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After the land was bought for much more than its present value, government officials started investigating the group due to homeland security concerns with the location next to a military base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html?unlocked_article_code=lqPwMvckq8b2_rCBT3bCfqEBKHLRVLY1VceXY7F2eu_6gXn3srltmqkIDjuqfsIjsesKJTwxkRIMcYS93koSdXA7j9b-qkDPbOXgJq3-xayu_yOTctxF94n10TNymak_LDE-wxcHhKzHOWqhHauUR6DZXbVh4tDQPkv1YNkkrxuWRJxILgye0sQWYhBqdV6qlyVZTPU0UX9IAh0xh5_if3A_AqEdG0jXafrwMIpGCwz8jj3y0BM4waeBknRWEy9ZXtiXjXPH3OYDByTK9Feqgtv9FPYTfjWe4JztlkAt4iPg-CMWBxztH13SEZr5-7v34eCQyOBPw6XE21C3G9q0Sed6lnthR3w&smid=url-share\">The New York Times recently revealed\u003c/a> that, rather than a foreign adversary, Silicon Valley tech giants have been buying up the agricultural land — in hopes of starting a city from scratch. According to the Times, those backing Flannery Associates include Laurene Powell Jobs, entrepreneur and founder of Emerson Collective, venture capitalist Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, investors at the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation has not soothed the concerns of local officials and existing community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were concerned it might be the Chinese. Well, we’re still concerned. A bunch of wealthy Silicon Valley billionaires putting together an initiative that suits their purpose may be a very serious threat to Travis Air Force Base and our national security,” U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, who represents Solano County, told KQED. “Flannery Associates have proven themselves to be terrible bad actors, using strong-arm techniques that you might find in the mafia, forcing people to sell their land even though they did not want to, and engaging in practices that are just despicable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from Flannery will meet with elected officials, starting this week, to discuss their ambitious plans to build a new city in an area that’s about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We care deeply about the future of Solano County and California and believe their best days are ahead. We are proud to partner on a project that aims to deliver access to good-paying jobs, affordable housing, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, open space and a healthy environment to residents of Solano County,” Brian Brokaw, a Flannery spokesperson, said in a text message to KQED. “We are excited to start working with residents and elected officials, as well as with Travis Air Force Base, on making that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before investors were revealed, Flannery sent out a poll to local residents asking about building the new city between Fairfield and Rio Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll, obtained by KQED, suggested that Flannery Associates could try for a ballot measure as soon as next year to begin approving development plans, which are still very unclear.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Mayor Ron Kott, City of Rio Vista\"]‘Flannery has never contacted anybody in Rio Vista, nobody in the city government. Not a word. And we’re surrounded by it. So whatever decisions they make, it affects our city directly, both good and bad.’[/pullquote]A representative from Flannery told KQED that the company is looking to launch a voter initiative to change zoning laws on the land, predominantly used for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to building housing in the area, the company is interested in agricultural investments in the long- and short-term, correspondence from 2018 and 2019 between Flannery and Solano County’s Department of Resource Management shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news has brought much confusion and concern for local leaders, like Rio Vista Mayor Ron Kott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged some opportunities that rezoning the area could bring, including an influx of property taxes and investment in renewable energies like solar or wind farms. But the covert nature of the operation has perplexed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flannery has never contacted anybody in Rio Vista, nobody in the city government. Not a word,” he said. “And we’re surrounded by it. So whatever decisions they make, it affects our city directly, both good and bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson represents parts of Sonoma and Solano, along with Napa and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have a proposal or a plan to develop the properties that they purchased or plan to purchase, they’re going to need to work with the local community,” Thompson told KQED. “They’re going to have to be part of the community and they’re going to have to treat the local community with respect and work with them, not work against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the unnamed city have been in discussion as far back as 2017, when billionaire investor Michael Moritz wrote to potential investors about the chance to get in on the creation of an entirely new California community, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> first reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery was then developed by former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek, according to a pitch deck for the project that Moritz circulated, which outlined ideas such as a community built off the clean energy economy, robust public transportation and urban life.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.)\"]‘Never in all my years have I ever heard of somebody suing a group of farmers to try to force them to sell their land.’[/pullquote]Since then, Flannery has purchased nearly 140 properties, many of which were bought higher than their present value, totaling nearly $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flannery representatives would not say who they have been in discussions with in terms of actual city planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to pose some serious water issues and it’s going to cause some serious transportation issues, because our transportation system right now is already strained,” Kott said. “Their land purchases have pretty much surrounded the city of Rio Vista, including some parcels within the city limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery’s land grab came under the microscope earlier this year when the company filed a lawsuit alleging local farmers were inflating land prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states that the company bought about 140 parcels of land from 400 landowners. Flannery accused a group of landowners, who held off on selling, of price fixing and violating anti-trust in order to collectively raise their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the landowners have reached a settlement with Flannery, while others have motioned to dismiss the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are five-, six-generation family farmers in the area. Some refused to sell. 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According to the Times, those backing Flannery Associates include Laurene Powell Jobs, entrepreneur and founder of Emerson Collective, venture capitalist Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, investors at the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation has not soothed the concerns of local officials and existing community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were concerned it might be the Chinese. Well, we’re still concerned. A bunch of wealthy Silicon Valley billionaires putting together an initiative that suits their purpose may be a very serious threat to Travis Air Force Base and our national security,” U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, who represents Solano County, told KQED. “Flannery Associates have proven themselves to be terrible bad actors, using strong-arm techniques that you might find in the mafia, forcing people to sell their land even though they did not want to, and engaging in practices that are just despicable.”\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>Representatives from Flannery will meet with elected officials, starting this week, to discuss their ambitious plans to build a new city in an area that’s about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We care deeply about the future of Solano County and California and believe their best days are ahead. We are proud to partner on a project that aims to deliver access to good-paying jobs, affordable housing, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, open space and a healthy environment to residents of Solano County,” Brian Brokaw, a Flannery spokesperson, said in a text message to KQED. “We are excited to start working with residents and elected officials, as well as with Travis Air Force Base, on making that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before investors were revealed, Flannery sent out a poll to local residents asking about building the new city between Fairfield and Rio Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll, obtained by KQED, suggested that Flannery Associates could try for a ballot measure as soon as next year to begin approving development plans, which are still very unclear.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Flannery has never contacted anybody in Rio Vista, nobody in the city government. Not a word. And we’re surrounded by it. So whatever decisions they make, it affects our city directly, both good and bad.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mayor Ron Kott, City of Rio Vista","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A representative from Flannery told KQED that the company is looking to launch a voter initiative to change zoning laws on the land, predominantly used for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to building housing in the area, the company is interested in agricultural investments in the long- and short-term, correspondence from 2018 and 2019 between Flannery and Solano County’s Department of Resource Management shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news has brought much confusion and concern for local leaders, like Rio Vista Mayor Ron Kott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged some opportunities that rezoning the area could bring, including an influx of property taxes and investment in renewable energies like solar or wind farms. But the covert nature of the operation has perplexed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flannery has never contacted anybody in Rio Vista, nobody in the city government. Not a word,” he said. “And we’re surrounded by it. So whatever decisions they make, it affects our city directly, both good and bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson represents parts of Sonoma and Solano, along with Napa and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have a proposal or a plan to develop the properties that they purchased or plan to purchase, they’re going to need to work with the local community,” Thompson told KQED. “They’re going to have to be part of the community and they’re going to have to treat the local community with respect and work with them, not work against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the unnamed city have been in discussion as far back as 2017, when billionaire investor Michael Moritz wrote to potential investors about the chance to get in on the creation of an entirely new California community, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> first reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery was then developed by former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek, according to a pitch deck for the project that Moritz circulated, which outlined ideas such as a community built off the clean energy economy, robust public transportation and urban life.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Never in all my years have I ever heard of somebody suing a group of farmers to try to force them to sell their land.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since then, Flannery has purchased nearly 140 properties, many of which were bought higher than their present value, totaling nearly $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flannery representatives would not say who they have been in discussions with in terms of actual city planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to pose some serious water issues and it’s going to cause some serious transportation issues, because our transportation system right now is already strained,” Kott said. “Their land purchases have pretty much surrounded the city of Rio Vista, including some parcels within the city limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery’s land grab came under the microscope earlier this year when the company filed a lawsuit alleging local farmers were inflating land prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states that the company bought about 140 parcels of land from 400 landowners. Flannery accused a group of landowners, who held off on selling, of price fixing and violating anti-trust in order to collectively raise their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the landowners have reached a settlement with Flannery, while others have motioned to dismiss the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are five-, six-generation family farmers in the area. Some refused to sell. So Flannery filed a lawsuit against seven family farmers, claiming that they were engaged in an illegal constraint of trade to raise the prices,” Garamendi said. “Never in all my years have I ever heard of somebody suing a group of farmers to try to force them to sell their land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters Billy Cruz, Annelise Finney and Dan Brekke contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11959390/elected-officials-to-meet-with-silicon-valley-investors-behind-800-million-solano-county-land-grab","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32978","news_1537","news_24484","news_28225","news_33098","news_353","news_23938","news_33097","news_21140"],"featImg":"news_11959418","label":"news"},"news_11957208":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957208","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957208","score":null,"sort":[1691013203000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"near-1-billion-land-purchase-around-california-air-base-under-investigation","title":"Near $1 Billion Land Purchase Around California Air Base Under Investigation","publishDate":1691013203,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Near $1 Billion Land Purchase Around California Air Base Under Investigation | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Federal authorities are investigating a mysterious investment firm that bought nearly $1 billion worth of land surrounding Travis Air Force base, a prominent military base in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2018, Flannery Associates purchased 50,000 acres of agricultural land adjacent to Travis Air Force Base, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-bought-nearly-1-billion-in-land-near-a-california-air-force-base-officials-want-to-know-who-exactly-they-are-fd868e38\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reports, located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento in Solano County. Little is known about the investment firm. But local and federal policymakers say they are concerned about potential national security threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They now surround three sides of Travis Air Force Base, which is a critical national security asset. That has raised significant concern for the Air Force,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-California), whose district includes the airbase, told KQED. “No one has been able to figure out where the $900 million has come from to purchase all the land in the area and what their intent is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Treasury Department and the Department of Defense are all now investigating the group and its investments, Garamendi said. But because Flannery is incorporated in Delaware, a state with strong legal protections to shield corporate ownership, those probes have not yet uncovered who is behind the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Air Force base contains the largest wing of the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command with aircraft regularly departing the site to send munitions to Europe and Ukraine. It’s “the Gateway to Europe and the Pacific,” Garamendi said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. John Garamendi (D-California)\"]‘They now surround three sides of Travis Air Force Base, which is a critical national security asset. That has raised significant concern for the Air Force.’