-Najjar is a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699097/indicted-rep-duncan-hunter-calls-his-opponent-a-muslim-infiltrator\">Muslim trying to “infiltrate” \u003c/a>\u003c/span>Congress. In fact, he is a Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant candidates in the past have faced a lot of discrimination, said Christabel Cruz, director of national education for women's leadership at the Center for American Women in Politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing, I think, more and more in this particular political climate ... discriminatory practices and language -- really hate speech in terms of characterization of immigrant candidates,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-520x389.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia, a candidate for Orange City Council, says this is an email she received asking about her immigration status. \u003ccite>(Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As “his rhetoric increases, we are feeling it,” Valencia, 47, said of President Trump. “I represent those caravans to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said the backlash against immigrant candidates may also be because more of them are running for office: “The more people fighting for their representation, the stronger the resistance to that representation is going to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the reason a number of the immigrants interviewed by KQED said they were running: representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘There’s No One in City Council That Looks Like Me’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said she decided to run for city council at 11:33 p.m. on April 10, 2018. That’s when the council passed a resolution saying it would seek to block enforcement of SB54 -- California’s sanctuary law -- pending a lawsuit brought by the federal government challenging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, Valencia looked at the councilmembers and thought: \"You are in my seat.\" “There’s no one in city council that looks like me,” said Valencia, who also identifies as a lesbian Latina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that unless someone like me -- with my perspective, my experience, my background -- was sitting there, that the population we have in the city of Orange -- which we have a high population of immigrants -- would not have a voice, would not have protection or would not even be counted,” said Valencia. “I wanted to make sure that at least I could use my voice to help others not feel the way I felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jaya Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento, representation is a driving factor, too. But she’s shied away from saying that’s why people should vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, with everything on the national forefront, I don't want the narrative to be a school board member wants to be known for her cultural heritage. And, because there is a growing body of Indian American or cultural ethnically Indian or South Asian students, therefore we should vote for her,” said Badiga, 44. “But that is a huge part of my identity. So there has been talk in the community from some members on the board that they're glad to see representation from the community. And I reciprocate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaya Badiga, center in white shirt, with supporters. Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen, is running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Jaya Badiga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All It Takes Is One Person to Win’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Muslim women vying for seats in Michigan and Minnesota could become the first elected to Congress -- and that is “inspiring for people even if they lost,” said Bhojwani of NAL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest reason that we're going to continue to see a growth in the number of immigrant and newcomers candidates is because they're going to be inspired by the people who have run this year and are winning,” she said. “All it takes is one person to win to make people feel that it's possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the campaign event in the park, where Valencia said the woman threatened her, a woman wearing a T-shirt reading “Be kind” approached her: “She says she came to meet me because she supported me and because she thinks it's time that we become a more inclusive community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That -- and other support from the community -- gave Valencia hope after the troubling incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a little bit to regroup, to re-energize and to refocus and say that our message continues: that we're going to stay positive, that I belong here just as anybody else and that I'm qualified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated to clarify information provided by New American Leaders on Cristina Osmeña, who isn't an alumni of their program.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhojwani started the group in 2010 shortly after Arizona passed its controversial \"Show me your papers\" law or (SB1070). She had the idea for NAL before then as immigration reform continued to fail in Congress and a growing number of anti-immigrant bills moved through statehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt it was important we were showing up for ourselves to be the policymakers that we needed because we kept working on behalf of other candidates who were ostensibly allies but were not actually getting the job done,” she said, noting that the group’s aim was to build a pipeline of candidates “that reflect, that look like America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight of the group’s alums ran in 2016, with 68 percent winning; 54 of their graduates are running in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigrants are seeking office in California, like Republican Cristina Osmeña, who is challenging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat, and Farrah Khan who is vying for a seat on the Irvine City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barriers to Running\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For NAL’s participants, the three most common barriers to running for office are: markers of immigrant identity (like race, religion, legal status, appearance), a lack of money or financial network, and no political experience or knowledge, Bhojwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group tells would-be candidates they have what it takes. And they stress the value of their backgrounds: “That the immigrant experience is an asset rather than a deficit,” she said. “The immigrant narrative as part of the American story is a critical underpinning of our training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Young Kim, a South Korean immigrant who came to California via Guam and Hawaii. A Republican running for the (mostly) Orange County congressional seat now held by retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce. She