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Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his pick for vice president on Tuesday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal announcement was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts by Lake Merritt. Classic rock played as the crowd filtered in, and scenes of the American Southwest were shown on two large screens. The predominantly white crowd waved American flags in the half-filled auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States — my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan claimed the Republican and Democratic parties are failing to support individual freedom.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Independent Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan\"]‘If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.’[/pullquote]“In fact, the very failure of both parties to do their job to protect their founding values has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime,” she told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I become disillusioned with mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, 38, is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to manage patent portfolios and sold the company in 2020. She is also president of \u003ca href=\"https://biaecho.org/\">Bia-Echo\u003c/a>, a foundation that invests in reproductive health and criminal justice reform, according to the company’s website. She was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The couple, who have a daughter, divorced in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, was raised on welfare in a single-parent household in Oakland. She graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you probably know, I became very wealthy later on in life,” she said. “But my roots in Oakland taught me many things I have never forgotten — that the purpose of wealth is to help those in need. And I want to bring that back to politics, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan has never held public office, though she has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020. In February, she donated $4 million to a super PAC to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html\">help pay for a Super Bowl ad\u003c/a> backing Kennedy’s campaign, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy apologized after the ad, which was similar to a commercial supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his presidential campaign in 1960, sparked outrage from family members. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has linked himself to his family’s political legacy, but his promotion of conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation has been criticized by his cousins, among others.[aside postID=news_11978645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2067239298-1020x680.jpg']Kennedy has made numerous false or misleading claims about vaccines in speeches and media interviews, including referring to the COVID-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” He’s claimed that antidepressants are to blame for school shootings and that chemicals in water supplies could make children transgender. In 2023, he told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign\">NPR’s roundup of the conspiracy theories promoted by Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do wonder about vaccine injuries,” Shanahan said in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> story about the Super Bowl ad. “I think there needs to be a space to have these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the roughly 200 attendees were also skeptical of vaccines, like Aaron Tran, an Oakland resident who works in the cannabis industry. He said anti-vax theories haven’t been disproven in studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980908 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Nicole Shanahan, a tech lawyer and investor, to a crowd of a few hundred at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the studies are there, [Kennedy] wants to make it public so we can all see it,” said Tran, 42. “And if the studies are not done, then to get them done. Then take action on whatever that evidence provides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Karen Motlow, hopes Kennedy can win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if he doesn’t, we’re toast,” Motlow, 71, said. “We’re already toast as far as humanity goes because so many people have taken a synthetic genetic vaccine that has an HIV plasmid in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck with an anti-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad paid for by the Democratic National Committee outside a campaign rally at the Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland on March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-185375755407\">HIV\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/no-monkey-virus-dna-was-not-found-in-covid-vaccines-00000188e957d32da188e9ff1aef0000\">cancer-causing “monkey virus,”\u003c/a> according to the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org\u003c/a>, among other organizations, have debunked Kennedy’s controversial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia and Paul, a couple from Fresno who declined to give their last name to KQED, said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine theories were problematic.[aside label='More on Politics and Government' tag='politics']“I don’t agree with that,” Sonia said. “But that’s why we’re here, to find out more, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parade of speakers positioned Kennedy as an underdog, including Angela Stanton-King, a conspiracy theorist who was once an ally of former President Donald Trump, former NBA player Metta Sandiford-Artest and Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has significant hurdles to becoming a viable alternative for voters. Independent candidates must submit nomination signatures in each of the 50 states to be added to ballots. In California, Kennedy needs about 220,000 signatures to qualify for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has officially qualified for the ballot in Utah, and his campaign claims he has collected enough signatures to qualify in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access\">Nevada, New Hampshire and Hawaii\u003c/a>. It will be expensive to collect the millions of signatures required to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvuyXAN9L0\">YouTube video,\u003c/a> Kennedy said it will cost $15 million. Shanahan’s personal wealth and Silicon Valley connections will ease the financial burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taps Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Oakland. Shanahan has limited political experience but has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711569152,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1121},"headData":{"title":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate | KQED","description":"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taps Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Oakland. Shanahan has limited political experience but has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980780/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his pick for vice president on Tuesday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal announcement was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts by Lake Merritt. Classic rock played as the crowd filtered in, and scenes of the American Southwest were shown on two large screens. The predominantly white crowd waved American flags in the half-filled auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States — my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan claimed the Republican and Democratic parties are failing to support individual freedom.