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She organizes merchandise and attends customers at a Barrio Logan grocery store. Her mother has heart problems, and uses the money to survive in the southern Mexican state of Jalisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I send her $400 every two weeks,” said Gomez, who lives in San Diego and has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. \"I provide for my mother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families.'\u003ccite>Teresa Gomez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that money -- known as remittances -- may soon be in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">threatened to target remittances\u003c/a> as a way of forcing Mexico to pay for his planned border wall, which will cost anywhere between $5 billion and $25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez doesn’t think that would be fair. She’s a U.S. citizen as well as a Mexican one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you going to punish so many citizens who come as workers, with good thoughts and acts in this country?” Gomez asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.' \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remittances to Mexico reached a\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/remittances-to-mexico-hit-record-27-billion-in-2016-1485978810\"> record $27 billion\u003c/a> last year, representing the largest source of foreign income for the country after auto exports. Immigrants in California sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/may/06/california-leads-increase-remittances-mexico-us/\">the largest chunk\u003c/a>, $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez, a single woman, said she wouldn’t be able to afford a tax on remittances. She rents a small room in a Barrio Logan apartment, where she lives with her talkative conure parrot, Kiko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MbA9H8q0GiRL6GdNdB2b0EqfsDXG0f4q\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is one of millions of Mexicans in the U.S. who send money to relatives south of the border. She sends the money through a small money-transfer shop, El Frijolito, which charges a fee of $5 or $10, depending on the desired exchange rate. Others use larger transfer organizations such as Western Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent surge in remittances was due in part to fears about Trump’s threats. The owner of El Frijolito, Mariceli Castro, said money transfers surged the day after Trump became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lines were all the way to the door. People were sending large quantities of money. A lot of people were selling everything they had in the bank,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump targets remittances, it would be devastating for her business and her clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of (my customers) have an honest job, earning money with the sweat of their foreheads just so they can send it home,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Hu-b__o0Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Targeting remittances may be trickier than Trump has outlined \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">in his campaign memos.\u003c/a> Policy experts have said that a tax on remittances would unnecessarily hurt all money transfers to Mexico, including those by Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have to be broadly applied -- it would be, basically, a tax on electronic transfers,” said Gordon Hanson, dean of UC San Diego’s \u003ca href=\"https://gps.ucsd.edu/\">School of Global Policy and Strategy\u003c/a>. “The thing is, what’s the difference between an electronic transfer that is a remittance versus a transfer between two business entities? On paper, they look identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson said a tax or ban on remittances would be devastating for Mexican-Americans and the San Diego economy in general, not just people who are in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"E8kjIDUyr0x10HKePS2t4VsikJolrlpI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at our construction industry, you look at bars and restaurants and hotels (in) the San Diego tourist industry, go into any San Diego neighborhood, who is caring for yards, who is cleaning houses and providing child care?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez said she will find a way to send her mother the money she needs for medicines and food -- no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a human being, or rather, as a Mexican, nothing is impossible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If need be, Gomez could cross the border to transfer the money in Tijuana. She would have to contend with three- to four-hour wait times at the ports of entry, but she said it would be worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For immigrants who live far from the border, or who lack legal immigration status in the U.S., it’s more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City. \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marina is a 37-year-old immigrant who asked us to keep her identity secret for fear of deportation. She cleans houses and takes care of a 2-year-old girl, sending about $500 a month to her mother in Mexico City. She is also single.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never go out -- it’s rare for me to go watch a movie or eat with a friend because I’m always working,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she moved to the U.S. when she was 21 years old, in 1999, to support her mother, and that Trump’s threats scare her because her mother depends on her. She said she is afraid of going back to Mexico, where homicides rose by 22 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to my family, they tell me every day it’s worse. They’re even afraid to go out into the street because they killed someone here, they killed someone there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump wants to build a wall, he should build one. But she hopes he finds another way to pay for it, because she can’t afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect the new president because this is simply not my country,” she said. “But I’m not robbing money as some people say. I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Millions of immigrants support relatives in Mexico by sending cash. President Trump has threatened to tax that money as a way to pay for his border wall project.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1489013852,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1088},"headData":{"title":"Mexican Breadwinners Fear Paying for Trump's Border Wall | KQED","description":"Millions of immigrants support relatives in Mexico by sending cash. President Trump has threatened to tax that money as a way to pay for his border wall project.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mexican Breadwinners Fear Paying for Trump's Border Wall","datePublished":"2017-03-08T21:33:25.000Z","dateModified":"2017-03-08T22:57:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11350193 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11350193","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/mexican-breadwinners-fear-paying-for-trumps-border-wall/","disqusTitle":"Mexican Breadwinners Fear Paying for Trump's Border Wall","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-08c-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/staff/jean-guerrero/\">Jean Guerrero\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11350193/mexican-breadwinners-fear-paying-for-trumps-border-wall","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Fifty-year-old Teresa Gomez moved to the United States as a young woman with one goal: to support her aging mother in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Gomez has sent her mother a third of every paycheck. She organizes merchandise and attends customers at a Barrio Logan grocery store. Her mother has heart problems, and uses the money to survive in the southern Mexican state of Jalisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I send her $400 every two weeks,” said Gomez, who lives in San Diego and has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. \"I provide for my mother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families.'\u003ccite>Teresa Gomez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that money -- known as remittances -- may soon be in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">threatened to target remittances\u003c/a> as a way of forcing Mexico to pay for his planned border wall, which will cost anywhere between $5 billion and $25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez doesn’t think that would be fair. She’s a U.S. citizen as well as a Mexican one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you going to punish so many citizens who come as workers, with good thoughts and acts in this country?” Gomez asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.' \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remittances to Mexico reached a\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/remittances-to-mexico-hit-record-27-billion-in-2016-1485978810\"> record $27 billion\u003c/a> last year, representing the largest source of foreign income for the country after auto exports. Immigrants in California sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/may/06/california-leads-increase-remittances-mexico-us/\">the largest chunk\u003c/a>, $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez, a single woman, said she wouldn’t be able to afford a tax on remittances. She rents a small room in a Barrio Logan apartment, where she lives with her talkative conure parrot, Kiko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is one of millions of Mexicans in the U.S. who send money to relatives south of the border. She sends the money through a small money-transfer shop, El Frijolito, which charges a fee of $5 or $10, depending on the desired exchange rate. Others use larger transfer organizations such as Western Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent surge in remittances was due in part to fears about Trump’s threats. The owner of El Frijolito, Mariceli Castro, said money transfers surged the day after Trump became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lines were all the way to the door. People were sending large quantities of money. A lot of people were selling everything they had in the bank,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump targets remittances, it would be devastating for her business and her clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of (my customers) have an honest job, earning money with the sweat of their foreheads just so they can send it home,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/P-Hu-b__o0Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/P-Hu-b__o0Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Targeting remittances may be trickier than Trump has outlined \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">in his campaign memos.\u003c/a> Policy experts have said that a tax on remittances would unnecessarily hurt all money transfers to Mexico, including those by Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have to be broadly applied -- it would be, basically, a tax on electronic transfers,” said Gordon Hanson, dean of UC San Diego’s \u003ca href=\"https://gps.ucsd.edu/\">School of Global Policy and Strategy\u003c/a>. “The thing is, what’s the difference between an electronic transfer that is a remittance versus a transfer between two business entities? On paper, they look identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson said a tax or ban on remittances would be devastating for Mexican-Americans and the San Diego economy in general, not just people who are in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at our construction industry, you look at bars and restaurants and hotels (in) the San Diego tourist industry, go into any San Diego neighborhood, who is caring for yards, who is cleaning houses and providing child care?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez said she will find a way to send her mother the money she needs for medicines and food -- no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a human being, or rather, as a Mexican, nothing is impossible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If need be, Gomez could cross the border to transfer the money in Tijuana. She would have to contend with three- to four-hour wait times at the ports of entry, but she said it would be worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For immigrants who live far from the border, or who lack legal immigration status in the U.S., it’s more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City. \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marina is a 37-year-old immigrant who asked us to keep her identity secret for fear of deportation. She cleans houses and takes care of a 2-year-old girl, sending about $500 a month to her mother in Mexico City. She is also single.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never go out -- it’s rare for me to go watch a movie or eat with a friend because I’m always working,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she moved to the U.S. when she was 21 years old, in 1999, to support her mother, and that Trump’s threats scare her because her mother depends on her. She said she is afraid of going back to Mexico, where homicides rose by 22 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to my family, they tell me every day it’s worse. They’re even afraid to go out into the street because they killed someone here, they killed someone there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump wants to build a wall, he should build one. But she hopes he finds another way to pay for it, because she can’t afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect the new president because this is simply not my country,” she said. “But I’m not robbing money as some people say. I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11350193/mexican-breadwinners-fear-paying-for-trumps-border-wall","authors":["byline_news_11350193"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20446","news_19217","news_1323","news_17286"],"affiliates":["news_7054"],"featImg":"news_11350349","label":"news_72"},"news_11166784":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11166784","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11166784","score":null,"sort":[1478732296000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-remains-blue-but-a-little-purple-creeps-in","title":"California Remains Blue, But a Little Purple Creeps In","publishDate":1478732296,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For a political party that was portrayed as a chaotic mess, supposedly feeling the tightening grip of \u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/people/lisa-garc%C3%ADa-bedolla\" target=\"_blank\">inhospitable demographics\u003c/a>, Republicans sure are doing pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Donald Trump, a man whose candidacy was once covered by the Huffington Post in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-note-about-our-coverage-of-donald-trumps-campaign_us_55a8fc9ce4b0896514d0fd66\" target=\"_blank\">entertainment section\u003c/a>, will now ascend to what is commonly referred to as the most powerful job in the world. He will appoint at least one Supreme Court justice, who will likely tilt the court right again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conventional wisdom once had Trump dragging his party into a vortex of steep electoral losses and internecine warfare. But in the Senate, the GOP held its majority, losing no more than two seats. In the House, as of this morning, Democrats had picked up just five seats, nowhere near enough to propel them into a majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are We Blue?