already served in the State Assembly and if Kim wins this time, she will become the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said she \u003cem>wants\u003c/em> people to know she is an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very diverse district, which I think I understand having come from all different areas,” she said. “I know how hard it is to adjust and assimilate into a new country ... I can bring all of those different perspectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, her immigration policy would be shaped around what her constituents want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people will say because Young Kim is a Republican that I will go automatically with our Republican leadership or (what our) platform says,” she said “I am running as my own person because my district needs a representative who understands what our needs are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/youngkim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican candidate for US Congress Young Kim, 55, (R) takes a selfie with a supporter outside her campaign office in Yorba Linda, California, October 6, 2018. Kim, who immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in 1975, would be the first Korean-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives if she defeats her Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros in the race for the open seat in California's 39th Congressional District which includes parts of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. \u003ccite>( ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Alcantar, who is running for Cudahy City Council in L.A. County, talks with voters about her parents’ experiences in the U.S. as immigrants and her own as a second-generation American -- which mirror that of many in her mostly Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not see myself getting into city council being the end game,” said Alcantar, 25. “It's just the beginning of getting more young immigrant women in office -- here in Cudahy, but also in all the region here in the southeast. We need more of our own folks in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Represent Those Caravans to People’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened to Betty Valencia on the campaign trail wasn’t an isolated case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrah Khan, who came to the U.S. at three years-old from Pakistan with her mom in 1974, is one of five immigrants running for Irvine City Council this year after losing her first bid for a seat on it in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both campaigns, negative attacks falsely claimed she was associated with terrorist organizations. In her first run, those attacks were made in mailers. This time, they’ve moved onto social media, said Khan, 46, executive director of a nonprofit and interfaith council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're running for local office and it's something that you care about ... your neighborhoods, your neighbors,” said Khan, who is Muslim and a mother of four kids. “Race and religion has no place here. ... And so when they bring this into the picture it makes you kind of think twice like, ‘Is that really how some people see you?’ Before they even get to know you, are you already judged by the way you look or by the name that you have?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another immigrant candidate in Southern California has come under similar attacks: Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar who is challenging Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter. Hunter, who is under federal indictment for misusing campaign funds, has falsely claimed that Campa-Najjar is a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699097/indicted-rep-duncan-hunter-calls-his-opponent-a-muslim-infiltrator\">Muslim trying to “infiltrate” \u003c/a>\u003c/span>Congress. In fact, he is a Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant candidates in the past have faced a lot of discrimination, said Christabel Cruz, director of national education for women's leadership at the Center for American Women in Politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing, I think, more and more in this particular political climate ... discriminatory practices and language -- really hate speech in terms of characterization of immigrant candidates,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut-520x389.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Valencia_Screen-Shot-qut.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia, a candidate for Orange City Council, says this is an email she received asking about her immigration status. \u003ccite>(Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As “his rhetoric increases, we are feeling it,” Valencia, 47, said of President Trump. “I represent those caravans to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said the backlash against immigrant candidates may also be because more of them are running for office: “The more people fighting for their representation, the stronger the resistance to that representation is going to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the reason a number of the immigrants interviewed by KQED said they were running: representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘There’s No One in City Council That Looks Like Me’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said she decided to run for city council at 11:33 p.m. on April 10, 2018. That’s when the council passed a resolution saying it would seek to block enforcement of SB54 -- California’s sanctuary law -- pending a lawsuit brought by the federal government challenging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, Valencia looked at the councilmembers and thought: \"You are in my seat.\" “There’s no one in city council that looks like me,” said Valencia, who also identifies as a lesbian Latina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that unless someone like me -- with my perspective, my experience, my background -- was sitting there, that the population we have in the city of Orange -- which we have a high population of immigrants -- would not have a voice, would not have protection or would not even be counted,” said Valencia. “I wanted to make sure that at least I could use my voice to help others not feel the way I felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jaya Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento, representation is a driving factor, too. But she’s shied away from saying that’s why people should vote for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, with everything on the national forefront, I don't want the narrative to be a school board member wants to be known for her cultural heritage. And, because there is a growing body of Indian American or cultural ethnically Indian or South Asian students, therefore we should vote for her,” said Badiga, 44. “But that is a huge part of my identity. So there has been talk in the community from some members on the board that they're