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Taken together, they represent a bold and controversial legislative vision: that retail theft can be reduced without changing California’s landmark criminal justice reform act, Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11980483,news_11979533,news_11975692\" label=\"Related Stories\"]That ballot measure, approved by voters in 2014, has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975753/critics-say-prop-47-has-fueled-a-spike-in-property-crime-the-data-do-not-show-that\">target of critics who say it’s led to a spike in property crime\u003c/a> from luxury mall outlets to neighborhood pharmacies, though state data does not fully support this claim. Proposition 47 downgraded charges for low-level drug possession and property theft from felonies to misdemeanors. As a result, the state has saved hundreds of millions of dollars in prison and jail costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">KQED analysis of the measure and retail theft found\u003c/a> that the arrest rate for shoplifting crimes has declined in the last decade. Many of the most high-profile and brazen robberies, meanwhile, are driven by organized crime rings and generally fall outside the purview of Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no turning back the clock on the criminal justice reforms that have been enacted,” Rivas said on Tuesday. “For us, it’s understanding the root causes of this problem, which is complex, and for us, each one of these bills gets after those layers of complexity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2943\">Assembly Bill 2943\u003c/a>, written by Rivas and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood), would allow police officers to make an arrest for shoplifting without directly witnessing the alleged crime. It would also make it easier for law enforcement to aggregate multiple thefts into a felony grand theft charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill says to organized crime rings, ‘We mean business, and we’re going to give law enforcement the tools they need to shut you down,’” Chavez Zbur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said the legislation was crafted with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who unveiled similar proposals earlier this year to curtail theft without touching Proposition 47, which would require approval from the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lawmakers may not have the last word on the fate of Proposition 7. Leaders of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982070/campaign-to-roll-back-prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-could-head-to-voters\">campaign to roll back parts of the measure are expressing confidence\u003c/a> that they will soon be able to submit the necessary signatures to put the issue on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, backed by large retailers and prosecutors, would create new felonies for repeated theft and toughen penalties for selling and possessing drugs. Supporters, which include the Democratic mayors of San Diego, San José and San Francisco, say the measure is needed to restore accountability and push drug users into treatment. Critics say its provisions will take the state back to over-criminalizing low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the proposed legislative bills are a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done to effectively hold individuals accountable and improve the safety of all Californians,” the campaign to repeal parts of Proposition 47 said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said Tuesday that he would be “monitoring the progress of that initiative,” which proponents could remove from the ballot even after qualifying if they could negotiate a favorable deal with the legislature before July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills unveiled Tuesday, however, further closed the door on the legislature proactively going to the voters to alter Proposition 47 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That result was far from a foregone conclusion just three months ago when the legislature began its session. Hearings held by a select committee on retail theft that Rivas had created focused extensively on the effects of the ballot measure. Multiple moderate Democrats wrote bills to reverse pieces of the act. And Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), the chair of the Assembly’s Public Safety committee, said all potential solutions to retail theft were on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after Newsom unveiled his proposals, Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire (D-North Coast) and Rivas soon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979533/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47\">followed suit and \u003c/a>opposed changing Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bills approved in the Public Safety committee on Tuesday included proposals to: expand the state’s existing retail theft law to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1972\">cover merchandise stolen from cargo\u003c/a>; allow a judge to place a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3209\">restraining order on someone guilty of theft\u003c/a> to prohibit them from returning to the retail establishment they robbed; and allow counties to enact a program allowing retailers to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1794\">bring details of an alleged shoplifting directly to prosecutors\u003c/a> without involving police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for criminal justice reforms voiced opposition to various provisions in the bill package — such as a bill to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1960\">provide a sentence enhancement of up to five years\u003c/a> when the property loss is more than $50,000 — but Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, a group opposing the Proposition 47 rollback, applauded the overall direction of the Assembly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than simply seeking to score quick and cheap political points, the package reflects a commitment to pursuing solutions that would reduce the incidents of theft in the first place while also underscoring the critical need for law enforcement to effectively solve crime when it occurs,” Hollins said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the most punitive measures targeting retail theft have largely been derailed. A bill pursuing tougher consequences for Californians convicted of shoplifting was gutted before the committee hearing. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1772\">AB 1772\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland) and supported by more than a half-dozen Democrats, initially asked the voters to add jail time for repeat thefts. It now seeks data collection on thefts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ramos’ office did not respond to questions about why the change was made.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas vowed “balanced and bipartisan” bills will curb shoplifting in the state. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712704310,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1097},"headData":{"title":"California Assembly Bills Seek to Curb Retail Theft, Maintain Proposition 47 | KQED","description":"Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas vowed “balanced and bipartisan” bills will curb shoplifting in the state. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Assembly Bills Seek to Curb Retail Theft, Maintain Proposition 47","datePublished":"2024-04-09T23:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-09T23:11:50.000Z","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"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982393/california-assembly-bills-seek-to-curb-retail-theft-maintain-proposition-47","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A handful of proposals to reduce retail theft in California cleared an initial hurdle at the state capitol on Tuesday, hours after Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled the legislation they touted as a sensible approach to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">curb shoplifting and commercial robberies in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Assembly is moving forward a comprehensive, balanced, and bipartisan legislative package that seeks to strengthen public safety, protect shoppers and business owners across California and assure that we deliver real, visible, quality of life improvements to Californians,” Rivas (D-Salinas) said at a press conference in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘For us it’s understanding the root causes of this problem, which is complex, and for us, each one of these bills gets after those layers of complexity.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills, which passed the Assembly Public Safety committee, include provisions to toughen penalties and make it easier for law enforcement to arrest and charge theft suspects. Taken together, they represent a bold and controversial legislative vision: that retail theft can be reduced without changing California’s landmark criminal justice reform act, Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11980483,news_11979533,news_11975692","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That ballot measure, approved by voters in 2014, has been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975753/critics-say-prop-47-has-fueled-a-spike-in-property-crime-the-data-do-not-show-that\">target of critics who say it’s led to a spike in property crime\u003c/a> from luxury mall outlets to neighborhood pharmacies, though state data does not fully support this claim. Proposition 47 downgraded charges for low-level drug possession and property theft from felonies to misdemeanors. As a result, the state has saved hundreds of millions of dollars in prison and jail costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">KQED analysis of the measure and retail theft found\u003c/a> that the arrest rate for shoplifting crimes has declined in the last decade. Many of the most high-profile and brazen robberies, meanwhile, are driven by organized crime rings and generally fall outside the purview of Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no turning back the clock on the criminal justice reforms that have been enacted,” Rivas said on Tuesday. “For us, it’s understanding the root causes of this problem, which is complex, and for us, each one of these bills gets after those layers of complexity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2943\">Assembly Bill 2943\u003c/a>, written by Rivas and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood), would allow police officers to make an arrest for shoplifting without directly witnessing the alleged crime. It would also make it easier for law enforcement to aggregate multiple thefts into a felony grand theft charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill says to organized crime rings, ‘We mean business, and we’re going to give law enforcement the tools they need to shut you down,’” Chavez Zbur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said the legislation was crafted with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who unveiled similar proposals earlier this year to curtail theft without touching Proposition 47, which would require approval from the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lawmakers may not have the last word on the fate of Proposition 7. Leaders of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982070/campaign-to-roll-back-prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-could-head-to-voters\">campaign to roll back parts of the measure are expressing confidence\u003c/a> that they will soon be able to submit the necessary signatures to put the issue on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, backed by large retailers and prosecutors, would create new felonies for repeated theft and toughen penalties for selling and possessing drugs. Supporters, which include the Democratic mayors of San Diego, San José and San Francisco, say the measure is needed to restore accountability and push drug users into treatment. Critics say its provisions will take the state back to over-criminalizing low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the proposed legislative bills are a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done to effectively hold individuals accountable and improve the safety of all Californians,” the campaign to repeal parts of Proposition 47 said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said Tuesday that he would be “monitoring the progress of that initiative,” which proponents could remove from the ballot even after qualifying if they could negotiate a favorable deal with the legislature before July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills unveiled Tuesday, however, further closed the door on the legislature proactively going to the voters to alter Proposition 47 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That result was far from a foregone conclusion just three months ago when the legislature began its session. Hearings held by a select committee on retail theft that Rivas had created focused extensively on the effects of the ballot measure. Multiple moderate Democrats wrote bills to reverse pieces of the act. And Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), the chair of the Assembly’s Public Safety committee, said all potential solutions to retail theft were on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after Newsom unveiled his proposals, Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire (D-North Coast) and Rivas soon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979533/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47\">followed suit and \u003c/a>opposed changing Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bills approved in the Public Safety committee on Tuesday included proposals to: expand the state’s existing retail theft law to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1972\">cover merchandise stolen from cargo\u003c/a>; allow a judge to place a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3209\">restraining order on someone guilty of theft\u003c/a> to prohibit them from returning to the retail establishment they robbed; and allow counties to enact a program allowing retailers to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1794\">bring details of an alleged shoplifting directly to prosecutors\u003c/a> without involving police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for criminal justice reforms voiced opposition to various provisions in the bill package — such as a bill to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1960\">provide a sentence enhancement of up to five years\u003c/a> when the property loss is more than $50,000 — but Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, a group opposing the Proposition 47 rollback, applauded the overall direction of the Assembly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than simply seeking to score quick and cheap political points, the package reflects a commitment to pursuing solutions that would reduce the incidents of theft in the first place while also underscoring the critical need for law enforcement to effectively solve crime when it occurs,” Hollins said in a statement.\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>Meanwhile, the most punitive measures targeting retail theft have largely been derailed. A bill pursuing tougher consequences for Californians convicted of shoplifting was gutted before the committee hearing. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1772\">AB 1772\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland) and supported by more than a half-dozen Democrats, initially asked the voters to add jail time for repeat thefts. It now seeks data collection on thefts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ramos’ office did not respond to questions about why the change was made.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982393/california-assembly-bills-seek-to-curb-retail-theft-maintain-proposition-47","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_27626","news_33814","news_30045"],"featImg":"news_11982425","label":"news"},"news_11979725":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979725","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979725","score":null,"sort":[1710622840000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-lawmakers-want-to-make-the-happiness-of-californians-more-central-to-policymaking","title":"State Lawmakers Want to Make the Happiness of Californians More Central to Policymaking","publishDate":1710622840,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State Lawmakers Want to Make the Happiness of Californians More Central to Policymaking | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California Assemblymember Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend, he took her ice skating and to an indoor playground, then let her get a donut after she agreed to ride her scooter on the way there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the types of things that make me happy,” he said this week in an interview outside the state Assembly chambers, where he’s served as a lawmaker for a dozen years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Rendon, a Democrat who was one of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-assembly-speaker-anthony-rendon-robert-rivas-a4b4fc12e431b2107f692d2a225c4708\">longest-serving Assembly speakers\u003c/a> in California history, is spending his last year in office trying to make happiness more central to policymaking. He created a first-in-the-nation group to study the issue, called the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes, which held its first public hearing this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Anthony Rendon (D-Los Angeles)\"]‘[I]f we have everybody clothed, everybody housed, everybody has a job and they’re miserable, then we’ve failed at what we’re trying to do.’