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The candidates appearing on party mailers this November will likely have pro-market rate housing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Chen, a member of the DCCC and co-author of its housing policy, told KQED he hopes candidates heed the party’s new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many candidates who are still movable, who have issue priorities that are not necessarily housing,” Chen said. “This is a chance for candidates to take feedback from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Most of the two dozen moderate Democrats who ran for the DCCC won in the March primary, flipping the board from its previous progressive majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new housing policy embraces the platform of San Francisco YIMBY, an advocacy group that said building market-rate developments as quickly as possible will help bring down rental prices. Progressive Democrats said market-rate construction is akin to luxury housing that most people can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed is a vocal supporter of YIMBY policies. The DCCC’s new approach to housing may benefit her when she seeks the party’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrats on the Democratic County Central Committee at their first meeting since the March primary on April 19. From left to right, Michael Lai, Cedric Akbar, Mike Chen, Lily Ho, Trevor Chandler, Matt Dorsey, Nancy Tung and Marjan Philhour. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who loses out: \u003c/strong>Some DCCC members may now think twice before backing the mayoral candidacy of Mark Farrell, a former mayor and supervisor. Farrell rankled pro-housing Democrats last month when he said he doesn’t believe San Francisco “needs to upzone every neighborhood” in an \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/mark-farrells-common-sense/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Power+Play&utm_content=p-text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard\">interview with Joe Eskenazi\u003c/a>, Mission Local’s managing editor and columnist, on stage at Manny’s. Upzoning is the process cities use to grant taller housing to be built in an area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other mayoral candidates, like Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who talks about protecting the character of neighborhoods from the construction of tall housing, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, are unlikely to gain the party’s backing. Safaí lacks the allies on the board to gain an endorsement. It’s unclear if Daniel Lurie, a mayoral candidate and philanthropist, has enough DCCC allies for an endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>A few progressives remain on the party board, including Peter Gallotta, who successfully got the moderate Democrats to write clauses supporting renters into the new housing policy. “I think it’s important that we reiterate and underscore that our party is also pro-tenant,” Gallotta said. “I do think we need to make sure we’re calling out our support for the protection of rent control in San Francisco, that we support preservation of our existing rent-controlled housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>The meeting was the party’s first since moderates flipped the board. The moderates flexed their newfound power by pushing for several new policies. Besides the housing platform, board members voted to approve a resolution backing more police officers for public safety and new bylaws that limit the amount of public comment they’ll listen to in a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public safety and housing policies have no actual teeth in changing San Francisco’s operations.[aside postID=news_11983000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-623874284_qut-1020x705.jpg']The moderate Democrats also voted in Nancy Tung as the new party chair. Tung is a career prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who ran for DA in 2019 but lost to Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party also passed a resolution backing the labor community. The policy statement angered Kim Tavaglione, the executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, a powerful group that unites labor unions across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said the policy lacks basic elements in the state Democratic Party platform, like endorsing specific training language for the building trades, a living wage recommendation and anti-charter school statements that public school teachers back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t appreciate labor’s voice, we don’t have to play with them,” Tavaglione said. “We’re happy to walk away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said she would recommend labor unions withhold resources from the DCCC, which would help progressive Democrats in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The move could prompt mayoral and Board of Supervisors candidates to adjust their housing policies to align with the Democratic County Central Committee's stance for endorsement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713816155,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":810},"headData":{"title":"SF Democratic Party’s Support of Unlimited Housing Could Pressure Mayoral Candidates | KQED","description":"The move could prompt mayoral and Board of Supervisors candidates to adjust their housing policies to align with the Democratic County Central Committee's stance for endorsement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Democratic Party’s Support of Unlimited Housing Could Pressure Mayoral Candidates","datePublished":"2024-04-22T20:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-22T20:02:35.000Z","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/11983671/sf-democratic-partys-support-of-unlimited-housing-could-pressure-mayoral-candidates","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party put itself on record backing the building of unrestricted market-rate housing after a Friday night vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy may push candidates running for mayor and the Board of Supervisors to modify their positions on housing if they want the backing of the Democratic County Central Committee or DCCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most elections, the DCCC sends mailers to voters with its official stamp of approval for candidates, which can sway a segment of voters. The candidates appearing on party mailers this November will likely have pro-market rate housing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Chen, a member of the DCCC and co-author of its housing policy, told KQED he hopes candidates heed the party’s new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many candidates who are still movable, who have issue priorities that are not necessarily housing,” Chen said. “This is a chance for candidates to take feedback from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Most of the two dozen moderate Democrats who ran for the DCCC won in the March primary, flipping the board from its previous progressive majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new housing policy embraces the platform of San Francisco YIMBY, an advocacy group that said building market-rate developments as quickly as possible will help bring down rental prices. Progressive Democrats said market-rate construction is akin to luxury housing that most people can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed is a vocal supporter of YIMBY policies. The DCCC’s new approach to housing may benefit her when she seeks the party’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrats on the Democratic County Central Committee at their first meeting since the March primary on April 19. From left to right, Michael Lai, Cedric Akbar, Mike Chen, Lily Ho, Trevor Chandler, Matt Dorsey, Nancy Tung and Marjan Philhour. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who loses out: \u003c/strong>Some DCCC members may now think twice before backing the mayoral candidacy of Mark Farrell, a former mayor and supervisor. Farrell rankled pro-housing Democrats last month when he said he doesn’t believe San Francisco “needs to upzone every neighborhood” in an \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/mark-farrells-common-sense/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Power+Play&utm_content=p-text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard\">interview with Joe Eskenazi\u003c/a>, Mission Local’s managing editor and columnist, on stage at Manny’s. Upzoning is the process cities use to grant taller housing to be built in an area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other mayoral candidates, like Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who talks about protecting the character of neighborhoods from the construction of tall housing, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, are unlikely to gain the party’s backing. Safaí lacks the allies on the board to gain an endorsement. It’s unclear if Daniel Lurie, a mayoral candidate and philanthropist, has enough DCCC allies for an endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>A few progressives remain on the party board, including Peter Gallotta, who successfully got the moderate Democrats to write clauses supporting renters into the new housing policy. “I think it’s important that we reiterate and underscore that our party is also pro-tenant,” Gallotta said. “I do think we need to make sure we’re calling out our support for the protection of rent control in San Francisco, that we support preservation of our existing rent-controlled housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>The meeting was the party’s first since moderates flipped the board. The moderates flexed their newfound power by pushing for several new policies. Besides the housing platform, board members voted to approve a resolution backing more police officers for public safety and new bylaws that limit the amount of public comment they’ll listen to in a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public safety and housing policies have no actual teeth in changing San Francisco’s operations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11983000","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-623874284_qut-1020x705.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The moderate Democrats also voted in Nancy Tung as the new party chair. Tung is a career prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who ran for DA in 2019 but lost to Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party also passed a resolution backing the labor community. The policy statement angered Kim Tavaglione, the executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, a powerful group that unites labor unions across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said the policy lacks basic elements in the state Democratic Party platform, like endorsing specific training language for the building trades, a living wage recommendation and anti-charter school statements that public school teachers back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t appreciate labor’s voice, we don’t have to play with them,” Tavaglione said. “We’re happy to walk away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said she would recommend labor unions withhold resources from the DCCC, which would help progressive Democrats in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983671/sf-democratic-partys-support-of-unlimited-housing-could-pressure-mayoral-candidates","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_18538","news_20251","news_176","news_1775","news_6931","news_22439","news_17968","news_18536","news_38","news_33960"],"featImg":"news_11983678","label":"news"},"news_11957755":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957755","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957755","score":null,"sort":[1691606531000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sen-dianne-feinstein-back-home-from-hospital-after-falling","title":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein Back Home From Hospital After Falling","publishDate":1691606531,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein Back Home From Hospital After Falling | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>U.S. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>, the oldest member of Congress, fell in her home and went to a hospital for a short time, her office said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 90-year-old California Democrat, who has faced mounting concerns about her health and her ability to perform the duties of a senator, “briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home,” her office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of her scans were clear, and she returned home later Tuesday, said her spokesperson Adam Russell, who provided no further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco hospital visit comes after Feinstein missed months of work in Washington earlier this year when she was hospitalized for the shingles virus and its side effects. Since her return to work in May, she has traveled the Capitol halls in a wheelchair and has often appeared confused and disoriented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein has defended her ability to perform her job, though her office said in May that she was still experiencing vision and balance impairments from the shingles virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, who took office in 1992, announced earlier this year that she would not seek reelection in 2024. Several Democrats have already entered the race to replace her.[aside postID=news_11947049 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/gettyimages-1466083175_wide-597455cdb228dd4504539e7afc14537f6cbe971a-1020x574.jpg']During her hospitalization in the spring, some progressive House Democrats publicly called on her to resign, saying her absence had grounded the push to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. However, leading Democrats, including Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, publicly stood beside her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Feinstein’s retirement plans have sparked a competitive Democratic contest to replace her, led by a trio of House lawmakers, U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Feinstein resigns before the 2024 election, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom would name her replacement, potentially reordering the race to succeed her. The governor said in 2021 that he would nominate a Black woman to fill the seat if Feinstein, who’s white, were to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is Black, and becoming the incumbent could be a decisive advantage in the contest, but it’s unknown if Newsom would consider Lee, given that she is already running for the seat. Porter and Schiff are white.[aside label='More on California Politics' tag='california-politics']Feinstein has had a storied political career that broke gender barriers as she rose from San Francisco’s City Hall to leadership posts in the U.S. Senate. She played key roles in political battles over issues including reproductive rights and environmental protection, gaining a reputation as a pragmatic centrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, however, she has taken a step back from senior roles at the Capitol. She relinquished the top Democratic spot on the Judiciary Committee in 2020 amid criticism from liberals on how she handled the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. And earlier this year, she declined to serve as the Senate president pro tempore, the most senior member of the majority party who daily opens the Senate chamber, even though she was in line to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein had also requested to be replaced on the Senate Judiciary panel during her 10-week hospital stay earlier this year, but Republicans declined to allow the replacement. Even after she returned, concerns continued that she would not be able to make it for every crucial vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate is expected to resume work in Washington in early September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he spoke with Feinstein after the California Democrat fell in her home and went to the hospital for a short time.