glad to see representation from the community. And I reciprocate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JB-Backpack-drive-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaya Badiga, center in white shirt, with supporters. Badiga, a 44-year-old immigrant from India and naturalized citizen, is running for Folsom Cordova Unified School District near Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Jaya Badiga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All It Takes Is One Person to Win’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Muslim women vying for seats in Michigan and Minnesota could become the first elected to Congress -- and that is “inspiring for people even if they lost,” said Bhojwani of NAL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest reason that we're going to continue to see a growth in the number of immigrant and newcomers candidates is because they're going to be inspired by the people who have run this year and are winning,” she said. “All it takes is one person to win to make people feel that it's possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the campaign event in the park, where Valencia said the woman threatened her, a woman wearing a T-shirt reading “Be kind” approached her: “She says she came to meet me because she supported me and because she thinks it's time that we become a more inclusive community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That -- and other support from the community -- gave Valencia hope after the troubling incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a little bit to regroup, to re-energize and to refocus and say that our message continues: that we're going to stay positive, that I belong here just as anybody else and that I'm qualified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated to clarify information provided by New American Leaders on Cristina Osmeña, who isn't an alumni of their program.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Record numbers of women have been energized to get involved in politics since the 2016 presidential election. KQED decided to help tell those women’s stories and asked our audience to join us in this endeavor we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>.” We chose four women across the state to share their experiences with us, checking in with them over the course of their campaigns.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Before the polls close on Tuesday, these candidates reflect on the lessons they’ve learned on their first campaign. Here are some highlights from their journey, (and for more stories, check out the audio for each candidate):\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689429/youre-in-my-seat-betty-valencias-run-for-orange-city-council\">\u003cstrong>Betty Valencia is running for Orange City Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-800x656.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Valencia (right) with a supporter in the city of Orange, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-800x656.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-1020x837.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-1200x984.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-1180x968.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-960x788.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-240x197.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-375x308.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-520x427.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia (right) with a supporter in the city of Orange, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As an immigrant, Latina, queer candidate, I expected some resistance. I was not, however, prepared for the extent of some of the comments … I was told I was a cancer. I was told I was poison. Those are hard things to to take when you really have a mission and a goal: to to be the best you can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694330/every-day-is-an-emotional-roller-coaster-aisha-wahabs-run-for-hayward-city-council\">\u003cstrong>Aisha Wahab is running for Hayward City Council\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_1809-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Aisha Wahab is running for Hayward City Council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aisha Wahab is running for Hayward City Council. \u003ccite>(Jack Owicki)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had our car broken into. We’ve had some incredibly insensitive comments made to us. You’re targeted for what other people perceive you to be … The reality is that you know who you are, you know why you went into these campaigns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691826/from-loan-officer-to-candidate-the-ups-and-downs-of-janelle-hornes-first-campaign\">Janelle Horne is running for recorder-clerk in El Dorado County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janelle Horne is making her inaugural bid for recorder clerk in El Dorado County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle Horne is making her inaugural bid for recorder clerk in El Dorado County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janelle Horne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My opponent’s campaign, however, has gone down the negative road and it’s very disappointing. But my message is very strong and we are sticking to it and we have. I’ve informed my supporters and my committee that we will not go down that road because it is all about public service not politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693499/theres-nothing-comparable-to-being-a-candidate-myel-jenkins-runs-for-her-local-school-board\">Myel Jenkins is running for San Juan Unified School District Board in Sacramento County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-800x1204.jpg\" alt=\"Myel Jenkins\" width=\"800\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-800x1204.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-1020x1535.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-797x1200.jpg 797w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-1180x1776.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-960x1445.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-375x564.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-520x783.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myel Jenkins \u003ccite>(Courtesy Myel Jenkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m strong I’m fierce. I have an opinion. I have a voice. I can help make change. And that has been so empowering. So no matter what the results are on Nov. 6, this has been transformative.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Record numbers of women have been energized to get involved in politics since the 2016 presidential election. KQED decided to help tell those women’s stories and asked our audience to join us in this endeavor we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>.” We chose four women across the state to share their experiences with us, checking in with them over the course of their campaigns.