[/pullquote]It would be “silly” for lawmakers to not study how they can make people happier, Rendon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if we have everybody clothed, everybody housed, everybody has a job and they’re miserable, then we’ve failed at what we’re trying to do,” he said, adding that lawmakers should think about happiness as a priority in policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, three-quarters of adults say they are “very happy” or “pretty happy,” while 26% say they are “not too happy,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2023/\">September 2023 survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California. Adults age 18 to 34, people who are renters, those without a post-high school degree, and Californians with an annual household income of $40,000 or lower tend to be less happy than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is breaking new ground in the United States. At least 12 state legislatures in the nation have committees focused on mental health and substance abuse issues, but no other state legislature has a committee devoted to happiness, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea to consider happiness in public policy isn’t unprecedented: The landlocked country of Bhutan in South Asia \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/travel-and-tourism-c488b061ba6d463b8af3beb363e7c750\">prioritizes happiness as a goal of public policy\u003c/a>, measuring it through something written into its constitution called the Gross National Happiness Index. The country surveys residents on their level of happiness, and officials work to increase happiness by providing residents with free health care and education, protecting cultural traditions, and preserving forests, said Phuntsho Norbu, consul general of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government cannot make every person happy, but it should “create the right conditions that will allow people to pursue happiness,” Norbu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-San Fernando Valley)\"]‘It’s a true crisis that we have on our hands right now. This is really getting to the heart of what that crisis is about.’[/pullquote]Lawmakers on California’s new committee heard this week from experts about the things that make people happy, what public officials can do to help and what role state and local government can play. The committee isn’t set on any solutions yet but plans to release a report with its findings after lawmakers adjourn for the year at the end of August, said Katie Talbot, Rendon’s spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, a Democrat representing part of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, hopes the committee’s work can address poor mental health among youth in California, which her 11-year-old daughter has told her is a big issue in her class at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true crisis that we have on our hands right now,” Schiavo said. “This is really getting to the heart of what that crisis is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research demonstrates that leisure activities, social relationships and life circumstances contribute to a person’s happiness, said Meliksah Demir, a professor of happiness at California State University, Sacramento. Public officials can work toward improving happiness by investing in mental health resources, making green spaces more accessible and teaching about the value of happiness early on in schools, Demir said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979729\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue suit holds his young daughter in his arms as he passes lawmakers on his way to a lectern.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Anthony Rendon walks with his daughter Vienna before being sworn in as Speaker of the Assembly during the opening session of the California Legislature in Sacramento, Dec. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Happiness has wide-ranging benefits that include making people more likely to vote, more creative and healthier, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Policy Institute of California’s September survey found that 33% of adults overall say they are very satisfied with their job, 31% say they are very satisfied with their leisure activities and 44% are very satisfied with their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians’ level of happiness decreased during the pandemic, but experts are still researching the decline, said Mark Baldassare, the group’s survey director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, which is often ahead of other states on issues such as climate policy and civil rights, is behind many parts of the world in prioritizing happiness in policymaking, Rendon said. He was inspired to create the happiness committee in part by a report on happiness released annually by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s report said that how people view the effectiveness of government — including how well it raises money, delivers services and avoids civil war — can influence their happiness. The United States was 15th in a world happiness ranking based on a three-year average from 2020 to 2022, according to the report. Scandinavian countries, including Finland and Iceland, ranked the highest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kristina Bas Hamilton, labor lobbyist\"]‘Government’s role is to provide for its people. The goal is to have happy citizens. That’s the goal of all public policy.’[/pullquote]Rendon’s decision to create the happiness committee aligns with his approach to making state policy that focuses on “bigger picture” social issues, longtime labor lobbyist Kristina Bas Hamilton said. People have different perspectives on government involvement in their lives, but the creation of the committee evokes the ultimate purpose of government, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government’s role is to provide for its people,” Bas Hamilton said. “The goal is to have happy citizens. That’s the goal of all public policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reportforamerica.org/\">Report for America\u003c/a> is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Austin on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: @sophieadanna\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Assembly member and former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is trying to get the state Legislature to rethink policymaking by creating a committee to study how to make people happier.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710615927,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1182},"headData":{"title":"State Lawmakers Want to Make the Happiness of Californians More Central to Policymaking | KQED","description":"Assembly member and former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is trying to get the state Legislature to rethink policymaking by creating a committee to study how to make people happier.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"State Lawmakers Want to Make the Happiness of Californians More Central to Policymaking","datePublished":"2024-03-16T21:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-16T19:05:27.000Z","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"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Sophie Austin\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979725/state-lawmakers-want-to-make-the-happiness-of-californians-more-central-to-policymaking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California Assemblymember Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend, he took her ice skating and to an indoor playground, then let her get a donut after she agreed to ride her scooter on the way there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the types of things that make me happy,” he said this week in an interview outside the state Assembly chambers, where he’s served as a lawmaker for a dozen years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Rendon, a Democrat who was one of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-assembly-speaker-anthony-rendon-robert-rivas-a4b4fc12e431b2107f692d2a225c4708\">longest-serving Assembly speakers\u003c/a> in California history, is spending his last year in office trying to make happiness more central to policymaking. He created a first-in-the-nation group to study the issue, called the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes, which held its first public hearing this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘[I]f we have everybody clothed, everybody housed, everybody has a job and they’re miserable, then we’ve failed at what we’re trying to do.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Assemblymember Anthony Rendon (D-Los Angeles)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It would be “silly” for lawmakers to not study how they can make people happier, Rendon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if we have everybody clothed, everybody housed, everybody has a job and they’re miserable, then we’ve failed at what we’re trying to do,” he said, adding that lawmakers should think about happiness as a priority in policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, three-quarters of adults say they are “very happy” or “pretty happy,” while 26% say they are “not too happy,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2023/\">September 2023 survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California. Adults age 18 to 34, people who are renters, those without a post-high school degree, and Californians with an annual household income of $40,000 or lower tend to be less happy than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is breaking new ground in the United States. At least 12 state legislatures in the nation have committees focused on mental health and substance abuse issues, but no other state legislature has a committee devoted to happiness, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea to consider happiness in public policy isn’t unprecedented: The landlocked country of Bhutan in South Asia \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/travel-and-tourism-c488b061ba6d463b8af3beb363e7c750\">prioritizes happiness as a goal of public policy\u003c/a>, measuring it through something written into its constitution called the Gross National Happiness Index. The country surveys residents on their level of happiness, and officials work to increase happiness by providing residents with free health care and education, protecting cultural traditions, and preserving forests, said Phuntsho Norbu, consul general of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government cannot make every person happy, but it should “create the right conditions that will allow people to pursue happiness,” Norbu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s a true crisis that we have on our hands right now. This is really getting to the heart of what that crisis is about.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-San Fernando Valley)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lawmakers on California’s new committee heard this week from experts about the things that make people happy, what public officials can do to help and what role state and local government can play. The committee isn’t set on any solutions yet but plans to release a report with its findings after lawmakers adjourn for the year at the end of August, said Katie Talbot, Rendon’s spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, a Democrat representing part of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, hopes the committee’s work can address poor mental health among youth in California, which her 11-year-old daughter has told her is a big issue in her class at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true crisis that we have on our hands right now,” Schiavo said. “This is really getting to the heart of what that crisis is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research demonstrates that leisure activities, social relationships and life circumstances contribute to a person’s happiness, said Meliksah Demir, a professor of happiness at California State University, Sacramento. Public officials can work toward improving happiness by investing in mental health resources, making green spaces more accessible and teaching about the value of happiness early on in schools, Demir said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979729\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue suit holds his young daughter in his arms as he passes lawmakers on his way to a lectern.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24074751413411-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Anthony Rendon walks with his daughter Vienna before being sworn in as Speaker of the Assembly during the opening session of the California Legislature in Sacramento, Dec. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Happiness has wide-ranging benefits that include making people more likely to vote, more creative and healthier, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Policy Institute of California’s September survey found that 33% of adults overall say they are very satisfied with their job, 31% say they are very satisfied with their leisure activities and 44% are very satisfied with their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians’ level of happiness decreased during the pandemic, but experts are still researching the decline, said Mark Baldassare, the group’s survey director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, which is often ahead of other states on issues such as climate policy and civil rights, is behind many parts of the world in prioritizing happiness in policymaking, Rendon said. He was inspired to create the happiness committee in part by a report on happiness released annually by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s report said that how people view the effectiveness of government — including how well it raises money, delivers services and avoids civil war — can influence their happiness. The United States was 15th in a world happiness ranking based on a three-year average from 2020 to 2022, according to the report. Scandinavian countries, including Finland and Iceland, ranked the highest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Government’s role is to provide for its people. The goal is to have happy citizens. That’s the goal of all public policy.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Kristina Bas Hamilton, labor lobbyist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rendon’s decision to create the happiness committee aligns with his approach to making state policy that focuses on “bigger picture” social issues, longtime labor lobbyist Kristina Bas Hamilton said. People have different perspectives on government involvement in their lives, but the creation of the committee evokes the ultimate purpose of government, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government’s role is to provide for its people,” Bas Hamilton said. “The goal is to have happy citizens. That’s the goal of all public policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reportforamerica.org/\">Report for America\u003c/a> is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Austin on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: @sophieadanna\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/11979725/state-lawmakers-want-to-make-the-happiness-of-californians-more-central-to-policymaking","authors":["byline_news_11979725"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19113","news_18538","news_5542","news_1852"],"featImg":"news_11979728","label":"news"},"news_11976382":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976382","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976382","score":null,"sort":[1708516814000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-assembly-race-offers-referendum-on-state-housing-reforms","title":"Palo Alto's Lydia Kou Channels Anti-Sacramento Anger in Challenge to Assemblymember Marc Berman","publishDate":1708516814,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Palo Alto’s Lydia Kou Channels Anti-Sacramento Anger in Challenge to Assemblymember Marc Berman | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent Sunday evening, about a hundred people packed into a community center in Palo Alto for an event titled “Town Hall to Save Our Neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What were the neighborhoods being saved from? The answers were displayed along the walls: enlarged renderings of tall apartment buildings proposed in suburban neighborhoods and along California’s coast — a rogue gallery of potential developments critics call the monstrous byproducts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970993/these-new-california-housing-laws-are-going-into-effect-in-2024\">state laws encouraging the construction of dense housing\u003c/a> over the objections of some local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lydia Kou, Palo Alto City Council member\"]‘Through the years that I have been a council member, I find it harder and harder to represent my constituents, mostly because of the state laws and state mandates that come forward that have really almost eliminated or usurped our local land use and zoning laws.’[/pullquote]“It’s dangerous for us to not have local input,” said Maria Bautista, who came to the event from nearby Los Altos. “It is the case that most residents choose to live where they live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Kou, a Palo Alto City Council member, organized the town hall. For years, Kou has been one of the Bay Area’s most outspoken elected officials in opposition to state housing reforms to ease construction. Now, she is running for state Assembly, challenging incumbent Marc Berman, a fellow Democrat, on the March 5 primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kou is vowing to “shake up” the state capitol, where she said Democrats are “taking away local democracy” by limiting the ability of local governments to block developments. Berman, who has backed the Legislature’s pro-housing direction since taking office in 2016, is not softening his stances in the face of Kou’s attacks. That dynamic has turned the race into something of a referendum on state zoning reforms — a temperature check on housing for voters in the 23rd District, which includes Palo Alto, Mountain View and West San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976461\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 335px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11976461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of development on a wall in display\" width=\"335\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposed housing developments on display at the ‘Save Our Neighborhoods’ town hall in Palo Alto, on January 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re only weeks away now from knowing a great deal about what’s going on in our community,” said Liz Kniss, a former Santa Clara County supervisor and Palo Alto mayor, who supports Berman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two competing political currents underlie the Berman-Kou contest. Since 2017, the state legislature has passed dozens of laws aimed at boosting the supply of housing in California, in part by limiting the ability of local governments to block development. At the same time, Kniss said, an anti-housing coalition has grown in Palo Alto, home to the largest block of voters in the 23rd District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inflection point came in 2013, when Berman (then a council member), Kniss and the rest of the Palo Alto City Council voted to rezone a parcel on Maybell Avenue to allow for a 60-unit apartment building for low-income seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of residents, including Kou, opposed the senior housing — calling it a giveaway to developers that was too large for the neighborhood. They gathered signatures to put the development plan up for a vote on the ballot, where it was defeated in November 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a shock to all of us; none of us knew that there was an underground that was really objecting to housing,” Kniss said. “I remember the night that Maybell was defeated, and we were all just like, this couldn’t be in Palo Alto. And since then, we’ve stayed on that new track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Berman was elected to the state Assembly. In that same election, Kou won a seat on the Palo Alto city council, joining a wing of the council dedicated to limiting development that quickly chafed at the housing reforms gaining momentum in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through the years that I have been a council member, I find it harder and harder to represent my constituents, mostly because of the state laws and state mandates that come forward that have really almost eliminated or usurped our local land use and zoning laws,” Kou said. “More and more [resident’s] voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Hong Kong, Kou moved to Sudan as a child, where her mother raised her while running what Kou describes as the first Chinese restaurant in the country. In Palo Alto, Kou has worked as a realtor — and embraced the role of needling housing supporters, like with a 2017 tweet that read, “There’s plenty of housing, you just need a superb Realtor, like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here because I’m looking for the American dream, and I work very hard, but as time went on, I started to realize people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t say that, you know, it’s not politically correct,” Kou said. “And then as time went on a little bit further, you’re trying to be so politically correct all the time with everything you’re saying, you’re not saying anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kou is approaching her current quest for Assembly, a rare challenge by a local lawmaker against a state legislator of the same party with similar brashness and novel ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how cities like Palo Alto and Mountain View can resist new housing after welcoming thriving tech companies and their workers for years, Kou turned the question on its head: Why can’t the state dampen demand by requiring remote work or encouraging companies to take their jobs elsewhere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Diversify, make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters other places versus just all gathered here,” Kou said. “Why is it only focused on Mountain View and Palo Alto?