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complex, it doesn't seem to depend on political ideology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a liberal versus conservative trend,\" said Joe Rodota, a GOP strategist whose firm, Forward Observer, compiled the new report and has long tracked initiative spending trends in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Proposition 47, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/47/\" target=\"_blank\">the successful initiative to make some felony crimes misdemeanors and shift the presumed corrections savings into other programs\u003c/a>. Prop. 47 supporters spent $9.7 million, \u003cem>more than 17 times the amount spent\u003c/em> by the initiative's opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That initiative was well funded and progressive,\" said Rodota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 47 may also highlight another trend: the relative bargain for interest groups trying to pass initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'No' Costs More Than 'Yes'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, using data from the past three election cycles, predicts that a winning \"Yes\" vote on a 2016 proposition will cost $17.2 million, while a successful \"No\" campaign against an initiative will cost $38.1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that killing an initiative would cost more than \u003cem>double\u003c/em> the cost of passing one seems at odds with the fact that it has historically been much easier to get Californians to cast a \"No\" vote. In fact, almost half of all big-spending \"Yes\" initiative campaigns since 2010 have failed -- compared with only about one in five failures by campaigns on the \"No\" side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why would an opposition campaign cost more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strategist Rodota says part of the explanation may be that California initiatives now qualifying for the ballot seem better vetted and researched than those in elections of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They go on the ballot only when they know they can win,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the steep cost to kill a proposition could force interest groups to do a reality check in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the brewing fight over \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/california-plastic-bag-ban-on-hold-as-2016-referendum-qualifies/\" target=\"_blank\">the referendum to ratify or reject a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags\u003c/a>. The bag industry spent more than $3 million to qualify the November 2016 referendum against the law, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-poll-plastic-bags-20141101-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">early polling suggests the bag ban has upward of 60 percent support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How much is the plastic bag industry going to spend?\" on an opposition campaign, asks Rodota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Dollars for Digital in 2014\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new analysis also shows that initiative campaigns are starting to be fought more online ... but that television ads and direct mail continue to rule the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four big 2014 initiatives spent a total of $5.8 million on digital politicking. While that's more than in years past, it's still a tiny fraction (less than 5 percent) of total campaign spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of political consultants, including Joe Rodota, believe the trend is moving toward digital campaigning ... especially as the daily rituals of Californians, from where they get their news to where they pay their bills, continue to migrate online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campaigns will start shifting money to where they get the most bang for their buck,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The simple lesson in California from 2014's initiatives: spend more, win on Election Day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324163,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":589},"headData":{"title":"Big Money Won All Its Bets on 2014 Propositions | KQED","description":"The simple lesson in California from 2014's initiatives: spend more, win on Election Day.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10451367 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10451367","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/09/big-money-won-all-its-bets-on-2014-propositions/","disqusTitle":"Big Money Won All Its Bets on 2014 Propositions","customPermalink":"2015/03/09/big-money-won-all-its-bets-on-2014-california-propositions/","path":"/news/10451367/big-money-won-all-its-bets-on-2014-propositions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The campaign with the bigger bank account often has the advantage in California ballot measure fights, but in 2014 that advantage was insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new analysis shows that the side that spent the most got its way all four times last year with the passage of Proposition 47 and the defeat of Propositions 45, 46 and 48.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a 100 percent success rate for big money, far better than just 50 percent in 2012 and 57 percent for those who spent the most in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the recipe for success is complex, it doesn't seem to depend on political ideology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a liberal versus conservative trend,\" said Joe Rodota, a GOP strategist whose firm, Forward Observer, compiled the new report and has long tracked initiative spending trends in California.\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>Case in point: Proposition 47, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/47/\" target=\"_blank\">the successful initiative to make some felony crimes misdemeanors and shift the presumed corrections savings into other programs\u003c/a>. Prop. 47 supporters spent $9.7 million, \u003cem>more than 17 times the amount spent\u003c/em> by the initiative's opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That initiative was well funded and progressive,\" said Rodota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 47 may also highlight another trend: the relative bargain for interest groups trying to pass initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'No' Costs More Than 'Yes'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, using data from the past three election cycles, predicts that a winning \"Yes\" vote on a 2016 proposition will cost $17.2 million, while a successful \"No\" campaign against an initiative will cost $38.1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that killing an initiative would cost more than \u003cem>double\u003c/em> the cost of passing one seems at odds with the fact that it has historically been much easier to get Californians to cast a \"No\" vote. In fact, almost half of all big-spending \"Yes\" initiative campaigns since 2010 have failed -- compared with only about one in five failures by campaigns on the \"No\" side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why would an opposition campaign cost more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strategist Rodota says part of the explanation may be that California initiatives now qualifying for the ballot seem better vetted and researched than those in elections of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They go on the ballot only when they know they can win,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the steep cost to kill a proposition could force interest groups to do a reality check in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the brewing fight over \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/california-plastic-bag-ban-on-hold-as-2016-referendum-qualifies/\" target=\"_blank\">the referendum to ratify or reject a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags\u003c/a>. The bag industry spent more than $3 million to qualify the November 2016 referendum against the law, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-poll-plastic-bags-20141101-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">early polling suggests the bag ban has upward of 60 percent support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How much is the plastic bag industry going to spend?\" on an opposition campaign, asks Rodota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Dollars for Digital in 2014\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new analysis also shows that initiative campaigns are starting to be fought more online ... but that television ads and direct mail continue to rule the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four big 2014 initiatives spent a total of $5.8 million on digital politicking. While that's more than in years past, it's still a tiny fraction (less than 5 percent) of total campaign spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of political consultants, including Joe Rodota, believe the trend is moving toward digital campaigning ... especially as the daily rituals of Californians, from where they get their news to where they pay their bills, continue to migrate online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campaigns will start shifting money to where they get the most bang for their buck,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10451367/big-money-won-all-its-bets-on-2014-propositions","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_19905","news_6310","news_17599","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10451451","label":"news_7051"},"news_10429365":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10429365","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10429365","score":null,"sort":[1423641715000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought","title":"California's 2014 Voter Turnout Was Even Worse Than You Thought","publishDate":1423641715,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For a state whose political leaders pride themselves on being focused on the future, California’s 2014 elections seem to have decidedly been driven by its past — as in, its older voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or put another way: It was the Year of the Grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only was the average voter older than the average Californian,\" says political data expert Paul Mitchell. \"The average voter was older than the average Californian's parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190598779\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the book now closed on 2014's election season, the unshakable reality of a historically bad year for participatory democracy is now becoming all the more clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, whose \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\" target=\"_blank\">firm analyzes voter data and sells it to political campaigns\u003c/a>, says the long-term trend in California is getting worse when it comes to what other researchers have called the state's \"exclusive electorate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These voters that are actually participating in the elections are from a much higher income, older, whiter segment of the California electorate,\" he says. \"And they are voting on the elected officials and ballot measures that are going to be affecting \u003cem>all\u003c/em> Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell and others have been closely sifting through the results of the June and November elections, each of which registered historic new lows in overall voter turnout for primary and general elections in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanted: Young Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most glaring in the research, it seems, is the issue of age. Young voters were almost nowhere to be found: \u003cem>only 8.2 percent of Californians age 18-24 cast a ballot in November\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think even folks that work with the data all the time were surprised by just how low that number was,\" says Mindy Romero, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://explore.regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/ourwork/projects/ucdavis-ccep\" target=\"_blank\">California Civic Engagement Project at UC Davis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Romero and her team who sifted through the recently completed reports from the secretary of state's office in search of a clear sense of the age of the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10429513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-800x462.png\" alt=\"Voter turnout by age groups in California's November election, as compiled by UC Davis researchers\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-800x462.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-400x231.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-1440x832.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM.png 1834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turnout among various age groups in California's November election, as compiled by UC Davis researchers \u003ccite>(UC Davis Center for Regional Change)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What they found was that even Californians in their mid-30s and well into adulthood were virtually nonexistent in the 2014 political season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the youngest voters who really took a pass on participating. Consider the observation of data expert Mitchell, who counted up the raw numbers of ballots they cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In California,\" he said, \"an 18- or 19-year-old was more likely to be arrested this year than actually vote in one of the statewide elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, says UC Davis' Romero, is that young voters know the least about the system of voting -- from deadlines to register, to request a ballot by mail, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People say that youth don't vote,\" says Romero. \"Well, they're not being outreached to, and they're not being pulled into the political process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanted: Latino Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other subsets of voters, while not missing to that extent, also were underrepresented in the almost 12 million ballots cast in 2014. Most notably, perhaps, may be Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, we're talking about Latinos being the largest ethnic group in the state,\" says voter data expert Mitchell. \"They're not yet the largest ethnic group in the registered voters. And they're far from the largest ethnic group in people that actually vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some races, like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/28/in-valley-congressional-race-a-big-test-of-latino-enthusiasm/\" target=\"_blank\">a closely watched congressional election in the Central Valley last fall\u003c/a>, Latino votes could have easily shifted the \u003ca href=\"http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2014/11/05/valadao-wins-21st-congressional-district/\" target=\"_blank\">eventual outcome\u003c/a> -- if they would had been cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10429632\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-800x313.png\" alt=\"Data from California's 2014 general election that shows voter participation by various subgroups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-800x313.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-400x156.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-1440x563.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM.png 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from California's 2014 general election that show voter participation by various subgroups. \u003ccite>(Political Data, Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitchell's analysis found that only 28 percent of registered Latino voters showed up last November in California -- compared with 37 percent turnout of registered Asian-Americans, 32 percent of registered African-Americans and 49 percent of white voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Can Change The Downward Trend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much of the news coverage about California's abysmal voter turnout in 2014 f\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-most-boring-California-election-ever-5840907.php\" target=\"_blank\">ocused on the fact that there wasn't much to get excited about\u003c/a>, it may also be a function of the way modern campaigns operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates and ballot measure strategists increasingly measure their chances of victory based on the pool of likely voters, those who have shown a tendency to show up for elections in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's possible that such an outreach system becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Youth get very little contact, real contact, from candidates and campaigns,\" says Romero of UC Davis. \"And so it generates even less information, less awareness, less connection with the political process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those young Californians, as well as those from the state's diverse communities, will one day become the older adults. And without the experience of -- or sense of importance about -- voting, the long-term trend could be toward more, not fewer, tepid elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: an earlier version of this story mistakenly said the low turnout among young Californians was a percentage of registered voters, when it was actually among all Californians of that age.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One shocking finding: only 8.2 percent of Californians age 18-24 cast a ballot in November.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324455,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":878},"headData":{"title":"California's 2014 Voter Turnout Was Even Worse Than You Thought | KQED","description":"One shocking finding: only 8.2 percent of Californians age 18-24 cast a ballot in November.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10429365 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10429365","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/californias-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought/","disqusTitle":"California's 2014 Voter Turnout Was Even Worse Than You Thought","customPermalink":"2015/02/11/california-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought/","path":"/news/10429365/californias-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For a state whose political leaders pride themselves on being focused on the future, California’s 2014 elections seem to have decidedly been driven by its past — as in, its older voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or put another way: It was the Year of the Grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only was the average voter older than the average Californian,\" says political data expert Paul Mitchell. \"The average voter was older than the average Californian's parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190598779&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190598779'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the book now closed on 2014's election season, the unshakable reality of a historically bad year for participatory democracy is now becoming all the more clear.\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>Mitchell, whose \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\" target=\"_blank\">firm analyzes voter data and sells it to political campaigns\u003c/a>, says the long-term trend in California is getting worse when it comes to what other researchers have called the state's \"exclusive electorate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These voters that are actually participating in the elections are from a much higher income, older, whiter segment of the California electorate,\" he says. \"And they are voting on the elected officials and ballot measures that are going to be affecting \u003cem>all\u003c/em> Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell and others have been closely sifting through the results of the June and November elections, each of which registered historic new lows in overall voter turnout for primary and general elections in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanted: Young Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most glaring in the research, it seems, is the issue of age. Young voters were almost nowhere to be found: \u003cem>only 8.2 percent of Californians age 18-24 cast a ballot in November\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think even folks that work with the data all the time were surprised by just how low that number was,\" says Mindy Romero, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://explore.regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/ourwork/projects/ucdavis-ccep\" target=\"_blank\">California Civic Engagement Project at UC Davis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Romero and her team who sifted through the recently completed reports from the secretary of state's office in search of a clear sense of the age of the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10429513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-800x462.png\" alt=\"Voter turnout by age groups in California's November election, as compiled by UC Davis researchers\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-800x462.