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They \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732419/california-has-a-giant-surplus-of-ideas-for-new-taxes-whats-up-with-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed taxing soda\u003c/a>, banning Big Gulps, prohibiting in-store discounts on soft drinks, banishing them from the front of convenience stores and slapping safety warning labels on all sugary beverages from Coca-Cola and sports drinks to sweet tea and chocolate milk.[pullquote align='right' citation='State Sen. Bill Monning']'There is no doubt that the industry has a very strong voice in Sacramento and unlimited resources. That’s a tough opponent.'[/pullquote]The soda industry responded by drastically ramping up its lobbying in the statehouse, more than tripling the amount it spent in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the Legislature hits the session’s halfway point, three of the anti-soda measures have fizzled. The two that remain in play — one \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibiting discount pricing\u003c/a> on soda and another \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">requiring warning labels\u003c/a> — face difficult floor votes by the end of the month, as some lawmakers are likely to argue that the measures amount to “nanny government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda’s success so far in thwarting an agenda backed by doctors, dentists and public health advocates shows that despite Democrats’ historically large majority, some corporate interests remain influential in a Capitol dominated by varying shades of blue. The soda industry has gained clout by spending millions on lobbying and campaign donations, hiring well-connected former Capitol aides and forming alliances with labor unions that lend additional political muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/d8d7ac70-83a4-4b41-bc08-cd9d94b3cfcb?src=embed\" title=\"soda lobbying\" width=\"550\" height=\"884\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n“There is no doubt that the industry has a very strong voice in Sacramento and unlimited resources. That’s a tough opponent,” said Sen. Bill Monning, who is carrying the bill to require warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we try to use moral persuasion, health persuasion to overcome the political forces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monning, a Carmel Democrat, points to research by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shows drinking sugary beverages is associated with obesity, diabetes and other ailments. Nationwide, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/data-statistics/sugar-sweetened-beverages-intake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC report\u003c/a> says, 63% of youth and 49% of adults drink a sugary beverage on a typical day — though consumption is lower in California than in most of the states surveyed. Other reports suggest Americans are drinking more water and less soda since the time of the CDC study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monning has carried several unsuccessful bills to tax soda or require warning labels. His current measure would require that sugar-sweetened drinks sold in California carry a notice saying: “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) may contribute to obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently narrowed the bill to drop the requirement on flavored milk. No surprise, that hasn’t appeased soda companies.[aside postID=news_11677975,news_11727515,news_11722524 label='More Soda Tax Coverage']“There are already more effective ways to help people manage their overall sugar consumption rather than through mandatory and misleading messages,” said a statement from Steve Maviglio, a Democratic political consultant working for the American Beverage Association, which includes Coke, Pepsi and the Dr. Pepper Snapple company and which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ameribev.org/education-resources/blog/post/reducing-sugar-through-innovation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoting their drinks\u003c/a> with less sugar than standard sodas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association hired Fredericka McGee, an attorney and longtime Capitol aide who advised five Assembly speakers, to lead its government affairs in California. The last speaker McGee worked for was Toni Atkins, who is now the leader of the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first three months of this year, the lobbying operation McGee oversees involved taking five legislators and 16 aides to a Sacramento Kings basketball game, and treating many of them to food and drinks. Such goodies account for nearly $6,800 of the $273,704 the American Beverage Association spent on lobbying during the first quarter — a massive jump from the $76,754 it spent during the same period last year. Much of the spending this year went toward \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2380858&amendid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiring political strategists and pollsters\u003c/a> who worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying ramped up, Maviglio said, in response to the “very comprehensive and well-financed attack on the beverage industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associations representing dentists and doctors, which support the anti-soda bills introduced this year, also spend big bucks lobbying in the statehouse and bestowing legislators with campaign cash. The California Medical Association spent $457,219 lobbying in the first quarter of this year, though it reported work on far more bills than the soda group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soda companies fight proposals they believe could harm their business, the message is often amplified by labor unions that carry clout in a Democratic-controlled Legislature. Roughly 25,000 Californians work in the soda industry, many of them in union jobs at bottling plants or delivering beverages to stores and restaurants. Fearing that a decline in soda drinking will reduce their jobs, Teamsters are lobbying against the bill to require warning labels, as they did against the measure to tax soda to pay for public health programs, which stalled last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the employer that has a unionized workforce and the union are on the same side in a legislative fight, it is a very powerful message,” said Shane Gusman, the Teamsters’ lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing the concern from workers makes some Democrats think twice about health policies that could hurt the middle class, Gusman said. The soda tax stalled when the chair of the Assembly’s tax committee said she couldn’t support a regressive tax that would burden people who are poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The argument that cracking down on soda would be costly to families would likely have emerged had the ban on Big Gulps advanced to a vote. Its author, Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, pulled the bill before lawmakers could vote on it, following a Twitter dig from one of his fellow Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1098308711276208128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who wields significant power as chair of the appropriations committee, said later that her tweet was a joke, not a policy position. Still, the comment was a clear indication of where debate in the Capitol was heading. The National Association of Theatre Owners made the same argument as Gonzalez in opposing Chiu’s bill. Retailers argued that a size ban wouldn’t decrease consumption because customers would just refill their cups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t mean it in any way to affect the outcome of the bill,” Gonzalez said. “It was just a comment about what happens at the movie theater with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda politics roiled the Capitol last year when the industry teamed up with the powerful Service Employees International Union to get lawmakers to ban cities from passing new taxes on soda or other grocery items until 2031. Frustrated with local soda bans voters approved in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, beverage companies last year poured $8.3 million into a committee crafting a statewide ballot measure that sought to raise the threshold necessary to pass a new tax.[pullquote align='left' citation='Anthony York, California Medical Association.']'We saw in the early days of the tobacco fight that it was hard to shake the influence of industry in the Legislature.'[/pullquote]Labor unions wanted to keep the lower threshold but didn’t want to spend money fighting the ballot measure. So they struck a deal: If soda companies pulled their initiative off the ballot, the union would support a ban on local grocery taxes. Lobbying together, SEIU and the soda companies persuaded the Legislature to pass the deal, which then-Gov. Jerry Brown promptly signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal does not preclude a statewide tax on soda, something doctors and dentists are now working on as they craft an initiative for the 2020 ballot. They’re building an argument that soda industry tactics are similar to those of cigarette companies, and should be taxed and regulated accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw in the early days of the tobacco fight that it was hard to shake the influence of industry in the Legislature,” said Anthony York, a spokesman for the California Medical Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tobacco regulation and taxes had more success … going to voters. And you’re seeing a similar dynamic here, quite frankly. The public is ahead of where their regulators are in many places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe health advocates are taking a page from soda’s successful playbook, crafting a ballot initiative they can use as leverage to get what they want from the Legislature next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Despite public health warnings about sugary drinks, the beverage industry still wields considerable power in the Capitol and is using it to block efforts to tax sodas in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1558652611,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1481},"headData":{"title":"Why California’s Efforts to Limit Soda Keep Fizzling | KQED","description":"Despite public health warnings about sugary drinks, the beverage industry still wields considerable power in the Capitol and is using it to block efforts to tax sodas in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11749471 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11749471","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/05/23/why-californias-efforts-to-limit-soda-keep-fizzling/","disqusTitle":"Why California’s Efforts to Limit Soda Keep Fizzling","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/author/laurel-rosenhall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurel Rosenhall\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11749471/why-californias-efforts-to-limit-soda-keep-fizzling","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Earlier this year, Democrats in the state Capitol \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced several measures\u003c/a> intended to limit Californians’ consumption of soda, arguing that rotting teeth and rising diabetes presented a public health crisis demanding action akin to regulations on cigarettes. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732419/california-has-a-giant-surplus-of-ideas-for-new-taxes-whats-up-with-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed taxing soda\u003c/a>, banning Big Gulps, prohibiting in-store discounts on soft drinks, banishing them from the front of convenience stores and slapping safety warning labels on all sugary beverages from Coca-Cola and sports drinks to sweet tea and chocolate milk.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There is no doubt that the industry has a very strong voice in Sacramento and unlimited resources. That’s a tough opponent.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"State Sen. Bill Monning","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The soda industry responded by drastically ramping up its lobbying in the statehouse, more than tripling the amount it spent in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the Legislature hits the session’s halfway point, three of the anti-soda measures have fizzled. The two that remain in play — one \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibiting discount pricing\u003c/a> on soda and another \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">requiring warning labels\u003c/a> — face difficult floor votes by the end of the month, as some lawmakers are likely to argue that the measures amount to “nanny government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda’s success so far in thwarting an agenda backed by doctors, dentists and public health advocates shows that despite Democrats’ historically large majority, some corporate interests remain influential in a Capitol dominated by varying shades of blue. The soda industry has gained clout by spending millions on lobbying and campaign donations, hiring well-connected former Capitol aides and forming alliances with labor unions that lend additional political muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/d8d7ac70-83a4-4b41-bc08-cd9d94b3cfcb?src=embed\" title=\"soda lobbying\" width=\"550\" height=\"884\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n“There is no doubt that the industry has a very strong voice in Sacramento and unlimited resources. That’s a tough opponent,” said Sen. Bill Monning, who is carrying the bill to require warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we try to use moral persuasion, health persuasion to overcome the political forces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monning, a Carmel Democrat, points to research by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shows drinking sugary beverages is associated with obesity, diabetes and other ailments. Nationwide, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/data-statistics/sugar-sweetened-beverages-intake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC report\u003c/a> says, 63% of youth and 49% of adults drink a sugary beverage on a typical day — though consumption is lower in California than in most of the states surveyed. Other reports suggest Americans are drinking more water and less soda since the time of the CDC study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monning has carried several unsuccessful bills to tax soda or require warning labels. His current measure would require that sugar-sweetened drinks sold in California carry a notice saying: “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) may contribute to obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently narrowed the bill to drop the requirement on flavored milk. No surprise, that hasn’t appeased soda companies.