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Berman is just as unapologetic about his support for laws that limit the ability of local governments to block new housing. With few signs that thriving tech, health care and university workforces will abandon the region, Berman said the housing-jobs imbalance in cities like Palo Alto has left many workers in the area with limited housing options or crushing commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a great job in Silicon Valley of creating jobs. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs,” Berman said. “That pressure has been pushed down on the folks that can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Berman has voted for bills to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11617088/housing-bills-clear-toughest-hurdle-at-state-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streamline housing approvals\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885573/california-finally-passed-housing-laws-could-they-help-address-the-states-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize duplexes\u003c/a>, along with other legislation to stop local governments from blocking new housing or limiting ADUs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to find ways to provide our local municipalities with as much support as possible; we want to provide them with as many carrots as possible,” he added. “But for decades, there has been no stick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Melendrez, a national chapter manager with YIMBY Action and local Democratic activist, said he has watched Berman take a pro-housing message into small gatherings across an Assembly district that includes some of the most exclusive zip codes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Places where we sometimes think that maybe, given the audience, it wouldn’t be a very palpable thing,” Melendrez said. “But he’s using his platform to also educate his constituents on why this is important to them and their family members and their neighbors as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melendrez said it’s much too soon for the state to consider any pivot away from encouraging housing development, given the decades-deep hole in supply. However, some residents of the district feel that they’ve given up the ability to shape their neighborhoods without the promised impact on housing supply and affordability in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a supporter of housing. I like more housing built,” said Badri Sridharan, a Saratoga resident who attended Kou’s town hall. “But when I see 150 laws being passed and nothing happening, I’m suspicious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/california-housing-laws/\">published last year by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley analyzed the dozens of housing laws passed in Sacramento over the last seven years and concluded, “It is too early to know whether the full set of new state laws is having a meaningful impact on spurring increased homebuilding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"left\" citation=\"Marc Berman, incumbent state Assembly member\"]‘We’ve done a great job in Silicon Valley of creating jobs. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs.’[/pullquote]Berman said his conversations with residents lead him to believe that there’s support in the district for the state legislature to continue on a pro-housing path — even if that direction leads to a district that looks different in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amala Raj, a high school student from Menlo Park, will vote for the first time this year and supports Berman. She said the need for more affordable housing “outweighs the loss of the quiet and exclusive communities that we have going on right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This district is such an amazing place with so much culture and so much great food and so much wonderful stuff going on,” Raj said. “And so it sucks housing policies and just the way that we have built is pushing people out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Berman should have no problem amplifying his message in the closing days of the race: his campaign has spent $325,873 compared to just $68,751 by Kou — and a super PAC funded by groups representing doctors, dentists and landlords has shelled out $174,950 to send pro-Berman mailers across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the presence of two Republicans on the primary ballot, Midcoast Community Council chair Gus Mattammal and attorney Allan K. Marson, makes it possible that the district’s small GOP vote will fracture, allowing both Berman and Kou to advance to the general election — potentially extending the housing debate to the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years after the surprise defeat of the Maybell housing development, Kniss, the former mayor and supervisor, can no longer take for granted that her neighbors are on board with a pro-housing agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we right or wrong?” she wondered. “Have we been whistling up the wrong tree, and we didn’t read our community correctly?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Incumbent Marc Berman faces a challenge from a fellow Democrat — Palo Alto Councilmember Lydia Kou in the 23rd district. 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The answers were displayed along the walls: enlarged renderings of tall apartment buildings proposed in suburban neighborhoods and along California’s coast — a rogue gallery of potential developments critics call the monstrous byproducts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970993/these-new-california-housing-laws-are-going-into-effect-in-2024\">state laws encouraging the construction of dense housing\u003c/a> over the objections of some local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Through the years that I have been a council member, I find it harder and harder to represent my constituents, mostly because of the state laws and state mandates that come forward that have really almost eliminated or usurped our local land use and zoning laws.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lydia Kou, Palo Alto City Council member","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s dangerous for us to not have local input,” said Maria Bautista, who came to the event from nearby Los Altos. “It is the case that most residents choose to live where they live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Kou, a Palo Alto City Council member, organized the town hall. For years, Kou has been one of the Bay Area’s most outspoken elected officials in opposition to state housing reforms to ease construction. Now, she is running for state Assembly, challenging incumbent Marc Berman, a fellow Democrat, on the March 5 primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kou is vowing to “shake up” the state capitol, where she said Democrats are “taking away local democracy” by limiting the ability of local governments to block developments. Berman, who has backed the Legislature’s pro-housing direction since taking office in 2016, is not softening his stances in the face of Kou’s attacks. That dynamic has turned the race into something of a referendum on state zoning reforms — a temperature check on housing for voters in the 23rd District, which includes Palo Alto, Mountain View and West San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976461\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 335px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11976461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of development on a wall in display\" width=\"335\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_5566-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposed housing developments on display at the ‘Save Our Neighborhoods’ town hall in Palo Alto, on January 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re only weeks away now from knowing a great deal about what’s going on in our community,” said Liz Kniss, a former Santa Clara County supervisor and Palo Alto mayor, who supports Berman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two competing political currents underlie the Berman-Kou contest. Since 2017, the state legislature has passed dozens of laws aimed at boosting the supply of housing in California, in part by limiting the ability of local governments to block development. At the same time, Kniss said, an anti-housing coalition has grown in Palo Alto, home to the largest block of voters in the 23rd District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inflection point came in 2013, when Berman (then a council member), Kniss and the rest of the Palo Alto City Council voted to rezone a parcel on Maybell Avenue to allow for a 60-unit apartment building for low-income seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of residents, including Kou, opposed the senior housing — calling it a giveaway to developers that was too large for the neighborhood. They gathered signatures to put the development plan up for a vote on the ballot, where it was defeated in November 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a shock to all of us; none of us knew that there was an underground that was really objecting to housing,” Kniss said. “I remember the night that Maybell was defeated, and we were all just like, this couldn’t be in Palo Alto. And since then, we’ve stayed on that new track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Berman was elected to the state Assembly. In that same election, Kou won a seat on the Palo Alto city council, joining a wing of the council dedicated to limiting development that quickly chafed at the housing reforms gaining momentum in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through the years that I have been a council member, I find it harder and harder to represent my constituents, mostly because of the state laws and state mandates that come forward that have really almost eliminated or usurped our local land use and zoning laws,” Kou said. “More and more [resident’s] voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Hong Kong, Kou moved to Sudan as a child, where her mother raised her while running what Kou describes as the first Chinese restaurant in the country. In Palo Alto, Kou has worked as a realtor — and embraced the role of needling housing supporters, like with a 2017 tweet that read, “There’s plenty of housing, you just need a superb Realtor, like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here because I’m looking for the American dream, and I work very hard, but as time went on, I started to realize people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t say that, you know, it’s not politically correct,” Kou said. “And then as time went on a little bit further, you’re trying to be so politically correct all the time with everything you’re saying, you’re not saying anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kou is approaching her current quest for Assembly, a rare challenge by a local lawmaker against a state legislator of the same party with similar brashness and novel ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how cities like Palo Alto and Mountain View can resist new housing after welcoming thriving tech companies and their workers for years, Kou turned the question on its head: Why can’t the state dampen demand by requiring remote work or encouraging companies to take their jobs elsewhere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Diversify, make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters other places versus just all gathered here,” Kou said. “Why is it only focused on Mountain View and Palo Alto?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Berman is just as unapologetic about his support for laws that limit the ability of local governments to block new housing. With few signs that thriving tech, health care and university workforces will abandon the region, Berman said the housing-jobs imbalance in cities like Palo Alto has left many workers in the area with limited housing options or crushing commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a great job in Silicon Valley of creating jobs. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs,” Berman said. “That pressure has been pushed down on the folks that can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Berman has voted for bills to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11617088/housing-bills-clear-toughest-hurdle-at-state-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streamline housing approvals\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885573/california-finally-passed-housing-laws-could-they-help-address-the-states-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize duplexes\u003c/a>, along with other legislation to stop local governments from blocking new housing or limiting ADUs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to find ways to provide our local municipalities with as much support as possible; we want to provide them with as many carrots as possible,” he added. “But for decades, there has been no stick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Melendrez, a national chapter manager with YIMBY Action and local Democratic activist, said he has watched Berman take a pro-housing message into small gatherings across an Assembly district that includes some of the most exclusive zip codes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Places where we sometimes think that maybe, given the audience, it wouldn’t be a very palpable thing,” Melendrez said. “But he’s using his platform to also educate his constituents on why this is important to them and their family members and their neighbors as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melendrez said it’s much too soon for the state to consider any pivot away from encouraging housing development, given the decades-deep hole in supply. However, some residents of the district feel that they’ve given up the ability to shape their neighborhoods without the promised impact on housing supply and affordability in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a supporter of housing. I like more housing built,” said Badri Sridharan, a Saratoga resident who attended Kou’s town hall. “But when I see 150 laws being passed and nothing happening, I’m suspicious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/california-housing-laws/\">published last year by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley analyzed the dozens of housing laws passed in Sacramento over the last seven years and concluded, “It is too early to know whether the full set of new state laws is having a meaningful impact on spurring increased homebuilding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’ve done a great job in Silicon Valley of creating jobs. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Marc Berman, incumbent state Assembly member","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berman said his conversations with residents lead him to believe that there’s support in the district for the state legislature to continue on a pro-housing path — even if that direction leads to a district that looks different in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amala Raj, a high school student from Menlo Park, will vote for the first time this year and supports Berman. She said the need for more affordable housing “outweighs the loss of the quiet and exclusive communities that we have going on right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This district is such an amazing place with so much culture and so much great food and so much wonderful stuff going on,” Raj said. “And so it sucks housing policies and just the way that we have built is pushing people out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"politics","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berman should have no problem amplifying his message in the closing days of the race: his campaign has spent $325,873 compared to just $68,751 by Kou — and a super PAC funded by groups representing doctors, dentists and landlords has shelled out $174,950 to send pro-Berman mailers across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the presence of two Republicans on the primary ballot, Midcoast Community Council chair Gus Mattammal and attorney Allan K. Marson, makes it possible that the district’s small GOP vote will fracture, allowing both Berman and Kou to advance to the general election — potentially extending the housing debate to the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years after the surprise defeat of the Maybell housing development, Kniss, the former mayor and supervisor, can no longer take for granted that her neighbors are on board with a pro-housing agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we right or wrong?” she wondered. “Have we been whistling up the wrong tree, and we didn’t read our community correctly?”