[/pullquote] In May, \u003ca href=\"https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdpxdejmlpx/Flannery%20Associates%20-%20ED%20California%20-%202023-05-18.pdf\">Flannery filed a lawsuit against (PDF)\u003c/a> a handful of the family farms that the group wanted to buy up, alleging they were conspiring to hike up prices and deter a sale. But, Garamendi said, Flannery has already paid an unusually high amount for the dry, agricultural grazing land that it did buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flannery’s purchases are surrounding Travis Air Force Base, one of the most significant national security sites in our country, and it’s been devastating to family farmers due to related lawsuits,” Rep. Mike Thompson, whose district includes parts of Solano County, told KQED. “I will continue to work with local and federal partners to ensure that the concerns of our community are addressed and that we protect our national and food security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery purchased land where the majority of wind turbines in Solano County are located, along with other critical electrical transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueling the lawmakers’ concerns are recent attempts by Chinese companies to build a corn mill adjacent to the Grand Forks Air Base in North Dakota, another high-security base from which military aircraft take off for missions around the world. [aside label='More on Politics' tag='politics'] The project was initially boosted as an economic driver for the region, but has since halted after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USAIRFORCE-FUFENG-LETTER-HOEVEN.pdf\">Air Force officials wrote to local government leaders with security concerns (PDF)\u003c/a> that the mill could be used to spy on the Air Force. The company denied those accusations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/corn-mill-fufeng-china-north-dakota.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence so far to suggest Flannery has ties with China, but little is known about the group at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawyer representing the company says not to worry, these are American investors and a couple Europeans,” Garamendi said. “We just don’t know. And until we know, we will remain very concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in nearly two dozen other states have passed or are seeking to pass legislation in recent years limiting farmland Chinese investors from purchasing U.S. farmland.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Napa)\"]‘Protecting national security and food security go hand in hand in our region — which is why it is vital to know who owns land around national security sites.’[/pullquote]Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://mikethompson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/mikethompson.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/thompson-gallagher-land-purchase-bill-text.pdf\">Thompson introduced legislation (PDF)\u003c/a> to strengthen protections and reporting structures around national security sites, infrastructure and farmland. The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of the Treasury Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review certain foreign investment transactions to evaluate security risk for all land purchases — except some real estate like single housing units — by foreign adversary entities. It would also expand the list of types of sites under the CFIUS to include all military facilities, intelligence sites, laboratories and other defense-funded research sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is co-sponsored by Mike Gallagher, Chairman of the Select Committee on Strategic Competition, between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protecting national security and food security go hand in hand in our region — which is why it is vital to know who owns land around national security sites,” Rep. Thompson said in a press release when the legislation was announced. “The bipartisan legislation I am introducing with Chairman Gallagher will help identify foreign actors who are seeking to purchase land near military installations while maintaining food security throughout our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A mysterious firm called Flannery Associates bought 50,000 acres of agricultural land adjacent to Travis Air Force Base, raising national security concerns.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691102860,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":869},"headData":{"title":"Near $1 Billion Land Purchase Around California Air Base Under Investigation | KQED","description":"A mysterious firm called Flannery Associates bought 50,000 acres of agricultural land adjacent to Travis Air Force Base, raising national security concerns.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957208/near-1-billion-land-purchase-around-california-air-base-under-investigation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal authorities are investigating a mysterious investment firm that bought nearly $1 billion worth of land surrounding Travis Air Force base, a prominent military base in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2018, Flannery Associates purchased 50,000 acres of agricultural land adjacent to Travis Air Force Base, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-bought-nearly-1-billion-in-land-near-a-california-air-force-base-officials-want-to-know-who-exactly-they-are-fd868e38\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reports, located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento in Solano County. Little is known about the investment firm. But local and federal policymakers say they are concerned about potential national security threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They now surround three sides of Travis Air Force Base, which is a critical national security asset. That has raised significant concern for the Air Force,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-California), whose district includes the airbase, told KQED. “No one has been able to figure out where the $900 million has come from to purchase all the land in the area and what their intent is.”\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 Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Treasury Department and the Department of Defense are all now investigating the group and its investments, Garamendi said. But because Flannery is incorporated in Delaware, a state with strong legal protections to shield corporate ownership, those probes have not yet uncovered who is behind the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Air Force base contains the largest wing of the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command with aircraft regularly departing the site to send munitions to Europe and Ukraine. It’s “the Gateway to Europe and the Pacific,” Garamendi said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They now surround three sides of Travis Air Force Base, which is a critical national security asset. That has raised significant concern for the Air Force.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. John Garamendi (D-California)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> In May, \u003ca href=\"https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdpxdejmlpx/Flannery%20Associates%20-%20ED%20California%20-%202023-05-18.pdf\">Flannery filed a lawsuit against (PDF)\u003c/a> a handful of the family farms that the group wanted to buy up, alleging they were conspiring to hike up prices and deter a sale. But, Garamendi said, Flannery has already paid an unusually high amount for the dry, agricultural grazing land that it did buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flannery’s purchases are surrounding Travis Air Force Base, one of the most significant national security sites in our country, and it’s been devastating to family farmers due to related lawsuits,” Rep. Mike Thompson, whose district includes parts of Solano County, told KQED. “I will continue to work with local and federal partners to ensure that the concerns of our community are addressed and that we protect our national and food security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flannery purchased land where the majority of wind turbines in Solano County are located, along with other critical electrical transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueling the lawmakers’ concerns are recent attempts by Chinese companies to build a corn mill adjacent to the Grand Forks Air Base in North Dakota, another high-security base from which military aircraft take off for missions around the world. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The project was initially boosted as an economic driver for the region, but has since halted after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USAIRFORCE-FUFENG-LETTER-HOEVEN.pdf\">Air Force officials wrote to local government leaders with security concerns (PDF)\u003c/a> that the mill could be used to spy on the Air Force. The company denied those accusations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/corn-mill-fufeng-china-north-dakota.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence so far to suggest Flannery has ties with China, but little is known about the group at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawyer representing the company says not to worry, these are American investors and a couple Europeans,” Garamendi said. “We just don’t know. And until we know, we will remain very concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in nearly two dozen other states have passed or are seeking to pass legislation in recent years limiting farmland Chinese investors from purchasing U.S. farmland.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Protecting national security and food security go hand in hand in our region — which is why it is vital to know who owns land around national security sites.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Napa)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://mikethompson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/mikethompson.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/thompson-gallagher-land-purchase-bill-text.pdf\">Thompson introduced legislation (PDF)\u003c/a> to strengthen protections and reporting structures around national security sites, infrastructure and farmland. The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of the Treasury Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review certain foreign investment transactions to evaluate security risk for all land purchases — except some real estate like single housing units — by foreign adversary entities. It would also expand the list of types of sites under the CFIUS to include all military facilities, intelligence sites, laboratories and other defense-funded research sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is co-sponsored by Mike Gallagher, Chairman of the Select Committee on Strategic Competition, between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protecting national security and food security go hand in hand in our region — which is why it is vital to know who owns land around national security sites,” Rep. Thompson said in a press release when the legislation was announced. “The bipartisan legislation I am introducing with Chairman Gallagher will help identify foreign actors who are seeking to purchase land near military installations while maintaining food security throughout our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957208/near-1-billion-land-purchase-around-california-air-base-under-investigation","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_21653","news_18538","news_18012","news_27626","news_32978","news_1537","news_32979","news_24484","news_17968","news_18536","news_23938","news_21140","news_20099"],"featImg":"news_11957214","label":"news"},"news_11912468":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912468","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912468","score":null,"sort":[1651492844000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"activists-helped-create-the-bay-areas-most-diverse-congressional-district-now-theyre-probably-getting-john-garamendi","title":"Activists Helped Create the Bay Area's Most Diverse Congressional District. Now They're Probably Getting John Garamendi","publishDate":1651492844,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, stood on a stage at Pittsburg High School earlier this month for more than an hour, greeting a procession of students who were being awarded for academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a lot of handshakes,” quipped an onlooking teacher, as pockets of cheers broke out from students reacting to the announcement of names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students who streamed across the stage reflect the growing Black, Latino and Asian population in the outer reaches of the Bay Area, marking a decades-long trend of gentrification pushing families from cities like San Francisco and Oakland to suburbs like Pittsburg and Antioch.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Taylor Sims, vice president, Pittsburg Unified School District Board of Trustees\"]'I think it's a great opportunity for a person of color who's from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.'