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691606552,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":596},"headData":{"title":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein Back Home From Hospital After Falling | KQED","description":"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he spoke with Feinstein after the California Democrat fell in her home and went to the hospital for a short time.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein Back Home From Hospital After Falling","datePublished":"2023-08-09T18:42:11.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-09T18:42:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\">The Associated Press\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957755/sen-dianne-feinstein-back-home-from-hospital-after-falling","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>, the oldest member of Congress, fell in her home and went to a hospital for a short time, her office said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 90-year-old California Democrat, who has faced mounting concerns about her health and her ability to perform the duties of a senator, “briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home,” her office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of her scans were clear, and she returned home later Tuesday, said her spokesperson Adam Russell, who provided no further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco hospital visit comes after Feinstein missed months of work in Washington earlier this year when she was hospitalized for the shingles virus and its side effects. Since her return to work in May, she has traveled the Capitol halls in a wheelchair and has often appeared confused and disoriented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein has defended her ability to perform her job, though her office said in May that she was still experiencing vision and balance impairments from the shingles virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, who took office in 1992, announced earlier this year that she would not seek reelection in 2024. Several Democrats have already entered the race to replace her.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11947049","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/gettyimages-1466083175_wide-597455cdb228dd4504539e7afc14537f6cbe971a-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During her hospitalization in the spring, some progressive House Democrats publicly called on her to resign, saying her absence had grounded the push to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. However, leading Democrats, including Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, publicly stood beside her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Feinstein’s retirement plans have sparked a competitive Democratic contest to replace her, led by a trio of House lawmakers, U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Feinstein resigns before the 2024 election, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom would name her replacement, potentially reordering the race to succeed her. The governor said in 2021 that he would nominate a Black woman to fill the seat if Feinstein, who’s white, were to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is Black, and becoming the incumbent could be a decisive advantage in the contest, but it’s unknown if Newsom would consider Lee, given that she is already running for the seat. Porter and Schiff are white.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Politics ","tag":"california-politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Feinstein has had a storied political career that broke gender barriers as she rose from San Francisco’s City Hall to leadership posts in the U.S. Senate. She played key roles in political battles over issues including reproductive rights and environmental protection, gaining a reputation as a pragmatic centrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, however, she has taken a step back from senior roles at the Capitol. She relinquished the top Democratic spot on the Judiciary Committee in 2020 amid criticism from liberals on how she handled the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. And earlier this year, she declined to serve as the Senate president pro tempore, the most senior member of the majority party who daily opens the Senate chamber, even though she was in line to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein had also requested to be replaced on the Senate Judiciary panel during her 10-week hospital stay earlier this year, but Republicans declined to allow the replacement. Even after she returned, concerns continued that she would not be able to make it for every crucial vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate is expected to resume work in Washington in early September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957755/sen-dianne-feinstein-back-home-from-hospital-after-falling","authors":["byline_news_11957755"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20156","news_20251","news_18012","news_28727","news_274","news_18536"],"featImg":"news_11957760","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 class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11929729/overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf","authors":["byline_news_11929729"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_5563","news_20251","news_6406","news_31876","news_1852"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11929769","label":"news_18481"},"news_11833960":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11833960","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11833960","score":null,"sort":[1666260054000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-and-why-did-the-bay-area-become-so-liberal","title":"When and Why Did the Bay Area Become So Liberal?","publishDate":1666260054,"format":"image","headTitle":"When and Why Did the Bay Area Become So Liberal? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This article first published on August 20, 2020. It has been updated to reflect recent events, including the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti on February 22, 2021. You can find a transcript of this Bay Curious episode \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3N6YHg3\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a little hard to believe today, but the GOP nominated perhaps their most conservative presidential candidate in modern history right here in the Bay Area — at the Cow Palace in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that today, the nine-county Bay Area is solidly blue. But the first thing you notice when you ask people \u003ci>when\u003c/i> that happened, is that you get a lot of different answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is the center of that progressive liberal ethos. And I think it begins with the origins of the city in the Gold Rush,” said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be like, \u003ci>18\u003c/i>50. But maybe it was more like the \u003ci>19\u003c/i>50s with the Beat Generation writers, like Allen Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a sort of seminal moment, a turning point for the whole generation in the same way that Woodstock was for the hippies in that they basically saw that they existed, that there was this whole subculture of pot smoking, jazz loving, poetry, writing, painting-making people,” says writer Steve Silberman who came to San Francisco in 1979 and was friends with Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe it was 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if you had to look at the one seminal event that changed things, it was the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964,” said former Republican Party chair Duf Sundheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s truth in all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New Arrivals Have Long Shaped Local Politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The seeds of San Francisco’s liberal leanings were planted early and those seeds have one thing in common, says a guy who was part of the Bay Area’s liberal arc — Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years, what I call a cultural ideology has evolved in San Francisco from that time where people come to this city seeking opportunity and freedom,” he said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnos was one of those people. Born in Springfield, Mass., he eventually got on a Greyhound bus and headed west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then 10 years after I got off that bus, I was elected to the state Legislature. In 20 years. I’m the mayor of this magnificent city,” Agnos said. “Nowhere else in American could that happen. And so they want to change things. And San Francisco encourages that change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2-800x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2-800x586.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Art Agnos fields questions during a news conference in 1989 announcing the city’s master plan on homelessness. \u003ccite>(Sam Forencich/SF Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That story — leaving the place you were born and coming to San Francisco — has been repeated for 150 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see people who are not happy, not satisfied, express some kind of discomfort with the status quo from wherever they came from,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that status quo is poverty, political oppression, homophobia or racism, San Francisco became a beacon for people who wanted something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a lot of those people — like Agnos — became very active in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the brilliant politicians we see today, whether it’s Nancy Pelosi, whether it is Kamala Harris, Willie Brown, Leo McCarthy, Phil Burton, all of them \u003cem>came\u003c/em> to this city,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Burton is a key part of that. It was Burton’s brother, John, who pushed another newcomer to San Francisco toward politics: Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg 501w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy, Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, Congressman Phil Burton, and Art Agnos in the early 1980’s. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown came to have a huge influence on California and Bay Area politics — some say he still does — as Assembly Speaker and later as mayor. But when he got here in 1951?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not an observer of what was going on politically in San Francisco, although I instantly became a member of the youth group of the NAACP,” Brown said. “They talked about things like Black people becoming police officers, Black people driving busses, Black people becoming deputy sheriffs, Black people becoming firemen. I heard all those things in the NAACP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown enrolled at what is now San Francisco State University. That’s where he met a guy named John Burton. He was Phillip Burton’s brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I heard things about politics from Burton. As a matter of fact, I joined the Young Democrats because Burton encouraged me and invited me to join,” Brown says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11834227 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown addresses guests at the dedication to the Willie L. Brown Jr. Bridge (better known as the Bay Bridge) in 2014, \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown says then, the political division wasn’t left or right, red or blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a separation of newcomers and old timers. We didn’t call them liberals and we didn’t call them conservatives. But there were newcomers and old timers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newcomers like him — and the Burtons.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cultural Changes Drive Politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That was in the mid-50s. San Francisco still had a pretty vibrant Republican party. In 1955 the city elected a Republican, George Christopher, as the city’s mayor in a landslide. He was reelected four years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was an alternate cultural movement underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAD-2816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAD-2816.jpg 322w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAD-2816-160x199.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading poetry at The Coffee Gallery on Grant Avenue in 1959. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of poetry and cultural ferment going on in the city at the time, in part because rents were still pretty low in neighborhoods like North Beach. City Lights Bookstore was already here, owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,” said author \u003ca href=\"https://www.stevesilberman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Silberman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ferment was a stew of alternate voices, writing and thinking in the Bay Area — a generation known as the Beats. They had art shows and readings, studied Buddhism and took a lot of drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking back on the 1950s, Silberman says, “It was a sort of seminal moment, a turning point for the whole generation … in that they basically saw that they existed, that there was this whole subculture of pot smoking, jazz loving, poetry, writing, painting-making people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 282px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/alan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/alan.jpg 282w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/alan-160x227.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Allen Ginsberg marching with a group of pickets protesting U.S. policies in Vietnam in 1963. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While that whole countercultural thing is happening, discrimination in the South created a great migration of Black Americans to the Bay Area and other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were not run of the mill. These were the talented tenth, the best of the best. They came to the West Coast and it liberalized the Bay Area because it diversified it,” said USF political science professor James Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MOR-0681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MOR-0681.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MOR-0681-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with Republican Mayor George Christopher. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor says you can’t talk about the Bay Area’s changing politics without mentioning the jazz scene that developed in the city’s Fillmore District. And the conductor of that cacophony of liberalization — that guy named Phillip Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Burton Builds a Liberal Movement as Republicans Migrate Right\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s Phillip Burton, a gruff, plain spoken and passionate political strategist, begins pulling together a liberal movement involving a wide range of groups — including labor unions, Black people and gay folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Burton’s name does not get mentioned as regularly as it used to. It hangs over the city because it set the foundation for what the power establishment in the city is right now, which is mainstream liberalism,” Taylor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Burton helped Willie Brown, a young defense lawyer whose clients included prostitutes and pimps, get elected to the State Assembly in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year Republicans held their national convention at the Cow Palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/protesters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/protesters.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/protesters-160x135.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil rights demonstrators blocked the an exit at the Cow Palace during the Republican National Convention in 1964. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was a split between two wings of the party, with the more liberal segment supporting civil rights, while Sen. Barry Goldwater’s camp opposing it. Goldwater won out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ultimately lost California and the nation to Lyndon B. Johnson in a landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time Democrats had almost 60% of registered voters in the nine-county Bay Area, compared to 40% for Republicans. There were still plenty of Republicans representing the Bay Area in Congress and the state legislature. But as Willie Brown notes, they were a different kind of Republican than the ones we think of today, especially in places like Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was not conservative, but it was Republican, period. It was traditional Republicans rather than the kind that Goldwater advocated,” Brown says, adding that at that point there weren’t huge partisan differences on the major issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things like education, infrastructure or pollution — all those things were merged,” Brown says, meaning the two parties largely agreed or had modest disagreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But social issues that would come to divide Democrats and Republicans more sharply were becoming more evident.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hippies Come to Town as Burton’s Influence Grows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1967, thousands of young people from all over the country — hippies they were called — converged on Golden Gate Park and the Haight Ashbury neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music, sex and drugs attracted a lot of free-spirited young people to San Francisco, and some stuck to channel their energy into causes like the environment and the women’s movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t any political party … It was activists creating the opportunity. And many of the people who embraced that early just happened have already been registered as Democrats,” said Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto went to the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 to introduced the party’s nominee, there was a lot of booing from Democrats opposed to the war. And representing the party’s anti-war faction? Congressman Phillip Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That progressive strain in the Bay Area, especially in San Francisco and Oakland, was became known as the Burton Machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Burton machine was an assembly of people who shared what I’m calling in our discussion here, the cultural ideology of San Francisco, which they turned into politics,” said Agnos, who was part of that machine. “They brought together an assembly of people, activist volunteers, Civil Rights Act, all of that. And they hung together with a loyalty because of their common commitment to the issues that they all believed in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1974, the Burton Machine helped elect State Senator George Moscone as mayor of San Francisco. It ushered in a progressive era in the city which included the election of the first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk. It all came crashing down in 1978 when Moscone and Milk were murdered at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0263.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0263-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd gathers at City Hall after the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Birth of “San Francisco Democrats”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the assassinations, Dianne Feinstein set out to boost the city’s image by hosting the Democratic National Convention in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was on the cover of Time Magazine as one of two women being considered to be former Vice President Walter Mondale’s running mate. As it turned out the other woman on the cover — Geraldine Ferraro — was picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Ferraro, the first woman on a major party ticket, the talk of the convention was the keynote speech of New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who belittled President Reagan’s vision of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdIqKsv624&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of that convention came a phrase that came to symbolize liberals: “San Francisco Democrats.” It was used by Republicans as shorthand for extreme and liberal … anti-war, pro-gay rights and supporting a woman’s access to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, the Bay Area had moved solidly to the left. The last Bay Area county carried by a Republican presidential candidate was Napa, carried by George Bush in 1988. Bill Clinton carried the state in 1992 and since then, it’s been sea of blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>National GOP Moves Further Right\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Duf Sundheim was chair of the California GOP when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor. He says the 1990s were when Republicans fell off the cliff. Polling showed when California voters were asked who they thought of when they thought of Republican, most said GOP firebrand Newt Gingrich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we asked them what their view was of a California Democrat. It was Bill Clinton. And it was very clear that people identified much more closely with Bill Clinton than they did with Newt Gingrich,” Sundheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon the national Republican party realized California was a lost cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once there was a sense that we couldn’t hold on to California, we couldn’t hold on to New England, then those more conservative views came to dominate the Republican Party. And more liberal areas like the Bay Area really went heavily Democratic,” Sundheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then issues like immigration, gun control, gay rights and abortion were front and center. Sundheim remembers how hard it became to raise money from Bay Area corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CEO would say, look, Duf, I’d love to write a check to the Republican Party, but if my wife ever sees that I write a check to the anti-abortion party, I’m gonna get divorced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2001 there was just one Republican congressman from the Bay Area, moderate Tom Campbell. And the number of Bay Area Republicans in Sacramento was shrinking fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Republican to represent the region in Sacramento was Catharine Baker, who won an Assembly seat in the East Bay in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in the legislature, I had a 100% score from Howard Jarvis and the California Taxpayers Association for my fiscal discipline,” Baker said recently. “The same year I had a 100% rating from Equality California and Planned Parenthood. That’s just the kind of Republican I was and continue to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker sided with Democrats on issues like housing, LGBT rights and the environment. But by 2018, having that “R” next to her name was a scarlet letter. And she lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say 80% of the feedback we receive is ‘I know who you are. I like what you do and how you vote. But I cannot vote for a Republican.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the entire Bay Area delegations to Sacramento and Washington are all Democrats. Registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans — who are essentially a third party now — there are now more voters registered no party preference than Republican. To Democrats, that’s a complete victory. Catharine Baker sees it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think all the challenges that face our communities and California are best solved by both parties being in the room, even when you don’t have to have the votes of both parties,” Baker said. “You have longer lasting, better solutions. And that’s what we really need, not just now, but in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to see Republicans making a comeback in California, let alone the liberal Bay Area any time soon, especially after four years of Donald Trump and his enduring impact on the Republican party nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There’s no question that today, the nine-county Bay Area is solidly blue. But if you ask people when that happened, you get a lot of different answers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531984,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":75,"wordCount":2659},"headData":{"title":"When and Why Did the Bay Area Become So Liberal? | KQED","description":"There’s no question that today, the nine-county Bay Area is solidly blue. But if you ask people when that happened, you get a lot of different answers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"When and Why Did the Bay Area Become So Liberal?","datePublished":"2022-10-20T10:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T01:59:44.000Z","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"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"http://baycurious.org/","audioUrl":"https://dcs.megaphone.fm/KQINC7476972016.mp3?key=dec84165d44e94bc37693c221f3b036a","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11833960/when-and-why-did-the-bay-area-become-so-liberal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This article first published on August 20, 2020. It has been updated to reflect recent events, including the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti on February 22, 2021. You can find a transcript of this Bay Curious episode \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3N6YHg3\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a little hard to believe today, but the GOP nominated perhaps their most conservative presidential candidate in modern history right here in the Bay Area — at the Cow Palace in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that today, the nine-county Bay Area is solidly blue. But the first thing you notice when you ask people \u003ci>when\u003c/i> that happened, is that you get a lot of different answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is the center of that progressive liberal ethos. And I think it begins with the origins of the city in the Gold Rush,” said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be like, \u003ci>18\u003c/i>50. But maybe it was more like the \u003ci>19\u003c/i>50s with the Beat Generation writers, like Allen Ginsburg.\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>“It was a sort of seminal moment, a turning point for the whole generation in the same way that Woodstock was for the hippies in that they basically saw that they existed, that there was this whole subculture of pot smoking, jazz loving, poetry, writing, painting-making people,” says writer Steve Silberman who came to San Francisco in 1979 and was friends with Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe it was 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if you had to look at the one seminal event that changed things, it was the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964,” said former Republican Party chair Duf Sundheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s truth in all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New Arrivals Have Long Shaped Local Politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The seeds of San Francisco’s liberal leanings were planted early and those seeds have one thing in common, says a guy who was part of the Bay Area’s liberal arc — Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years, what I call a cultural ideology has evolved in San Francisco from that time where people come to this city seeking opportunity and freedom,” he said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnos was one of those people. Born in Springfield, Mass., he eventually got on a Greyhound bus and headed west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then 10 years after I got off that bus, I was elected to the state Legislature. In 20 years. I’m the mayor of this magnificent city,” Agnos said. “Nowhere else in American could that happen. And so they want to change things. And San Francisco encourages that change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2-800x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2-800x586.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/agnos2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Art Agnos fields questions during a news conference in 1989 announcing the city’s master plan on homelessness. \u003ccite>(Sam Forencich/SF Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That story — leaving the place you were born and coming to San Francisco — has been repeated for 150 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see people who are not happy, not satisfied, express some kind of discomfort with the status quo from wherever they came from,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that status quo is poverty, political oppression, homophobia or racism, San Francisco became a beacon for people who wanted something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a lot of those people — like Agnos — became very active in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the brilliant politicians we see today, whether it’s Nancy Pelosi, whether it is Kamala Harris, Willie Brown, Leo McCarthy, Phil Burton, all of them \u003cem>came\u003c/em> to this city,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Burton is a key part of that. It was Burton’s brother, John, who pushed another newcomer to San Francisco toward politics: Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358.jpg 501w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0358-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Leo T. McCarthy, Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, Congressman Phil Burton, and Art Agnos in the early 1980’s. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown came to have a huge influence on California and Bay Area politics — some say he still does — as Assembly Speaker and later as mayor. But when he got here in 1951?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not an observer of what was going on politically in San Francisco, although I instantly became a member of the youth group of the NAACP,” Brown said. “They talked about things like Black people becoming police officers, Black people driving busses, Black people becoming deputy sheriffs, Black people becoming firemen. I heard all those things in the NAACP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown enrolled at what is now San Francisco State University. That’s where he met a guy named John Burton. He was Phillip Burton’s brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I heard things about politics from Burton. As a matter of fact, I joined the Young Democrats because Burton encouraged me and invited me to join,” Brown says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11834227 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS8643_IMG_2139.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown addresses guests at the dedication to the Willie L. Brown Jr. Bridge (better known as the Bay Bridge) in 2014, \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown says then, the political division wasn’t left or right, red or blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a separation of newcomers and old timers. We didn’t call them liberals and we didn’t call them conservatives. But there were newcomers and old timers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newcomers like him — and the Burtons.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cultural Changes Drive Politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That was in the mid-50s. San Francisco still had a pretty vibrant Republican party. In 1955 the city elected a Republican, George Christopher, as the city’s mayor in a landslide. He was reelected four years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was an alternate cultural movement underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAD-2816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAD-2816.jpg 322w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAD-2816-160x199.