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The response also argued that Richardson had failed to follow up on delivering a charter proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute led Sen. Glazer to introduce a bill last year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1488\">SB 1488\u003c/a>, that would have clarified and expanded the inspector general's role. The final bill, which included a host of amendments BART requested, passed with virtually no opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, BART urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto the bill over a provision the agency said failed to adequately protect union workers who might be compelled to meet with the inspector general during investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said in a recent interview that he was shocked by the agency's 11th-hour move to kill the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART asked for a number of amendments to the bill, and I agreed to every single one of them,\" he said. \"And then at the end of the day, they wrote a letter to the governor and said, 'Veto it.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said that episode and other \"broken promises\" were behind his decision in early March to withdraw from a special committee headed by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener to address the funding crisis facing transit operators statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agencies, joined by the \u003ca href=\"https://caltransit.org/\">California Transit Association\u003c/a>, public transportation advocates and many lawmakers, are working on a proposal that would provide bridge funding for operators that are facing huge deficits because of continued low ridership in the wake of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt it was simply a cheerleading entity for BART and for more money,\" Glazer said. \"And it didn't have as an important element to get the accountability and oversight that I think the riders and the taxpayers deserve to have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer's withdrawal from the Senate panel was followed quickly by an announcement from Richardson that she would leave her post in mid-March — five months earlier than planned. She was leaving early, she said, because of ongoing \"challenges\" dealing with the BART board and management — challenges she said were exemplified by last year's civil grand jury obstruction findings and the BART board's response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson's office had just released the results of several widely publicized investigations, including one in which she found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/REPORT_%24350K%20for%20Homeless%20Outreach%20Yielded%20Unclear%20Results_Final_020323.pdf\">BART paid $350,000 to an outside agency for homelessness outreach services (PDF)\u003c/a> that resulted in just one person being referred to a treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding was accompanied by the results of several other investigations, including one that substantiated \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/REPORT_BART%20Employee%20Collected%20Pay%20and%20Benefits%20for%20Time%20Not%20Worked_Final_020323.pdf\">an allegation that a BART worker was being paid for more than 80 hours of work a week despite not reporting for duty (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='bart']BART board member Bevan Dufty, a member of the board's audit committee, said in an interview that he felt Richardson's work helped the agency. And he insisted that far more often than not, the board supported the inspector general's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our inspector general has done good things,\" he said. \"I'd like to point out that in the inspector general's own words, she acknowledged that 90% of the recommendations that she and her staff have made are either implemented or in the process of being implemented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty conceded that the office's original $1 million budget was \"a hindrance.\" He blamed the failure to increase the budget before now on the fact that a long-running lawsuit blocked the release of \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/RM_3_FAQ_3-1-18.pdf\">Regional Measure 3 (PDF)\u003c/a> toll revenue until earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to last week's announcement that the inspector general's budget will increase to $2.7 million, Glazer said in a statement, \"The announcement to take the IG off its starvation diet is a positive step forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that be believes the office still needs expanded authority. To that end, Glazer is trying again to pass legislation to expand the inspector general's authority and guarantee its independence. His \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB827\">SB 827\u003c/a> would also mandate misdemeanor criminal penalties against those who obstruct the office's investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has expressed concern about the criminal penalty provision and has taken an official \"support if amended\" position on the bill, which is due for its first committee hearing next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of those legislative deliberations aside, the next task for BART will be finding Richardson's replacement. The law that created her position requires the agency to send the names of three candidates to Gov. Newsom, who will choose the next inspector general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"BART's inspector general departed after long-running disagreements with the board. BART has agreed to dramatically increase the inspector general's budget, but the agency's toughest critic in the Legislature says the office's authority also needs to be significantly expanded.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1680626852,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1124},"headData":{"title":"Battle Over BART Oversight Will Continue After Watchdog's Departure | KQED","description":"BART's inspector general departed after long-running disagreements with the board. BART has agreed to dramatically increase the inspector general's budget, but the agency's toughest critic in the Legislature says the office's authority also needs to be significantly expanded.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Battle Over BART Oversight Will Continue After Watchdog's Departure","datePublished":"2023-04-04T13:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2023-04-04T16:47:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11945484/after-watchdogs-departure-battle-over-bart-oversight-will-continue","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week's announcement that BART intends to nearly triple the budget for its inspector general is unlikely to end the long-running battle over how much power the office, set up several years ago to guard against \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/inspector-general/investigations\">waste, fraud and abuse\u003c/a> at the agency, should enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said last Wednesday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230329\">it had reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission that will increase the budget\u003c/a> for its inspector general's office from $1 million to $2.7 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, $1.1 million of the new funds will come from regional bridge tolls. BART will provide the remaining $600,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency General Manager Bob Powers said in a statement the dramatic increase in funding shows the agency is committed to supporting the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement came after a series of recent developments that showcased the continuing tension between BART and one of its toughest critics, East Bay state Sen. Steve Glazer, about whether the agency is being held sufficiently accountable for how it handles its $2.5 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer crafted the language that set up the BART inspector general's office as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671240/10-things-to-know-regional-measure-3-the-proposed-bay-area-bridge-toll-increase\">2018 ballot measure\u003c/a> that raised bridge tolls on the Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11945495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"A man and three women stand in front of a podium with a microphone attached and signs. A press conference at BART's Orinda Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-2048x1319.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/richardson230317-1920x1237.