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-400x231.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM-1440x832.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.59.55-AM.png 1834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turnout among various age groups in California's November election, as compiled by UC Davis researchers \u003ccite>(UC Davis Center for Regional Change)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What they found was that even Californians in their mid-30s and well into adulthood were virtually nonexistent in the 2014 political season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the youngest voters who really took a pass on participating. Consider the observation of data expert Mitchell, who counted up the raw numbers of ballots they cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In California,\" he said, \"an 18- or 19-year-old was more likely to be arrested this year than actually vote in one of the statewide elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, says UC Davis' Romero, is that young voters know the least about the system of voting -- from deadlines to register, to request a ballot by mail, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People say that youth don't vote,\" says Romero. \"Well, they're not being outreached to, and they're not being pulled into the political process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanted: Latino Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other subsets of voters, while not missing to that extent, also were underrepresented in the almost 12 million ballots cast in 2014. Most notably, perhaps, may be Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, we're talking about Latinos being the largest ethnic group in the state,\" says voter data expert Mitchell. \"They're not yet the largest ethnic group in the registered voters. And they're far from the largest ethnic group in people that actually vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some races, like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/28/in-valley-congressional-race-a-big-test-of-latino-enthusiasm/\" target=\"_blank\">a closely watched congressional election in the Central Valley last fall\u003c/a>, Latino votes could have easily shifted the \u003ca href=\"http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2014/11/05/valadao-wins-21st-congressional-district/\" target=\"_blank\">eventual outcome\u003c/a> -- if they would had been cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10429632\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-800x313.png\" alt=\"Data from California's 2014 general election that shows voter participation by various subgroups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-800x313.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-400x156.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM-1440x563.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-1.59.23-PM.png 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from California's 2014 general election that show voter participation by various subgroups. \u003ccite>(Political Data, Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitchell's analysis found that only 28 percent of registered Latino voters showed up last November in California -- compared with 37 percent turnout of registered Asian-Americans, 32 percent of registered African-Americans and 49 percent of white voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Can Change The Downward Trend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much of the news coverage about California's abysmal voter turnout in 2014 f\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-most-boring-California-election-ever-5840907.php\" target=\"_blank\">ocused on the fact that there wasn't much to get excited about\u003c/a>, it may also be a function of the way modern campaigns operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates and ballot measure strategists increasingly measure their chances of victory based on the pool of likely voters, those who have shown a tendency to show up for elections in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's possible that such an outreach system becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Youth get very little contact, real contact, from candidates and campaigns,\" says Romero of UC Davis. \"And so it generates even less information, less awareness, less connection with the political process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those young Californians, as well as those from the state's diverse communities, will one day become the older adults. And without the experience of -- or sense of importance about -- voting, the long-term trend could be toward more, not fewer, tepid elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: an earlier version of this story mistakenly said the low turnout among young Californians was a percentage of registered voters, when it was actually among all Californians of that age.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10429365/californias-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_6310","news_17599","news_17286","news_17648","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_10429407","label":"news_7051"},"news_10422839":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10422839","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10422839","score":null,"sort":[1422950471000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-2014-statewide-campaigns-top-226-million","title":"California's 2014 Statewide Campaigns Top $226 Million","publishDate":1422950471,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If you think $226.5 million, the amount of combined spending in 2014 on statewide candidate races and ballot measure campaigns, is a lot of money, consider this: It was kind of a quiet year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, you ain't seen nothing yet. But more on that in a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total comes from hundreds of pages of campaign reports filed over the course of the last few hours and days. It represents both the expenditures made by candidates pursuing eight statewide offices on the Nov. 4 ballot ($35.5 million) and by the committees formed to support or oppose the two statewide ballot measures in June and the eight statewide measures in November... plus a few other expenses related to statewide efforts ($173.3 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does not include the millions of dollars spent on races for the California Legislature or for state seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. And a caveat: It may still not include a few dollars here or there spent by several small and quiet groups to influence statewide races in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big dogs in California's most recent election cycle were the two health care initiatives on the fall ballot: Proposition 45, a proposed change in health insurance regulation; and Proposition 46, a smorgasbord of everything from doctor drug testing to a looser cap on cash awards in malpractice lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, spending on those two initiatives accounted for $127 million, about 56 cents of every dollar in the statewide campaign total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers, when added all together, are impressive for two elections which both made history for how few voters actually cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also hard to digest in the aggregate. Some campaigns were big and full of cash for television ads, mailers and campaign consultants. Some, though, were pretty small as statewide efforts go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, let's sample some of the more interesting morsels of information gleaned from the new filings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gov. Jerry Brown may have received a lot of press attention for being frugal in his campaign spending, but the real award goes to state Treasurer John Chiang. The Democrat who successfully navigated the transition from two terms as state controller into winning the job of state banker spent a paltry $24,293 in all of 2014. Divide that by the number of votes Chiang received in both the June and November elections, and you find that the state's top money man spent \u003cem>less than four-tenths of a penny per vote\u003c/em>. Frugal, indeed!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the other hand, the most surprising spending ... at least until you think about what was really going on ... was that of Attorney General Kamala Harris. The Democratic incumbent faced a never-heard-of GOP opponent, Ron Gold, and handily won a second term. But she sure did spend a lot of money relative to her fellow incumbent officeholders who were similarly unchallenged: $3.66 million. What did she spend most of it on? TV ads and political consultants. What was she doing? \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-california-politics-20150201-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Probably boosting her name ID for -- well -- a race like the one she's now running\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One of the biggest dramas of 2014 played out during the early summer, when Democrats Betty Yee and John Pérez were locked in a close battle for second place in the race for state controller, eventually won by Yee. Final records show that Pérez spent almost $3.1 million in his losing effort -- while Yee, who won in November, and GOP challenger Ashley Swearengin spent a combined $3.2 million in the fall contest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some of the biggest winners in the world of political consulting in 2014 were the partners of a San Francisco-based Democratic firm, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scnstrategies.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCN Strategies\u003c/a>: Ace Smith, Sean Clegg and Dan Newman. Their firm represents three of the biggest names in Democratic politics -- Brown, Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom -- and thus profited from advising those politicos. But SCN also received a little something from the ballot measure committee formed by the governor to pass Prop. 1 and Prop. 2: a $25,000 \"win fee\" paid in mid-December. When you consider that members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/2/1/7960991/2015-super-bowl-xlix-winner-shares-seahawks-patriots\" target=\"_blank\">the winning New England Patriots received a little something extra for their big victory\u003c/a>, too, maybe it's not so surprising to do the same for top hired political guns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Say what you will about the governor's famous dog, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SutterBrown\" target=\"_blank\">Sutter\u003c/a>, but the Welsh corgi knows a thing or two about travel. Tucked away in the campaign report of the political action committee formed by the California Chamber of Commerce to boost Brown's ballot measures was an unusual expense: $3,504.24 for the \"Bark The Vote\" campaign trip. Not familiar with that one? That was Sutter, accompanied by Democratic campaign aides, \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcdems.org/bark2014\" target=\"_blank\">barnstorming the state to pose for photos and spark some PR for Prop. 1 and Prop 2\u003c/a>. The money was spent on a Hertz rental car and for lodging at several hotels, including more than $1300 for Democratic officials at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bacararesort.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara's Bacara Resort & Spa\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As proof that the biggest money is often spent outside of the official committees controlled by candidates -- committees with rather small contribution limits in a state as big as California -- consider the bitter fight in 2014 waged for superintendent of public instruction. Incumbent Tom Torlakson pulled out a 4 percentage point win over challenger Marshall Tuck, but the the campaign reports filed by the two men mask the size of the battle. The two men spent a combined $4.82 million on their race (Tuck slightly more than Torlakson), but the real money was spent by groups who saw the schools chief race as a proxy for everything from debates over teacher tenure to charter schools and more. The pro-Torlakson independent expenditure campaign, largely financed by the California Teachers Association, spent almost $7.7 million. The pro-Tuck independent group, financed by a handful of wealthy self-described education reformers, spent just north of $10 million. Put it all together, and you have a $22.6 million fight over a position that doesn't actually have full control over California's education policy and rules.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Again, this was a relatively quiet election cycle for California. Almost all of the statewide candidate races were a bit on the ho-hum side, and there were only two real barn burners in the world of propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, expect the 2016 cycle to be more costly... a lot more costly. Take the newly fermenting U.S. Senate race and throw in a big pinch of ballot measure mania -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article5122236.html\" target=\"_blank\">plastic bags\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-greenberg/a-higher-law-crafting-cal_b_6421176.html\" target=\"_blank\">legal pot\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/poll-shows-californians-willing-to-extend-Prop30-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\">additional taxes\u003c/a>, and who knows what else -- and the numbers from last year may soon seem quite puny.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From a victory bonus to lodging for the governor's pooch, a glimpse at 2014 campaign spending.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324481,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1134},"headData":{"title":"California's 2014 Statewide Campaigns Top $226 Million | KQED","description":"From a victory bonus to lodging for the governor's pooch, a glimpse at 2014 campaign spending.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10422839 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10422839","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/03/californias-2014-statewide-campaigns-top-226-million/","disqusTitle":"California's 2014 Statewide Campaigns Top $226 Million","customPermalink":"2015/02/03/california-statewide-campaigns-in-2014-top-226-million-spending/","path":"/news/10422839/californias-2014-statewide-campaigns-top-226-million","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you think $226.5 million, the amount of combined spending in 2014 on statewide candidate races and ballot measure campaigns, is a lot of money, consider this: It was kind of a quiet year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, you ain't seen nothing yet. But more on that in a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total comes from hundreds of pages of campaign reports filed over the course of the last few hours and days. It represents both the expenditures made by candidates pursuing eight statewide offices on the Nov. 4 ballot ($35.5 million) and by the committees formed to support or oppose the two statewide ballot measures in June and the eight statewide measures in November... plus a few other expenses related to statewide efforts ($173.3 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does not include the millions of dollars spent on races for the California Legislature or for state seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. And a caveat: It may still not include a few dollars here or there spent by several small and quiet groups to influence statewide races in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big dogs in California's most recent election cycle were the two health care initiatives on the fall ballot: Proposition 45, a proposed change in health insurance regulation; and Proposition 46, a smorgasbord of everything from doctor drug testing to a looser cap on cash awards in malpractice lawsuits.\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>Combined, spending on those two initiatives accounted for $127 million, about 56 cents of every dollar in the statewide campaign total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers, when added all together, are impressive for two elections which both made history for how few voters actually cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also hard to digest in the aggregate. Some campaigns were big and full of cash for television ads, mailers and campaign consultants. Some, though, were pretty small as statewide efforts go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, let's sample some of the more interesting morsels of information gleaned from the new filings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gov. Jerry Brown may have received a lot of press attention for being frugal in his campaign spending, but the real award goes to state Treasurer John Chiang. The Democrat who successfully navigated the transition from two terms as state controller into winning the job of state banker spent a paltry $24,293 in all of 2014. Divide that by the number of votes Chiang received in both the June and November elections, and you find that the state's top money man spent \u003cem>less than four-tenths of a penny per vote\u003c/em>. Frugal, indeed!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the other hand, the most surprising spending ... at least until you think about what was really going on ... was that of Attorney General Kamala Harris. The Democratic incumbent faced a never-heard-of GOP opponent, Ron Gold, and handily won a second term. But she sure did spend a lot of money relative to her fellow incumbent officeholders who were similarly unchallenged: $3.66 million. What did she spend most of it on? TV ads and political consultants. What was she doing? \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-california-politics-20150201-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Probably boosting her name ID for -- well -- a race like the one she's now running\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One of the biggest dramas of 2014 played out during the early summer, when Democrats Betty Yee and John Pérez were locked in a close battle for second place in the race for state controller, eventually won by Yee. Final records show that Pérez spent almost $3.1 million in his losing effort -- while Yee, who won in November, and GOP challenger Ashley Swearengin spent a combined $3.2 million in the fall contest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some of the biggest winners in the world of political consulting in 2014 were the partners of a San Francisco-based Democratic firm, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scnstrategies.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SCN Strategies\u003c/a>: Ace Smith, Sean Clegg and Dan Newman. Their firm represents three of the biggest names in Democratic politics -- Brown, Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom -- and thus profited from advising those politicos. But SCN also received a little something from the ballot measure committee formed by the governor to pass Prop. 1 and Prop. 2: a $25,000 \"win fee\" paid in mid-December. When you consider that members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/2/1/7960991/2015-super-bowl-xlix-winner-shares-seahawks-patriots\" target=\"_blank\">the winning New England Patriots received a little something extra for their big victory\u003c/a>, too, maybe it's not so surprising to do the same for top hired political guns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Say what you will about the governor's famous dog, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SutterBrown\" target=\"_blank\">Sutter\u003c/a>, but the Welsh corgi knows a thing or two about travel. Tucked away in the campaign report of the political action committee formed by the California Chamber of Commerce to boost Brown's ballot measures was an unusual expense: $3,504.24 for the \"Bark The Vote\" campaign trip. Not familiar with that one? That was Sutter, accompanied by Democratic campaign aides, \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcdems.org/bark2014\" target=\"_blank\">barnstorming the state to pose for photos and spark some PR for Prop. 1 and Prop 2\u003c/a>. The money was spent on a Hertz rental car and for lodging at several hotels, including more than $1300 for Democratic officials at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bacararesort.