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She announced in February that she is \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-registrar-of-voters-will-retire-in-may/\">retiring in May due to health issues\u003c/a> — and reducing stress is essential to recovery. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kim Alexander, president, California Voter Foundation\"]‘People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that.’[/pullquote]In November, tensions heightened when suspicious envelopes were sent to election offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Another arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2024-news-releases-and-advisories/presumptively-dangerous-substance-found-california-county-elections-office\">Yuba County’s office in January\u003c/a> and tested positive for fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ahead of Tuesday’s end of primary voting, elections officials in more than a dozen California counties say they’re in good shape for staffing permanent and temporary poll workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, attributes the shift to the attitudes of both election workers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, county elections officials have taken several steps to strengthen the protection of workers — including safety protocols for possible fentanyl-laced envelopes — and to educate people that their vote is secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, for example, the elections office works closely with local law enforcement and the health department to ensure the safety of election workers and voters, said Bob Page, the county’s registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has recruited about 1,600 people to work on elections — the result of a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>monthslong process that involves outreach efforts, background checks and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s important to make sure we give people that work in the vote centers the tools to provide good customer service and try to help people who have concerns or may be a little disruptive when they come in,” he said. “Safety is something we’re going to keep paying attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, election security doesn’t seem to be the only motivating factor. Some counties that have opted into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act/more-days-more-ways\">Voter’s Choice Act\u003c/a>, which extends in-person voting to 10 days, say shorter shifts and fewer locations make it easier to hire staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also money:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In San Bernardino County, funding to increase stipends for poll workers and to hire additional full-time staff has helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election cycle and election preparation is a very stressful environment, with a lot of work in a small amount of time,” said Stephanie Shea, the county’s registrar of voters. “We’ve been fortunate that the board has approved additional positions that have helped us with our preparation for our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the November 2022 election, the county had about 2,300 poll workers. For this year’s primary, it recruited more than 2,500. [aside label='More on California Elections' tag='elections']And in Kings County — where the county elections office is fully staffed for the first time since 2019 — Registrar of Voters Lupe Villa said he believes more people are looking for work now compared to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while safety seems to be less of a concern for election worker recruitment, incidents such as the suspicious envelopes and packages sent to Yuba, Los Angeles and Sacramento elections offices show the danger hasn’t entirely subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No staff were harmed in any of those cases. In January, the secretary of state’s office said it sent guidance to all counties on safety protocols and coordination with local, state and federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Kocurek, spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office, said Thursday there were no updates on the status of the three investigations that law enforcement agencies are handling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these incidents, county officials said they have trained employees to administer Narcan — an opioid overdose treatment — and stock gloves and masks to handle mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, at least, the scare didn’t seem to hamper the county’s ability to recruit workers for the primary. It has recruited 1,400 workers — including many who helped in prior elections, said Kenneth Casparis, a spokesperson for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite improvement statewide, some counties in California continue to face challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mono County has struggled to recruit and retain both temporary elections staff and poll workers — even after increasing pay to the minimum wage, said Queenie Barnard, Mono County’s clerk-recorder-registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11977756 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter fills out their ballot at a polling station at the American Legion in Shasta Lake, California, during a special election in Shasta County on Nov. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in Shasta, where \u003ca href=\"https://assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com/Assets/Connect/RootPublish/shasta-ca.connect.clarityelections.com/Election%20Results%202000-Present/2020/1103/Full%20SOV.SHASTA.11.3.2020.pdf\">Donald Trump won 65% of the vote in 2020\u003c/a>, not much has changed, said Joanna Francescut, the assistant registrar of voters. Voters who show up in person are often angry and yell at staff or workers — which makes it difficult to find workers willing to deal with that for 12 to 16 hours a day for little pay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poll workers that worked in 2020, we would call to recruit them in 2022, and we’d often hear, ‘That last election terrified me, and I don’t feel comfortable coming back immediately. If things settle down in a couple of years, I’ll come back after that point,’” Francescut said. “So we’re hearing that consistently, and that hasn’t changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent state laws, such as one in 2022 that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1131\">allows election workers to shield their addresses from the public\u003c/a>, haven’t had a noticeable impact yet, according to election officials throughout the state. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar, Shasta County Registrar of Voters\"]‘We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.’[/pullquote]And a law to address the decision by Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors to\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-voting-shasta-county/\"> cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Machines\u003c/a> and require a hand count only decreased trust among some residents, Francescut said. The law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB969\">signed by the governor in October\u003c/a>, limits hand-counting to only regular elections with less than 1,000 registered voters and special elections with fewer than 5,000 voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t something that’s going away because the state Legislature’s changed the law,” Francescut said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elections commission in the county, with about \u003ca href=\"https://elections.shastacounty.gov/resources/voter-registration-information/voter-registration-statistics/\">112,000 registered voters\u003c/a> continues to push for hand-counting ballots. But on Tuesday, one of the supervisors who voted to get rid of the voting machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/shasta-county-elections-commission-hand-count-votes/103-5f4131aa-a463-4fdc-88ff-326820bf8650\">faces a recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francescut said she hopes that legislators might understand the different points of view in Shasta County so that they can work together to achieve their shared goal of getting people to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the best way to protect election officials is to provide them with resources and training, especially given the changes in the last few years: “These people have been through a lot of stress, a lot of trauma, just for doing their work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also had a reminder for voters: “We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"They had to get through the pandemic, election denial and suspicious envelopes. While some left, counties now say they’re having better luck recruiting poll workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709330220,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1434},"headData":{"title":"California Election Workers Make Comeback After COVID and Conspiracy Claims | KQED","description":"They had to get through the pandemic, election denial and suspicious envelopes. While some left, counties now say they’re having better luck recruiting poll workers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/sameea-kamal/\">Sameea Kamal\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11977752/california-election-workers-return-post-covid-and-conspiracy-theories","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Between COVID-19 and election fraud conspiracy theories since 2020, it has been a tumultuous time for California’s election workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state lost 15% of its election officials between the November 2020 election and July 2021, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/sites/default/files/cvf_addressing_harassment_of_election_officials_report.pdf\">the California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>, which documented incidents of threats, harassment and stress.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>While not all left due to safety concerns, more than half of California counties have a new registrar of voters since 2020, compared to a 17% turnover between 2016 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon joining that list is \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-registrar-of-voters-will-retire-in-may/\">Cathy Darling Allen\u003c/a>, the registrar in Shasta County, where officials have faced intimidation and threats by some unhappy with election results. She announced in February that she is \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-registrar-of-voters-will-retire-in-may/\">retiring in May due to health issues\u003c/a> — and reducing stress is essential to recovery. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kim Alexander, president, California Voter Foundation","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In November, tensions heightened when suspicious envelopes were sent to election offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Another arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2024-news-releases-and-advisories/presumptively-dangerous-substance-found-california-county-elections-office\">Yuba County’s office in January\u003c/a> and tested positive for fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ahead of Tuesday’s end of primary voting, elections officials in more than a dozen California counties say they’re in good shape for staffing permanent and temporary poll workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, attributes the shift to the attitudes of both election workers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\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>Since 2020, county elections officials have taken several steps to strengthen the protection of workers — including safety protocols for possible fentanyl-laced envelopes — and to educate people that their vote is secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, for example, the elections office works closely with local law enforcement and the health department to ensure the safety of election workers and voters, said Bob Page, the county’s registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has recruited about 1,600 people to work on elections — the result of a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>monthslong process that involves outreach efforts, background checks and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s important to make sure we give people that work in the vote centers the tools to provide good customer service and try to help people who have concerns or may be a little disruptive when they come in,” he said. “Safety is something we’re going to keep paying attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, election security doesn’t seem to be the only motivating factor. Some counties that have opted into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act/more-days-more-ways\">Voter’s Choice Act\u003c/a>, which extends in-person voting to 10 days, say shorter shifts and fewer locations make it easier to hire staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also money:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In San Bernardino County, funding to increase stipends for poll workers and to hire additional full-time staff has helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election cycle and election preparation is a very stressful environment, with a lot of work in a small amount of time,” said Stephanie Shea, the county’s registrar of voters. “We’ve been fortunate that the board has approved additional positions that have helped us with our preparation for our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the November 2022 election, the county had about 2,300 poll workers. For this year’s primary, it recruited more than 2,500. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Elections ","tag":"elections"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And in Kings County — where the county elections office is fully staffed for the first time since 2019 — Registrar of Voters Lupe Villa said he believes more people are looking for work now compared to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while safety seems to be less of a concern for election worker recruitment, incidents such as the suspicious envelopes and packages sent to Yuba, Los Angeles and Sacramento elections offices show the danger hasn’t entirely subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No staff were harmed in any of those cases. In January, the secretary of state’s office said it sent guidance to all counties on safety protocols and coordination with local, state and federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Kocurek, spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office, said Thursday there were no updates on the status of the three investigations that law enforcement agencies are handling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these incidents, county officials said they have trained employees to administer Narcan — an opioid overdose treatment — and stock gloves and masks to handle mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, at least, the scare didn’t seem to hamper the county’s ability to recruit workers for the primary. It has recruited 1,400 workers — including many who helped in prior elections, said Kenneth Casparis, a spokesperson for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite improvement statewide, some counties in California continue to face challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mono County has struggled to recruit and retain both temporary elections staff and poll workers — even after increasing pay to the minimum wage, said Queenie Barnard, Mono County’s clerk-recorder-registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11977756 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter fills out their ballot at a polling station at the American Legion in Shasta Lake, California, during a special election in Shasta County on Nov. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in Shasta, where \u003ca href=\"https://assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com/Assets/Connect/RootPublish/shasta-ca.connect.clarityelections.com/Election%20Results%202000-Present/2020/1103/Full%20SOV.SHASTA.11.3.2020.pdf\">Donald Trump won 65% of the vote in 2020\u003c/a>, not much has changed, said Joanna Francescut, the assistant registrar of voters. Voters who show up in person are often angry and yell at staff or workers — which makes it difficult to find workers willing to deal with that for 12 to 16 hours a day for little pay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poll workers that worked in 2020, we would call to recruit them in 2022, and we’d often hear, ‘That last election terrified me, and I don’t feel comfortable coming back immediately. If things settle down in a couple of years, I’ll come back after that point,’” Francescut said. “So we’re hearing that consistently, and that hasn’t changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent state laws, such as one in 2022 that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1131\">allows election workers to shield their addresses from the public\u003c/a>, haven’t had a noticeable impact yet, according to election officials throughout the state. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar, Shasta County Registrar of Voters","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And a law to address the decision by Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors to\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-voting-shasta-county/\"> cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Machines\u003c/a> and require a hand count only decreased trust among some residents, Francescut said. The law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB969\">signed by the governor in October\u003c/a>, limits hand-counting to only regular elections with less than 1,000 registered voters and special elections with fewer than 5,000 voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t something that’s going away because the state Legislature’s changed the law,” Francescut said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elections commission in the county, with about \u003ca href=\"https://elections.shastacounty.gov/resources/voter-registration-information/voter-registration-statistics/\">112,000 registered voters\u003c/a> continues to push for hand-counting ballots. But on Tuesday, one of the supervisors who voted to get rid of the voting machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/shasta-county-elections-commission-hand-count-votes/103-5f4131aa-a463-4fdc-88ff-326820bf8650\">faces a recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francescut said she hopes that legislators might understand the different points of view in Shasta County so that they can work together to achieve their shared goal of getting people to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the best way to protect election officials is to provide them with resources and training, especially given the changes in the last few years: “These people have been through a lot of stress, a lot of trauma, just for doing their work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also had a reminder for voters: “We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.”\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977752/california-election-workers-return-post-covid-and-conspiracy-theories","authors":["byline_news_11977752"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_31979","news_18012","news_21335","news_17968","news_18536","news_28434"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11977755","label":"source_news_11977752"},"news_11970527":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11970527","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11970527","score":null,"sort":[1703106016000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"colorados-supreme-court-bans-trump-from-state-ballot-what-happens-now","title":"Colorado's Supreme Court Barred Trump From State Ballot. What Happens Now?","publishDate":1703106016,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Colorado’s Supreme Court Barred Trump From State Ballot. What Happens Now? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Legal scholars and activists — mostly on the left — have argued for months that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1200130870/14th-amendment-disqualify-trump-explained\">Civil War-era constitutional clause\u003c/a> should disqualify former President Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner, from holding office again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They contend that Trump’s words and actions on and around the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack violate \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/\">Section 3 of the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>, which bars from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States. And liberal-leaning groups have brought that argument to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/current-projects/the-trump-trials/section-3-litigation-tracker\">court in many states\u003c/a>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Colorado Supreme Court\"]‘Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.’[/pullquote]Colorado became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2023/12/19/colorado-supreme-court-disqualifies-trump-from-ballot/?