[/pullquote]Sitting on the southern shore of Suisun Bay, Pittsburg was anchored for generations by a U.S. Steel mill that’s set to close next year. According to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the vast majority of city residents are people of color. “It’s a very diverse but very much a bubble community,” said Sims, who is Black. “Everybody knows everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sims said the issues Pittsburg faces aren’t limited to that community: Residents across the industrial suburbs and cities of Contra Costa and Solano counties struggle to find affordable housing, good jobs and clean air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Richmond, the refineries, the pollution, the debris, it blows this way to Pittsburg, and so we actually have a really high asthma rate for our students,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bid to get representation in Washington that would be acutely attuned to these challenges, Sims and other local activists pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draw a new congressional district enveloping the region\u003c/a> — a move that would concentrate the voting power of these diverse communities into one seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission agreed, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899971/following-a-tumultuous-redistricting-process-california-unveils-new-electoral-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state’s new congressional map, approved in December\u003c/a>, grouped cities, including Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond, Pittsburg and part of Antioch — many of which have been located in separate districts — into the new 8th Congressional District. It's the most racially and ethnically diverse district both in the Bay Area and statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg\" alt=\"A map of Congressional District 8\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the newly drawn Congressional District 8, which includes parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new congressional district is the only one in California in which white, Latino, Black and Asian residents each account for at least 15% of the citizen voting-age population, according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was ecstatic — it was something that we really, really fought for,” said Sims, who worked with the civic engagement coalition Lift Up Contra Costa to advocate for the new district. “I think it’s a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this shining example of the redistricting commission’s ability to uplift community input has been followed by a textbook case of political machinations. The day the commission approved the new 8th District, John Garamendi, a 77-year-old white congressmember who lives in the Sacramento County town of Walnut Grove, outside the district, announced he would run for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi's previous district had been divided into multiple seats, and unlike in the state Legislature, members of Congress are not required to live in the districts they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immediately you see that juxtaposition of, like, 'Oh, yeah, we have this diverse area, but look who's running,'\" said Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, another civic engagement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the development in the 8th District is a manifestation of the long-term underrepresentation of residents of color in local government, resulting from the high costs of running for office and a lack of leadership training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 collaborative study by Bay Rising and PolicyLink, a research institute focused on advancing economic and social equity, found that while 60% of Bay Area residents are people of color, they only account for \u003ca href=\"https://bayrising.org/2021/09/22/everyone-wins-when-our-elected-officials-reflect-the-diversity-of-the-region/\">34% of the region's top elected officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a diverse pool of candidates in local government, \"you’re not going to have a diverse pool at the congressional level,” said Lee. “Even though we have this opportunity now with a more diverse district, it will take years to actually get people in the pipeline to be able then to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of local competition is playing to the advantage of Garamendi, who enters the June primary with an enormous edge over his opponents in name recognition, endorsements and cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is just the fact that John Garamendi doesn’t live in this district,” said Danny Espinoza, campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa. “I think in order to build trust with your constituents, to build trust with your community, they want you to feel like you’re part of that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi countered that his decades of experience in Congress and state government will give the district’s needs instant priority in the nation’s Capitol — regardless of where he makes his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in it is not important,” said Garamendi, who is seeking to extend his nearly 50-year career in public service. “Knowing it and knowing how to represent it — in the district as well as here in Washington — is what’s critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912360 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman standing in a large room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, said the new district offers 'a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the last decade, the cities of the new 8th District were placed in House districts with whiter and wealthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo, Benicia and Martinez currently sit in a district with Wine Country communities represented by Congressmember Mike Thompson from Napa. Richmond and San Pablo, meanwhile, are paired with the suburbs of Lamorinda and the Tri-Valley in a seat held by Congressmember Mark DeSaulnier of Concord. Fairfield and Suisun City currently are represented by Garamendi, in a district that stretches north to rural Glenn and Yuba counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar,” said Espinoza. “And they all have similar — I’d say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles as far as public transportation, lack of quality jobs in those specific cities, access to affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinoza points to the region’s five oil refineries, all of which will be included in the new district. The facilities and their operations have large impacts on the local economy and public health, but can seem a world away from the tasting rooms of Sonoma or the corporate headquarters of San Ramon.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"redistricting\"]“Part of our thinking was pairing these communities that all share more similar policy issues that one elected could really try to address,” said Kristin Nimmers, who organized community involvement in the line-drawing process with the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first step toward shaping the district\u003c/a> was establishing a “community of interest” among the various cities. Groups like Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) scoured census data and business records and heard resident testimony to find where Black, Latino and Filipino residents were living, shopping and worshiping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks in Richmond would come to Vallejo to go to church. There's a fish shop here in Vallejo — you see people from Richmond coming to purchase fish here,” said Latressa Wilson Alford, vice president of BWOPA’s Solano-Napa chapter. “Then also you see people from Vallejo going to Pittsburg, taking their kids to participate in events in Pittsburg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at all that information and we began to see that, well, this is the community,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings and recommended district lines then were presented to the state’s redistricting commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which met last year to draw the new districts\u003c/a> that will be in place for the coming decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most states, political maps are approved by the state Legislature, which allows the ruling party to draw districts to the advantage of incumbents. But in California, starting with the 2011 redistricting process, an independent group is tasked with drawing the lines irrespective of current representatives or political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the Bay Area’s congressional map will remain similar to the version approved 10 years ago, the 8th District is markedly different: By grouping together pieces of different districts, the seat drawn by the commission was left with no clear incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Dec. 20, as the commission gave final sign-off to the maps, Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://www.garamendi.org/news/congressman-garamendi-announces-re-election-campaign\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced that he would be “running for re-election”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in the 8th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912361 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with a goatee smiles as he stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Espinoza, a campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa, believes it's problematic that Garamendi lives outside the district he's likely to represent. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A similar political shake-up on the heels of redistricting helped launch Garamendi's own political career in 1974. New political lines for that year's election convinced the assemblymember representing Garamendi’s home county of Calaveras to run in a new district — leaving a seat up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was open territory, it had no incumbent,” remembered Pat Johnston, Garamendi’s first campaign manager, in a 2002 interview for the California Oral History Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that election, Douglas Carter, a sitting assemblymember from San Joaquin County, was “district shopping” and made a run for the seat. But Garamendi prevailed, appealing to rural voters with his rancher roots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bJq3lTLxEE\">which he would tout throughout his career\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brochure when you opened it had a picture of John on a cattle ranch and it said, ‘Born on a cattle ranch, schooled at Harvard,’” Johnson recalled. “The yin and the yang. The smart cowboy, not too big for his britches but a lot bigger talent than you might expect to send to Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victory set in motion a career that has included 16 years in the state Legislature, stints as lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner (twice), and more than a decade in Congress.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Danny Espinoza, campaign director, Lift Up Contra Costa\"]'The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar. And they all have similar — I'd say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles.'[/pullquote]Garamendi first won election to the House in a 2009 special election in a district that stretched from Livermore to just outside his home in the Sacramento Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When district lines change, Garamendi said he finds ways to use his experience and seniority on behalf of a new set of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last redistricting [in 2011], I was sent up the river, sent to one of the largest agricultural districts in the entire nation,” he said. “So what do you do? You reach out to the community, you understand the issues of the community you work [in], in that case with agriculture, individual farmers and organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’ll do the same [now] … and then my job is to represent those and to make sure to address the issues in the community,” he added, pointing to the tens of millions of dollars for Bay Area schools and roads in the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, both of which he voted for last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his agenda for the new district, Garamendi said he already has a plan to bring jobs to Vallejo by making the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard a hub for the repair of U.S. Navy combat vessels. Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/john-garamendi-announces-13-million-investment-at-mare-island-dry-dock/article_dab94aaf-47b0-54b1-94e6-7a44e3983925.html\">traveled there last month\u003c/a> to tout the private investments in the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s about 2,000 jobs if that comes together, and there’s every reason that it would come together because as chairman of the [House Armed Services] Readiness Subcommittee, I know that the U.S. Navy does not have adequate shipyards on the West Coast to take care of its fleets of ships,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors of Antioch, Fairfield and Vallejo, along with dozens of local elected officials across the district, have endorsed Garamendi, who enters the primary with $1.4 million in his campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi also will have the backing of the state's Democratic Party, which granted him a fast-tracked endorsement as an incumbent, despite the fact that just 20% of registered voters in the new district are Garamendi’s current constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Garamendi is an incumbent candidate for Congress. Just like Josh Harder,” said Shery Yang, party communications director, in an email, pointing to another Democrat running as an incumbent in a district with mostly new voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912362 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a headscarf sits at an outdoor cafe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Sudduth of El Sobrante, a member of the West County Wastewater District Board of Directors, is one of five District 8 candidates on the June primary ballot. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some, the anticipated marriage of the 8th District’s newly empowered communities and Garamendi’s Capitol connections is a union worth celebrating, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the diversity and the breakup [of the new district], I am thrilled for the people that advocated and did the hard work,” said K. Patrice Williams, a Fairfield resident and CEO of the community outreach firm Empower Solano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called this moment “a pause” for candidates of color in the district “to get ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is ready to run an effective campaign where they can be elected?” asked Williams. “I think that happens in a moment in time. And it will probably be soon, but I don’t think that it’s this term. This term I am very satisfied with John Garamendi being in that seat and representing all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jovanka Beckles, an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board director, said Garamendi’s early announcement to run deterred the entry of high-profile candidates that an open seat in the Bay Area, particularly one with no term limits, typically invites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are intimidated by the fact that, you know, he’s claiming to be an incumbent,” said Beckles, a former Richmond City Council member. “We know that it is a lot more challenging running against an incumbent as opposed to running in an open seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi’s strongest challenge was expected to come from Richmond City Councilmember Demnlus Johnson who, at 25, finished as the top vote-getter in the 2018 citywide race. In February, Johnson launched a campaign for the House seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdMzxd1HRU&t=3s\">with a splashy video\u003c/a> and the hashtag #IAmDistrict8. But election officials in Contra Costa and Solano counties said Johnson failed to submit the 40 voter signatures that are required for his name to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Democrats Christopher Riley, a high school math teacher in the East Bay; \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663957/east-bay-assembly-candidate-asks-who-gets-to-define-experience\">Cheryl Sudduth\u003c/a>, a director at the West County Wastewater District; Edwin Rutsch, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660708/assembly-candidates-get-radical-in-empathy-workshop\">Center for Building a Culture of Empathy\u003c/a>; and Rudy Recile, a Republican small business owner, on the June primary ballot with Garamendi. The top two finishers regardless of party will face off in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates facing Garamendi — none of whom has anywhere near the resources or name recognition he has — are likely to convey a similar message: that his years of experience in Congress can’t match their lived experience in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When that Chevron refinery goes off, I shelter in place, too. When I talk about needing a hospital in West County, it’s because I live there,” said Sudduth, who lives in El Sobrante. “You mean to tell me that out of 760,000 people in this district that no one is capable of representing us?”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The newly redrawn 8th Congressional District in California groups a number of economically and racially diverse cities, including Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond, Pittsburg and parts of Antioch. But the person most likely to represent it is a white, 77-year-old political insider who doesn't actually live there.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652117350,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":54,"wordCount":2780},"headData":{"title":"Activists Helped Create the Bay Area's Most Diverse Congressional District. Now They're Probably Getting John Garamendi | KQED","description":"The newly redrawn 8th Congressional District in California groups a number of economically and racially diverse cities, including Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond, Pittsburg and parts of Antioch. 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Now They're Probably Getting John Garamendi","audioUrl":"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/residents-of-new-8th-congressional-district-are-ha.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11912468/activists-helped-create-the-bay-areas-most-diverse-congressional-district-now-theyre-probably-getting-john-garamendi","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, stood on a stage at Pittsburg High School earlier this month for more than an hour, greeting a procession of students who were being awarded for academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a lot of handshakes,” quipped an onlooking teacher, as pockets of cheers broke out from students reacting to the announcement of names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students who streamed across the stage reflect the growing Black, Latino and Asian population in the outer reaches of the Bay Area, marking a decades-long trend of gentrification pushing families from cities like San Francisco and Oakland to suburbs like Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think it's a great opportunity for a person of color who's from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Taylor Sims, vice president, Pittsburg Unified School District Board of Trustees","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sitting on the southern shore of Suisun Bay, Pittsburg was anchored for generations by a U.S. Steel mill that’s set to close next year. According to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the vast majority of city residents are people of color. “It’s a very diverse but very much a bubble community,” said Sims, who is Black. “Everybody knows everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sims said the issues Pittsburg faces aren’t limited to that community: Residents across the industrial suburbs and cities of Contra Costa and Solano counties struggle to find affordable housing, good jobs and clean air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Richmond, the refineries, the pollution, the debris, it blows this way to Pittsburg, and so we actually have a really high asthma rate for our students,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bid to get representation in Washington that would be acutely attuned to these challenges, Sims and other local activists pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draw a new congressional district enveloping the region\u003c/a> — a move that would concentrate the voting power of these diverse communities into one seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission agreed, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899971/following-a-tumultuous-redistricting-process-california-unveils-new-electoral-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state’s new congressional map, approved in December\u003c/a>, grouped cities, including Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond, Pittsburg and part of Antioch — many of which have been located in separate districts — into the new 8th Congressional District. It's the most racially and ethnically diverse district both in the Bay Area and statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg\" alt=\"A map of Congressional District 8\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-800x671.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/CD8-copy.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the newly drawn Congressional District 8, which includes parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new congressional district is the only one in California in which white, Latino, Black and Asian residents each account for at least 15% of the citizen voting-age population, according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was ecstatic — it was something that we really, really fought for,” said Sims, who worked with the civic engagement coalition Lift Up Contra Costa to advocate for the new district. “I think it’s a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run and actually be the voice of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this shining example of the redistricting commission’s ability to uplift community input has been followed by a textbook case of political machinations. The day the commission approved the new 8th District, John Garamendi, a 77-year-old white congressmember who lives in the Sacramento County town of Walnut Grove, outside the district, announced he would run for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi's previous district had been divided into multiple seats, and unlike in the state Legislature, members of Congress are not required to live in the districts they represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immediately you see that juxtaposition of, like, 'Oh, yeah, we have this diverse area, but look who's running,'\" said Kimi Lee, executive director of Bay Rising, another civic engagement group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the development in the 8th District is a manifestation of the long-term underrepresentation of residents of color in local government, resulting from the high costs of running for office and a lack of leadership training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2020 collaborative study by Bay Rising and PolicyLink, a research institute focused on advancing economic and social equity, found that while 60% of Bay Area residents are people of color, they only account for \u003ca href=\"https://bayrising.org/2021/09/22/everyone-wins-when-our-elected-officials-reflect-the-diversity-of-the-region/\">34% of the region's top elected officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a diverse pool of candidates in local government, \"you’re not going to have a diverse pool at the congressional level,” said Lee. “Even though we have this opportunity now with a more diverse district, it will take years to actually get people in the pipeline to be able then to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of local competition is playing to the advantage of Garamendi, who enters the June primary with an enormous edge over his opponents in name recognition, endorsements and cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is just the fact that John Garamendi doesn’t live in this district,” said Danny Espinoza, campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa. “I think in order to build trust with your constituents, to build trust with your community, they want you to feel like you’re part of that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi countered that his decades of experience in Congress and state government will give the district’s needs instant priority in the nation’s Capitol — regardless of where he makes his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in it is not important,” said Garamendi, who is seeking to extend his nearly 50-year career in public service. “Knowing it and knowing how to represent it — in the district as well as here in Washington — is what’s critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912360 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman standing in a large room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55588_IMG_4070-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Sims, vice president of Pittsburg Unified School District’s board of trustees, said the new district offers 'a great opportunity for a person of color who’s from the community to run.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the last decade, the cities of the new 8th District were placed in House districts with whiter and wealthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo, Benicia and Martinez currently sit in a district with Wine Country communities represented by Congressmember Mike Thompson from Napa. Richmond and San Pablo, meanwhile, are paired with the suburbs of Lamorinda and the Tri-Valley in a seat held by Congressmember Mark DeSaulnier of Concord. Fairfield and Suisun City currently are represented by Garamendi, in a district that stretches north to rural Glenn and Yuba counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar,” said Espinoza. “And they all have similar — I’d say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles as far as public transportation, lack of quality jobs in those specific cities, access to affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinoza points to the region’s five oil refineries, all of which will be included in the new district. The facilities and their operations have large impacts on the local economy and public health, but can seem a world away from the tasting rooms of Sonoma or the corporate headquarters of San Ramon.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"redistricting"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Part of our thinking was pairing these communities that all share more similar policy issues that one elected could really try to address,” said Kristin Nimmers, who organized community involvement in the line-drawing process with the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first step toward shaping the district\u003c/a> was establishing a “community of interest” among the various cities. Groups like Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) scoured census data and business records and heard resident testimony to find where Black, Latino and Filipino residents were living, shopping and worshiping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks in Richmond would come to Vallejo to go to church. There's a fish shop here in Vallejo — you see people from Richmond coming to purchase fish here,” said Latressa Wilson Alford, vice president of BWOPA’s Solano-Napa chapter. “Then also you see people from Vallejo going to Pittsburg, taking their kids to participate in events in Pittsburg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at all that information and we began to see that, well, this is the community,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings and recommended district lines then were presented to the state’s redistricting commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which met last year to draw the new districts\u003c/a> that will be in place for the coming decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most states, political maps are approved by the state Legislature, which allows the ruling party to draw districts to the advantage of incumbents. But in California, starting with the 2011 redistricting process, an independent group is tasked with drawing the lines irrespective of current representatives or political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the Bay Area’s congressional map will remain similar to the version approved 10 years ago, the 8th District is markedly different: By grouping together pieces of different districts, the seat drawn by the commission was left with no clear incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Dec. 20, as the commission gave final sign-off to the maps, Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://www.garamendi.org/news/congressman-garamendi-announces-re-election-campaign\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced that he would be “running for re-election”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in the 8th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912361 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with a goatee smiles as he stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55589_IMG_4063-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Espinoza, a campaign director for Lift Up Contra Costa, believes it's problematic that Garamendi lives outside the district he's likely to represent. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A similar political shake-up on the heels of redistricting helped launch Garamendi's own political career in 1974. New political lines for that year's election convinced the assemblymember representing Garamendi’s home county of Calaveras to run in a new district — leaving a seat up for grabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was open territory, it had no incumbent,” remembered Pat Johnston, Garamendi’s first campaign manager, in a 2002 interview for the California Oral History Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that election, Douglas Carter, a sitting assemblymember from San Joaquin County, was “district shopping” and made a run for the seat. But Garamendi prevailed, appealing to rural voters with his rancher roots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bJq3lTLxEE\">which he would tout throughout his career\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brochure when you opened it had a picture of John on a cattle ranch and it said, ‘Born on a cattle ranch, schooled at Harvard,’” Johnson recalled. “The yin and the yang. The smart cowboy, not too big for his britches but a lot bigger talent than you might expect to send to Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victory set in motion a career that has included 16 years in the state Legislature, stints as lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner (twice), and more than a decade in Congress.