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara's Bacara Resort & Spa\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As proof that the biggest money is often spent outside of the official committees controlled by candidates -- committees with rather small contribution limits in a state as big as California -- consider the bitter fight in 2014 waged for superintendent of public instruction. Incumbent Tom Torlakson pulled out a 4 percentage point win over challenger Marshall Tuck, but the the campaign reports filed by the two men mask the size of the battle. The two men spent a combined $4.82 million on their race (Tuck slightly more than Torlakson), but the real money was spent by groups who saw the schools chief race as a proxy for everything from debates over teacher tenure to charter schools and more. The pro-Torlakson independent expenditure campaign, largely financed by the California Teachers Association, spent almost $7.7 million. The pro-Tuck independent group, financed by a handful of wealthy self-described education reformers, spent just north of $10 million. Put it all together, and you have a $22.6 million fight over a position that doesn't actually have full control over California's education policy and rules.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Again, this was a relatively quiet election cycle for California. Almost all of the statewide candidate races were a bit on the ho-hum side, and there were only two real barn burners in the world of propositions.\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>As such, expect the 2016 cycle to be more costly... a lot more costly. Take the newly fermenting U.S. Senate race and throw in a big pinch of ballot measure mania -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article5122236.html\" target=\"_blank\">plastic bags\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-greenberg/a-higher-law-crafting-cal_b_6421176.html\" target=\"_blank\">legal pot\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/poll-shows-californians-willing-to-extend-Prop30-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\">additional taxes\u003c/a>, and who knows what else -- and the numbers from last year may soon seem quite puny.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10422839/californias-2014-statewide-campaigns-top-226-million","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6310","news_17599","news_592","news_61","news_17041","news_19379"],"featImg":"news_10422891","label":"news_7051"},"news_10421319":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10421319","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10421319","score":null,"sort":[1422777709000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"behind-the-scenes-in-californias-race-for-governor","title":"Behind the Scenes in California's Race for Governor","publishDate":1422777709,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Political campaigns aren't often summed up in a single sentence, but 2014's race for governor may have been the rare exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You name it, nothing stuck to the governor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the assessment of Aaron McLear, senior adviser to Republican candidate Neel Kashkari, about what became the political equivalent of \"Mission Impossible:\" running a competitive 2014 campaign in the hopes of unseating Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLear, along with top advisers to Brown and others, drew back the curtain on the gubernatorial race during Saturday's \u003ca href=\"https://igs.berkeley.edu/events/california-votes-2014\" target=\"_blank\">quadrennial election post-mortem sponsored by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's edition was expanded beyond the race for governor to include discussions on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/status/561636243272765440\" target=\"_blank\">low voter turnout\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/31/Bay-Area-soda-tax-debate-as-nasty-as-ever-at-Berkeley-conference/\" target=\"_blank\">the local battle over soda taxes\u003c/a> and more. But it's the traditional free-wheeling discussion about the race at the top of the ticket in California that's been the hallmark of the weekend gathering through the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 race was, to hear the top strategists describe it, a battle of \"authenticity,\" even though some in the audience suggested it was a bit ... well, boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so, said Democratic strategist Ace Smith, a longtime adviser to Brown and a key architect of the victory over Kashkari on Nov. 4. Smith argued that the governor's strategy was a campaign based not on himself but on things that mattered: things like California's water needs and its long-term budget stability, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Calif-Voters-Pass-Fiscal-Propositions-1-and-2-281557631.html\" target=\"_blank\">embodied in the top two measures on the ballot and around which Brown shaped his only TV ads and stump speeches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of doing the standard thing,\" said Smith, \"how about running an election based on the voters?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of issues and policies driving the campaign was the Brown strategy for a long time, said Dana Williamson, the governor's cabinet secretary. She said the fact that the veteran Democrat convincingly won a fourth term \"didn't happen by accident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the things Williamson told conference attendees that laid the groundwork for success: the \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_25,_Majority_Vote_for_Legislature_to_Pass_the_Budget_%282010%29\" target=\"_blank\">2010 constitutional change\u003c/a> that allowed Democrats to pass a state budget on their own (and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/06/16/brown-blocks-dems-budget-shot/\" target=\"_blank\">the governor's subsequent 2011 veto of a budget\u003c/a>); Brown's close working relationship with the traditional GOP-allied business community; and key legislative victories for Latino groups focused on outreach to undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was four years of a lot of things that happened that led up to a 'non-campaign,' \" said Williamson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kashkari's Big Win Was Getting Past His Rival\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategists at the Berkeley conference made it clear that the real battle for their candidate was the race that ended on June 6: the primary election in which Neel Kashkari edged out GOP rival Tim Donnelly for the right to challenge Brown in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, at the time a state assemblyman from San Bernardino County, is ideologically far to the right of the more moderate Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought there was a lot at stake for the party,\" said GOP strategist Kevin Spillane, who helped lead an independent expenditure effort against Donnelly and thus to boost Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the primary election rolled around, a number of prominent mainstream Republicans -- from Jeb Bush to Condoleezza Rice and former Gov. Pete Wilson -- all had publicly endorsed the newcomer whose government resume included only his time as an assistant U.S. Treasury secretary crafting the bank bailout of 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane recounted a conversation with a top California Republican who he declined to name, who said \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/05/19/republicans-worry-over-california-governors-race/\" target=\"_blank\">a Donnelly victory on June 6 would have decimated the state GOP's chance to ever mount a comeback from its now decade-plus long decline in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we didn't succeed,\" Spillane recounted the Republican VIP saying, \"it's turn out the lights and shut the doors, the donors were gone, they were going to give up [on the party], they were going to walk away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-Donnelly effort wasn't well funded, though. Kashkari still came out on top, said Spillane, because \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/06/californias-voter-turnout-headed-to-record-low.html\" target=\"_blank\">the record low turnout election in June\u003c/a> increased the value of even small bits of information that GOP voters were able to glean about Kashkari -- namely, those endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, who organizers say was invited but declined to attend the post-election conference, offered his own take in a single tweet posted on Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10421364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM-800x438.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-31 at 10.10.38 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM-800x438.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM-400x219.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM.png 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 'Authentic' Candidates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspirational or not, advisers for both Brown and Kashkari argued during the two-hour Q&A that their candidates were the antithesis of modern campaigns shaped by stagecraft and political optics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cornerstone was authenticity,\" said adviser Aaron McLear on Neel Kashkari's mandate to his campaign team. McLear said that the GOP candidate didn't want to repeat what, in his opinion, was the fatal flaw in the 2010 candidacy for governor of Meg Whitman or the 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\"They didn't come across as sincere and genuine,\" said McLear.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included Kashkari's interest in issues that weren't staples of traditional Republican campaigns, like poverty. Kashkari gained a bit of short-lived traction on the issue last summer, when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.neelkashkari.com/poverty/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign's video of the candidate posing as a homeless man on the streets of Fresno\u003c/a> went viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown's team said the video, plus Kashkari's 11th-hour TV ad on teacher tenure that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/17/neel-kashkari-campaign-tv-ad\" target=\"_blank\">featured a young boy drowning in a swimming pool\u003c/a>, undercut that notion of being authentic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the drowning-kid ad, adviser McLear said that Kashkari wanted something that \"shocked people, pissed people off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown adviser Ace Smith countered that the ad did nothing to help, and may have hurt, a broader public debate about the quality of education and good teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's made a serious issue trivial,\" said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Writing Was On The Wall...?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None were surprised, though, by the bottom line: Jerry Brown winning an unprecedented fourth term as governor -- which may be why political advisers to Brown's rival advised their candidate not to spend his own money on the race. All told, Kashkari spent about $3 million of money he made in his time both at Goldman Sachs and at PIMCO, a Newport Beach investment firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLear told conference attendees that the last $1 million Kashkari put into the campaign on Oct. 17, was because he believed he would regret not doing everything he could do to be competitive ... even if he was going to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/31/2014-race-for-california-governor-cheapest-in-decades/\" target=\"_blank\">Big GOP contributors, though, were not as motivated\u003c/a>. Campaign records show Kashkari only raised about $700,000 after the June 6 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The donors just walked away from him,\" said strategist Spillane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, who tweeted on Friday that he was in the Philippines, has been laying low since Election Day. His top strategist says there's a good reason why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now he's looking for a job because he doesn't have any money left,\" McLear said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At a Berkeley conference, strategists dish on a gubernatorial contest they say was never boring.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324493,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1166},"headData":{"title":"Behind the Scenes in California's Race for Governor | KQED","description":"At a Berkeley conference, strategists dish on a gubernatorial contest they say was never boring.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10421319 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10421319","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/01/behind-the-scenes-in-californias-race-for-governor/","disqusTitle":"Behind the Scenes in California's Race for Governor","customPermalink":"2015/02/01/berkeley-conference-goes-behind-the-scenes-in-race-for-california-governor/","path":"/news/10421319/behind-the-scenes-in-californias-race-for-governor","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Political campaigns aren't often summed up in a single sentence, but 2014's race for governor may have been the rare exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You name it, nothing stuck to the governor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the assessment of Aaron McLear, senior adviser to Republican candidate Neel Kashkari, about what became the political equivalent of \"Mission Impossible:\" running a competitive 2014 campaign in the hopes of unseating Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLear, along with top advisers to Brown and others, drew back the curtain on the gubernatorial race during Saturday's \u003ca href=\"https://igs.berkeley.edu/events/california-votes-2014\" target=\"_blank\">quadrennial election post-mortem sponsored by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's edition was expanded beyond the race for governor to include discussions on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/status/561636243272765440\" target=\"_blank\">low voter turnout\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/31/Bay-Area-soda-tax-debate-as-nasty-as-ever-at-Berkeley-conference/\" target=\"_blank\">the local battle over soda taxes\u003c/a> and more. But it's the traditional free-wheeling discussion about the race at the top of the ticket in California that's been the hallmark of the weekend gathering through the years.\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 2014 race was, to hear the top strategists describe it, a battle of \"authenticity,\" even though some in the audience suggested it was a bit ... well, boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so, said Democratic strategist Ace Smith, a longtime adviser to Brown and a key architect of the victory over Kashkari on Nov. 4. Smith argued that the governor's strategy was a campaign based not on himself but on things that mattered: things like California's water needs and its long-term budget stability, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Calif-Voters-Pass-Fiscal-Propositions-1-and-2-281557631.html\" target=\"_blank\">embodied in the top two measures on the ballot and around which Brown shaped his only TV ads and stump speeches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of doing the standard thing,\" said Smith, \"how about running an election based on the voters?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of issues and policies driving the campaign was the Brown strategy for a long time, said Dana Williamson, the governor's cabinet secretary. She said the fact that the veteran Democrat convincingly won a fourth term \"didn't happen by accident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the things Williamson told conference attendees that laid the groundwork for success: the \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_25,_Majority_Vote_for_Legislature_to_Pass_the_Budget_%282010%29\" target=\"_blank\">2010 constitutional change\u003c/a> that allowed Democrats to pass a state budget on their own (and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/06/16/brown-blocks-dems-budget-shot/\" target=\"_blank\">the governor's subsequent 2011 veto of a budget\u003c/a>); Brown's close working relationship with the traditional GOP-allied business community; and key legislative victories for Latino groups focused on outreach to undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was four years of a lot of things that happened that led up to a 'non-campaign,' \" said Williamson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kashkari's Big Win Was Getting Past His Rival\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategists at the Berkeley conference made it clear that the real battle for their candidate was the race that ended on June 6: the primary election in which Neel Kashkari edged out GOP rival Tim Donnelly for the right to challenge Brown in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, at the time a state assemblyman from San Bernardino County, is ideologically far to the right of the more moderate Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought there was a lot at stake for the party,\" said GOP strategist Kevin Spillane, who helped lead an independent expenditure effort against Donnelly and thus to boost Kashkari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the primary election rolled around, a number of prominent mainstream Republicans -- from Jeb Bush to Condoleezza Rice and former Gov. Pete Wilson -- all had publicly endorsed the newcomer whose government resume included only his time as an assistant U.S. Treasury secretary crafting the bank bailout of 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane recounted a conversation with a top California Republican who he declined to name, who said \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/05/19/republicans-worry-over-california-governors-race/\" target=\"_blank\">a Donnelly victory on June 6 would have decimated the state GOP's chance to ever mount a comeback from its now decade-plus long decline in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we didn't succeed,\" Spillane recounted the Republican VIP saying, \"it's turn out the lights and shut the doors, the donors were gone, they were going to give up [on the party], they were going to walk away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-Donnelly effort wasn't well funded, though. Kashkari still came out on top, said Spillane, because \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/06/californias-voter-turnout-headed-to-record-low.html\" target=\"_blank\">the record low turnout election in June\u003c/a> increased the value of even small bits of information that GOP voters were able to glean about Kashkari -- namely, those endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly, who organizers say was invited but declined to attend the post-election conference, offered his own take in a single tweet posted on Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10421364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM-800x438.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-31 at 10.10.38 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM-800x438.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM-400x219.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-01-31-at-10.10.38-PM.png 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 'Authentic' Candidates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspirational or not, advisers for both Brown and Kashkari argued during the two-hour Q&A that their candidates were the antithesis of modern campaigns shaped by stagecraft and political optics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cornerstone was authenticity,\" said adviser Aaron McLear on Neel Kashkari's mandate to his campaign team. McLear said that the GOP candidate didn't want to repeat what, in his opinion, was the fatal flaw in the 2010 candidacy for governor of Meg Whitman or the 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\"They didn't come across as sincere and genuine,\" said McLear.