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20231220&utm_term=9158209&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=50220589&orgid=305&utm_att1=\">first to agree on Tuesday\u003c/a> when its Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from appearing on its state primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220583273/trump-colorado-supreme-court-ruling\">reads the 213-page opinion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark 4-3 ruling — which overturns a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2023/11/17/judge-rules-trump-will-appear-on-colorados-2024-gop-primary-ballot/\">district court decision\u003c/a> from last month — is the first time a high court in any state has found that Section 3 applies to both Trump’s conduct and the office of the presidency itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices — all appointed by Democratic governors in the increasingly blue state — acknowledge that this amounts to “uncharted territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And “to maintain the status quo,” they stayed their ruling until Jan. 4, the day before the secretary of state’s deadline to certify primary ballots (Colorado’s presidential primary will be held on March 5). That means that if the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear the case and is still in process by that date, Trump’s name should be included on the ballot after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called the decision “completely flawed” and pledged to “swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Justin Levitt, constitutional law professor, Loyola Law School\"]‘All of this is extremely important for a couple months down the road where we’re going to get to have this fight again. But the immediate impact is very unlikely to be determinative in the primary.’[/pullquote]For his part, President Biden said Wednesday that Trump “certainly supported an insurrection, but added: “Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what could happen next in Colorado and beyond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Levitt, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School, told NPR that as long as there’s a petition for U.S. Supreme Court review in place by Jan. 5, there’s a “99.9%” chance that Trump will remain on the Colorado primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if Trump — with his consistently steady lead in GOP polls — does win the primary, Levitt expects there will be a similar legal effort to keep him off the general election ballot for the same reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this is extremely important for a couple months down the road where we’re going to get to have this fight again,” he adds. “But the immediate impact is very unlikely to be determinative in the primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Republicans threaten to withdraw from the Colorado primary\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prominent Republicans — including Trump’s rivals for the presidential nomination — are lining up to slam the Colorado court’s decision and are already promising to take action against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1737261244187279567?s=20\">wrote online that\u003c/a> “our legal team looks forward to helping fight for a victory,” referring to Trump’s expected appeal. [aside label='More Stories on California Politics' tag='donald-trump']Just hours after the ruling Tuesday, Trump’s team sent an email with the subject line “REMOVED FROM THE BALLOT,” urging supporters to give to his campaign. This is \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4331390-trump-fundraises-colorado-14th-amendment-case/\">not the first such ask\u003c/a> related to the Colorado case from Trump, who has been known to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191279975/raising-money-poll-numbers-donald-trump-teflon-don-indictments-criminal-charges\">fundraise off his legal woes\u003c/a> — and whose political persona is driven by a narrative of being persecuted by enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colorado Republican Party similarly launched an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cologop/status/1737267579566080398?s=20\">online campaign\u003c/a> urging donors to “help us keep Trump on the ballot and fight this election interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cologop/status/1737292783835103476?s=20\">also threatened\u003c/a> to withdraw from the primary and convert to a party-run \u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/primaries-caucuses\">caucus system\u003c/a> if the ruling stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not gonna take this lying down, and if need be, we’re going to withdraw from the primary and go to a strict caucus process that would allow our voters to choose Donald Trump if they want,” state Rep. Dave Williams, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192255293/state-gop-woes-colorado-michigan\">staunchly conservative\u003c/a> chair of the Colorado Republican Party, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/abbydphillip/status/1737329736773140906?s=20\">told CNN\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be easier said than done, however, since the RNC has already approved the state party’s nomination plan, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ramaswamy-pledges-withdraw-colorado-gop-primary-solidarity-trump/story?id=105794659\">ABC News reports\u003c/a>. Williams told the outlet that Colorado Republicans would “seek a waiver and probably get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some of Trump’s GOP challengers are siding with him in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Ramaswamy pledged in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1737290316527370495?s=20\">statement and video\u003c/a> to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot “until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s campaigned to stop Trump from returning to office, criticized the court’s ruling shortly after it came out. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovChristie/status/1737271157940769005?s=20\">Speaking at an event\u003c/a> in New Hampshire, he said Trump shouldn’t be prevented from being president by any court but rather by the country’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Colorado’s decision could mean for the country\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Legal experts and election officials have long predicted the Trump 14th Amendment challenges would end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, to be decided for the country as a whole rather than on a state-by-state basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have ruled against similar efforts in Arizona, Minnesota and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-michigan-appeal-c6b66ef9ed85734305ff2dd27023447d\">Michigan\u003c/a>, though other legal battles are still pending — or have yet to be introduced — in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt, of Loyola said Colorado’s decision won’t directly impact any of these other cases. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Justin Levitt, constitutional law professor, Loyola Law School\"]‘There are a lot of questions that, if we get to November and the American people decide they don’t want him as their chief executive, that the courts never have to decide.’[/pullquote]The “thoughtful” opinion gives other courts something to look at, to see if they agree or disagree, he noted. But he said the incentives remain basically the same for Trump’s team to slow the process down and for the other side to speed things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It punts this a few months down the road but doesn’t actually stop the clock on any of the other proceedings,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Supreme Court has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1185496055/supreme-court-conservative-majority-thomas-trump-bush\">conservative supermajority\u003c/a>, including three justices appointed by Trump himself, it’s unclear how it would rule on the Colorado appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220559030/constitutional-scholar-discusses-colorado-ruling-baaring-trump-from-primary-ball\">told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she believes the Supreme Court would take this case seriously because of the massive implications it holds not just for 2024 but for future elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there should be an incentive along the way to say to would-be presidents, ‘Listen, don’t do what happened on Jan. 6, there’ll be consequences for it,'” she added. “But we’re in a politicized world, and we have, arguably, a politicized Supreme Court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say it could choose to send the case back to the state level or avoid ruling on the merits in some other way (like focusing on the wording of the clause, as the lower court in Colorado did).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the only consequential case regarding Trump at the Supreme Court. The federal special counsel has asked the justices to quickly decide whether the former president \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/11/1218558297/trump-immunity-supreme-court-election-case\">enjoyed broad immunity\u003c/a> from criminal charges as a result of his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering the 14th Amendment, Levitt says the tough question is not whether Trump is qualified to hold office but who gets to make that call. He believes the courts will want to leave it up to voters and says he’s a little skeptical that “the law is going to decide this issue before the people do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of questions that, if we get to November and the American people decide they don’t want him as their chief executive, that the courts never have to decide,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Vanessa Romo contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Trump's team vowed to appeal the decision. If it's in front of the U.S. Supreme Court by Jan. 5, Trump's name will stay on the ballot. Legal experts say the question is likely to keep coming up.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1703105068,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1538},"headData":{"title":"Colorado's Supreme Court Barred Trump From State Ballot. What Happens Now? | KQED","description":"Trump's team vowed to appeal the decision. If it's in front of the U.S. Supreme Court by Jan. 5, Trump's name will stay on the ballot. Legal experts say the question is likely to keep coming up.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"John Minchillo","nprByline":"Rachel Treisman","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"1220593469","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1220593469&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220593469/colorado-trump-14-amendment-disqualified-primary-ballot?ft=nprml&f=1220593469","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:07:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:13:02 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:07:26 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11970527/colorados-supreme-court-bans-trump-from-state-ballot-what-happens-now","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Legal scholars and activists — mostly on the left — have argued for months that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1200130870/14th-amendment-disqualify-trump-explained\">Civil War-era constitutional clause\u003c/a> should disqualify former President Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner, from holding office again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They contend that Trump’s words and actions on and around the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack violate \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/\">Section 3 of the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>, which bars from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States. And liberal-leaning groups have brought that argument to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/current-projects/the-trump-trials/section-3-litigation-tracker\">court in many states\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Colorado Supreme Court","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Colorado became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2023/12/19/colorado-supreme-court-disqualifies-trump-from-ballot/?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20231220&utm_term=9158209&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=50220589&orgid=305&utm_att1=\">first to agree on Tuesday\u003c/a> when its Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from appearing on its state primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220583273/trump-colorado-supreme-court-ruling\">reads the 213-page opinion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark 4-3 ruling — which overturns a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2023/11/17/judge-rules-trump-will-appear-on-colorados-2024-gop-primary-ballot/\">district court decision\u003c/a> from last month — is the first time a high court in any state has found that Section 3 applies to both Trump’s conduct and the office of the presidency itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices — all appointed by Democratic governors in the increasingly blue state — acknowledge that this amounts to “uncharted territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And “to maintain the status quo,” they stayed their ruling until Jan. 4, the day before the secretary of state’s deadline to certify primary ballots (Colorado’s presidential primary will be held on March 5). That means that if the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear the case and is still in process by that date, Trump’s name should be included on the ballot after all.\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>Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called the decision “completely flawed” and pledged to “swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘All of this is extremely important for a couple months down the road where we’re going to get to have this fight again. But the immediate impact is very unlikely to be determinative in the primary.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Justin Levitt, constitutional law professor, Loyola Law School","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For his part, President Biden said Wednesday that Trump “certainly supported an insurrection, but added: “Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what could happen next in Colorado and beyond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Levitt, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School, told NPR that as long as there’s a petition for U.S. Supreme Court review in place by Jan. 5, there’s a “99.9%” chance that Trump will remain on the Colorado primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if Trump — with his consistently steady lead in GOP polls — does win the primary, Levitt expects there will be a similar legal effort to keep him off the general election ballot for the same reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this is extremely important for a couple months down the road where we’re going to get to have this fight again,” he adds. “But the immediate impact is very unlikely to be determinative in the primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Republicans threaten to withdraw from the Colorado primary\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prominent Republicans — including Trump’s rivals for the presidential nomination — are lining up to slam the Colorado court’s decision and are already promising to take action against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1737261244187279567?s=20\">wrote online that\u003c/a> “our legal team looks forward to helping fight for a victory,” referring to Trump’s expected appeal. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on California Politics ","tag":"donald-trump"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Just hours after the ruling Tuesday, Trump’s team sent an email with the subject line “REMOVED FROM THE BALLOT,” urging supporters to give to his campaign. This is \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4331390-trump-fundraises-colorado-14th-amendment-case/\">not the first such ask\u003c/a> related to the Colorado case from Trump, who has been known to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191279975/raising-money-poll-numbers-donald-trump-teflon-don-indictments-criminal-charges\">fundraise off his legal woes\u003c/a> — and whose political persona is driven by a narrative of being persecuted by enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colorado Republican Party similarly launched an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cologop/status/1737267579566080398?s=20\">online campaign\u003c/a> urging donors to “help us keep Trump on the ballot and fight this election interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cologop/status/1737292783835103476?s=20\">also threatened\u003c/a> to withdraw from the primary and convert to a party-run \u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/primaries-caucuses\">caucus system\u003c/a> if the ruling stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not gonna take this lying down, and if need be, we’re going to withdraw from the primary and go to a strict caucus process that would allow our voters to choose Donald Trump if they want,” state Rep. Dave Williams, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192255293/state-gop-woes-colorado-michigan\">staunchly conservative\u003c/a> chair of the Colorado Republican Party, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/abbydphillip/status/1737329736773140906?s=20\">told CNN\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be easier said than done, however, since the RNC has already approved the state party’s nomination plan, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ramaswamy-pledges-withdraw-colorado-gop-primary-solidarity-trump/story?id=105794659\">ABC News reports\u003c/a>. Williams told the outlet that Colorado Republicans would “seek a waiver and probably get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some of Trump’s GOP challengers are siding with him in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Ramaswamy pledged in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1737290316527370495?s=20\">statement and video\u003c/a> to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot “until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s campaigned to stop Trump from returning to office, criticized the court’s ruling shortly after it came out. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovChristie/status/1737271157940769005?s=20\">Speaking at an event\u003c/a> in New Hampshire, he said Trump shouldn’t be prevented from being president by any court but rather by the country’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Colorado’s decision could mean for the country\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Legal experts and election officials have long predicted the Trump 14th Amendment challenges would end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, to be decided for the country as a whole rather than on a state-by-state basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have ruled against similar efforts in Arizona, Minnesota and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-michigan-appeal-c6b66ef9ed85734305ff2dd27023447d\">Michigan\u003c/a>, though other legal battles are still pending — or have yet to be introduced — in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt, of Loyola said Colorado’s decision won’t directly impact any of these other cases. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There are a lot of questions that, if we get to November and the American people decide they don’t want him as their chief executive, that the courts never have to decide.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Justin Levitt, constitutional law professor, Loyola Law School","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The “thoughtful” opinion gives other courts something to look at, to see if they agree or disagree, he noted. But he said the incentives remain basically the same for Trump’s team to slow the process down and for the other side to speed things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It punts this a few months down the road but doesn’t actually stop the clock on any of the other proceedings,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Supreme Court has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1185496055/supreme-court-conservative-majority-thomas-trump-bush\">conservative supermajority\u003c/a>, including three justices appointed by Trump himself, it’s unclear how it would rule on the Colorado appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220559030/constitutional-scholar-discusses-colorado-ruling-baaring-trump-from-primary-ball\">told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she believes the Supreme Court would take this case seriously because of the massive implications it holds not just for 2024 but for future elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there should be an incentive along the way to say to would-be presidents, ‘Listen, don’t do what happened on Jan. 6, there’ll be consequences for it,'” she added. “But we’re in a politicized world, and we have, arguably, a politicized Supreme Court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say it could choose to send the case back to the state level or avoid ruling on the merits in some other way (like focusing on the wording of the clause, as the lower court in Colorado did).