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The communities that are in Antioch, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun [City], Richmond, they all look similar. And they all have similar — I'd say vibes — but really they have similar sets of struggles.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Danny Espinoza, campaign director, Lift Up Contra Costa","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Garamendi first won election to the House in a 2009 special election in a district that stretched from Livermore to just outside his home in the Sacramento Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When district lines change, Garamendi said he finds ways to use his experience and seniority on behalf of a new set of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last redistricting [in 2011], I was sent up the river, sent to one of the largest agricultural districts in the entire nation,” he said. “So what do you do? You reach out to the community, you understand the issues of the community you work [in], in that case with agriculture, individual farmers and organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’ll do the same [now] … and then my job is to represent those and to make sure to address the issues in the community,” he added, pointing to the tens of millions of dollars for Bay Area schools and roads in the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, both of which he voted for last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his agenda for the new district, Garamendi said he already has a plan to bring jobs to Vallejo by making the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard a hub for the repair of U.S. Navy combat vessels. Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/john-garamendi-announces-13-million-investment-at-mare-island-dry-dock/article_dab94aaf-47b0-54b1-94e6-7a44e3983925.html\">traveled there last month\u003c/a> to tout the private investments in the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s about 2,000 jobs if that comes together, and there’s every reason that it would come together because as chairman of the [House Armed Services] Readiness Subcommittee, I know that the U.S. Navy does not have adequate shipyards on the West Coast to take care of its fleets of ships,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors of Antioch, Fairfield and Vallejo, along with dozens of local elected officials across the district, have endorsed Garamendi, who enters the primary with $1.4 million in his campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi also will have the backing of the state's Democratic Party, which granted him a fast-tracked endorsement as an incumbent, despite the fact that just 20% of registered voters in the new district are Garamendi’s current constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Garamendi is an incumbent candidate for Congress. Just like Josh Harder,” said Shery Yang, party communications director, in an email, pointing to another Democrat running as an incumbent in a district with mostly new voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11912362 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a headscarf sits at an outdoor cafe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55590_IMG_4071-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Sudduth of El Sobrante, a member of the West County Wastewater District Board of Directors, is one of five District 8 candidates on the June primary ballot. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some, the anticipated marriage of the 8th District’s newly empowered communities and Garamendi’s Capitol connections is a union worth celebrating, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the diversity and the breakup [of the new district], I am thrilled for the people that advocated and did the hard work,” said K. Patrice Williams, a Fairfield resident and CEO of the community outreach firm Empower Solano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called this moment “a pause” for candidates of color in the district “to get ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is ready to run an effective campaign where they can be elected?” asked Williams. “I think that happens in a moment in time. And it will probably be soon, but I don’t think that it’s this term. This term I am very satisfied with John Garamendi being in that seat and representing all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jovanka Beckles, an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board director, said Garamendi’s early announcement to run deterred the entry of high-profile candidates that an open seat in the Bay Area, particularly one with no term limits, typically invites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are intimidated by the fact that, you know, he’s claiming to be an incumbent,” said Beckles, a former Richmond City Council member. “We know that it is a lot more challenging running against an incumbent as opposed to running in an open seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi’s strongest challenge was expected to come from Richmond City Councilmember Demnlus Johnson who, at 25, finished as the top vote-getter in the 2018 citywide race. In February, Johnson launched a campaign for the House seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdMzxd1HRU&t=3s\">with a splashy video\u003c/a> and the hashtag #IAmDistrict8. But election officials in Contra Costa and Solano counties said Johnson failed to submit the 40 voter signatures that are required for his name to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Democrats Christopher Riley, a high school math teacher in the East Bay; \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663957/east-bay-assembly-candidate-asks-who-gets-to-define-experience\">Cheryl Sudduth\u003c/a>, a director at the West County Wastewater District; Edwin Rutsch, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660708/assembly-candidates-get-radical-in-empathy-workshop\">Center for Building a Culture of Empathy\u003c/a>; and Rudy Recile, a Republican small business owner, on the June primary ballot with Garamendi. The top two finishers regardless of party will face off in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates facing Garamendi — none of whom has anywhere near the resources or name recognition he has — are likely to convey a similar message: that his years of experience in Congress can’t match their lived experience in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When that Chevron refinery goes off, I shelter in place, too. When I talk about needing a hospital in West County, it’s because I live there,” said Sudduth, who lives in El Sobrante. “You mean to tell me that out of 760,000 people in this district that no one is capable of representing us?”\u003cbr>\n\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11912468/activists-helped-create-the-bay-areas-most-diverse-congressional-district-now-theyre-probably-getting-john-garamendi","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_30879","news_1537","news_17968","news_282"],"featImg":"news_11912471","label":"news"},"news_11895983":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11895983","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11895983","score":null,"sort":[1636707641000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area","title":"The Redistricting Draft Maps Are Here. This Is How They Could Change Politics in the Bay Area","publishDate":1636707641,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The California Citizens Redistricting Commission took a key step Wednesday night toward setting the state's future political lines, approving a first draft of maps for state Senate, Assembly and U.S. House districts after three days of marathon meetings that came after months of public deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the panel will take at least two weeks of public comment on their plans before making any changes. Final maps, which set in place district boundaries for the next decade, will need to be approved by Dec. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some takeaways on how the commission's lines could affect the political representation of Bay Area residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458651754443120641\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Congressional musical chairs \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The volunteer commissioners are responsible for drawing district lines that contain equal populations, protect the political voice of communities of color and language minorities and take into account \"communities of interest,\" such as cities, neighborhoods, demographic groups\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>or clusters of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895797\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/110521-Redistricting-Election-MG-CM-01-1020x765.jpg\"]They do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> consider the current location (or feelings) of incumbent politicians. That's why the proposed lines fracture some current districts — like the one with the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County cities currently represented by Garamendi like Vacaville and Dixon are now joined in a district with Napa and Sonoma county cities represented by fellow Democrat Mike Thompson. That could lead Garamendi to run against Thompson or shift to a different district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, a lot could change to avoid an incumbent-vs.-incumbent clash. For one, congressmembers don't have to live in the district they serve, so an incumbent could theoretically run in a more favorable district. And if any member of the Bay Area congressional delegation were to retire, another safe Democratic seat would open for the taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1479px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896025 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1479\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg 1479w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-800x448.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-1020x571.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1479px) 100vw, 1479px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The draft redistricting maps no longer split San Francisco's Assembly district into clean east-west lines. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Assembly split\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The maps split San Francisco into two Assembly districts, but instead of a straight east-west split, the western district forms a \"v\" shape, from the Richmond District south to Daly City and back north into the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894003\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Bay_Area_by_Sentinel-2_2019-03-11_small_version-1020x720.jpeg\"]These lines were informed by testimony to the commission that uniting Chinese communities in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley and Bayview with Filipino neighborhoods in Daly City \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would result in a strong voice for working-class communities and their shared needs\u003c/a>, such as culturally specific social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the maps said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consolidation of those diverse Asian communities is to the detriment\u003c/a> of Asian, Black and Latino residents in San Francisco's other Assembly district.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In that east SF seat, the white citizens-of-voting-age population would jump from 39% under the current lines to 56% in the draft map, according to data provided by the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tri-Valley splintered \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The commission has struggled with how to group the Tri-Valley, a handful of towns and cities spanning eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Some early map ideas even paired the region with cities in the Central Valley like Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2021/11/02/tri-valley-mayors-highlight-regional-collaboration-during-annual-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wishes of the region's five mayors to remain in one district\u003c/a>, the draft maps put Pleasanton and Livermore in a separate Assembly and Congressional district from Danville, San Ramon and parts of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Tri-Valley advocates pushing for a change here: A representative with the group Bay Rising, which works to build political power for communities of color, asked the commission on Wednesday to separate the city of Hayward from the \"much richer, much whiter\" Tri-Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896022 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1285\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg 1285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1285px) 100vw, 1285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposed state Assembly district stretches north from Napa to more conservative counties. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Any chance for Republicans to represent the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No Republican has represented a piece of the Bay Area in Congress or the state legislature since 2018, when Tri-Valley Assemblymember Catharine Baker lost her bid for a third term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's any hope for Republicans in these new draft maps, it's in a proposed Assembly district which stretches more than 150 miles north from American Canyon, in southern Napa County, to conservative Tehama County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of population growth in the northern regions of the state forced the commission to pull district lines far south in order to loop in the required population. Despite this district's inclusion of red counties like Tehama, Colusa and Glenn, Democrats would still have a 16% voter registration advantage thanks to more liberal voters in Yolo and Napa counties being included, according to an analysis by the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>More community input 'really critical' \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As they neared their deadline to complete these draft maps, redistricting commissioners admitted they simply ran out of time to enact some changes they had been mulling over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, commissioners labored to combine Vallejo and Richmond into a state Assembly district (as they had done in the congressional maps) — citing a desire to unite historically Black communities and workers who commute daily up or down I-80, giving them a stronger say in a single district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a lengthy debate, the commissioners couldn't draw a district within the required population limits, and decided to table the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be an idea the commission revisits after hearing public feedback, which starts next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By approving these maps and going forward, it gives us 14 days to get community input from communities before we hit the holidays and I think that's really critical,\" said Commissioner Pedro Toledo.