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading poetry at The Coffee Gallery on Grant Avenue in 1959. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of poetry and cultural ferment going on in the city at the time, in part because rents were still pretty low in neighborhoods like North Beach. City Lights Bookstore was already here, owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,” said author \u003ca href=\"https://www.stevesilberman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Silberman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ferment was a stew of alternate voices, writing and thinking in the Bay Area — a generation known as the Beats. They had art shows and readings, studied Buddhism and took a lot of drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking back on the 1950s, Silberman says, “It was a sort of seminal moment, a turning point for the whole generation … in that they basically saw that they existed, that there was this whole subculture of pot smoking, jazz loving, poetry, writing, painting-making people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 282px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/alan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/alan.jpg 282w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/alan-160x227.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Allen Ginsberg marching with a group of pickets protesting U.S. policies in Vietnam in 1963. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While that whole countercultural thing is happening, discrimination in the South created a great migration of Black Americans to the Bay Area and other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were not run of the mill. These were the talented tenth, the best of the best. They came to the West Coast and it liberalized the Bay Area because it diversified it,” said USF political science professor James Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MOR-0681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MOR-0681.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MOR-0681-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with Republican Mayor George Christopher. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor says you can’t talk about the Bay Area’s changing politics without mentioning the jazz scene that developed in the city’s Fillmore District. And the conductor of that cacophony of liberalization — that guy named Phillip Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Burton Builds a Liberal Movement as Republicans Migrate Right\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s Phillip Burton, a gruff, plain spoken and passionate political strategist, begins pulling together a liberal movement involving a wide range of groups — including labor unions, Black people and gay folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Burton’s name does not get mentioned as regularly as it used to. It hangs over the city because it set the foundation for what the power establishment in the city is right now, which is mainstream liberalism,” Taylor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Burton helped Willie Brown, a young defense lawyer whose clients included prostitutes and pimps, get elected to the State Assembly in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year Republicans held their national convention at the Cow Palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/protesters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/protesters.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/protesters-160x135.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil rights demonstrators blocked the an exit at the Cow Palace during the Republican National Convention in 1964. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was a split between two wings of the party, with the more liberal segment supporting civil rights, while Sen. Barry Goldwater’s camp opposing it. Goldwater won out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ultimately lost California and the nation to Lyndon B. Johnson in a landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time Democrats had almost 60% of registered voters in the nine-county Bay Area, compared to 40% for Republicans. There were still plenty of Republicans representing the Bay Area in Congress and the state legislature. But as Willie Brown notes, they were a different kind of Republican than the ones we think of today, especially in places like Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was not conservative, but it was Republican, period. It was traditional Republicans rather than the kind that Goldwater advocated,” Brown says, adding that at that point there weren’t huge partisan differences on the major issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things like education, infrastructure or pollution — all those things were merged,” Brown says, meaning the two parties largely agreed or had modest disagreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But social issues that would come to divide Democrats and Republicans more sharply were becoming more evident.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hippies Come to Town as Burton’s Influence Grows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1967, thousands of young people from all over the country — hippies they were called — converged on Golden Gate Park and the Haight Ashbury neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music, sex and drugs attracted a lot of free-spirited young people to San Francisco, and some stuck to channel their energy into causes like the environment and the women’s movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t any political party … It was activists creating the opportunity. And many of the people who embraced that early just happened have already been registered as Democrats,” said Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto went to the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 to introduced the party’s nominee, there was a lot of booing from Democrats opposed to the war. And representing the party’s anti-war faction? Congressman Phillip Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That progressive strain in the Bay Area, especially in San Francisco and Oakland, was became known as the Burton Machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Burton machine was an assembly of people who shared what I’m calling in our discussion here, the cultural ideology of San Francisco, which they turned into politics,” said Agnos, who was part of that machine. “They brought together an assembly of people, activist volunteers, Civil Rights Act, all of that. And they hung together with a loyalty because of their common commitment to the issues that they all believed in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1974, the Burton Machine helped elect State Senator George Moscone as mayor of San Francisco. It ushered in a progressive era in the city which included the election of the first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk. It all came crashing down in 1978 when Moscone and Milk were murdered at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11834516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0263.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/AAZ-0263-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd gathers at City Hall after the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Birth of “San Francisco Democrats”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the assassinations, Dianne Feinstein set out to boost the city’s image by hosting the Democratic National Convention in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was on the cover of Time Magazine as one of two women being considered to be former Vice President Walter Mondale’s running mate. As it turned out the other woman on the cover — Geraldine Ferraro — was picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Ferraro, the first woman on a major party ticket, the talk of the convention was the keynote speech of New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who belittled President Reagan’s vision of America.\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/kOdIqKsv624'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kOdIqKsv624'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Out of that convention came a phrase that came to symbolize liberals: “San Francisco Democrats.” It was used by Republicans as shorthand for extreme and liberal … anti-war, pro-gay rights and supporting a woman’s access to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, the Bay Area had moved solidly to the left. The last Bay Area county carried by a Republican presidential candidate was Napa, carried by George Bush in 1988. Bill Clinton carried the state in 1992 and since then, it’s been sea of blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>National GOP Moves Further Right\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Duf Sundheim was chair of the California GOP when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor. He says the 1990s were when Republicans fell off the cliff. Polling showed when California voters were asked who they thought of when they thought of Republican, most said GOP firebrand Newt Gingrich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we asked them what their view was of a California Democrat. It was Bill Clinton. And it was very clear that people identified much more closely with Bill Clinton than they did with Newt Gingrich,” Sundheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"emailsignup","attributes":{"named":{"newslettername":"baycurious","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon the national Republican party realized California was a lost cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once there was a sense that we couldn’t hold on to California, we couldn’t hold on to New England, then those more conservative views came to dominate the Republican Party. And more liberal areas like the Bay Area really went heavily Democratic,” Sundheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then issues like immigration, gun control, gay rights and abortion were front and center. Sundheim remembers how hard it became to raise money from Bay Area corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CEO would say, look, Duf, I’d love to write a check to the Republican Party, but if my wife ever sees that I write a check to the anti-abortion party, I’m gonna get divorced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2001 there was just one Republican congressman from the Bay Area, moderate Tom Campbell. And the number of Bay Area Republicans in Sacramento was shrinking fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Republican to represent the region in Sacramento was Catharine Baker, who won an Assembly seat in the East Bay in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in the legislature, I had a 100% score from Howard Jarvis and the California Taxpayers Association for my fiscal discipline,” Baker said recently. “The same year I had a 100% rating from Equality California and Planned Parenthood. That’s just the kind of Republican I was and continue to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker sided with Democrats on issues like housing, LGBT rights and the environment. But by 2018, having that “R” next to her name was a scarlet letter. And she lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say 80% of the feedback we receive is ‘I know who you are. I like what you do and how you vote. But I cannot vote for a Republican.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the entire Bay Area delegations to Sacramento and Washington are all Democrats. Registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans — who are essentially a third party now — there are now more voters registered no party preference than Republican. To Democrats, that’s a complete victory. Catharine Baker sees it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think all the challenges that face our communities and California are best solved by both parties being in the room, even when you don’t have to have the votes of both parties,” Baker said. “You have longer lasting, better solutions. And that’s what we really need, not just now, but in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to see Republicans making a comeback in California, let alone the liberal Bay Area any time soon, especially after four years of Donald Trump and his enduring impact on the Republican party nationwide.\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11833960/when-and-why-did-the-bay-area-become-so-liberal","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520","news_13"],"tags":["news_20251","news_17968"],"featImg":"news_11834214","label":"source_news_11833960"},"news_11834001":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11834001","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11834001","score":null,"sort":[1597811605000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-delegation-nominates-biden-for-president-touts-environmental-justice","title":"California Delegation Nominates Biden for President, Touts Environmental Justice","publishDate":1597811605,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Standing in front of lapping waves and beachgoers at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and Los Angeles Supervisor Hilda Solis represented California virtually in the roll call to nominate Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Solis, two of California's co-chairs to the national convention, touted Biden's commitment to environmental justice as part of a \"Roll Call Across America,\" that featured nominating videos from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Joe Biden’s plan to crack down on polluters to protect our air and water is about environmental justice and economic justice,\" said Lee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair, appearing to stand physically distanced in the sand, announced California's award of 263 delegates for Biden, and 231 delegates for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders won California's March primary but Biden picked up the lion's share of the state's unpledged delegates, which include state party leaders and officeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Democratic primary campaign, Solis backed Biden, while Lee supported California Senator Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna of Fremont, the third co-chair of the California delegation and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, did not participate in the roll call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solis, the former Secretary of Labor, was an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828270/hilda-solis-on-her-union-roots-environmental-justice-fights-and-bidens-pitch-to-latino-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early pioneer in the environmental justice movement\u003c/a> -- pushing for laws to mitigate the impacts that polluting landfills and factories had on the predominately Latino neighborhoods she represented in the state legislature and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Climate change is not a hoax, it’s real,\" Solis said on Tuesday. \"And communities of color have been bearing the brunt of this reality for generations.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the environmental and climate justice movements have taken hold in California, the issues have been largely absent from Biden's own climate record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799776/with-california-voters-focused-on-climate-biden-touts-obama-era-energy-investments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">touted his work\u003c/a> enacting the 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act, seen as a boon for clean energy investment in states including California.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland\"]\"Joe Biden’s plan to crack down on polluters to protect our air and water is about environmental justice and economic justice.