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the only consequential case regarding Trump at the Supreme Court. The federal special counsel has asked the justices to quickly decide whether the former president \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/11/1218558297/trump-immunity-supreme-court-election-case\">enjoyed broad immunity\u003c/a> from criminal charges as a result of his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering the 14th Amendment, Levitt says the tough question is not whether Trump is qualified to hold office but who gets to make that call. He believes the courts will want to leave it up to voters and says he’s a little skeptical that “the law is going to decide this issue before the people do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of questions that, if we get to November and the American people decide they don’t want him as their chief executive, that the courts never have to decide,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Vanessa Romo contributed reporting.\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11970527/colorados-supreme-court-bans-trump-from-state-ballot-what-happens-now","authors":["byline_news_11970527"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_18012","news_1323","news_27626","news_17968","news_29111","news_21447"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11970528","label":"news_253"},"news_11969228":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969228","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11969228","score":null,"sort":[1701972241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kevin-mccarthy-surprise-resignation-sets-off-mad-scramble-to-replace-him","title":"Kevin McCarthy's Surprise Resignation Sets Off Mad Scramble to Replace Him","publishDate":1701972241,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Kevin McCarthy’s Surprise Resignation Sets Off Mad Scramble to Replace Him | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2023/12/la-dimision-de-mccarthy-desencadena-una-ola-de-especulaciones-sobre-su-reemplazo/\">español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement Wednesday that he will leave Congress at the end of this month sets off a tidal wave of speculation on who will represent a wide swath of California’s agricultural heartland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement’s timing also sets up McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, to be a potential political kingmaker if he gives an early endorsement. It’s a role he’s played before and relishes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing his resignation in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/kevin-mccarthy-my-next-chapter-house-gop-retirement-california-e4e593d7\">Wall Street Journal op-ed\u003c/a>, McCarthy reiterated that he will “continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is virtually certain: McCarthy’s replacement to represent his reliably conservative district will be a Republican. And one of the names on a possible list of GOP stalwarts is a big one — former Rep. Devin Nunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling Godzilla-shaped district is a GOP stronghold as ruby-red as any in California. Its voters supported former President Donald Trump — in 2016 and 2020 — and the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom by wide margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also know the process for how McCarthy will be replaced, at least initially. Since he isn’t leaving his seat until, after the candidate filing deadline, it’s up to Newsom to decide whether to call a special election in early 2024 to fill the remaining months of McCarthy’s current term — which ends in Jan. 2025 — according to the California Secretary of State’s office. A spokesperson for the governor’s office said a special election would need to be called within 14 days of a vacancy but did not answer whether Newsom plans to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will have more to share once we have specifics from McCarthy about his planned departure,” said Erin Mellon, the spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary and November general election, voters in the district will choose their next representative to serve a full two-year term starting in 2025. The filing deadline for candidates is now Dec. 13, according to the Secretary of State.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"kevin-mccarthy\"]The counties covered by McCarthy’s 20th Congressional District have recently become familiar with this process after Nunes departed at the end of 2021. Connie Conway was elected in June 2022 to fill out the remaining six months of Nunes’ term and served as a caretaker uninterested in re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the potential candidates who could mount a campaign to replace McCarthy and why they may or may not choose to join the fray:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Devin Nunes\u003c/strong>: longtime GOP member of Congress and staunch supporter of the former president who left his seat in late 2020 to take over as chief executive of Truth Social, Trump’s social-media venture\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen: \u003c/strong>Nunes has a mile-long list of political bonafides, including national name recognition, an $11 million campaign \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2021/12/08/taking-it-with-them-members-leaving-with-money-in-the-bank/#:~:text=Devin%20Nunes%20holds%20an%20enviable,return%20it%20to%20his%20donors.\">war chest\u003c/a>, and a bridge to the powerful MAGA wing of the Republican Party. He previously represented many Fresno-area voters who now comprise a sizable chunk of McCarthy’s district. He hasn’t disappeared from the local political scene and frequently is a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/ray-appleton/devin-nunes-joins-ray-for-the-entire-hour\">guest on local conservative talk radio\u003c/a>. Election to a GOP stronghold district could be a more secure job than Truth Social’s \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/trumps-truth-social-is-an-unmitigated-failure.html#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20the%20blank%2Dcheck%20company%20trying,against%20%242.3%20million%20in%20sales.\">shaky prospects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not\u003c/strong>: If elected, Nunes, who over nearly two decades in Congress had risen up the House ranks to lead the influential Intelligence Committee, would start over as a backbencher. Many speculate the chamber’s current thin GOP majority will be wiped out after the 2024 election, making for a miserable life as a Republican first-termer. He’s also branched out into various unrelated interests after joining Truth Social. He recently started \u003ca href=\"https://www.devinnuneswines.com/\">his own winery\u003c/a> with vintage wines such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.devinnuneswines.com/wines/\">Patriot Cabernet Sauvignon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vince Fong: \u003c/strong>Republican assemblymember who represents Bakersfield\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen: \u003c/strong>At 44, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/vince-fong-1979/\">Fong\u003c/a> could serve for decades and move into a leadership position. The Princeton graduate has long been a favorite of McCarthy’s and served as his district director before his election to the state Assembly in 2016. He was also a former staffer for Republican Rep. Bill Thomas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kmjnow.com/2023/09/28/gop-calls-on-newsom-to-convene-special-session-to-suspend-gas-tax/\">has helped lead\u003c/a> the failed Republican efforts to suspend California’s gas tax. A lifetime NRA member, he’s pushed back against the state’s Democratic majority on gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not: \u003c/strong>Fong is largely unknown in the wealthy Fresno suburbs that are an important part of McCarthy’s district and has no local government experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shannon Grove: \u003c/strong>Republican state senator who currently represents a district that overlaps with much of McCarthy’s congressional seat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/shannon-grove-1965/\">Grove\u003c/a>, a strong supporter of Trump, has built a well-known and popular political brand in Bakersfield, which makes up the bulk of her state Senate district. She won a high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/07/child-trafficking-bill-california-legislature/\">victory over state Democrats\u003c/a> in the Legislature to reclassify human trafficking of a minor as a felony, a bill\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that Newsom signed. Redistricting brought her north to the wealthy and more conservative areas of Fresno and Clovis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> Grove still is a relative unknown to a chunk of McCarthy’s district. She’d have to fundraise at a level she hasn’t achieved in the past. Her MAGA ties could turn off more middle-of-the-road voters in the Fresno suburbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Valadao: \u003c/strong>Republican who currently represents the 22nd Congressional District\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> The Republican from Hanford long has been held up as a political miracle — a Republican who gets elected in Democratic-majority districts. It’s a streak he kept alive for multiple terms until his defeat in the 2018 blue wave, only to regain his seat in 2020. He’s now staring down a rematch with Rudy Salas, his Democratic rival, in a year with Trump on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopscotching one district over could make political life much easier. It wouldn’t be the first time a member of Congress moved districts for greener political pastures. Democrat Josh Harder declined to run for re-election in his Modesto-centered district in 2022, opting instead to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-9\">run in a safer Democratic district\u003c/a> centered in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> Valadao would be viewed as a political carpetbagger. Moving over to McCarthy’s district would leave his current one wide open for Salas and the Democrats. Additionally, his vote to impeach Trump in early 2021 turned off the powerful MAGA bloc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Magsig\u003c/strong>: Fresno County supervisor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> Magsig, also a former Clovis mayor and councilmember, mounted a primary challenge in 2022 against incumbent Rep. Tom McClintock in the newly-drawn 5th Congressional District. He has a history of taking on conservative causes and made waves when he led a majority of Fresno supervisors to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article274709081.html\">sue the state\u003c/a> over the renaming of the unincorporated community previously known as Squaw Valley — now called Yokuts Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> Magsig’s 2022 McClintock challenge went poorly and angered many Republicans. He has no name recognition in Bakersfield. He opted out of a logical next step to replace termed-out Assemblymember Jim Patterson, a Fresno Republican, and seems content to stay closer to home. There are no term limits for Fresno County supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Conway\u003c/strong>: Member of Congress and former state assemblymember\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> Conway won a special election in 2022 to fill out the remainder of Nunes’ term. Her long history in the state Legislature gives her all-important name recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> The former Assembly minority leader has shown little interest in making Congress her permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters Capitol reporter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/alexei-koseff/\">\u003cem>Alexei Koseff\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The former House speaker's unexpected announcement on Wednesday sparked a wave of speculation on who will replace him. These are some of the potential candidates who could mount a last-minute campaign.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701986382,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1349},"headData":{"title":"Kevin McCarthy's Surprise Resignation Sets Off Mad Scramble to Replace Him | KQED","description":"The former House speaker's unexpected announcement on Wednesday sparked a wave of speculation on who will replace him. These are some of the potential candidates who could mount a last-minute campaign.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"kevin-mccarthys-surprise-resignation-sets-off-mad-scramble-to-replace-him","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/joe-kieta/\">Joe Kieta\u003c/a>","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11969228/kevin-mccarthy-surprise-resignation-sets-off-mad-scramble-to-replace-him","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2023/12/la-dimision-de-mccarthy-desencadena-una-ola-de-especulaciones-sobre-su-reemplazo/\">español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement Wednesday that he will leave Congress at the end of this month sets off a tidal wave of speculation on who will represent a wide swath of California’s agricultural heartland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement’s timing also sets up McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, to be a potential political kingmaker if he gives an early endorsement. It’s a role he’s played before and relishes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing his resignation in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/kevin-mccarthy-my-next-chapter-house-gop-retirement-california-e4e593d7\">Wall Street Journal op-ed\u003c/a>, McCarthy reiterated that he will “continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is virtually certain: McCarthy’s replacement to represent his reliably conservative district will be a Republican. And one of the names on a possible list of GOP stalwarts is a big one — former Rep. Devin Nunes.\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 sprawling Godzilla-shaped district is a GOP stronghold as ruby-red as any in California. Its voters supported former President Donald Trump — in 2016 and 2020 — and the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom by wide margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also know the process for how McCarthy will be replaced, at least initially. Since he isn’t leaving his seat until, after the candidate filing deadline, it’s up to Newsom to decide whether to call a special election in early 2024 to fill the remaining months of McCarthy’s current term — which ends in Jan. 2025 — according to the California Secretary of State’s office. A spokesperson for the governor’s office said a special election would need to be called within 14 days of a vacancy but did not answer whether Newsom plans to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will have more to share once we have specifics from McCarthy about his planned departure,” said Erin Mellon, the spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary and November general election, voters in the district will choose their next representative to serve a full two-year term starting in 2025. The filing deadline for candidates is now Dec. 13, according to the Secretary of State.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"kevin-mccarthy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The counties covered by McCarthy’s 20th Congressional District have recently become familiar with this process after Nunes departed at the end of 2021. Connie Conway was elected in June 2022 to fill out the remaining six months of Nunes’ term and served as a caretaker uninterested in re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the potential candidates who could mount a campaign to replace McCarthy and why they may or may not choose to join the fray:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Devin Nunes\u003c/strong>: longtime GOP member of Congress and staunch supporter of the former president who left his seat in late 2020 to take over as chief executive of Truth Social, Trump’s social-media venture\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen: \u003c/strong>Nunes has a mile-long list of political bonafides, including national name recognition, an $11 million campaign \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2021/12/08/taking-it-with-them-members-leaving-with-money-in-the-bank/#:~:text=Devin%20Nunes%20holds%20an%20enviable,return%20it%20to%20his%20donors.\">war chest\u003c/a>, and a bridge to the powerful MAGA wing of the Republican Party. He previously represented many Fresno-area voters who now comprise a sizable chunk of McCarthy’s district. He hasn’t disappeared from the local political scene and frequently is a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/ray-appleton/devin-nunes-joins-ray-for-the-entire-hour\">guest on local conservative talk radio\u003c/a>. Election to a GOP stronghold district could be a more secure job than Truth Social’s \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/trumps-truth-social-is-an-unmitigated-failure.html#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20the%20blank%2Dcheck%20company%20trying,against%20%242.3%20million%20in%20sales.\">shaky prospects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not\u003c/strong>: If elected, Nunes, who over nearly two decades in Congress had risen up the House ranks to lead the influential Intelligence Committee, would start over as a backbencher. Many speculate the chamber’s current thin GOP majority will be wiped out after the 2024 election, making for a miserable life as a Republican first-termer. He’s also branched out into various unrelated interests after joining Truth Social. He recently started \u003ca href=\"https://www.devinnuneswines.com/\">his own winery\u003c/a> with vintage wines such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.devinnuneswines.com/wines/\">Patriot Cabernet Sauvignon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vince Fong: \u003c/strong>Republican assemblymember who represents Bakersfield\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen: \u003c/strong>At 44, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/vince-fong-1979/\">Fong\u003c/a> could serve for decades and move into a leadership position. The Princeton graduate has long been a favorite of McCarthy’s and served as his district director before his election to the state Assembly in 2016. He was also a former staffer for Republican Rep. Bill Thomas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kmjnow.com/2023/09/28/gop-calls-on-newsom-to-convene-special-session-to-suspend-gas-tax/\">has helped lead\u003c/a> the failed Republican efforts to suspend California’s gas tax. A lifetime NRA member, he’s pushed back against the state’s Democratic majority on gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not: \u003c/strong>Fong is largely unknown in the wealthy Fresno suburbs that are an important part of McCarthy’s district and has no local government experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shannon Grove: \u003c/strong>Republican state senator who currently represents a district that overlaps with much of McCarthy’s congressional seat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/shannon-grove-1965/\">Grove\u003c/a>, a strong supporter of Trump, has built a well-known and popular political brand in Bakersfield, which makes up the bulk of her state Senate district. She won a high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/07/child-trafficking-bill-california-legislature/\">victory over state Democrats\u003c/a> in the Legislature to reclassify human trafficking of a minor as a felony, a bill\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that Newsom signed. Redistricting brought her north to the wealthy and more conservative areas of Fresno and Clovis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> Grove still is a relative unknown to a chunk of McCarthy’s district. She’d have to fundraise at a level she hasn’t achieved in the past. Her MAGA ties could turn off more middle-of-the-road voters in the Fresno suburbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Valadao: \u003c/strong>Republican who currently represents the 22nd Congressional District\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> The Republican from Hanford long has been held up as a political miracle — a Republican who gets elected in Democratic-majority districts. It’s a streak he kept alive for multiple terms until his defeat in the 2018 blue wave, only to regain his seat in 2020. He’s now staring down a rematch with Rudy Salas, his Democratic rival, in a year with Trump on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopscotching one district over could make political life much easier. It wouldn’t be the first time a member of Congress moved districts for greener political pastures. Democrat Josh Harder declined to run for re-election in his Modesto-centered district in 2022, opting instead to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-9\">run in a safer Democratic district\u003c/a> centered in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> Valadao would be viewed as a political carpetbagger. Moving over to McCarthy’s district would leave his current one wide open for Salas and the Democrats. Additionally, his vote to impeach Trump in early 2021 turned off the powerful MAGA bloc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Magsig\u003c/strong>: Fresno County supervisor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> Magsig, also a former Clovis mayor and councilmember, mounted a primary challenge in 2022 against incumbent Rep. Tom McClintock in the newly-drawn 5th Congressional District. He has a history of taking on conservative causes and made waves when he led a majority of Fresno supervisors to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article274709081.html\">sue the state\u003c/a> over the renaming of the unincorporated community previously known as Squaw Valley — now called Yokuts Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> Magsig’s 2022 McClintock challenge went poorly and angered many Republicans. He has no name recognition in Bakersfield. He opted out of a logical next step to replace termed-out Assemblymember Jim Patterson, a Fresno Republican, and seems content to stay closer to home. There are no term limits for Fresno County supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Conway\u003c/strong>: Member of Congress and former state assemblymember\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it could happen:\u003c/strong> Conway won a special election in 2022 to fill out the remainder of Nunes’ term. Her long history in the state Legislature gives her all-important name recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it might not:\u003c/strong> The former Assembly minority leader has shown little interest in making Congress her permanent home.