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Five takeaways from the draft maps published by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission this week.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1636759096,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":970},"headData":{"title":"The Redistricting Draft Maps Are Here. This Is How They Could Change Politics in the Bay Area | KQED","description":"Five takeaways from the draft maps published by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission this week.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11895983 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11895983","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/12/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"The Redistricting Draft Maps Are Here. This Is How They Could Change Politics in the Bay Area","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2021/11/SilerMarzoratiNewPoliticalMaps2Way.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Citizens Redistricting Commission took a key step Wednesday night toward setting the state's future political lines, approving a first draft of maps for state Senate, Assembly and U.S. House districts after three days of marathon meetings that came after months of public deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the panel will take at least two weeks of public comment on their plans before making any changes. Final maps, which set in place district boundaries for the next decade, will need to be approved by Dec. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some takeaways on how the commission's lines could affect the political representation of Bay Area residents.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1458651754443120641"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Congressional musical chairs \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The volunteer commissioners are responsible for drawing district lines that contain equal populations, protect the political voice of communities of color and language minorities and take into account \"communities of interest,\" such as cities, neighborhoods, demographic groups\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>or clusters of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11895797","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/110521-Redistricting-Election-MG-CM-01-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> consider the current location (or feelings) of incumbent politicians. That's why the proposed lines fracture some current districts — like the one with the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County cities currently represented by Garamendi like Vacaville and Dixon are now joined in a district with Napa and Sonoma county cities represented by fellow Democrat Mike Thompson. That could lead Garamendi to run against Thompson or shift to a different district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keep in mind, a lot could change to avoid an incumbent-vs.-incumbent clash. For one, congressmembers don't have to live in the district they serve, so an incumbent could theoretically run in a more favorable district. And if any member of the Bay Area congressional delegation were to retire, another safe Democratic seat would open for the taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1479px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896025 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1479\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform.jpeg 1479w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-800x448.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-1020x571.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/52495_transform-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1479px) 100vw, 1479px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The draft redistricting maps no longer split San Francisco's Assembly district into clean east-west lines. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Assembly split\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The maps split San Francisco into two Assembly districts, but instead of a straight east-west split, the western district forms a \"v\" shape, from the Richmond District south to Daly City and back north into the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11894003","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Bay_Area_by_Sentinel-2_2019-03-11_small_version-1020x720.jpeg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>These lines were informed by testimony to the commission that uniting Chinese communities in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley and Bayview with Filipino neighborhoods in Daly City \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894003/booming-asian-population-could-gain-bigger-influence-in-new-bay-area-voter-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would result in a strong voice for working-class communities and their shared needs\u003c/a>, such as culturally specific social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the maps said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895368/drawing-new-political-maps-for-the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consolidation of those diverse Asian communities is to the detriment\u003c/a> of Asian, Black and Latino residents in San Francisco's other Assembly district.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In that east SF seat, the white citizens-of-voting-age population would jump from 39% under the current lines to 56% in the draft map, according to data provided by the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tri-Valley splintered \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The commission has struggled with how to group the Tri-Valley, a handful of towns and cities spanning eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Some early map ideas even paired the region with cities in the Central Valley like Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2021/11/02/tri-valley-mayors-highlight-regional-collaboration-during-annual-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wishes of the region's five mayors to remain in one district\u003c/a>, the draft maps put Pleasanton and Livermore in a separate Assembly and Congressional district from Danville, San Ramon and parts of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Tri-Valley advocates pushing for a change here: A representative with the group Bay Rising, which works to build political power for communities of color, asked the commission on Wednesday to separate the city of Hayward from the \"much richer, much whiter\" Tri-Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896022 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1285\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut.jpg 1285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52493_IMG_3650-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1285px) 100vw, 1285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposed state Assembly district stretches north from Napa to more conservative counties. \u003ccite>(Citizens Redistricting Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Any chance for Republicans to represent the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No Republican has represented a piece of the Bay Area in Congress or the state legislature since 2018, when Tri-Valley Assemblymember Catharine Baker lost her bid for a third term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's any hope for Republicans in these new draft maps, it's in a proposed Assembly district which stretches more than 150 miles north from American Canyon, in southern Napa County, to conservative Tehama County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of population growth in the northern regions of the state forced the commission to pull district lines far south in order to loop in the required population. Despite this district's inclusion of red counties like Tehama, Colusa and Glenn, Democrats would still have a 16% voter registration advantage thanks to more liberal voters in Yolo and Napa counties being included, according to an analysis by the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>More community input 'really critical' \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As they neared their deadline to complete these draft maps, redistricting commissioners admitted they simply ran out of time to enact some changes they had been mulling over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, commissioners labored to combine Vallejo and Richmond into a state Assembly district (as they had done in the congressional maps) — citing a desire to unite historically Black communities and workers who commute daily up or down I-80, giving them a stronger say in a single district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a lengthy debate, the commissioners couldn't draw a district within the required population limits, and decided to table the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be an idea the commission revisits after hearing public feedback, which starts next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By approving these maps and going forward, it gives us 14 days to get community input from communities before we hit the holidays and I think that's really critical,\" said Commissioner Pedro Toledo.\u003cbr>\n\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29954","news_332","news_1537","news_24484","news_17968","news_282"],"featImg":"news_11896030","label":"news"},"news_11804430":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11804430","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11804430","score":null,"sort":[1583238648000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-call-out-feds-for-dodging-coronavirus-briefing","title":"California Lawmakers Call Out Feds for Dodging Coronavirus Briefing","publishDate":1583238648,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A group of California lawmakers is calling out the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for not being more transparent about a whistleblower complaint that alleged federal workers may have been exposed to the COVID-19 coronavirus at military bases that received evacuees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges some federal workers from the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) – which is overseen by HHS – who were sent to assist at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield and March Air Force Base near Riverside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804162/did-feds-working-at-fairfield-quarantine-lack-coronavirus-protection-well-get-back-to-you\">did not have the necessary protective gear or training\u003c/a> when they were deployed to help Americans evacuated from China during the COVID-19 virus outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. John Garamendi\"]'There were clearly people that had the virus amongst the evacuees, we know that now. To say that there was no exposure is just flatly dishonest.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, North Bay congressman John Garamendi, Riverside County congressman Mark Takano and San Diego congressman Scott Peters – all of whom represent districts where evacuees from China are staying – asked for a briefing from HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, they say, no briefing has been held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My California colleagues and I sent a letter to HHS asking for a specific, definitive information on the whistleblower's complaint,\" said Garamendi. \"To this date, we have not had that information. Even though the head of the CDC promised that they would get back to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with HHS have said that no employees from the ACF were exposed to the COVID-19 virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no positive cases of COVID-19 to which any ACF employees involved in the repatriation of individuals from China could have been exposed. Stated differently, no ACF employees involved with repatriating persons from China were exposed to any individuals who tested positive for the virus,” said an HHS spokesperson in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garamendi said that doesn’t address federal contractors working at military bases, who he says likely did come into contact with infected people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were contractors or employees that provided culinary services as well as janitorial services at the Travis Base hotel,” said Garamendi. “There were clearly people that had the virus amongst the evacuees, we know that now. To say that there was no exposure is just flatly dishonest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']Garamendi said he will continue to put pressure on the federal government to provide answers, and will ask for a hearing if they refuse to provide information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community wants to know, and the community deserves to know, have these people been tested?” Garamendi asked. “Are they carrying the illness because they were not properly trained or equipped? We don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at Travis Air Force Base did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Riverside representative Takano, have voiced concerns about \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-test\">problems with COVID-19 testing\u003c/a> early on, which federal officials admitted was an issue during the first few weeks of the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think members of Congress need to establish that we cannot permit this administration to stonewall, to speak sideways, to deflect. You cannot do this with coronavirus, and a serious public health challenge,” said Takano. “I don’t want to wait months for a special counsel report to answer simple questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS has stated that it would brief Congress and the public once an internal investigation into the whistleblower complaint has been completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three congressmen say federal health officials aren't being transparent about a whistleblower complaint that alleged workers may have been exposed to COVID-19 at California military bases.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1583353047,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":601},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Call Out Feds for Dodging Coronavirus Briefing | KQED","description":"Three congressmen say federal health officials aren't being transparent about a whistleblower complaint that alleged workers may have been exposed to COVID-19 at California military bases.