\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>\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/11976382/california-assembly-race-offers-referendum-on-state-housing-reforms","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_31795","news_6266","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_27626","news_33836","news_28137"],"featImg":"news_11976443","label":"news"},"news_11929729":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11929729","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11929729","score":null,"sort":[1666400439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf","title":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf","publishDate":1666400439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On an already hot Saturday morning in east Bakersfield, state Assembly candidate Leticia Perez stands at the front of the electrical workers’ local union hall, working a crowd of fellow Democrats ready to knock on doors and talk to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the thrust of Perez’s message has bipartisan appeal. Bakersfield is not like the rest of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people outside this community think they know us. They don’t,” said Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, voters are being told what to do in millions of dollars in TV ads produced by high-powered consultants from Sacramento and Washington, D.C. They’re being interviewed by national reporters parachuting in to take the pulse of a pivotal area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hall is less than a mile from Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, the iconic country and western bar that for many symbolizes the Dust Bowl origins of Bakersfield. But looking at the assembled volunteers, Perez describes a region and political moment that seem far removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see my Indian brothers and sisters in the back, and I see my Black familia here today. I see a few Latinos … I got a lot of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/backroads/home-of-the-okies-and-merle-haggard/103-0f251d5f-698a-4ea1-8022-a83eca03a476\">Okie\u003c/a> brothers and sisters here, too, in the house!” she said, as the applause grew. “That’s right! Kern County is what we say it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s true is a question at the heart of three overlapping toss-up elections on November 8 that make this stretch of the southern Central Valley — nearly the size of Connecticut — among the most competitive pieces of political turf in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">congressional race\u003c/a> between Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao and Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/rudy-salas-1977/\">Assemblymember Rudy Salas\u003c/a>, now the second-most expensive House contest in the country and one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/analyzing-key-midterm-races-that-could-decide-control-of-the-house\">could help determine which party controls the next Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the contest between \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/melissa-hurtado-1988/\">state Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-senate/senate-races/#hot-district-16\">widely considered to be the most endangered Democratic incumbent\u003c/a> in the Legislature, and political\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>newcomer David Shepard, the Republican scion of a Tulare County farming family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929774\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg\" alt='A young Latina woman looks on with a poster behind her that says \"David Valadao for Congress\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer sits at the Republican National Committee office in Bakersfield during a training for door-to-door canvassing on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-assembly/assembly-races/#hot-district-35\">face-off for the local Assembly seat\u003c/a> between \u003ca href=\"https://www.leticiaperez.org/\">Perez\u003c/a> and fellow Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.drjasmeetbains.com/\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>, who have attracted the financial backing of the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1454778\">oil industry\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1447991&view=received\">state doctors lobby\u003c/a>, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of all three races will be determined by voters in east Bakersfield, historically the city’s poorer, Latino, less politically powerful side, as well as voters in the agricultural towns that dot the road north to Fresno: Shafter, Delano, McFarland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Kern County has California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/12/kern-county-homicide-rate-gangs/\">highest homicide rate\u003c/a>. It is often blanketed with \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/states/california/kern\">noxious air\u003c/a>. The share of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/california-incarceration-rates-rural/\">population behind bars\u003c/a> is among the highest in the state and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/california/2022/rankings/kern/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot\">public health numbers\u003c/a> are among the lowest. Choosing effective representatives in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of this sudden surge of outside attention on an area so often overshadowed and beset by so many problems is not lost on some residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It’s either Northern California or Southern California,” said Manpreet Kaur, a 29-year-old Democrat running for Bakersfield City Council. “This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats alike repeat the line that Kern County — the center of the state’s agricultural and oil industries — feeds and fuels California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And yet we’re treated like a stepchild,” said Republican consultant Cathy Abernathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a place that defies the expectations and political rules of thumb that govern elections across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area has sent Valadao to Congress six times despite \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">Democrats outnumbering Republicans by double digits\u003c/a>. While\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the electorate is overwhelmingly Latino, they’re not \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">necessarily like the liberal-leaning Latino voters\u003c/a> on the coast.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Manpreet Kaur, Democratic candidate for Bakersfield City Council\"]'I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It's either Northern California or Southern California. This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.'[/pullquote]There’s “the myth that there is going to be change because of the demographic numbers — that demographics is destiny. That’s not necessarily the case,” said Ivy Cargile, political science professor at California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And partisan labels don’t determine where a candidate stands on issues as much as they do elsewhere in the state. Valadao was one of just 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. Salas and Hurtado regularly irk the Democratic Party’s liberal base. The Central Valley is home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">highest number of conservative Democrats in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be an oxymoron in much of California, but at the union hall, Perez embraces the description. “We like to say we have a purple center. We’re merging and changing and evolving,” she said. “We’re a melting pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 'Publishers Clearing House guy'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Knocking on doors in a subdivision on the southern outskirts of Bakersfield last Saturday, Salas seems to enjoy the personal touch of campaigning — even if the going is a little slower than the average volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because voters who recognize him will invite him in for a beer, some barbeque or pan dulce, and he always accepts, he said. Earlier this month, however, he \u003ca href=\"https://gvwire.com/2022/10/12/with-eyes-of-nation-watching-salas-ducks-out-of-tv-debate-vs-valadao/\">reneged on an invitation to a televised debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, election messaging has taken on a rote consistency: Democrats accuse Republicans of wanting to end the right to an abortion. Republicans blame Democrats for persistent inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those arguments are familiar to Bakersfield voters, Salas says his congressional race is going to be won or lost on personal connections in this close-knit community — that, and who has delivered the most to the district while in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about putting food on the table. It’s about providing opportunities for their kids and for themselves,” he said. “I’m kind of like that Publishers Clearing House guy. I keep bringing taxpayers' money back into the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salas is exaggerating, but only a little. This month, he has delivered oversized checks to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq99NrR9Bu8\">hospital\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy6m1pKrGQ\">community college\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/salas-announces-500k-for-shepower-leadership-academy/article_cadc502e-44f6-11ed-96d7-d70379bbe2a0.html\">local nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently that’s a tried-and-true political tactic. The day before Salas went canvassing, Hurtado celebrated new funding she helped secure to repair the Friant-Kern Canal. On prominent display: a supersized check for $100 million with Hurtado’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salas and Hurtado aren’t the only ones showering the area in cash this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks under a fold-up tent that has \"Melissa Hurtado, Senator, 14th District\" written on it.' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Melissa Hurtado speaks at a press conference where she presented a $100 million check to repair the Friant-Kern Canal near Terra Bella on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At $14.5 million and counting, the 22nd District is the second largest money magnet for outside political spending of any House race in the country. Salas has raised $2.2 million, while Valadao has brought in $3.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao has survived most prior Democratic challenges (he lost the seat in 2018, but returned two years later) by relying on white conservatives turning out in higher numbers than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/\">Democratic-leaning Latinos\u003c/a> and by carving out a moderate reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s redistricting shaved off the conservative north end of the district, Valadao’s home turf, and added more of Kern County, which is more Latino and Democratic — and less familiar with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Salas wins, he would be the first Latino member of Congress in the Central Valley, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/opinion-es/article253547814.html\">six Valley counties\u003c/a> having a Latino majority. Nearly 60% of the congressional district’s voters are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao, through his spokesperson, declined to be interviewed for this story. But the national GOP establishment — at least those portions at peace with his impeachment vote — are riding to his rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, former Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/former-vp-mike-pence-in-fresno-for-valadao-campaign/\">Mike Pence showed up in Fresno\u003c/a> to make a pitch for Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the Republican National Committee opened a Hispanic Community Center in a south Bakersfield strip mall as part of a nationwide effort to capitalize on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/latino-voters-texas-15th/index.html\">Democratic weakness in Latino-majority districts in Texas and Florida\u003c/a> in the 2020 election. But it’s also an acknowledgement that Valadao won’t win unless he can appeal directly to the district’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A demographic and political shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a Friday evening, roughly two dozen elected officials and other community leaders gathered in McFarland, a town 25 miles north of Bakersfield, to talk about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/delano-drive-by-shooting-one-man-killed-two-victims-airlifted/12312949/\">two people were killed\u003c/a> in a drive-by shooting in nearby Delano. Rumors about an impending gang war rippled through the community. Parents kept their kids out of school, and the school district canceled a much-anticipated high school homecoming football game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was organized by Assembly candidate Bains, a family doctor backed by the California Medical Association. She says she opted to run against a well-established politician, even as she continues to see patients, to try to address crime and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What prescription can I write that’s going to clear the bad air quality that my community sees? What prescription can I write that’s going to increase access to quality water? What prescription can I write to address domestic abuse?” she said. “I can treat the patient in my clinic, but what can I do once they leave my clinic?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a campaign event, the meeting did highlight a few of Bains’ selling points. One is her appeal to bipartisanship. Perez has the support of the Kern County Democratic Party, whose chairperson is Perez’s campaign manager. Bains, independent of the party establishment, may be the more likely option for GOP-leaning voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Couch, a Kern County supervisor and registered Republican, is among them. “Hey, Jasmeet, have I formally endorsed you?” he asked Bains after the meeting. “I can be for or against you, whatever helps you the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest between Bains and Perez, however, is about more than competing Democratic factions. It also reflects an inflection point as the region’s political representation begins to catch up with the growing ethnic diversity of its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Perez became the first Latina ever elected to the Board of Supervisors in Kern County, which is 56% Latino. And if Bains is elected, she would be the first Sikh and the first South Asian woman to serve in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg\" alt=\"a white man sites to the right of an Indian woman with another woman sitting to the left as they sit behind a table and listen to a man speak.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Assembly candidate Jasmeet Bains hosts a roundtable with local leaders in the town of McFarland after an uptick in gang-related violence in the community on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changing leadership is also one of politics. Bakersfield, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/california-housing-bakersfield.html\">population grew faster than that of any of the state’s most populous cities in 2020\u003c/a>, underwent a historic redistricting this year — one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/final-public-hearing-regarding-ward-redistricting/\">created three new Latino-majority city council districts and united the city’s Sikh and Punjabi\u003c/a> populations in one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur, the city council candidate, was part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/punjabi-community-and-other-community-members-celebrate-new-approved-redistricting-map\">local redistricting effort\u003c/a> that she hopes will bolster her community’s electoral voice: “It’s so important to keep our community together, because we’ve literally been divided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she wins, she would be the first member of the city’s sizable Punjabi population to serve on the council, and she would give Democrats a majority on the body for the first time in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bakersfield’s Punjabi population is not the only one on the political ascent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Latino population has been growing since the early 1980s, when efforts to recruit low-wage labor launched an ongoing wave of immigration. In 2020, Latinos surpassed 50% of residents, making Bakersfield the fifth-largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/people-of-hispanic-origin-become-majority-in-kern-county-in-2020-census/article_d37012d2-fbb6-11eb-b08c-830148e50386.html\">majority-Latino city\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo Rodriguez, founder and executive director of Communities for a New California Education Fund, said he saw this shift firsthand coming of age in Bakersfield. “When I was growing up, there was never a Latino-majority anything … It changes the basic math. Now we finally have to be taken into account,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t an automatic boon for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignasio Castillo, a life-long southeast Bakersfield resident and student-body vice president at California State University, Bakersfield, says he sees a political tension in the city’s Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Latinos do have a conservative mindset a lot of the time,” he said, particularly on issues like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. But as part of a disproportionately lower-income community, many voters are also inclined to support “change for your communities — and a lot of that is progressive values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonifacio Gurrola, a 44-year-old Navy veteran and fuel-truck driver who lives on the far south end of the city, said he wants to see change, but not the progressive kind. He vowed to vote “anything Republican to get California back to normal. If not, we’ll probably be, like some people, moving out of state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurrola said his parents brought him to the country as a child illegally. But border