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART Inspector General Harriet Richardson (second from left) at a March 17, 2023, media event held to explain her resignation. Other participants included (left to right) state Sen. Steve Glazer of Orinda and BART board members Debora Allen and Liz Ames. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed former Palo Alto auditor Harriet Richardson to the newly created post of inspector general in 2019. But as detailed in an \u003ca href=\"https://grandjury.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Grand.Jury_.Report.2022.for_.ITD_.Web_.pdf\">Alameda County Civil Grand Jury report (PDF)\u003c/a> last year — and in \u003ca href=\"https://grandjury.acgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/202302-BART.RESPONSE.pdf\">the BART Board of Directors' response (PDF)\u003c/a> to that report — there was significant friction between the agency and its newly designated watchdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jury alleged that BART's board and management engaged in \"a pattern of obstruction\" by, among other things, interfering with a risk assessment the inspector general was conducting and by failing to cooperate with Richardson's effort to create a charter that would codify her office's powers and responsibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART board's response rejected those findings and said any lack of cooperation was due to the agency's initial misunderstanding of the inspector general's role. The response also argued that Richardson had failed to follow up on delivering a charter proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute led Sen. Glazer to introduce a bill last year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1488\">SB 1488\u003c/a>, that would have clarified and expanded the inspector general's role. The final bill, which included a host of amendments BART requested, passed with virtually no opposition.\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>Nevertheless, BART urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto the bill over a provision the agency said failed to adequately protect union workers who might be compelled to meet with the inspector general during investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said in a recent interview that he was shocked by the agency's 11th-hour move to kill the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART asked for a number of amendments to the bill, and I agreed to every single one of them,\" he said. \"And then at the end of the day, they wrote a letter to the governor and said, 'Veto it.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said that episode and other \"broken promises\" were behind his decision in early March to withdraw from a special committee headed by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener to address the funding crisis facing transit operators statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agencies, joined by the \u003ca href=\"https://caltransit.org/\">California Transit Association\u003c/a>, public transportation advocates and many lawmakers, are working on a proposal that would provide bridge funding for operators that are facing huge deficits because of continued low ridership in the wake of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt it was simply a cheerleading entity for BART and for more money,\" Glazer said. \"And it didn't have as an important element to get the accountability and oversight that I think the riders and the taxpayers deserve to have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer's withdrawal from the Senate panel was followed quickly by an announcement from Richardson that she would leave her post in mid-March — five months earlier than planned. She was leaving early, she said, because of ongoing \"challenges\" dealing with the BART board and management — challenges she said were exemplified by last year's civil grand jury obstruction findings and the BART board's response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson's office had just released the results of several widely publicized investigations, including one in which she found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/REPORT_%24350K%20for%20Homeless%20Outreach%20Yielded%20Unclear%20Results_Final_020323.pdf\">BART paid $350,000 to an outside agency for homelessness outreach services (PDF)\u003c/a> that resulted in just one person being referred to a treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding was accompanied by the results of several other investigations, including one that substantiated \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/REPORT_BART%20Employee%20Collected%20Pay%20and%20Benefits%20for%20Time%20Not%20Worked_Final_020323.pdf\">an allegation that a BART worker was being paid for more than 80 hours of work a week despite not reporting for duty (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"bart"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>BART board member Bevan Dufty, a member of the board's audit committee, said in an interview that he felt Richardson's work helped the agency. And he insisted that far more often than not, the board supported the inspector general's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our inspector general has done good things,\" he said. \"I'd like to point out that in the inspector general's own words, she acknowledged that 90% of the recommendations that she and her staff have made are either implemented or in the process of being implemented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty conceded that the office's original $1 million budget was \"a hindrance.\" He blamed the failure to increase the budget before now on the fact that a long-running lawsuit blocked the release of \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/RM_3_FAQ_3-1-18.pdf\">Regional Measure 3 (PDF)\u003c/a> toll revenue until earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to last week's announcement that the inspector general's budget will increase to $2.7 million, Glazer said in a statement, \"The announcement to take the IG off its starvation diet is a positive step forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that be believes the office still needs expanded authority. To that end, Glazer is trying again to pass legislation to expand the inspector general's authority and guarantee its independence. His \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB827\">SB 827\u003c/a> would also mandate misdemeanor criminal penalties against those who obstruct the office's investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has expressed concern about the criminal penalty provision and has taken an official \"support if amended\" position on the bill, which is due for its first committee hearing next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of those legislative deliberations aside, the next task for BART will be finding Richardson's replacement. The law that created her position requires the agency to send the names of three candidates to Gov. Newsom, who will choose the next inspector general.\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/11945484/after-watchdogs-departure-battle-over-bart-oversight-will-continue","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_32598","news_1533","news_17810","news_2684","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11945540","label":"news"},"news_11888736":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11888736","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11888736","score":null,"sort":[1631793653000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-crushed-the-recall-now-democrats-want-to-change-the-system","title":"Newsom Crushed the Recall. Now Democrats Want to Change the System","publishDate":1631793653,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California legislative leaders wasted no time announcing their intentions to reform the state's more than century-old recall process, after voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly defeated a prolonged and costly effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters want to be able to hold leaders accountable, said state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, chair of the Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they don't want this partisan manipulation where a small minority can force an election and have a candidate prevail with less than a majority vote. That is anti-democratic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Senate and the Assembly elections committees will hold joint hearings in the coming months to explore possible reforms to the 1911 constitutional amendment. One proposal on the table would increase the number of signatures needed to qualify a recall for the ballot. (Currently, that \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_California\">qualifying threshold