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11804430 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11804430","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/03/03/california-lawmakers-call-out-feds-for-dodging-coronavirus-briefing/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Call Out Feds for Dodging Coronavirus Briefing","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2020/03/wileygaramendi.mp3","path":"/news/11804430/california-lawmakers-call-out-feds-for-dodging-coronavirus-briefing","audioDuration":99000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of California lawmakers is calling out the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for not being more transparent about a whistleblower complaint that alleged federal workers may have been exposed to the COVID-19 coronavirus at military bases that received evacuees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges some federal workers from the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) – which is overseen by HHS – who were sent to assist at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield and March Air Force Base near Riverside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804162/did-feds-working-at-fairfield-quarantine-lack-coronavirus-protection-well-get-back-to-you\">did not have the necessary protective gear or training\u003c/a> when they were deployed to help Americans evacuated from China during the COVID-19 virus outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There were clearly people that had the virus amongst the evacuees, we know that now. To say that there was no exposure is just flatly dishonest.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. John Garamendi","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, North Bay congressman John Garamendi, Riverside County congressman Mark Takano and San Diego congressman Scott Peters – all of whom represent districts where evacuees from China are staying – asked for a briefing from HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, they say, no briefing has been held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My California colleagues and I sent a letter to HHS asking for a specific, definitive information on the whistleblower's complaint,\" said Garamendi. \"To this date, we have not had that information. Even though the head of the CDC promised that they would get back to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with HHS have said that no employees from the ACF were exposed to the COVID-19 virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no positive cases of COVID-19 to which any ACF employees involved in the repatriation of individuals from China could have been exposed. Stated differently, no ACF employees involved with repatriating persons from China were exposed to any individuals who tested positive for the virus,” said an HHS spokesperson in a statement.\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>But Garamendi said that doesn’t address federal contractors working at military bases, who he says likely did come into contact with infected people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were contractors or employees that provided culinary services as well as janitorial services at the Travis Base hotel,” said Garamendi. “There were clearly people that had the virus amongst the evacuees, we know that now. To say that there was no exposure is just flatly dishonest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"coronavirus"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Garamendi said he will continue to put pressure on the federal government to provide answers, and will ask for a hearing if they refuse to provide information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community wants to know, and the community deserves to know, have these people been tested?” Garamendi asked. “Are they carrying the illness because they were not properly trained or equipped? We don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at Travis Air Force Base did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Riverside representative Takano, have voiced concerns about \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-test\">problems with COVID-19 testing\u003c/a> early on, which federal officials admitted was an issue during the first few weeks of the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think members of Congress need to establish that we cannot permit this administration to stonewall, to speak sideways, to deflect. You cannot do this with coronavirus, and a serious public health challenge,” said Takano. “I don’t want to wait months for a special counsel report to answer simple questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS has stated that it would brief Congress and the public once an internal investigation into the whistleblower complaint has been completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11804430/california-lawmakers-call-out-feds-for-dodging-coronavirus-briefing","authors":["11526"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18538","news_27350","news_27504","news_18543","news_1537"],"featImg":"news_11804662","label":"news"},"news_11804162":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11804162","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11804162","score":null,"sort":[1582934617000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"did-feds-working-at-fairfield-quarantine-lack-coronavirus-protection-well-get-back-to-you","title":"Did Feds Working at Fairfield Quarantine Lack Coronavirus Protection? 'We'll Get Back to You'","publishDate":1582934617,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Did Feds Working at Fairfield Quarantine Lack Coronavirus Protection? ‘We’ll Get Back to You’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A government whistleblower has filed a complaint alleging that some federal workers did not have the necessary protective gear or training when they were deployed to help Americans evacuated from China during \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak\">the coronavirus outbreak\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint deals with Department of Health and Human Services employees sent to Travis and March Air Force bases in California to assist the quarantined evacuees. The Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency that investigates personnel issues, confirmed on Thursday that it had received the unnamed whistleblower’s complaint and had opened a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first possible community level transmission of the coronavirus in the U.S., after a woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957689/california-seeks-origin-of-first-possible-community-transmission-of-covid-19\">tested positive for the virus in Solano County\u003c/a>. North Bay congressman John Garamendi said he’s concerned that federal health workers deployed to quarantined patients at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield may have spread the novel coronavirus to the broader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi, who represents Solano County, is raising concerns after he said federal health officials were not able to answer questions during a briefing Friday morning about whether the federal workers at the base followed proper safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I then asked, ‘What about Travis? And, they said, ‘Well, we’ll get back to you about Travis.’ I said, ‘What about Travis? Can you assure us?’ They said, ‘We’ll get back to you,’ ” Garamendi told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County patient is staying at the UC Davis Medical Center. Health workers there who may have had contact with her have been isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif.\"]‘My concern from the moment I heard it is that individuals at HHS are not taking the complaints of HHS employees seriously.’[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nThe workers at the Vacaville hospital where the patient first went have also been isolated, Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know that 84 medical personnel at the hospital in Vacaville have been sent home through self-quarantine. They were in a situation where they could have been infected,” Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, said the whistleblower recently contacted his office, also alleging retaliation by higher-ups for having flagged safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern from the moment I heard it is that individuals at HHS are not taking the complaints of HHS employees seriously,” Gomez said in an interview. “Their superiors are not supposed to brush them off. By retaliating against people if they do call out a problem, that only discourages other people from ever reporting violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS said it was “evaluating the complaint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take all whistleblower complaints very seriously and are providing the complainant all appropriate protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act,” HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez’s office said the complaint was filed by a high-ranking official at the Administration for Children and Families, an HHS social service agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whistleblower was among a team of about a dozen employees from the agency who had been deployed to help connect the evacuees with government assistance that they might qualify for to ease their return. The team was there from mid-January until earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although team members had gloves at times and masks at other times, they lacked full protective gear and received no training on how to protect themselves in a viral hot zone, according to a description provided by the congressional office. They also had no respirators. While helping the evacuees, team members noticed that workers from the CDC were in full gear to protect them from getting sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez’s office said the high-ranking whistleblower complained to superiors and was given the choice of being reassigned or being fired. Gomez said as far as he knows none of the workers from the agency has become infected with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 illness caused by a new coronavirus that emerged in December in the Chinese city of Wuhan has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7d1a054f19cf1f33b4ee22c244603ebe\">stretched well beyond Asia\u003c/a>. The global count of those infected as of Friday exceeds 83,000, with China still by far the hardest-hit country. Dozens of cases but no deaths have been confirmed in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic White House hopefuls have seized on President Trump’s delayed response to the coronavirus outbreak, calling it the latest evidence of his incompetence and warning that the crisis may only deepen as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump tweeted that “The Do Nothing Democrats” had wasted time on impeachment and “anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad” while defending his own response to the virus outbreak, which many across the aisle have deemed sluggish and scattershot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233266386291580931\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump Jr. embraced another unfounded conspiracy theory, claiming without evidence that Democrats were rooting for people to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don Junior better not get anywhere near me. This is the most outrageous thing,” Garamendi said in response. “I can assure you that there are 435 members. There is not one of us that wants a single individual to be sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without referring directly to the whistleblower’s complaint, Gomez questioned HHS Secretary Alex Azar about the situation during a congressional hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Were any of these [Administration for Children and Families] employees exposed to high-risk evacuees?” asked Gomez, adding it was his understanding that “it was kind of chaotic on the ground” when the team was sent to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azar responded that he was not aware of any violation of protective practices. “Urgency does not compensate for violating isolation and quarantine protocols,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d want to know the full facts and would take appropriate remedial measures,” Azar added. If one of the HHS workers had become infected, that person could then have unwittingly infected others, Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld, representing the unidentified whistleblower, said in a statement, “This matter concerns HHS’ response to the coronavirus, and its failure to protect its employees and potentially the public. The retaliatory efforts to intimidate and silence our client must be opposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley, the HHS spokeswoman, said the department had “nothing further to add at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Ted Goldberg and Mina Kim contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Department of Health and Human Services says it's “evaluating” a government whistleblower's complaint alleging federal workers deployed to the Travis and March Air Force bases in California did not have the necessary protective gear or training.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701972710,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1095},"headData":{"title":"Did Feds Working at Fairfield Quarantine Lack Coronavirus Protection? 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The Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency that investigates personnel issues, confirmed on Thursday that it had received the unnamed whistleblower’s complaint and had opened a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first possible community level transmission of the coronavirus in the U.S., after a woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957689/california-seeks-origin-of-first-possible-community-transmission-of-covid-19\">tested positive for the virus in Solano County\u003c/a>. North Bay congressman John Garamendi said he’s concerned that federal health workers deployed to quarantined patients at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield may have spread the novel coronavirus to the broader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi, who represents Solano County, is raising concerns after he said federal health officials were not able to answer questions during a briefing Friday morning about whether the federal workers at the base followed proper safety protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I then asked, ‘What about Travis? And, they said, ‘Well, we’ll get back to you about Travis.’ I said, ‘What about Travis? 