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11677975,news_11727515,news_11722524","label":"More Soda Tax Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There are already more effective ways to help people manage their overall sugar consumption rather than through mandatory and misleading messages,” said a statement from Steve Maviglio, a Democratic political consultant working for the American Beverage Association, which includes Coke, Pepsi and the Dr. Pepper Snapple company and which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ameribev.org/education-resources/blog/post/reducing-sugar-through-innovation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoting their drinks\u003c/a> with less sugar than standard sodas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association hired Fredericka McGee, an attorney and longtime Capitol aide who advised five Assembly speakers, to lead its government affairs in California. The last speaker McGee worked for was Toni Atkins, who is now the leader of the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first three months of this year, the lobbying operation McGee oversees involved taking five legislators and 16 aides to a Sacramento Kings basketball game, and treating many of them to food and drinks. Such goodies account for nearly $6,800 of the $273,704 the American Beverage Association spent on lobbying during the first quarter — a massive jump from the $76,754 it spent during the same period last year. Much of the spending this year went toward \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2380858&amendid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiring political strategists and pollsters\u003c/a> who worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying ramped up, Maviglio said, in response to the “very comprehensive and well-financed attack on the beverage industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associations representing dentists and doctors, which support the anti-soda bills introduced this year, also spend big bucks lobbying in the statehouse and bestowing legislators with campaign cash. The California Medical Association spent $457,219 lobbying in the first quarter of this year, though it reported work on far more bills than the soda group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soda companies fight proposals they believe could harm their business, the message is often amplified by labor unions that carry clout in a Democratic-controlled Legislature. Roughly 25,000 Californians work in the soda industry, many of them in union jobs at bottling plants or delivering beverages to stores and restaurants. Fearing that a decline in soda drinking will reduce their jobs, Teamsters are lobbying against the bill to require warning labels, as they did against the measure to tax soda to pay for public health programs, which stalled last month.\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>“When the employer that has a unionized workforce and the union are on the same side in a legislative fight, it is a very powerful message,” said Shane Gusman, the Teamsters’ lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing the concern from workers makes some Democrats think twice about health policies that could hurt the middle class, Gusman said. The soda tax stalled when the chair of the Assembly’s tax committee said she couldn’t support a regressive tax that would burden people who are poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The argument that cracking down on soda would be costly to families would likely have emerged had the ban on Big Gulps advanced to a vote. Its author, Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, pulled the bill before lawmakers could vote on it, following a Twitter dig from one of his fellow Democrats.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1098308711276208128"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who wields significant power as chair of the appropriations committee, said later that her tweet was a joke, not a policy position. Still, the comment was a clear indication of where debate in the Capitol was heading. The National Association of Theatre Owners made the same argument as Gonzalez in opposing Chiu’s bill. Retailers argued that a size ban wouldn’t decrease consumption because customers would just refill their cups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t mean it in any way to affect the outcome of the bill,” Gonzalez said. “It was just a comment about what happens at the movie theater with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda politics roiled the Capitol last year when the industry teamed up with the powerful Service Employees International Union to get lawmakers to ban cities from passing new taxes on soda or other grocery items until 2031. Frustrated with local soda bans voters approved in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, beverage companies last year poured $8.3 million into a committee crafting a statewide ballot measure that sought to raise the threshold necessary to pass a new tax.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We saw in the early days of the tobacco fight that it was hard to shake the influence of industry in the Legislature.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"left","citation":"Anthony York, California Medical Association.","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Labor unions wanted to keep the lower threshold but didn’t want to spend money fighting the ballot measure. So they struck a deal: If soda companies pulled their initiative off the ballot, the union would support a ban on local grocery taxes. Lobbying together, SEIU and the soda companies persuaded the Legislature to pass the deal, which then-Gov. Jerry Brown promptly signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal does not preclude a statewide tax on soda, something doctors and dentists are now working on as they craft an initiative for the 2020 ballot. They’re building an argument that soda industry tactics are similar to those of cigarette companies, and should be taxed and regulated accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw in the early days of the tobacco fight that it was hard to shake the influence of industry in the Legislature,” said Anthony York, a spokesman for the California Medical Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tobacco regulation and taxes had more success … going to voters. And you’re seeing a similar dynamic here, quite frankly. The public is ahead of where their regulators are in many places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe health advocates are taking a page from soda’s successful playbook, crafting a ballot initiative they can use as leverage to get what they want from the Legislature next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11749471/why-californias-efforts-to-limit-soda-keep-fizzling","authors":["byline_news_11749471"],"categories":["news_24114","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_3172","news_21630","news_3448"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_10891346","label":"news_18481"},"news_11727998":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11727998","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11727998","score":null,"sort":[1550875523000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"study-sugary-drink-consumption-down-by-half-in-berkeley-since-soda-tax-implemented","title":"Study: Sugary Drink Consumption Down by Half in Berkeley Since Soda Tax Implemented","publishDate":1550875523,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Public health researchers say Berkeley’s soda tax is working to reduce the consumption of sugary beverages in neighborhoods hit hardest by diabetes, obesity and other chronic health problems linked to too much sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Berkeley voters overwhelmingly passed the nation's first penny-per-ounce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/147514/berkeleys-talking-about-sugar-and-the-conversation-isnt-sweet\">tax on sugary beverages\u003c/a> in 2014, a team at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has been interviewing people on the street about what kind of drinks they consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Kristine Madsen, director of the Berkeley Food Institute, said researchers found that residents cut their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by 52 percent after the tax went into effect in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madsen said this means soda taxes encourage people to hydrate in a healthier way and could reduce medical conditions like diabetes, obesity and chronic heart disease. Her research was published in the \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.304971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Journal of Public Health on Thursday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when she worked as a pediatrician in a clinic — diagnosing and treating preteens with diabetes — Madsen said she would have loved to have had an effective tool to prevent the diseases that a high-sugar diet can cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing unhealthy habits is hard, Madsen said, as anyone who’s attempted a new diet or exercise regimen knows. She suggests that maybe the best way to treat these conditions isn't a pill, but legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so hard to change behavior, even with counseling, and particularly if you're in an environment where the healthiest things are not there or not affordable,” she said. “In this case, what we're changing is the price environment with regulations. So the price has gone up on these sugary beverages, and it has a dramatic impact on behavior — so much more than most of the interventions that we try either in medical practice or as public health practitioners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry says it's not fair to blame the obesity crisis on sugary drinks alone. It also claims soda taxes are regressive and hurt the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey-takers targeted low-income neighborhoods burdened by high rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease. The team polled 2,500 people about their drinking habits each year at high foot-traffic intersections in racially and demographically diverse neighborhoods across Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco, Madsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/soda.jpg\" label=\"Soda Taxes\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks,California Lawmakers Seek Tax, Other Limits on Sugary Drinks\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159711/soda-taxes-win-in-san-francisco-oakland-and-albany,Soda Taxes Win in San Francisco, Oakland and Albany\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study does have limitations, according to the researchers, because Berkeley is a relatively small and highly educated city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But from behind the counter at a corner market in South Berkeley, Fouad Fanhos has watched firsthand the trends that Madsen documented in her research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he fried chicken and listened to Yemeni love songs on a wireless speaker, he said customers at J & B Fine Foods Market complain about the extra cents tacked on to the cost of each soda. He said the beverage distributor’s delivery man restocks the refrigerator with fewer bottles lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salesman — he comes every day, and he finds the cooler full,” Fanhos explained. “But the customers can buy sugar if they want. They buy Kool-Aid and a sack of sugar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside on the corner, James Joon said he doesn't like paying extra taxes on anything. But all the same, he’s been watching what his 6-year-old son drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He don't drink soda anymore because he got nice teeth. He'd just be too hyper, and it's too much money. So I have him drink water,\" Joon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers found the price hikes may not be the only factor driving the change in consumption in Berkeley. They reported that taxes also send a message about societal values, which could impact behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not enough to just educate people if you really are serious about making a change when there's an unhealthy population,” Madsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found people in Oakland and San Francisco drank about the same amount of sugary drinks in 2017 as they did in 2014, which Madsen says suggests these changes were unique to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Francisco also passed taxes on sugary drinks, which went into effect in 2017 and 2018, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced bills this week\u003c/a> to ban jumbo-size “Big Gulp” sodas and impose a statewide soda tax.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since Berkeley voters passed the nation's first penny-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages in 2014, a team at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has been interviewing people about what kind of drinks they consume.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1550875523,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":795},"headData":{"title":"Study: Sugary Drink Consumption Down by Half in Berkeley Since Soda Tax Implemented | KQED","description":"Since Berkeley voters passed the nation's first penny-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages in 2014, a team at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has been interviewing people about what kind of drinks they consume.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11727998 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11727998","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/22/study-sugary-drink-consumption-down-by-half-in-berkeley-since-soda-tax-implemented/","disqusTitle":"Study: Sugary Drink Consumption Down by Half in Berkeley Since Soda Tax Implemented","audioTrackLength":110,"path":"/news/11727998/study-sugary-drink-consumption-down-by-half-in-berkeley-since-soda-tax-implemented","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/02/DillonSugaryDrinkTaxTCRAM.mp3","audioDuration":121000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Public health researchers say Berkeley’s soda tax is working to reduce the consumption of sugary beverages in neighborhoods hit hardest by diabetes, obesity and other chronic health problems linked to too much sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Berkeley voters overwhelmingly passed the nation's first penny-per-ounce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/147514/berkeleys-talking-about-sugar-and-the-conversation-isnt-sweet\">tax on sugary beverages\u003c/a> in 2014, a team at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has been interviewing people on the street about what kind of drinks they consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Kristine Madsen, director of the Berkeley Food Institute, said researchers found that residents cut their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by 52 percent after the tax went into effect in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madsen said this means soda taxes encourage people to hydrate in a healthier way and could reduce medical conditions like diabetes, obesity and chronic heart disease. Her research was published in the \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.304971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Journal of Public Health on Thursday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when she worked as a pediatrician in a clinic — diagnosing and treating preteens with diabetes — Madsen said she would have loved to have had an effective tool to prevent the diseases that a high-sugar diet can cause.