for executive officials — like the governor — is 12% of the total number of votes cast in the most recent election\u003c/a>, and 20% of total votes for state legislators and judges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another proposal is to divide the recall into two separate ballots, with the first asking voters if an official should be recalled, and the second asking who the replacement candidate should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said he’s troubled by the current format — in which the two questions appear together on the same ballot — because it means a majority of votes is required to recall an official, but only a plurality of votes is then necessary for a replacement candidate to take control. Additionally, when officials are recalled, they are not allowed to be included among the list of replacement candidates, which critics say is an unfair disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I continue to be very uncomfortable with the second question and how it's set up in the recall process and the hijinks it creates and the lack of, potentially, a democratic choice that it creates,\" Glazer said. \"I'm very troubled by that second question and its consequences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making any changes to the process could prove difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the recall process is laid out in the state Constitution, amending it would require significant voter buy-in, notes Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"newsom-recall\"]And even though there appears to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-the-environment-july-2021.pdf\">growing public support for making changes to the recall process\u003c/a>, Levinson says California voters are notoriously averse to tweaking ballot measures in any way that might limit their own power as citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there's a question of reforming a process where it would be harder for us to recall an elected official, harder for it to get on the ballot, harder for it to pass, we tend to really shy away from that,\" Levinson said. \"Because anything that smacks of taking power away from voters is almost universally unpopular.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are many who question whether massive reforms are needed at all. A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kt7w3ts\">recent UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll\u003c/a> shows state Democrats clearly in favor of reform, and Republicans less likely to want changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican political consultant Mike Madrid says it's important to remember how rare it is for recalls to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the more than 100 years since the recall amendment was approved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recalls/recall-history-california-1913-present\">only six state elected officials have actually been recalled from their offices\u003c/a>, despite nearly 200 attempts, according to the California Secretary of State's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says the recall against Newsom likely wouldn't have qualified for the ballot under regular circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting it on the ballot \"was only successful because of an extended period of time [for signature gathering], during a once-in-a-century global pandemic,\" he said. \"So before we start reforming this system, let’s put this in context here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, state Democratic lawmakers maintain the process needs serious updating. They point out that officials can be recalled for any reason — unlike in several other states, in which the process can only proceed if an official is convicted of an act of malfeasance or a serious crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, also notes that there are no time restraints on the process, pointing out that Newsom is up for reelection in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a majority of Californians are very frustrated that we just spent $276 million on this recall election that, from the looks of it, has certified what voters said three years ago and what voters could have said next year,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/ca-recall-election-cost-of-gavin-newsom/11021178/\">the cost may end up being higher\u003c/a>. Secretary of State Shirley Weber estimates that when all the bills come due, the tab for this recall election may be closer to $300 million — which works out to about $14 per registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Less than 24 hours after Gov. Gavin Newsom survived an effort to remove him from office, California Democrats began discussing ways to reform a process they consider deeply flawed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631832501,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":794},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Crushed the Recall. Now Democrats Want to Change the System | KQED","description":"Less than 24 hours after Gov. 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Now Democrats Want to Change the System","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/ab39b1fa-01e7-44c4-ba34-ada5010965ce/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11888736/newsom-crushed-the-recall-now-democrats-want-to-change-the-system","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California legislative leaders wasted no time announcing their intentions to reform the state's more than century-old recall process, after voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly defeated a prolonged and costly effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters want to be able to hold leaders accountable, said state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, chair of the Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they don't want this partisan manipulation where a small minority can force an election and have a candidate prevail with less than a majority vote. That is anti-democratic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Senate and the Assembly elections committees will hold joint hearings in the coming months to explore possible reforms to the 1911 constitutional amendment. One proposal on the table would increase the number of signatures needed to qualify a recall for the ballot. (Currently, that \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_California\">qualifying threshold for executive officials — like the governor — is 12% of the total number of votes cast in the most recent election\u003c/a>, and 20% of total votes for state legislators and judges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another proposal is to divide the recall into two separate ballots, with the first asking voters if an official should be recalled, and the second asking who the replacement candidate should be.\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>Glazer said he’s troubled by the current format — in which the two questions appear together on the same ballot — because it means a majority of votes is required to recall an official, but only a plurality of votes is then necessary for a replacement candidate to take control. Additionally, when officials are recalled, they are not allowed to be included among the list of replacement candidates, which critics say is an unfair disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I continue to be very uncomfortable with the second question and how it's set up in the recall process and the hijinks it creates and the lack of, potentially, a democratic choice that it creates,\" Glazer said. \"I'm very troubled by that second question and its consequences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making any changes to the process could prove difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the recall process is laid out in the state Constitution, amending it would require significant voter buy-in, notes Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"newsom-recall"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And even though there appears to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-the-environment-july-2021.pdf\">growing public support for making changes to the recall process\u003c/a>, Levinson says California voters are notoriously averse to tweaking ballot measures in any way that might limit their own power as citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there's a question of reforming a process where it would be harder for us to recall an elected official, harder for it to get on the ballot, harder for it to pass, we tend to really shy away from that,\" Levinson said. \"Because anything that smacks of taking power away from voters is almost universally unpopular.