\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>CalMatters Capitol reporter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/alexei-koseff/\">\u003cem>Alexei Koseff\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11969228/kevin-mccarthy-surprise-resignation-sets-off-mad-scramble-to-replace-him","authors":["byline_news_11969228"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_18012","news_20149","news_27626","news_1891","news_17968","news_18536","news_387"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11969232","label":"news_18481"},"news_11965684":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11965684","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11965684","score":null,"sort":[1698436544000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amidst-backlash-conservative-groups-target-south-bay-school-board-seats","title":"Amid Backlash, Conservative Groups Target South Bay School Board Seats","publishDate":1698436544,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Amid Backlash, Conservative Groups Target South Bay School Board Seats | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in late August, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women hosted a meeting to recruit candidates for local school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering at Calvary Chapel on Hillsdale Avenue in San José began with a prayer from the group’s vice president, Mingi Bodine. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mingi Bodine, vice president, Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women\"]‘Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins, but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen.’[/pullquote]“Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen,” Bodine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two hours, advocates implored potential candidates to pursue school board seats under the banner of “parents’ rights” — with the goal of policing textbooks and transgender expression and countering the influence of teacher unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of one local parents’ rights group, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, shared his plans to encourage parents to opt their children out of sex ed classes. And conservatives who had won seats on South Bay school boards offered unvarnished explanations for their leap into politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided I’m going to run. Why? Because they were hurting the children,” said Linda Chavez, who was elected to the board of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, in East San José, in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had just finished passing all of this gay stuff,” Chavez said. “And this is one of the first districts who did it, and I looked around and said, this is all going to go this way — not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Chavez and three other candidates backed by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women won school board seats in the South Bay. A year later — as clashes over transgender rights, Pride flags, and LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum have spread across California and the nation — conservative organizations in liberal Santa Clara County are redoubling their efforts to gain a foothold on local school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are facing growing pushback from opponents who are raising alarms about the groups’ collective aims. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San José City Councilmember Omar Torres\"]‘Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday, members of San José’s City Council denounced Informed Parents of Silicon Valley for using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaign to remove kids from sex-ed. In response, the council unanimously passed a resolution “affirming support of the transgender and broader LGBTQ+ communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Omar Torres, the city’s first openly gay Latino councilmember, co-authored the resolution. He was overcome with emotion as he attempted to speak from the dais — twice asking for more time to collect his thoughts, as other council members walked over to embrace him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand here crying not only as a councilmember but as a human who has been the target of hate solely because of my sexual orientation,” Torres said. “Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the council and their allies vowed to counter the influence of the conservative organizations — drawing battle lines ahead of what could be a more significant confrontation on school board ballots in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you don’t want to have happen is that everybody stays quiet,” said Ken Yeager, a professor of political science at San José State and the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County. “Then, these evangelicals think, ‘Oh, OK, the political climate has changed, we can be much more bold in our actions because there isn’t going to be any type of reaction to it.” [aside postID=news_11962571 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-CHINO-TRANSGENDER-SCHOOL-BOARD-Getty-DM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Informed Parents caught the attention of the council last month when their volunteers distributed literature outside of schools in the Cambrian, Franklin-McKinney and San José Unified school districts, which declared “Your children are at risk!” and accused local schools of teaching “Gender confusion and gender transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Pam Foley called the literature “inappropriate and totally unnecessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fliers contain misinformation and hateful dog whistles that target our LGBTQ community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Pegram, the founder of Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, defended his group’s outreach to parents and said their agenda is not anti-LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome anyone and everyone who’s interested in asserting parental rights over their children’s education,” said Pegram, a former San José councilmember, told KQED. “Whether those parents are gay, trans, cisgendered, or anything else really doesn’t matter to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core goal of the group’s opt-out campaign, Pegram said, is to teach parents about their ability to remove their children from classes they consider inappropriate, such as comprehensive sex education (which includes LGBTQ+ inclusive language) and HIV/AIDS prevention education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 California law requires students to receive sex ed once in middle school and once in high school, although it can be taught earlier. School districts are required to notify parents about the instruction and inform them about their ability to excuse their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we are doing is helping parents know what their rights are and make a decision as to whether or not they want to opt their children out of these various activities,” Pegram said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Larry Pegram, founder, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley\"]‘If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army. … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign’[/pullquote]Pegram told KQED his group is not involved in politics. But at the August church meeting for prospective school board candidates, Pegram offered extensive guidance to candidates about campaigning, fundraising and messaging, saying, “If you want to see a change in curriculum in the schools, you have to make a change in the face of the people that are running the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, is dedicated to helping you candidates get elected,” Pegram said before adding, “Now, we’re a 501(c)(3) organization. We don’t — I’m doing this for the tape — we do not endorse any candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram said his group’s distribution of the “opt-out bookmarks” will encourage like-minded parents to form organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Informed Parents see the group as Pegram’s latest effort to target LGBTQ+ rights in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeager, who detailed the history of local LGBTQ+ politics in his book \u003cem>Run!, \u003c/em>recounted Pegram’s opposition to ordinances protecting the city’s gay residents from discrimination in 1980. Later, Pegram was a local advocate for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage statewide in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is always on children,” Yeager said. “But obviously, their main aim is really to sort of take over politics and to sort of deprive LGBTQ people of the same rights as everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram maintained that his own political history is “irrelevant” to the current work of Informed Parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College, said she sees a similar playbook at work in the current debates playing out over LGBTQ+ issues in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition. And so maybe 10, 15 years ago, it was marriage equality,” said Michelson, who studies LGBTQ+ politics and transgender rights. “And now the focus has turned to what’s going on in schools, what’s going on in school libraries, what’s going on in school curriculums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said school board elections present a unique opportunity for small groups of well-organized activists. The races are often low-information contests, and candidates don’t run as a member of a political party, leaving voters without a partisan cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a strategic move in a blue state like California, where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is unlikely to succeed at the state level. Instead, California’s Republican Party has made a concerted effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922860/california-republicans-are-betting-big-on-local-school-board-races\">invest in school board candidates as a way of building political power\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women supported more than a dozen candidates for school board across Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those candidates won: Marc Cooper in the Franklin-McKinley School District; Pamela Gardiner in the Morgan Hill Unified School District; Jim Zito in the Evergreen School District; and Linda Chavez, in her bid for reelection in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ties to conservative parents’ rights groups have created divisions at the local level. Cooper was censured last month by his board colleagues for appearing on a flier promoting his presence at an event organized by Informed Parents. The group was \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f7e7b8f6-de8e-4fa1-b10d-7c41d2c291df\">forced to apologize to San José councilmember Bien Doan\u003c/a> for featuring his image on the same flier without his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high leading into Tuesday’s council meeting. The resolution had initially called for the explicit condemnation of Informed Parents and accused the group of harassing families in their attempts to distribute opt-out literature. But after legal threats from the group, Informed Parents’ name was removed from the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, about two dozen residents showed up to testify — many sharing personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Rivera, a teacher and president of the teachers union in Alum Rock, told the council about raising a transgender son in local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As my son navigated who he was, it was through educators here in San José and in safe spaces created by them that helped him feel safe exploring his gender,” Rivera said. “Groups such as Informed Parents of Silicon Valley are wolves in sheep’s clothing trying to justify hate.” [aside label='More Stories on LGBTQ+ Discrimination' tag='lgbtq-discrimination']Other parents showed up to support Informed Parents and blasted the school board for condemning the group. Ha Tran, a San José parent of two, said the resolution was full of “false claims and should be discarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These groups are there because schools are not doing their jobs,” Tran added. “These schools are biased and promote LGBQT+ and cause kids to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said that on its face, Informed Parents’ campaign to opt children out of sex ed classes is a far cry from efforts to out transgender students and ban books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most people, that’s where it crosses the line — versus telling people, ‘Hey, just a reminder, you can opt your kid out of this curriculum,’” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Informed Parents’ fear-mongering rhetoric and political activity, Michelson added, could undermine their stated goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to give it up that easy and people are going to know that that’s what you’re really doing, then you’re going to have to expect some backlash,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The San José City Council’s emotional denunciation of Informed Parents of Silicon Valley offered a preview of school board fights in 2024. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1698446587,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":2154},"headData":{"title":"Amid Backlash, Conservative Groups Target South Bay School Board Seats | KQED","description":"The San José City Council’s emotional denunciation of Informed Parents of Silicon Valley offered a preview of school board fights in 2024. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/01443e31-8b35-4be4-9eb5-b0a8010f8152/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11965684/amidst-backlash-conservative-groups-target-south-bay-school-board-seats","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in late August, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women hosted a meeting to recruit candidates for local school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering at Calvary Chapel on Hillsdale Avenue in San José began with a prayer from the group’s vice president, Mingi Bodine. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins, but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mingi Bodine, vice president, Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Father, we are asking not only for your forgiveness of our sins but rescuing the children, who have been under the most evil public school system America has ever seen,” Bodine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two hours, advocates implored potential candidates to pursue school board seats under the banner of “parents’ rights” — with the goal of policing textbooks and transgender expression and countering the influence of teacher unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of one local parents’ rights group, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, shared his plans to encourage parents to opt their children out of sex ed classes. And conservatives who had won seats on South Bay school boards offered unvarnished explanations for their leap into politics.\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 decided I’m going to run. Why? Because they were hurting the children,” said Linda Chavez, who was elected to the board of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, in East San José, in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had just finished passing all of this gay stuff,” Chavez said. “And this is one of the first districts who did it, and I looked around and said, this is all going to go this way — not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Chavez and three other candidates backed by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women won school board seats in the South Bay. A year later — as clashes over transgender rights, Pride flags, and LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum have spread across California and the nation — conservative organizations in liberal Santa Clara County are redoubling their efforts to gain a foothold on local school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are facing growing pushback from opponents who are raising alarms about the groups’ collective aims. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San José City Councilmember Omar Torres","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Tuesday, members of San José’s City Council denounced Informed Parents of Silicon Valley for using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaign to remove kids from sex-ed. In response, the council unanimously passed a resolution “affirming support of the transgender and broader LGBTQ+ communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Omar Torres, the city’s first openly gay Latino councilmember, co-authored the resolution. He was overcome with emotion as he attempted to speak from the dais — twice asking for more time to collect his thoughts, as other council members walked over to embrace him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand here crying not only as a councilmember but as a human who has been the target of hate solely because of my sexual orientation,” Torres said. “Right-wing individuals and organizations have made it clear to me, to our transgender community, to our LGBTQ community that we should be retreating back into the closet to hide our true selves and to conform to a version of society that denies me to be my true authentic self.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the council and their allies vowed to counter the influence of the conservative organizations — drawing battle lines ahead of what could be a more significant confrontation on school board ballots in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you don’t want to have happen is that everybody stays quiet,” said Ken Yeager, a professor of political science at San José State and the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County. “Then, these evangelicals think, ‘Oh, OK, the political climate has changed, we can be much more bold in our actions because there isn’t going to be any type of reaction to it.