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Before the polls close on Tuesday, these candidates reflect on the lessons they’ve learned on their first campaign. Here are some highlights from their journey, (and for more stories, check out the audio for each candidate):\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689429/youre-in-my-seat-betty-valencias-run-for-orange-city-council\">\u003cstrong>Betty Valencia is running for Orange City Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-800x656.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Valencia (right) with a supporter in the city of Orange, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-800x656.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-1020x837.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-1200x984.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-1180x968.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-960x788.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-240x197.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-375x308.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BettyV-520x427.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Valencia (right) with a supporter in the city of Orange, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Valencia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As an immigrant, Latina, queer candidate, I expected some resistance. I was not, however, prepared for the extent of some of the comments … I was told I was a cancer. I was told I was poison. Those are hard things to to take when you really have a mission and a goal: to to be the best you can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694330/every-day-is-an-emotional-roller-coaster-aisha-wahabs-run-for-hayward-city-council\">\u003cstrong>Aisha Wahab is running for Hayward City Council\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_1809-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Aisha Wahab is running for Hayward City Council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aisha Wahab is running for Hayward City Council. \u003ccite>(Jack Owicki)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had our car broken into. We’ve had some incredibly insensitive comments made to us. You’re targeted for what other people perceive you to be … The reality is that you know who you are, you know why you went into these campaigns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691826/from-loan-officer-to-candidate-the-ups-and-downs-of-janelle-hornes-first-campaign\">Janelle Horne is running for recorder-clerk in El Dorado County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janelle Horne is making her inaugural bid for recorder clerk in El Dorado County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/horne-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle Horne is making her inaugural bid for recorder clerk in El Dorado County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janelle Horne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My opponent’s campaign, however, has gone down the negative road and it’s very disappointing. But my message is very strong and we are sticking to it and we have. I’ve informed my supporters and my committee that we will not go down that road because it is all about public service not politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693499/theres-nothing-comparable-to-being-a-candidate-myel-jenkins-runs-for-her-local-school-board\">Myel Jenkins is running for San Juan Unified School District Board in Sacramento County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-800x1204.jpg\" alt=\"Myel Jenkins\" width=\"800\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-800x1204.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-1020x1535.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-797x1200.jpg 797w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-1180x1776.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-960x1445.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-375x564.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut-520x783.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32921_Copy-of-low-res_jenkins-family-55-qut.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myel Jenkins \u003ccite>(Courtesy Myel Jenkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m strong I’m fierce. I have an opinion. I have a voice. I can help make change. And that has been so empowering. So no matter what the results are on Nov. 6, this has been transformative.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>A record number of women are running for political office in 2018. KQED's series \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>\" focuses on a handful of candidates from California, who are gunning for seats in everything from city council to Congress. We brought together two candidates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SamParcherCPCSD/\">Sam Parcher\u003c/a>, a 28-year-old high school teacher, and \u003ca href=\"https://barbaralearyca.org/\">Barbara Leary\u003c/a>, a retired 69-year-old nurse practitioner, to talk about their experience on the campaign trail. Parcher is running for Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors and Leary for Folsom City Council.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> I've been involved in politics since I was very young and my mother worked for a candidate that was running for state assembly and then senate in the South Bay. I used to accompany her walking precincts when I was about 10 years old. I've been involved in a lot of campaigns ever since then because that became my passion in addition to my regular job and being a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher: \u003c/strong>You've been involved in politics for a long time. Is this your first time running for office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> Yeah. I have considered running for office before I worked as a nurse practitioner at the local major trauma center, UC Davis, for 31 years and during that time I was also a single mom. I was very active in my community though because we had a lot of issues surrounding development and I decided to get involved at that level in my town. I also have supported a number of different candidates in our area who I felt had more progressive values than the ones that were currently in office. So my hobby has been, in addition to being a nurse practitioner and a mom, to get involved in local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> I'm kind of finding a lot of pressure being a new mom. My daughter is seven months old now and I’m working full-time finding that balance — that work-life-politics balance. Do you have any tips or how did you get through it? How did you survive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> I survived because I really enjoyed doing the work and trying to make changes in my community. I like talking to people. It actually became my social life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was coming home from work and my daughter would come with me to a meeting when she was really young. Later, she would be having a ballet class or horseback riding class and I would be, you know, dropping her off there and then going to a meeting and then coming back later and picking her up.