security, along with inflation and crime, remain his top concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says there’s “contention” between Kern’s growing nonwhite populations and those who have historically controlled local politics, mostly Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have is a small group of people who do not want to let go of power, and they do not represent the whole of Kern County,” Perez said, referring to longtime Republican leaders including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and state Sen. Shannon Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the redistricting could turn the tide for the county’s Latino and Sikh communities seeking representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader sense that things are more fair now, that we have a fair shot and it just comes down to electing people,” said Bob Alvarez, former chief of staff to Dean Florez,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the first Latino to represent the Central Valley in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A blurring of red and blue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans also acknowledge the changing face of the region. And they see it as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that Republicans in general have done a good job reaching those voters,” said Shepard, the state Senate candidate, whose great-grandfather immigrated from Mexico. “That is going to change with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at Latinos as being taken advantage of by the Democratic Party,” he said at a fundraiser last week for Republican candidates. “(Democrats) pretend like they’re going to be there for you, but then they’re going to turn around and stab you in the back, and your kids are going to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opponent is Hurtado, a Fresno native and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/home/#cm-ld-landing__ideology\">the Senate’s most moderate Democrat\u003c/a> who earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/politics/your-local-elections/melissa-hurtado-pulls-out-of-17-news-debate-with-david-shepard\">backed out at the last minute from a scheduled debate\u003c/a> on KGET, the local NBC affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has occasionally irked her more liberal fellow party members for her votes on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/inside-california-capitol/2019/09/last-minute-switch-serves-california-oil-company-environmentalists-cry-foul/\">oil industry regulations\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article251039264.html\">public health\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/california-farm-bureau-rally-against-ab-616\">agricultural\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/17239-california-would-dissolve-state-water-board-under-new-bill\">water\u003c/a> policy. But there’s a sensible political logic behind Hurtado’s voting record. The oil industry alone \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2021/03/23/kern-county-oil-and-the-fight-to-keep-a-blue-collar-california/?sh=57a1acc6a3a8\">employs 1 in 7 jobs in Kern County\u003c/a>, and agriculture employs even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at the Padre Hotel, an eight-story landmark in downtown Bakersfield, she told CalMatters that though she wants to learn more about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/newsom-gas-rebate-special-session/\">proposal to tax the “windfall profits” of California oil companies\u003c/a>, she isn’t enthusiastic about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A tax is never good — not good — for Valley families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that position puts her out of step with most Democrats, so be it, she said. “Your party doesn’t really make a difference here,” she said. “You have Democrats that vote for Republicans if they believe in them, and you have Republicans who vote for Democrats if they believe in them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hurtado’s stance has cost her some traditional Democratic allies. She was not invited to the county party’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Saturday canvassing event, a snub she attributed in part to her endorsement of Bains over the party-backed Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for safe drinking water have turned against the incumbent for her call to dissolve the state’s Water Resources Control Board\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and replace it with a commission of experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may seem a little extreme, but it’s best to start somewhere and call it out then to have status quo, because status quo is not working for folks,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janaki Anagha at the Community Water Center, a statewide advocacy group, called the proposal “bananas,” and said her organization “vehemently” opposes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of our only ways to really ensure that there’s a future in any way for some of these communities that deal with water quality and quantity issues,” Anagha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado has also alienated many of the local unions that would otherwise be the natural allies of a Democrat. In September, the Building Trades Council of Kern, Inyo and Mono counties endorsed Shepard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon Savory, executive director of the Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings Central Labor Council, said he wasn’t surprised. Organized labor was instrumental in helping Hurtado beat an incumbent Republican in 2018, but he said Hurtado has not repaid the favor and “just became a symbol of how to walk away from your allies and not have labor’s back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Savory’s group has not taken an official position in this year’s race, he said: “I hope she loses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado shrugged off the disapproval; she has backing from some unions. She also has the support of fellow Senate Democrats, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CjyN8nev7l3/\">were in town\u003c/a> the same day as the local party canvass to help her. They and party groups have \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1414453&view=general\">contributed $1.9 million\u003c/a>. Independent political groups have spent another $1.4 million on her campaign, while Shepard has raised only roughly $900,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard said he welcomes the fight. “It’s an honor to challenge them,” he said. “I’m from the Central Valley, so I mean, we’ve got enough cowboy in us to where we don’t care who it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"East Bakersfield may be the most fiercely fought-over part of the state for the November 8 election, with key races for the US House and the state Legislature intersecting in the changing, mostly Latino area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1666400439,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":78,"wordCount":3271},"headData":{"title":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf | KQED","description":"East Bakersfield may be the most fiercely fought-over part of the state for the November 8 election, with key races for the US House and the state Legislature intersecting in the changing, mostly Latino area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf","datePublished":"2022-10-22T01:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2022-10-22T01:00:39.000Z","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":"11929729 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11929729","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/21/overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf/","disqusTitle":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ben-christopher/\">Ben Christopher\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ariel-gans/\">Ariel Gans\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11929729/overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On an already hot Saturday morning in east Bakersfield, state Assembly candidate Leticia Perez stands at the front of the electrical workers’ local union hall, working a crowd of fellow Democrats ready to knock on doors and talk to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the thrust of Perez’s message has bipartisan appeal. Bakersfield is not like the rest of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people outside this community think they know us. They don’t,” said Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, voters are being told what to do in millions of dollars in TV ads produced by high-powered consultants from Sacramento and Washington, D.C. They’re being interviewed by national reporters parachuting in to take the pulse of a pivotal area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hall is less than a mile from Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, the iconic country and western bar that for many symbolizes the Dust Bowl origins of Bakersfield. But looking at the assembled volunteers, Perez describes a region and political moment that seem far removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see my Indian brothers and sisters in the back, and I see my Black familia here today. I see a few Latinos … I got a lot of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/backroads/home-of-the-okies-and-merle-haggard/103-0f251d5f-698a-4ea1-8022-a83eca03a476\">Okie\u003c/a> brothers and sisters here, too, in the house!” she said, as the applause grew. “That’s right! Kern County is what we say it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s true is a question at the heart of three overlapping toss-up elections on November 8 that make this stretch of the southern Central Valley — nearly the size of Connecticut — among the most competitive pieces of political turf in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">congressional race\u003c/a> between Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao and Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/rudy-salas-1977/\">Assemblymember Rudy Salas\u003c/a>, now the second-most expensive House contest in the country and one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/analyzing-key-midterm-races-that-could-decide-control-of-the-house\">could help determine which party controls the next Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the contest between \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/melissa-hurtado-1988/\">state Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-senate/senate-races/#hot-district-16\">widely considered to be the most endangered Democratic incumbent\u003c/a> in the Legislature, and political\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>newcomer David Shepard, the Republican scion of a Tulare County farming family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929774\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg\" alt='A young Latina woman looks on with a poster behind her that says \"David Valadao for Congress\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer sits at the Republican National Committee office in Bakersfield during a training for door-to-door canvassing on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-assembly/assembly-races/#hot-district-35\">face-off for the local Assembly seat\u003c/a> between \u003ca href=\"https://www.leticiaperez.org/\">Perez\u003c/a> and fellow Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.drjasmeetbains.com/\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>, who have attracted the financial backing of the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1454778\">oil industry\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1447991&view=received\">state doctors lobby\u003c/a>, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of all three races will be determined by voters in east Bakersfield, historically the city’s poorer, Latino, less politically powerful side, as well as voters in the agricultural towns that dot the road north to Fresno: Shafter, Delano, McFarland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Kern County has California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/12/kern-county-homicide-rate-gangs/\">highest homicide rate\u003c/a>. It is often blanketed with \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/states/california/kern\">noxious air\u003c/a>. The share of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/california-incarceration-rates-rural/\">population behind bars\u003c/a> is among the highest in the state and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/california/2022/rankings/kern/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot\">public health numbers\u003c/a> are among the lowest. Choosing effective representatives in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of this sudden surge of outside attention on an area so often overshadowed and beset by so many problems is not lost on some residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It’s either Northern California or Southern California,” said Manpreet Kaur, a 29-year-old Democrat running for Bakersfield City Council. “This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats alike repeat the line that Kern County — the center of the state’s agricultural and oil industries — feeds and fuels California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And yet we’re treated like a stepchild,” said Republican consultant Cathy Abernathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a place that defies the expectations and political rules of thumb that govern elections across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area has sent Valadao to Congress six times despite \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">Democrats outnumbering Republicans by double digits\u003c/a>. While\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the electorate is overwhelmingly Latino, they’re not \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">necessarily like the liberal-leaning Latino voters\u003c/a> on the coast.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It's either Northern California or Southern California. This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Manpreet Kaur, Democratic candidate for Bakersfield City Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There’s “the myth that there is going to be change because of the demographic numbers — that demographics is destiny. That’s not necessarily the case,” said Ivy Cargile, political science professor at California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And partisan labels don’t determine where a candidate stands on issues as much as they do elsewhere in the state. Valadao was one of just 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. Salas and Hurtado regularly irk the Democratic Party’s liberal base. The Central Valley is home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">highest number of conservative Democrats in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be an oxymoron in much of California, but at the union hall, Perez embraces the description. “We like to say we have a purple center. We’re merging and changing and evolving,” she said. “We’re a melting pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 'Publishers Clearing House guy'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Knocking on doors in a subdivision on the southern outskirts of Bakersfield last Saturday, Salas seems to enjoy the personal touch of campaigning — even if the going is a little slower than the average volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because voters who recognize him will invite him in for a beer, some barbeque or pan dulce, and he always accepts, he said. Earlier this month, however, he \u003ca href=\"https://gvwire.com/2022/10/12/with-eyes-of-nation-watching-salas-ducks-out-of-tv-debate-vs-valadao/\">reneged on an invitation to a televised debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, election messaging has taken on a rote consistency: Democrats accuse Republicans of wanting to end the right to an abortion. Republicans blame Democrats for persistent inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those arguments are familiar to Bakersfield voters, Salas says his congressional race is going to be won or lost on personal connections in this close-knit community — that, and who has delivered the most to the district while in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about putting food on the table. It’s about providing opportunities for their kids and for themselves,” he said. “I’m kind of like that Publishers Clearing House guy. I keep bringing taxpayers' money back into the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salas is exaggerating, but only a little. This month, he has delivered oversized checks to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq99NrR9Bu8\">hospital\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy6m1pKrGQ\">community college\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/salas-announces-500k-for-shepower-leadership-academy/article_cadc502e-44f6-11ed-96d7-d70379bbe2a0.html\">local nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently that’s a tried-and-true political tactic. The day before Salas went canvassing, Hurtado celebrated new funding she helped secure to repair the Friant-Kern Canal. On prominent display: a supersized check for $100 million with Hurtado’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salas and Hurtado aren’t the only ones showering the area in cash this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks under a fold-up tent that has \"Melissa Hurtado, Senator, 14th District\" written on it.' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Melissa Hurtado speaks at a press conference where she presented a $100 million check to repair the Friant-Kern Canal near Terra Bella on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At $14.5 million and counting, the 22nd District is the second largest money magnet for outside political spending of any House race in the country. Salas has raised $2.2 million, while Valadao has brought in $3.