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studies of the stimulus\u003c/a> have found no way to track its benefits for communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden's platform for president, by contrast, contains explicit goals of \"righting wrongs in communities that bear the brunt of pollution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those include a goal of identifying front-line communities and a promise that \"disadvantaged communities receive 40% of overall benefits\" of clean energy spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He will prioritize equity and bring clean energy jobs to black and brown neighborhoods,\" Solis said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has also promised to create an Environmental and Climate Justice division within the Department of Justice, to investigate and prosecute polluters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's convention program also gave a platform to one of California's rising Democratic stars: Robert Garcia, the mayor of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia appeared in the convention's virtual keynote address, a speech traditionally reserved for the party's young talent. This year, the segment featured seventeen speakers who wove pieces of their own stories into an endorsement of Biden and a critique of President Donald Trump.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11833819,news_11832224,news_11831285]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"You deserve more than the constant chaos Donald Trump delivers,\" Garcia said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Garcia's mother and stepfather both died of complications from COVID-19. Garcia, the first openly gay mayor in the city's history, has posted openly about his loss, and promoted the need for vigilance against the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re facing the biggest economic and health crisis in generations, because our president didn’t and still doesn’t have a plan,\" he said Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia came to the United States from Peru at age five, with his mother, Gaby. He attended California State University, Long Beach, as an undergraduate, and returned to earn a doctoral degree in education. He told convention viewers on Tuesday that he has \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lived the frustration of paying off student loans.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second night of the Democrats' four-day convention also included speeches from former Secretary of State John Kerry, and Joe Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden. On Wednesday night of the convention, Sen. Kamala Harris will introduce herself to the nation as Biden's running mate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia among the rising Democratic stars highlighted in keynote address. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1597854434,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":721},"headData":{"title":"California Delegation Nominates Biden for President, Touts Environmental Justice | KQED","description":"Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia among the rising Democratic stars highlighted in keynote address. 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Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and Los Angeles Supervisor Hilda Solis represented California virtually in the roll call to nominate Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Solis, two of California's co-chairs to the national convention, touted Biden's commitment to environmental justice as part of a \"Roll Call Across America,\" that featured nominating videos from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Joe Biden’s plan to crack down on polluters to protect our air and water is about environmental justice and economic justice,\" said Lee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair, appearing to stand physically distanced in the sand, announced California's award of 263 delegates for Biden, and 231 delegates for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders won California's March primary but Biden picked up the lion's share of the state's unpledged delegates, which include state party leaders and officeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Democratic primary campaign, Solis backed Biden, while Lee supported California Senator Kamala Harris.\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>Rep. Ro Khanna of Fremont, the third co-chair of the California delegation and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, did not participate in the roll call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solis, the former Secretary of Labor, was an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828270/hilda-solis-on-her-union-roots-environmental-justice-fights-and-bidens-pitch-to-latino-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early pioneer in the environmental justice movement\u003c/a> -- pushing for laws to mitigate the impacts that polluting landfills and factories had on the predominately Latino neighborhoods she represented in the state legislature and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Climate change is not a hoax, it’s real,\" Solis said on Tuesday. \"And communities of color have been bearing the brunt of this reality for generations.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the environmental and climate justice movements have taken hold in California, the issues have been largely absent from Biden's own climate record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799776/with-california-voters-focused-on-climate-biden-touts-obama-era-energy-investments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">touted his work\u003c/a> enacting the 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act, seen as a boon for clean energy investment in states including California.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"Joe Biden’s plan to crack down on polluters to protect our air and water is about environmental justice and economic justice.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studies of the stimulus\u003c/a> have found no way to track its benefits for communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden's platform for president, by contrast, contains explicit goals of \"righting wrongs in communities that bear the brunt of pollution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those include a goal of identifying front-line communities and a promise that \"disadvantaged communities receive 40% of overall benefits\" of clean energy spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He will prioritize equity and bring clean energy jobs to black and brown neighborhoods,\" Solis said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has also promised to create an Environmental and Climate Justice division within the Department of Justice, to investigate and prosecute polluters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's convention program also gave a platform to one of California's rising Democratic stars: Robert Garcia, the mayor of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia appeared in the convention's virtual keynote address, a speech traditionally reserved for the party's young talent. This year, the segment featured seventeen speakers who wove pieces of their own stories into an endorsement of Biden and a critique of President Donald Trump.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11833819,news_11832224,news_11831285","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"You deserve more than the constant chaos Donald Trump delivers,\" Garcia said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Garcia's mother and stepfather both died of complications from COVID-19. Garcia, the first openly gay mayor in the city's history, has posted openly about his loss, and promoted the need for vigilance against the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re facing the biggest economic and health crisis in generations, because our president didn’t and still doesn’t have a plan,\" he said Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia came to the United States from Peru at age five, with his mother, Gaby. He attended California State University, Long Beach, as an undergraduate, and returned to earn a doctoral degree in education. He told convention viewers on Tuesday that he has \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lived the frustration of paying off student loans.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second night of the Democrats' four-day convention also included speeches from former Secretary of State John Kerry, and Joe Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden. On Wednesday night of the convention, Sen. Kamala Harris will introduce herself to the nation as Biden's running mate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11834001/california-delegation-nominates-biden-for-president-touts-environmental-justice","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_22185","news_20251","news_27370","news_27419","news_27626","news_717","news_17968"],"featImg":"news_11834010","label":"news"},"news_11740217":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11740217","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11740217","score":null,"sort":[1555262143000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-senator-kamala-harris-releases-15-years-of-tax-returns","title":"California Senator Kamala Harris Releases 15 Years of Tax Returns","publishDate":1555262143,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has released 15 years of tax returns, including her returns for 2018, and the California senator reports that she and her husband had a federal tax bill of about $700,000 on an adjusted gross joint income of about $1.9 million last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released Sunday provide the fullest picture of her finances as she pursues a White House bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris reported an income of about $157,000 in 2018 from her job as a senator, as well as about $320,000 in net income as a writer; a book she wrote was published earlier this year. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, earned about $1.5 million working as an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is the latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714733/kamala-harris-announces-bid-for-presidency-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic presidential contender\u003c/a> to release her taxes. President Donald Trump has continued to refuse to release his since the 2016 presidential campaign, when he became the first nominee in decades to buck the tradition of disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats are pressing for access to Trump's tax returns, which would give lawmakers far greater insight into the president's business dealings and potential conflicts of interest, as they exercise their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband reporting giving a small portion of their income — often about 1% to 3% a year — to charitable causes. Harris reported no charitable contributions some years when she was California's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats who are running for president in 2020 have released their tax returns to varying degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101870158,news_11729791,news_11732213' label='more on presidential run']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York released her 2018 tax return in late March and urged her colleagues to do the same. She was the first Democratic candidate to do so. Gillibrand has released her returns annually since 2012. That year, she released her returns dating back to 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a decade of her tax returns, as well as her 2018 returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar this month released 12 years of tax returns, dating to 2006, when she first became a candidate for federal office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who released just one year of tax returns when he ran for president in 2016, said more than a month ago that he would release a decade's worth of returns. He and his campaign have said they will release his tax returns by Monday's tax filing deadline.\u003cbr>\n___\u003cbr>\nSuderman reported from Richmond, Virginia, and Braun from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Democrats who are also running for president in 2020 and have released their tax returns include Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1555282306,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":413},"headData":{"title":"California Senator Kamala Harris Releases 15 Years of Tax Returns | KQED","description":"The Democrats who are also running for president in 2020 and have released their tax returns include Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Senator Kamala Harris Releases 15 Years of Tax Returns","datePublished":"2019-04-14T17:15:43.000Z","dateModified":"2019-04-14T22:51:46.000Z","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":"11740217 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11740217","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/14/california-senator-kamala-harris-releases-15-years-of-tax-returns/","disqusTitle":"California Senator Kamala Harris Releases 15 Years of Tax Returns","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Juana Summers, Alan Suderman and Stephen Braun \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11740217/california-senator-kamala-harris-releases-15-years-of-tax-returns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has released 15 years of tax returns, including her returns for 2018, and the California senator reports that she and her husband had a federal tax bill of about $700,000 on an adjusted gross joint income of about $1.9 million last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released Sunday provide the fullest picture of her finances as she pursues a White House bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris reported an income of about $157,000 in 2018 from her job as a senator, as well as about $320,000 in net income as a writer; a book she wrote was published earlier this year. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, earned about $1.5 million working as an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is the latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714733/kamala-harris-announces-bid-for-presidency-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic presidential contender\u003c/a> to release her taxes. President Donald Trump has continued to refuse to release his since the 2016 presidential campaign, when he became the first nominee in decades to buck the tradition of disclosure.\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>House Democrats are pressing for access to Trump's tax returns, which would give lawmakers far greater insight into the president's business dealings and potential conflicts of interest, as they exercise their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband reporting giving a small portion of their income — often about 1% to 3% a year — to charitable causes. Harris reported no charitable contributions some years when she was California's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats who are running for president in 2020 have released their tax returns to varying degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101870158,news_11729791,news_11732213","label":"more on presidential run "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York released her 2018 tax return in late March and urged her colleagues to do the same. She was the first Democratic candidate to do so. Gillibrand has released her returns annually since 2012. That year, she released her returns dating back to 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a decade of her tax returns, as well as her 2018 returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar this month released 12 years of tax returns, dating to 2006, when she first became a candidate for federal office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who released just one year of tax returns when he ran for president in 2016, said more than a month ago that he would release a decade's worth of returns. He and his campaign have said they will release his tax returns by Monday's tax filing deadline.