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The best part is when you're canvassing, you find someone home, and they want to have a conversation.\"\u003ccite>Barbara Leary, candidate for Folsom City Council. \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She did spend a considerable amount of time in the back of Folsom City Hall doing homework if I didn't have somewhere else for her to be or couldn't find a babysitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She always said, “I hate all that political mumbo jumbo.” But she's gone on to go to law school and is currently an attorney working for the League of California cities and is very involved in the political mumbo jumbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> So what made you decide to run for office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> I would say a few different factors really motivated me. I've always been interested in politics — kind of very similar to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family's been politically motivated. My grandma and my mom both campaigned for John F. Kennedy back in the day. It was kind of the same picture that you were painting — my grandmother bringing my mom along to do those types of things. And it's always really fascinated me. I also volunteered for campaigns throughout high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703148\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11703148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Parcher, 28, is a first-time candidate for political office. \u003ccite>(Sam Parcher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently I have — with how divisive politics have become — really felt like I needed to be more involved. I can't say that things are bad without actually doing everything in my power to change them. And that's something that I tell my students — I'm a high school teacher, an English teacher — all the time. One voice, one person can have a big effect on society. That's what my entire senior English curriculum is about. I felt a little hypocritical saying that without really doing anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those factors plus becoming a new mom caring about how the community would affect my daughter and where I'm raising her, all sort of formed into this perfect storm of me being interested in politics and me wanting to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn't confident enough in myself for like a state position so I decided to start with my community. You know, all politics start local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> It wasn't a surprise to my family that I was going to run. I think they thought that I was already involved in so many other things that I wouldn't have time to do it. The other groups that I'm involved with have kind of been put on the back burner while I'm undertaking this. My daughter has been a great help. She's my proofreader and she has also been out now knocking on doors with me. So it's been a good experience for her as well. I'm hoping at some point she decides to run for office as well because I think she would be great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> That's fantastic. I know that for me telling my family that I was going to run more surprised them I think than in your situation. My daughter was four months old at the at the time that I decided to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"One voice — one person — can have a big effect on society.\" \u003ccite>Sam Parcher, candidate for Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors. \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I just came out and told my parents I said, “Hey, I think I'm going to run for CSD.” And they were like, “Well No. 1, why? But, No. 2, how?” Having a newborn, and I had just gone back to work at the time, I think they were more concerned with my getting burnt out. They also have been a huge support in helping to shift things around. I take the baby with me when I canvas. It's nice. We walk. She goes in her stroller and she just comes along with me, which is pretty fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is your campaign going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703149\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11703149 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Leary, 69, is a first-time candidate for political office. \u003ccite>(Barbara Leary)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> The campaign has its ups and downs. That's for sure. Working on the other campaigns is a lot easier than working on your own campaign and I'm my own campaign manager. I developed all of my materials for printing. I've set up my own website, set up my own Facebook page. I've learned a lot of technical skills that I didn't have before although I have been on Facebook for a while. Everything else was a little bit more challenging. I really enjoy canvassing. The best part is when you find someone home and they want to have a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's days when I feel really down, like, \u003cem>oh my gosh I wish this was over — when is it going to be Nov. 6?\u003c/em> And then there's other days where I feel more energized. I think that's pretty common among most of the other candidates that I've talked to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the really important things to do is to continue to stay involved even if you don't win. That's clearly my goal if I don't win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've had issues that have been brought to me during this whole process that I'm willing to continue to work on for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young person, I think it's really important to see — if you don't get elected — if you can get appointed to some other kind of board or commission or start a group in your area that involves more of the local people up there. The next time you run, which I'm thinking you should do, you will have more support, a broader base to work from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> That's a wonderful idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for this conversation. There are days where it feels like it's too much and hearing and seeing you being living proof that you can do it all and you can evoke change while being a good mom and having time for your daughter, it means a lot to me. My advice to you is to keep going, keep making change. You seem to be so very involved in your community and it's very inspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for clarity, style and length.