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Free State of California, where only 26 percent of voters are registered Republican, things proceeded mostly as normal, though voters sent out mixed messages on just how far they were willing to go to preserve and extend the state as a Democratic and progressive wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Liberals, however, did not run the table.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clinton did defeat Trump in the state by nearly 2-1. But voters did not turn out for Hillary Clinton the way they twice did for Obama. Clinton received almost 1 million fewer \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/california/\" target=\"_blank\">votes\u003c/a> in the state than Obama drew in \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/california/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 \u003c/a>and 2 million fewer than he received in \u003ca href=\"http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/states/california.html\" target=\"_blank\">2008\u003c/a>. Walking around the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights the last few days, the only \"Hillary\" signs I saw were for Hillary Ronen, a candidate for District 9 supervisor. The lack of turnout for Clinton in California was part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/hillary-clintons-campaign-was-crippled-by-voters-who-stayed-home/\" target=\"_blank\">national trend\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how we're going to explain that,\" Salon's Joan Walsh said on KQED Forum this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Kamala Harris, the daughter of an Indian-American mother and a Jamaican-American father, easily defeated Loretta Sanchez, another Democrat. Harris will be just the second woman of black heritage to serve in the United States Senate. (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Moseley_Braun\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Moseley Braun \u003c/a>was the other.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also approved an array of liberal-minded measures, the most high profile of which is Proposition 64, the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">legalization of marijuana\u003c/a> for recreational use. A similar measure failed in 2010. Proposition 55, an extension of income tax increases on high-income earners, also sailed to victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11167174\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11167174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"A recent illustration from KQED's Drawn to the Bay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1180x1180.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-960x960.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent illustration from KQED's Drawn to the Bay. \u003ccite>(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tax was first approved in 2012, when Gov. Jerry Brown gave it the hard sell as a way to help the state cope with a severe revenue shortfall after the financial crisis. At the time, the state GOP hewed to the anti-tax orthodoxy of activist Grover Norquist, who had been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/10/in-budget-battle-brown-locks-horns-with-the-big-daddy-of-tax-cutters-grover-norquist/\" target=\"_blank\">involved\u003c/a> in Brown's failure to extend some taxes a couple of years earlier. The vote by the public to raise taxes on itself circumvented those legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians also voted to raise the cigarette tax and to roll back a 1998 \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">requirement that schools teach all students in only English unless parents obtained a waiver. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Californians went to the ballot over bullets, bucking the NRA by enacting a series of strict gun control measures. The new restrictions\u003cb> \u003c/b>set up a process by which convicted felons must surrender their firearms, ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of bullets and require background checks to purchase ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we look at all of the ballot measures, the fact that we’re electing a woman of color to be our U.S. senator, a Democrat,\" UC Berkeley professor\u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/people/lisa-garc%C3%ADa-bedolla\" target=\"_blank\"> Lisa Garcia Bedolla \u003c/a>told KQED last night. \"You look at all the ballot measures — the tax measures have passed, we’ve legalized marijuana, we’re pushing gun control, so really a policy prescription that is very different from what the rest of the country is pushing for. It's really a reflection of the diversity of our state, and where we are politically and have been for the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberals, however, did not run the table. A repeal of the state's death penalty was \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-election-aftermath-updates-trail-measure-to-speed-up-the-death-penalty-1478701890-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">rejected\u003c/a>, while a measure that would expedite the process and result in quicker executions is currently leading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state Legislature, the Democrats appeared to fall short in their attempt to regain a supermajority. That would have allowed Democrats to raise taxes and put constitutional amendments on the ballot without a single Republican crossing lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, though, moderate, pro-business Democrats from swing districts would have made that difficult. When \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats enjoyed a supermajority from the Obama election of 2012 to early 2014, the party did not run tax-and-spend wild.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"As the Legislature finds a center where centrist Republicans and centrist Democrats can find common ground, the common wisdom is that if you’re a Democrat you’ll vote for taxes is not the case,” state Sen. Steve Glazer told KQED in October.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also heartening to the state GOP: Some House Republicans who were considered endangered managed to hold on. Those include Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20161109/election-2016-gops-knight-wins-re-election-in-25th-district-race\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Knight\u003c/a>, of Santa Clarita; \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/news/20161108/mcnerney-denham-win-in-congressional-rematches\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a>, of Turlock; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-congressional-races-roundup-20161109-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. David Valadao\u003c/a>, of Hanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/elections/sd-me-election-issa-20161106-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Darrell Issa\u003c/a> of San Diego County, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/11/darrell-issa-subpoenas_n_5578771.html\" target=\"_blank\">subpoena-happy\u003c/a> chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for four years, is still holding a lead in a very tight race against political neophyte Doug Applegate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who\u003ca href=\"http://www.gavinnewsom.com/\"> is running for governor\u003c/a>, tried to put a positive spin on the night at a rally:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"Be proud of this place you call home. It’s a magical place. A state we love to say of dreamers, doers, of entrepreneurs, of innovators, that has long prided itself and tonight we reinforce that of being on the leading and cutting edge. If Trump wins, it’s the last vestige of the past. The last gasp of the past.\"\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that Rep. Darrell Issa is still leading in a tight race.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Predictably, Clinton defeated Trump in California by nearly 2-1. But despite approving several progressive measures, the state's voters sent out mixed messages on just how far they were willing to go.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478745088,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1030},"headData":{"title":"California Remains Blue, But a Little Purple Creeps In | KQED","description":"Predictably, Clinton defeated Trump in California by nearly 2-1. But despite approving several progressive measures, the state's voters sent out mixed messages on just how far they were willing to go.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Remains Blue, But a Little Purple Creeps In","datePublished":"2016-11-09T22:58:16.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-10T02:31:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11166784 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11166784","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/09/california-remains-blue-but-a-little-purple-creeps-in/","disqusTitle":"California Remains Blue, But a Little Purple Creeps In","path":"/news/11166784/california-remains-blue-but-a-little-purple-creeps-in","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For a political party that was portrayed as a chaotic mess, supposedly feeling the tightening grip of \u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/people/lisa-garc%C3%ADa-bedolla\" target=\"_blank\">inhospitable demographics\u003c/a>, Republicans sure are doing pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Donald Trump, a man whose candidacy was once covered by the Huffington Post in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-note-about-our-coverage-of-donald-trumps-campaign_us_55a8fc9ce4b0896514d0fd66\" target=\"_blank\">entertainment section\u003c/a>, will now ascend to what is commonly referred to as the most powerful job in the world. He will appoint at least one Supreme Court justice, who will likely tilt the court right again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conventional wisdom once had Trump dragging his party into a vortex of steep electoral losses and internecine warfare. But in the Senate, the GOP held its majority, losing no more than two seats. In the House, as of this morning, Democrats had picked up just five seats, nowhere near enough to propel them into a majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are We Blue?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Free State of California, where only 26 percent of voters are registered Republican, things proceeded mostly as normal, though voters sent out mixed messages on just how far they were willing to go to preserve and extend the state as a Democratic and progressive wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Liberals, however, did not run the table.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clinton did defeat Trump in the state by nearly 2-1. But voters did not turn out for Hillary Clinton the way they twice did for Obama. Clinton received almost 1 million fewer \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/california/\" target=\"_blank\">votes\u003c/a> in the state than Obama drew in \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/california/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 \u003c/a>and 2 million fewer than he received in \u003ca href=\"http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/states/california.html\" target=\"_blank\">2008\u003c/a>. Walking around the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights the last few days, the only \"Hillary\" signs I saw were for Hillary Ronen, a candidate for District 9 supervisor. The lack of turnout for Clinton in California was part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/hillary-clintons-campaign-was-crippled-by-voters-who-stayed-home/\" target=\"_blank\">national trend\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how we're going to explain that,\" Salon's Joan Walsh said on KQED Forum this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Kamala Harris, the daughter of an Indian-American mother and a Jamaican-American father, easily defeated Loretta Sanchez, another Democrat. Harris will be just the second woman of black heritage to serve in the United States Senate. (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Moseley_Braun\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Moseley Braun \u003c/a>was the other.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also approved an array of liberal-minded measures, the most high profile of which is Proposition 64, the \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">legalization of marijuana\u003c/a> for recreational use. A similar measure failed in 2010. Proposition 55, an extension of income tax increases on high-income earners, also sailed to victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11167174\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11167174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"A recent illustration from KQED's Drawn to the Bay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-1180x1180.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-960x960.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/morning_110816_final-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent illustration from KQED's Drawn to the Bay. \u003ccite>(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tax was first approved in 2012, when Gov. Jerry Brown gave it the hard sell as a way to help the state cope with a severe revenue shortfall after the financial crisis. At the time, the state GOP hewed to the anti-tax orthodoxy of activist Grover Norquist, who had been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/10/in-budget-battle-brown-locks-horns-with-the-big-daddy-of-tax-cutters-grover-norquist/\" target=\"_blank\">involved\u003c/a> in Brown's failure to extend some taxes a couple of years earlier. The vote by the public to raise taxes on itself circumvented those legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians also voted to raise the cigarette tax and to roll back a 1998 \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">requirement that schools teach all students in only English unless parents obtained a waiver. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Californians went to the ballot over bullets, bucking the NRA by enacting a series of strict gun control measures. The new restrictions\u003cb> \u003c/b>set up a process by which convicted felons must surrender their firearms, ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of bullets and require background checks to purchase ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we look at all of the ballot measures, the fact that we’re electing a woman of color to be our U.S. senator, a Democrat,\" UC Berkeley professor\u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/people/lisa-garc%C3%ADa-bedolla\" target=\"_blank\"> Lisa Garcia Bedolla \u003c/a>told KQED last night. \"You look at all the ballot measures — the tax measures have passed, we’ve legalized marijuana, we’re pushing gun control, so really a policy prescription that is very different from what the rest of the country is pushing for. It's really a reflection of the diversity of our state, and where we are politically and have been for the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberals, however, did not run the table. A repeal of the state's death penalty was \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-election-aftermath-updates-trail-measure-to-speed-up-the-death-penalty-1478701890-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">rejected\u003c/a>, while a measure that would expedite the process and result in quicker executions is currently leading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state Legislature, the Democrats appeared to fall short in their attempt to regain a supermajority. That would have allowed Democrats to raise taxes and put constitutional amendments on the ballot without a single Republican crossing lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, though, moderate, pro-business Democrats from swing districts would have made that difficult. When \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats enjoyed a supermajority from the Obama election of 2012 to early 2014, the party did not run tax-and-spend wild.