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Independent Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In fact, the very failure of both parties to do their job to protect their founding values has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime,” she told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I become disillusioned with mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, 38, is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to manage patent portfolios and sold the company in 2020. She is also president of \u003ca href=\"https://biaecho.org/\">Bia-Echo\u003c/a>, a foundation that invests in reproductive health and criminal justice reform, according to the company’s website. She was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The couple, who have a daughter, divorced in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, was raised on welfare in a single-parent household in Oakland. She graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you probably know, I became very wealthy later on in life,” she said. “But my roots in Oakland taught me many things I have never forgotten — that the purpose of wealth is to help those in need. And I want to bring that back to politics, too.”\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>Shanahan has never held public office, though she has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020. In February, she donated $4 million to a super PAC to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html\">help pay for a Super Bowl ad\u003c/a> backing Kennedy’s campaign, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy apologized after the ad, which was similar to a commercial supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his presidential campaign in 1960, sparked outrage from family members. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has linked himself to his family’s political legacy, but his promotion of conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation has been criticized by his cousins, among others.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11978645","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2067239298-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kennedy has made numerous false or misleading claims about vaccines in speeches and media interviews, including referring to the COVID-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” He’s claimed that antidepressants are to blame for school shootings and that chemicals in water supplies could make children transgender. In 2023, he told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign\">NPR’s roundup of the conspiracy theories promoted by Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do wonder about vaccine injuries,” Shanahan said in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> story about the Super Bowl ad. “I think there needs to be a space to have these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the roughly 200 attendees were also skeptical of vaccines, like Aaron Tran, an Oakland resident who works in the cannabis industry. He said anti-vax theories haven’t been disproven in studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980908 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Nicole Shanahan, a tech lawyer and investor, to a crowd of a few hundred at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the studies are there, [Kennedy] wants to make it public so we can all see it,” said Tran, 42. “And if the studies are not done, then to get them done. Then take action on whatever that evidence provides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Karen Motlow, hopes Kennedy can win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if he doesn’t, we’re toast,” Motlow, 71, said. “We’re already toast as far as humanity goes because so many people have taken a synthetic genetic vaccine that has an HIV plasmid in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck with an anti-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad paid for by the Democratic National Committee outside a campaign rally at the Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland on March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-185375755407\">HIV\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/no-monkey-virus-dna-was-not-found-in-covid-vaccines-00000188e957d32da188e9ff1aef0000\">cancer-causing “monkey virus,”\u003c/a> according to the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org\u003c/a>, among other organizations, have debunked Kennedy’s controversial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia and Paul, a couple from Fresno who declined to give their last name to KQED, said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine theories were problematic.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics and Government ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I don’t agree with that,” Sonia said. “But that’s why we’re here, to find out more, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parade of speakers positioned Kennedy as an underdog, including Angela Stanton-King, a conspiracy theorist who was once an ally of former President Donald Trump, former NBA player Metta Sandiford-Artest and Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has significant hurdles to becoming a viable alternative for voters. Independent candidates must submit nomination signatures in each of the 50 states to be added to ballots. In California, Kennedy needs about 220,000 signatures to qualify for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has officially qualified for the ballot in Utah, and his campaign claims he has collected enough signatures to qualify in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access\">Nevada, New Hampshire and Hawaii\u003c/a>. It will be expensive to collect the millions of signatures required to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvuyXAN9L0\">YouTube video,\u003c/a> Kennedy said it will cost $15 million. Shanahan’s personal wealth and Silicon Valley connections will ease the financial burden.