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By retaliating against people if they do call out a problem, that only discourages other people from ever reporting violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS said it was “evaluating the complaint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take all whistleblower complaints very seriously and are providing the complainant all appropriate protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act,” HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez’s office said the complaint was filed by a high-ranking official at the Administration for Children and Families, an HHS social service agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whistleblower was among a team of about a dozen employees from the agency who had been deployed to help connect the evacuees with government assistance that they might qualify for to ease their return. The team was there from mid-January until earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although team members had gloves at times and masks at other times, they lacked full protective gear and received no training on how to protect themselves in a viral hot zone, according to a description provided by the congressional office. They also had no respirators. While helping the evacuees, team members noticed that workers from the CDC were in full gear to protect them from getting sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez’s office said the high-ranking whistleblower complained to superiors and was given the choice of being reassigned or being fired. Gomez said as far as he knows none of the workers from the agency has become infected with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 illness caused by a new coronavirus that emerged in December in the Chinese city of Wuhan has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7d1a054f19cf1f33b4ee22c244603ebe\">stretched well beyond Asia\u003c/a>. The global count of those infected as of Friday exceeds 83,000, with China still by far the hardest-hit country. Dozens of cases but no deaths have been confirmed in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic White House hopefuls have seized on President Trump’s delayed response to the coronavirus outbreak, calling it the latest evidence of his incompetence and warning that the crisis may only deepen as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump tweeted that “The Do Nothing Democrats” had wasted time on impeachment and “anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad” while defending his own response to the virus outbreak, which many across the aisle have deemed sluggish and scattershot.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1233266386291580931"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump Jr. embraced another unfounded conspiracy theory, claiming without evidence that Democrats were rooting for people to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don Junior better not get anywhere near me. This is the most outrageous thing,” Garamendi said in response. “I can assure you that there are 435 members. There is not one of us that wants a single individual to be sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"coronavirus","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without referring directly to the whistleblower’s complaint, Gomez questioned HHS Secretary Alex Azar about the situation during a congressional hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Were any of these [Administration for Children and Families] employees exposed to high-risk evacuees?” asked Gomez, adding it was his understanding that “it was kind of chaotic on the ground” when the team was sent to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azar responded that he was not aware of any violation of protective practices. “Urgency does not compensate for violating isolation and quarantine protocols,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d want to know the full facts and would take appropriate remedial measures,” Azar added. If one of the HHS workers had become infected, that person could then have unwittingly infected others, Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld, representing the unidentified whistleblower, said in a statement, “This matter concerns HHS’ response to the coronavirus, and its failure to protect its employees and potentially the public. The retaliatory efforts to intimidate and silence our client must be opposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley, the HHS spokeswoman, said the department had “nothing further to add at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press and KQED’s Ted Goldberg and Mina Kim contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11804162/did-feds-working-at-fairfield-quarantine-lack-coronavirus-protection-well-get-back-to-you","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_1323","news_18543","news_1537","news_21140","news_27264"],"featImg":"news_11804195","label":"news"},"news_11719411":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11719411","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11719411","score":null,"sort":[1547862028000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shutdowns-toll-on-california-pge-challenge-for-lawmakers","title":"Shutdown’s Toll on California, PG&E Challenge for Lawmakers","publishDate":1547862028,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb>Shutdown’s Toll on California\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been four weeks since the partial government shutdown started, forcing hundreds of thousands of federal employees to go on leave or work without pay. In the Bay Area, local food banks have reached out to affected federal workers and their families to offer assistance. President Trump is said to be considering using money earmarked for disaster relief projects to pay for the border wall that Democrats are refusing to fund. California could be especially hard hit with more than $2 billion in federal funds set aside for flood control and shoreline restoration projects in Northern and Central California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. John Garamendi (D-Fairfield) \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PG&E Challenge for Lawmakers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, San Francisco-based utility giant PG&E announced that it intends to file for bankruptcy protection by the end of the month. It claims that the Chapter 11 process is “the only viable option” as it faces $30 billion in liability costs over catastrophic 2017 and 2018 wildfires. The company is already on probation for violating federal safety laws that led to a gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010 that killed eight people. We hear from a California lawmaker about his plans to protect ratepayers and wildfire victims while pushing for an overhaul of the troubled utility.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PG&E Bankruptcy’s Ripple Effects\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PG&E is the largest utility in California, providing electricity and natural gas to 16 million customers in 70,000 square miles. While it says that there will be no disruption to service, ratepayers may end up paying more for their power. California’s ambitious clean energy goals could also be affected, ranging from the billions of dollars required to build thousands of new charging stations for electric vehicles to ramping up investments in renewable energy sources that will be critical to slashing greenhouse gas emissions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa Pickoff-White, data journalist, KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Severin Borenstein, professor, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Loretta Lynch, former president, California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco-based utility giant announced that it intends to file for bankruptcy by the end of the month. 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President Trump is said to be considering using money earmarked for disaster relief projects to pay for the border wall that Democrats are refusing to fund. California could be especially hard hit with more than $2 billion in federal funds set aside for flood control and shoreline restoration projects in Northern and Central California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. John Garamendi (D-Fairfield) \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PG&E Challenge for Lawmakers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, San Francisco-based utility giant PG&E announced that it intends to file for bankruptcy protection by the end of the month. It claims that the Chapter 11 process is “the only viable option” as it faces $30 billion in liability costs over catastrophic 2017 and 2018 wildfires. The company is already on probation for violating federal safety laws that led to a gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010 that killed eight people. We hear from a California lawmaker about his plans to protect ratepayers and wildfire victims while pushing for an overhaul of the troubled utility.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PG&E Bankruptcy’s Ripple Effects\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PG&E is the largest utility in California, providing electricity and natural gas to 16 million customers in 70,000 square miles. While it says that there will be no disruption to service, ratepayers may end up paying more for their power. California’s ambitious clean energy goals could also be affected, ranging from the billions of dollars required to build thousands of new charging stations for electric vehicles to ramping up investments in renewable energy sources that will be critical to slashing greenhouse gas emissions. \u003c/span>\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa Pickoff-White, data journalist, KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Severin Borenstein, professor, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Loretta Lynch, former president, California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11719411/shutdowns-toll-on-california-pge-challenge-for-lawmakers","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_24796","news_1537","news_20297","news_19177","news_22461","news_24841","news_177","news_1092","news_24802","news_20481"],"featImg":"news_11719417","label":"news_7052"},"news_11684795":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11684795","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11684795","score":null,"sort":[1533343186000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"john-garamendi-week-in-politics-border-wall-prototypes","title":"John Garamendi, Border Wall Prototypes, Week in Politics","publishDate":1533343186,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb>U.S. Rep. 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Congressman John Garamendi served with Vuich in the Legislature and remained friends with her for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would ring her bell, reminding all of us that there was a woman senator seated in the California State Senate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were fast learners and slow learners, Garamendi said. And sometimes, Vuich took extra measures to make sure she was acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Occasionally, getting out of her chair, walking over and saying, 'Do you know who I am? I am Senator Vuich. Rose Ann Vuich,' \" Garamendi recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A display in the California State Senate honors the first female state senator, Rose Ann Vuich. The display includes the rose-shaped bell Sen. Vuich used to ring on the Senate floor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display in the California State Senate honors the first female state senator, Rose Ann Vuich. The display includes the rose-topped bell Sen. Vuich used to ring on the Senate floor. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several women had served in the state Assembly before Vuich, but she was the first to serve in the Senate. She was a conservative Democrat and won her first race in an upset against a better-known Republican assemblyman. Her father was an immigrant from Serbia who settled in Tulare County to farm. Garamendi said she was a champion for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a very, very strong advocate for the family farmers,\" he said, \"and carried a series of bills over the years to really make it possible for the farmers, particularly in the southern valley, to prosper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vuich served in the Senate for 16 years. She died in 2001, but her presence lives on in the Capitol. There is a rose on the door of the female senators’ restroom, which was first built to accommodate Vuich. Her portrait hangs in a hearing room that bears her name. And every chairwoman of the Legislative Women’s Caucus is given a bell at the end of her tenure to commemorate her time as caucus leader.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Central Valley Sen. Rose Ann Vuich used to ring a bell to make sure male colleagues acknowledged her.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1509058458,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":378},"headData":{"title":"California's First Female State Senator Refused to Be Ignored | KQED","description":"Central Valley Sen. 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Congressman John Garamendi served with Vuich in the Legislature and remained friends with her for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would ring her bell, reminding all of us that there was a woman senator seated in the California State Senate,\" he said.\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 were fast learners and slow learners, Garamendi said. And sometimes, Vuich took extra measures to make sure she was acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Occasionally, getting out of her chair, walking over and saying, 'Do you know who I am? I am Senator Vuich. Rose Ann Vuich,' \" Garamendi recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A display in the California State Senate honors the first female state senator, Rose Ann Vuich. The display includes the rose-shaped bell Sen. Vuich used to ring on the Senate floor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27714_Vuitch-hutch-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display in the California State Senate honors the first female state senator, Rose Ann Vuich. The display includes the rose-topped bell Sen. Vuich used to ring on the Senate floor. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several women had served in the state Assembly before Vuich, but she was the first to serve in the Senate. She was a conservative Democrat and won her first race in an upset against a better-known Republican assemblyman. Her father was an immigrant from Serbia who settled in Tulare County to farm. Garamendi said she was a champion for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a very, very strong advocate for the family farmers,\" he said, \"and carried a series of bills over the years to really make it possible for the farmers, particularly in the southern valley, to prosper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vuich served in the Senate for 16 years. She died in 2001, but her presence lives on in the Capitol. There is a rose on the door of the female senators’ restroom, which was first built to accommodate Vuich. Her portrait hangs in a hearing room that bears her name. And every chairwoman of the Legislative Women’s Caucus is given a bell at the end of her tenure to commemorate her time as caucus leader.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11626020/californias-first-female-state-senator-refused-to-be-ignored","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_4092","news_914","news_20864","news_311","news_1537","news_95","news_2838","news_17286","news_1932"],"featImg":"news_11626127","label":"news_72"}},"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. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. 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