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are many who question whether massive reforms are needed at all. A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kt7w3ts\">recent UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll\u003c/a> shows state Democrats clearly in favor of reform, and Republicans less likely to want changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican political consultant Mike Madrid says it's important to remember how rare it is for recalls to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the more than 100 years since the recall amendment was approved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recalls/recall-history-california-1913-present\">only six state elected officials have actually been recalled from their offices\u003c/a>, despite nearly 200 attempts, according to the California Secretary of State's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says the recall against Newsom likely wouldn't have qualified for the ballot under regular circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting it on the ballot \"was only successful because of an extended period of time [for signature gathering], during a once-in-a-century global pandemic,\" he said. \"So before we start reforming this system, let’s put this in context here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, state Democratic lawmakers maintain the process needs serious updating. They point out that officials can be recalled for any reason — unlike in several other states, in which the process can only proceed if an official is convicted of an act of malfeasance or a serious crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, also notes that there are no time restraints on the process, pointing out that Newsom is up for reelection in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a majority of Californians are very frustrated that we just spent $276 million on this recall election that, from the looks of it, has certified what voters said three years ago and what voters could have said next year,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/ca-recall-election-cost-of-gavin-newsom/11021178/\">the cost may end up being higher\u003c/a>. Secretary of State Shirley Weber estimates that when all the bills come due, the tab for this recall election may be closer to $300 million — which works out to about $14 per registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11888736/newsom-crushed-the-recall-now-democrats-want-to-change-the-system","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_29465","news_27166","news_27626","news_29892","news_28988","news_29907","news_29908","news_17810"],"featImg":"news_11888684","label":"news_72"},"news_11804022":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11804022","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11804022","score":null,"sort":[1583319924000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"surprise-results-and-millions-spent-in-state-legislative-primaries","title":"Surprise Results, and Millions Spent, in State Legislative Primaries","publishDate":1583319924,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The top two finishers in a trio of competitive Bay Area state Senate races may not be known for days, as a handful of candidates remain tightly bunched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Senator Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) will advance to the general election in the 7th district, while Santa Clara supervisor Dave Cortese has opened up a wide lead in the open 15th district in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harder to decipher is who Glazer and Cortese will face in the general election — and who will go toe-to-toe come November in the 13th district, covering the peninsula from Brisbane to Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that district and the adjacent 15th, the Bay Area's two open state Senate seats resulted in two of the most expensive legislative campaigns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there's anything that can be gleaned from Wednesday morning's returns, it's that primaries packed with Democratic candidates can make it easier for less-heralded Republicans to advance to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Surprise on the Peninsula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning returns in the 13th district show Republican Alexander Glew, a Los Altos engineer, leading the field by a slim margin of less than 1%. Glew spent just over $1,000 on his campaign in the last filing period, according to pre-primary filings made with the Secretary of State in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's compared to the more than $5 million spent by the leading Democrats and a handful of independent expenditure committees, making the race the most expensive legislative contest in California.[aside tag=\"election2020\" label=\"Election 2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glew is currently trailed by entrepreneur Josh Becker, former state Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, Redwood City Vice Mayor Shelly Masur, Millbrae Councilwoman Annie Oliva, and Burlingame Councilman Mike Brownrigg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a race with a number of current and former elected officials, it was Becker who came out on top with the most impressive slate of endorsements, notching support from Hill, Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing emerged as a leading issue in the crowded primary. Masur voiced the most support of any candidate for Senate Bill 50, the controversial (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeated\u003c/a>) state bill to reform local zoning laws by requiring more dense construction near transit and job hubs. Oliva put the issue of homelessness front and center in her candidacy, motivated by the fact that her son was previously homeless. Brownrigg, a former U.S. diplomat, touted his record of bringing housing to underused parcels in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>South Bay Millions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Further south, state Senate District 15 voters in San Jose, Campbell and Cupertino were also confronted with a crowded field of candidates who spent more than $2 million ahead of the primary, and benefited from more than $2.2 million in super PAC spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Cortese, former Federal Elections Commissions chair Ann Ravel held a slight lead Wednesday over former state Assemblywoman Nora Campos, a fellow Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese and Campos split support along familiar lines in recent legislative primaries, with Cortese garnering support from organized labor and Campos receiving outside super PAC help from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel bemoaned the influence of outside spending in the race. Her strategy centered on driving turnout in the western side of the district — home to more suburban, affluent communities like San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood and towns including Campbell and Los Gatos. In early returns, she showed that it paid off, winning or finishing second to Cortese in nearly all of the district's western precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of the Bay Area's state senators and assemblymembers are Democrats. On paper, San Jose city councilman Johnny Khamis' campaign represented the best chance to break that stronghold in 2020. He ran as an independent candidate after breaking from the Republican party in 2018 over the GOP's rightward tilt on immigration nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his strategy of appealing directly to independent voters (in a Senate district with the second-highest percentage of independents in the state) seems to have fallen flat. Khamis currently sits in fifth, behind unfunded Republican Robert P. Howell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10542570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10542570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, takes the oath of office from Gov. Jerry Brown on May 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-400x283.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-1180x835.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-960x680.