\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/11980780/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_18","news_17968","news_18536","news_33926","news_28984"],"featImg":"news_11980878","label":"news"},"news_11980278":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980278","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980278","score":null,"sort":[1711045178000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-social-welfare-workers-protest-proposition-f-saying-it-will-worsen-agencys-staffing-crisis","title":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency's Staffing Crisis","publishDate":1711045178,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency’s Staffing Crisis | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallied outside their downtown office on Wednesday to protest the additional workload they may have to take on because of a new local measure that mandates drug screening for some residents who receive cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not enough staff to begin with. We know the staff that we have now, they barely are able to serve the community that we normally serve,” said Alejandra Calderon, a child protective specialist at the agency, who was among the roughly 100 workers at the demonstration. “And now we’re adding this other layer when we’re not ready at all.”[aside postID=\"news_11978236\" hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2099/03/240305-ElectionFileSF-60-BL_qut-1-1020x680.jpg']Voters on March 5 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f\">decisively approved Proposition F\u003c/a>, a measure introduced by Mayor London Breed that tasks the Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family caseworkers are already “seeing up to between 20 to 24 cases, which is just very dangerous,” Calderon said. “A lot of things are getting lost in the shuffle. And so it’s jeopardizing the quality of services that we’re able to provide to the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Rutherford, president of SEIU Local 1021, the union representing workers at the agency, said the city needs to provide the resources necessary to implement the new rules, not throw it on the backs of its already overworked staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has a responsibility to make sure that when it creates a rule, it creates a law, it creates legislation — that it makes sure that the people are in place to implement that legislation,” she said. “We want this to be fixed. If you want a real law that is going to make change, make sure that you put the resources behind it, make sure that the people are in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Services Agency is already sorely understaffed, with more than 100 vacancies as of January, according to Nato Green, a bargaining coordinator for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Teresa Young, a spokesperson for the Human Services Agency, said Wednesday that workers at the agency would not shoulder the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a crowd of people, taken from behind, wearing purple shirts and holding 'SEIU'; signs. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallying in front of their office on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather, the agency plans to “contract out the drug screening assessments to licensed clinicians and mental health workers,” Young said in an email. She added that the city is “working to be ready to implement this new program” by Jan. 1, 2025, when the new law takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, though, has also raised concerns about the city hiring out non-unionized contract labor and argues that even with the extra help, its own workers would still be responsible for having to “suspect” when a welfare recipient is using drugs and refer them for a screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-prop-f-welfare-drug-use-union-block-measure-18749319.php\">filed an unfair practice charge\u003c/a> on March 7, stating that it was not consulted on the proposition and its potential implications for union-represented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally comes on the heels of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/max-capacity-reached-strike-school-where-sf-city-workers-consider-striking-last-resort\">“strike school”\u003c/a> held last week by SEIU 1021 and other local unions, meant to prepare workers for the possibility of a walkout amid tense ongoing contract negotiations with the city ahead of a June deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Wednesday’s protest were encouraged by union organizers to sign a “strike pledge” affirming they would show up to a picket line and authorize a strike if their bargaining team were to call for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has many vacancies “that really need to be filled, which leaves the rest of us — the remaining staff — working two to three different jobs,” Calderon said. “That’s just, you know, not sustainable in the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The measure, introduced by Mayor London Breed, tasks San Francisco's Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711160599,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":662},"headData":{"title":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency's Staffing Crisis | KQED","description":"The measure, introduced by Mayor London Breed, tasks San Francisco's Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980278/sf-social-welfare-workers-protest-proposition-f-saying-it-will-worsen-agencys-staffing-crisis","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallied outside their downtown office on Wednesday to protest the additional workload they may have to take on because of a new local measure that mandates drug screening for some residents who receive cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not enough staff to begin with. We know the staff that we have now, they barely are able to serve the community that we normally serve,” said Alejandra Calderon, a child protective specialist at the agency, who was among the roughly 100 workers at the demonstration. “And now we’re adding this other layer when we’re not ready at all.