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11962571","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-CHINO-TRANSGENDER-SCHOOL-BOARD-Getty-DM-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Informed Parents caught the attention of the council last month when their volunteers distributed literature outside of schools in the Cambrian, Franklin-McKinney and San José Unified school districts, which declared “Your children are at risk!” and accused local schools of teaching “Gender confusion and gender transitioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Pam Foley called the literature “inappropriate and totally unnecessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fliers contain misinformation and hateful dog whistles that target our LGBTQ community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Pegram, the founder of Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, defended his group’s outreach to parents and said their agenda is not anti-LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome anyone and everyone who’s interested in asserting parental rights over their children’s education,” said Pegram, a former San José councilmember, told KQED. “Whether those parents are gay, trans, cisgendered, or anything else really doesn’t matter to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core goal of the group’s opt-out campaign, Pegram said, is to teach parents about their ability to remove their children from classes they consider inappropriate, such as comprehensive sex education (which includes LGBTQ+ inclusive language) and HIV/AIDS prevention education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 California law requires students to receive sex ed once in middle school and once in high school, although it can be taught earlier. School districts are required to notify parents about the instruction and inform them about their ability to excuse their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we are doing is helping parents know what their rights are and make a decision as to whether or not they want to opt their children out of these various activities,” Pegram said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army. … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Larry Pegram, founder, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pegram told KQED his group is not involved in politics. But at the August church meeting for prospective school board candidates, Pegram offered extensive guidance to candidates about campaigning, fundraising and messaging, saying, “If you want to see a change in curriculum in the schools, you have to make a change in the face of the people that are running the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization, Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, is dedicated to helping you candidates get elected,” Pegram said before adding, “Now, we’re a 501(c)(3) organization. We don’t — I’m doing this for the tape — we do not endorse any candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram said his group’s distribution of the “opt-out bookmarks” will encourage like-minded parents to form organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can create parent organizations at the various school districts, we’ve got the army. So that when someone stands up and says, ‘Yes, I want to run,’ we’ve got an army … and we can begin to use that army for all of the labor needs that occur in a political campaign,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Informed Parents see the group as Pegram’s latest effort to target LGBTQ+ rights in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeager, who detailed the history of local LGBTQ+ politics in his book \u003cem>Run!, \u003c/em>recounted Pegram’s opposition to ordinances protecting the city’s gay residents from discrimination in 1980. Later, Pegram was a local advocate for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage statewide in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is always on children,” Yeager said. “But obviously, their main aim is really to sort of take over politics and to sort of deprive LGBTQ people of the same rights as everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pegram maintained that his own political history is “irrelevant” to the current work of Informed Parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College, said she sees a similar playbook at work in the current debates playing out over LGBTQ+ issues in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture wars are all about finding that new thing that divides and tries to, you know, to pull away from the opposition’s coalition. And so maybe 10, 15 years ago, it was marriage equality,” said Michelson, who studies LGBTQ+ politics and transgender rights. “And now the focus has turned to what’s going on in schools, what’s going on in school libraries, what’s going on in school curriculums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said school board elections present a unique opportunity for small groups of well-organized activists. The races are often low-information contests, and candidates don’t run as a member of a political party, leaving voters without a partisan cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a strategic move in a blue state like California, where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is unlikely to succeed at the state level. Instead, California’s Republican Party has made a concerted effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922860/california-republicans-are-betting-big-on-local-school-board-races\">invest in school board candidates as a way of building political power\u003c/a> at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women supported more than a dozen candidates for school board across Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those candidates won: Marc Cooper in the Franklin-McKinley School District; Pamela Gardiner in the Morgan Hill Unified School District; Jim Zito in the Evergreen School District; and Linda Chavez, in her bid for reelection in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ties to conservative parents’ rights groups have created divisions at the local level. Cooper was censured last month by his board colleagues for appearing on a flier promoting his presence at an event organized by Informed Parents. The group was \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f7e7b8f6-de8e-4fa1-b10d-7c41d2c291df\">forced to apologize to San José councilmember Bien Doan\u003c/a> for featuring his image on the same flier without his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions were already high leading into Tuesday’s council meeting. The resolution had initially called for the explicit condemnation of Informed Parents and accused the group of harassing families in their attempts to distribute opt-out literature. But after legal threats from the group, Informed Parents’ name was removed from the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, about two dozen residents showed up to testify — many sharing personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Rivera, a teacher and president of the teachers union in Alum Rock, told the council about raising a transgender son in local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As my son navigated who he was, it was through educators here in San José and in safe spaces created by them that helped him feel safe exploring his gender,” Rivera said. “Groups such as Informed Parents of Silicon Valley are wolves in sheep’s clothing trying to justify hate.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on LGBTQ+ Discrimination ","tag":"lgbtq-discrimination"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Other parents showed up to support Informed Parents and blasted the school board for condemning the group. Ha Tran, a San José parent of two, said the resolution was full of “false claims and should be discarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These groups are there because schools are not doing their jobs,” Tran added. “These schools are biased and promote LGBQT+ and cause kids to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelson said that on its face, Informed Parents’ campaign to opt children out of sex ed classes is a far cry from efforts to out transgender students and ban books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most people, that’s where it crosses the line — versus telling people, ‘Hey, just a reminder, you can opt your kid out of this curriculum,’” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Informed Parents’ fear-mongering rhetoric and political activity, Michelson added, could undermine their stated goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to give it up that easy and people are going to know that that’s what you’re really doing, then you’re going to have to expect some backlash,” she said.\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11965684/amidst-backlash-conservative-groups-target-south-bay-school-board-seats","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_30518","news_31933","news_18012","news_20013","news_27626","news_20004","news_17968","news_18541","news_31987","news_29227"],"featImg":"news_11965694","label":"news"},"news_11965014":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11965014","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11965014","score":null,"sort":[1697749508000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sen-laphonza-butler-will-not-run-for-us-senate-seat-in-2024","title":"Sen. Laphonza Butler Will Not Run for US Senate Seat in 2024","publishDate":1697749508,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Sen. Laphonza Butler Will Not Run for US Senate Seat in 2024 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a surprise move for many watching California’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, recently appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler said Thursday she will not run for a full term in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, a former labor leader and Democratic strategist, was appointed to the Senate seat earlier this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, to fill the remainder of a term left open by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Her announcement was an unexpected twist in the state’s marquee political contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing you can win a campaign doesn’t always mean you should run a campaign,” Butler said, in her statement. “I know this will be a surprise to many because traditionally we don’t see those who have power let it go. It may not be the decision people expected but it’s the right one for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler could have run as an incumbent in the March 5 primary, where she would have joined a competitive field that also includes Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, along with Republicans Eric Early and Steve Garvey, the former baseball star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to having more name recognition, the three high-profile Democratic candidates are months ahead when it comes to campaign war chests. Since January, Schiff has raised $21.5 million, Porter $22.1 million with Lee trailing with $3.3 million raised. Still, that head start in fundraising may have posed a challenge for Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Sen. Laphonza Butler\"]‘I know this will be a surprise to many because traditionally we don’t see those who have power let it go. It may not be the decision people expected but it’s the right one for me.’[/pullquote]Butler, who previously helmed SEIU California, the state’s largest umbrella union, has strong labor connections that may have afforded her an advantage in a race where close relationships with unions could provide an advantage. And in her recent role leading EMILYs List, she was often a voice of encouragement for women weighing whether to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Butler \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhnfVB0x6UY\">told FOX 11 in Los Angeles last week\u003c/a> that concerns for her own family and the “divisive nature of the harassment” would play a role in deciding whether she would run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother is 70 years old, she didn’t sign up for this. My daughter is 9, she didn’t sign up for this and so I’m thinking about my family and my family’s safety,” Butler said. “I have already gotten my first piece of hate mail and a stranger has shown up at my door and so that is a real contemplation for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lee is struggling to fundraise to the level of Schiff and Porter, Butler’s decision not to pursue a campaign may benefit Lee somewhat. Lee had initially hoped to be Newsom’s appointment to Feinstein’s seat after he promised to pick a Black woman, in light of Kamala Harris’ ascension to the vice presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Watson, deputy director of the California Donor Table, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963215/laphonza-butler-senate-appointment-draws-praise-speculation-over-2024-plans\">previously told KQED\u003c/a> that a Butler run might complicate strategic decisions for donors in deciding how to back two Black progressive candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1984492,news_11963066,news_11963215]“Sen. Butler took on the enormous responsibility of filling an open senate seat with grace, integrity, and a deep commitment to delivering for the people of California. I look forward to continuing our work together for the remainder of her term,” Lee said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the pressure of that competition, Aimee Allison — a vocal ally of Rep. Lee and founder of She the People, which helps elect women of color to office — hoped Butler would now turn her support to helping Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has the opportunity to be — once again — a queenmaker, this time for the next Senator of California,” Allison said, in a statement. “We sincerely hope her next step is to join California leaders and the Congressional Black Caucus PAC in endorsing Barbara Lee. That way, she will keep the door wide open for Black women’s representation and the trusted progressive leadership only Barbara Lee can bring to the Senate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s previous consulting work at Bearstar Strategies \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/laphonza-butler-airbnb-payout-00122076?nname=california-playbook-pm&nid=00000177-6f21-d412-abff-6ff78f190000&nrid=00000171-e293-de31-a777-fedb26e20000&nlid=2693079\">complicated those union relationships\u003c/a>, however. While much of the labor community was excited about Butler’s appointment, some, like UC Irvine professor and labor expert Veena Dubal, criticized Butler’s consulting for Uber in particular as it battled Assembly Bill 5, an effort to grant Uber drivers full employment status. Dubal\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/laphonza-butler-senate-california.html\"> told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> this month\u003c/a> that many in labor “were really angry and really felt like this was treachery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Butler may not be running for the Senate, she has other options: \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2023/10/12/laphonza-butler-has-options-00121146\">\u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> cited sources\u003c/a> close to Newsom who said Butler would make a strong candidate for governor in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is developing and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Butler is forgoing an incumbent's advantage in the hotly contested California senate race. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697768185,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":867},"headData":{"title":"Sen. Laphonza Butler Will Not Run for US Senate Seat in 2024 | KQED","description":"Butler is forgoing an incumbent's advantage in the hotly contested California US Senate race.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Butler is forgoing an incumbent's advantage in the hotly contested California US Senate race."},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11965014/sen-laphonza-butler-will-not-run-for-us-senate-seat-in-2024","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a surprise move for many watching California’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, recently appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler said Thursday she will not run for a full term in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, a former labor leader and Democratic strategist, was appointed to the Senate seat earlier this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, to fill the remainder of a term left open by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Her announcement was an unexpected twist in the state’s marquee political contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing you can win a campaign doesn’t always mean you should run a campaign,” Butler said, in her statement. “I know this will be a surprise to many because traditionally we don’t see those who have power let it go. It may not be the decision people expected but it’s the right one for me.”\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>Butler could have run as an incumbent in the March 5 primary, where she would have joined a competitive field that also includes Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, along with Republicans Eric Early and Steve Garvey, the former baseball star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to having more name recognition, the three high-profile Democratic candidates are months ahead when it comes to campaign war chests. Since January, Schiff has raised $21.5 million, Porter $22.1 million with Lee trailing with $3.3 million raised. Still, that head start in fundraising may have posed a challenge for Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I know this will be a surprise to many because traditionally we don’t see those who have power let it go. It may not be the decision people expected but it’s the right one for me.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"California Sen. Laphonza Butler","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Butler, who previously helmed SEIU California, the state’s largest umbrella union, has strong labor connections that may have afforded her an advantage in a race where close relationships with unions could provide an advantage. And in her recent role leading EMILYs List, she was often a voice of encouragement for women weighing whether to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Butler \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhnfVB0x6UY\">told FOX 11 in Los Angeles last week\u003c/a> that concerns for her own family and the “divisive nature of the harassment” would play a role in deciding whether she would run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother is 70 years old, she didn’t sign up for this. My daughter is 9, she didn’t sign up for this and so I’m thinking about my family and my family’s safety,” Butler said. “I have already gotten my first piece of hate mail and a stranger has shown up at my door and so that is a real contemplation for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lee is struggling to fundraise to the level of Schiff and Porter, Butler’s decision not to pursue a campaign may benefit Lee somewhat. Lee had initially hoped to be Newsom’s appointment to Feinstein’s seat after he promised to pick a Black woman, in light of Kamala Harris’ ascension to the vice presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Watson, deputy director of the California Donor Table, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963215/laphonza-butler-senate-appointment-draws-praise-speculation-over-2024-plans\">previously told KQED\u003c/a> that a Butler run might complicate strategic decisions for donors in deciding how to back two Black progressive candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1984492,news_11963066,news_11963215","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Sen. Butler took on the enormous responsibility of filling an open senate seat with grace, integrity, and a deep commitment to delivering for the people of California. I look forward to continuing our work together for the remainder of her term,” Lee said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the pressure of that competition, Aimee Allison — a vocal ally of Rep. Lee and founder of She the People, which helps elect women of color to office — hoped Butler would now turn her support to helping Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has the opportunity to be — once again — a queenmaker, this time for the next Senator of California,” Allison said, in a statement. “We sincerely hope her next step is to join California leaders and the Congressional Black Caucus PAC in endorsing Barbara Lee. That way, she will keep the door wide open for Black women’s representation and the trusted progressive leadership only Barbara Lee can bring to the Senate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s previous consulting work at Bearstar Strategies \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/laphonza-butler-airbnb-payout-00122076?nname=california-playbook-pm&nid=00000177-6f21-d412-abff-6ff78f190000&nrid=00000171-e293-de31-a777-fedb26e20000&nlid=2693079\">complicated those union relationships\u003c/a>, however. While much of the labor community was excited about Butler’s appointment, some, like UC Irvine professor and labor expert Veena Dubal, criticized Butler’s consulting for Uber in particular as it battled Assembly Bill 5, an effort to grant Uber drivers full employment status. Dubal\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/laphonza-butler-senate-california.html\"> told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> this month\u003c/a> that many in labor “were really angry and really felt like this was treachery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Butler may not be running for the Senate, she has other options: \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2023/10/12/laphonza-butler-has-options-00121146\">\u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> cited sources\u003c/a> close to Newsom who said Butler would make a strong candidate for governor in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is developing and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11965014/sen-laphonza-butler-will-not-run-for-us-senate-seat-in-2024","authors":["227","11690","11651"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18012","news_27626","news_33277","news_32315"],"featImg":"news_11965019","label":"news"},"news_11964884":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11964884","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11964884","score":null,"sort":[1697659036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"alameda-county-recall-laws-may-change-and-pamela-price-could-benefit","title":"Alameda County Recall Laws May Change, and Pamela Price Could Benefit","publishDate":1697659036,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Alameda County Recall Laws May Change, and Pamela Price Could Benefit | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Alameda County Registrar of Voters is seeking to amend county recall laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by voters, the changes may impact the high-profile recall effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price — even, potentially, shifting the recall to the November presidential election when higher turnout may favor the outcome toward Price, a reform-minded DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Tuesday letter sent to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the registrar of voters recommended supervisors adopt an ordinance at their Oct. 24 meeting to put the proposed language before voters in a special election on March 5, the date of California’s primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter amendment would eliminate all of the recall laws on Alameda County’s charter, and replace them with the language, “California state law applicable to the recall of county officers shall govern the recall of county of Alameda elected and appointed officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ross, a political consultant who advised Chesa Boudin’s anti-recall campaign and who has worked on campaigns in Alameda County for years, said it makes sense to align county rules with state law since that’s what most counties do. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jim Ross, political consultant\"]‘This would be a big win for the Price supporters.’[/pullquote] Ross noted that state law favors giving the registrar more time to count signatures and perform other key election tasks. And the more time that is taken, the more likely the recall vote would be on the same ballot as the presidential election more than a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a big win for the Price supporters,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Nate Miley said the registrar’s letter makes it clear the charter is “antiquated” when it comes to recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty confident the board is going to align our charter with state law,” Miley told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign against the recall did not return a request for comment. Critics have accused Price of contributing to rising crime in Oakland through progressive policies, including not charging minors as adults and seeking lower sentences where possible. Violent crime and property crime are up in Oakland, but experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">have found little connection\u003c/a> between the increase in rates and the prosecuting decisions of district attorneys. [aside postID=news_11957036 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67051_230713-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-10-qut-1020x680.jpg'] Still, signature gatherers are now canvassing the streets of Alameda County. Roughly 93,000 signatures are needed to qualify for the ballot, according to state recall rules, which were communicated to the recall campaign a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County rules would’ve seen the recall campaign need about 73,000 signatures. Having to gather an additional 20,000 signatures may cost a campaign more than $200,000, Ross estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Signature gathering is all about money,” he said. “If they have the money to hire or pay signature gatherers, then they’ll qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Alameda County Counsel Donna Ziegler released a statement saying the county did not know if it should follow state recall rules, or what is laid out in the county’s charter. The difference between state and county rules is key because each has distinct timelines and signature thresholds for a recall election to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Grisham, a principal officer of the recall effort and a crime victims’ advocate whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed in east Oakland in 2010, said the campaign has more than 1,900 volunteers signed up to gather signatures, though about 50 were deployed just last Saturday. She thinks the campaign is on track to turn signatures in by March, and then see a June special election for the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless the registrar of voters put a monkey wrench in it, we are going to be on the ballot in June,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monkey wrench might be state law. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brenda Grisham, principal officer of the recall effort\"]‘Unless the registrar of voters put a monkey wrench in it, we are going to be on the ballot in June.’[/pullquote] State law more heavily favors placing a recall on the date of a regularly scheduled election. A recall election can take place 180 days after signatures qualify and a recall is ordered, according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its letter to supervisors, the registrar of voters wrote that the county’s own laws allow only 10 days to verify signatures, a goal that is “impracticable and likely unattainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The elections official is highly unlikely to verify the signatures needed within the 10-day deadline. The failure to verify signatures timely could lead to costly litigation,” the letter read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law, by contrast, allows 30 days to verify signatures. It also would allow the county more time to prepare ballots for the recall. The county charter would only allow 35 to 40 days to do so for a special election. State law would give the registrar of voters as much as 180 days to conduct the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of an election matters, especially in a 2024 presidential election year. Special and primary elections tend to have lower voter turnout than general elections. That was the case in Alameda County in 2022 when 308,000 voters cast a ballot in the June primary compared to 496,000 votes cast in November’s general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher turnout elections see more people of color, younger voters and, generally, more progressive voters. While in low-turnout elections, like a June special election, the voters tend to be homeowners who pay more taxes. [aside label='More on California Politics' tag='california-politics'] According to the registrar of voters, of the 14 counties with their own charters in California, three do not have recall provisions, which makes state rules take precedence, and the remainder otherwise incorporate state recall law. Alameda County is the only county in California whose charter “deviates from” and “is at odds with” the state’s recall laws, the registrar wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he was worried a change to the charter would shift a potential Price recall to November, Miley said he didn’t believe it was a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a matter of impracticality in the charter, the way the charter outlines it,” he said. “It would be almost an impracticality to put it on a March 5 election. There may be a special election, maybe, but I’m not even sure that will be the case if we’re aligning with a state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Alameda County Registrar of Voters aims to amend county recall laws. If voters approve, the changes could impact the recall effort of District Attorney Pamela Price.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697659036,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1147},"headData":{"title":"Alameda County Recall Laws May Change, and Pamela Price Could Benefit | KQED","description":"The Alameda County Registrar of Voters aims to amend county recall laws. If voters approve, the changes could impact the recall effort of District Attorney Pamela Price.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964884/alameda-county-recall-laws-may-change-and-pamela-price-could-benefit","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Alameda County Registrar of Voters is seeking to amend county recall laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by voters, the changes may impact the high-profile recall effort of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price — even, potentially, shifting the recall to the November presidential election when higher turnout may favor the outcome toward Price, a reform-minded DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Tuesday letter sent to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the registrar of voters recommended supervisors adopt an ordinance at their Oct. 24 meeting to put the proposed language before voters in a special election on March 5, the date of California’s primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charter amendment would eliminate all of the recall laws on Alameda County’s charter, and replace them with the language, “California state law applicable to the recall of county officers shall govern the recall of county of Alameda elected and appointed officers.”\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>Jim Ross, a political consultant who advised Chesa Boudin’s anti-recall campaign and who has worked on campaigns in Alameda County for years, said it makes sense to align county rules with state law since that’s what most counties do. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This would be a big win for the Price supporters.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jim Ross, political consultant","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Ross noted that state law favors giving the registrar more time to count signatures and perform other key election tasks. And the more time that is taken, the more likely the recall vote would be on the same ballot as the presidential election more than a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a big win for the Price supporters,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Nate Miley said the registrar’s letter makes it clear the charter is “antiquated” when it comes to recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty confident the board is going to align our charter with state law,” Miley told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign against the recall did not return a request for comment. Critics have accused Price of contributing to rising crime in Oakland through progressive policies, including not charging minors as adults and seeking lower sentences where possible. Violent crime and property crime are up in Oakland, but experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">have found little connection\u003c/a> between the increase in rates and the prosecuting decisions of district attorneys. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11957036","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67051_230713-PAMELA-PRICE-JY-10-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Still, signature gatherers are now canvassing the streets of Alameda County. Roughly 93,000 signatures are needed to qualify for the ballot, according to state recall rules, which were communicated to the recall campaign a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County rules would’ve seen the recall campaign need about 73,000 signatures. Having to gather an additional 20,000 signatures may cost a campaign more than $200,000, Ross estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Signature gathering is all about money,” he said. “If they have the money to hire or pay signature gatherers, then they’ll qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Alameda County Counsel Donna Ziegler released a statement saying the county did not know if it should follow state recall rules, or what is laid out in the county’s charter. The difference between state and county rules is key because each has distinct timelines and signature thresholds for a recall election to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Grisham, a principal officer of the recall effort and a crime victims’ advocate whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed in east Oakland in 2010, said the campaign has more than 1,900 volunteers signed up to gather signatures, though about 50 were deployed just last Saturday. She thinks the campaign is on track to turn signatures in by March, and then see a June special election for the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless the registrar of voters put a monkey wrench in it, we are going to be on the ballot in June,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monkey wrench might be state law. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Unless the registrar of voters put a monkey wrench in it, we are going to be on the ballot in June.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brenda Grisham, principal officer of the recall effort","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> State law more heavily favors placing a recall on the date of a regularly scheduled election. A recall election can take place 180 days after signatures qualify and a recall is ordered, according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its letter to supervisors, the registrar of voters wrote that the county’s own laws allow only 10 days to verify signatures, a goal that is “impracticable and likely unattainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The elections official is highly unlikely to verify the signatures needed within the 10-day deadline. The failure to verify signatures timely could lead to costly litigation,” the letter read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law, by contrast, allows 30 days to verify signatures. It also would allow the county more time to prepare ballots for the recall. The county charter would only allow 35 to 40 days to do so for a special election. State law would give the registrar of voters as much as 180 days to conduct the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of an election matters, especially in a 2024 presidential election year. Special and primary elections tend to have lower voter turnout than general elections. That was the case in Alameda County in 2022 when 308,000 voters cast a ballot in the June primary compared to 496,000 votes cast in November’s general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher turnout elections see more people of color, younger voters and, generally, more progressive voters. While in low-turnout elections, like a June special election, the voters tend to be homeowners who pay more taxes. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Politics ","tag":"california-politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> According to the registrar of voters, of the 14 counties with their own charters in California, three do not have recall provisions, which makes state rules take precedence, and the remainder otherwise incorporate state recall law. Alameda County is the only county in California whose charter “deviates from” and “is at odds with” the state’s recall laws, the registrar wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he was worried a change to the charter would shift a potential Price recall to November, Miley said he didn’t believe it was a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a matter of impracticality in the charter, the way the charter outlines it,” he said. “It would be almost an impracticality to put it on a March 5 election. There may be a special election, maybe, but I’m not even sure that will be the case if we’re aligning with a state law.”\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964884/alameda-county-recall-laws-may-change-and-pamela-price-could-benefit","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_260","news_30191","news_18538","news_18012","news_6317","news_30830","news_18352","news_27626","news_33362","news_28599","news_24461","news_33361","news_20572","news_20147"],"featImg":"news_11960958","label":"news"},"news_11964277":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11964277","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11964277","score":null,"sort":[1697156172000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voters-to-weigh-behavioral-health-reforms-after-newsom-signature","title":"California Voters to Weigh Behavioral Health Reforms After Newsom Signature","publishDate":1697156172,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Voters to Weigh Behavioral Health Reforms After Newsom Signature | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961241/inside-californias-landmark-mental-health-reforms\">ambitious plan to change how California funds mental health care\u003c/a> will go before voters in March after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Thursday to place the reforms on the primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes to the Mental Health Services Act and a corresponding housing bond are aimed at helping Californians with severe mental illness while living on the street. The measures won overwhelming support in the Legislature despite concerns from California counties and some mental health advocates. Together, they represent Newsom’s latest effort to transform care at the intersection of mental health and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two bills Newsom signed on Thursday — Senate Bill 326 and Assembly Bill 531 — will appear on the March 5, 2024 ballot as Proposition 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was bipartisan legislation that we signed today, Democrats, Republicans — all of us impacted by the issue of mental health, mental illness,” Newsom said at a bill signing ceremony in Los Angeles. “So we’re very excited about the prospect of our success in March.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 326 reworks the state’s Mental Health Services Act, first approved by voters in 2004. The MHSA places a 1% tax on personal income over $1 million to fund mental health care, along with services aimed at preventing mental health issues in kids and teens from becoming more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘This was bipartisan legislation that we signed today, Democrats, Republicans — all of us impacted by the issue of mental health, mental illness.’[/pullquote]Under the changes, the law would be renamed the Behavioral Health Services Act, and tax dollars could be used to treat substance abuse, in addition to mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, 30% of the act’s revenue would be set aside for housing, which could include temporary units or rental subsidies for Californians with acute mental health care needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all come to this with our own personal stories about the frustrations of knocking our heads against walls, trying to get people we love help,” said Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), the bill’s author. “Well, now we have all the pieces together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faced initial opposition from providers of youth mental health services, who argued the plan lacked clear set-asides to pay for early interventions — such as paying for mental health clinicians to come into classrooms and help early childhood educators identify issues with students. The plan was amended to include specific set-asides for early intervention and Californians younger than 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County governments remained skeptical of the bill. Tax revenue from wealthy Californians is a volatile revenue source, and directing more of that money toward housing could leave less funding for core mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on California Law' tag='california-law']“Counties have a significant and growing obligation to fund behavioral health services under the Medi-Cal entitlement and use MHSA funds to support that obligation,” according to the final Senate analysis of the bill. “This proposal leaves counties with fewer resources to do so, including less funding available to use as a Medi-Cal match to draw down additional federal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 531 proposes a $6.38 billion bond, with the goal of providing 10,000 new beds and supportive housing units for those with severe behavioral health needs who, supporters of the plan argue, currently end up in emergency rooms or back on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over $1 billion will be set aside for veterans with behavioral health needs. Supporters of the plan are promising community-based facilities, and not the locked state mental hospitals of years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jolissa Hebard, an outreach supervisor with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Westside Los Angeles, said she has lived with substance use and has relatives with bipolar disorder. She also has a son who has attempted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stuff that we are doing today is going to help families to help themselves and help their loved ones,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration pushed hard to win support for the mental health changes in the state Legislature and the governor will actively pitch his plan to voters next year, said Dana Williamson, Newsom’s chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he were here, he’d tell you this is his biggest priority,” Williamson told KQED’s Political Breakdown last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jolissa Hebard, outreach supervisor, National Alliance on Mental Illness\"]‘The stuff that we are doing today is going to help families to help themselves and help their loved ones.’