\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>Changing unhealthy habits is hard, Madsen said, as anyone who’s attempted a new diet or exercise regimen knows. She suggests that maybe the best way to treat these conditions isn't a pill, but legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so hard to change behavior, even with counseling, and particularly if you're in an environment where the healthiest things are not there or not affordable,” she said. “In this case, what we're changing is the price environment with regulations. So the price has gone up on these sugary beverages, and it has a dramatic impact on behavior — so much more than most of the interventions that we try either in medical practice or as public health practitioners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry says it's not fair to blame the obesity crisis on sugary drinks alone. It also claims soda taxes are regressive and hurt the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey-takers targeted low-income neighborhoods burdened by high rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease. The team polled 2,500 people about their drinking habits each year at high foot-traffic intersections in racially and demographically diverse neighborhoods across Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco, Madsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/soda.jpg","label":"Soda Taxes ","link1":"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks,California Lawmakers Seek Tax, Other Limits on Sugary Drinks","link2":"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159711/soda-taxes-win-in-san-francisco-oakland-and-albany,Soda Taxes Win in San Francisco, Oakland and Albany"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study does have limitations, according to the researchers, because Berkeley is a relatively small and highly educated city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But from behind the counter at a corner market in South Berkeley, Fouad Fanhos has watched firsthand the trends that Madsen documented in her research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he fried chicken and listened to Yemeni love songs on a wireless speaker, he said customers at J & B Fine Foods Market complain about the extra cents tacked on to the cost of each soda. He said the beverage distributor’s delivery man restocks the refrigerator with fewer bottles lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salesman — he comes every day, and he finds the cooler full,” Fanhos explained. “But the customers can buy sugar if they want. They buy Kool-Aid and a sack of sugar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside on the corner, James Joon said he doesn't like paying extra taxes on anything. But all the same, he’s been watching what his 6-year-old son drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He don't drink soda anymore because he got nice teeth. He'd just be too hyper, and it's too much money. So I have him drink water,\" Joon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers found the price hikes may not be the only factor driving the change in consumption in Berkeley. They reported that taxes also send a message about societal values, which could impact behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not enough to just educate people if you really are serious about making a change when there's an unhealthy population,” Madsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found people in Oakland and San Francisco drank about the same amount of sugary drinks in 2017 as they did in 2014, which Madsen says suggests these changes were unique to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Francisco also passed taxes on sugary drinks, which went into effect in 2017 and 2018, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced bills this week\u003c/a> to ban jumbo-size “Big Gulp” sodas and impose a statewide soda tax.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11727998/study-sugary-drink-consumption-down-by-half-in-berkeley-since-soda-tax-implemented","authors":["11495"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_16947","news_21630","news_3448"],"featImg":"news_147516","label":"news_72"},"news_11727515":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11727515","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11727515","score":null,"sort":[1550718062000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks","title":"California Lawmakers Seek Tax, Other Limits on Sugary Drinks","publishDate":1550718062,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Several Bay Area lawmakers are joining other legislators in the state in introducing a package of bills to curb consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures include bans on super-sized fountain drinks, promotional coupons and soda placement at checkout counters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblyman David Chu says sugary drinks are creating a public health crisis of obesity and chronic disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The soda industry is the new tobacco industry,\" he said in a press conference Wednesday announcing the proposals. \"This is an industry that has used marketing and sales tactics to victimize low-income communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four California adults is now obese, Chiu said, a 40 percent increase over two decades. More than half of Californians are overweight and more than half have either diabetes or pre-diabetes. The average American drinks nearly 50 gallons (190 liters) of sugary beverages a year, he said, consuming 39 pounds (17.5 kilograms) of extra sugar. Chiu is proposing a cap on unsealed sugary drink containers at stores like 7-Eleven to no more than 16 ounces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill would ban soda discount coupons that Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland said can result in \"soda actually being cheaper than bottled water.\" His bill would ban such coupons. Oakland Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks wants to ban markets and convenience stores from displaying the beverages near the checkout counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals include a fee on sugary beverages that would take a two-thirds vote to approve. Health groups are also circulating petitions to put a tax of 2 cents per ounce on the 2020 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722524/federal-court-blocks-san-francisco-warning-on-soda-ads\">Federal Court Blocks San Francisco Warning on Soda Ads\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722524/federal-court-blocks-san-francisco-warning-on-soda-ads\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS11135_450828518-1180x729.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Several measures have failed repeatedly in previous years, including the tax proposed by Assemblyman Richard Bloom of Santa Monica. He said details of his proposal are still being worked out, but a 2 cents per ounce tax would raise a projected $2 billion annually for prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry says such a tax would fall harder on those with lower incomes and would have uncertain health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Julian Canete criticized the package on behalf of the beverage industry, saying that soda makers have already done much to discourage over-consumption. He promoted better health education over a tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association said it is engaged in an \"unprecedented commitment to fight obesity\" by offering more choices and smaller portion sizes with less sugar or no sugar. Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for the group, said blaming obesity on soda alone does not make sense and lawmakers should be looking at the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at the science, calories from added sugars consumed from beverages are going down, yet obesity is going up,\" he said. \"So how can soda and sugar-sweetened beverages actually be a unique or a significant contributor to obesity? Those numbers just don't add up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the industry wants to make sure food and beverages remain affordable – and is committed to working with the legislature to address public health concerns. Last year, the group successfully lobbied for a bill, which was eventually signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, to temporarily ban cities from passing soda taxes through 2030. The law was a way to stop a statewide ballot measure pushed by the beverage industry that would have made it difficult for cities to raise taxes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler and the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The measures include bans on super-sized fountain drinks, promotional coupons and soda placement at checkout counters.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1558645746,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":580},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Seek Tax, Other Limits on Sugary Drinks | KQED","description":"The measures include bans on super-sized fountain drinks, promotional coupons and soda placement at checkout counters.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11727515 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11727515","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/20/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Seek Tax, Other Limits on Sugary Drinks","audioTrackLength":246,"path":"/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/02/KimSugaryDrinkRegulationsAgain.mp3","audioDuration":269000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several Bay Area lawmakers are joining other legislators in the state in introducing a package of bills to curb consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures include bans on super-sized fountain drinks, promotional coupons and soda placement at checkout counters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblyman David Chu says sugary drinks are creating a public health crisis of obesity and chronic disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The soda industry is the new tobacco industry,\" he said in a press conference Wednesday announcing the proposals. \"This is an industry that has used marketing and sales tactics to victimize low-income communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four California adults is now obese, Chiu said, a 40 percent increase over two decades. More than half of Californians are overweight and more than half have either diabetes or pre-diabetes. The average American drinks nearly 50 gallons (190 liters) of sugary beverages a year, he said, consuming 39 pounds (17.5 kilograms) of extra sugar. Chiu is proposing a cap on unsealed sugary drink containers at stores like 7-Eleven to no more than 16 ounces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill would ban soda discount coupons that Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland said can result in \"soda actually being cheaper than bottled water.\" His bill would ban such coupons. Oakland Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks wants to ban markets and convenience stores from displaying the beverages near the checkout counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals include a fee on sugary beverages that would take a two-thirds vote to approve. Health groups are also circulating petitions to put a tax of 2 cents per ounce on the 2020 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722524/federal-court-blocks-san-francisco-warning-on-soda-ads\">Federal Court Blocks San Francisco Warning on Soda Ads\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722524/federal-court-blocks-san-francisco-warning-on-soda-ads\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS11135_450828518-1180x729.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Several measures have failed repeatedly in previous years, including the tax proposed by Assemblyman Richard Bloom of Santa Monica. He said details of his proposal are still being worked out, but a 2 cents per ounce tax would raise a projected $2 billion annually for prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry says such a tax would fall harder on those with lower incomes and would have uncertain health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Julian Canete criticized the package on behalf of the beverage industry, saying that soda makers have already done much to discourage over-consumption. He promoted better health education over a tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association said it is engaged in an \"unprecedented commitment to fight obesity\" by offering more choices and smaller portion sizes with less sugar or no sugar. Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for the group, said blaming obesity on soda alone does not make sense and lawmakers should be looking at the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at the science, calories from added sugars consumed from beverages are going down, yet obesity is going up,\" he said. \"So how can soda and sugar-sweetened beverages actually be a unique or a significant contributor to obesity? Those numbers just don't add up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the industry wants to make sure food and beverages remain affordable – and is committed to working with the legislature to address public health concerns. Last year, the group successfully lobbied for a bill, which was eventually signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, to temporarily ban cities from passing soda taxes through 2030. The law was a way to stop a statewide ballot measure pushed by the beverage industry that would have made it difficult for cities to raise taxes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler and the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11727515/california-lawmakers-seek-tax-other-limits-on-sugary-drinks","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_3448"],"featImg":"news_10447889","label":"news_72"},"news_11678671":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11678671","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11678671","score":null,"sort":[1530560085000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"special-interests-win-as-lawmakers-cut-deals-to-pull-initiatives-off-your-ballot","title":"Special Interests Win as Lawmakers Cut Deals to Pull Initiatives Off Your Ballot","publishDate":1530560085,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In a frenzy of Capitol wheeling and dealing last week, California legislators worked to pass new laws that will shorten your November ballot—by placating moneyed industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An optimist might cheer the fact that lawmakers were doing their jobs instead of punting to the voters to decide complicated policy questions via a slew of initiatives. Others might label it legal extortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you call it, in one day on Thursday, proponents of three initiatives abruptly pulled their measures off the ballot. Gov. Jerry Brown signed two hastily written laws, and legislators promised to keep negotiating toward a deal to enact a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The soda industry won a new law that places a 13-year ban on new soda taxes—a concession it extracted after qualifying a ballot initiative that would have raised the threshold for passing all local taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tech companies breathed a sigh of relief with passage of a new law that expands some internet privacy safeguards but allows them to keep lobbying to change it—because they feared voters would approve a qualified ballot initiative that would have gone further, and been harder to undo in the future.