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11978236","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2099/03/240305-ElectionFileSF-60-BL_qut-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Voters on March 5 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f\">decisively approved Proposition F\u003c/a>, a measure introduced by Mayor London Breed that tasks the Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family caseworkers are already “seeing up to between 20 to 24 cases, which is just very dangerous,” Calderon said. “A lot of things are getting lost in the shuffle. And so it’s jeopardizing the quality of services that we’re able to provide to the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Rutherford, president of SEIU Local 1021, the union representing workers at the agency, said the city needs to provide the resources necessary to implement the new rules, not throw it on the backs of its already overworked staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has a responsibility to make sure that when it creates a rule, it creates a law, it creates legislation — that it makes sure that the people are in place to implement that legislation,” she said. “We want this to be fixed. If you want a real law that is going to make change, make sure that you put the resources behind it, make sure that the people are in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Services Agency is already sorely understaffed, with more than 100 vacancies as of January, according to Nato Green, a bargaining coordinator for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Teresa Young, a spokesperson for the Human Services Agency, said Wednesday that workers at the agency would not shoulder the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a crowd of people, taken from behind, wearing purple shirts and holding 'SEIU'; signs. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallying in front of their office on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather, the agency plans to “contract out the drug screening assessments to licensed clinicians and mental health workers,” Young said in an email. She added that the city is “working to be ready to implement this new program” by Jan. 1, 2025, when the new law takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, though, has also raised concerns about the city hiring out non-unionized contract labor and argues that even with the extra help, its own workers would still be responsible for having to “suspect” when a welfare recipient is using drugs and refer them for a screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-prop-f-welfare-drug-use-union-block-measure-18749319.php\">filed an unfair practice charge\u003c/a> on March 7, stating that it was not consulted on the proposition and its potential implications for union-represented workers.\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 rally comes on the heels of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/max-capacity-reached-strike-school-where-sf-city-workers-consider-striking-last-resort\">“strike school”\u003c/a> held last week by SEIU 1021 and other local unions, meant to prepare workers for the possibility of a walkout amid tense ongoing contract negotiations with the city ahead of a June deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Wednesday’s protest were encouraged by union organizers to sign a “strike pledge” affirming they would show up to a picket line and authorize a strike if their bargaining team were to call for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has many vacancies “that really need to be filled, which leaves the rest of us — the remaining staff — working two to three different jobs,” Calderon said. “That’s just, you know, not sustainable in the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980278/sf-social-welfare-workers-protest-proposition-f-saying-it-will-worsen-agencys-staffing-crisis","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_32839","news_6931","news_18536","news_18769","news_5214"],"featImg":"news_11980299","label":"news"},"news_11980236":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980236","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980236","score":null,"sort":[1710985704000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","title":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness","publishDate":1710985704,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">state’s homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who personally campaigned for the measure’s passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2–to–1 in California, and the borderline vote — coming more than two weeks after Election Day — signaled unease with the state’s homeless policies after Newsom’s administration invested billions of dollars in getting people off the street. However, no dramatic change has been seen in Los Angeles and other large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who made the measure a signature proposal, spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf. He raised more than $13 million to promote it with the support of law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and mayors of major cities. Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately — state government and local leaders, together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax on millionaires, enacted in 2004, for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance-abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from that tax, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on homelessness\" tag=\"homelessness\"]The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction-treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including many social service providers and county officials, said the change would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homelessness-initiative-mental-health-3e6765a30343f7cc0147efd40f5a2f2f\">threaten programs\u003c/a> that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from losing their homes in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population of six times bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California’s mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce\">make it easier to force people\u003c/a> with behavioral health issues into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he “was on the fence” about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that’s all around us right now,” he said. “We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted against the measure out of concern that it would result in more people being locked up against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities,” Wolf said of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento really shouldn’t get another dime until they actually figure out why what they’re doing is not working,” he said of the state’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem, and it got worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opponents also said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-835c2091c63c199d397346a497e7ae49\">convert rundown motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>. California is also giving out $2 billion in grants to build more treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years, the measure marks a big win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711061054,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":871},"headData":{"title":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness | KQED","description":"The first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years, the measure marks a big win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Trân Nguyẽn\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">state’s homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. 