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"As the Legislature finds a center where centrist Republicans and centrist Democrats can find common ground, the common wisdom is that if you’re a Democrat you’ll vote for taxes is not the case,” state Sen. Steve Glazer told KQED in October.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also heartening to the state GOP: Some House Republicans who were considered endangered managed to hold on. Those include Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20161109/election-2016-gops-knight-wins-re-election-in-25th-district-race\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Knight\u003c/a>, of Santa Clarita; \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/news/20161108/mcnerney-denham-win-in-congressional-rematches\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a>, of Turlock; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-congressional-races-roundup-20161109-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. David Valadao\u003c/a>, of Hanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/elections/sd-me-election-issa-20161106-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Darrell Issa\u003c/a> of San Diego County, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/11/darrell-issa-subpoenas_n_5578771.html\" target=\"_blank\">subpoena-happy\u003c/a> chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for four years, is still holding a lead in a very tight race against political neophyte Doug Applegate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who\u003ca href=\"http://www.gavinnewsom.com/\"> is running for governor\u003c/a>, tried to put a positive spin on the night at a rally:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"Be proud of this place you call home. It’s a magical place. A state we love to say of dreamers, doers, of entrepreneurs, of innovators, that has long prided itself and tonight we reinforce that of being on the leading and cutting edge. If Trump wins, it’s the last vestige of the past. The last gasp of the past.\"\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that Rep. Darrell Issa is still leading in a tight race.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11166784/california-remains-blue-but-a-little-purple-creeps-in","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_20165","news_19542","news_17286","news_17041","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11167318","label":"news_72"},"news_11076610":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11076610","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11076610","score":null,"sort":[1478674806000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt","title":"6 Ways Recreational Pot Will Change California -- and 7 Ways It Won't","publishDate":1478674806,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Californians have legalized recreational marijuana with the passage Proposition 64. It'll mean a big shift in the way the Golden State -- already the largest market for pot in the U.S. -- regulates marijuana. It could also mean big changes in enforcement, as well as the habits and health of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkpcc%2Fvideos%2F10153750058468016%2F&show_text=0&width=800\" width=\"800\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You won't be able to buy pot at every store\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First, you won't be able to purchase pot everywhere. Only specially licensed stores will be able to sell marijuana. The state will issue licenses to growers, distributors and sellers who will have to adhere to certain rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're 21 or older, you'll be able to buy and carry 28.5 grams (about one ounce) of marijuana flower, but if you're carrying marijuana extract the limit is 8 grams. And if you decide to grow your own marijuana you'll be able to cultivate up to six plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You won't be able to smoke marijuana everywhere\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Smoking in public will still be illegal, as will driving while high and smoking on school grounds — though enforcement, especially of \"driving while high,\" will \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/13/how-can-you-tell-if-a-driver-is-stoned/\" target=\"_blank\">present some big challenges to law enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you smoke somewhere you’re not allowed, you'll be subject to a fine of no more than $100 for the first offense. If you rack up more offenses, you could be slapped with higher fines, and possibly jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You'll know how strong different strains of pot are\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The new law will regulate how marijuana distributors disclose what's in their products. They'll look a lot like nutrition labels for pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packages of dried marijuana will be required to have the following information listed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Net weight of the marijuana\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The origin of the marijuana, the date of cultivation, source and type of marijuana\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The amount of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD) and other cannabinoids, listed in milligrams per serving\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Whether any solvents, non-organic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers were used\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For marijuana food products, the amount of THC in the product will need to be disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recreational pot shops won't open until January 2018\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The earliest you'll see pot shops catering to recreational users is January 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulatory system itself could take more than a year to get going, says Lynne Lyman, the director for California's Drug Policy Alliance and one of the people who helped write the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The piece that takes longer to come into implementation is the commercial regulation,\" Lyman says. \"The regulatory agency must start issuing licenses no later than January of 2018 ... [but] it's possible that it'll start earlier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There'll be very few marijuana-related arrests\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of misdemeanor and felony crimes relating to marijuana use and distribution has already fallen significantly, since a \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/schwarzenegger-signs-bill-reducing-offense-for-marijuana-possession.html\">2010 state bill reduced possession\u003c/a> of a small amount of pot from a misdemeanor to an infraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/infographics/misc-gifs/marijuana-special/CA-mj-misd-200.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those numbers will drop even further. The new law will essentially\u003ca href=\"http://chrisconrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Prop64chart.pdf\"> eliminate criminal penalties for adult personal use of marijuana\u003c/a>, and those changes would start immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The penalty reduction components take effect at midnight on November [9],\" says Lyman. \"Anybody who's currently in jail or prison or on parole or probation for a marijuana-related offense will be able to petition to have their sentence reduced ... and so that process might take a few months,\" says Lyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're carrying more than the allowed amounts of marijuana you can still be fined. And those who are operating commercially without a license can be fined. Repeat offenders could get jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will still be a felony to sell to minors, as well as to attempt the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/26/when-weed-explodes-and-why-you-shouldnt-try-this-at-home/\">dangerous process of home butane extraction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The black market won't go away overnight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>New regulations will likely make marijuana more expensive and pot will still be illegal for many of California's neighbors. The result: The black market will likely continue to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the biggest way in which the whole situation is out of touch with reality is pretending that states can do what they want without affecting other states,\" says Jon Caulkins a professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and author of \"Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California supplies much of the cannabis for the rest of the country. And as its production costs have been declining and presumably will decline further after legalization, that reduces prices and increases use all around the country. It's important to recognize just how compact marijuana is. A year's supply for a typical daily user weighs about as much as one 20-ounce can of beer. It's very hard to keep this stuff from flowing across borders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, don't count on Prop. 64 to do much to eliminate the black market, though it could make it much less attractive to risk arrest for cheaper weed, at least to Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>... Neither will drug-related crime\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't expect crime to drop either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the nation has legalized [pot], as long as you don't have super high taxes or other restrictions, then ... legal companies will out-compete criminals. Farmers are better at farming cannabis than crooks are,\" says Caulkins. \"But no, that won't really do much about drug-related crime because most drug-related crime is associated with cocaine, crack, heroin and meth, not marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, nothing you do with marijuana is going to really solve most of the drug-related crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11076615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Coalinga Police Chief Michael Salvador has been a police officer for 30 years. Salvador says for the past 20 years he's been dealing with the results of Prop. 215 passing – legalizing medical marijuana in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coalinga Police Chief Michael Salvador has been a police officer for 30 years. Salvador says for the past 20 years he's been dealing with the results of Prop. 215 passing – legalizing medical marijuana in California. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Driving while high will be illegal, but difficult to enforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Driving while high will officially be illegal, but drunken driving laws won't translate easily. It's tough to figure out exactly how intoxicated someone is, even if there's THC in their system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can be positive for THC a week after the last time you used cannabis,\" says Professor Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at New York University. \"Not subjectively impaired at all, not impaired at all by any objective measure, but still positive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the reverse is true as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can be very, very stoned and not have a very high level of THC actually apparent in the blood,\" says Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/13/how-can-you-tell-if-a-driver-is-stoned/\">Scientists are searching for new ways to solve that problem\u003c/a>, but it won't likely make a difference in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California's pot market will spike, and the state could make more than $1B in tax revenue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That's according to California's \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2815-0103%29.pdf?\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>, which took a look at Proposition 64 before it was officially on the ballot. The report also says that the state could save about $100 million in criminal justice costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers should be expected to pay at least 24 percent of the base price. There will be a 15 percent excise tax on top of California's 9 percent sales tax, as well as any additional tax that's levied by cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/infographics/misc-gifs/marijuana-special/ca-mj-market-40.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Frontier & ArcView Market Research, a pro-marijuana research and investment firm, estimates that California's recreational market could total $1.3 billion in 2018, the year California will likely start to see legal shops open up, if Prop. 64 passes. By 2020 they estimate that it could be worth nearly $4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Big Marijuana could be the next Big Tobacco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rise of legal recreational marijuana could bring in big players and mean the weaponization of marketing tactics to promote marijuana use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that you're going to see aggressive marketing by companies who know that their profits depend on selling to people who are daily or near-daily users,\" says Caulkins. The current illegal sale of marijuana is mostly a word-of-mouth campaign, he says. Now, imagine a whole industry of professional advertising focused on getting people to regularly use pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The illegal organizations [currently] don't place their products in Hollywood movies,\" he says. \"They don't have marketing executives with MBAs from high-powered business schools. I think there's going to be an unsettling side of the legal industry that's reminiscent of the tobacco industry 15-20 years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the long run, I think we're going to wonder why we thought it was a good idea to create a corporate sector for promoting use of another dependence-inducing intoxicant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It's unclear if there would be an uptick in teen use\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/outpost/show_segments/50828/edit\">According to KPCC's Rebecca Plevin\u003c/a>, \"In Colorado, which was the first state to legalize recreational pot, the state department of public health has collected some early data: The Healthy Kids Colorado Study finds that a year after legalization, pot use among teens is relatively unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Colorado's results are consistent with national data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which has been asking high school students about their drug and alcohol use for 25 years,\" she explained. \"It finds that in 2015, about 39 percent of teenagers reported trying pot and about 22 percent currently use it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teen pot use across the U.S. has been declining since the late 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>... But there is evidence emergency room visits, especially by children, would rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After the legalization of recreational pot, Colorado saw an uptick in the number of kids under 9 years of age that ended up in the emergency room due to marijuana exposure, \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2534480\">according to a recent study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors discovered that half of the accidental consumption cases were related to kids eating edibles, which are difficult to distinguish from regular food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11076614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis-infused flavored drinks are sold at Kushmart, one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in downtown Los Angeles. If recreational marijuana is legalized in California, it could take more forms like specialized oils, drinks and food with regulated amounts of THC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis-infused flavored drinks are sold at Kushmart, one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in downtown Los Angeles. If recreational marijuana is legalized in California, it could take more forms like specialized oils, drinks and food with regulated amounts of THC. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The way people use marijuana changed in Colorado and it could in California, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marijuana has traditionally been a product you smoke, but that could change, as it did in Colorado. New users may be less likely to want to smoke pot, and more open to eating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were all surprised by how much edibles were part of the recreational market,\" says Andrew Freedman, director of marijuana coordination for the state of Colorado. \"A lot of that seems to be about the fact that marijuana-naive people would use edibles at the beginning because it seems like a more attractive way of using marijuana. ... I'm not sure that's something that we could've known ahead of time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Series:\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/from-gold-to-green\" target=\"_blank\">From Gold To Green\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This story is part of Take Two's special coverage on what the legalization of recreational pot could mean for California's economy, criminal justice system and society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/from-gold-to-green\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts and questions below in the comments section or \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/taketwoshow/posts/1194387817271853\">on Take Two's Facebook page.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California has legalized recreational marijuana with the passage of Prop. 64. So what does it mean for the way the Golden State regulates pot?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478676169,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":1952},"headData":{"title":"6 Ways Recreational Pot Will Change California -- and 7 Ways It Won't | KQED","description":"California has legalized recreational marijuana with the passage of Prop. 64. So what does it mean for the way the Golden State regulates pot?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"6 Ways Recreational Pot Will Change California -- and 7 Ways It Won't","datePublished":"2016-11-09T07:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T07:22:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11076610 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11076610","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt/","disqusTitle":"6 Ways Recreational Pot Will Change California -- and 7 Ways It Won't","customPermalink":"2016/09/06/6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/jacob-margolis\">Jacob Margolis\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprStoryId":"492881808","path":"/news/11076610/6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Californians have legalized recreational marijuana with the passage Proposition 64. It'll mean a big shift in the way the Golden State -- already the largest market for pot in the U.S. -- regulates marijuana. It could also mean big changes in enforcement, as well as the habits and health of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkpcc%2Fvideos%2F10153750058468016%2F&show_text=0&width=800\" width=\"800\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You won't be able to buy pot at every store\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First, you won't be able to purchase pot everywhere. Only specially licensed stores will be able to sell marijuana. The state will issue licenses to growers, distributors and sellers who will have to adhere to certain rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're 21 or older, you'll be able to buy and carry 28.5 grams (about one ounce) of marijuana flower, but if you're carrying marijuana extract the limit is 8 grams. And if you decide to grow your own marijuana you'll be able to cultivate up to six plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You won't be able to smoke marijuana everywhere\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Smoking in public will still be illegal, as will driving while high and smoking on school grounds — though enforcement, especially of \"driving while high,\" will \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/13/how-can-you-tell-if-a-driver-is-stoned/\" target=\"_blank\">present some big challenges to law enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you smoke somewhere you’re not allowed, you'll be subject to a fine of no more than $100 for the first offense. If you rack up more offenses, you could be slapped with higher fines, and possibly jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You'll know how strong different strains of pot are\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The new law will regulate how marijuana distributors disclose what's in their products. They'll look a lot like nutrition labels for pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packages of dried marijuana will be required to have the following information listed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Net weight of the marijuana\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The origin of the marijuana, the date of cultivation, source and type of marijuana\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The amount of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD) and other cannabinoids, listed in milligrams per serving\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Whether any solvents, non-organic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers were used\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For marijuana food products, the amount of THC in the product will need to be disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recreational pot shops won't open until January 2018\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The earliest you'll see pot shops catering to recreational users is January 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulatory system itself could take more than a year to get going, says Lynne Lyman, the director for California's Drug Policy Alliance and one of the people who helped write the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The piece that takes longer to come into implementation is the commercial regulation,\" Lyman says. \"The regulatory agency must start issuing licenses no later than January of 2018 ... [but] it's possible that it'll start earlier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There'll be very few marijuana-related arrests\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of misdemeanor and felony crimes relating to marijuana use and distribution has already fallen significantly, since a \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/schwarzenegger-signs-bill-reducing-offense-for-marijuana-possession.html\">2010 state bill reduced possession\u003c/a> of a small amount of pot from a misdemeanor to an infraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/infographics/misc-gifs/marijuana-special/CA-mj-misd-200.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those numbers will drop even further. The new law will essentially\u003ca href=\"http://chrisconrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Prop64chart.pdf\"> eliminate criminal penalties for adult personal use of marijuana\u003c/a>, and those changes would start immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The penalty reduction components take effect at midnight on November [9],\" says Lyman. \"Anybody who's currently in jail or prison or on parole or probation for a marijuana-related offense will be able to petition to have their sentence reduced ... and so that process might take a few months,\" says Lyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're carrying more than the allowed amounts of marijuana you can still be fined. And those who are operating commercially without a license can be fined. Repeat offenders could get jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will still be a felony to sell to minors, as well as to attempt the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/26/when-weed-explodes-and-why-you-shouldnt-try-this-at-home/\">dangerous process of home butane extraction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The black market won't go away overnight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>New regulations will likely make marijuana more expensive and pot will still be illegal for many of California's neighbors. The result: The black market will likely continue to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the biggest way in which the whole situation is out of touch with reality is pretending that states can do what they want without affecting other states,\" says Jon Caulkins a professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and author of \"Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California supplies much of the cannabis for the rest of the country. And as its production costs have been declining and presumably will decline further after legalization, that reduces prices and increases use all around the country. It's important to recognize just how compact marijuana is. A year's supply for a typical daily user weighs about as much as one 20-ounce can of beer. It's very hard to keep this stuff from flowing across borders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, don't count on Prop. 64 to do much to eliminate the black market, though it could make it much less attractive to risk arrest for cheaper weed, at least to Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>... Neither will drug-related crime\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't expect crime to drop either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the nation has legalized [pot], as long as you don't have super high taxes or other restrictions, then ... legal companies will out-compete criminals. Farmers are better at farming cannabis than crooks are,\" says Caulkins. \"But no, that won't really do much about drug-related crime because most drug-related crime is associated with cocaine, crack, heroin and meth, not marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, nothing you do with marijuana is going to really solve most of the drug-related crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11076615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Coalinga Police Chief Michael Salvador has been a police officer for 30 years. Salvador says for the past 20 years he's been dealing with the results of Prop. 215 passing – legalizing medical marijuana in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/135350-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coalinga Police Chief Michael Salvador has been a police officer for 30 years. Salvador says for the past 20 years he's been dealing with the results of Prop. 215 passing – legalizing medical marijuana in California. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Driving while high will be illegal, but difficult to enforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Driving while high will officially be illegal, but drunken driving laws won't translate easily. It's tough to figure out exactly how intoxicated someone is, even if there's THC in their system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can be positive for THC a week after the last time you used cannabis,\" says Professor Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at New York University. \"Not subjectively impaired at all, not impaired at all by any objective measure, but still positive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the reverse is true as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can be very, very stoned and not have a very high level of THC actually apparent in the blood,\" says Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/13/how-can-you-tell-if-a-driver-is-stoned/\">Scientists are searching for new ways to solve that problem\u003c/a>, but it won't likely make a difference in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California's pot market will spike, and the state could make more than $1B in tax revenue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That's according to California's \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2815-0103%29.pdf?\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>, which took a look at Proposition 64 before it was officially on the ballot. The report also says that the state could save about $100 million in criminal justice costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers should be expected to pay at least 24 percent of the base price. There will be a 15 percent excise tax on top of California's 9 percent sales tax, as well as any additional tax that's levied by cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/infographics/misc-gifs/marijuana-special/ca-mj-market-40.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Frontier & ArcView Market Research, a pro-marijuana research and investment firm, estimates that California's recreational market could total $1.3 billion in 2018, the year California will likely start to see legal shops open up, if Prop. 64 passes. By 2020 they estimate that it could be worth nearly $4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Big Marijuana could be the next Big Tobacco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rise of legal recreational marijuana could bring in big players and mean the weaponization of marketing tactics to promote marijuana use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that you're going to see aggressive marketing by companies who know that their profits depend on selling to people who are daily or near-daily users,\" says Caulkins. The current illegal sale of marijuana is mostly a word-of-mouth campaign, he says. Now, imagine a whole industry of professional advertising focused on getting people to regularly use pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The illegal organizations [currently] don't place their products in Hollywood movies,\" he says. \"They don't have marketing executives with MBAs from high-powered business schools. I think there's going to be an unsettling side of the legal industry that's reminiscent of the tobacco industry 15-20 years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the long run, I think we're going to wonder why we thought it was a good idea to create a corporate sector for promoting use of another dependence-inducing intoxicant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It's unclear if there would be an uptick in teen use\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/outpost/show_segments/50828/edit\">According to KPCC's Rebecca Plevin\u003c/a>, \"In Colorado, which was the first state to legalize recreational pot, the state department of public health has collected some early data: The Healthy Kids Colorado Study finds that a year after legalization, pot use among teens is relatively unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Colorado's results are consistent with national data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which has been asking high school students about their drug and alcohol use for 25 years,\" she explained. \"It finds that in 2015, about 39 percent of teenagers reported trying pot and about 22 percent currently use it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teen pot use across the U.S. has been declining since the late 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>... But there is evidence emergency room visits, especially by children, would rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After the legalization of recreational pot, Colorado saw an uptick in the number of kids under 9 years of age that ended up in the emergency room due to marijuana exposure, \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2534480\">according to a recent study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors discovered that half of the accidental consumption cases were related to kids eating edibles, which are difficult to distinguish from regular food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11076614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis-infused flavored drinks are sold at Kushmart, one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in downtown Los Angeles. If recreational marijuana is legalized in California, it could take more forms like specialized oils, drinks and food with regulated amounts of THC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/120626-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis-infused flavored drinks are sold at Kushmart, one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in downtown Los Angeles. If recreational marijuana is legalized in California, it could take more forms like specialized oils, drinks and food with regulated amounts of THC. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The way people use marijuana changed in Colorado and it could in California, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marijuana has traditionally been a product you smoke, but that could change, as it did in Colorado. New users may be less likely to want to smoke pot, and more open to eating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were all surprised by how much edibles were part of the recreational market,\" says Andrew Freedman, director of marijuana coordination for the state of Colorado. \"A lot of that seems to be about the fact that marijuana-naive people would use edibles at the beginning because it seems like a more attractive way of using marijuana. ... I'm not sure that's something that we could've known ahead of time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Series:\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/from-gold-to-green\" target=\"_blank\">From Gold To Green\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This story is part of Take Two's special coverage on what the legalization of recreational pot could mean for California's economy, criminal justice system and society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/from-gold-to-green\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts and questions below in the comments section or \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/taketwoshow/posts/1194387817271853\">on Take Two's Facebook page.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11076610/6-ways-recreational-pot-would-change-california-and-7-ways-it-wouldnt","authors":["byline_news_11076610"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_20165","news_102","news_19895","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11076612","label":"news_72"},"news_11159844":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11159844","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11159844","score":null,"sort":[1478671839000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"voters-embrace-bilingual-education-in-prop-58-victory","title":"Voters Embrace Bilingual Education, Extend Taxes in Prop. 58 and 55 Victories","publishDate":1478671839,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California has made a huge about-face when it comes to bilingual education in public schools, approving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/proposition-58/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 58\u003c/a>. The significance of this initiative underscores the changing demographics and cultural shifts in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really elated right now, as a teacher and as a Californian,\" said Anne Zerrien-Lee, who teaches first grade at Aldama Elementary, a Spanish-English dual-language school in Highland Park in Los Angeles. \"I think this shows that people are realizing the great benefit to our students of learning in two languages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165616\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Mendez attends Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Mendez attends Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eighteen years ago, voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_227,_the_%22English_in_Public_Schools%22_Initiative_(1998)\">Proposition 227\u003c/a>, the English in Public Schools initiative, which required schools to teach all students in “English only” unless parents obtained a waiver for their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 58 will repeal key provisions of Proposition 227, thereby eliminating the English-only mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, school districts could adopt an approach they see fit to teach English learners, as long as they get community input and ensure that all students master the English language. Teacher Zerrien-Lee says it will make it easier for more schools to establish dual-language programs like the one where she teaches, in which all students are taught in both English and another language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most families in California have not been able to access that,\" said Zerrien-Lee. \"They didn't know they had the right to bilingual education for their kids, and they didn't know how to go about getting it. And most school districts did not really advertise it or let parents know they had the right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many education experts, as well as influential Latino state lawmakers, say helping young people in California master more than one language today is extremely valuable to succeed in a global economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative’s most vocal opponent, Silicon Valley businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Ron.Unz/\">Ron Unz\u003c/a>, who led the 1998 campaign to dismantle bilingual education, continued to argue this year that bilingual education simply does not effectively teach students the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/55/\">Proposition 55\u003c/a> also emerged victorious late Tuesday night. Of the three education-related ballot measures this year, this measure could arguably have the biggest impact on students in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure requires the wealthiest of Californians to continue paying higher taxes for another 12 years to fund schools and health care programs for low-income families. It’s considered an extension of \u003ca href=\"http://trackprop30.ca.gov/\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, approved in 2012, which raised both sales and income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-960x588.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very excited because it confirms that California voters and Californians believe in their public schools and are willing to stand up for our students,\" said Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education groups across California, including the state’s two most powerful teachers unions, have been pushing hard for the extension, staging rallies up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the tax extension is desperately needed to protect future spending for schools. For the first time in nearly a decade, schools are actually hiring more teachers and staff, as well as adopting more academic programs to meet the specific needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What this money allows us to do is to continue all those exciting changes and restore programs like career and technical education, music and art and keep class sizes at least down to a reasonable level,\" said Heins. \"It doesn't fix everything. I mean, it's certainly not the panacea, but it brings a kind of stability so we can continue to make the kinds of changes that are actually good for our students, so we can focus on the whole child. As a teacher it makes me very excited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Proposition 55, districts could have once again faced the volatility of the state’s boom-and-bust budget cycles, possibly resulting in big education spending cuts. That would likely derail many initiatives districts have implemented in order to satisfy\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\"> California’s new academic standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also helps fund community colleges. Fifteen-year-old Zhihao Gao, who attends Oakland Technical High School, was part of a group that called voters to urge them to vote yes on the measure. \"The main reason why I support Prop 55 is that it is in a way supporting my education, as a young person of color,\" Gao said. \"Both of my parents never attended college, but I will, and that will definitely change my life in a way that has never been done in my family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians also approved \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/51/\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>. The measure will advance construction and modernization projects for K-12 schools and community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big sticking points with this initiative has been whether its approach to funding school facility projects makes prudent fiscal sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 allows for the sale of $9 billion in general obligation bonds. However, the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> says if the $9 billion in bonds were sold at an average interest rate of 5 percent, the total cost to pay off the bonds would be $17.6 billion -- $9 billion in principal plus $8.6 billion in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zaidee Stavely contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Californians have eliminated the English-only mandate, approved a tax extension to raise billions of dollars for schools and approved another measure to advance school construction projects.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478682614,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":911},"headData":{"title":"Voters Embrace Bilingual Education, Extend Taxes in Prop. 58 and 55 Victories | KQED","description":"Californians have eliminated the English-only mandate, approved a tax extension to raise billions of dollars for schools and approved another measure to advance school construction projects.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Voters Embrace Bilingual Education, Extend Taxes in Prop. 58 and 55 Victories","datePublished":"2016-11-09T06:10:39.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T09:10:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11159844 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11159844","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/voters-embrace-bilingual-education-in-prop-58-victory/","disqusTitle":"Voters Embrace Bilingual Education, Extend Taxes in Prop. 58 and 55 Victories","path":"/news/11159844/voters-embrace-bilingual-education-in-prop-58-victory","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has made a huge about-face when it comes to bilingual education in public schools, approving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/proposition-58/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 58\u003c/a>. The significance of this initiative underscores the changing demographics and cultural shifts in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really elated right now, as a teacher and as a Californian,\" said Anne Zerrien-Lee, who teaches first grade at Aldama Elementary, a Spanish-English dual-language school in Highland Park in Los Angeles. \"I think this shows that people are realizing the great benefit to our students of learning in two languages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165616\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Mendez attends Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Mendez-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Mendez attends Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eighteen years ago, voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_227,_the_%22English_in_Public_Schools%22_Initiative_(1998)\">Proposition 227\u003c/a>, the English in Public Schools initiative, which required schools to teach all students in “English only” unless parents obtained a waiver for their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 58 will repeal key provisions of Proposition 227, thereby eliminating the English-only mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, school districts could adopt an approach they see fit to teach English learners, as long as they get community input and ensure that all students master the English language. Teacher Zerrien-Lee says it will make it easier for more schools to establish dual-language programs like the one where she teaches, in which all students are taught in both English and another language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most families in California have not been able to access that,\" said Zerrien-Lee. \"They didn't know they had the right to bilingual education for their kids, and they didn't know how to go about getting it. And most school districts did not really advertise it or let parents know they had the right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many education experts, as well as influential Latino state lawmakers, say helping young people in California master more than one language today is extremely valuable to succeed in a global economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative’s most vocal opponent, Silicon Valley businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Ron.Unz/\">Ron Unz\u003c/a>, who led the 1998 campaign to dismantle bilingual education, continued to argue this year that bilingual education simply does not effectively teach students the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/55/\">Proposition 55\u003c/a> also emerged victorious late Tuesday night. Of the three education-related ballot measures this year, this measure could arguably have the biggest impact on students in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure requires the wealthiest of Californians to continue paying higher taxes for another 12 years to fund schools and health care programs for low-income families. It’s considered an extension of \u003ca href=\"http://trackprop30.ca.gov/\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, approved in 2012, which raised both sales and income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-960x588.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/SpcEd-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special education instructional aide Jocelyn Ramirez (middle) works with students in small groups at Oak Ridge Elementary School in the Sacramento Unified School District.