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513.jpeg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, takes the oath of office from Gov. Jerry Brown on May 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Lorie Shelley/California Senate Photograph)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Challenging the East Bay Incumbent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most serious challenge to an incumbent in the Bay Area was in the 7th state Senate District, in Contra Costa and Alameda counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, moderate Democrat Glazer cruised to the general election, winning nearly half the vote against progressive activist Marisol Rubio and Republican Julie Mobley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer has raised the ire of organized labor since his first campaign for the seat, when he promised to oppose strikes by BART workers. At the state Democratic convention, party activists declined to endorse Glazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Bay Area's last remaining purple region, Rubio was unable to come within striking distance of the incumbent. On Wednesday morning, Rubio trailed the Republican Mobley, who ran a shoestring campaign, by nearly 10 points.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the Bay Area, crowded Democratic fields for state Senate seats resulted in promising results for Republicans. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1583347381,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":843},"headData":{"title":"Surprise Results, and Millions Spent, in State Legislative Primaries | KQED","description":"In the Bay Area, crowded Democratic fields for state Senate seats resulted in promising results for Republicans. 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Glew spent just over $1,000 on his campaign in the last filing period, according to pre-primary filings made with the Secretary of State in mid-February.\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>That's compared to the more than $5 million spent by the leading Democrats and a handful of independent expenditure committees, making the race the most expensive legislative contest in California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"election2020","label":"Election 2020 "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glew is currently trailed by entrepreneur Josh Becker, former state Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, Redwood City Vice Mayor Shelly Masur, Millbrae Councilwoman Annie Oliva, and Burlingame Councilman Mike Brownrigg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a race with a number of current and former elected officials, it was Becker who came out on top with the most impressive slate of endorsements, notching support from Hill, Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing emerged as a leading issue in the crowded primary. Masur voiced the most support of any candidate for Senate Bill 50, the controversial (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeated\u003c/a>) state bill to reform local zoning laws by requiring more dense construction near transit and job hubs. Oliva put the issue of homelessness front and center in her candidacy, motivated by the fact that her son was previously homeless. Brownrigg, a former U.S. diplomat, touted his record of bringing housing to underused parcels in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>South Bay Millions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Further south, state Senate District 15 voters in San Jose, Campbell and Cupertino were also confronted with a crowded field of candidates who spent more than $2 million ahead of the primary, and benefited from more than $2.2 million in super PAC spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Cortese, former Federal Elections Commissions chair Ann Ravel held a slight lead Wednesday over former state Assemblywoman Nora Campos, a fellow Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese and Campos split support along familiar lines in recent legislative primaries, with Cortese garnering support from organized labor and Campos receiving outside super PAC help from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel bemoaned the influence of outside spending in the race. Her strategy centered on driving turnout in the western side of the district — home to more suburban, affluent communities like San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood and towns including Campbell and Los Gatos. In early returns, she showed that it paid off, winning or finishing second to Cortese in nearly all of the district's western precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of the Bay Area's state senators and assemblymembers are Democrats. On paper, San Jose city councilman Johnny Khamis' campaign represented the best chance to break that stronghold in 2020. He ran as an independent candidate after breaking from the Republican party in 2018 over the GOP's rightward tilt on immigration nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his strategy of appealing directly to independent voters (in a Senate district with the second-highest percentage of independents in the state) seems to have fallen flat. Khamis currently sits in fifth, behind unfunded Republican Robert P. Howell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10542570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10542570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, takes the oath of office from Gov. Jerry Brown on May 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-400x283.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-1180x835.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-960x680.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513.jpeg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, takes the oath of office from Gov. Jerry Brown on May 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Lorie Shelley/California Senate Photograph)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Challenging the East Bay Incumbent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most serious challenge to an incumbent in the Bay Area was in the 7th state Senate District, in Contra Costa and Alameda counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, moderate Democrat Glazer cruised to the general election, winning nearly half the vote against progressive activist Marisol Rubio and Republican Julie Mobley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer has raised the ire of organized labor since his first campaign for the seat, when he promised to oppose strikes by BART workers. At the state Democratic convention, party activists declined to endorse Glazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Bay Area's last remaining purple region, Rubio was unable to come within striking distance of the incumbent. On Wednesday morning, Rubio trailed the Republican Mobley, who ran a shoestring campaign, by nearly 10 points.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11804022/surprise-results-and-millions-spent-in-state-legislative-primaries","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6412","news_27370","news_17810"],"featImg":"news_11804163","label":"source_news_11804022"},"news_11793779":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11793779","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11793779","score":null,"sort":[1578019867000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"steve-glazer-on-working-for-jerry-brown-and-the-challenges-of-reaching-across-the-aisle","title":"Steve Glazer on Working for Jerry Brown and the Challenges of Reaching Across the Aisle","publishDate":1578019867,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Steve Glazer on Working for Jerry Brown and the Challenges of Reaching Across the Aisle | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Scott and Guy Marzorati kick off the new year by discussing the making of KQED’s new series The Political Mind of Jerry Brown. Then, State Senator Steve Glazer joins to share his experiences working for the former governor; from volunteering for Brown in college, to running Brown’s campaign for governor in 2010. Glazer also talks about life as a moderate in the state legislature and politics in his Bay Area swing district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700875991,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":78},"headData":{"title":"Steve Glazer on Working for Jerry Brown and the Challenges of Reaching Across the Aisle | KQED","description":"Scott and Guy Marzorati kick off the new year by discussing the making of KQED's new series The Political Mind of Jerry Brown. 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Then, State Senator Steve Glazer joins to share his experiences working for the former governor; from volunteering for Brown in college, to running Brown’s campaign for governor in 2010. Glazer also talks about life as a moderate in the state legislature and politics in his Bay Area swing district.