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lead paint companies, accepting a promise from legislative leaders to continue negotiations, withdrew their initiative designed to get them out of hundreds of millions of dollars in liability that courts have slapped on them for knowingly selling a toxic product.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It was an unusual burst of activity, not only because so much happened so quickly, but also because lawmakers resolved issues they had previously shown little inclination to tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it went down only because outside interests—corporate giants and wealthy individuals, many of whom are campaign donors—used the threat of a ballot initiative to pressure lawmakers: Cut a deal you don’t like now, or face something you like even less on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maneuvering in advance of last Thursday’s deadline to decide what goes on the November ballot was triggered by changes to the law that give initiative proponents more time to yank their measures off the ballot. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/ballot-of-the-bulge-why-a-new-law-isnt-shrinking-the-ballot-much-yet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reforms,\u003c/a> enacted four years ago but just beginning to be used in earnest, were intended to eliminate some costly ballot box fights and shift complex policy negotiations to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in some ways, was accomplished. But the outcome last week reveals that the new process allows anyone with enough money to qualify a measure for the ballot to use the threat of direct democracy as leverage to pressure the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “another example of how special interests hijack our political system,” Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara decried on the Senate floor as he prepared to vote for the ban on soda taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood of Healdsburg called it “extortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Ban on Soda Taxes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677975/california-bows-to-beverage-industry-blocks-soda-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Bows to Beverage Industry, Blocks Soda Taxes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Legislators hadn’t considered bills to prohibit cities from passing new soda taxes until the soda industry spent nearly $6 million to put a measure on the ballot that would have made it harder for cities to pass all kinds of tax increases. The measure, supported by a coalition of business groups, would have required any new tax increases be approved by two-thirds of voters, instead of a simple majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities—and their unionized workers—hated it, since many tax increases are used to pay for police, firefighters and other local services. So the unions and soda companies began negotiating, ultimately crafting \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article213765429.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a deal\u003c/a> that became public just four days before it was signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise Brown signed bans local governments from passing taxes on soda and other groceries until 2031, but maintains the lower simple-majority threshold for voters to approve new taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans called it a “backroom deal” to diminish local control and many voted against it. Public health advocates blasted it for different reasons, saying the ban removed their ability to reduce the health impacts of soda by taxing it, prompting several Democrats to vote against it, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Privacy Initiative\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676475/compromise-may-keep-privacy-initiative-off-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compromise May Keep Privacy Initiative Off November Ballot\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dynamics with the internet privacy measure were a little different. Legislators had considered a privacy bill last year but ultimately killed it under pressure from the tech lobby. Then this year a San Francisco real estate developer poured $3 million into putting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/facebook-even-as-it-apologizes-for-scandal-funds-campaign-to-block-a-california-data-privacy-measure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a similar measure\u003c/a> on the ballot after he became outraged by how much data companies collect as people move through the web. Tech companies put $1 million into fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes, legislators began negotiating with the initiative proponent, Alastair Mactaggart. They agreed on a bill that achieved many of the same aims as his ballot measure—allowing Californians to find out what information is collected about them and where the information is sold, and opt out of having their data sold—but gives people fewer opportunities to sue when companies don’t follow the law. The bill also allows companies to charge users more, within certain limits, if they opt out of having their data sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies still don’t like it, but their lobbyists said they would prefer the bill over the ballot measure. Laws passed in the Legislature can be changed more easily than laws passed by voters, and lawmakers agreed to delay implementation of the privacy law for a year so it can be changed. That means tech lobbyists are likely to push hard next year to alter it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union said it will also push for changes, but likely in the other direction—for more privacy protections. Nonetheless, the bill earned bipartisan support, with many lawmakers praising Mactaggart for pressuring them to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that privacy is an important issue, and yet we chose to ignore it because of the controversy involved,” said Republican Sen. Joel Anderson of Alpine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said the initiative process “is not perfect or ideal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” he added, “it can spur the Legislature to act on issues that challenge us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead paint deal was the biggest surprise of the three. Paint companies put $6 million into a campaign \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lead-paint-makers-balk-at-huge-bill-for-toxic-cleanup-instead-they-want-you-to-pick-up-the-tab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for a ballot measure\u003c/a> to eliminate their liability for cleaning up deteriorating paint in old houses—shifting it to taxpayers instead. In recent months, lawmakers excoriated the companies in public hearings, called the initiative a cynical ploy and crafted bills to hold the paint manufacturers liable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers agreed to set those bills aside in exchange for the paint companies dropping their initiative. Legislative leaders announced late Thursday that the parties “have agreed to work collaboratively” and the companies promptly yanked their ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the 12 Statewide Ballot Measures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here Are the 12 Statewide Measures on California's November Ballot\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Voters will still face \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-ballot-measures-2018-election/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dozen ballot measures\u003c/a> in November: Should we cap prices at dialysis clinics? Repeal limits on rent control? Carve California into three states? Give chickens and other farm animals more room to roam?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the news that three fights moved off the ballot and into the Capitol marked success for those who backed the law to change the initiative system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initiatives are a very important outlet but they are not the product of compromise—they are written by one side or the other,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who wrote the law changing the initiative process when he was the leader of the state senate. “The legislative process requires compromise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters reporter Robbie Short contributed to this report. CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California legislators worked to pass new laws that will shorten your November ballot—by placating moneyed industries.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530571328,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1300},"headData":{"title":"Special Interests Win as Lawmakers Cut Deals to Pull Initiatives Off Your Ballot | KQED","description":"California legislators worked to pass new laws that will shorten your November ballot—by placating moneyed industries.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11678671 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11678671","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/07/02/special-interests-win-as-lawmakers-cut-deals-to-pull-initiatives-off-your-ballot/","disqusTitle":"Special Interests Win as Lawmakers Cut Deals to Pull Initiatives Off Your Ballot","nprByline":"Laurel Rosenhall\u003cbr/>\u003cstrong/>CALmatters\u003c/strong>\u003c/br>","path":"/news/11678671/special-interests-win-as-lawmakers-cut-deals-to-pull-initiatives-off-your-ballot","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a frenzy of Capitol wheeling and dealing last week, California legislators worked to pass new laws that will shorten your November ballot—by placating moneyed industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An optimist might cheer the fact that lawmakers were doing their jobs instead of punting to the voters to decide complicated policy questions via a slew of initiatives. Others might label it legal extortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you call it, in one day on Thursday, proponents of three initiatives abruptly pulled their measures off the ballot. Gov. Jerry Brown signed two hastily written laws, and legislators promised to keep negotiating toward a deal to enact a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The soda industry won a new law that places a 13-year ban on new soda taxes—a concession it extracted after qualifying a ballot initiative that would have raised the threshold for passing all local taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tech companies breathed a sigh of relief with passage of a new law that expands some internet privacy safeguards but allows them to keep lobbying to change it—because they feared voters would approve a qualified ballot initiative that would have gone further, and been harder to undo in the future.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lead paint companies, accepting a promise from legislative leaders to continue negotiations, withdrew their initiative designed to get them out of hundreds of millions of dollars in liability that courts have slapped on them for knowingly selling a toxic product.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It was an unusual burst of activity, not only because so much happened so quickly, but also because lawmakers resolved issues they had previously shown little inclination to tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it went down only because outside interests—corporate giants and wealthy individuals, many of whom are campaign donors—used the threat of a ballot initiative to pressure lawmakers: Cut a deal you don’t like now, or face something you like even less on the ballot.\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 maneuvering in advance of last Thursday’s deadline to decide what goes on the November ballot was triggered by changes to the law that give initiative proponents more time to yank their measures off the ballot. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/ballot-of-the-bulge-why-a-new-law-isnt-shrinking-the-ballot-much-yet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reforms,\u003c/a> enacted four years ago but just beginning to be used in earnest, were intended to eliminate some costly ballot box fights and shift complex policy negotiations to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in some ways, was accomplished. But the outcome last week reveals that the new process allows anyone with enough money to qualify a measure for the ballot to use the threat of direct democracy as leverage to pressure the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “another example of how special interests hijack our political system,” Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara decried on the Senate floor as he prepared to vote for the ban on soda taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood of Healdsburg called it “extortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Ban on Soda Taxes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677975/california-bows-to-beverage-industry-blocks-soda-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Bows to Beverage Industry, Blocks Soda Taxes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Legislators hadn’t considered bills to prohibit cities from passing new soda taxes until the soda industry spent nearly $6 million to put a measure on the ballot that would have made it harder for cities to pass all kinds of tax increases. The measure, supported by a coalition of business groups, would have required any new tax increases be approved by two-thirds of voters, instead of a simple majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities—and their unionized workers—hated it, since many tax increases are used to pay for police, firefighters and other local services. So the unions and soda companies began negotiating, ultimately crafting \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article213765429.