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao has survived most prior Democratic challenges (he lost the seat in 2018, but returned two years later) by relying on white conservatives turning out in higher numbers than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/\">Democratic-leaning Latinos\u003c/a> and by carving out a moderate reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s redistricting shaved off the conservative north end of the district, Valadao’s home turf, and added more of Kern County, which is more Latino and Democratic — and less familiar with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Salas wins, he would be the first Latino member of Congress in the Central Valley, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/opinion-es/article253547814.html\">six Valley counties\u003c/a> having a Latino majority. Nearly 60% of the congressional district’s voters are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao, through his spokesperson, declined to be interviewed for this story. But the national GOP establishment — at least those portions at peace with his impeachment vote — are riding to his rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, former Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/former-vp-mike-pence-in-fresno-for-valadao-campaign/\">Mike Pence showed up in Fresno\u003c/a> to make a pitch for Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the Republican National Committee opened a Hispanic Community Center in a south Bakersfield strip mall as part of a nationwide effort to capitalize on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/latino-voters-texas-15th/index.html\">Democratic weakness in Latino-majority districts in Texas and Florida\u003c/a> in the 2020 election. But it’s also an acknowledgement that Valadao won’t win unless he can appeal directly to the district’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A demographic and political shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a Friday evening, roughly two dozen elected officials and other community leaders gathered in McFarland, a town 25 miles north of Bakersfield, to talk about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/delano-drive-by-shooting-one-man-killed-two-victims-airlifted/12312949/\">two people were killed\u003c/a> in a drive-by shooting in nearby Delano. Rumors about an impending gang war rippled through the community. Parents kept their kids out of school, and the school district canceled a much-anticipated high school homecoming football game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was organized by Assembly candidate Bains, a family doctor backed by the California Medical Association. She says she opted to run against a well-established politician, even as she continues to see patients, to try to address crime and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What prescription can I write that’s going to clear the bad air quality that my community sees? What prescription can I write that’s going to increase access to quality water? What prescription can I write to address domestic abuse?” she said. “I can treat the patient in my clinic, but what can I do once they leave my clinic?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a campaign event, the meeting did highlight a few of Bains’ selling points. One is her appeal to bipartisanship. Perez has the support of the Kern County Democratic Party, whose chairperson is Perez’s campaign manager. Bains, independent of the party establishment, may be the more likely option for GOP-leaning voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Couch, a Kern County supervisor and registered Republican, is among them. “Hey, Jasmeet, have I formally endorsed you?” he asked Bains after the meeting. “I can be for or against you, whatever helps you the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest between Bains and Perez, however, is about more than competing Democratic factions. It also reflects an inflection point as the region’s political representation begins to catch up with the growing ethnic diversity of its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Perez became the first Latina ever elected to the Board of Supervisors in Kern County, which is 56% Latino. And if Bains is elected, she would be the first Sikh and the first South Asian woman to serve in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg\" alt=\"a white man sites to the right of an Indian woman with another woman sitting to the left as they sit behind a table and listen to a man speak.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Assembly candidate Jasmeet Bains hosts a roundtable with local leaders in the town of McFarland after an uptick in gang-related violence in the community on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changing leadership is also one of politics. Bakersfield, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/california-housing-bakersfield.html\">population grew faster than that of any of the state’s most populous cities in 2020\u003c/a>, underwent a historic redistricting this year — one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/final-public-hearing-regarding-ward-redistricting/\">created three new Latino-majority city council districts and united the city’s Sikh and Punjabi\u003c/a> populations in one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur, the city council candidate, was part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/punjabi-community-and-other-community-members-celebrate-new-approved-redistricting-map\">local redistricting effort\u003c/a> that she hopes will bolster her community’s electoral voice: “It’s so important to keep our community together, because we’ve literally been divided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she wins, she would be the first member of the city’s sizable Punjabi population to serve on the council, and she would give Democrats a majority on the body for the first time in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bakersfield’s Punjabi population is not the only one on the political ascent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Latino population has been growing since the early 1980s, when efforts to recruit low-wage labor launched an ongoing wave of immigration. In 2020, Latinos surpassed 50% of residents, making Bakersfield the fifth-largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/people-of-hispanic-origin-become-majority-in-kern-county-in-2020-census/article_d37012d2-fbb6-11eb-b08c-830148e50386.html\">majority-Latino city\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo Rodriguez, founder and executive director of Communities for a New California Education Fund, said he saw this shift firsthand coming of age in Bakersfield. “When I was growing up, there was never a Latino-majority anything … It changes the basic math. Now we finally have to be taken into account,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t an automatic boon for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignasio Castillo, a life-long southeast Bakersfield resident and student-body vice president at California State University, Bakersfield, says he sees a political tension in the city’s Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Latinos do have a conservative mindset a lot of the time,” he said, particularly on issues like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. But as part of a disproportionately lower-income community, many voters are also inclined to support “change for your communities — and a lot of that is progressive values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonifacio Gurrola, a 44-year-old Navy veteran and fuel-truck driver who lives on the far south end of the city, said he wants to see change, but not the progressive kind. He vowed to vote “anything Republican to get California back to normal. If not, we’ll probably be, like some people, moving out of state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurrola said his parents brought him to the country as a child illegally. But border security, along with inflation and crime, remain his top concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says there’s “contention” between Kern’s growing nonwhite populations and those who have historically controlled local politics, mostly Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have is a small group of people who do not want to let go of power, and they do not represent the whole of Kern County,” Perez said, referring to longtime Republican leaders including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and state Sen. Shannon Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the redistricting could turn the tide for the county’s Latino and Sikh communities seeking representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader sense that things are more fair now, that we have a fair shot and it just comes down to electing people,” said Bob Alvarez, former chief of staff to Dean Florez,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the first Latino to represent the Central Valley in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A blurring of red and blue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans also acknowledge the changing face of the region. And they see it as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that Republicans in general have done a good job reaching those voters,” said Shepard, the state Senate candidate, whose great-grandfather immigrated from Mexico. “That is going to change with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at Latinos as being taken advantage of by the Democratic Party,” he said at a fundraiser last week for Republican candidates. “(Democrats) pretend like they’re going to be there for you, but then they’re going to turn around and stab you in the back, and your kids are going to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opponent is Hurtado, a Fresno native and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/home/#cm-ld-landing__ideology\">the Senate’s most moderate Democrat\u003c/a> who earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/politics/your-local-elections/melissa-hurtado-pulls-out-of-17-news-debate-with-david-shepard\">backed out at the last minute from a scheduled debate\u003c/a> on KGET, the local NBC affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has occasionally irked her more liberal fellow party members for her votes on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/inside-california-capitol/2019/09/last-minute-switch-serves-california-oil-company-environmentalists-cry-foul/\">oil industry regulations\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article251039264.html\">public health\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/california-farm-bureau-rally-against-ab-616\">agricultural\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/17239-california-would-dissolve-state-water-board-under-new-bill\">water\u003c/a> policy. But there’s a sensible political logic behind Hurtado’s voting record. The oil industry alone \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2021/03/23/kern-county-oil-and-the-fight-to-keep-a-blue-collar-california/?sh=57a1acc6a3a8\">employs 1 in 7 jobs in Kern County\u003c/a>, and agriculture employs even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at the Padre Hotel, an eight-story landmark in downtown Bakersfield, she told CalMatters that though she wants to learn more about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/newsom-gas-rebate-special-session/\">proposal to tax the “windfall profits” of California oil companies\u003c/a>, she isn’t enthusiastic about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A tax is never good — not good — for Valley families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that position puts her out of step with most Democrats, so be it, she said. “Your party doesn’t really make a difference here,” she said. “You have Democrats that vote for Republicans if they believe in them, and you have Republicans who vote for Democrats if they believe in them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hurtado’s stance has cost her some traditional Democratic allies. She was not invited to the county party’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Saturday canvassing event, a snub she attributed in part to her endorsement of Bains over the party-backed Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for safe drinking water have turned against the incumbent for her call to dissolve the state’s Water Resources Control Board\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and replace it with a commission of experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may seem a little extreme, but it’s best to start somewhere and call it out then to have status quo, because status quo is not working for folks,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janaki Anagha at the Community Water Center, a statewide advocacy group, called the proposal “bananas,” and said her organization “vehemently” opposes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of our only ways to really ensure that there’s a future in any way for some of these communities that deal with water quality and quantity issues,” Anagha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado has also alienated many of the local unions that would otherwise be the natural allies of a Democrat. In September, the Building Trades Council of Kern, Inyo and Mono counties endorsed Shepard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon Savory, executive director of the Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings Central Labor Council, said he wasn’t surprised. Organized labor was instrumental in helping Hurtado beat an incumbent Republican in 2018, but he said Hurtado has not repaid the favor and “just became a symbol of how to walk away from your allies and not have labor’s back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Savory’s group has not taken an official position in this year’s race, he said: “I hope she loses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado shrugged off the disapproval; she has backing from some unions. She also has the support of fellow Senate Democrats, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CjyN8nev7l3/\">were in town\u003c/a> the same day as the local party canvass to help her. They and party groups have \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1414453&view=general\">contributed $1.9 million\u003c/a>. Independent political groups have spent another $1.4 million on her campaign, while Shepard has raised only roughly $900,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard said he welcomes the fight. “It’s an honor to challenge them,” he said. “I’m from the Central Valley, so I mean, we’ve got enough cowboy in us to where we don’t care who it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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size-full wp-image-11903654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a bacon cheeseburger labeled, \"$1.99, ready in one minute,\" opposite a crowd of fast food workers labeled, \"$2 million and still waiting.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903450/state-assembly-backs-new-council-to-oversee-fast-food-industry\">passed a bill\u003c/a> on Monday that would establish a council to regulate the fast food industry, thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorewagetheft\">victims of wage theft continue to wait for the money they're owed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many different businesses stiff their workers, the fast food industry is notorious for not paying its employees for overtime and meal or rest breaks as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A restaurant group that owned several Burger King franchises in San Francisco is on the hook for around $2 million in wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which is tasked with distributing restitution to victims of wage theft, seems to be about as efficient as a snail towing a glacier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who can least afford to go without their wages are suffering thanks to greedy corporations and an overwhelmed state agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While 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src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a bacon cheeseburger labeled, \"$1.99, ready in one minute,\" opposite a crowd of fast food workers labeled, \"$2 million and still waiting.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903450/state-assembly-backs-new-council-to-oversee-fast-food-industry\">passed a bill\u003c/a> on Monday that would establish a council 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Schoolers","publishDate":1633738540,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California high school students will have to complete a semester of ethnic studies in order to graduate, starting with the class of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That new secondary school requirement, among the first in the nation, was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said the courses will enable students to learn their own stories as well as those of their classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A number of studies have shown that these courses boost student achievement over the long run — especially among students of color,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law requires all public high schools in the state to offer at least one ethnic studies course, starting in the 2025-26 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's signature marks a major victory for Assemblymember Jose Medina, D-Riverside, who co\u003cstrong>-\u003c/strong>authored the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, after his previous efforts were twice vetoed — \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">last year by Newsom\u003c/a>, who said more work was needed on the curriculum, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2018/10/02/gov-brown-rejects-ethnic-studies-bill-saying-high-school-students-are-overburdened/\">in 2018 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who was reluctant to create additional graduation requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina said the ethnic studies requirement is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long wait,” said Medina. “I think schools are ready now to make curriculum that is more equitable and more reflective of social justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina said America’s wider discussion of race and racism since the murder of George Floyd last year makes such a curriculum more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethnic studies movement has its roots in California, where students protested in the late 1960s at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley to demand courses in African American, Chicano, Asian American and Native American studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the state Board of Education approved a model ethnic studies curriculum that offers dozens of suggested lesson plans and instructional approaches. But to the concern of some advocates, the curriculum is not mandatory: Schools can pick and choose lesson plans or use it as a guide to design their own, as long as they don't promote, directly or indirectly, any bias or discrimination against any group of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ethnic-studies\"]The curriculum underwent several drafts over three years and was subject to heated debate before \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-discrimination-california-f0eb208ca8186466b9271cbc61fa5c2c\">winning approval in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial 2019 draft of the model curriculum drew widespread criticism from those who claimed it was left-wing, anti-Semitic and not inclusive enough. At the time, state Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond called for a major overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A model curriculum should be accurate, free of bias, appropriate for all learners in our diverse state, and align with Governor Newsom’s vision of a California for all,\" she said in a 2019 statement. \"The current draft model curriculum falls short and needs to be substantially redesigned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new version focuses on four historically marginalized groups that are central to college-level ethnic studies: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans. It also includes lesson plans on Jews, Arab Americans, Sikh Americans and Armenian Americans, groups who were largely left out of the previously drafted curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has championed the model curriculum as a way to help students of color see themselves reflected in what they learn, and also to learn about their own histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation adds the completion of an ethnic studies course to other standard graduation requirements, including three years of English and social studies, two years of math and science, among others. It gives a few years' lag time so schools can prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools can’t just flip the switch and be ready. This gives school districts plenty of time to get their curriculum in place and hire well-qualified teachers to teach these classes,” Medina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of California’s largest districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870309/as-high-school-ethnic-studies-bill-advances-some-bay-area-schools-are-ahead-of-the-curve\">already have begun offering ethnic studies courses\u003c/a>, with some making them a graduation requirement. Among the trailblazers is the Fresno Unified School District, which this year began requiring its students to complete a 10-credit, two-semester ethnic studies course. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Unified plans to fully implement ethnic studies as a graduation requirement by 2023-24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where high schools have offered ethnic studies as an elective since 2015, students will be required to take two semesters of ethnic studies courses to graduate, starting in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethnic studies also was made a requirement this year for the state's community college students seeking an associate's degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other states have taken different approaches. Oregon is developing ethnic studies standards for its social studies curriculum and, beginning this year, requires the subject in K-12 curriculum. Last year, Connecticut approved a law requiring all high schools to offer courses in Black and Latino studies by the fall of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several GOP-led states have taken the opposite tack, banning the teaching of so-called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-critical-race-theory-08f5d0a0489c7d6eab7d9a238365d2c1\">critical race theory\u003c/a> in K-12 schools or limiting how teachers can discuss racism and sexism in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say it is fitting that California has taken a lead in ethnic studies legislation, and that it's long overdue. More than three-quarters of California’s 6 million public school students are not white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when some states are retreating from an accurate discussion of our history, I am proud that California continues to lead in its teaching of ethnic studies,” Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former academic who created an ethnic studies program at San Diego State University in the 1970s, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Jocelyn Gecker of The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. 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Gavin Newsom, who said the courses will enable students to learn their own stories as well as those of their classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A number of studies have shown that these courses boost student achievement over the long run — especially among students of color,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law requires all public high schools in the state to offer at least one ethnic studies course, starting in the 2025-26 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's signature marks a major victory for Assemblymember Jose Medina, D-Riverside, who co\u003cstrong>-\u003c/strong>authored the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, after his previous efforts were twice vetoed — \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">last year by Newsom\u003c/a>, who said more work was needed on the curriculum, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2018/10/02/gov-brown-rejects-ethnic-studies-bill-saying-high-school-students-are-overburdened/\">in 2018 by then-Gov. 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But to the concern of some advocates, the curriculum is not mandatory: Schools can pick and choose lesson plans or use it as a guide to design their own, as long as they don't promote, directly or indirectly, any bias or discrimination against any group of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"ethnic-studies"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The curriculum underwent several drafts over three years and was subject to heated debate before \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-discrimination-california-f0eb208ca8186466b9271cbc61fa5c2c\">winning approval in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial 2019 draft of the model curriculum drew widespread criticism from those who claimed it was left-wing, anti-Semitic and not inclusive enough. At the time, state Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond called for a major overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A model curriculum should be accurate, free of bias, appropriate for all learners in our diverse state, and align with Governor Newsom’s vision of a California for all,\" she said in a 2019 statement. \"The current draft model curriculum falls short and needs to be substantially redesigned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new version focuses on four historically marginalized groups that are central to college-level ethnic studies: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans. 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This gives school districts plenty of time to get their curriculum in place and hire well-qualified teachers to teach these classes,” Medina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of California’s largest districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870309/as-high-school-ethnic-studies-bill-advances-some-bay-area-schools-are-ahead-of-the-curve\">already have begun offering ethnic studies courses\u003c/a>, with some making them a graduation requirement. Among the trailblazers is the Fresno Unified School District, which this year began requiring its students to complete a 10-credit, two-semester ethnic studies course. 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Last year, Connecticut approved a law requiring all high schools to offer courses in Black and Latino studies by the fall of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several GOP-led states have taken the opposite tack, banning the teaching of so-called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-critical-race-theory-08f5d0a0489c7d6eab7d9a238365d2c1\">critical race theory\u003c/a> in K-12 schools or limiting how teachers can discuss racism and sexism in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say it is fitting that California has taken a lead in ethnic studies legislation, and that it's long overdue. More than three-quarters of California’s 6 million public school students are not white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when some states are retreating from an accurate discussion of our history, I am proud that California continues to lead in its teaching of ethnic studies,” Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former academic who created an ethnic studies program at San Diego State University in the 1970s, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Jocelyn Gecker of The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11891396/new-california-law-will-require-ethnic-studies-class-for-high-schoolers","authors":["11200"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_20013","news_19203","news_27626","news_25015","news_4922","news_1852"],"featImg":"news_11873453","label":"news"},"news_11857197":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11857197","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11857197","score":null,"sort":[1611738125000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawmakers-vent-after-being-blindsided-by-newsom","title":"Lawmakers Vent After Being 'Blindsided' by Newsom","publishDate":1611738125,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There’s a natural push and pull between California's governor and the Legislature, no matter who’s in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tensions seem especially high since news leaked last weekend that Gov. Gavin Newsom was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856850/california-lifts-stay-at-home-orders-for-all-regions\">lifting the state's COVID-19 stay-at-home orders for all regions\u003c/a> on Monday, a move that seemed to catch many lawmakers off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s not unusual for legislators to privately have gripes about the governor, Newsom's announcement pushed some of those grievances out into the open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawmakers openly complained on Twitter about learning Newsom was relaxing COVID-19 restrictions via social media, rather from the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Evan_Low/status/1353791621108703232?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/laurafriedman43/status/1353773182054932480?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chad Mayes, I-Yucca Valley, said many of his colleagues are tired of feeling like they’ve been left out of the loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this very, very real frustration, not just among Republicans, but also among Democrats in the Legislature, that the administration has not done a good job of reaching out to them to be able to communicate with them on the decisions that are being made,\" Mayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about Newsom’s abrupt lifting of the stay-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have skewered Newsom’s Employment Development Department for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857101/unemployed-californians-pay-the-price-as-edd-struggles-to-sort-fraud-from-fair-claims\">mismanaging unemployment claims\u003c/a> during the pandemic. They’ve complained the governor was making decisions unilaterally while the Legislature was in recess because of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayes said lawmakers have a right to be informed and included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature is a coequal branch of government and the new administration has really sidelined the Legislature as related to the pandemic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Consultant Robin Swanson said Newsom risks losing support for key proposals, like the budget, if he doesn’t improve his relationship with lawmakers. Luckily for him, Swanson said Newsom recently hired a senior staffer, Jim DeBoo, who has a long history in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the governor's going to need to rely on those relationships and really strong communication with those members to move his agenda forward,\" Swanson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, DeBoo's arrival has not led to a quick turn around in the governor's office, which has long faced criticism for its lack of communication and go-it-alone style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Swanson acknowledged Newsom is facing some unprecedented challenges right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor is drinking water from a fire hose and has been for a couple of years now between a once-in-a-century pandemic, an economic collapse, record-setting wildfires, a collapsing utility and PG&E and so forth,\" Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Politics' tag='politics']Wiener said there are always times when communication could be better. But he said it’s healthy and normal for there to be tension between governors and lawmakers. And Wiener brushed off comparisons to Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Many-casualties-in-Newsom-Peskin-war-of-words-3294756.php\">poor relationship\u003c/a> with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Board of Supervisors went out of its way to poke then-Mayor Newsom in the eye to oppose anything that he was for,\" Wiener said. \"So it was a very different kind of dynamic. And I don't see that dynamic at all in the governor's relationship with the Legislature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in a press conference Monday about whether he left the Legislature out of the loop on his decision to lift the stay at home order, Newsom said sometimes he needs to act quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we delay that for a long, protracted, comprehensive outreach or do we just move forward?\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not lawmakers accept that explanation, or look for ways to reassert themselves, will become more clear in the coming weeks. And with a possible recall of the governor on a future ballot, Newsom will need all the friends he can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tensions seem especially high in Sacramento since news leaked that Gov. Gavin Newsom was lifting the state's COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, a move that seemed to catch many lawmakers off guard on Monday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1611791967,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":669},"headData":{"title":"Lawmakers Vent After Being 'Blindsided' by Newsom | KQED","description":"Tensions seem especially high in Sacramento since news leaked that Gov. 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Gavin Newsom was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856850/california-lifts-stay-at-home-orders-for-all-regions\">lifting the state's COVID-19 stay-at-home orders for all regions\u003c/a> on Monday, a move that seemed to catch many lawmakers off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s not unusual for legislators to privately have gripes about the governor, Newsom's announcement pushed some of those grievances out into the open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawmakers openly complained on Twitter about learning Newsom was relaxing COVID-19 restrictions via social media, rather from the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1353791621108703232"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1353773182054932480"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chad Mayes, I-Yucca Valley, said many of his colleagues are tired of feeling like they’ve been left out of the loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this very, very real frustration, not just among Republicans, but also among Democrats in the Legislature, that the administration has not done a good job of reaching out to them to be able to communicate with them on the decisions that are being made,\" Mayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about Newsom’s abrupt lifting of the stay-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have skewered Newsom’s Employment Development Department for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857101/unemployed-californians-pay-the-price-as-edd-struggles-to-sort-fraud-from-fair-claims\">mismanaging unemployment claims\u003c/a> during the pandemic. They’ve complained the governor was making decisions unilaterally while the Legislature was in recess because of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayes said lawmakers have a right to be informed and included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature is a coequal branch of government and the new administration has really sidelined the Legislature as related to the pandemic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Consultant Robin Swanson said Newsom risks losing support for key proposals, like the budget, if he doesn’t improve his relationship with lawmakers. Luckily for him, Swanson said Newsom recently hired a senior staffer, Jim DeBoo, who has a long history in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the governor's going to need to rely on those relationships and really strong communication with those members to move his agenda forward,\" Swanson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, DeBoo's arrival has not led to a quick turn around in the governor's office, which has long faced criticism for its lack of communication and go-it-alone style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Swanson acknowledged Newsom is facing some unprecedented challenges right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor is drinking water from a fire hose and has been for a couple of years now between a once-in-a-century pandemic, an economic collapse, record-setting wildfires, a collapsing utility and PG&E and so forth,\" Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Politics ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wiener said there are always times when communication could be better. But he said it’s healthy and normal for there to be tension between governors and lawmakers. And Wiener brushed off comparisons to Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Many-casualties-in-Newsom-Peskin-war-of-words-3294756.php\">poor relationship\u003c/a> with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Board of Supervisors went out of its way to poke then-Mayor Newsom in the eye to oppose anything that he was for,\" Wiener said. \"So it was a very different kind of dynamic. And I don't see that dynamic at all in the governor's relationship with the Legislature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in a press conference Monday about whether he left the Legislature out of the loop on his decision to lift the stay at home order, Newsom said sometimes he needs to act quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we delay that for a long, protracted, comprehensive outreach or do we just move forward?