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included Kashkari's interest in issues that weren't staples of traditional Republican campaigns, like poverty. Kashkari gained a bit of short-lived traction on the issue last summer, when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.neelkashkari.com/poverty/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign's video of the candidate posing as a homeless man on the streets of Fresno\u003c/a> went viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown's team said the video, plus Kashkari's 11th-hour TV ad on teacher tenure that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/17/neel-kashkari-campaign-tv-ad\" target=\"_blank\">featured a young boy drowning in a swimming pool\u003c/a>, undercut that notion of being authentic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the drowning-kid ad, adviser McLear said that Kashkari wanted something that \"shocked people, pissed people off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown adviser Ace Smith countered that the ad did nothing to help, and may have hurt, a broader public debate about the quality of education and good teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's made a serious issue trivial,\" said Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Writing Was On The Wall...?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None were surprised, though, by the bottom line: Jerry Brown winning an unprecedented fourth term as governor -- which may be why political advisers to Brown's rival advised their candidate not to spend his own money on the race. All told, Kashkari spent about $3 million of money he made in his time both at Goldman Sachs and at PIMCO, a Newport Beach investment firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLear told conference attendees that the last $1 million Kashkari put into the campaign on Oct. 17, was because he believed he would regret not doing everything he could do to be competitive ... even if he was going to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/31/2014-race-for-california-governor-cheapest-in-decades/\" target=\"_blank\">Big GOP contributors, though, were not as motivated\u003c/a>. Campaign records show Kashkari only raised about $700,000 after the June 6 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The donors just walked away from him,\" said strategist Spillane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, who tweeted on Friday that he was in the Philippines, has been laying low since Election Day. His top strategist says there's a good reason why.\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>\"Right now he's looking for a job because he doesn't have any money left,\" McLear said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10421319/behind-the-scenes-in-californias-race-for-governor","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6310","news_17599","news_30","news_5532"],"featImg":"news_10421399","label":"news_7051"},"news_10420261":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10420261","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10420261","score":null,"sort":[1422691284000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-cheap-date-that-was-californias-2014-race-for-governor","title":"The Cheap Date That Was California's 2014 Race for Governor","publishDate":1422691284,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It's a headline you almost never see in California politics, and probably won't see again for a very long time: a landslide win in a statewide election where campaign spending hit a record low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an era where political campaigns burn cash like a Winnebago guzzles gas, this was a contest won by a campaign that sipped its cash like a Toyota Prius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Final documents filed both by Gov. Jerry Brown and his Republican challenger, Neel Kashkari, show the two men spent almost $13.3 million … combined … on their race for the top job in the nation's most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari accounted for slightly more of that spending than the victorious incumbent governor, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1362971&session=2013\" target=\"_blank\">spending $7.13 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1333789&session=2013\" target=\"_blank\">Brown's $6.15 million\u003c/a> (a small amount of that total was spent in 2013). Official campaign finance documents were filed by both men over the course of the past 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it turned out to not be much of a race in the final analysis, with Brown coasting to a 20-percentage-point win on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half of Kashkari's campaign cash, $3.1 million, came from the GOP newcomer himself. Brown, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1343257&session=2013\" target=\"_blank\">who also raised money for a campaign to pass two ballot measures\u003c/a>, is still sitting on about $23.4 million between that campaign's bank account and the one for his re-election. What \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/561318683012636672\" target=\"_blank\">he'll do with that money\u003c/a> remains the source of a great deal of speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race was never one that dominated the airwaves, which have become a mainstay of competitive California elections. In fact, campaign records show that Kashkari spent most of his money -- more than $4 million -- just to win the second spot on the fall ballot in the primary campaign against GOP challenger Tim Donnelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be said that the campaign mirrored Gov. Jerry Brown both personally and politically: frugal, spartan, simple. But there's no mistaking this for what it really was: a surprisingly cheap race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How cheap? A review of campaign finance records and news accounts finds the last time a race for governor cost this little was in 1978, when Jerry Brown won a second term by defeating Republican \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-05/news/mn-2225_1_younger-los-angeles-county-evelle\" target=\"_blank\">Evelle Younger\u003c/a>. That race was characterized in reports from the era as costing \"less than $14 million.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420558 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"NewMoney.001\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: California campaign records and news reports. (John Myers/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chart above shows spending in each regular four-year gubernatorial cycle from 1978 through 2014. The total spending gradually rose for California campaigns from 1986 ($22.5 million) through 1994 ($46.1 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race of 2002 was the first big cash bonanza, where Gov. Gray Davis alone spent $78 million. And no race (and maybe no race ever again) will look like the one in 2010, where GOP challenger Meg Whitman spent $178.5 million -- most of it her own money -- along with almost $37 million spent by Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what did it cost to get the votes? Take the total votes cast and the money spent, and you find the 2014 gubernatorial race cost about $1.81 per vote. That, too, is an amazing piece of data ... considering news stories from 1986 calculated the race that year (Gov. George Deukmejian beating Democrat Tom Bradley) at $3.04 per vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But comparing the 2014 gubernatorial spending with that from 1978 isn't really fair... to 1978. After all, adjusting for inflation, the final race of the '70s would have been equal to almost $51 million in campaign spending today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, a better comparison would be other 2014 races -- like the heated contest in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/21/one-theme-two-races-in-orange-county-for-california-legislature/\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County\u003c/a> for the 34th state Senate. Total cost, when you tally candidates and independent expenditures: about $11.1 million, close to the Brown-Kashkari battle. And we may see even bigger spending on the statewide level once final campaign reports are filed from the intense fight for state superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: This was an anomaly of a gubernatorial race, something pointed out late last year in just how few votes were cast (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/11/fewest-votes-cast-for-governor-since-1978\" target=\"_blank\">which also broke a record that went back to, wait for it, 1978\u003c/a>). The reasons for it? Well, maybe we'll get some insight on Saturday, when political consultants from both the Brown and Kashkari camp participate in a Q&A election post-mortem at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A California governor's race hasn't been run this cheaply since bell bottoms were in style.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324513,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":731},"headData":{"title":"The Cheap Date That Was California's 2014 Race for Governor | KQED","description":"A California governor's race hasn't been run this cheaply since bell bottoms were in style.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10420261 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10420261","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/31/the-cheap-date-that-was-californias-2014-race-for-governor/","disqusTitle":"The Cheap Date That Was California's 2014 Race for Governor","customPermalink":"2015/01/31/2014-race-for-california-governor-cheapest-in-decades/","path":"/news/10420261/the-cheap-date-that-was-californias-2014-race-for-governor","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's a headline you almost never see in California politics, and probably won't see again for a very long time: a landslide win in a statewide election where campaign spending hit a record low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an era where political campaigns burn cash like a Winnebago guzzles gas, this was a contest won by a campaign that sipped its cash like a Toyota Prius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Final documents filed both by Gov. Jerry Brown and his Republican challenger, Neel Kashkari, show the two men spent almost $13.3 million … combined … on their race for the top job in the nation's most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari accounted for slightly more of that spending than the victorious incumbent governor, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1362971&session=2013\" target=\"_blank\">spending $7.13 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1333789&session=2013\" target=\"_blank\">Brown's $6.15 million\u003c/a> (a small amount of that total was spent in 2013). Official campaign finance documents were filed by both men over the course of the past 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it turned out to not be much of a race in the final analysis, with Brown coasting to a 20-percentage-point win on Election Day.\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>Almost half of Kashkari's campaign cash, $3.1 million, came from the GOP newcomer himself. Brown, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1343257&session=2013\" target=\"_blank\">who also raised money for a campaign to pass two ballot measures\u003c/a>, is still sitting on about $23.4 million between that campaign's bank account and the one for his re-election. What \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/561318683012636672\" target=\"_blank\">he'll do with that money\u003c/a> remains the source of a great deal of speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race was never one that dominated the airwaves, which have become a mainstay of competitive California elections. In fact, campaign records show that Kashkari spent most of his money -- more than $4 million -- just to win the second spot on the fall ballot in the primary campaign against GOP challenger Tim Donnelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be said that the campaign mirrored Gov. Jerry Brown both personally and politically: frugal, spartan, simple. But there's no mistaking this for what it really was: a surprisingly cheap race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How cheap? A review of campaign finance records and news accounts finds the last time a race for governor cost this little was in 1978, when Jerry Brown won a second term by defeating Republican \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-05/news/mn-2225_1_younger-los-angeles-county-evelle\" target=\"_blank\">Evelle Younger\u003c/a>. That race was characterized in reports from the era as costing \"less than $14 million.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10420558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10420558 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"NewMoney.001\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/NewMoney.001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: California campaign records and news reports. (John Myers/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chart above shows spending in each regular four-year gubernatorial cycle from 1978 through 2014. The total spending gradually rose for California campaigns from 1986 ($22.5 million) through 1994 ($46.1 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race of 2002 was the first big cash bonanza, where Gov. Gray Davis alone spent $78 million. And no race (and maybe no race ever again) will look like the one in 2010, where GOP challenger Meg Whitman spent $178.5 million -- most of it her own money -- along with almost $37 million spent by Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what did it cost to get the votes? Take the total votes cast and the money spent, and you find the 2014 gubernatorial race cost about $1.81 per vote. That, too, is an amazing piece of data ... considering news stories from 1986 calculated the race that year (Gov. George Deukmejian beating Democrat Tom Bradley) at $3.04 per vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But comparing the 2014 gubernatorial spending with that from 1978 isn't really fair... to 1978. After all, adjusting for inflation, the final race of the '70s would have been equal to almost $51 million in campaign spending today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, a better comparison would be other 2014 races -- like the heated contest in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/21/one-theme-two-races-in-orange-county-for-california-legislature/\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County\u003c/a> for the 34th state Senate. Total cost, when you tally candidates and independent expenditures: about $11.1 million, close to the Brown-Kashkari battle. And we may see even bigger spending on the statewide level once final campaign reports are filed from the intense fight for state superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: This was an anomaly of a gubernatorial race, something pointed out late last year in just how few votes were cast (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/11/fewest-votes-cast-for-governor-since-1978\" target=\"_blank\">which also broke a record that went back to, wait for it, 1978\u003c/a>). The reasons for it? Well, maybe we'll get some insight on Saturday, when political consultants from both the Brown and Kashkari camp participate in a Q&A election post-mortem at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10420261/the-cheap-date-that-was-californias-2014-race-for-governor","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6310","news_17599","news_30","news_5532"],"featImg":"news_10420298","label":"news_7051"},"news_10393174":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10393174","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10393174","score":null,"sort":[1420063248000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories","title":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories","publishDate":1420063248,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Let's be honest: Who doesn't like a good old-fashioned annual rite of passage? Spring cleaning. The Fall Classic. Swallows returning to Capistrano. (Well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/bringing-back-the-famous-swallows-of-mission-san-juan-capistrano\" target=\"_blank\">maybe not that one these days, it seems\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a list of top news stories to wrap up a year. Which brings us to this list covering California politics in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, well, an odd even-numbered year. Statewide elections usually spark some big stories and important debates, but 2014 was rather tepid compared with previous electoral cycles. Even so, there were a few big moments that won't be soon forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So without further ado...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393263\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS9444_leelandyee-20140326a-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Quote of the Year: \"People Need Certain Things\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were casting a movie about a political scandal and you needed a legislator on whom to base a character accused of corruption ... Leland Yee wouldn't have been your guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democrat was a fairly high-profile member of the California Legislature, but not a flamboyant one or one who was the subject of gossip and rumor. And that's probably why \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\" target=\"_blank\">the news in March landed with such a bombshell\u003c/a>, when the 66-year old former psychologist was arrested and charged with not only corruption, but also with allegedly participating in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons into the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony was impossible to miss: gun trafficking charges against a Democrat who made a name for himself \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/leland-yee-crusaded-for-gun-control-before-indictment-on-gun-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">as a fierce advocate of gun control\u003c/a>, a politician who championed \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/29/business/la-fi-ct-facetime-20100429\" target=\"_blank\">a nationally debated California law to ban children from buying violent video games\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, that infamous quote contained in the FBI affidavit, one attributed by investigators to Yee during a secret meeting that focused on the potential smuggling of weapons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yee's political career pretty much ended the same day the detailed allegations were made public, part of a bigger FBI investigation into the Chinese immigrant community of San Francisco. 2014 also saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25440366/state-senate-vote-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Yee and two other state senators suspended over ethics charges\u003c/a>: Ron Calderon, the focus of \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/02/21/ron-calderon-indicted-by-feds-for-bribery/5704253/\" target=\"_blank\">his own FBI corruption sting\u003c/a>, and Rod Wright, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-rod-wright-20140913-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">convicted of perjury in a case involving whether he actually lived in his legislative district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Wright's case was closed in 2014. We're still waiting to see what happens to Calderon and Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates.\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-1440x928.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top Political Actor in a Dramatic Role: California's Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's leave it to Gov. Jerry Brown to explain this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a drought,\" said Brown in September. \"And that's got everybody's attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was in 2014, where California's unquenched thirst helped break the logjam on several water policy fights that had been dragging on for years. Brown's quip came \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/16/drought-becomes-powerful-political-tool-for-jerry-brown-and-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\">just after he signed the state's first-ever regulations on the use of groundwater\u003c/a>, something unthinkable in years past. The year also saw lawmakers negotiate, and voters approve, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/1/\" target=\"_blank\">a $7.5 billion bond package\u003c/a> for water reliability and storage -- a package where politicos had long fretted about the public's distaste for new borrowing but one that \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/ballot-measures/prop/1/\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately received a ''yes\" vote from 67 percent of the voters who cast ballots on Nov. 4\u003c/a>. Campaign strategists say it's simple: The drought was a huge motivating factor, something voters didn't need a political campaign to explain to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393504\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg\" alt=\"Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, Calif.