[/pullquote]Since taking office, Newsom has pushed for changes to how state and local governments deal with people suffering from severe psychosis or substance abuse — many of whom end up living in encampments on sidewalks or riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924117/governors-care-court-plan-passes-assembly-clearing-way-to-become-law\">governor signed into law the CARE Court program\u003c/a>, which authorizes judges to compel care and housing for Californians with severe mental illness. That law is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894425/care-court-is-coming-to-san-francisco-heres-what-we-can-expect\">rolling out this fall in eight counties\u003c/a> before statewide implementation next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Newsom signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963961/newsom-signs-law-expanding-conservatorships-for-those-experiencing-severe-mental-illness-substance-abuse\">expanding the state’s conservatorship law\u003c/a> governing the use of involuntary medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 will be the only statewide measure on the March 5 ballot. Voters will also weigh in on primaries for president and California’s U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The changes to the Mental Health Services Act represent Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest effort to transform care at the intersection of mental health and homelessness.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697156172,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":914},"headData":{"title":"California Voters to Weigh Behavioral Health Reforms After Newsom Signature | KQED","description":"The changes to the Mental Health Services Act represent Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest effort to transform care at the intersection of mental health and homelessness.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964277/california-voters-to-weigh-behavioral-health-reforms-after-newsom-signature","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961241/inside-californias-landmark-mental-health-reforms\">ambitious plan to change how California funds mental health care\u003c/a> will go before voters in March after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Thursday to place the reforms on the primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes to the Mental Health Services Act and a corresponding housing bond are aimed at helping Californians with severe mental illness while living on the street. The measures won overwhelming support in the Legislature despite concerns from California counties and some mental health advocates. Together, they represent Newsom’s latest effort to transform care at the intersection of mental health and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two bills Newsom signed on Thursday — Senate Bill 326 and Assembly Bill 531 — will appear on the March 5, 2024 ballot as Proposition 1.\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>“This was bipartisan legislation that we signed today, Democrats, Republicans — all of us impacted by the issue of mental health, mental illness,” Newsom said at a bill signing ceremony in Los Angeles. “So we’re very excited about the prospect of our success in March.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 326 reworks the state’s Mental Health Services Act, first approved by voters in 2004. The MHSA places a 1% tax on personal income over $1 million to fund mental health care, along with services aimed at preventing mental health issues in kids and teens from becoming more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This was bipartisan legislation that we signed today, Democrats, Republicans — all of us impacted by the issue of mental health, mental illness.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Under the changes, the law would be renamed the Behavioral Health Services Act, and tax dollars could be used to treat substance abuse, in addition to mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, 30% of the act’s revenue would be set aside for housing, which could include temporary units or rental subsidies for Californians with acute mental health care needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all come to this with our own personal stories about the frustrations of knocking our heads against walls, trying to get people we love help,” said Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), the bill’s author. “Well, now we have all the pieces together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faced initial opposition from providers of youth mental health services, who argued the plan lacked clear set-asides to pay for early interventions — such as paying for mental health clinicians to come into classrooms and help early childhood educators identify issues with students. The plan was amended to include specific set-asides for early intervention and Californians younger than 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County governments remained skeptical of the bill. Tax revenue from wealthy Californians is a volatile revenue source, and directing more of that money toward housing could leave less funding for core mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Law ","tag":"california-law"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Counties have a significant and growing obligation to fund behavioral health services under the Medi-Cal entitlement and use MHSA funds to support that obligation,” according to the final Senate analysis of the bill. “This proposal leaves counties with fewer resources to do so, including less funding available to use as a Medi-Cal match to draw down additional federal dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 531 proposes a $6.38 billion bond, with the goal of providing 10,000 new beds and supportive housing units for those with severe behavioral health needs who, supporters of the plan argue, currently end up in emergency rooms or back on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over $1 billion will be set aside for veterans with behavioral health needs. Supporters of the plan are promising community-based facilities, and not the locked state mental hospitals of years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jolissa Hebard, an outreach supervisor with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Westside Los Angeles, said she has lived with substance use and has relatives with bipolar disorder. She also has a son who has attempted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stuff that we are doing today is going to help families to help themselves and help their loved ones,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration pushed hard to win support for the mental health changes in the state Legislature and the governor will actively pitch his plan to voters next year, said Dana Williamson, Newsom’s chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he were here, he’d tell you this is his biggest priority,” Williamson told KQED’s Political Breakdown last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The stuff that we are doing today is going to help families to help themselves and help their loved ones.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jolissa Hebard, outreach supervisor, National Alliance on Mental Illness","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since taking office, Newsom has pushed for changes to how state and local governments deal with people suffering from severe psychosis or substance abuse — many of whom end up living in encampments on sidewalks or riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924117/governors-care-court-plan-passes-assembly-clearing-way-to-become-law\">governor signed into law the CARE Court program\u003c/a>, which authorizes judges to compel care and housing for Californians with severe mental illness. That law is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894425/care-court-is-coming-to-san-francisco-heres-what-we-can-expect\">rolling out this fall in eight counties\u003c/a> before statewide implementation next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Newsom signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963961/newsom-signs-law-expanding-conservatorships-for-those-experiencing-severe-mental-illness-substance-abuse\">expanding the state’s conservatorship law\u003c/a> governing the use of involuntary medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 will be the only statewide measure on the March 5 ballot. Voters will also weigh in on primaries for president and California’s U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964277/california-voters-to-weigh-behavioral-health-reforms-after-newsom-signature","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_30069","news_22307","news_18012","news_16","news_4020","news_2109","news_31651","news_33195"],"featImg":"news_11964286","label":"news"},"news_11963942":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963942","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963942","score":null,"sort":[1696914280000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-pelosi-has-to-say-about-the-next-speaker-of-the-house-and-running-for-reelection","title":"What Pelosi Has to Say About the Next Speaker of the House and Running for Reelection","publishDate":1696914280,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What Pelosi Has to Say About the Next Speaker of the House and Running for Reelection | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>House Republicans are struggling to unite amid fractional infighting that led to a historic vote to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House last week. Just days before a possible vote to replace him, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told KQED Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos why she thought McCarthy was toppled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her experience, a successful speakership means cultivating consensus. Instead, McCarthy built his power on shaky ground, having reneged on promises to Democrats, who could have saved him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say this carefully, but I think people didn’t trust his word,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging interview in San Francisco Monday night, Pelosi touted U.S. support for Israel as the war intensifies against Hamas. She also responded to the recent appointment of Sen. Laphonza Butler, and gave an update on the health of her husband, Paul Pelosi, after a man allegedly broke into their home and attacked him with a hammer last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, House Democrats could have voted to save McCarthy. But they had no reason to trust him, Pelosi told KQED, nor was it their job to save him from the infighting in his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republicans took down their speaker,” Pelosi said. And when she herself was voted in as speaker, “I never had one Republican vote, nor would it have been appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5g3kS53RZc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she supported either of the two leading conservatives for speaker of the House, Reps. Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise, Pelosi pushed back on the premise of the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s up to the Republicans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s first acts was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/04/1203566052/pelosi-office-patrick-mchenry-speaker\">to evict Pelosi from her hideaway office at the Capitol\u003c/a>, which is often a courtesy space afforded to past House speakers. Pelosi said she didn’t care about that — she’s far more concerned with practical matters, like Republican efforts to cut funds that put food on people’s plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Laphonza Butler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Laphonza Butler, a former labor leader and Democratic strategist, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963215/laphonza-butler-senate-appointment-draws-praise-speculation-over-2024-plans\">sworn in as California’s new U.S. senator\u003c/a> last week to serve the remainder of a term left open by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963548/political-leaders-memorialize-dianne-feinstein-at-sf-city-hall\">death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shafer pressed Pelosi on Butler’s appointment and whether she should run for a full term, particularly in light of Pelosi’s endorsement of Rep. Adam Schiff, who is running for Feinstein’s seat along with Reps. Barbara Lee and Katie Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s wonderful,” Pelosi said of Butler. “She’s up to the task. She’s talented, and values based, and knowledgeable, and respected and the rest. So she’ll do a great job. And if she decides to run, she decides to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Pelosi added, “I’m for Adam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews/video/7288183186406804779\" data-video-id=\"7288183186406804779\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqednews\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kqednews\u003c/a>What does Nancy Pelosi think of Laphonza Butler?\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - KQED\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7288183219022121771?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Paul Pelosi’s health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pelosi also gave an update on the health of her husband Paul as he recovers from an attack by David DePape, who allegedly broke into their home in October last year threatening to kidnap the former speaker, before bludgeoning her husband’s skull with a hammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Paul is making rapid progress. Probably about 80% back, and he’s doing what he needs to do in terms of therapy and the rest,” Pelosi said, Monday. “Hopefully by Christmas or New Year, he’ll be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said her husband isn’t a political person. DePape, she said, “came looking for me, and Paul paid the price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s federal trial is set to begin in San Francisco in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reelection\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The former House Speaker announced last month that she’d run for another two-year congressional term in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why’s she staying?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi touted her experience as one of the most knowledgeable lawmakers in Congress, even among otherwise “brilliant” people. And called herself “masterful as a legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi previously said she wants to stay in Congress to help San Francisco recover from its multitude of crises, from homelessness to the pandemic to the fentanyl epidemic, and to thwart the reelection of former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 83, Pelosi is part of a generation of high-profile politicians who are under scrutiny for continuing to serve in office despite their age, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, 81, and President Joe Biden, 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sit on a stage together on red chairs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks with KQED’s Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on Oct. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alain McLaughlin for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a nod to that critique, Pelosi added, “I eat a lot of chocolate, so I don’t ever feel tired or anything like that. Or old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960431/pelosi-announces-2024-reelection-bid-as-democrats-to-fight-to-win-back-house?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20230911%20Political%20Breakdown&mc_key=5462347\">KQED has covered previously\u003c/a>, Pelosi’s commitment to reelection will delay the electoral hopes of Democratic hopefuls down the ticket, including state Sen. Scott Wiener, who had hoped to run for her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Hamas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pelosi condemned Hamas for killing hundreds of Israeli citizens this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s using violence against civilians as a weapon of war. Don’t be a coward. You want to go for war? Fight militarily,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “you can see them kidnapping little children, 80-year-old grand-moms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s remarks come in the wake of a renewed war between Israel and Hamas as the death toll tops 1,600, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-airstrikes-hostages-4377e096f62bf535bebcdff38cf16049\">according to The Associated Press\u003c/a>. More than 900 people have been killed in Israel since the surprise attack Saturday, when Hamas fighters infiltrated Israeli homes and took more than 100 people hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204639253/israel-gaza-hamas-us-citizens-killed\">reportedly\u003c/a> called it “by far the worst day in Israeli history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel responded with deadly missile attacks on the Gaza Strip, where at least 680 people have reportedly been killed and thousands injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, hundreds marched over the weekend in support of Palestinian refugees and to demand the United States end military aid to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/1711178602140794963\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at San Francisco’s Congregation Sherith Israel on Sunday morning, during the Simchat Torah holiday, Pelosi voiced her support for Israel “personally, politically, officially, diplomatically, militarily, in every way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As Speaker Emerita, Nancy Pelosi described why Democrats didn't save former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from losing his seat. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963942/what-pelosi-has-to-say-about-the-next-speaker-of-the-house-and-running-for-reelection","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>House Republicans are struggling to unite amid fractional infighting that led to a historic vote to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House last week. Just days before a possible vote to replace him, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told KQED Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos why she thought McCarthy was toppled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her experience, a successful speakership means cultivating consensus. Instead, McCarthy built his power on shaky ground, having reneged on promises to Democrats, who could have saved him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say this carefully, but I think people didn’t trust his word,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging interview in San Francisco Monday night, Pelosi touted U.S. support for Israel as the war intensifies against Hamas. She also responded to the recent appointment of Sen. Laphonza Butler, and gave an update on the health of her husband, Paul Pelosi, after a man allegedly broke into their home and attacked him with a hammer last year.\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>Last week, House Democrats could have voted to save McCarthy. But they had no reason to trust him, Pelosi told KQED, nor was it their job to save him from the infighting in his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republicans took down their speaker,” Pelosi said. And when she herself was voted in as speaker, “I never had one Republican vote, nor would it have been appropriate.”\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/N5g3kS53RZc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/N5g3kS53RZc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When asked if she supported either of the two leading conservatives for speaker of the House, Reps. Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise, Pelosi pushed back on the premise of the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s up to the Republicans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s first acts was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/04/1203566052/pelosi-office-patrick-mchenry-speaker\">to evict Pelosi from her hideaway office at the Capitol\u003c/a>, which is often a courtesy space afforded to past House speakers. Pelosi said she didn’t care about that — she’s far more concerned with practical matters, like Republican efforts to cut funds that put food on people’s plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Laphonza Butler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Laphonza Butler, a former labor leader and Democratic strategist, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963215/laphonza-butler-senate-appointment-draws-praise-speculation-over-2024-plans\">sworn in as California’s new U.S. senator\u003c/a> last week to serve the remainder of a term left open by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963548/political-leaders-memorialize-dianne-feinstein-at-sf-city-hall\">death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shafer pressed Pelosi on Butler’s appointment and whether she should run for a full term, particularly in light of Pelosi’s endorsement of Rep. Adam Schiff, who is running for Feinstein’s seat along with Reps. Barbara Lee and Katie Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s wonderful,” Pelosi said of Butler. “She’s up to the task. She’s talented, and values based, and knowledgeable, and respected and the rest. So she’ll do a great job. And if she decides to run, she decides to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Pelosi added, “I’m for Adam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews/video/7288183186406804779\" data-video-id=\"7288183186406804779\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqednews\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kqednews\u003c/a>What does Nancy Pelosi think of Laphonza Butler?\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - KQED\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7288183219022121771?