\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>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11793779/steve-glazer-on-working-for-jerry-brown-and-the-challenges-of-reaching-across-the-aisle","authors":["255","227"],"programs":["news_33544"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_22235","news_17810"],"featImg":"news_11793784","label":"source_news_11793779"},"news_11714160":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11714160","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11714160","score":null,"sort":[1545355165000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fppc-asks-for-criminal-investigation-into-bart-spending-during-2016-bond-campaign","title":"FPPC Asks for Criminal Investigation Into BART Spending During Bond Campaign","publishDate":1545355165,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:35 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's political watchdog agency took the unusual step Thursday of asking prosecutors to investigate whether BART violated state laws that prohibit spending taxpayer funds on political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as it approved a $7,500 fine against BART for \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5662950/3-BART-Stip.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaign disclosure violations\u003c/a> connected to the campaign for a $3.5 billion bond measure in 2016, the Fair Political Practices Commission voted to ask the state attorney general and the district attorneys in three Bay Area counties to launch criminal inquiries into whether the transit agency broke laws beyond the commission's jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine penalized BART for improperly spending about $7,800 in support of Measure RR. The measure -- on the ballot in its three core counties of Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco -- proposed raising property taxes to support an agency effort to improve its tracks, tunnels, computer systems and other infrastructure. It passed with an overall 70 percent yes vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the fine drew complaints -- most notably from state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, a longtime BART critic -- that the penalty was little more than a slap on the wrist. Glazer urged the FPPC to scrap the proposed fine, which its staff had negotiated with the transit agency, and impose the maximum fine of about $33,000. Glazer had also called for state and local prosecutors to look into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FPPC Chair Alice Germond said at Thursday's commission meeting in Sacramento that on one level the FPPC's process had worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to acknowledge that ... BART did admit that they made a mistake, that they erred,\" Germond said. \"That is the ultimate goal here, I think -- somebody did something wrong, and they have admitted it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5662950/3-BART-Stip.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stipulated agreement\u003c/a> with BART, FPPC staff said the $7,500 fine was sufficient given the penalties levied in comparable cases and because of a several other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although the commission considers BART’s violations to be serious, the absence of any evidence of an intention to conceal, deceive, or mislead; the voluntary filing of the delinquent campaign statement; and the absence of a prior record are mitigating,\" the agreement said. \"BART contends that it did not intend on engaging in campaign activities in support of Measure RR.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Germond said the penalty failed to address deeper concerns about misuse of public funds for campaign purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I would like to do is talk about how serious it really is to use public funds to advocate for a campaign for any issue,\" she said. \"It is the concept of misusing public funds that I think we all here are very disturbed about, and we want to send a warning and not create a precedent that it's a minor little slap on the wrist kind of issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-member commission approved her motion to send a letter to the state attorney general and the district attorneys in the BART counties \"to urge further prosecution in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County district attorney's spokesperson Teresa Drenick said in an email Friday \"we are aware of the matter and are reviewing it.\" The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office said it hadn't yet received any specific referral or request from the FPPC. The offices of the San Francisco district attorney and state attorney general did not immediately reply to requests for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, BART said it had not heard from prosecutors' offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been and will continue to be committed to following the law,\" the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Political watchdog agency says it wants to 'send a warning' about misuse of public funds. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1545422936,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":595},"headData":{"title":"FPPC Asks for Criminal Investigation Into BART Spending During Bond Campaign | KQED","description":"Political watchdog agency says it wants to 'send a warning' about misuse of public funds. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"FPPC Asks for Criminal Investigation Into BART Spending During Bond Campaign","datePublished":"2018-12-21T01:19:25.000Z","dateModified":"2018-12-21T20:08:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11714160 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11714160","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/20/fppc-asks-for-criminal-investigation-into-bart-spending-during-2016-bond-campaign/","disqusTitle":"FPPC Asks for Criminal Investigation Into BART Spending During Bond Campaign","path":"/news/11714160/fppc-asks-for-criminal-investigation-into-bart-spending-during-2016-bond-campaign","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:35 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's political watchdog agency took the unusual step Thursday of asking prosecutors to investigate whether BART violated state laws that prohibit spending taxpayer funds on political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as it approved a $7,500 fine against BART for \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5662950/3-BART-Stip.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaign disclosure violations\u003c/a> connected to the campaign for a $3.5 billion bond measure in 2016, the Fair Political Practices Commission voted to ask the state attorney general and the district attorneys in three Bay Area counties to launch criminal inquiries into whether the transit agency broke laws beyond the commission's jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine penalized BART for improperly spending about $7,800 in support of Measure RR. The measure -- on the ballot in its three core counties of Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco -- proposed raising property taxes to support an agency effort to improve its tracks, tunnels, computer systems and other infrastructure. It passed with an overall 70 percent yes vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the fine drew complaints -- most notably from state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, a longtime BART critic -- that the penalty was little more than a slap on the wrist. Glazer urged the FPPC to scrap the proposed fine, which its staff had negotiated with the transit agency, and impose the maximum fine of about $33,000. Glazer had also called for state and local prosecutors to look into the case.\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>FPPC Chair Alice Germond said at Thursday's commission meeting in Sacramento that on one level the FPPC's process had worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to acknowledge that ... BART did admit that they made a mistake, that they erred,\" Germond said. \"That is the ultimate goal here, I think -- somebody did something wrong, and they have admitted it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5662950/3-BART-Stip.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stipulated agreement\u003c/a> with BART, FPPC staff said the $7,500 fine was sufficient given the penalties levied in comparable cases and because of a several other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although the commission considers BART’s violations to be serious, the absence of any evidence of an intention to conceal, deceive, or mislead; the voluntary filing of the delinquent campaign statement; and the absence of a prior record are mitigating,\" the agreement said. \"BART contends that it did not intend on engaging in campaign activities in support of Measure RR.