\u003cbr>\n___\u003cbr>\nSuderman reported from Richmond, Virginia, and Braun from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11740217/california-senator-kamala-harris-releases-15-years-of-tax-returns","authors":["byline_news_11740217"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_25267","news_19442","news_20251","news_24972","news_61","news_423"],"featImg":"news_11740220","label":"source_news_11740217"},"news_11712508":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11712508","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11712508","score":null,"sort":[1544823170000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"four-californians-eye-2020-presidential-run-but-do-they-have-a-chance","title":"Four Californians Eye 2020 Presidential Run — But Do They Have a Chance?","publishDate":1544823170,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It might feel like we just got through the midterms, but already the race for who will challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 election is heating up — and several Golden State politicos are in the middle of the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sen. Kamala Harris\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris has boosted her profile in the past few years, particularly during the recent confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most notable, perhaps, is \u003cstrong>U.S. Senator Kamala Harris\u003c/strong>. Harris is just finishing her second year in Washington, but she's been garnering buzz since the day she was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, who has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Truths-We-Hold-American-Journey/dp/0525560718\">book out early next year\u003c/a> (a common move by presidential hopefuls), \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-na-harris-campaign-draw-20181011-story.html\">campaigned for and raised millions for her Democratic colleagues\u003c/a> during the midterms, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/22/kamala-harris-2020-iowa-923968\">making the rounds\u003c/a> in some early caucus and primary states and seems to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kamala-harris-2020-slogan-768427/\">testing out a campaign theme\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702713/wheres-kamala-harris-california-senator-making-the-2020-rounds\">recent speeches\u003c/a>. She made \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-Kavanaugh-White-House-FBI-speech-13285239.php\">waves\u003c/a> during the Kavanaugh hearings, and in recent appearances she's been courting women — particularly women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has said she will make a decision about whether to run over the holidays and make an announcement in early January. If she does decide to run, expect to see enthusiasm from some quarters and questions about whether a black, progressive woman from California is best suited to challenge Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-1200x778.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks onstage during The Alliance For Children's Rights 26th Annual Dinner on March 28, 2018, in Beverly Hills. Garcetti has said the way to beat President Trump in 2020 is by attacking the perception of his efficacy. \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/eric-garcetti-2020-presidential-run-759297/\">expected to throw his hat in the ring\u003c/a> is \u003cstrong>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti\u003c/strong>. Garcetti doesn't have the name recognition of Harris, but also put in the work during the midterms in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garcetti-new-hampshire-20170816-story.html\">early caucus and primary states,\u003c/a> and thinks he \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2018/10/17/17987870/eric-garcetti-2020-presidential-race-democrats-donald-trump-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast\">knows the special formula to challenge Trump\u003c/a>. He'd be going against history: no one has successfully transitioned from running a city to running the country (but then again, no one had ever gone from being a New York real estate developer who had never held office to the White House before 2016).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in Los Angeles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-eric-garcetti-president-20180902-story.html\">bristled at the idea\u003c/a> that Garcetti is using his office as a launching pad to higher office when the city faces plenty of challenges. Garcetti has said \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/412447-los-angeles-mayor-says-he-will-make-decision-about-2020-by-end-of\">he will decide by the end of the year\u003c/a> whether to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Congressman Eric Swalwell\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15th District Congressman Eric Swalwell has only served one term in office but has already made a name for himself with his use of social media. \u003ccite>(Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps even more surprising, \u003cstrong>East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell\u003c/strong> is also flirting with the idea of a presidential run (an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/politics/swalwell-consider-president-2020-cnntv/index.html\">announcement\u003c/a> he made just a few weeks after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684601/eric-swalwell-on-his-iowa-roots-lessons-of-knocking-off-an-incumbent-and-how-to-talk-about-trump-and-russia\">appearing on KQED's Political Breakdown.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell, who's just 38, seems like a bit of a \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420945-swalwell-i-do-see-a-path-to-democratic-nomination-in-2020\">longshot.\u003c/a> As a young congressman, he has little name recognition outside the Bay Area — but he's no stranger to a tough fight or Iowa. Swalwell was elected to Congress after \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/stark-defeated-after-40-years-in-congress-083480\">knocking off a 20-term Democrat\u003c/a> who held the office before Swalwell was even born. Plus he was raised in Iowa, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/kathie-obradovich/2018/04/09/congressman-eric-swalwell-iowa-2020-dad-fired-algona-police/498643002/\">lent him some buzz there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's also been making the rounds on cable news, raising his profile by talking about the Robert Mueller investigation, and is a savvy social media user.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Billionaire Tom Steyer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist Tom Steyer speaking during a press conference at the National Press Club December 6, 2017, in Washington, DC. Steyer has attracted attention from Democratic activists with his self-funded \"Need to Impeach\" campaign. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally, billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic activist \u003cstrong>Tom Steyer \u003c/strong>has also been exploring a run. In the clearest (and most bizarre) sign yet, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/politics/tom-steyer-president.html\">posted anonymous Linkedin ads\u003c/a> recently, seeking state directors in three of the four early primary/caucus states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyer (who also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11644538/tom-steyer-on-president-trumps-high-crimes-and-the-stigma-of-being-a-big-donor\">appeared on KQED's Political Breakdown\u003c/a> earlier this year) may not be well known nationally either, but he has amassed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-steyers-impeachment-crusade-is-building-him-a-political-death-star\">impressive email list\u003c/a> of millions of Democratic activists in recent years. He also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/tom-steyer-impeachment/index.html\">spent $120 million in the midterm elections\u003c/a> — in part to help young voters turn out. All of which could help him launch a presidential bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect a lot more maneuvering from all these California Democrats in the first quarter of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With the midterms over, four California politicians have set their sights on the 2020 election. But can any of them unseat President Trump?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1580429338,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":755},"headData":{"title":"Four Californians Eye 2020 Presidential Run — But Do They Have a Chance? | KQED","description":"With the midterms over, four California politicians have set their sights on the 2020 election. But can any of them unseat President Trump?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Four Californians Eye 2020 Presidential Run — But Do They Have a Chance?","datePublished":"2018-12-14T21:32:50.000Z","dateModified":"2020-01-31T00:08:58.000Z","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":"11712508 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11712508","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/14/four-californians-eye-2020-presidential-run-but-do-they-have-a-chance/","disqusTitle":"Four Californians Eye 2020 Presidential Run — But Do They Have a Chance?","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2018/12/JamaliLagosCAPrez.mp3","audioTrackLength":212,"path":"/news/11712508/four-californians-eye-2020-presidential-run-but-do-they-have-a-chance","audioDuration":212000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It might feel like we just got through the midterms, but already the race for who will challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 election is heating up — and several Golden State politicos are in the middle of the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sen. Kamala Harris\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS18508_GettyImages-463140902-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kamala Harris has boosted her profile in the past few years, particularly during the recent confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most notable, perhaps, is \u003cstrong>U.S. Senator Kamala Harris\u003c/strong>. Harris is just finishing her second year in Washington, but she's been garnering buzz since the day she was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, who has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Truths-We-Hold-American-Journey/dp/0525560718\">book out early next year\u003c/a> (a common move by presidential hopefuls), \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-na-harris-campaign-draw-20181011-story.html\">campaigned for and raised millions for her Democratic colleagues\u003c/a> during the midterms, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/22/kamala-harris-2020-iowa-923968\">making the rounds\u003c/a> in some early caucus and primary states and seems to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kamala-harris-2020-slogan-768427/\">testing out a campaign theme\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702713/wheres-kamala-harris-california-senator-making-the-2020-rounds\">recent speeches\u003c/a>. She made \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-Kavanaugh-White-House-FBI-speech-13285239.php\">waves\u003c/a> during the Kavanaugh hearings, and in recent appearances she's been courting women — particularly women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has said she will make a decision about whether to run over the holidays and make an announcement in early January. If she does decide to run, expect to see enthusiasm from some quarters and questions about whether a black, progressive woman from California is best suited to challenge Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut-1200x778.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS30464_GettyImages-939452014-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks onstage during The Alliance For Children's Rights 26th Annual Dinner on March 28, 2018, in Beverly Hills. Garcetti has said the way to beat President Trump in 2020 is by attacking the perception of his efficacy. \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/eric-garcetti-2020-presidential-run-759297/\">expected to throw his hat in the ring\u003c/a> is \u003cstrong>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti\u003c/strong>. Garcetti doesn't have the name recognition of Harris, but also put in the work during the midterms in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garcetti-new-hampshire-20170816-story.html\">early caucus and primary states,\u003c/a> and thinks he \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2018/10/17/17987870/eric-garcetti-2020-presidential-race-democrats-donald-trump-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast\">knows the special formula to challenge Trump\u003c/a>. He'd be going against history: no one has successfully transitioned from running a city to running the country (but then again, no one had ever gone from being a New York real estate developer who had never held office to the White House before 2016).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in Los Angeles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-eric-garcetti-president-20180902-story.html\">bristled at the idea\u003c/a> that Garcetti is using his office as a launching pad to higher office when the city faces plenty of challenges. Garcetti has said \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/412447-los-angeles-mayor-says-he-will-make-decision-about-2020-by-end-of\">he will decide by the end of the year\u003c/a> whether to run.\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\u003ch3>Congressman Eric Swalwell\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2615_EricSwalwell20121106-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15th District Congressman Eric Swalwell has only served one term in office but has already made a name for himself with his use of social media. \u003ccite>(Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps even more surprising, \u003cstrong>East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell\u003c/strong> is also flirting with the idea of a presidential run (an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/politics/swalwell-consider-president-2020-cnntv/index.html\">announcement\u003c/a> he made just a few weeks after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684601/eric-swalwell-on-his-iowa-roots-lessons-of-knocking-off-an-incumbent-and-how-to-talk-about-trump-and-russia\">appearing on KQED's Political Breakdown.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell, who's just 38, seems like a bit of a \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420945-swalwell-i-do-see-a-path-to-democratic-nomination-in-2020\">longshot.\u003c/a> As a young congressman, he has little name recognition outside the Bay Area — but he's no stranger to a tough fight or Iowa. Swalwell was elected to Congress after \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/stark-defeated-after-40-years-in-congress-083480\">knocking off a 20-term Democrat\u003c/a> who held the office before Swalwell was even born. Plus he was raised in Iowa, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/kathie-obradovich/2018/04/09/congressman-eric-swalwell-iowa-2020-dad-fired-algona-police/498643002/\">lent him some buzz there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's also been making the rounds on cable news, raising his profile by talking about the Robert Mueller investigation, and is a savvy social media user.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Billionaire Tom Steyer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS28748_GettyImages-887058058-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist Tom Steyer speaking during a press conference at the National Press Club December 6, 2017, in Washington, DC. Steyer has attracted attention from Democratic activists with his self-funded \"Need to Impeach\" campaign. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally, billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic activist \u003cstrong>Tom Steyer \u003c/strong>has also been exploring a run. In the clearest (and most bizarre) sign yet, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/politics/tom-steyer-president.html\">posted anonymous Linkedin ads\u003c/a> recently, seeking state directors in three of the four early primary/caucus states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyer (who also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11644538/tom-steyer-on-president-trumps-high-crimes-and-the-stigma-of-being-a-big-donor\">appeared on KQED's Political Breakdown\u003c/a> earlier this year) may not be well known nationally either, but he has amassed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-steyers-impeachment-crusade-is-building-him-a-political-death-star\">impressive email list\u003c/a> of millions of Democratic activists in recent years. He also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/tom-steyer-impeachment/index.html\">spent $120 million in the midterm elections\u003c/a> — in part to help young voters turn out. All of which could help him launch a presidential bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect a lot more maneuvering from all these California Democrats in the first quarter of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11712508/four-californians-eye-2020-presidential-run-but-do-they-have-a-chance","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20251","news_1323","news_27370","news_20837","news_20910","news_61","news_17041","news_19930"],"featImg":"news_11712539","label":"news_72"},"news_11704681":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11704681","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11704681","score":null,"sort":[1541628572000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"about-that-blue-wave","title":"About That Blue Wave . . .","publishDate":1541628572,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Even though they \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorewave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captured the U.S. House of Representatives\u003c/a>, the \"blue wave\" wasn't quite as big as some Democrats had hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, and won a handful of key \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/06/664959903/ted-cruz-defeats-beto-orourke-in-texas-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile races\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, likely to become the speaker of the House, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704664/pelosi-democrats-have-a-responsibility-to-seek-common-ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke of bipartisanship\u003c/a> and a desire to \"seek common ground where we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a handful of races in the \"likely-to-flip\" category were still \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704247/these-7-california-congressional-races-could-determine-which-party-controls-the-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">too close to call\u003c/a> on Wednesday afternoon, but could add to that \"blue wave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Even though they captured the House, the 'blue wave' wasn't quite as big as some Democrats had hoped, as Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1541628572,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":95},"headData":{"title":"About That Blue Wave . . . | KQED","description":"Even though they captured the House, the 'blue wave' wasn't quite as big as some Democrats had hoped, as Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"About That Blue Wave . . .","datePublished":"2018-11-07T22:09:32.000Z","dateModified":"2018-11-07T22:09:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11704681 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11704681","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/07/about-that-blue-wave/","disqusTitle":"About That Blue Wave . . .","path":"/news/11704681/about-that-blue-wave","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even though they \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorewave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captured the U.S. House of Representatives\u003c/a>, the \"blue wave\" wasn't quite as big as some Democrats had hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, and won a handful of key \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/06/664959903/ted-cruz-defeats-beto-orourke-in-texas-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile races\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, likely to become the speaker of the House, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704664/pelosi-democrats-have-a-responsibility-to-seek-common-ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke of bipartisanship\u003c/a> and a desire to \"seek common ground where we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a handful of races in the \"likely-to-flip\" category were still \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704247/these-7-california-congressional-races-could-determine-which-party-controls-the-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">too close to call\u003c/a> on Wednesday afternoon, but could add to that \"blue wave.\"\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 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Josh Newman was pitching in at Proterra, an electric bus manufacturer that opened a state-of-the-art factory in his district last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman spent the morning helping install bus doors at the factory. In general, he spent his legislative summer recess doing what lawmakers do: Meeting with constituents, spending time with family -- and, in this case, getting to know a local business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But looming over his break from the Capitol was the reality that Newman -- who was elected to represent his Southern California district last November -- could be out of a job before the year is out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think there’s just so much to dislike about the recall effort against state Sen. Newman. So, so much about this is about politics, not necessarily about good public policy.'\u003ccite>Jessica Levinson,\u003cbr>\nLoyola law professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In May, Republicans launched a recall against Newman, who won his seat in a surprise narrow victory. His district sits at the meeting point of three counties -- Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino -- and has, like much of this region, been reliably Republican territory for years. But the demographics of Orange County are changing: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton carried the county last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-oc-clinton-20161109-story.html\">the first time since 1936 that a Democrat\u003c/a> did so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implications of Newman's win stretched far beyond the borders of the 29th Senate District. It gave Democrats two-thirds of the members in the state Senate, leaving the ruling party with super-majorities in both houses of the Legislature. That's a key threshold for tough votes, including tax hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So GOP leaders were still smarting from their loss in May when Newman cast a vote in favor of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/06/in-big-win-for-gov-brown-state-legislature-oks-major-transportation-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transportation infrastructure package\u003c/a> that included a gas tax hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists -- largely led by conservative talk show hosts on local radio stations -- saw an opportunity, and started gathering signatures to boot the freshman lawmaker out of office. And they've cleared an important hurdle: Last week, county registrars in his district reported they \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/21/organizers-to-recall-state-sen-josh-newman-have-enough-signatures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have several thousand more signatures than needed to force a recall vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What better way to send a message to the politicians ... than to start firing them, one by one, starting with the deciding vote?' \u003ccite>Carl DeMaio,\u003cbr>\nConservative talk show host\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>when\u003c/em> the election will take place is up in the air, in part because Democrats are trying to change the rules for recall elections. In general, said Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson, both parties have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/parties-ashamed-newman-recall-hijinks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engaged in cynical behavior\u003c/a> to promote their side since the recall effort began. That behavior includes questionable tactics during signature gathering, multiple lawsuits and attempts to change both recall laws and campaign finance rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there’s just so much to dislike about the recall effort against state Sen. Newman,\" Levinson said. \"So, so much about this is about politics, not necessarily about good public policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Payback for Gas Tax Vote or Partisan Grab?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl DeMaio, one of the conservative radio personalities who used his radio show to gin up support for the recall effort he is helping to lead, told KQED in June that there's one simple reason to recall Newman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He voted for the car and gas tax hike,\" DeMaio said. \"And what better way to send a message to the politicians that we want it reversed than to start firing them, one by one, starting with the deciding vote, Sen. Newman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newman maintains he wasn't the deciding vote -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc10.com/news/local/sacramento/a-republican-senators-pivotal-vote-to-pass-californias-gas-tax-plan/429461824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Republican senator was\u003c/a>. And no other lawmaker has been targeted for recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman insisted that he's being singled out because of politics, not a policy vote, for what he sees as a dubious reason: Fulfilling his duty as a lawmaker to vote on bills. He called it a \"cynical attempt to manipulate the system for partisan reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613751\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Josh Newman helps Proterra employee Joshua Schneider work on an electric bus. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think this is about the gas tax vote. This is about the supermajority in the Legislature, and they're using the gas tax as a pretext to institute a special recall election because it gives them the best chance, they think, to flip a seat,\" Newman said. \"So I would argue I won fair and square in a presidential election with high turnout that was very representative of my district. But if you had enough signatures to instigate a special election, you might get a different composition of that electorate. And I think that's what recall proponents are banking on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bad Behavior on Both Sides\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman believes thousands of voters were misled into signing the recall petition, thinking they were actually supporting a repeal of the car tax. He has filed suit, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article158942474.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking the court to halt the recall process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those signatures were gathered using the argument that signing the petition was a step toward repealing the gas tax,\" he said. \"That's not just my opinion. We have a significant amount of evidence to support that assertion, including thousands of people who came to us ... and asked that their names be taken off the petition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts haven't ruled on Newman's lawsuit. But as all this was happening, Democratic leaders in the state Legislature \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-democrats-seek-a-change-in-california-1497298160-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made a play to push off the recall to 2018\u003c/a>, when Newman would likely face a more friendly electorate. Past election data show that a special election would favor Republicans, said Paul Mitchell, who heads one of California's most respected voter data firms. Consolidating the recall with next June's primary would give Newman a much better chance of holding on to the seat, Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation to change recall laws, which Newman did not support, was included in a budget trailer bill and ultimately signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. But earlier this month, it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-a-recall-election-for-state-sen-josh-1502755663-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put on hold by the courts\u003c/a> after a judge determined it might violate a law that says legislation may not address more than one subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this week, Democrats made another attempt to push off the recall to next year, introducing a new set of bills that would do the same thing as the budget trailer bill. The legislation \u003ca href=\"http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_XGR_CALIFORNIA_LAWMAKER_RECALL_CAOL-?SITE=CASON&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-08-24-13-57-43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed both houses Thursday\u003c/a> and Brown signed it today. It will, in part, allow people to remove their signatures from recall petitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also this month, the state's campaign finance watchdog, the Fair Political Practices Commission, voted 3-1 to increase contribution limits to recall committees, another change that stands to benefit Newman. The change \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article167765227.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came after lobbying by a lawyer for Democrats\u003c/a>, prompting howls from Republicans already angry about the attempt to change recall law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson, the law professor who is also president of the city of Los Angeles' Ethics Commission, said the commission's rule change appears to be a partisan move to benefit Democrats. She thinks it's actually more complicated, noting two of the three commissioners who voted for the change are Republicans who \"don't like campaign contribution limits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it all looks bad, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s just so much to not like about the recall effort,\" said Levinson. \"It's the effort itself, which is disingenuous and potentially misleading, it's the law to change the recall, it's the suit about the law to change the recall, it's the state agency that changes the rules regarding contribution limits to recall committees. And, it's everybody’s rationale, which frankly feels like if this were a Republican being recalled, maybe everybody would be making the opposite argument to what they are making now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman, a political neophyte who served as an officer in the Army after college and has spent recent years advocating for veterans, seems a bit bewildered by the whole thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no regrets so far, though it has been an interesting education in full-contact politics,\" he said with a laugh during a wide-ranging interview after his morning at Proterra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mixed Opinions in Newman's District\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newman's district, people's feelings on the recall seem mostly based on which political camp they come from -- or perhaps more accurately, what sort of talk radio they tune in to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buena Park resident Joseph Sabo was at a church barbecue in Fullerton on a recent Sunday. He drives for Uber and Lyft, so gas prices are important to him. But when asked about the recall, Sabo first mentioned his frustration with Brown over the gas tax. As for Newman, Sabo couldn't even recall his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said he's voting for the recall, noting he's been hearing about it on talk radio for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of town at a Fullerton coffee shop, musician Ezekiel St. James said most of what he’s heard about the recall has been on the radio, too -- albeit a left-leaning station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. James is definitely voting to keep Newman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he’s honest,\" he said. \"I like someone who takes a stand, is authentic regardless of the consequences, and of course he’s suffering the consequences now, the media backlash and the pushback on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans say Newman deserves that backlash. Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker, one of several Republicans lining up to replace him, said Newman ran for office promising to be a different type of Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one vote lit the fuse, but really his voting record at this point, I believe, is out of sync with the district,\" Whitaker said, adding that many people he's talked to were \"incensed\" by Newman's vote for the gas tax. \"When he ran for office, he talked about being a different kind of Democrat and projected a notion of being more fiscally moderate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman said he hasn't heard much about his vote for the gas tax, except from people who listen to conservative talk radio. He said what people \u003cem>do\u003c/em> want is an assurance that their money is being spent wisely, which is why he's authored a constitutional amendment that would wall off the gas tax money from being used for anything other than transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a consensus in my district that they want traffic congestion addressed and they want bridges and roads fixed,\" he said. \"I understand nobody wants to pay taxes and I don't want to raise people's taxes, but I think what people are more concerned about is that when government spends your money, that it is a good steward of that money and that it is transparent and accountable for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In Southern California, GOP attempt to oust Democrat Josh Newman turns nasty on all sides. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1526152791,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1794},"headData":{"title":"Democrats, Republicans Face Off Over Recall of State Senator | KQED","description":"In Southern California, GOP attempt to oust Democrat Josh Newman turns nasty on all sides. 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Josh Newman was pitching in at Proterra, an electric bus manufacturer that opened a state-of-the-art factory in his district last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman spent the morning helping install bus doors at the factory. In general, he spent his legislative summer recess doing what lawmakers do: Meeting with constituents, spending time with family -- and, in this case, getting to know a local business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But looming over his break from the Capitol was the reality that Newman -- who was elected to represent his Southern California district last November -- could be out of a job before the year is out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think there’s just so much to dislike about the recall effort against state Sen. Newman. So, so much about this is about politics, not necessarily about good public policy.'\u003ccite>Jessica Levinson,\u003cbr>\nLoyola law professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In May, Republicans launched a recall against Newman, who won his seat in a surprise narrow victory. His district sits at the meeting point of three counties -- Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino -- and has, like much of this region, been reliably Republican territory for years. But the demographics of Orange County are changing: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton carried the county last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-oc-clinton-20161109-story.html\">the first time since 1936 that a Democrat\u003c/a> did so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implications of Newman's win stretched far beyond the borders of the 29th Senate District. It gave Democrats two-thirds of the members in the state Senate, leaving the ruling party with super-majorities in both houses of the Legislature. That's a key threshold for tough votes, including tax hikes.\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>So GOP leaders were still smarting from their loss in May when Newman cast a vote in favor of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/06/in-big-win-for-gov-brown-state-legislature-oks-major-transportation-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transportation infrastructure package\u003c/a> that included a gas tax hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists -- largely led by conservative talk show hosts on local radio stations -- saw an opportunity, and started gathering signatures to boot the freshman lawmaker out of office. And they've cleared an important hurdle: Last week, county registrars in his district reported they \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/21/organizers-to-recall-state-sen-josh-newman-have-enough-signatures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have several thousand more signatures than needed to force a recall vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What better way to send a message to the politicians ... than to start firing them, one by one, starting with the deciding vote?' \u003ccite>Carl DeMaio,\u003cbr>\nConservative talk show host\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>when\u003c/em> the election will take place is up in the air, in part because Democrats are trying to change the rules for recall elections. In general, said Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson, both parties have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/parties-ashamed-newman-recall-hijinks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engaged in cynical behavior\u003c/a> to promote their side since the recall effort began. That behavior includes questionable tactics during signature gathering, multiple lawsuits and attempts to change both recall laws and campaign finance rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there’s just so much to dislike about the recall effort against state Sen. Newman,\" Levinson said. \"So, so much about this is about politics, not necessarily about good public policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Payback for Gas Tax Vote or Partisan Grab?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl DeMaio, one of the conservative radio personalities who used his radio show to gin up support for the recall effort he is helping to lead, told KQED in June that there's one simple reason to recall Newman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He voted for the car and gas tax hike,\" DeMaio said. \"And what better way to send a message to the politicians that we want it reversed than to start firing them, one by one, starting with the deciding vote, Sen. Newman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newman maintains he wasn't the deciding vote -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc10.com/news/local/sacramento/a-republican-senators-pivotal-vote-to-pass-californias-gas-tax-plan/429461824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Republican senator was\u003c/a>. And no other lawmaker has been targeted for recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman insisted that he's being singled out because of politics, not a policy vote, for what he sees as a dubious reason: Fulfilling his duty as a lawmaker to vote on bills. He called it a \"cynical attempt to manipulate the system for partisan reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613751\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26286_IMG_1810-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Josh Newman helps Proterra employee Joshua Schneider work on an electric bus. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think this is about the gas tax vote. This is about the supermajority in the Legislature, and they're using the gas tax as a pretext to institute a special recall election because it gives them the best chance, they think, to flip a seat,\" Newman said. \"So I would argue I won fair and square in a presidential election with high turnout that was very representative of my district. But if you had enough signatures to instigate a special election, you might get a different composition of that electorate. And I think that's what recall proponents are banking on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bad Behavior on Both Sides\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman believes thousands of voters were misled into signing the recall petition, thinking they were actually supporting a repeal of the car tax. He has filed suit, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article158942474.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking the court to halt the recall process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those signatures were gathered using the argument that signing the petition was a step toward repealing the gas tax,\" he said. \"That's not just my opinion. We have a significant amount of evidence to support that assertion, including thousands of people who came to us ... and asked that their names be taken off the petition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts haven't ruled on Newman's lawsuit. But as all this was happening, Democratic leaders in the state Legislature \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-democrats-seek-a-change-in-california-1497298160-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made a play to push off the recall to 2018\u003c/a>, when Newman would likely face a more friendly electorate. Past election data show that a special election would favor Republicans, said Paul Mitchell, who heads one of California's most respected voter data firms. Consolidating the recall with next June's primary would give Newman a much better chance of holding on to the seat, Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation to change recall laws, which Newman did not support, was included in a budget trailer bill and ultimately signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. But earlier this month, it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-a-recall-election-for-state-sen-josh-1502755663-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put on hold by the courts\u003c/a> after a judge determined it might violate a law that says legislation may not address more than one subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this week, Democrats made another attempt to push off the recall to next year, introducing a new set of bills that would do the same thing as the budget trailer bill. The legislation \u003ca href=\"http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_XGR_CALIFORNIA_LAWMAKER_RECALL_CAOL-?SITE=CASON&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-08-24-13-57-43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed both houses Thursday\u003c/a> and Brown signed it today. It will, in part, allow people to remove their signatures from recall petitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also this month, the state's campaign finance watchdog, the Fair Political Practices Commission, voted 3-1 to increase contribution limits to recall committees, another change that stands to benefit Newman. The change \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article167765227.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came after lobbying by a lawyer for Democrats\u003c/a>, prompting howls from Republicans already angry about the attempt to change recall law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson, the law professor who is also president of the city of Los Angeles' Ethics Commission, said the commission's rule change appears to be a partisan move to benefit Democrats. She thinks it's actually more complicated, noting two of the three commissioners who voted for the change are Republicans who \"don't like campaign contribution limits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it all looks bad, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s just so much to not like about the recall effort,\" said Levinson. \"It's the effort itself, which is disingenuous and potentially misleading, it's the law to change the recall, it's the suit about the law to change the recall, it's the state agency that changes the rules regarding contribution limits to recall committees. And, it's everybody’s rationale, which frankly feels like if this were a Republican being recalled, maybe everybody would be making the opposite argument to what they are making now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman, a political neophyte who served as an officer in the Army after college and has spent recent years advocating for veterans, seems a bit bewildered by the whole thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no regrets so far, though it has been an interesting education in full-contact politics,\" he said with a laugh during a wide-ranging interview after his morning at Proterra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mixed Opinions in Newman's District\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newman's district, people's feelings on the recall seem mostly based on which political camp they come from -- or perhaps more accurately, what sort of talk radio they tune in to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buena Park resident Joseph Sabo was at a church barbecue in Fullerton on a recent Sunday. He drives for Uber and Lyft, so gas prices are important to him. But when asked about the recall, Sabo first mentioned his frustration with Brown over the gas tax. As for Newman, Sabo couldn't even recall his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said he's voting for the recall, noting he's been hearing about it on talk radio for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of town at a Fullerton coffee shop, musician Ezekiel St. James said most of what he’s heard about the recall has been on the radio, too -- albeit a left-leaning station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. James is definitely voting to keep Newman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he’s honest,\" he said. \"I like someone who takes a stand, is authentic regardless of the consequences, and of course he’s suffering the consequences now, the media backlash and the pushback on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans say Newman deserves that backlash. Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker, one of several Republicans lining up to replace him, said Newman ran for office promising to be a different type of Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one vote lit the fuse, but really his voting record at this point, I believe, is out of sync with the district,\" Whitaker said, adding that many people he's talked to were \"incensed\" by Newman's vote for the gas tax. \"When he ran for office, he talked about being a different kind of Democrat and projected a notion of being more fiscally moderate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newman said he hasn't heard much about his vote for the gas tax, except from people who listen to conservative talk radio. He said what people \u003cem>do\u003c/em> want is an assurance that their money is being spent wisely, which is why he's authored a constitutional amendment that would wall off the gas tax money from being used for anything other than transportation infrastructure.\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>\"There is a consensus in my district that they want traffic congestion addressed and they want bridges and roads fixed,\" he said. \"I understand nobody wants to pay taxes and I don't want to raise people's taxes, but I think what people are more concerned about is that when government spends your money, that it is a good steward of that money and that it is transparent and accountable for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11613325/democrats-republicans-face-off-over-recall-of-state-senator","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20251","news_2704","news_3976","news_20191","news_23214","news_21509","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11613714","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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