\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-1440x1002.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Elementary School in Milpitas. (Charla Bear/KQED) \u003ccite>(Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Simmering Fight Over Teacher Tenure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision made by a Los Angeles judge on June 10 had the potential for huge political impact: California's tenure rules for K-12 teachers were found to violate the constitutional rights of students to equal protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A huge ruling, yes, but one that surprisingly caused only a small series of political rumbles in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 pages of findings in \u003ca href=\"http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tenative-Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vergara v. California\u003c/a> by Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed down a scathing indictment of the system of tenure -- one that Treu said unfairly disadvantages students from communities of color or from low-income families:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It therefore cannot be gainsaid that the number of grossly ineffective teachers has a direct, real, appreciable, and negative impact on a significant number of California students, now and well into the future for as long as said teachers hold their positions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ruling was immediately praised by critics of the tenure system and self-described reform groups, but panned by teachers unions and state officials who argued the judge overstated the number of \"bad\" teachers on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> didn't land a more powerful political punch in 2014 is hard to say. While it did play \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/27/how-teacher-tenure-figures-into-the-november-election/\" target=\"_blank\">a real role in one statewide race -- the contest for superintendent of public instruction -- and a few legislative races\u003c/a>, there was no groundswell of action or outrage. Even the decision by Gov. Jerry Brown to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-governor-appeals-vergara-20140829-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">appeal the ruling\u003c/a> (a decision he tried to defend on legal grounds during the political season's only gubernatorial debate) extracted no real political price. Nonetheless, \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> resonated in education and government circles and could continue to make news depending on the outcome of the appeals process in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Box Office Sleeper: The Kashkari Kid\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No candidate made a bigger bet on public outcry over the \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> ruling than Neel Kashkari, the Republican newcomer hoping to topple a sitting governor with a household name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393606\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393606\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg\" alt=\"Kashkari, the longshot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate.\" width=\"400\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-800x732.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kashkari, the long-shot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/21/why-kashkari-is-proud-of-tarp-doesnt-trumpet-it\" target=\"_blank\">the former U.S. Treasury official\u003c/a> who bested a more conservative Republican to win the second of two spots on the fall ballot, had always insisted that education would be one of only two priorities should he somehow win the race for governor (the other being job creation). But he didn't seem to talk much \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kashkari-schools-20140422-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">about his education agenda\u003c/a>, as he seemed to be much more energized about schools after \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> swept into the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the only debate between the two men, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjuxVjPbMk\" target=\"_blank\">held on Sept. 4 and sponsored by KQED along with three other media organizations\u003c/a>, Kashkari unloaded on Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to appeal the ruling. One month later, he released a television ad that never mentioned the tenure court case by name -- opting instead for the shock value of a drowning kid and his GOP rescuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZFdmwqG3Q?rel=0&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad also highlighted the challenge for the Kashkari campaign team: finding something ... anything ... that would stick to Jerry Brown. The candidate began the race in January talking about poverty; then he lampooned \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/13/kashkari-hits-jerry-brown-s-crazy-train/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown's support for the \"crazy train\"\u003c/a> of high-speed rail; then he went back to poverty by \u003ca href=\"Neel%20Kashkari%20takes%20campaign%20to%20the%20streets,%20literally%20-%20LA%20...\" target=\"_blank\">posing as a homeless man on the streets of Fresno\u003c/a>; then a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/kashkari-brown-coddled-pr_n_5863100.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks on the Brown political dynasty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on it went, even though polls suggested either that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/23/poll-jerry-brown-draws-california-republican-votes\" target=\"_blank\">voters weren't impressed\u003c/a> or were simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/40-of-voters-unaware-Jerry-Brown-is-seeking-5865196.php\" target=\"_blank\">oblivious to the entire campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lingering question: Does Neel Kashkari, a man with now at least a modicum of statewide name ID, run for something else in 2016 or 2018?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393612\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg\" alt=\"California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-1440x999.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ban That May End Up Getting Banned Itself\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 100 communities across California that have imposed some kind of limit or ban on single-use plastic bags in recent years. So, it's not surprising that a statewide effort would be launched in Sacramento. Still, few legislative fights in 2014 were more intense, or more chock-full of backroom wheeling and dealing, as the one that ended with legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown to impose a statewide plastic bag ban starting in July. When enacted, the ban will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/29/plastic-bag-ban-california/\" target=\"_blank\">the first of its kind in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or will it? The plastic bag industry \u003ca href=\"http://www.bagtheban.com/news/item/statement-from-the-american-progressive-bag-alliance-on-intent-to-repeal-se\" target=\"_blank\">quickly ponied up $3 million to gather signatures for a referendum\u003c/a> asking voters to overturn the law -- and they appear to have enough to make that happen in November 2016. That would also mean the new law is on hold, allowing the plastic bag industry to keep selling its products for at least an additional 16 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five separate versions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_270&sess=PREV&house=B&author=padilla_%3Cpadilla%3E\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 270\u003c/a> were considered before all was said and done at the state Capitol. Grocers were given a concession of 10 cents for every paper bag, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2014/01/24/15676/onetime-foes-now-back-statewide-plastic-bag-ban/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Democrats (who helped kill a similar effort in 2013) signed on\u003c/a> after efforts were promised to help mitigate any job losses at plastic bag manufacturing plants. The governor played the final card, surprising at least a few political watchers by agreeing to sign the bill. Now, its fate is unclear -- as even more cities across California prepare to enact their own bag bans in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-1440x959.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suppose We Held An Election ... And No One Showed Up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a state where it's become common to watch millions of voters skip elections, it wasn't surprising that 2014 -- a year without a presidential race and not a lot of widely anticipated ballot propositions -- was going to end with low turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But boy, who knew it would be this bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The June and November elections each set records for voter apathy: Only 25.17 percent of registered voters cast ballots in June, 42.2 percent in November. Never have any regular primary or gubernatorial elections in California seen such tepid interest from the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/California-politicians-picked-by-few-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">turnout was even worse in a number of individual legislative and congressional districts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393723\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393723\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png\" alt=\"No on Prop. 46 television ad\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-1440x1008.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM.png 1990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No on Prop. 46 Television Ad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Political Power of No\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low turnout didn't do much to help backers of any of \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">the six propositions on November's ballot\u003c/a>. In fact, the 2014 election cycle proved once again how much easier it is to \u003cem>kill\u003c/em> a ballot measure than it is to \u003cem>pass\u003c/em> one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most-talked-about initiatives, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/45/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 45\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/46/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 46\u003c/a>, were a textbook case of death by a thousand cuts. Opponents had more money and an easier message: The measures were too complicated, poorly drafted, clever Trojan horses that really had an ulterior motive. Prop. 45, the measure to boost the regulatory power of the state insurance commissioner over health care rates, was a rebuke to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who championed the proposal. Prop. 46, the fight over doctor drug testing and medical malpractice awards, was a lawyers-versus-doctors smackdown that landed on the ballot after \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/01/22/4758601/\" target=\"_blank\">the two sides failed to reach any kind of deal in the Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark DiCamillo, the longtime director of the nonpartisan Field Poll, has long joked that if he ever hung up his pollster badge and became a political campaign consultant, he'd only take on clients who wanted to defeat initiatives. \"No\" is where the easy money is, it seems. And combined, the Prop. 45/Prop. 46 opposition campaigns raised more than $111 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393727\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393727\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-800x705.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-1440x1269.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's Stay Together, Loving You Whether ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some day years from now, you'll see it at an auction: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/07/states16_04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a bright crimson-colored, custom tie -- one with a multi-colored map of California sliced into six new state configurations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you'll say to yourself, \"Oh yeah, that Six Californias thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't meant to be, at least not in 2014. The owner of that tie, Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper, came up short in his quirky quest to ask Californians to go their separate ways. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/plan-to-split-california-six-ways-fails-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">Not only did his split-it-six-ways plan fail to make the fall ballot\u003c/a>, but Draper's hired guns failed to even collect enough valid signatures to get it on the ballot in 2016. And that's after he sank almost $5.3 million of his own cash into the endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeptics doubted Draper was serious. Politicos mused that he was trying to get his name out there for a future run for statewide office. (But which state? Ah, the jokes). And \u003ca href=\"http://verdict.justia.com/2014/01/03/political-constitutional-questions-raised-tim-drapers-six-californias-plan-split-california\" target=\"_blank\">legal scholars said the initiative was absolutely unworkable and likely unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hey, at least he's still got that tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393729\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393729\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-1440x960.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tao of Jerry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, the hard-to-deny consensus big political winner in a year where Californians didn't even seem to want to \u003cem>think\u003c/em> about politics: Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown's 45-year political career is best left to biographies rather than end-of-the-year lists. But suffice it to say, in an year when the electorate didn't seem to want to embrace politics, the low-key style of Brown's third term as governor seemed to suit Californians just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it would be unfair to imply that Brown wasn't working hard behind the scenes to secure a fourth term. From beating back legislation at the state Capitol that didn't suit his finely honed persona of frugality ... to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/04/jerry-brown-re-election-bid-quiet-just-like-he-wants-it\" target=\"_blank\">the non-campaign campaign\u003c/a> that saw him preach propositions rather than himself ... Jerry Brown found a way to successfully match his political message to the electoral mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has an impeccable sense of timing,\" said the governor's top aide, Nancy McFadden, to a business group in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Yes, but perhaps he learned it from having a lousy sense of timing in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenewerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/people.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">1976\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/04/on_this_day_in_1980_jerry_brow.html\" target=\"_blank\">1980\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1982/10/24/page/30/article/jerry-brown-has-met-the-enemy-its-himself\" target=\"_blank\">1982\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117695/sidney-blumenthal-jerry-browns-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">1992\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Jerry Brown chooses to steer his governorship in the new year and beyond remains to be seen. But for now, he seems to like the course that he -- and California -- are on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's hoping he and the state's other political players make 2015 an interesting one to watch.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Our picks for the year's biggest stories in California politics and government.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324672,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":2405},"headData":{"title":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories | KQED","description":"Our picks for the year's biggest stories in California politics and government.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10393174 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10393174","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/31/a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories/","disqusTitle":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories","customPermalink":"a-toast-to-top-california-politics-news-of-2014/","path":"/news/10393174/a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Let's be honest: Who doesn't like a good old-fashioned annual rite of passage? Spring cleaning. The Fall Classic. Swallows returning to Capistrano. (Well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/bringing-back-the-famous-swallows-of-mission-san-juan-capistrano\" target=\"_blank\">maybe not that one these days, it seems\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a list of top news stories to wrap up a year. Which brings us to this list covering California politics in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, well, an odd even-numbered year. Statewide elections usually spark some big stories and important debates, but 2014 was rather tepid compared with previous electoral cycles. Even so, there were a few big moments that won't be soon forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So without further ado...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393263\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS9444_leelandyee-20140326a-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Quote of the Year: \"People Need Certain Things\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were casting a movie about a political scandal and you needed a legislator on whom to base a character accused of corruption ... Leland Yee wouldn't have been your guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democrat was a fairly high-profile member of the California Legislature, but not a flamboyant one or one who was the subject of gossip and rumor. And that's probably why \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\" target=\"_blank\">the news in March landed with such a bombshell\u003c/a>, when the 66-year old former psychologist was arrested and charged with not only corruption, but also with allegedly participating in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons into the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony was impossible to miss: gun trafficking charges against a Democrat who made a name for himself \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/leland-yee-crusaded-for-gun-control-before-indictment-on-gun-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">as a fierce advocate of gun control\u003c/a>, a politician who championed \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/29/business/la-fi-ct-facetime-20100429\" target=\"_blank\">a nationally debated California law to ban children from buying violent video games\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, that infamous quote contained in the FBI affidavit, one attributed by investigators to Yee during a secret meeting that focused on the potential smuggling of weapons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yee's political career pretty much ended the same day the detailed allegations were made public, part of a bigger FBI investigation into the Chinese immigrant community of San Francisco. 2014 also saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25440366/state-senate-vote-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Yee and two other state senators suspended over ethics charges\u003c/a>: Ron Calderon, the focus of \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/02/21/ron-calderon-indicted-by-feds-for-bribery/5704253/\" target=\"_blank\">his own FBI corruption sting\u003c/a>, and Rod Wright, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-rod-wright-20140913-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">convicted of perjury in a case involving whether he actually lived in his legislative district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Wright's case was closed in 2014. We're still waiting to see what happens to Calderon and Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates.\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-1440x928.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top Political Actor in a Dramatic Role: California's Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's leave it to Gov. Jerry Brown to explain this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a drought,\" said Brown in September. \"And that's got everybody's attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was in 2014, where California's unquenched thirst helped break the logjam on several water policy fights that had been dragging on for years. Brown's quip came \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/16/drought-becomes-powerful-political-tool-for-jerry-brown-and-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\">just after he signed the state's first-ever regulations on the use of groundwater\u003c/a>, something unthinkable in years past. The year also saw lawmakers negotiate, and voters approve, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/1/\" target=\"_blank\">a $7.5 billion bond package\u003c/a> for water reliability and storage -- a package where politicos had long fretted about the public's distaste for new borrowing but one that \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/ballot-measures/prop/1/\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately received a ''yes\" vote from 67 percent of the voters who cast ballots on Nov. 4\u003c/a>. Campaign strategists say it's simple: The drought was a huge motivating factor, something voters didn't need a political campaign to explain to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393504\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg\" alt=\"Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, Calif.\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-1440x1002.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Elementary School in Milpitas. (Charla Bear/KQED) \u003ccite>(Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Simmering Fight Over Teacher Tenure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision made by a Los Angeles judge on June 10 had the potential for huge political impact: California's tenure rules for K-12 teachers were found to violate the constitutional rights of students to equal protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A huge ruling, yes, but one that surprisingly caused only a small series of political rumbles in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 pages of findings in \u003ca href=\"http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tenative-Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vergara v. California\u003c/a> by Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed down a scathing indictment of the system of tenure -- one that Treu said unfairly disadvantages students from communities of color or from low-income families:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It therefore cannot be gainsaid that the number of grossly ineffective teachers has a direct, real, appreciable, and negative impact on a significant number of California students, now and well into the future for as long as said teachers hold their positions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ruling was immediately praised by critics of the tenure system and self-described reform groups, but panned by teachers unions and state officials who argued the judge overstated the number of \"bad\" teachers on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> didn't land a more powerful political punch in 2014 is hard to say. While it did play \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/27/how-teacher-tenure-figures-into-the-november-election/\" target=\"_blank\">a real role in one statewide race -- the contest for superintendent of public instruction -- and a few legislative races\u003c/a>, there was no groundswell of action or outrage. Even the decision by Gov. Jerry Brown to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-governor-appeals-vergara-20140829-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">appeal the ruling\u003c/a> (a decision he tried to defend on legal grounds during the political season's only gubernatorial debate) extracted no real political price. Nonetheless, \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> resonated in education and government circles and could continue to make news depending on the outcome of the appeals process in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Box Office Sleeper: The Kashkari Kid\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No candidate made a bigger bet on public outcry over the \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> ruling than Neel Kashkari, the Republican newcomer hoping to topple a sitting governor with a household name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393606\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393606\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg\" alt=\"Kashkari, the longshot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate.\" width=\"400\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-800x732.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kashkari, the long-shot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/21/why-kashkari-is-proud-of-tarp-doesnt-trumpet-it\" target=\"_blank\">the former U.S. Treasury official\u003c/a> who bested a more conservative Republican to win the second of two spots on the fall ballot, had always insisted that education would be one of only two priorities should he somehow win the race for governor (the other being job creation). But he didn't seem to talk much \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kashkari-schools-20140422-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">about his education agenda\u003c/a>, as he seemed to be much more energized about schools after \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> swept into the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the only debate between the two men, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjuxVjPbMk\" target=\"_blank\">held on Sept. 4 and sponsored by KQED along with three other media organizations\u003c/a>, Kashkari unloaded on Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to appeal the ruling. One month later, he released a television ad that never mentioned the tenure court case by name -- opting instead for the shock value of a drowning kid and his GOP rescuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/pEZFdmwqG3Q?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pEZFdmwqG3Q?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad also highlighted the challenge for the Kashkari campaign team: finding something ... anything ... that would stick to Jerry Brown. The candidate began the race in January talking about poverty; then he lampooned \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/13/kashkari-hits-jerry-brown-s-crazy-train/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown's support for the \"crazy train\"\u003c/a> of high-speed rail; then he went back to poverty by \u003ca href=\"Neel%20Kashkari%20takes%20campaign%20to%20the%20streets,%20literally%20-%20LA%20...\" target=\"_blank\">posing as a homeless man on the streets of Fresno\u003c/a>; then a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/kashkari-brown-coddled-pr_n_5863100.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks on the Brown political dynasty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on it went, even though polls suggested either that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/23/poll-jerry-brown-draws-california-republican-votes\" target=\"_blank\">voters weren't impressed\u003c/a> or were simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/40-of-voters-unaware-Jerry-Brown-is-seeking-5865196.php\" target=\"_blank\">oblivious to the entire campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lingering question: Does Neel Kashkari, a man with now at least a modicum of statewide name ID, run for something else in 2016 or 2018?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393612\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg\" alt=\"California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-1440x999.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ban That May End Up Getting Banned Itself\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 100 communities across California that have imposed some kind of limit or ban on single-use plastic bags in recent years. So, it's not surprising that a statewide effort would be launched in Sacramento. Still, few legislative fights in 2014 were more intense, or more chock-full of backroom wheeling and dealing, as the one that ended with legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown to impose a statewide plastic bag ban starting in July. When enacted, the ban will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/29/plastic-bag-ban-california/\" target=\"_blank\">the first of its kind in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or will it? The plastic bag industry \u003ca href=\"http://www.bagtheban.com/news/item/statement-from-the-american-progressive-bag-alliance-on-intent-to-repeal-se\" target=\"_blank\">quickly ponied up $3 million to gather signatures for a referendum\u003c/a> asking voters to overturn the law -- and they appear to have enough to make that happen in November 2016. That would also mean the new law is on hold, allowing the plastic bag industry to keep selling its products for at least an additional 16 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five separate versions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_270&sess=PREV&house=B&author=padilla_%3Cpadilla%3E\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 270\u003c/a> were considered before all was said and done at the state Capitol. Grocers were given a concession of 10 cents for every paper bag, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2014/01/24/15676/onetime-foes-now-back-statewide-plastic-bag-ban/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Democrats (who helped kill a similar effort in 2013) signed on\u003c/a> after efforts were promised to help mitigate any job losses at plastic bag manufacturing plants. The governor played the final card, surprising at least a few political watchers by agreeing to sign the bill. Now, its fate is unclear -- as even more cities across California prepare to enact their own bag bans in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-1440x959.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suppose We Held An Election ... And No One Showed Up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a state where it's become common to watch millions of voters skip elections, it wasn't surprising that 2014 -- a year without a presidential race and not a lot of widely anticipated ballot propositions -- was going to end with low turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But boy, who knew it would be this bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The June and November elections each set records for voter apathy: Only 25.17 percent of registered voters cast ballots in June, 42.2 percent in November. Never have any regular primary or gubernatorial elections in California seen such tepid interest from the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/California-politicians-picked-by-few-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">turnout was even worse in a number of individual legislative and congressional districts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393723\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393723\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png\" alt=\"No on Prop. 46 television ad\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-1440x1008.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM.png 1990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No on Prop. 46 Television Ad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Political Power of No\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low turnout didn't do much to help backers of any of \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">the six propositions on November's ballot\u003c/a>. In fact, the 2014 election cycle proved once again how much easier it is to \u003cem>kill\u003c/em> a ballot measure than it is to \u003cem>pass\u003c/em> one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most-talked-about initiatives, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/45/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 45\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/46/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 46\u003c/a>, were a textbook case of death by a thousand cuts. Opponents had more money and an easier message: The measures were too complicated, poorly drafted, clever Trojan horses that really had an ulterior motive. Prop. 45, the measure to boost the regulatory power of the state insurance commissioner over health care rates, was a rebuke to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who championed the proposal. Prop. 46, the fight over doctor drug testing and medical malpractice awards, was a lawyers-versus-doctors smackdown that landed on the ballot after \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/01/22/4758601/\" target=\"_blank\">the two sides failed to reach any kind of deal in the Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark DiCamillo, the longtime director of the nonpartisan Field Poll, has long joked that if he ever hung up his pollster badge and became a political campaign consultant, he'd only take on clients who wanted to defeat initiatives. \"No\" is where the easy money is, it seems. And combined, the Prop. 45/Prop. 46 opposition campaigns raised more than $111 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393727\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393727\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-800x705.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-1440x1269.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's Stay Together, Loving You Whether ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some day years from now, you'll see it at an auction: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/07/states16_04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a bright crimson-colored, custom tie -- one with a multi-colored map of California sliced into six new state configurations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you'll say to yourself, \"Oh yeah, that Six Californias thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't meant to be, at least not in 2014. The owner of that tie, Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper, came up short in his quirky quest to ask Californians to go their separate ways. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/plan-to-split-california-six-ways-fails-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">Not only did his split-it-six-ways plan fail to make the fall ballot\u003c/a>, but Draper's hired guns failed to even collect enough valid signatures to get it on the ballot in 2016. And that's after he sank almost $5.3 million of his own cash into the endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeptics doubted Draper was serious. Politicos mused that he was trying to get his name out there for a future run for statewide office. (But which state? Ah, the jokes). And \u003ca href=\"http://verdict.justia.com/2014/01/03/political-constitutional-questions-raised-tim-drapers-six-californias-plan-split-california\" target=\"_blank\">legal scholars said the initiative was absolutely unworkable and likely unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hey, at least he's still got that tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393729\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393729\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-1440x960.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tao of Jerry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, the hard-to-deny consensus big political winner in a year where Californians didn't even seem to want to \u003cem>think\u003c/em> about politics: Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown's 45-year political career is best left to biographies rather than end-of-the-year lists. But suffice it to say, in an year when the electorate didn't seem to want to embrace politics, the low-key style of Brown's third term as governor seemed to suit Californians just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it would be unfair to imply that Brown wasn't working hard behind the scenes to secure a fourth term. From beating back legislation at the state Capitol that didn't suit his finely honed persona of frugality ... to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/04/jerry-brown-re-election-bid-quiet-just-like-he-wants-it\" target=\"_blank\">the non-campaign campaign\u003c/a> that saw him preach propositions rather than himself ... Jerry Brown found a way to successfully match his political message to the electoral mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has an impeccable sense of timing,\" said the governor's top aide, Nancy McFadden, to a business group in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Yes, but perhaps he learned it from having a lousy sense of timing in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenewerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/people.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">1976\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/04/on_this_day_in_1980_jerry_brow.html\" target=\"_blank\">1980\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1982/10/24/page/30/article/jerry-brown-has-met-the-enemy-its-himself\" target=\"_blank\">1982\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117695/sidney-blumenthal-jerry-browns-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">1992\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Jerry Brown chooses to steer his governorship in the new year and beyond remains to be seen. But for now, he seems to like the course that he -- and California -- are on.\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>Here's hoping he and the state's other political players make 2015 an interesting one to watch.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10393174/a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6310","news_30","news_139","news_4846","news_6989"],"featImg":"news_10393269","label":"news_7051"},"news_10375306":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10375306","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10375306","score":null,"sort":[1418331869000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-retro-election-fewest-votes-for-california-governor-since-1978","title":"The Retro Election? Fewest Votes for California Governor Since 1978","publishDate":1418331869,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It's sobering to consider how many things have changed since the last time so few votes were cast in the race for governor of California: The state's population was 40 percent smaller. Donna Summer had the No. 1 song on the charts. Jerry Brown handily won re-election as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, that last one is pretty much the same as it was 36 years ago, which brings us back to the reality of what happened on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final tally from elections officials is that 7,317,581 votes were cast in the two-man race between Brown and GOP challenger Neel Kashkari. Brown won 60 percent of those votes, the most lopsided gubernatorial contest since 1986. It was also, it seems, the least inspiring in more than a generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State elections data show last month's gubernatorial election saw fewer votes cast than in \u003cem>the previous eight quadrennial contests\u003c/em>. Only \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_1978\" target=\"_blank\">1978's race between Brown and Republican Evelle Younger\u003c/a> saw fewer total votes cast (6,922,378) than did 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10375578\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10375578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally at the Alameda County Democratic Party headquarters on October 27, 2014 . (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally at Alameda County Democratic Party headquarters on Oct. 27, 2014 . (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year's race for governor, of course, was only part of a much larger gloomy headline: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/article4237488.html\" target=\"_blank\">the lowest turnout for any California gubernatorial election in history\u003c/a> -- ballots cast by just 42.2 percent of the state's 17.8 million registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's been some criticism in political circles over the past few weeks that the lackluster contest between Brown and Kashkari may hold some of the blame, but it's unlikely we'll ever have a definitive answer as to why so many voters took a pass this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the gubernatorial numbers alone are striking when compared with previous elections. In 2010, more than 10 million votes were cast in the race for governor; and even the previous record holder for the most ho-hum race, the 2002 re-election of Gov. Gray Davis, drew some 450,000 more votes than the 2014 gubernatorial matchup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we pointed out just after the election, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/12-might-california-low-voter-turnout-spark-2016-initiative-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">the real legacy of the tepid turnout is the amazingly new low threshold for getting an initiative or referendum on the 2016 and 2018 ballot\u003c/a> -- a threshold that by law is set by the total number of votes cast for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took a closer look at that phenomenon on Thursday morning's edition of \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/181042661\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultants believe it will dramatically drive down the cost of using paid signature gatherers to qualify an initiative -- a new bargain of perhaps less than $1 million, and a possible impetus for a frenzy of initiatives over the next two election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the lasting question is whether those initiative thresholds, set in the state constitution by \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_the_Initiative_%26_Referendum_Amendment_%28October_1911%29\" target=\"_blank\">the 1911 effort that created the state's direct democracy system\u003c/a>, need another look when it comes to the 21st century and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just compare the relative impact of the 1978 and 2014 gubernatorial elections on California's initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 1980 and 1982 election cycles, the threshold to qualify an initiative -- 346,119 voter signatures -- represented about 3.4 percent of the state's registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, the threshold to qualify an initiative -- what we think will be 365,879 voter signatures -- will represent just 2 percent of registered voters. And if you look at the state's \u003cem>eligible\u003c/em> electorate, a group that's vastly larger than it was in 1978, it's clear that there's about to be a big boost of power for a relatively small number of Californians in forcing a statewide vote on a proposal of their choosing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, a lot has changed since 1978. But electorally speaking, the next four years may feel like a blast from the past.