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Paul Pelosi’s health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pelosi also gave an update on the health of her husband Paul as he recovers from an attack by David DePape, who allegedly broke into their home in October last year threatening to kidnap the former speaker, before bludgeoning her husband’s skull with a hammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Paul is making rapid progress. Probably about 80% back, and he’s doing what he needs to do in terms of therapy and the rest,” Pelosi said, Monday. “Hopefully by Christmas or New Year, he’ll be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said her husband isn’t a political person. DePape, she said, “came looking for me, and Paul paid the price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s federal trial is set to begin in San Francisco in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reelection\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The former House Speaker announced last month that she’d run for another two-year congressional term in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why’s she staying?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi touted her experience as one of the most knowledgeable lawmakers in Congress, even among otherwise “brilliant” people. And called herself “masterful as a legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi previously said she wants to stay in Congress to help San Francisco recover from its multitude of crises, from homelessness to the pandemic to the fentanyl epidemic, and to thwart the reelection of former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 83, Pelosi is part of a generation of high-profile politicians who are under scrutiny for continuing to serve in office despite their age, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, 81, and President Joe Biden, 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sit on a stage together on red chairs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/KQEDLIVE23PBnPelosi-107-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks with KQED’s Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on Oct. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alain McLaughlin for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a nod to that critique, Pelosi added, “I eat a lot of chocolate, so I don’t ever feel tired or anything like that. Or old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960431/pelosi-announces-2024-reelection-bid-as-democrats-to-fight-to-win-back-house?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20230911%20Political%20Breakdown&mc_key=5462347\">KQED has covered previously\u003c/a>, Pelosi’s commitment to reelection will delay the electoral hopes of Democratic hopefuls down the ticket, including state Sen. Scott Wiener, who had hoped to run for her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Hamas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pelosi condemned Hamas for killing hundreds of Israeli citizens this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s using violence against civilians as a weapon of war. Don’t be a coward. You want to go for war? Fight militarily,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “you can see them kidnapping little children, 80-year-old grand-moms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s remarks come in the wake of a renewed war between Israel and Hamas as the death toll tops 1,600, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-airstrikes-hostages-4377e096f62bf535bebcdff38cf16049\">according to The Associated Press\u003c/a>. More than 900 people have been killed in Israel since the surprise attack Saturday, when Hamas fighters infiltrated Israeli homes and took more than 100 people hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204639253/israel-gaza-hamas-us-citizens-killed\">reportedly\u003c/a> called it “by far the worst day in Israeli history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel responded with deadly missile attacks on the Gaza Strip, where at least 680 people have reportedly been killed and thousands injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, hundreds marched over the weekend in support of Palestinian refugees and to demand the United States end military aid to Israel.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1711178602140794963"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And at San Francisco’s Congregation Sherith Israel on Sunday morning, during the Simchat Torah holiday, Pelosi voiced her support for Israel “personally, politically, officially, diplomatically, militarily, in every way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963942/what-pelosi-has-to-say-about-the-next-speaker-of-the-house-and-running-for-reelection","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18012","news_177","news_31922"],"featImg":"news_11963965","label":"news"},"news_11963066":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963066","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963066","score":null,"sort":[1696216692000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gov-newsom-names-laphonza-butler-to-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat","title":"Gov. Newsom Names Laphonza Butler to Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Seat","publishDate":1696216692,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Gov. Newsom Names Laphonza Butler to Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Seat | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Longtime Democratic adviser and labor leader Laphonza Butler will be California’s next U.S. Senator, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed late Sunday. She will become the second openly lesbian person to serve in the Senate and only the third Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, currently president of the pro-choice women’s fundraising group EMILY’S List, will fill the seat left empty by Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">Dianne Feinstein’s death\u003c/a> Thursday at the age of 90. She has advised Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and has close ties to Newsom’s inner circle.[aside postID=news_11739580 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Butler.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An advocate for women and girls, a second-generation fighter for working people, and a trusted adviser to Vice President Harris, Laphonza Butler represents the best of California, and she’ll represent us proudly in the United States Senate,” Newsom said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we mourn the enormous loss of Senator Feinstein, the very freedoms she fought for — reproductive freedom, equal protection, and safety from gun violence — have never been under greater assault. Laphonza will carry the baton left by Senator Feinstein, continue to break glass ceilings, and fight for all Californians in Washington D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s choice of Butler just two days after the news of Feinstein’s death was made public lets him fulfill a promise he made to appoint a Black woman to the seat. It also could scramble the race already underway to fill the seat Feinstein had planned to vacate at the end of her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allies of one of those candidates, Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, had lobbied hard for her to nab the appointment. But Newsom said he didn’t want to put his thumb on the scale in a race between Lee, Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter and Los Angeles Congressman Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was assumed that Newsom would ask an appointee not to run – but advisers to the governors said that he did not ask Butler to promise not to run. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement Sunday night, Lee wished Butler well and said she remains “singularly focused on winning her campaign for Senate.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1708708221870014894\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler is a Democratic powerhouse with progressive credentials who worked for years at the labor union SEIU. She also advised Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and for a time was a partner at Bearstar Strategies, Newsom’s top political consulting firm. Still, it could be tough to mount a senate campaign with just five months left before the primary election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trauma in Childhood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler was born in Magnolia, Miss., the youngest of three children. Her father battled heart disease and died when she was a teenager. Butler told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739580/laphonza-butler-on-her-move-from-labor-leadership-to-the-harris-campaign\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that her mother worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, in addition to caring for her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life was really lived through the eyes of a caregiver,” Butler said. “My mother was my father’s caregiver in the last years of his life, and having to understand what families everyday go through when it comes to issues like health care…really was the precursor to my professional career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That career took off in California. She arrived in the state in 2009, working as an organizer for long-term care workers with SEIU.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor Leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler quickly rose to leadership of the caregivers union and in 2013 was elected head of SEIU California, the state’s largest union, representing more than 700,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that position Butler led SEIU’s push to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the result of high-stakes negotiations between Butler and Gov. Jerry Brown’s chief of staff Nancy McFadden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were both working for the people of California,” Butler remembered in the Political Breakdown interview. “She represented way more than I did. But we all came into rooms of tension and disagreement and negotiation with Californians in mind and the best for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s choice of Butler earned the praise of Aimee Allison, who is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#newsom-faces-renewed-pressure-to-appoint-black-woman-to-senate-seat\">vocal ally\u003c/a> of Congresswoman Lee. Allison, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shethepeople.org/about\">She the People\u003c/a> – which helps elect women of color to office – had lobbied the governor to appoint Lee, and said Newsom kept his promise by tapping Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know Laphonza Butler, and her long history of commitments to working people, women, and the gay community, and her work behind the scenes to elect the Vice President. She is a well-respected leader here in California and understands our diverse, growing electorate and will do admirably in the Senate,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, who moved her family from Los Angeles to work in Washington, D.C., when she took over as EMILY’s List president in 2021, is currently registered in Maryland. Newsom’s office said she will re-register in California, where she still owns a home, before she is sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla said he’s “honored to welcome” Butler to the Senate, noting her longtime work for “working families, LGBTQ rights, and a champion for increasing women’s representation in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom’s swift action ensures that Californians maintain full representation in the Senate as we navigate a narrow Democratic majority. I look forward to working together to deliver for the people of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What this means for California voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With Newsom’s decision now out of the way, the next decider of that Senate seat will be California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2024, voters will have two choices to make: who will compete to fill out the remainder of Feinstein’s term and who will compete to fill the full term beginning in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, California voters will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">simultaneously vote in two primaries\u003c/a> on the March ballot and then in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">two general elections\u003c/a> on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidate that wins the November election to fulfill the remainder of Feinstein’s term will only serve for about two months. The candidate that wins the full term will be sworn in Jan. 3, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this feels somewhat familiar, it’s because a less complicated version of it happened in 2022. Sen. Alex Padilla was appointed by Newsom in December 2020 after then-Sen. Kamala Harris won Vice President, four years into her six-year senate term. Last November, Padilla ran to complete the last two months of that term and run for the next term that began in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, said the election process might be confusing to voters, but it prevents a gubernatorial appointment from serving for multiple years without a vote from the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It protects voters’ ability to have a say in who represents them in the Senate, whether it’s for two months or for four or five years,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Butler will run in any of these elections remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected EMILY's List president Laphonza Butler to fill the senate seat of the late Dianne Feinstein. 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She will become the second openly lesbian person to serve in the Senate and only the third Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, currently president of the pro-choice women’s fundraising group EMILY’S List, will fill the seat left empty by Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">Dianne Feinstein’s death\u003c/a> Thursday at the age of 90. She has advised Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and has close ties to Newsom’s inner circle.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11739580","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Butler.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An advocate for women and girls, a second-generation fighter for working people, and a trusted adviser to Vice President Harris, Laphonza Butler represents the best of California, and she’ll represent us proudly in the United States Senate,” Newsom said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we mourn the enormous loss of Senator Feinstein, the very freedoms she fought for — reproductive freedom, equal protection, and safety from gun violence — have never been under greater assault. Laphonza will carry the baton left by Senator Feinstein, continue to break glass ceilings, and fight for all Californians in Washington D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s choice of Butler just two days after the news of Feinstein’s death was made public lets him fulfill a promise he made to appoint a Black woman to the seat. It also could scramble the race already underway to fill the seat Feinstein had planned to vacate at the end of her term.\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>Allies of one of those candidates, Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, had lobbied hard for her to nab the appointment. But Newsom said he didn’t want to put his thumb on the scale in a race between Lee, Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter and Los Angeles Congressman Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was assumed that Newsom would ask an appointee not to run – but advisers to the governors said that he did not ask Butler to promise not to run. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement Sunday night, Lee wished Butler well and said she remains “singularly focused on winning her campaign for Senate.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1708708221870014894"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Butler is a Democratic powerhouse with progressive credentials who worked for years at the labor union SEIU. She also advised Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and for a time was a partner at Bearstar Strategies, Newsom’s top political consulting firm. Still, it could be tough to mount a senate campaign with just five months left before the primary election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trauma in Childhood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler was born in Magnolia, Miss., the youngest of three children. Her father battled heart disease and died when she was a teenager. Butler told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739580/laphonza-butler-on-her-move-from-labor-leadership-to-the-harris-campaign\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that her mother worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, in addition to caring for her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life was really lived through the eyes of a caregiver,” Butler said. “My mother was my father’s caregiver in the last years of his life, and having to understand what families everyday go through when it comes to issues like health care…really was the precursor to my professional career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That career took off in California. She arrived in the state in 2009, working as an organizer for long-term care workers with SEIU.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Labor Leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Butler quickly rose to leadership of the caregivers union and in 2013 was elected head of SEIU California, the state’s largest union, representing more than 700,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that position Butler led SEIU’s push to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the result of high-stakes negotiations between Butler and Gov. Jerry Brown’s chief of staff Nancy McFadden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were both working for the people of California,” Butler remembered in the Political Breakdown interview. “She represented way more than I did. But we all came into rooms of tension and disagreement and negotiation with Californians in mind and the best for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s choice of Butler earned the praise of Aimee Allison, who is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#newsom-faces-renewed-pressure-to-appoint-black-woman-to-senate-seat\">vocal ally\u003c/a> of Congresswoman Lee. Allison, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shethepeople.org/about\">She the People\u003c/a> – which helps elect women of color to office – had lobbied the governor to appoint Lee, and said Newsom kept his promise by tapping Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know Laphonza Butler, and her long history of commitments to working people, women, and the gay community, and her work behind the scenes to elect the Vice President. She is a well-respected leader here in California and understands our diverse, growing electorate and will do admirably in the Senate,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, who moved her family from Los Angeles to work in Washington, D.C., when she took over as EMILY’s List president in 2021, is currently registered in Maryland. Newsom’s office said she will re-register in California, where she still owns a home, before she is sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla said he’s “honored to welcome” Butler to the Senate, noting her longtime work for “working families, LGBTQ rights, and a champion for increasing women’s representation in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom’s swift action ensures that Californians maintain full representation in the Senate as we navigate a narrow Democratic majority. I look forward to working together to deliver for the people of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What this means for California voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With Newsom’s decision now out of the way, the next decider of that Senate seat will be California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2024, voters will have two choices to make: who will compete to fill out the remainder of Feinstein’s term and who will compete to fill the full term beginning in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, California voters will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">simultaneously vote in two primaries\u003c/a> on the March ballot and then in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies#heres-why-youre-likely-to-vote-4-times-on-feinsteins-replacement\">two general elections\u003c/a> on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidate that wins the November election to fulfill the remainder of Feinstein’s term will only serve for about two months. The candidate that wins the full term will be sworn in Jan. 3, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this feels somewhat familiar, it’s because a less complicated version of it happened in 2022. Sen. Alex Padilla was appointed by Newsom in December 2020 after then-Sen. Kamala Harris won Vice President, four years into her six-year senate term. 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