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Germond said the penalty failed to address deeper concerns about misuse of public funds for campaign purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I would like to do is talk about how serious it really is to use public funds to advocate for a campaign for any issue,\" she said. \"It is the concept of misusing public funds that I think we all here are very disturbed about, and we want to send a warning and not create a precedent that it's a minor little slap on the wrist kind of issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-member commission approved her motion to send a letter to the state attorney general and the district attorneys in the BART counties \"to urge further prosecution in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County district attorney's spokesperson Teresa Drenick said in an email Friday \"we are aware of the matter and are reviewing it.\" The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office said it hadn't yet received any specific referral or request from the FPPC. The offices of the San Francisco district attorney and state attorney general did not immediately reply to requests for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, BART said it had not heard from prosecutors' offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been and will continue to be committed to following the law,\" the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11714160/fppc-asks-for-criminal-investigation-into-bart-spending-during-2016-bond-campaign","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_4985","news_17810"],"featImg":"news_11714183","label":"news_72"},"news_11060910":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11060910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11060910","score":null,"sort":[1472480736000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure","title":"East Bay Lawmaker's Opposition Sparks Fight Over BART Bond Measure","publishDate":1472480736,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In this corner: state Sen. Steve Glazer. He says he'll vote no on BART's $3.5 billion bond measure in November and likens the agency's leadership to misbehaving children who shouldn't be trusted with the public's money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in this corner: Tom Radulovich, longtime BART board president. He calls Glazer's opposition \"petty\" and says it threatens to undermine service on an aging transit system that's suffered through a siege of breakdowns, overcrowding and passenger frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer, the former mayor of Orinda, was elected to the state Senate last year largely on a campaign promise to try ban BART strikes. He said in an interview last week he's basing his \"no\" vote on what he calls \"a collection of errors and poor leadership\" at the agency \"over the last many years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those missteps, he said, included \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/15/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-continue/\" target=\"_blank\">the two strikes\u003c/a> that crippled the system in 2013, the pay increases that followed the strikes, the failure to train replacement workers to run the system in the event of a new labor action, a more recent controversy over \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/18/bart-still-hasnt-installed-surveillance-cameras/\" target=\"_blank\">dummy security cameras\u003c/a> on BART trains, and what he called \"a lack of planning for the deterioration of the system that's now reached a crisis point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point you can't reward bad behavior, and you gotta do as a parent does with an unruly child -- you gotta just sometimes say no, and you gotta go back and do it right and rebuild the trust that has so deteriorated,\" Glazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/BART-bond-measure-november-3-point-5-billion/\" target=\"_blank\">the bond is necessary\u003c/a> for critical infrastructure needs, including extensive electrical, track and structural upgrades throughout the system. The bond would also pay for a new central computer control system that would allow trains to run closer together and relieve crowding on a system that saw a 22.5 percent daily ridership increase between June 2011 and June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bond, Measure RR, will be on the ballot in San Francisco, Contra Costa and Alameda counties. To pass, the proposal needs a two-thirds yes vote -- 66.66 percent of the total vote in the three-county district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich, the BART president, said Glazer's opposition will only serve to undermine a system the state senator professes to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He is not getting back at the board or the workers by not supporting the bond,\" Radulovich said. \"He's merely making sure BART can't meet its obligations in terms of the service the Bay Area needs. So it's petty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich also flatly rejected a criticism voiced by Glazer and others -- notably East Bay Times columnist Daniel Borenstein -- that the bond will \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/daniel-borenstein/ci_30235851/borenstein-bart-could-use-bonds-labor-costs?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">make it possible\u003c/a> for BART to shift other funds in its budget from long-term projects to worker salaries and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds at issue involve operating revenue from fares and other sources that BART sets aside to help pay for upcoming capital expenses, such as acquiring new train cars and expanding its Hayward maintenance facility. BART officials have said the agency will spend $1.8 billion from operating revenue over the next decade for its capital needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glazer and Borenstein note that BART's commitment on $1.2 billion of that operating revenue is not binding and that the money could be spent on worker salaries and benefits, which they complain are already too high. Glazer says the agency should have agreed to place a portion of its future operating revenue in \"a lockbox\" to ensure it's spent as BART is promising now -- a notion Radulovich dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't put it in a lockbox the way he would like us to or imagines he can,\" Radulovich said. \"He should know this -- the state can't do this either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich also said BART has a strong history of using its operating revenue to support the system's long-term needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as funds going from capital to operating, actually the story, as long as I've been on the BART board, nearly 20 years, has been the other way around,\" Radulovich said. \"We take operating money and put it in capital. We're doing $140 million this year. We have sustained that transfer from operating to capital for every year I've been on the board, through the worst recession in BART history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said BART riders fed up with chronic rush-hour overcrowding and train breakdowns should elect a new BART board to restore public confidence in the system. Only then should they consider revenue measures, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First, they should participate in the election and throw their BART directors out,\" Glazer said. \"Most of them have been around, with one exception, and have been part of the problem that has built up over these many years. So they [riders] should engage, and their voting opportunity is the place to engage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich said the choice for voters in the BART counties is whether they're willing to invest in the system at a time that state and federal support for transit is shrinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done the best we can to make do with the resources that are there, but they're simply not adequate,\" Radulovich said. \"The people of the Bay Area put a lot of their own money in to build the BART system 50 years ago, and it's served us incredibly well. And we're asking the Bay Area to do that again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State Sen. Steve Glazer compares BART leaders to 'unruly children.' Board president says bond defeat will stress an overtaxed system.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474411052,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":905},"headData":{"title":"East Bay Lawmaker's Opposition Sparks Fight Over BART Bond Measure | KQED","description":"State Sen. Steve Glazer compares BART leaders to 'unruly children.' Board president says bond defeat will stress an overtaxed system.