\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not lawmakers accept that explanation, or look for ways to reassert themselves, will become more clear in the coming weeks. And with a possible recall of the governor on a future ballot, Newsom will need all the friends he can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11857197/lawmakers-vent-after-being-blindsided-by-newsom","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_2704","news_20615","news_27504","news_28339","news_29089","news_16","news_27660","news_17968","news_24023"],"featImg":"news_11857257","label":"news_72"},"news_11836599":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11836599","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11836599","score":null,"sort":[1599241758000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"buffy-wickss-baby-highlights-challenges-for-political-women","title":"Buffy Wicks' Baby Highlights Challenges for Political Women","publishDate":1599241758,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Juggling a newborn is difficult. Juggling one while working is even harder. Juggling one who is hungry and crying while you're trying to speak about a critical piece of legislation is hard to fathom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's the situation Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, found herself in late Monday night as the California Legislature was wrapping up its session for the year. Wicks had requested the ability to vote by proxy, an option only made available because of recent COVID-19 outbreaks in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she thought her request would be granted. But it was ultimately denied by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon's office, which told Wicks maternity leave didn't qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with her colleagues counting on her vote to push several big bills over the finish line, Wicks had a choice to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do I just stay home with my 4-week-old and continue to nurse her every two or three hours, and be a mom and continue to stay on leave?\" she said this week on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836676/buffy-wicks-on-voting-with-her-newborn-a-prop-20-update-and-a-conversation-with-jamal-trulove\">KQED's Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. \"Or do I schlep to the Capitol? And if I do, do I bring her with me?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks decided she needed to be in the Capitol to cast her votes — and that, as a breastfeeding mom, she needed to bring her baby with her. They spent much of the day in Wick's office, but the assemblywoman drew worldwide attention when she stopped breastfeeding and raced down to the floor, newborn in her arms, to speak in support of a contentious housing bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/lbwOGfCVrlk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please, please, please pass this bill,\" she implored her colleagues. \"I'm going to go finish feeding my daughter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill ultimately failed, but Wicks' speech, complete with crying baby, went viral. It wasn't long before Rendon, the assembly speaker, issued an apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make a full apology to Assemblymember Wicks. My intention was never to be inconsiderate toward her, her role as a legislator, or her role as a mother,\" Rendon, D-Lakewood, said in a statement. \"I failed to make sure our process took into account the unique needs of our members. The Assembly needs to do better. I commit to doing better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sacramento State political science professor Kim Nalder said calling Wicks' experience unique shows Rendon does not fully grasp the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Giving birth) is not unique. It's one of the least unique things a person can do,\" Nalder said. \"He doesn't consciously realize that he's calling it unique, as if it is some outlier, when it's something that most women end up doing sometime in their lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Rendon's wife gave birth to their daughter just last year. Nalder said society should stop acting as if having women in the workplace is a radical thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear in the Legislature, (and) in most workplaces, the unconscious assumption is that most workers are going to be male. And not just men, but devoid of any responsibilities for caring for other people,\" she said. \"So it just didn't occur to them, apparently, to make an exception for someone who's recently given birth and has a newborn.\" [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to deny Wicks a proxy vote did not go unnoticed by the Legislative Women's Caucus either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This event was a difficult reminder of what women experience every day in all work environments — and the Legislature is clearly no exception,\" said state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, and Assemblymember Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, chair and vice chair respectively of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sacramento State political science professor Kim Nalder\"]'(Giving birth) is not unique. It's one of the least unique things a person can do. ... He doesn't consciously realize that he's calling it unique, as if it is some outlier, when it's something that most women end up doing sometime in their lifetime.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leyva and Limón point out, while Wicks was at work with her baby, the Legislature was also voting on expanding job-protected family leave. That bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1383\">Senate Bill 1383\u003c/a> , barely made it out of the Assembly. And they note Wicks was in a better position than many women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must continue our work to increase protections for working mothers and also acknowledge that some groups of women — particularly working class women of color who are most impacted by the existing wage gap — oftentimes face even more difficult barriers,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks said the Legislature needs to evolve as more younger women are elected to office. They need to determine, for instance, how a situation like hers should be be handled in the future. Several other lawmakers are pregnant or have babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Should part of maternity leave be remote participation so that I, as a legislator, can still vote for bills that my constituents care about while I take leave? Or do we not do that because we should respect that leave? Or do we make it an option for legislators?\" Wicks asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmaker or not, Wicks thinks her story went viral because it speaks to the struggle of so many working parents right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, the world is madness right now. And the stress parents are under is enormous,\" she said. \"So I think that's why that image of me speaking on the floor, struggling with my mask and her and the blanket, and she's crying and I'm talking and I'm tweeting and I'm running out saying I'm going to go finish breastfeeding my kid, I think, spoke to people, because everyone's experienced that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks said, coming out of her experience, she's hopeful there will be a lot of lessons learned on how to make lawmaking, and work in general, more flexible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A floor speech by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks goes viral and sparks a discussion about postpartum legislating. 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Juggling one while working is even harder. Juggling one who is hungry and crying while you're trying to speak about a critical piece of legislation is hard to fathom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's the situation Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, found herself in late Monday night as the California Legislature was wrapping up its session for the year. Wicks had requested the ability to vote by proxy, an option only made available because of recent COVID-19 outbreaks in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she thought her request would be granted. But it was ultimately denied by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon's office, which told Wicks maternity leave didn't qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with her colleagues counting on her vote to push several big bills over the finish line, Wicks had a choice to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do I just stay home with my 4-week-old and continue to nurse her every two or three hours, and be a mom and continue to stay on leave?\" she said this week on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836676/buffy-wicks-on-voting-with-her-newborn-a-prop-20-update-and-a-conversation-with-jamal-trulove\">KQED's Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. \"Or do I schlep to the Capitol? And if I do, do I bring her with me?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks decided she needed to be in the Capitol to cast her votes — and that, as a breastfeeding mom, she needed to bring her baby with her. They spent much of the day in Wick's office, but the assemblywoman drew worldwide attention when she stopped breastfeeding and raced down to the floor, newborn in her arms, to speak in support of a contentious housing bill.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lbwOGfCVrlk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lbwOGfCVrlk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"Please, please, please pass this bill,\" she implored her colleagues. \"I'm going to go finish feeding my daughter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill ultimately failed, but Wicks' speech, complete with crying baby, went viral. It wasn't long before Rendon, the assembly speaker, issued an apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make a full apology to Assemblymember Wicks. My intention was never to be inconsiderate toward her, her role as a legislator, or her role as a mother,\" Rendon, D-Lakewood, said in a statement. \"I failed to make sure our process took into account the unique needs of our members. The Assembly needs to do better. I commit to doing better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sacramento State political science professor Kim Nalder said calling Wicks' experience unique shows Rendon does not fully grasp the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Giving birth) is not unique. It's one of the least unique things a person can do,\" Nalder said. \"He doesn't consciously realize that he's calling it unique, as if it is some outlier, when it's something that most women end up doing sometime in their lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Rendon's wife gave birth to their daughter just last year. Nalder said society should stop acting as if having women in the workplace is a radical thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear in the Legislature, (and) in most workplaces, the unconscious assumption is that most workers are going to be male. And not just men, but devoid of any responsibilities for caring for other people,\" she said. \"So it just didn't occur to them, apparently, to make an exception for someone who's recently given birth and has a newborn.\" \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 decision to deny Wicks a proxy vote did not go unnoticed by the Legislative Women's Caucus either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This event was a difficult reminder of what women experience every day in all work environments — and the Legislature is clearly no exception,\" said state Sen. 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That bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1383\">Senate Bill 1383\u003c/a> , barely made it out of the Assembly. And they note Wicks was in a better position than many women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must continue our work to increase protections for working mothers and also acknowledge that some groups of women — particularly working class women of color who are most impacted by the existing wage gap — oftentimes face even more difficult barriers,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks said the Legislature needs to evolve as more younger women are elected to office. They need to determine, for instance, how a situation like hers should be be handled in the future. Several other lawmakers are pregnant or have babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Should part of maternity leave be remote participation so that I, as a legislator, can still vote for bills that my constituents care about while I take leave? 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Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2020-21MR/#/BudgetSummary\">proposed budget\u003c/a> got a lukewarm response from state Assembly members Tuesday during a rare committee of the whole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly has not convened in that way for 25 years. The process allows all members to comment on the governor's budget proposal before they must vote on a final bill. The Legislature is working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817853/despite-54-billion-deficit-gov-newsom-to-present-revised-state-budget-today\">a shortened timeline\u003c/a> after taking a long recess \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811142/governing-under-coronavirus-state-legislature-contemplates-remote-meetings\">because of COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s plan attempts to close a projected $54 billion budget deficit brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers acknowledged they’ll have to make difficult choices. But there was criticism over slashes to education and the social safety net, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Santa Rosa, said Newsom’s budget proposes short-term cuts that will cause long-lasting pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we just dusted off the plan from the last recession and are using the same playbook,\" Wood said. \"There also feels like an over dependence on the federal government with an unpredictable administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has proposed $14 billion worth of cuts that could be eliminated if the federal government provides more assistance to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only the federal government has the capacity to really mitigate the most difficult reductions states and local governments are going to have to make to balance their budgets in the next several years,” said Keely Bosler, Newsom’s chief budget officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Petek, an analyst with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, noted that any new money from the federal government would likely run out after one or two years. Petek’s office says the state is facing budget deficits through at least 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that case, the Legislature will once again be faced with a structural issue when that funding begins to phase out,” Petek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11819593,news_11819069,news_11816775\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R-Big Bear, said he's concerned the proposal cedes too much power to the governor. He notes the Legislature gave Newsom more than $1 billion to fight the pandemic before it recessed, which Obernolte said was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, the governor is asking us today to give him an additional $3 billion of spending authority,\" Obernolte said. \"And in addition to that, to give him authority to spend the $10 billion of federal reimbursement funds that come back from the federal government in ways that he sees fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obernolte said the Legislature has a constitutional duty to oversee how tax dollars are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, said it was wrong for Newsom to slash health care spending during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider the proposal put before the Legislature by the governor and (the Department of Finance) to represent a worst-case scenario,” Gray said. “It makes cuts that are perhaps more painful than necessary while offering little in the way of creative revenue generation, conservation or reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray was one of the few lawmakers to offer an alternative plan, proposing the Legislature legalize sports betting as a way to generate an extra $2 billion to help eliminate some of the proposed $14 billion in cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have until June 15 to pass a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Assembly members expressed multiple concerns with the governor's proposal as they race to pass a balanced budget.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1590541678,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":553},"headData":{"title":"Assembly Gives Lukewarm Response to Newsom's Budget Proposal | KQED","description":"Assembly members expressed multiple concerns with the governor's proposal as they race to pass a balanced budget.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Assembly Gives Lukewarm Response to Newsom's Budget Proposal","datePublished":"2020-05-27T00:19:52.000Z","dateModified":"2020-05-27T01:07:58.000Z","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":"11820866 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11820866","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/26/assembly-gives-lukewarm-response-to-newsoms-budget-proposal/","disqusTitle":"Assembly Gives Lukewarm Response to Newsom's Budget Proposal","path":"/news/11820866/assembly-gives-lukewarm-response-to-newsoms-budget-proposal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2020-21MR/#/BudgetSummary\">proposed budget\u003c/a> got a lukewarm response from state Assembly members Tuesday during a rare committee of the whole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly has not convened in that way for 25 years. The process allows all members to comment on the governor's budget proposal before they must vote on a final bill. The Legislature is working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817853/despite-54-billion-deficit-gov-newsom-to-present-revised-state-budget-today\">a shortened timeline\u003c/a> after taking a long recess \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811142/governing-under-coronavirus-state-legislature-contemplates-remote-meetings\">because of COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s plan attempts to close a projected $54 billion budget deficit brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers acknowledged they’ll have to make difficult choices. 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Petek’s office says the state is facing budget deficits through at least 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that case, the Legislature will once again be faced with a structural issue when that funding begins to phase out,” Petek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11819593,news_11819069,news_11816775","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R-Big Bear, said he's concerned the proposal cedes too much power to the governor. 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