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a deal\u003c/a> that became public just four days before it was signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise Brown signed bans local governments from passing taxes on soda and other groceries until 2031, but maintains the lower simple-majority threshold for voters to approve new taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans called it a “backroom deal” to diminish local control and many voted against it. Public health advocates blasted it for different reasons, saying the ban removed their ability to reduce the health impacts of soda by taxing it, prompting several Democrats to vote against it, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Privacy Initiative\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676475/compromise-may-keep-privacy-initiative-off-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compromise May Keep Privacy Initiative Off November Ballot\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dynamics with the internet privacy measure were a little different. Legislators had considered a privacy bill last year but ultimately killed it under pressure from the tech lobby. Then this year a San Francisco real estate developer poured $3 million into putting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/facebook-even-as-it-apologizes-for-scandal-funds-campaign-to-block-a-california-data-privacy-measure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a similar measure\u003c/a> on the ballot after he became outraged by how much data companies collect as people move through the web. Tech companies put $1 million into fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes, legislators began negotiating with the initiative proponent, Alastair Mactaggart. They agreed on a bill that achieved many of the same aims as his ballot measure—allowing Californians to find out what information is collected about them and where the information is sold, and opt out of having their data sold—but gives people fewer opportunities to sue when companies don’t follow the law. The bill also allows companies to charge users more, within certain limits, if they opt out of having their data sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies still don’t like it, but their lobbyists said they would prefer the bill over the ballot measure. Laws passed in the Legislature can be changed more easily than laws passed by voters, and lawmakers agreed to delay implementation of the privacy law for a year so it can be changed. That means tech lobbyists are likely to push hard next year to alter it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union said it will also push for changes, but likely in the other direction—for more privacy protections. Nonetheless, the bill earned bipartisan support, with many lawmakers praising Mactaggart for pressuring them to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that privacy is an important issue, and yet we chose to ignore it because of the controversy involved,” said Republican Sen. Joel Anderson of Alpine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said the initiative process “is not perfect or ideal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” he added, “it can spur the Legislature to act on issues that challenge us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead paint deal was the biggest surprise of the three. Paint companies put $6 million into a campaign \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lead-paint-makers-balk-at-huge-bill-for-toxic-cleanup-instead-they-want-you-to-pick-up-the-tab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for a ballot measure\u003c/a> to eliminate their liability for cleaning up deteriorating paint in old houses—shifting it to taxpayers instead. In recent months, lawmakers excoriated the companies in public hearings, called the initiative a cynical ploy and crafted bills to hold the paint manufacturers liable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers agreed to set those bills aside in exchange for the paint companies dropping their initiative. Legislative leaders announced late Thursday that the parties “have agreed to work collaboratively” and the companies promptly yanked their ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the 12 Statewide Ballot Measures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here Are the 12 Statewide Measures on California's November Ballot\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Voters will still face \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-ballot-measures-2018-election/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dozen ballot measures\u003c/a> in November: Should we cap prices at dialysis clinics? Repeal limits on rent control? Carve California into three states? Give chickens and other farm animals more room to roam?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the news that three fights moved off the ballot and into the Capitol marked success for those who backed the law to change the initiative system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initiatives are a very important outlet but they are not the product of compromise—they are written by one side or the other,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who wrote the law changing the initiative process when he was the leader of the state senate. “The legislative process requires compromise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters reporter Robbie Short contributed to this report. CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11678671/special-interests-win-as-lawmakers-cut-deals-to-pull-initiatives-off-your-ballot","authors":["byline_news_11678671"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18862","news_2414","news_30","news_5355","news_3448"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11678683","label":"news_72"},"news_11677975":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11677975","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11677975","score":null,"sort":[1530227033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-bows-to-beverage-industry-blocks-soda-taxes","title":"California Bows to Beverage Industry, Blocks Soda Taxes","publishDate":1530227033,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new push by the beverage industry is slowing the expansion of soda taxes in California and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities pioneered soda taxes as a way to combat obesity, diabetes and heart disease, but the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday bowed to pressure from beverage companies and reluctantly banned local taxes on soda for the next 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows similar bans recently passed in Arizona and Michigan. Voters in Oregon will decide on a statewide ban in November. The American Beverage Association, which represents Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and others, has backed the moves after several cities passed taxes on sugary drinks in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's ban is part of a last-minute maneuver to block a beverage industry-backed ballot measure that would make it much harder for cities and counties to raise taxes of any kind. The ABA said in a statement the legislation is about keeping groceries, including drinks, affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers approved the proposal despite deep reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This industry is aiming a nuclear weapon at government in California and saying, 'If you don't do what we want, we are going to pull the trigger and you are not going to be able to fund basic government services,' \" said Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, which has a soda tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature's action drew a strong rebuke from public health advocates who view soda taxes as a crucial front in their efforts to contain obesity and the health complications it causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local government officials, terrified by the prospect of having their hands tied on all future tax increases, reluctantly backed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been in politics a long time, and sometimes you have to do what's necessary to avoid catastrophe,\" said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is pushing a local sales tax increase that would be at risk if the ballot measure passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said only a handful of communities are looking to tax soda, but the ballot measure would affect all 482 cities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayors from countless cities have called to voice their alarm and to strongly support the compromise which this bill represents,\" Brown wrote in a memo explaining his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California measure bans any new taxes on groceries, including beverages, through 2030, but allows four cities in the San Francisco Bay Area to keep soda levies already on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry has used aggressive campaigning to beat back soda taxes and other measures. But some soda tax efforts are now receiving better funding. Former New York City Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who unsuccessfully tried to limit the size of sugary drinks sold in the city to 16 ounces, has funded some local efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philadelphia, Seattle and Boulder, Colorado also have taxes on sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown signed the legislation, the California Business Roundtable withdrew a ballot measure that would have raised the threshold for any tax increases by local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, asked for a meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article213851144.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> beverage industry lobbyists dined with Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, at the governor's mansion in Sacramento this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Brown, Evan Westrup, said the governor did not negotiate the deal and the dinner was unrelated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials said taxes are the most effective tool they have to discourage people from drinking soda, sports drinks, sweetened coffee and tea, and other sugary beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beverage companies spend billions promoting their products that public health professional can't match, said Kristine Madsen, a physician and associate professor of public health at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She led a study that found a 20 percent reduction in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in low-income neighborhoods in the year after the city's tax took effect. Sales in grocery stores dropped 8 percent — a figure that was not fully offset by higher sales in neighboring towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press food industry writer Candice Choi contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Legislators and Gov. Jerry Brown reluctantly banned local taxes on soda for the next 12 years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530229635,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":669},"headData":{"title":"California Bows to Beverage Industry, Blocks Soda Taxes | KQED","description":"Legislators and Gov. Jerry Brown reluctantly banned local taxes on soda for the next 12 years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11677975 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11677975","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/28/california-bows-to-beverage-industry-blocks-soda-taxes/","disqusTitle":"California Bows to Beverage Industry, Blocks Soda Taxes","nprByline":"Jonathan J. Cooper\u003cbr/>Associated Press\u003c/br>","path":"/news/11677975/california-bows-to-beverage-industry-blocks-soda-taxes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new push by the beverage industry is slowing the expansion of soda taxes in California and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities pioneered soda taxes as a way to combat obesity, diabetes and heart disease, but the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday bowed to pressure from beverage companies and reluctantly banned local taxes on soda for the next 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows similar bans recently passed in Arizona and Michigan. Voters in Oregon will decide on a statewide ban in November. The American Beverage Association, which represents Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and others, has backed the moves after several cities passed taxes on sugary drinks in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's ban is part of a last-minute maneuver to block a beverage industry-backed ballot measure that would make it much harder for cities and counties to raise taxes of any kind. The ABA said in a statement the legislation is about keeping groceries, including drinks, affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers approved the proposal despite deep reluctance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This industry is aiming a nuclear weapon at government in California and saying, 'If you don't do what we want, we are going to pull the trigger and you are not going to be able to fund basic government services,' \" said Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, which has a soda tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature's action drew a strong rebuke from public health advocates who view soda taxes as a crucial front in their efforts to contain obesity and the health complications it causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local government officials, terrified by the prospect of having their hands tied on all future tax increases, reluctantly backed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been in politics a long time, and sometimes you have to do what's necessary to avoid catastrophe,\" said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is pushing a local sales tax increase that would be at risk if the ballot measure passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said only a handful of communities are looking to tax soda, but the ballot measure would affect all 482 cities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayors from countless cities have called to voice their alarm and to strongly support the compromise which this bill represents,\" Brown wrote in a memo explaining his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California measure bans any new taxes on groceries, including beverages, through 2030, but allows four cities in the San Francisco Bay Area to keep soda levies already on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry has used aggressive campaigning to beat back soda taxes and other measures. But some soda tax efforts are now receiving better funding. Former New York City Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who unsuccessfully tried to limit the size of sugary drinks sold in the city to 16 ounces, has funded some local efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philadelphia, Seattle and Boulder, Colorado also have taxes on sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown signed the legislation, the California Business Roundtable withdrew a ballot measure that would have raised the threshold for any tax increases by local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, asked for a meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article213851144.