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very excited because it confirms that California voters and Californians believe in their public schools and are willing to stand up for our students,\" said Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education groups across California, including the state’s two most powerful teachers unions, have been pushing hard for the extension, staging rallies up and down the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the tax extension is desperately needed to protect future spending for schools. For the first time in nearly a decade, schools are actually hiring more teachers and staff, as well as adopting more academic programs to meet the specific needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What this money allows us to do is to continue all those exciting changes and restore programs like career and technical education, music and art and keep class sizes at least down to a reasonable level,\" said Heins. \"It doesn't fix everything. I mean, it's certainly not the panacea, but it brings a kind of stability so we can continue to make the kinds of changes that are actually good for our students, so we can focus on the whole child. As a teacher it makes me very excited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Proposition 55, districts could have once again faced the volatility of the state’s boom-and-bust budget cycles, possibly resulting in big education spending cuts. That would likely derail many initiatives districts have implemented in order to satisfy\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/\"> California’s new academic standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also helps fund community colleges. Fifteen-year-old Zhihao Gao, who attends Oakland Technical High School, was part of a group that called voters to urge them to vote yes on the measure. \"The main reason why I support Prop 55 is that it is in a way supporting my education, as a young person of color,\" Gao said. \"Both of my parents never attended college, but I will, and that will definitely change my life in a way that has never been done in my family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians also approved \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/51/\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>. The measure will advance construction and modernization projects for K-12 schools and community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big sticking points with this initiative has been whether its approach to funding school facility projects makes prudent fiscal sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11165614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11165614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Hallway-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some students at City College of San Francisco in the counseling and student center.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 allows for the sale of $9 billion in general obligation bonds. However, the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> says if the $9 billion in bonds were sold at an average interest rate of 5 percent, the total cost to pay off the bonds would be $17.6 billion -- $9 billion in principal plus $8.6 billion in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zaidee Stavely contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11159844/voters-embrace-bilingual-education-in-prop-58-victory","authors":["211"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_19217","news_20165","news_19909","news_19915","news_19917","news_17286","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11159909","label":"news_72"},"news_11159779":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11159779","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11159779","score":null,"sort":[1478670319000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading","title":"Brown Early Parole Measure and Newsom Gun Control Initiative Approved","publishDate":1478670319,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday, 11 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/10/14/proposition-57-would-allow-early-release-of-some-felons/\">Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 57\u003c/a> has passed after enjoying a strong lead throughout the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 will make several changes to California’s criminal justice system, after 10 years of federal court oversight of its prisons prompted by overcrowding. Its least controversial part will change how some juvenile defendants are charged by allowing judges, instead of prosecutors, to decide if they should be charged as adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two other provisions of Proposition 57 impacting adult inmates attracted far more attention and opposition. The ballot measure will let inmates in prison for crimes considered nonviolent under state law come up for parole earlier than they can now -- after serving the base term of their sentence, and before serving sentencing “enhancements” tacked on for things like having a gun, a prior record or gang involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will also allow the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to create a new “good-time” credit system so that more inmates could potentially knock time off their sentences for participating in programs like drug rehabilitation and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says the ballot measure will give inmates incentives to change while they are in prison, reversing what he sees as the effects of a determinate sentencing structure he signed into law 40 years ago when he was first governor. That change in law -- which prescribed set prison terms for most inmates -- was followed by dozens of “tough on crime” enhancements and laws created by voters and lawmakers. Brown argues that those laws led to prison overcrowding and \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11081078/gov-brown-sees-prop-57-as-key-to-ending-court-prison-oversight\">that Proposition 57 would help ease that crowding \u003c/a>while also giving inmates a reason to improve themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argued that the measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article108127812.html\">would let dangerous people out of prison and undermine victims’ rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/499262781/calif-voters-to-decide-on-background-checks-for-ammunition\">Proposition 63 by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> passed with more than 60 percent voter approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure will toughen California’s already-strict gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also opposed by some law enforcement groups, Proposition 63 will require that ammunition be regulated similarly to guns in California, with licenses for sellers and buyers. It will also require people to report when guns are lost or stolen and set up a process so that newly convicted felons will have to get rid of their guns before they are sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom argued that the ballot measure would crack down on gun traffickers and other dangerous people who currently are barred from buying guns but can legally purchase bullets. Gun advocates charged Newsom’s measure would infringe on their Second Amendment rights and do nothing to stop dangerous people.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Voters have approved governor's Proposition 57, which will make several changes to the state's criminal justice system. Another measure to toughen California’s already-strict gun laws was also approved.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478676963,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":438},"headData":{"title":"Brown Early Parole Measure and Newsom Gun Control Initiative Approved | KQED","description":"Voters have approved governor's Proposition 57, which will make several changes to the state's criminal justice system. Another measure to toughen California’s already-strict gun laws was also approved.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Brown Early Parole Measure and Newsom Gun Control Initiative Approved","datePublished":"2016-11-09T05:45:19.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T07:36:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11159779 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11159779","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading/","disqusTitle":"Brown Early Parole Measure and Newsom Gun Control Initiative Approved","path":"/news/11159779/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday, 11 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/10/14/proposition-57-would-allow-early-release-of-some-felons/\">Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 57\u003c/a> has passed after enjoying a strong lead throughout the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 will make several changes to California’s criminal justice system, after 10 years of federal court oversight of its prisons prompted by overcrowding. Its least controversial part will change how some juvenile defendants are charged by allowing judges, instead of prosecutors, to decide if they should be charged as adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two other provisions of Proposition 57 impacting adult inmates attracted far more attention and opposition. The ballot measure will let inmates in prison for crimes considered nonviolent under state law come up for parole earlier than they can now -- after serving the base term of their sentence, and before serving sentencing “enhancements” tacked on for things like having a gun, a prior record or gang involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will also allow the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to create a new “good-time” credit system so that more inmates could potentially knock time off their sentences for participating in programs like drug rehabilitation and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says the ballot measure will give inmates incentives to change while they are in prison, reversing what he sees as the effects of a determinate sentencing structure he signed into law 40 years ago when he was first governor. That change in law -- which prescribed set prison terms for most inmates -- was followed by dozens of “tough on crime” enhancements and laws created by voters and lawmakers. Brown argues that those laws led to prison overcrowding and \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11081078/gov-brown-sees-prop-57-as-key-to-ending-court-prison-oversight\">that Proposition 57 would help ease that crowding \u003c/a>while also giving inmates a reason to improve themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argued that the measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article108127812.html\">would let dangerous people out of prison and undermine victims’ rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/499262781/calif-voters-to-decide-on-background-checks-for-ammunition\">Proposition 63 by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> passed with more than 60 percent voter approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure will toughen California’s already-strict gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also opposed by some law enforcement groups, Proposition 63 will require that ammunition be regulated similarly to guns in California, with licenses for sellers and buyers. It will also require people to report when guns are lost or stolen and set up a process so that newly convicted felons will have to get rid of their guns before they are sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom argued that the ballot measure would crack down on gun traffickers and other dangerous people who currently are barred from buying guns but can legally purchase bullets. Gun advocates charged Newsom’s measure would infringe on their Second Amendment rights and do nothing to stop dangerous people.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11159779/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_20165","news_2795","news_19903","news_18418","news_19910","news_17286","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11159791","label":"news_72"},"news_11159910":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11159910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11159910","score":null,"sort":[1478668879000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-death-penalty-on-track-to-survive-vote-get-streamlined","title":"California's Death Penalty Survives Vote, Get Streamlined","publishDate":1478668879,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, 9:12 a.m. Wednesday: In unofficial returns, with all precincts counted, California voters have chosen to uphold capital punishment, rejecting Proposition 62 by 54-46 percent,. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Californians narrowly approved speeding up the process, approving Proposition 66 by 51-49 percent.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returns Wednesday morning show California voters rejecting Proposition 62 -- an effort to end capital punishment in the state -- and approving a competing measure that would streamline executions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the election, backers and opponents of both Propositions 62 and 66 agreed that California's death penalty system was broken. Although nearly 900 death sentences have been handed down since California reinstated the capital punishment in 1978, there have been just 13 executions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal appeals had already dragged on for decades when federal Judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/jf\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Fogel\u003c/a> put a stop to executions in 2006. There hasn't been one since, and California's death row population has \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital_punishment/docs/condemnedinmatelistsecure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">grown to 750\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 62 proponents argued the system was irreparably broken and couldn't -- or shouldn't -- be fixed. They banked on convincing voters that life sentences are a solid alternative to the rare execution, while sweetening the measure with a requirement that death row inmates work and pay restitution to their victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to end capital punishment raised more than $16 million, led by the Fund for Policy Reform and wealthy entrepreneurs, including Tom Steyer, Stanford professor Nicholas McKeown, Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and venture capitalist John Doerr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone, the campaign to keep and quicken California death sentences raised more than $13 million, with major contributions from law enforcement organizations like the \u003ca href=\"http://porac.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Peace Officers Research Association of California\u003c/a> and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 66 supporters adopted the motto \"mend it, don't end it\" in hopes of preserving a death sentence for the most heinous crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has been slipping in California for years, especially when voters are given the option of life in prison without the possibility of parole, but a similar effort to repeal the death penalty fell short in 2012, when California voters rejected Proposition 34 by 52 to 48 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of Proposition 62, led by Hollywood actor Mike Farrell and San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://deathpenalty.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Death Penalty Focus\u003c/a>, felt the time was right to try again. They hoped to benefit from a relatively low crime rate, a large voter turnout and an influx of younger voters who generally oppose capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dysfunctional status quo, death sentences occasionally are handed down but no condemned inmates are executed. And that won't change until the state adopts a new lethal injection protocol that the courts accept.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Voters lean toward rejecting death penalty repeal. Measure to expedite capital punishment ahead by a hair.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478720438,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":455},"headData":{"title":"California's Death Penalty Survives Vote, Get Streamlined | KQED","description":"Voters lean toward rejecting death penalty repeal. Measure to expedite capital punishment ahead by a hair.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Death Penalty Survives Vote, Get Streamlined","datePublished":"2016-11-09T05:21:19.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T19:40:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11159910 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11159910","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/californias-death-penalty-on-track-to-survive-vote-get-streamlined/","disqusTitle":"California's Death Penalty Survives Vote, Get Streamlined","path":"/news/11159910/californias-death-penalty-on-track-to-survive-vote-get-streamlined","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, 9:12 a.m. Wednesday: In unofficial returns, with all precincts counted, California voters have chosen to uphold capital punishment, rejecting Proposition 62 by 54-46 percent,. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Californians narrowly approved speeding up the process, approving Proposition 66 by 51-49 percent.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returns Wednesday morning show California voters rejecting Proposition 62 -- an effort to end capital punishment in the state -- and approving a competing measure that would streamline executions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the election, backers and opponents of both Propositions 62 and 66 agreed that California's death penalty system was broken. Although nearly 900 death sentences have been handed down since California reinstated the capital punishment in 1978, there have been just 13 executions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal appeals had already dragged on for decades when federal Judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/jf\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Fogel\u003c/a> put a stop to executions in 2006. There hasn't been one since, and California's death row population has \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital_punishment/docs/condemnedinmatelistsecure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">grown to 750\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 62 proponents argued the system was irreparably broken and couldn't -- or shouldn't -- be fixed. They banked on convincing voters that life sentences are a solid alternative to the rare execution, while sweetening the measure with a requirement that death row inmates work and pay restitution to their victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to end capital punishment raised more than $16 million, led by the Fund for Policy Reform and wealthy entrepreneurs, including Tom Steyer, Stanford professor Nicholas McKeown, Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and venture capitalist John Doerr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone, the campaign to keep and quicken California death sentences raised more than $13 million, with major contributions from law enforcement organizations like the \u003ca href=\"http://porac.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Peace Officers Research Association of California\u003c/a> and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 66 supporters adopted the motto \"mend it, don't end it\" in hopes of preserving a death sentence for the most heinous crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has been slipping in California for years, especially when voters are given the option of life in prison without the possibility of parole, but a similar effort to repeal the death penalty fell short in 2012, when California voters rejected Proposition 34 by 52 to 48 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of Proposition 62, led by Hollywood actor Mike Farrell and San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://deathpenalty.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Death Penalty Focus\u003c/a>, felt the time was right to try again. They hoped to benefit from a relatively low crime rate, a large voter turnout and an influx of younger voters who generally oppose capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dysfunctional status quo, death sentences occasionally are handed down but no condemned inmates are executed. And that won't change until the state adopts a new lethal injection protocol that the courts accept.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11159910/californias-death-penalty-on-track-to-survive-vote-get-streamlined","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19217","news_18282","news_20165","news_19920","news_19922","news_17286","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11159939","label":"news_72"},"news_11159814":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11159814","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11159814","score":null,"sort":[1478667648000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california","title":"Recreational Marijuana Heads for Legalization in California","publishDate":1478667648,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday, 9:26 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early counts indicate California voters have approved Proposition 64, legalizing recreational use of marijuana in the nation's most populous state and along the entire West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote marks a change in drug policy decades in the making and indicates growing momentum for other states to legalize marijuana for either recreational or medical use. Though California was first in the U.S. to allow medical use, it follows Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Washington, D.C. in legalizing recreational marijuana. The law goes into effect immediately and applies to people 21 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians got their first chance to vote on whether to legalize marijuana in 1972, and they overwhelmingly said no. The state came close in 2010, when the final vote was 53.5 percent for and 46.5 percent against. Since California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, more than two dozen states have followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the millions unjustly arrested, it’s a chance to clear their names and restore their reputations,” Oakland's Harborside medical marijuana dispensary co-founder Steve DeAngelo wrote in a celebratory statement. “For all Californians, it’s progress toward a more tolerant, inclusive and equitable way of life; and for prisoners of cannabis in other states and all around the globe, it’s a promise that change is coming. I started working for legalization in 1974. It feels like I ran a 42-year marathon and won the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The donations for Proposition 64 have been lopsided. The state's Fair Political Practices Commission calculates that over $20 million has been spent by those who want to see the measure passed. Meanwhile, opponents have kicked in only $2 million. The campaign to legalize appeared much more organized this go-round, and it has been ahead in the polls for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of Proposition 64 say the measure would finally bring the marijuana industry out into the open. They have been pitching the proposition as a thoughtful measure that takes lessons from other states that have legalized. Supporters stress that there are protections to prevent monopolies from forming in the marijuana business, and that legalizing would bring a windfall of new tax revenue for the state. The California Department of Finance estimates that the measure could bring in $1 billion a year through taxes on the cultivation and sale of cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents have raised concerns that range from public safety impacts to moral qualms. On the public safety side, the No on 64 campaign has sounded alarms about the possibility of increased teen drug use, the corporatization of marijuana, secondhand smoke and DUIs. The determination of what constitutes “drugged driving” has become a big issue. How high is too high to drive? There’s currently no answer to that question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are, of course, disappointed that the self-serving moneyed interests behind this marijuana business plan prevailed at the cost of public health, safety, and the wellbeing of our communities,\" Ventura Police Chief and President of the California Police Chiefs Association Ken Coreny said in a written statement. \"We will take a thorough look at the flaws in Proposition 64 that will negatively impact public health and safety, such as the initiative’s substandard advertising restrictions and lack of prosecutorial tools for driving under the influence of marijuana, and begin to develop legislative solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis growers in places like Humboldt and Mendocino counties are divided on the issue. Some are happy to finally be able to go legit after decades of \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11155242/will-passage-of-proposition-64-shake-up-mendocino-shakedown\">friction with law enforcement\u003c/a>. But there is a lot of concern. Many worry that large corporations are going to get into the business -- players from Big Ag, tobacco and alcohol -- and that \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11098944/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot\">the cultivator culture\u003c/a> in the Emerald Triangle will be snuffed out. At the very least, many are afraid legalization would cause the price of marijuana to continue to drop, making it impossible for small growers to earn a living. Some are dubbing the potential change as the “Wal-Martization of weed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 leaves a lot of questions about the marijuana industry on the table. It is still a Schedule 1 narcotic federally. Those in the marijuana business will have difficulties when it comes to banking and can’t transport the drug across state lines. Many of the regulatory decisions about the cultivation and sale of marijuana will be left up to local authorities. Some locations may, in fact, choose to ban the sale of marijuana entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prop. 64 will allow California to take its rightful place as the center of cannabis innovation, research and development,\" wrote Nate Bradley, head of the California Cannabis Industry Association. He acknowledged that exactly how the state will regulate legal use of marijuana is a work in progress. \"We look forward to working with state on creating a regulatory structure that will protect consumers and the general public as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With other states recently passing marijuana legalization, California now looking to follow the trend.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478670887,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":838},"headData":{"title":"Recreational Marijuana Heads for Legalization in California | KQED","description":"With other states recently passing marijuana legalization, California now looking to follow the trend.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Recreational Marijuana Heads for Legalization in California","datePublished":"2016-11-09T05:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T05:54:47.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11159814 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11159814","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Recreational Marijuana Heads for Legalization in California","path":"/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday, 9:26 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early counts indicate California voters have approved Proposition 64, legalizing recreational use of marijuana in the nation's most populous state and along the entire West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote marks a change in drug policy decades in the making and indicates growing momentum for other states to legalize marijuana for either recreational or medical use. Though California was first in the U.S. to allow medical use, it follows Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Washington, D.C. in legalizing recreational marijuana. The law goes into effect immediately and applies to people 21 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians got their first chance to vote on whether to legalize marijuana in 1972, and they overwhelmingly said no. The state came close in 2010, when the final vote was 53.5 percent for and 46.5 percent against. Since California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, more than two dozen states have followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the millions unjustly arrested, it’s a chance to clear their names and restore their reputations,” Oakland's Harborside medical marijuana dispensary co-founder Steve DeAngelo wrote in a celebratory statement. “For all Californians, it’s progress toward a more tolerant, inclusive and equitable way of life; and for prisoners of cannabis in other states and all around the globe, it’s a promise that change is coming. I started working for legalization in 1974. It feels like I ran a 42-year marathon and won the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The donations for Proposition 64 have been lopsided. The state's Fair Political Practices Commission calculates that over $20 million has been spent by those who want to see the measure passed. Meanwhile, opponents have kicked in only $2 million. The campaign to legalize appeared much more organized this go-round, and it has been ahead in the polls for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of Proposition 64 say the measure would finally bring the marijuana industry out into the open. They have been pitching the proposition as a thoughtful measure that takes lessons from other states that have legalized. Supporters stress that there are protections to prevent monopolies from forming in the marijuana business, and that legalizing would bring a windfall of new tax revenue for the state. The California Department of Finance estimates that the measure could bring in $1 billion a year through taxes on the cultivation and sale of cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents have raised concerns that range from public safety impacts to moral qualms. On the public safety side, the No on 64 campaign has sounded alarms about the possibility of increased teen drug use, the corporatization of marijuana, secondhand smoke and DUIs. The determination of what constitutes “drugged driving” has become a big issue. How high is too high to drive? There’s currently no answer to that question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are, of course, disappointed that the self-serving moneyed interests behind this marijuana business plan prevailed at the cost of public health, safety, and the wellbeing of our communities,\" Ventura Police Chief and President of the California Police Chiefs Association Ken Coreny said in a written statement. \"We will take a thorough look at the flaws in Proposition 64 that will negatively impact public health and safety, such as the initiative’s substandard advertising restrictions and lack of prosecutorial tools for driving under the influence of marijuana, and begin to develop legislative solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis growers in places like Humboldt and Mendocino counties are divided on the issue. Some are happy to finally be able to go legit after decades of \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11155242/will-passage-of-proposition-64-shake-up-mendocino-shakedown\">friction with law enforcement\u003c/a>. But there is a lot of concern. Many worry that large corporations are going to get into the business -- players from Big Ag, tobacco and alcohol -- and that \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11098944/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot\">the cultivator culture\u003c/a> in the Emerald Triangle will be snuffed out. At the very least, many are afraid legalization would cause the price of marijuana to continue to drop, making it impossible for small growers to earn a living. Some are dubbing the potential change as the “Wal-Martization of weed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 leaves a lot of questions about the marijuana industry on the table. It is still a Schedule 1 narcotic federally. Those in the marijuana business will have difficulties when it comes to banking and can’t transport the drug across state lines. Many of the regulatory decisions about the cultivation and sale of marijuana will be left up to local authorities. Some locations may, in fact, choose to ban the sale of marijuana entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prop. 64 will allow California to take its rightful place as the center of cannabis innovation, research and development,\" wrote Nate Bradley, head of the California Cannabis Industry Association. He acknowledged that exactly how the state will regulate legal use of marijuana is a work in progress. \"We look forward to working with state on creating a regulatory structure that will protect consumers and the general public as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california","authors":["253"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_20165","news_102","news_19895","news_17286","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11159905","label":"news_72"},"news_11159620":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11159620","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11159620","score":null,"sort":[1478666112000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"first-out-of-the-gate-harris-never-looked-back-in-u-s-senate-race","title":"First Out of the Gate, Harris Never Looked Back in U.S. Senate Race","publishDate":1478666112,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California Attorney General Kamala Harris has seized the state's open U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary exit poll conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research found Harris easily defeated her fellow Democrat, U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez faced an uphill battle ever since the June primary, when Harris won 53 out of California's 58 counties. Sanchez barely edged out Harris in her own Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general was boosted by her close ties to President Obama, the state Democratic Party, labor unions and other key constituencies. In the final weeks, she won endorsements from Gov. Jerry Brown and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Clegg, a key Harris campaign strategist, says her quick decision to jump into the race less than a week after Boxer announced her retirement in 2015 framed the contest from the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting into the ring early and standing up as the most formidable candidate forced every potential candidate to analyze the race through the lens of: 'Can I beat Kamala Harris?'