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>A record number of women are running for political office in 2018. KQED's series \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-long-run\">The Long Run\u003c/a>\" focuses on a handful of candidates from California, who are gunning for seats in everything from city council to Congress. We brought together two candidates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SamParcherCPCSD/\">Sam Parcher\u003c/a>, a 28-year-old high school teacher, and \u003ca href=\"https://barbaralearyca.org/\">Barbara Leary\u003c/a>, a retired 69-year-old nurse practitioner, to talk about their experience on the campaign trail. Parcher is running for Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors and Leary for Folsom City Council.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> I've been involved in politics since I was very young and my mother worked for a candidate that was running for state assembly and then senate in the South Bay. I used to accompany her walking precincts when I was about 10 years old. I've been involved in a lot of campaigns ever since then because that became my passion in addition to my regular job and being a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher: \u003c/strong>You've been involved in politics for a long time. Is this your first time running for office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> Yeah. I have considered running for office before I worked as a nurse practitioner at the local major trauma center, UC Davis, for 31 years and during that time I was also a single mom. I was very active in my community though because we had a lot of issues surrounding development and I decided to get involved at that level in my town. I also have supported a number of different candidates in our area who I felt had more progressive values than the ones that were currently in office. So my hobby has been, in addition to being a nurse practitioner and a mom, to get involved in local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> I'm kind of finding a lot of pressure being a new mom. My daughter is seven months old now and I’m working full-time finding that balance — that work-life-politics balance. Do you have any tips or how did you get through it? How did you survive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> I survived because I really enjoyed doing the work and trying to make changes in my community. I like talking to people. It actually became my social life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was coming home from work and my daughter would come with me to a meeting when she was really young. Later, she would be having a ballet class or horseback riding class and I would be, you know, dropping her off there and then going to a meeting and then coming back later and picking her up.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The best part is when you're canvassing, you find someone home, and they want to have a conversation.\"\u003ccite>Barbara Leary, candidate for Folsom City Council. \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She did spend a considerable amount of time in the back of Folsom City Hall doing homework if I didn't have somewhere else for her to be or couldn't find a babysitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She always said, “I hate all that political mumbo jumbo.” But she's gone on to go to law school and is currently an attorney working for the League of California cities and is very involved in the political mumbo jumbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> So what made you decide to run for office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> I would say a few different factors really motivated me. I've always been interested in politics — kind of very similar to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family's been politically motivated. My grandma and my mom both campaigned for John F. Kennedy back in the day. It was kind of the same picture that you were painting — my grandmother bringing my mom along to do those types of things. And it's always really fascinated me. I also volunteered for campaigns throughout high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703148\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11703148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/parcher_sign-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Parcher, 28, is a first-time candidate for political office. \u003ccite>(Sam Parcher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently I have — with how divisive politics have become — really felt like I needed to be more involved. I can't say that things are bad without actually doing everything in my power to change them. And that's something that I tell my students — I'm a high school teacher, an English teacher — all the time. One voice, one person can have a big effect on society. That's what my entire senior English curriculum is about. I felt a little hypocritical saying that without really doing anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those factors plus becoming a new mom caring about how the community would affect my daughter and where I'm raising her, all sort of formed into this perfect storm of me being interested in politics and me wanting to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn't confident enough in myself for like a state position so I decided to start with my community. You know, all politics start local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> It wasn't a surprise to my family that I was going to run. I think they thought that I was already involved in so many other things that I wouldn't have time to do it. The other groups that I'm involved with have kind of been put on the back burner while I'm undertaking this. My daughter has been a great help. She's my proofreader and she has also been out now knocking on doors with me. So it's been a good experience for her as well. I'm hoping at some point she decides to run for office as well because I think she would be great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> That's fantastic. I know that for me telling my family that I was going to run more surprised them I think than in your situation. My daughter was four months old at the at the time that I decided to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"One voice — one person — can have a big effect on society.\" \u003ccite>Sam Parcher, candidate for Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors. \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I just came out and told my parents I said, “Hey, I think I'm going to run for CSD.” And they were like, “Well No. 1, why? But, No. 2, how?” Having a newborn, and I had just gone back to work at the time, I think they were more concerned with my getting burnt out. They also have been a huge support in helping to shift things around. I take the baby with me when I canvas. It's nice. We walk. She goes in her stroller and she just comes along with me, which is pretty fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is your campaign going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703149\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11703149 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/leary-qut-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Leary, 69, is a first-time candidate for political office. \u003ccite>(Barbara Leary)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leary:\u003c/strong> The campaign has its ups and downs. That's for sure. Working on the other campaigns is a lot easier than working on your own campaign and I'm my own campaign manager. I developed all of my materials for printing. I've set up my own website, set up my own Facebook page. I've learned a lot of technical skills that I didn't have before although I have been on Facebook for a while. Everything else was a little bit more challenging. I really enjoy canvassing. The best part is when you find someone home and they want to have a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's days when I feel really down, like, \u003cem>oh my gosh I wish this was over — when is it going to be Nov. 6?