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> beverage industry lobbyists dined with Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, at the governor's mansion in Sacramento this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Brown, Evan Westrup, said the governor did not negotiate the deal and the dinner was unrelated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials said taxes are the most effective tool they have to discourage people from drinking soda, sports drinks, sweetened coffee and tea, and other sugary beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beverage companies spend billions promoting their products that public health professional can't match, said Kristine Madsen, a physician and associate professor of public health at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She led a study that found a 20 percent reduction in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in low-income neighborhoods in the year after the city's tax took effect. Sales in grocery stores dropped 8 percent — a figure that was not fully offset by higher sales in neighboring towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press food industry writer Candice Choi contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11677975/california-bows-to-beverage-industry-blocks-soda-taxes","authors":["byline_news_11677975"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19960","news_3448"],"featImg":"news_11677997","label":"news_72"},"news_11450485":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11450485","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11450485","score":null,"sort":[1494486607000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"soda-industry-targeted-legislatures-latino-caucus","title":"Soda Industry Targeted Legislature's Latino Caucus","publishDate":1494486607,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As California lawmakers continue to kill soda tax proposals, a new analysis found that the industry has disproportionately directed campaign contributions to members of the Latino Caucus in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that tracks campaign spending, found that the soda industry gave, on average, twice as much campaign cash to members of the Latino Caucus as to the average member of the state Legislature in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis of campaign contributions from beverage trade groups, as well as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, found that while the 24-member Latino Caucus makes up less than one-quarter of the overall Legislature, they received 42 percent of soda industry contributions during the 2015-16 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Fw56cLdaksGnPnRZCo8KkXZcyGiQnLnC\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alec Saslow, MapLight's communications director, said the organization was surprised by the findings -- and even more interested when it looked at how members who received money from the soda industry voted on past soda tax proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been five proposed taxes since 2002. The most recent was \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1003\">held in the Assembly Health Committee last month for study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, said Saslow, members simply abstained from weighing in on soda tax proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we took a look at the voting patterns and a bill that died in the Assembly Health Committee in 2015, we found that three Latino Caucus members abstained from voting, and those members received an average $16,000 from the soda industry, and were among the top recipients of soda industry money,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saslow said the trend extended to the entire health committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found that the industry funneled 2.3 times as much money to members of the committee that voted against or abstained from voting on the proposed tax as to those who voted for the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Latino Caucus members were given $5,198 by the soda industry, but the top recipients were given between $14,000 and nearly $19,000 last election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the industry gave about $332,000 to lawmakers last campaign cycle, a tiny proportion of overall campaign contributions. For example, the top recipient of soda money, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, received $18,925.82 from the soda industry but $1.2 million in overall campaign contributions. A spokesman for Santiago declined to comment on the MapLight analysis. The American Beverage Association did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saslow said the findings are still striking, even if other industries are bigger players in Sacramento. He said $300,000 is a lot of money to most voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does deserve public attention that self-interested corporations ... are making use of money to even potentially influence a vote,\" he said. \"The contribution pattern itself underscores a larger systematic problem, which is essentially the outsized influence of corporations and wealthy donors in funding elections. And ultimately that undermines the confidence the public has that lawmakers are indeed working in the public interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all members of the Latino Caucus are opposed to a soda tax, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaker Anthony Rendon, for example, received the second-most soda money last campaign cycle: $15,806.57. But Rendon co-sponsored past soda tax proposals. Assemblyman Tony Thurmond voted for the soda tax and received no soda money.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As state lawmakers continue to kill soda tax proposals, an analysis finds the industry has disproportionately directed contributions to Latino Caucus members.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1494549717,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":561},"headData":{"title":"Soda Industry Targeted Legislature's Latino Caucus | KQED","description":"As state lawmakers continue to kill soda tax proposals, an analysis finds the industry has disproportionately directed contributions to Latino Caucus members.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11450485 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11450485","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/11/soda-industry-targeted-legislatures-latino-caucus/","disqusTitle":"Soda Industry Targeted Legislature's Latino Caucus","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-11c-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11450485/soda-industry-targeted-legislatures-latino-caucus","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As California lawmakers continue to kill soda tax proposals, a new analysis found that the industry has disproportionately directed campaign contributions to members of the Latino Caucus in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that tracks campaign spending, found that the soda industry gave, on average, twice as much campaign cash to members of the Latino Caucus as to the average member of the state Legislature in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis of campaign contributions from beverage trade groups, as well as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, found that while the 24-member Latino Caucus makes up less than one-quarter of the overall Legislature, they received 42 percent of soda industry contributions during the 2015-16 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alec Saslow, MapLight's communications director, said the organization was surprised by the findings -- and even more interested when it looked at how members who received money from the soda industry voted on past soda tax proposals.\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 have been five proposed taxes since 2002. The most recent was \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1003\">held in the Assembly Health Committee last month for study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, said Saslow, members simply abstained from weighing in on soda tax proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we took a look at the voting patterns and a bill that died in the Assembly Health Committee in 2015, we found that three Latino Caucus members abstained from voting, and those members received an average $16,000 from the soda industry, and were among the top recipients of soda industry money,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saslow said the trend extended to the entire health committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found that the industry funneled 2.3 times as much money to members of the committee that voted against or abstained from voting on the proposed tax as to those who voted for the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Latino Caucus members were given $5,198 by the soda industry, but the top recipients were given between $14,000 and nearly $19,000 last election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the industry gave about $332,000 to lawmakers last campaign cycle, a tiny proportion of overall campaign contributions. For example, the top recipient of soda money, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, received $18,925.82 from the soda industry but $1.2 million in overall campaign contributions. A spokesman for Santiago declined to comment on the MapLight analysis. The American Beverage Association did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saslow said the findings are still striking, even if other industries are bigger players in Sacramento. He said $300,000 is a lot of money to most voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does deserve public attention that self-interested corporations ... are making use of money to even potentially influence a vote,\" he said. \"The contribution pattern itself underscores a larger systematic problem, which is essentially the outsized influence of corporations and wealthy donors in funding elections. And ultimately that undermines the confidence the public has that lawmakers are indeed working in the public interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all members of the Latino Caucus are opposed to a soda tax, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaker Anthony Rendon, for example, received the second-most soda money last campaign cycle: $15,806.57. But Rendon co-sponsored past soda tax proposals. Assemblyman Tony Thurmond voted for the soda tax and received no soda money.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11450485/soda-industry-targeted-legislatures-latino-caucus","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_3448","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11450595","label":"news_72"},"news_11163877":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11163877","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11163877","score":null,"sort":[1478571482000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-you-cant-buy-soda-at-work","title":"When You Can't Buy Soda At Work","publishDate":1478571482,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If you wanted to buy a soda at work but couldn't, would you drink more or less of the sugary liquid when away from the office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary results from what researchers are calling a first-of-its-kind study suggest limiting access to sugar-sweetened beverages at the workplace can help heavy soda drinkers reduce their overall daily intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months after UC San Francisco stopped selling sugar-sweetened beverages at its on-site cafeterias, stores and vending machines -- effectively creating a sprawling soda desert -- hundreds of workers opted to consume fewer sugary drinks while off the job, too, according to a survey of 2,500 employees across the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"To our surprise there were equal reductions in both environments. The sales ban was only during the workday but they were still drinking less after they got home,\" said Elissa Epel, associate director at UCSF's Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, and one of the researchers in the study.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most significant drop in the sugar-sweetened beverage consumption -- about 25 percent -- was among service employees who used to drink an average of three 12-ounce cans before the ban, said Laura Schmidt, a professor of health policy in the School of Medicine at UCSF who is leading the survey of employees and spearheaded the sales ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidt attributed the significant reduction in part to UCSF's intense public education campaign about why it was phasing out sugary drinks. She says billboards, pamphlets and other communications raised awareness about the consumption of liquid sugar and increased risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"People who are lowering consumption are making an effort to do that, using the sales ban as an opportunity to say, 'OK I’m drinking too much,' \" said Schmidt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, a trade group that represents corporations such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi, counters that Americans' soda consumption has actually dropped in recent years, but obesity rates continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Soda is not driving obesity rates,\" said Lauren Kane, a spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF's sales ban, affecting about 24,000 employees and thousands of visitors, comes as cities around the Bay Area and elsewhere in the nation debate policies aimed at reducing soda consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco, Oakland and Albany are about to decide the fate of soda taxes in their cities this election. The costly battle, which has raised over $50 million in campaign contributions, is pitting public health advocates against the soda industry once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three ballot measures would tax distributors one penny per ounce of ice teas, sport drinks, sodas and other beverages with added sugar that they bring into city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some UCSF employees, like Anna Rubin, support the soda tax but have mixed feelings about the sales ban on campus. Rubin, a researcher in developmental biology, says sometimes, she just wants to enjoy a soda at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I do want one, it’s kind of annoying not to be able to get it. I do feel that I should be able to find one within a five-minute walk of my lab,\" said Rubin, while awaiting her lunch at a Mexican restaurant at the Mission Bay campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF's study is ongoing, with Epel's team collecting blood samples from 214 employees initially identified as heavy drinkers of sugar-sweetened beverages, to analyze impacts on health.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A year after UCSF stops selling sodas and other sugary drinks, researchers find employees are reducing consumption at work and home.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478571483,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":601},"headData":{"title":"When You Can't Buy Soda At Work | KQED","description":"A year after UCSF stops selling sodas and other sugary drinks, researchers find employees are reducing consumption at work and home.