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We find out why that record-low voter turnout will mean even more ballot initiatives in 2016.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324712,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":682},"headData":{"title":"The Retro Election? Fewest Votes for California Governor Since 1978 | KQED","description":"Fewer votes were cast than in the past eight quadrennial races for governor.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10375306 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10375306","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/11/the-retro-election-fewest-votes-for-california-governor-since-1978/","disqusTitle":"The Retro Election? Fewest Votes for California Governor Since 1978","customPermalink":"2014/12/11/fewest-votes-cast-for-governor-since-1978/","path":"/news/10375306/the-retro-election-fewest-votes-for-california-governor-since-1978","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's sobering to consider how many things have changed since the last time so few votes were cast in the race for governor of California: The state's population was 40 percent smaller. Donna Summer had the No. 1 song on the charts. Jerry Brown handily won re-election as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, that last one is pretty much the same as it was 36 years ago, which brings us back to the reality of what happened on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final tally from elections officials is that 7,317,581 votes were cast in the two-man race between Brown and GOP challenger Neel Kashkari. Brown won 60 percent of those votes, the most lopsided gubernatorial contest since 1986. It was also, it seems, the least inspiring in more than a generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State elections data show last month's gubernatorial election saw fewer votes cast than in \u003cem>the previous eight quadrennial contests\u003c/em>. Only \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_1978\" target=\"_blank\">1978's race between Brown and Republican Evelle Younger\u003c/a> saw fewer total votes cast (6,922,378) than did 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10375578\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10375578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally at the Alameda County Democratic Party headquarters on October 27, 2014 . (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12930_457957492-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally at Alameda County Democratic Party headquarters on Oct. 27, 2014 . (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year's race for governor, of course, was only part of a much larger gloomy headline: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/article4237488.html\" target=\"_blank\">the lowest turnout for any California gubernatorial election in history\u003c/a> -- ballots cast by just 42.2 percent of the state's 17.8 million registered voters.\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>There's been some criticism in political circles over the past few weeks that the lackluster contest between Brown and Kashkari may hold some of the blame, but it's unlikely we'll ever have a definitive answer as to why so many voters took a pass this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the gubernatorial numbers alone are striking when compared with previous elections. In 2010, more than 10 million votes were cast in the race for governor; and even the previous record holder for the most ho-hum race, the 2002 re-election of Gov. Gray Davis, drew some 450,000 more votes than the 2014 gubernatorial matchup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we pointed out just after the election, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/12-might-california-low-voter-turnout-spark-2016-initiative-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">the real legacy of the tepid turnout is the amazingly new low threshold for getting an initiative or referendum on the 2016 and 2018 ballot\u003c/a> -- a threshold that by law is set by the total number of votes cast for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took a closer look at that phenomenon on Thursday morning's edition of \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/181042661&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/181042661'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultants believe it will dramatically drive down the cost of using paid signature gatherers to qualify an initiative -- a new bargain of perhaps less than $1 million, and a possible impetus for a frenzy of initiatives over the next two election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the lasting question is whether those initiative thresholds, set in the state constitution by \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_the_Initiative_%26_Referendum_Amendment_%28October_1911%29\" target=\"_blank\">the 1911 effort that created the state's direct democracy system\u003c/a>, need another look when it comes to the 21st century and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just compare the relative impact of the 1978 and 2014 gubernatorial elections on California's initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 1980 and 1982 election cycles, the threshold to qualify an initiative -- 346,119 voter signatures -- represented about 3.4 percent of the state's registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, the threshold to qualify an initiative -- what we think will be 365,879 voter signatures -- will represent just 2 percent of registered voters. And if you look at the state's \u003cem>eligible\u003c/em> electorate, a group that's vastly larger than it was in 1978, it's clear that there's about to be a big boost of power for a relatively small number of Californians in forcing a statewide vote on a proposal of their choosing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, a lot has changed since 1978. But electorally speaking, the next four years may feel like a blast from the past.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10375306/the-retro-election-fewest-votes-for-california-governor-since-1978","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_5530","news_6310","news_30","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10348014","label":"news_7051"},"news_10355985":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10355985","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10355985","score":null,"sort":[1417161701000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"across-california-many-politicians-picked-by-few-voters","title":"Across California, Many Politicians Picked By Few Voters","publishDate":1417161701,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A nail-biter of an election is the \u003cem>pièce de résistance\u003c/em> in political reporting, a dramatic finish that can leave everyone on the edge of their seats. But 2014's close contests are also a bit of a distraction from the real news: the apparent nadir, in some California communities, of representative democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/39/\" target=\"_blank\">the surprise defeat of an incumbent Los Angeles assemblyman by 467 votes\u003c/a>, a stunning upset that now has the political world focused on musings about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article4124459.html\" target=\"_blank\">the order of names on the ballot\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20141112/election-2014-raul-bocanegra-campaign-accuses-patty-lopez-of-using-republican-operative/1\" target=\"_blank\">alleged chicanery on the part of Republicans\u003c/a> seeking to influence a Democrat versus Democrat contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real story, though, is not how the incumbent lost ... but how few of his constituents even bothered to vote. And even then, it's part of a larger story, about how several California lawmakers -- now packing their bags for Sacramento or Washington, D.C. -- were chosen by incredibly small slices of the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The abysmal turnout of California voters in the Nov. 4 elections was widely predicted. The final numbers won't be available for a few more days, but the statewide vote appears to reflect \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/status/\" target=\"_blank\">a turnout of about 42 percent\u003c/a>, a new record for lowest turnout in a California gubernatorial election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a deeper dive into the numbers finds a much lower percentage of votes -- in some cases \u003cem>less than half of that statewide turnout \u003c/em>-- cast in several races for the California Legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's go back to that Los Angeles race for the state's 39th Assembly District, where freshman incumbent Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) conceded defeat on Monday to fellow Democrat Patty Lopez, a local activist whose campaign was well under the political universe's radar until the votes started to be tallied on Election Night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the vote tally is incredibly close,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolmr.com/UserFiles/File/20141125/11-24-14%20Vote%20Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a statement from Bocanegra\u003c/a> on Monday evening, \"it is clear that my opponent will be victorious by the narrowest of margins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Handful of Voters Decide Race\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real killer, though, was overall turnout. The final tally by Los Angeles County elections officials shows only 45,033 votes were cast in the Bocanegra versus Lopez race. That's only 22 percent of all registered voters in the San Fernando Valley district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse: Lopez will take the oath of office on Dec. 1 in Sacramento with the backing of just 22,750 voters -- \u003cem>that's slightly less than 5 percent of all the people who live in her Los Angeles County district\u003c/em> (using census data compiled during the 2011 redrawing of political districts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have to take a long, honest look at our voting process and better understand why so many people are choosing not to participate,\" said Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not good for the health of our civil society. It's in everybody's interest to maximize voter participation and give all the people in our state a path to make themselves heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10356044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10356044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA-800x605.jpg\" alt=\"In state Assembly districts around Los Angeles, turnout on Nov. 4 hovered around 20 percent. (Diagram: Citizen's Redistricting Commission)\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA-800x605.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In state Assembly districts around Los Angeles, turnout on Nov. 4 hovered around 20 percent. (Diagram: Citizen's Redistricting Commission)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A district-by-district analysis reveals a high concentration of low turnout races in and around Los Angeles. Eleven of the county's Assembly districts had races where fewer than 27 percent of the registered votes were cast on Election Day. Three races -- for the 53rd, 63rd and 64th Assembly districts -- all saw turnout around 21 percent, even lower than the Bocanegra-Lopez contest in the northern San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few congressional races in the L.A. area fared just as badly. Only 26 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in a race won by incumbent U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Norwalk). Her 50,353 votes represent about 8 percent of the constituents in California's 32nd Congressional District. Even fewer voters elected her colleague, U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Los Angeles), to an 11th term on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low Turnout Up North\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lest you think the only dismal voting numbers were in L.A. legislative and congressional districts, let's move the map northward. In another Election Night shocker, veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) barely held onto his post representing California's 16th Congressional District. Votes cast: about 26 percent of the registered electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some will argue that the weak turnout reflects races that weren't competitive, or ones where the two candidates weren't well known. But that's not a complete explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Move up to some Northern California races where the candidates were well known, and ones where the competition was fierce this election season, and again ... the data show anemic turnout. In Sacramento, a Democrat versus Democrat race for the 7th Assembly District featured two well-known members of the City Council, Kevin McCarty and Steve Cohn. Only 38 percent of voters in the district cast a ballot in the race, won by McCarty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in one of 2014's nastiest, and most costly, state Senate races -- pitting two incumbent assemblymen against each other in the Sacramento region -- there was yet more voter apathy. Millions of dollars in outside spending helped boost the winning campaign of Richard Pan against fellow Democrat Roger Dickinson. Turnout in the hotly contested 6th state Senate district? Forty-one percent ... pretty much the statewide average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's at least some hint that the voter apathy was more profound in Democratic-leaning legislative and congressional districts, which lines up with the sense that Republicans cast a disproportionately larger number of votes on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our representative form of government depends on voter participation and engagement,\" said Dean Logan, registrar of voters in Los Angeles County. \"The low turnout in the November election is concerning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan has been leading an effort to try and figure out the secret ingredient to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/10/23/47525/can-this-bureaucrat-get-young-citizens-to-vote/\" target=\"_blank\">getting more voters to cast ballots, especially young voters\u003c/a>. But it won't be easy. And legislative or congressional contests, so-called down-ticket races, are especially hard ones for inspiring turnout. Voters often skip these races, which is counted as an \"under vote,\" a ballot that leaves some races blank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be easier to do in 2016, when a presidential contest will no doubt draw more voters to the polls. Four years ago, 56 percent of voters in the 39th Assembly District cast a ballot, more than double the number that showed up this time as 2012's winner, Raul Bocanegra, is now 2014's loser.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Although overall statewide turnout was abysmal, there was even less Interest in some races.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324779,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1114},"headData":{"title":"Across California, Many Politicians Picked By Few Voters | KQED","description":"Voters stayed home in droves on Nov. 4, especially in low-profile legislative and congressional races.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10355985 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10355985","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/across-california-many-politicians-picked-by-few-voters/","disqusTitle":"Across California, Many Politicians Picked By Few Voters","customPermalink":"2014/11/28/California-politicians-picked-by-few-voters/","path":"/news/10355985/across-california-many-politicians-picked-by-few-voters","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A nail-biter of an election is the \u003cem>pièce de résistance\u003c/em> in political reporting, a dramatic finish that can leave everyone on the edge of their seats. But 2014's close contests are also a bit of a distraction from the real news: the apparent nadir, in some California communities, of representative democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/39/\" target=\"_blank\">the surprise defeat of an incumbent Los Angeles assemblyman by 467 votes\u003c/a>, a stunning upset that now has the political world focused on musings about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article4124459.html\" target=\"_blank\">the order of names on the ballot\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20141112/election-2014-raul-bocanegra-campaign-accuses-patty-lopez-of-using-republican-operative/1\" target=\"_blank\">alleged chicanery on the part of Republicans\u003c/a> seeking to influence a Democrat versus Democrat contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real story, though, is not how the incumbent lost ... but how few of his constituents even bothered to vote. And even then, it's part of a larger story, about how several California lawmakers -- now packing their bags for Sacramento or Washington, D.C. -- were chosen by incredibly small slices of the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The abysmal turnout of California voters in the Nov. 4 elections was widely predicted. The final numbers won't be available for a few more days, but the statewide vote appears to reflect \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/status/\" target=\"_blank\">a turnout of about 42 percent\u003c/a>, a new record for lowest turnout in a California gubernatorial election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a deeper dive into the numbers finds a much lower percentage of votes -- in some cases \u003cem>less than half of that statewide turnout \u003c/em>-- cast in several races for the California Legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.