\" Clegg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tom Steyer, the billion-dollar man, Antonio Villaraigosa (former Los Angeles mayor) and leading members of Congress all concluded they couldn't,\" Clegg added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Democrats like Los Angeles Rep. Xavier Becerra or Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti might have given Harris a stronger race than Sanchez did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having twice run and won statewide, Harris benefited from higher name recognition than Sanchez. And Sanchez, who stressed her immigrant roots and middle-class upbringing, was never able to make serious inroads into key Democratic constituencies. Her reckless comments about Muslims and Native Americans didn't help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Sanchez was running to become the first Latina senator in the United States, Harris outmaneuvered her in the Latino community, winning an endorsement from La Opinion newspaper in the primary and from farm labor leader Dolores Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez was left trying to win over Republicans who found themselves without a candidate in the general election. Even there, Harris exceeded expectations in pre-election polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a remarkable rise for Harris, whose first statewide race for attorney general in 2010 was so close that it took more than three weeks to determine that the San Francisco district attorney had defeated Republican Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, an upset few predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January Harris heads to Washington with a national profile and rising expectations, not unlike Barack Obama or Elizabeth Warren did. Job one might be convincing her new colleagues that she's not a showboat, but rather a substantive legislator they can do business with in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Kamala Harris' win over fellow Democrat, Loretta Sanchez, caps a historic rise for the former San Francisco D.A.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478667604,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":444},"headData":{"title":"First Out of the Gate, Harris Never Looked Back in U.S. Senate Race | KQED","description":"Kamala Harris' win over fellow Democrat, Loretta Sanchez, caps a historic rise for the former San Francisco D.A.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"First Out of the Gate, Harris Never Looked Back in U.S. Senate Race","datePublished":"2016-11-09T04:35:12.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T05:00:04.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11159620 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11159620","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/first-out-of-the-gate-harris-never-looked-back-in-u-s-senate-race/","disqusTitle":"First Out of the Gate, Harris Never Looked Back in U.S. Senate Race","path":"/news/11159620/first-out-of-the-gate-harris-never-looked-back-in-u-s-senate-race","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California Attorney General Kamala Harris has seized the state's open U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary exit poll conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research found Harris easily defeated her fellow Democrat, U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez faced an uphill battle ever since the June primary, when Harris won 53 out of California's 58 counties. Sanchez barely edged out Harris in her own Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general was boosted by her close ties to President Obama, the state Democratic Party, labor unions and other key constituencies. In the final weeks, she won endorsements from Gov. Jerry Brown and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Clegg, a key Harris campaign strategist, says her quick decision to jump into the race less than a week after Boxer announced her retirement in 2015 framed the contest from the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting into the ring early and standing up as the most formidable candidate forced every potential candidate to analyze the race through the lens of: 'Can I beat Kamala Harris?'\" Clegg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tom Steyer, the billion-dollar man, Antonio Villaraigosa (former Los Angeles mayor) and leading members of Congress all concluded they couldn't,\" Clegg added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Democrats like Los Angeles Rep. Xavier Becerra or Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti might have given Harris a stronger race than Sanchez did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having twice run and won statewide, Harris benefited from higher name recognition than Sanchez. And Sanchez, who stressed her immigrant roots and middle-class upbringing, was never able to make serious inroads into key Democratic constituencies. Her reckless comments about Muslims and Native Americans didn't help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Sanchez was running to become the first Latina senator in the United States, Harris outmaneuvered her in the Latino community, winning an endorsement from La Opinion newspaper in the primary and from farm labor leader Dolores Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez was left trying to win over Republicans who found themselves without a candidate in the general election. Even there, Harris exceeded expectations in pre-election polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a remarkable rise for Harris, whose first statewide race for attorney general in 2010 was so close that it took more than three weeks to determine that the San Francisco district attorney had defeated Republican Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, an upset few predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January Harris heads to Washington with a national profile and rising expectations, not unlike Barack Obama or Elizabeth Warren did. Job one might be convincing her new colleagues that she's not a showboat, but rather a substantive legislator they can do business with in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11159620/first-out-of-the-gate-harris-never-looked-back-in-u-s-senate-race","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_20165","news_61","news_18116","news_17286","news_17041","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11165795","label":"news_72"},"news_11163511":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11163511","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11163511","score":null,"sort":[1478547957000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"democratic-newcomer-tries-to-turn-longtime-gop-stronghold-blue","title":"Democratic Newcomer Tries to Turn Longtime GOP Stronghold Blue","publishDate":1478547957,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the final days before Election Day, the congressional race to represent northern Los Angeles County and parts of Ventura County has turned into one of the most competitive in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Knight has been deemed California's most vulnerable congressional incumbent in 2016, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://cookpolitical.com/\">Cook Political Report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This 25th Congressional District has been a Republican stronghold. But in recent years, the demographics of the population have been shifting and growing more diverse. Democrats in the district now outnumber Republicans, although barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes underway in the district have led to a competitive race for the congressional seat. Knight is facing a serious, well-financed challenge from first-time office seeker Bryan Caforio, a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in the district have been inundated by campaign ads and materials from both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Cattell, the political chair of the Sierra Club's local chapter, describes herself as a Democrat who works with Republicans in what was once solid GOP country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cattell said the congressional race has turned negative. Couple it with the presidential campaign, and she said even her Republican friends are fed up with this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s so many mailers, there’s so much online, there’s so much on TV. And a lot of it is so negative. It’s just been overwhelming for people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caforio's challenge to Knight has made headlines across the country, and the race has drawn a flood of fundraising dollars from national Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oct. 19 campaign finance reports compiled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2016&id=CA25\">OpenSecrets.org\u003c/a>, Knight has spent $1.4 million to Caforio's $1.2 million. But outside groups have also spent heavily in the race, with $2.7 million spent in opposition to Knight and $1.7 million against Caforio in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Democrats seek to gain ground in the U.S. House, the race is a high-stakes political contest. President Obama recently endorsed Caforio and taped a TV ad for him, and House Speaker Paul Ryan flew in for a local fundraiser for Knight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight, a freshman congressman, has decided not to do media interviews in the final days before the election. Communicating through his campaign’s political director, he declined an interview with KPCC for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during a recent debate with Caforio hosted by \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/thetalkofsantaclarita\">a local podcast called The Talk of Santa Clarita\u003c/a>, Knight talked about his stands on issues like gun control. He said he would not support a ban on assault rifles like the AR-15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will not go out and target a single weapon. I think that people understand that,\" he said, adding that it would lead to targeting every handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opponent supports a ban on assault rifles. \"I hear what Congressman Knight says. I disagree with him. I think we need to take steps to protect people in our community,\" Caforio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent visit to Caforio’s campaign headquarters in Santa Clarita, the tension between the two campaigns was evident in the instructions given to canvassers by Caforio staffer Elon Glickman before the supporters headed out to knock on doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If somebody from the Steve Knight campaign approaches you while you are canvassing, right, \u003cem>no\u003c/em>,\" he said. \"Don’t say anything about our operations, what we’re doing, don’t give them any literature and then give me a call immediately — OK? Immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caforio has criticized Knight for his anti-abortion views and for not taking a stronger stand against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight distanced himself from Trump after the GOP candidate \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/07/497087141/donald-trump-caught-on-tape-making-vulgar-remarks-about-women\">bragged of groping women\u003c/a>. Trump later denied he ever acted that way. But Knight also said that while he isn’t endorsing either candidate for president, he does plan to vote. He has declined to disclose who he is voting for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Knight has attacked Caforio as an outsider who only recently moved into the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight, who was born in the Antelope Valley, has called Caforio a \"Beverly Hills trial attorney\" in campaign materials. He’s also said Caforio has launched the most venomous campaign that the district has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caforio moved to the district in November 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We moved here last year, you know, because this is where we’re going to live after the election regardless of what happens. But we are running, of course, because this is the area I want to represent,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this race could hinge on Republican turnout and Trump's impact on down-ballot races like Knight's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is polling lower among Republicans in California compared to his national numbers, said Bill Whalen, research fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fewer Republicans that turn out to vote because they’re spooked away by Donald Trump, that’s fewer Republicans who can come out and vote for Congressman Knight,\" Whalen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Caforio win would be the first time the district will have turned blue since the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Incumbent GOP Congressman Steve Knight is attempting to fend off a challenge by Democrat Bryan Caforio. Knight's Achilles heel may be Donald Trump.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478635206,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":902},"headData":{"title":"Democratic Newcomer Tries to Turn Longtime GOP Stronghold Blue | KQED","description":"Incumbent GOP Congressman Steve Knight is attempting to fend off a challenge by Democrat Bryan Caforio. 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It’s just been overwhelming for people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caforio's challenge to Knight has made headlines across the country, and the race has drawn a flood of fundraising dollars from national Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oct. 19 campaign finance reports compiled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2016&id=CA25\">OpenSecrets.org\u003c/a>, Knight has spent $1.4 million to Caforio's $1.2 million. But outside groups have also spent heavily in the race, with $2.7 million spent in opposition to Knight and $1.7 million against Caforio in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Democrats seek to gain ground in the U.S. House, the race is a high-stakes political contest. 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