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11163877 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11163877","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/07/when-you-cant-buy-soda-at-work/","disqusTitle":"When You Can't Buy Soda At Work","path":"/news/11163877/when-you-cant-buy-soda-at-work","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you wanted to buy a soda at work but couldn't, would you drink more or less of the sugary liquid when away from the office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary results from what researchers are calling a first-of-its-kind study suggest limiting access to sugar-sweetened beverages at the workplace can help heavy soda drinkers reduce their overall daily intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months after UC San Francisco stopped selling sugar-sweetened beverages at its on-site cafeterias, stores and vending machines -- effectively creating a sprawling soda desert -- hundreds of workers opted to consume fewer sugary drinks while off the job, too, according to a survey of 2,500 employees across the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"To our surprise there were equal reductions in both environments. The sales ban was only during the workday but they were still drinking less after they got home,\" said Elissa Epel, associate director at UCSF's Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, and one of the researchers in the study.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most significant drop in the sugar-sweetened beverage consumption -- about 25 percent -- was among service employees who used to drink an average of three 12-ounce cans before the ban, said Laura Schmidt, a professor of health policy in the School of Medicine at UCSF who is leading the survey of employees and spearheaded the sales ban.\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>Schmidt attributed the significant reduction in part to UCSF's intense public education campaign about why it was phasing out sugary drinks. She says billboards, pamphlets and other communications raised awareness about the consumption of liquid sugar and increased risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"People who are lowering consumption are making an effort to do that, using the sales ban as an opportunity to say, 'OK I’m drinking too much,' \" said Schmidt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, a trade group that represents corporations such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi, counters that Americans' soda consumption has actually dropped in recent years, but obesity rates continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Soda is not driving obesity rates,\" said Lauren Kane, a spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF's sales ban, affecting about 24,000 employees and thousands of visitors, comes as cities around the Bay Area and elsewhere in the nation debate policies aimed at reducing soda consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco, Oakland and Albany are about to decide the fate of soda taxes in their cities this election. The costly battle, which has raised over $50 million in campaign contributions, is pitting public health advocates against the soda industry once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three ballot measures would tax distributors one penny per ounce of ice teas, sport drinks, sodas and other beverages with added sugar that they bring into city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some UCSF employees, like Anna Rubin, support the soda tax but have mixed feelings about the sales ban on campus. Rubin, a researcher in developmental biology, says sometimes, she just wants to enjoy a soda at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I do want one, it’s kind of annoying not to be able to get it. I do feel that I should be able to find one within a five-minute walk of my lab,\" said Rubin, while awaiting her lunch at a Mexican restaurant at the Mission Bay campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF's study is ongoing, with Epel's team collecting blood samples from 214 employees initially identified as heavy drinkers of sugar-sweetened beverages, to analyze impacts on health.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11163877/when-you-cant-buy-soda-at-work","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_3448","news_922"],"featImg":"news_11164125","label":"news_6944"},"news_11149536":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11149536","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11149536","score":null,"sort":[1477956141000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"big-bucks-in-bay-area-battles-over-soda-tax-point-to-national-stakes","title":"Big Bucks in Bay Area Battles Over Soda Tax Point to National Stakes","publishDate":1477956141,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>What difference can a city tax make of 1 cent per ounce on distributors of sugary drinks? Plenty, if you look at the flood of money going into two Bay Area ballot measures proposing that tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign contributions for and against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland rose to more than $46 million, making these local contests two of the most expensive in California this election. The vast majority of that money comes from just three out-of-state funding sources, according to campaign finance reports, pointing to the high stakes and potential nationwide reach of these election battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, representing giants like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, has spent $28.7 million fighting the taxes in San Francisco and Oakland. Meanwhile, billionaires Michael Bloomberg of New York and Texans John and Laura Arnold have injected more than $17 million into the pro-tax campaign advertisements, mostly during recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay town of Albany\u003cu>,\u003c/u> with just 19,000 residents, is also proposing a similar soda tax. The ABA has spent $185,000 to fight that measure, while supporters have raised only about $6,200, with the biggest donation from the American Heart Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Bay Area measures aim to raise significant funds -- about \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Controller%20Statement%20Prop%20V%20-%20Tax%20on%20Distributing%20Sugar-sweetened%20Beverages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$15 million\u003c/a> in San Francisco, $6 million in Oakland and $220,000 in Albany per year -- for health and education programs to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks and stem a growing Type 2 diabetes epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities that might be considering a similar tax in other states are paying attention, say political observers. Voters in Berkeley became the first in the U.S. to pass a soda tax in 2014. Will larger cities like San Francisco and Oakland follow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles whose work focuses on campaign finance and ethics, said the \"extraordinary\" amount of money fueling the Bay Area soda tax contests has to do with the nationwide ramifications of this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The American Beverage Association has spent a lot of money on these municipal measures, but I think they understand that they probably have more to lose if this passes,\" Levinson said. \"If there's a soda tax in San Francisco and/or Oakland, then it will send a signal to cities throughout the state and probably throughout the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the ABA-funded \"No on Grocery Tax\" campaign has blanketed voters with mailers and ads that often feature small-business owners of color saying the tax could hurt them and low-income residents. They argue that distributors will pass on the cost of a soda tax to small-business owners, who might raise the prices of other food products they sell to stay competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University, said the ABA's strategy aims to drive a divide among progressives along race and income differences on a key issue for many Bay Area voters: cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are giving people reasons to sort of be on different sides of the issue. That might make the decision harder for some voters, and therefore more likely to vote no,\" said McDaniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley's soda tax has not worked like a tax on groceries, according to research by UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and the Oakland-based Public Health Institute. The city has now spent -- as promised -- over $2 million in added tax revenue on nutrition and health programs in public schools and lower-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Berkeley's model, \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/file/3941\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition V\u003c/a> in San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/elections/20161108/documents/MeasureHH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure HH\u003c/a> in Oakland would create an advisory board made up of residents and public health experts to recommend to the City Council how to spend additional tax revenues. Measure \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/articles/11125905/is-the-soda-tax-on-your-ballot-actually-a-grocery-tax\" target=\"_blank\">O1\u003c/a> in Albany would also seek public input to spend additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaigns pushing for soda taxes this year in all three cities are relying heavily on volunteers going door to door to garner support in diverse, low-income neighborhoods, where the soda industry heavily markets its products. African-Americans, Latinos and people of Native American descent are more likely than whites to suffer from Type 2 diabetes, obesity and other illnesses strongly linked to overconsumption of sugar, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soda tax measures exempt 100 percent juice, milk, baby formula and drinks for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Contributions to campaigns for and against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland now top $46 million. The vast majority of that money comes from just three out-of-state donors.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478027705,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":785},"headData":{"title":"Big Bucks in Bay Area Battles Over Soda Tax Point to National Stakes | KQED","description":"Contributions to campaigns for and against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland now top $46 million. The vast majority of that money comes from just three out-of-state donors.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11149536 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11149536","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/31/big-bucks-in-bay-area-battles-over-soda-tax-point-to-national-stakes/","disqusTitle":"Big Bucks in Bay Area Battles Over Soda Tax Point to National Stakes","path":"/news/11149536/big-bucks-in-bay-area-battles-over-soda-tax-point-to-national-stakes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What difference can a city tax make of 1 cent per ounce on distributors of sugary drinks? Plenty, if you look at the flood of money going into two Bay Area ballot measures proposing that tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign contributions for and against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland rose to more than $46 million, making these local contests two of the most expensive in California this election. The vast majority of that money comes from just three out-of-state funding sources, according to campaign finance reports, pointing to the high stakes and potential nationwide reach of these election battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association, representing giants like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, has spent $28.7 million fighting the taxes in San Francisco and Oakland. Meanwhile, billionaires Michael Bloomberg of New York and Texans John and Laura Arnold have injected more than $17 million into the pro-tax campaign advertisements, mostly during recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay town of Albany\u003cu>,\u003c/u> with just 19,000 residents, is also proposing a similar soda tax. The ABA has spent $185,000 to fight that measure, while supporters have raised only about $6,200, with the biggest donation from the American Heart Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Bay Area measures aim to raise significant funds -- about \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Controller%20Statement%20Prop%20V%20-%20Tax%20on%20Distributing%20Sugar-sweetened%20Beverages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$15 million\u003c/a> in San Francisco, $6 million in Oakland and $220,000 in Albany per year -- for health and education programs to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks and stem a growing Type 2 diabetes epidemic.\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>Cities that might be considering a similar tax in other states are paying attention, say political observers. Voters in Berkeley became the first in the U.S. to pass a soda tax in 2014. Will larger cities like San Francisco and Oakland follow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles whose work focuses on campaign finance and ethics, said the \"extraordinary\" amount of money fueling the Bay Area soda tax contests has to do with the nationwide ramifications of this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The American Beverage Association has spent a lot of money on these municipal measures, but I think they understand that they probably have more to lose if this passes,\" Levinson said. \"If there's a soda tax in San Francisco and/or Oakland, then it will send a signal to cities throughout the state and probably throughout the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the ABA-funded \"No on Grocery Tax\" campaign has blanketed voters with mailers and ads that often feature small-business owners of color saying the tax could hurt them and low-income residents. They argue that distributors will pass on the cost of a soda tax to small-business owners, who might raise the prices of other food products they sell to stay competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University, said the ABA's strategy aims to drive a divide among progressives along race and income differences on a key issue for many Bay Area voters: cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are giving people reasons to sort of be on different sides of the issue. That might make the decision harder for some voters, and therefore more likely to vote no,\" said McDaniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley's soda tax has not worked like a tax on groceries, according to research by UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and the Oakland-based Public Health Institute. The city has now spent -- as promised -- over $2 million in added tax revenue on nutrition and health programs in public schools and lower-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Berkeley's model, \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/file/3941\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition V\u003c/a> in San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/elections/20161108/documents/MeasureHH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure HH\u003c/a> in Oakland would create an advisory board made up