\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>Let's go back to that Los Angeles race for the state's 39th Assembly District, where freshman incumbent Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) conceded defeat on Monday to fellow Democrat Patty Lopez, a local activist whose campaign was well under the political universe's radar until the votes started to be tallied on Election Night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the vote tally is incredibly close,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolmr.com/UserFiles/File/20141125/11-24-14%20Vote%20Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a statement from Bocanegra\u003c/a> on Monday evening, \"it is clear that my opponent will be victorious by the narrowest of margins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Handful of Voters Decide Race\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real killer, though, was overall turnout. The final tally by Los Angeles County elections officials shows only 45,033 votes were cast in the Bocanegra versus Lopez race. That's only 22 percent of all registered voters in the San Fernando Valley district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse: Lopez will take the oath of office on Dec. 1 in Sacramento with the backing of just 22,750 voters -- \u003cem>that's slightly less than 5 percent of all the people who live in her Los Angeles County district\u003c/em> (using census data compiled during the 2011 redrawing of political districts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have to take a long, honest look at our voting process and better understand why so many people are choosing not to participate,\" said Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not good for the health of our civil society. It's in everybody's interest to maximize voter participation and give all the people in our state a path to make themselves heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10356044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10356044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA-800x605.jpg\" alt=\"In state Assembly districts around Los Angeles, turnout on Nov. 4 hovered around 20 percent. (Diagram: Citizen's Redistricting Commission)\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA-800x605.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/AssemblyDistsLA.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In state Assembly districts around Los Angeles, turnout on Nov. 4 hovered around 20 percent. (Diagram: Citizen's Redistricting Commission)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A district-by-district analysis reveals a high concentration of low turnout races in and around Los Angeles. Eleven of the county's Assembly districts had races where fewer than 27 percent of the registered votes were cast on Election Day. Three races -- for the 53rd, 63rd and 64th Assembly districts -- all saw turnout around 21 percent, even lower than the Bocanegra-Lopez contest in the northern San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few congressional races in the L.A. area fared just as badly. Only 26 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in a race won by incumbent U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Norwalk). Her 50,353 votes represent about 8 percent of the constituents in California's 32nd Congressional District. Even fewer voters elected her colleague, U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Los Angeles), to an 11th term on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low Turnout Up North\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lest you think the only dismal voting numbers were in L.A. legislative and congressional districts, let's move the map northward. In another Election Night shocker, veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) barely held onto his post representing California's 16th Congressional District. Votes cast: about 26 percent of the registered electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some will argue that the weak turnout reflects races that weren't competitive, or ones where the two candidates weren't well known. But that's not a complete explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Move up to some Northern California races where the candidates were well known, and ones where the competition was fierce this election season, and again ... the data show anemic turnout. In Sacramento, a Democrat versus Democrat race for the 7th Assembly District featured two well-known members of the City Council, Kevin McCarty and Steve Cohn. Only 38 percent of voters in the district cast a ballot in the race, won by McCarty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in one of 2014's nastiest, and most costly, state Senate races -- pitting two incumbent assemblymen against each other in the Sacramento region -- there was yet more voter apathy. Millions of dollars in outside spending helped boost the winning campaign of Richard Pan against fellow Democrat Roger Dickinson. Turnout in the hotly contested 6th state Senate district? Forty-one percent ... pretty much the statewide average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's at least some hint that the voter apathy was more profound in Democratic-leaning legislative and congressional districts, which lines up with the sense that Republicans cast a disproportionately larger number of votes on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our representative form of government depends on voter participation and engagement,\" said Dean Logan, registrar of voters in Los Angeles County. \"The low turnout in the November election is concerning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan has been leading an effort to try and figure out the secret ingredient to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/10/23/47525/can-this-bureaucrat-get-young-citizens-to-vote/\" target=\"_blank\">getting more voters to cast ballots, especially young voters\u003c/a>. But it won't be easy. And legislative or congressional contests, so-called down-ticket races, are especially hard ones for inspiring turnout. Voters often skip these races, which is counted as an \"under vote,\" a ballot that leaves some races blank.\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>That may be easier to do in 2016, when a presidential contest will no doubt draw more voters to the polls. Four years ago, 56 percent of voters in the 39th Assembly District cast a ballot, more than double the number that showed up this time as 2012's winner, Raul Bocanegra, is now 2014's loser.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10355985/across-california-many-politicians-picked-by-few-voters","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_6310"],"featImg":"news_128760","label":"news_7051"},"news_10345751":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10345751","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10345751","score":null,"sort":[1415411930000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"down-to-the-wire-for-mike-honda-ro-khanna","title":"Ro Khanna Concedes to Mike Honda","publishDate":1415411930,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Ro Khanna concedes and wishes Mike Honda well as he returns to Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a time when it is easy to be cynical about politics,\" Khanna told reporters and supporters in Newark, \"I am inspired by the passion that both campaigns have shown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thanked his own volunteers, and those of Congressman Honda's, even those who published barbed tweets. \"The type of open debate and marketplace of ideas that this Congressional race fostered is precisely what makes our democracy strong and our nation competitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:05 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Rep. Mike Honda held a news conference at his campaign office in Newark, declaring victory in his bid for re-election over rival Democrat Ro Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Together we sent a message,\" the seven-term congressman declared, \"that the voters of this district value a lifetime of service to the community more than a lifetime of serving oneself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna, a former trade official with the Obama administration and the Silicon Valley industry favorite, has not yet conceded. He was able to establish himself with voters thanks in large part to heavily publicized donations from tech titans, including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda referred to that support in dark terms. \"This election could not be bought! By super PACs and right-wing millionaires and billionaires. My opponent's donors wasted more than $5,000,000 to try to replace my progressive voice with someone who would do their own bidding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda is now ahead by about more than 4 percentage points. The update in the vote count is expected today at 5 p.m. Ro Khanna is expected to speak about his prospects at 5:45 p.m. in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Honda \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/mike-honda-declares-victory-and-slams-khana\" target=\"_blank\">taking aim at Khanna and Big Tech here\u003c/a> ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175856589\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing day, more last-minute vote-by-mail and provisional ballots are counted. With each passing day, Rep. Mike Honda's lead over Ro Khanna in the 17th Congressional District barely budges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/54209/148272/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, Honda is leading 52.50 percent to Khanna's 47.50 percent. The story's not much different in \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/current_election/226/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day after the election, the Khanna campaign issued an early-morning press release claiming it felt \"confident Khanna will gain as late absentee ballots are counted.\" The Honda campaign retorted: \"With the information available it appears that the voters have made their decision to keep Congressman Honda as their Representative in recognition of his work delivering for the District.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given the tilt toward Honda,\" says San Jose State Professor Larry Gerston, \"Khanna's climb becomes harder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a bitter, expensive race — a pitched battle by one Democrat to unseat another. Honda was hopeful but noncommittal at his campaign party, saying his team is better and stronger for facing a fierce challenge from Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We touched base,\" he said, \"with our party and our friends. We made new friends. We created a larger family, and this larger family will be intact for in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one way of putting it. The two candidates spent more than $7.3 million, landing the 17th Congressional District on the map for political pundits across the country, and on Open Secret's list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topraces.php\" target=\"_blank\">Most Expensive Congressional Races\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race pit a seven-term Democratic incumbent against another Democrat in the newly drawn 17th Congressional District. It includes cities like Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Cupertino. It's home to major Silicon Valley firms like Apple, Intel, Yahoo and eBay. Khanna argued Silicon Valley needed a stronger advocate for its interests in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal polls showed the 38-year-old Khanna gaining in the final weeks of the campaign. He was certainly closer than his finish in the June primary, 20 points behind 73-year-old Honda. In an email to supporters, Khanna wrote, \"When we started this campaign nearly two years ago, I was polling at just three percent. Now, they're still counting the ballots. It's that close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're sending a clear message that the honor of representing Silicon Valley is not an entitlement -- it's something that needs to be earned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts say he's proved that point, but add that Khanna picked a tough target. Honda has spent 14 years cultivating his ties with the community, one that includes more than tech companies and the people who work for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda's election-night party was held at \u003ca href=\"http://www.zahirs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Zahir's Bistro\u003c/a> in Milpitas. Why this restaurant? Owner Zahir Quddus says he's been a supporter since Honda first ran for Congress. \"The way he present himself. The way he talk about people. He meant it real exactly what he say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in Santa Clara, the party for Khanna was boisterous, fueled by high spirits and an open bar. Groups of teenagers broke out into spontaneous dancing. One told me she could imagine Khanna running for president one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns were packed with young idealists. As fierce as this fight was, political science Professor \u003cspan class=\"st\">Karthick Ramakrishnan of UC Riverside sees an upside: more political involvement by young people - and by Silicon Valley's Indian community. Ramakrishnan can't put numbers to it now, but he'll know for sure in a few months, after parsing the voting rolls.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Race for 17th Congressional District was one of the most combative and expensive in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1415419868,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":928},"headData":{"title":"Ro Khanna Concedes to Mike Honda | KQED","description":"Race for 17th Congressional District was one of the most combative and expensive in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10345751 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10345751","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/07/down-to-the-wire-for-mike-honda-ro-khanna/","disqusTitle":"Ro Khanna Concedes to Mike Honda","customPermalink":"2014/11/04/down-to-the-wire-for-mike-honda-ro-khanna/","path":"/news/10345751/down-to-the-wire-for-mike-honda-ro-khanna","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Ro Khanna concedes and wishes Mike Honda well as he returns to Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a time when it is easy to be cynical about politics,\" Khanna told reporters and supporters in Newark, \"I am inspired by the passion that both campaigns have shown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thanked his own volunteers, and those of Congressman Honda's, even those who published barbed tweets. \"The type of open debate and marketplace of ideas that this Congressional race fostered is precisely what makes our democracy strong and our nation competitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:05 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Rep. Mike Honda held a news conference at his campaign office in Newark, declaring victory in his bid for re-election over rival Democrat Ro Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Together we sent a message,\" the seven-term congressman declared, \"that the voters of this district value a lifetime of service to the community more than a lifetime of serving oneself.\"\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>Khanna, a former trade official with the Obama administration and the Silicon Valley industry favorite, has not yet conceded. He was able to establish himself with voters thanks in large part to heavily publicized donations from tech titans, including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda referred to that support in dark terms. \"This election could not be bought! By super PACs and right-wing millionaires and billionaires. My opponent's donors wasted more than $5,000,000 to try to replace my progressive voice with someone who would do their own bidding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda is now ahead by about more than 4 percentage points. The update in the vote count is expected today at 5 p.m. Ro Khanna is expected to speak about his prospects at 5:45 p.m. in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Honda \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/mike-honda-declares-victory-and-slams-khana\" target=\"_blank\">taking aim at Khanna and Big Tech here\u003c/a> ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='20'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175856589&visual=true&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175856589'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing day, more last-minute vote-by-mail and provisional ballots are counted. With each passing day, Rep. Mike Honda's lead over Ro Khanna in the 17th Congressional District barely budges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/54209/148272/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, Honda is leading 52.50 percent to Khanna's 47.50 percent. The story's not much different in \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/current_election/226/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day after the election, the Khanna campaign issued an early-morning press release claiming it felt \"confident Khanna will gain as late absentee ballots are counted.\" The Honda campaign retorted: \"With the information available it appears that the voters have made their decision to keep Congressman Honda as their Representative in recognition of his work delivering for the District.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given the tilt toward Honda,\" says San Jose State Professor Larry Gerston, \"Khanna's climb becomes harder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a bitter, expensive race — a pitched battle by one Democrat to unseat another. Honda was hopeful but noncommittal at his campaign party, saying his team is better and stronger for facing a fierce challenge from Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We touched base,\" he said, \"with our party and our friends. We made new friends. We created a larger family, and this larger family will be intact for in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one way of putting it. The two candidates spent more than $7.3 million, landing the 17th Congressional District on the map for political pundits across the country, and on Open Secret's list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topraces.php\" target=\"_blank\">Most Expensive Congressional Races\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race pit a seven-term Democratic incumbent against another Democrat in the newly drawn 17th Congressional District. It includes cities like Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Cupertino. It's home to major Silicon Valley firms like Apple, Intel, Yahoo and eBay. Khanna argued Silicon Valley needed a stronger advocate for its interests in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal polls showed the 38-year-old Khanna gaining in the final weeks of the campaign. He was certainly closer than his finish in the June primary, 20 points behind 73-year-old Honda. In an email to supporters, Khanna wrote, \"When we started this campaign nearly two years ago, I was polling at just three percent. Now, they're still counting the ballots. It's that close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're sending a clear message that the honor of representing Silicon Valley is not an entitlement -- it's something that needs to be earned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts say he's proved that point, but add that Khanna picked a tough target. Honda has spent 14 years cultivating his ties with the community, one that includes more than tech companies and the people who work for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda's election-night party was held at \u003ca href=\"http://www.zahirs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Zahir's Bistro\u003c/a> in Milpitas. Why this restaurant? Owner Zahir Quddus says he's been a supporter since Honda first ran for Congress. \"The way he present himself. The way he talk about people. He meant it real exactly what he say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in Santa Clara, the party for Khanna was boisterous, fueled by high spirits and an open bar. Groups of teenagers broke out into spontaneous dancing. One told me she could imagine Khanna running for president one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns were packed with young idealists. As fierce as this fight was, political science Professor \u003cspan class=\"st\">Karthick Ramakrishnan of UC Riverside sees an upside: more political involvement by young people - and by Silicon Valley's Indian community. Ramakrishnan can't put numbers to it now, but he'll know for sure in a few months, after parsing the voting rolls.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10345751/down-to-the-wire-for-mike-honda-ro-khanna","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6417","news_6310","news_6238","news_18541","news_353","news_2629"],"featImg":"news_10347591","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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