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"East Bay Lawmaker's Opposition Sparks Fight Over BART Bond Measure","datePublished":"2016-08-29T14:25:36.000Z","dateModified":"2016-09-20T22:37:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11060910 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11060910","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure/","disqusTitle":"East Bay Lawmaker's Opposition Sparks Fight Over BART Bond Measure","customPermalink":"2016/08/26/steve-glazer-bart-bond-measure/","nprStoryId":"491812060","path":"/news/11060910/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In this corner: state Sen. Steve Glazer. He says he'll vote no on BART's $3.5 billion bond measure in November and likens the agency's leadership to misbehaving children who shouldn't be trusted with the public's money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in this corner: Tom Radulovich, longtime BART board president. He calls Glazer's opposition \"petty\" and says it threatens to undermine service on an aging transit system that's suffered through a siege of breakdowns, overcrowding and passenger frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer, the former mayor of Orinda, was elected to the state Senate last year largely on a campaign promise to try ban BART strikes. He said in an interview last week he's basing his \"no\" vote on what he calls \"a collection of errors and poor leadership\" at the agency \"over the last many years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those missteps, he said, included \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/15/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-continue/\" target=\"_blank\">the two strikes\u003c/a> that crippled the system in 2013, the pay increases that followed the strikes, the failure to train replacement workers to run the system in the event of a new labor action, a more recent controversy over \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/18/bart-still-hasnt-installed-surveillance-cameras/\" target=\"_blank\">dummy security cameras\u003c/a> on BART trains, and what he called \"a lack of planning for the deterioration of the system that's now reached a crisis point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point you can't reward bad behavior, and you gotta do as a parent does with an unruly child -- you gotta just sometimes say no, and you gotta go back and do it right and rebuild the trust that has so deteriorated,\" Glazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/BART-bond-measure-november-3-point-5-billion/\" target=\"_blank\">the bond is necessary\u003c/a> for critical infrastructure needs, including extensive electrical, track and structural upgrades throughout the system. The bond would also pay for a new central computer control system that would allow trains to run closer together and relieve crowding on a system that saw a 22.5 percent daily ridership increase between June 2011 and June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bond, Measure RR, will be on the ballot in San Francisco, Contra Costa and Alameda counties. To pass, the proposal needs a two-thirds yes vote -- 66.66 percent of the total vote in the three-county district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich, the BART president, said Glazer's opposition will only serve to undermine a system the state senator professes to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He is not getting back at the board or the workers by not supporting the bond,\" Radulovich said. \"He's merely making sure BART can't meet its obligations in terms of the service the Bay Area needs. So it's petty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich also flatly rejected a criticism voiced by Glazer and others -- notably East Bay Times columnist Daniel Borenstein -- that the bond will \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/daniel-borenstein/ci_30235851/borenstein-bart-could-use-bonds-labor-costs?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">make it possible\u003c/a> for BART to shift other funds in its budget from long-term projects to worker salaries and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds at issue involve operating revenue from fares and other sources that BART sets aside to help pay for upcoming capital expenses, such as acquiring new train cars and expanding its Hayward maintenance facility. BART officials have said the agency will spend $1.8 billion from operating revenue over the next decade for its capital needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glazer and Borenstein note that BART's commitment on $1.2 billion of that operating revenue is not binding and that the money could be spent on worker salaries and benefits, which they complain are already too high. Glazer says the agency should have agreed to place a portion of its future operating revenue in \"a lockbox\" to ensure it's spent as BART is promising now -- a notion Radulovich dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't put it in a lockbox the way he would like us to or imagines he can,\" Radulovich said. \"He should know this -- the state can't do this either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich also said BART has a strong history of using its operating revenue to support the system's long-term needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as funds going from capital to operating, actually the story, as long as I've been on the BART board, nearly 20 years, has been the other way around,\" Radulovich said. \"We take operating money and put it in capital. We're doing $140 million this year. We have sustained that transfer from operating to capital for every year I've been on the board, through the worst recession in BART history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer said BART riders fed up with chronic rush-hour overcrowding and train breakdowns should elect a new BART board to restore public confidence in the system. Only then should they consider revenue measures, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First, they should participate in the election and throw their BART directors out,\" Glazer said. \"Most of them have been around, with one exception, and have been part of the problem that has built up over these many years. So they [riders] should engage, and their voting opportunity is the place to engage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radulovich said the choice for voters in the BART counties is whether they're willing to invest in the system at a time that state and federal support for transit is shrinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done the best we can to make do with the resources that are there, but they're simply not adequate,\" Radulovich said. \"The people of the Bay Area put a lot of their own money in to build the BART system 50 years ago, and it's served us incredibly well. And we're asking the Bay Area to do that again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11060910/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_19542","news_17810"],"featImg":"news_10927388","label":"news_6944"},"news_10927353":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10927353","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10927353","score":null,"sort":[1460479920000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bart-critic-says-agency-needs-to-do-more-to-win-bond-support","title":"BART Critic Says Agency Needs to Do More to Win Bond Support","publishDate":1460479920,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An East Bay lawmaker who has been a leading critic of BART and its unions says a tentative contract is a good start toward restoring public confidence in the agency -- but he wants to see more before he drops his opposition to a BART bond measure expected to appear on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed labor deal announced by BART General Manager Grace Crunican and union leaders on Monday would give workers a 10.8 percent wage increase in a contract stretching from mid-2017 through mid-2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the agreement has a lot of positive elements to it,\" state Sen. 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Minutes later, the Orinda Democrat cast his first vote on a piece of legislation to applause from his fellow senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While legislators taking office in special elections have become fairly commonplace in California, Glazer's arrival in the Legislature is far from that. Labor unions and the state Democratic Party worked hard to defeat Glazer in his runoff against Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a14/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Bonilla\u003c/a> (D-Concord).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, some $9 million was spent on the special election by the campaigns and outside groups. 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