of residents and public health experts to recommend to the City Council how to spend additional tax revenues. Measure \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/articles/11125905/is-the-soda-tax-on-your-ballot-actually-a-grocery-tax\" target=\"_blank\">O1\u003c/a> in Albany would also seek public input to spend additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaigns pushing for soda taxes this year in all three cities are relying heavily on volunteers going door to door to garner support in diverse, low-income neighborhoods, where the soda industry heavily markets its products. African-Americans, Latinos and people of Native American descent are more likely than whites to suffer from Type 2 diabetes, obesity and other illnesses strongly linked to overconsumption of sugar, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soda tax measures exempt 100 percent juice, milk, baby formula and drinks for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11149536/big-bucks-in-bay-area-battles-over-soda-tax-point-to-national-stakes","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_20118","news_20068","news_20069","news_19960","news_3448"],"featImg":"news_11150090","label":"news_72"},"news_11136801":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11136801","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11136801","score":null,"sort":[1476913585000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"soda-tax-ballot-fight-gets-super-sized-contributions","title":"Soda Tax Ballot Fight Gets Super-Sized Contributions","publishDate":1476913585,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If at first, you don’t succeed, then try again -- on the other side of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose bid to ban larger sizes of sodas and other sugar-sweetened drinks in the nation’s largest city earned him a Bronx cheer from the state’s highest court, has given almost $10 million this year to support a pair of Bay Area initiatives that would increase taxes on the beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg, the billionaire co-founder of an eponymous financial data services firm, has donated about $5 million to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfunitedtoreducediabetes.com/\">San Franciscans United to Reduce Diabetes in Children\u003c/a>, a political committee supporting Measure V, which would levy a penny tax on every ounce of sugar-sweetened beverages sold in the city. The former mayor also has contributed more than $4.7 million to Citizens for Healthy Oakland Children, which is supporting Measure HH, a proposal that would also add a one-cent tax on every ounce of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for all Bloomberg’s largesse, his contributions haven’t yet prevented soda tax advocates from being financially outgunned by the beverage industry. After a relatively slow start over the summer, the the Washington D.C.-based American Beverage Association has picked up the pace, giving $18.9 million to fight the San Francisco measure; $5.4 million on the Oakland battle; $500,000 to oppose Measure 2H, a similar Nov. 8 ballot item in Boulder, Colo.; and $50,000 against Measure O1 in Albany, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of high-stakes ballot measures represent a potential turning point for both the soda industry and public health advocates. Beverage manufacturers are casting the initiatives as grocery taxes that will cost consumers and erode profits in the $278 billion soda industry, while advocates see a rare opportunity for voters to address a public health issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ballot Refill\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhen voters in San Francisco, Oakland, Albany and Boulder cast their ballots next month, the momentum will be on Bloomberg’s side. After his administration’s 2012 ban was overturned by the New York Supreme Court, Bloomberg -- who left office in late 2013 -- turned his attention to a 2014 Berkeley effort to become the first city in the nation to tax sugar-sweetened beverages. The former mayor gave $647,000 to the committee supporting the tax, which passed with 76 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Bloomberg skipped an opportunity to become involved in a 2014 San Francisco initiative that would have levied a two-cent-per-ounce tax on sodas and other sweetened drinks. The measure, which required a two-thirds majority, only attracted support from 55 percent of voters after the beverage industry spent $9.5 million to help defeat it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former mayor also was on the winning side of a \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/public-health/199094/philadelphia-first-major-u-s-city-to-pass-soda-tax\">Philadelphia City Council vote\u003c/a> in June that levied a 1.5 cent-per-ounce tax on sodas. Bloomberg, one of the world’s wealthiest men, gave $1.5 million to Philadelphians for a Fair Future, a pro-tax “dark money” organization that is not required to publicly disclose its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Late Spending\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBy soda tax battle standards, the Philadelphia vote was a reasonably evenly matched affair. The $1.5 million from Bloomberg, combined with a $400,000 infusion from the Action Now Initiative funded by Houston billionaire investor John Arnold and his wife, Laura, amounted to almost half of the $4.2 million spent by the beverage industry. (Disclosure: The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a donor to MapLight).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda tax advocates have outspent the industry in only one of four initiative races this election. Boosted by contributions from an offshoot of the Colorado Health Foundation, advocates of the Boulder tax have spent $671,000 so far this year; the opposition, funded by the American Beverage Association, which has been footing the bill to fight the measures in all four cities, has spent $282,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandvsbigsoda.com/about\">Citizens for Healthy Oakland Children\u003c/a> had raised only $18,545, or $1 for every $32 collected by the beverage industry. Since July, however, the infusion from Bloomberg has narrowed the gap considerably. The opposition committee has spent $3.8 million, according to city records; supporters of the tax have raised more than $5 million, including $4.7 million from Bloomberg and $575,000 from the Arnolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the gap narrowing, big spending on advertising may determine the outcome. Since three of the four initiatives are in the Bay Area, both sides can amplify their messages across Oakland, San Francisco and Albany since all three cities are part of the same media market. And the spending gap is widening in San Francisco, the largest of the trio. The beverage industry has spent more than $10 million of a war chest that totaled $18.9 million through late September; supporters of the proposed tax had spent a little more than $2.3 million from a $6.4 million campaign treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disclosure report filed Oct. 3 with the Albany City Clerk’s office showed the beverage association had spent $76,683 campaigning against the proposal; the pro-tax forces reported raising $5,425, which included a $5,000 donation from the American Heart Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Disclosure: The author is a former employee of Bloomberg L.P.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Methodology: MapLight analysis of contributions to committees supporting and opposing ballot measures that would tax sugar-sweetened beverages in the November 2016 elections using the latest data available from local campaign finance reports as of October 18, 2016.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bay Area's soda tax campaigns are ramping up with major funding from donors like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478027765,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":928},"headData":{"title":"Soda Tax Ballot Fight Gets Super-Sized Contributions | KQED","description":"Bay Area's soda tax campaigns are ramping up with major funding from donors like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11136801 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11136801","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/19/soda-tax-ballot-fight-gets-super-sized-contributions/","disqusTitle":"Soda Tax Ballot Fight Gets Super-Sized Contributions","source":"MapLight","sourceUrl":"http://maplight.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Frank Bass \u003cbr>MapLight\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11136801/soda-tax-ballot-fight-gets-super-sized-contributions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If at first, you don’t succeed, then try again -- on the other side of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose bid to ban larger sizes of sodas and other sugar-sweetened drinks in the nation’s largest city earned him a Bronx cheer from the state’s highest court, has given almost $10 million this year to support a pair of Bay Area initiatives that would increase taxes on the beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg, the billionaire co-founder of an eponymous financial data services firm, has donated about $5 million to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfunitedtoreducediabetes.com/\">San Franciscans United to Reduce Diabetes in Children\u003c/a>, a political committee supporting Measure V, which would levy a penny tax on every ounce of sugar-sweetened beverages sold in the city. The former mayor also has contributed more than $4.7 million to Citizens for Healthy Oakland Children, which is supporting Measure HH, a proposal that would also add a one-cent tax on every ounce of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for all Bloomberg’s largesse, his contributions haven’t yet prevented soda tax advocates from being financially outgunned by the beverage industry. After a relatively slow start over the summer, the the Washington D.C.-based American Beverage Association has picked up the pace, giving $18.9 million to fight the San Francisco measure; $5.4 million on the Oakland battle; $500,000 to oppose Measure 2H, a similar Nov. 8 ballot item in Boulder, Colo.; and $50,000 against Measure O1 in Albany, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of high-stakes ballot measures represent a potential turning point for both the soda industry and public health advocates. Beverage manufacturers are casting the initiatives as grocery taxes that will cost consumers and erode profits in the $278 billion soda industry, while advocates see a rare opportunity for voters to address a public health issue.\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>\u003cstrong>Ballot Refill\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhen voters in San Francisco, Oakland, Albany and Boulder cast their ballots next month, the momentum will be on Bloomberg’s side. After his administration’s 2012 ban was overturned by the New York Supreme Court, Bloomberg -- who left office in late 2013 -- turned his attention to a 2014 Berkeley effort to become the first city in the nation to tax sugar-sweetened beverages. The former mayor gave $647,000 to the committee supporting the tax, which passed with 76 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Bloomberg skipped an opportunity to become involved in a 2014 San Francisco initiative that would have levied a two-cent-per-ounce tax on sodas and other sweetened drinks. The measure, which required a two-thirds majority, only attracted support from 55 percent of voters after the beverage industry spent $9.5 million to help defeat it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former mayor also was on the winning side of a \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/public-health/199094/philadelphia-first-major-u-s-city-to-pass-soda-tax\">Philadelphia City Council vote\u003c/a> in June that levied a 1.5 cent-per-ounce tax on sodas. Bloomberg, one of the world’s wealthiest men, gave $1.5 million to Philadelphians for a Fair Future, a pro-tax “dark money” organization that is not required to publicly disclose its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Late Spending\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBy soda tax battle standards, the Philadelphia vote was a reasonably evenly matched affair. The $1.5 million from Bloomberg, combined with a $400,000 infusion from the Action Now Initiative funded by Houston billionaire investor John Arnold and his wife, Laura, amounted to almost half of the $4.2 million spent by the beverage industry. (Disclosure: The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a donor to MapLight).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soda tax advocates have outspent the industry in only one of four initiative races this election. Boosted by contributions from an offshoot of the Colorado Health Foundation, advocates of the Boulder tax have spent $671,000 so far this year; the opposition, funded by the American Beverage Association, which has been footing the bill to fight the measures in all four cities, has spent $282,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandvsbigsoda.com/about\">Citizens for Healthy Oakland Children\u003c/a> had raised only $18,545, or $1 for every $32 collected by the beverage industry. Since July, however, the infusion from Bloomberg has narrowed the gap considerably. The opposition committee has spent $3.8 million, according to city records; supporters of the tax have raised more than $5 million, including $4.7 million from Bloomberg and $575,000 from the Arnolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the gap narrowing, big spending on advertising may determine the outcome. Since three of the four initiatives are in the Bay Area, both sides can amplify their messages across Oakland, San Francisco and Albany since all three cities are part of the same media market. And the spending gap is widening in San Francisco, the largest of the trio. The beverage industry has spent more than $10 million of a war chest that totaled $18.9 million through late September; supporters of the proposed tax had spent a little more than $2.3 million from a $6.4 million campaign treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disclosure report filed Oct. 3 with the Albany City Clerk’s office showed the beverage association had spent $76,683 campaigning against the proposal; the pro-tax forces reported raising $5,425, which included a $5,000 donation from the American Heart Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Disclosure: The author is a former employee of Bloomberg L.P.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Methodology: MapLight analysis of contributions to committees supporting and opposing ballot measures that would tax sugar-sweetened beverages in the November 2016 elections using the latest data available from local campaign finance reports as of October 18, 2016.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11136801/soda-tax-ballot-fight-gets-super-sized-contributions","authors":["byline_news_11136801"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17996","news_19960","news_3448"],"featImg":"news_11136867","label":"source_news_11136801"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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