\u003c/em> And then there's other days where I feel more energized. I think that's pretty common among most of the other candidates that I've talked to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the really important things to do is to continue to stay involved even if you don't win. That's clearly my goal if I don't win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've had issues that have been brought to me during this whole process that I'm willing to continue to work on for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young person, I think it's really important to see — if you don't get elected — if you can get appointed to some other kind of board or commission or start a group in your area that involves more of the local people up there. The next time you run, which I'm thinking you should do, you will have more support, a broader base to work from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parcher:\u003c/strong> That's a wonderful idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for this conversation. There are days where it feels like it's too much and hearing and seeing you being living proof that you can do it all and you can evoke change while being a good mom and having time for your daughter, it means a lot to me. My advice to you is to keep going, keep making change. 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"content": "\u003cp>At the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvXo4yP3Wjk\">She the People\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSDAWmuwSIw\">summit in San Francisco\u003c/a>, hundreds of women clapped and cheered as the organization’s founder, Aimee Allison, ran through a list of women of color who she said are bringing excitement to the 2018 elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Stacey Abrams, who will be the first black woman governor in history, (in) Georgia,” Allison said. “It’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who beat a 10-term Democrat in New York.” The list went on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"She the People founder Aimee Allison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33026_Aimee-Allison-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She the People founder Aimee Allison. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Summit organizers billed the event as the first-ever gathering for women of color in politics. Allison said women of color are often among the most progressive in the country, yet are the least represented in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracy was not built for us,” she said. “But women of color for centuries have been part of expanding the definition of who matters and whose voice matters and how democracy functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, despite the work they do, Allison said women of color still have difficulty getting through primaries and being elected to office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696086\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696086\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tracie Stafford is running for Mayor of Elk Grove, CA\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33027_Tracie-canvassing-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracie Stafford is running for Mayor of Elk Grove, CA \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tracie Stafford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tracie Stafford is running for Mayor of Elk Grove, near Sacramento. She said some people have negative perceptions about her just because she’s a black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to be difficult, that I am somehow not articulate or not intelligent,” Stafford said. “And that’s the worst when someone tells me, ‘you are so intelligent.’ They don’t understand that that means the assumption was I wasn’t. So not only is it painful, but it’s insulting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stafford said she’s faced racist attacks online and in person. The experience has been stressful and exhausting. But she said she feels called to run and to help her city grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696089\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Harris is running for Oakland City Council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33022_Pam-Harris-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Harris is running for Oakland City Council. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pam Harris felt her voice needed to be heard, too. As a lesbian of color Harris is running for Oakland City Council. She became involved with the state Democratic party after the 2016 election and met several elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just normal people, like you and me, and yet they’re making policy and they’re bringing in a particular lens and a particular experience to a seat of power,” Harris said. “People like me should have that opportunity, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most challenging part of her campaign, according to Harris, has been raising money. She said being a woman of color makes it that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to get a call back sometimes. It’s hard to get people to believe in you, to come in early,” Harris said. “Once you start gaining steam and traction people then want to get behind you. But breaking through is really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said she feels like she’s gaining momentum in her race. And “She The People” founder Aimee Allison said so are women across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In places like Florida, Georgia, Texas and Arizona, these are places Trump won, when women of color are empowered, both as candidates, but as strategists and organizers, which is a key part of this, we can win,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court, women were already mobilized. The recent allegations of sexual assault against him could throw that into high gear — and women candidates of color could be among those who benefit. A\u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2574\"> recent Quinnipiac poll\u003c/a> found 81 percent of African-American voters and 65 percent of Hispanic voters opposed confirming Kavanaugh.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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