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Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately — state government and local leaders, together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax on millionaires, enacted in 2004, for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance-abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from that tax, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more on homelessness ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction-treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including many social service providers and county officials, said the change would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homelessness-initiative-mental-health-3e6765a30343f7cc0147efd40f5a2f2f\">threaten programs\u003c/a> that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from losing their homes in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population of six times bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California’s mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce\">make it easier to force people\u003c/a> with behavioral health issues into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he “was on the fence” about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that’s all around us right now,” he said. “We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted against the measure out of concern that it would result in more people being locked up against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities,” Wolf said of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento really shouldn’t get another dime until they actually figure out why what they’re doing is not working,” he said of the state’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem, and it got worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opponents also said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-835c2091c63c199d397346a497e7ae49\">convert rundown motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>. California is also giving out $2 billion in grants to build more treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","authors":["byline_news_11980236"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32839","news_27626","news_16","news_4020","news_18536","news_17101"],"featImg":"news_11979100","label":"news"},"news_11979849":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979849","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979849","score":null,"sort":[1710856855000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing","title":"Aaron Peskin's Rumored Run for SF Mayor Has Same Strength and Weakness: Housing","publishDate":1710856855,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Aaron Peskin’s Rumored Run for SF Mayor Has Same Strength and Weakness: Housing | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin mulls a run for mayor, how people view his opposition to market-rate housing would be both a strength and a vulnerability should he jump in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s particularly true in San Francisco’s west side, a neighborhood replete with single-family homes where people have rallied against state laws that would allow more multi-story housing to be built. Peskin is sometimes viewed as a champion of saving neighborhood character from what residents consider to be outsize new construction. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"George Wooding, neighborhood activist who lives west of Twin Peaks\"]‘That’s going to be one of the turning points of the mayor’s race on the west side. Anybody with a brain running for mayor is going to start attacking the density programs.”[/pullquote] George Wooding, a neighborhood activist who lives just west of Twin Peaks, said neighbors are angry about Mayor London Breed’s “Housing for All Plan,” which would incentivize building taller, denser housing. He said they worry there isn’t enough parking or infrastructure to support the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to be one of the turning points of the mayor’s race on the west side,” Wooding said. “Anybody with a brain running for mayor is going to start attacking the density programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s next mayor will steer the city’s future approach to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin is on one side of a divide in development philosophy between moderate and progressive Democrats in San Francisco. The moderates want the city to build, build, build to bring housing costs down. Progressives want the city to focus on building affordable housing while fiercely defending tenant protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government has a role to play. And a progressive mayor, I think, can do so much more to protect and enhance our existing residents and our existing small businesses,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has not declared that he will run for mayor, but he has spoken openly about considering it. Breed is facing a re-election challenge mostly from more conservative Democrats, including former Supervisor Mark Farrell and philanthropist and nonprofit CEO Daniel Lurie. Another candidate, Supervisor Ahsha Safai, has generally been considered a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, whose housing views are more mixed than his supporters or opponents assert, would be running to the left of the aforementioned candidates. But because of his voting record, groups supporting unrestricted construction of market-rate housing are already lining up to stop him from winning the election. [aside label='More on London Breed' tag='london-breed']Breed is a frequent ally of those groups, and courted them in her State of the City speech last week when she promised to veto any “anti-housing” legislation that crosses her desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed through on that pledge Thursday, vetoing legislation brought by Peskin to limit dense housing construction in the Jackson Square Historic District, east of Columbus Street. Supervisors can reject the veto with a supermajority of eight votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ordinance passes off anti-housing policy in the guise of historic protections,” Breed wrote in her veto letter to the board. “Existing rules already protect against impacts to historic resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin countered, in a statement, “Instead of outsourcing housing decisions to developers so they can maximize profit, as the Mayor is doing, we need to build housing our working families can afford while improving the neighborhoods they live in. We don’t have to destroy San Francisco to save it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin was first elected to represent North Beach, Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf and other nearby neighborhoods in 2000. In recent years, he’s sponsored a flurry of resolutions opposing state legislation that would lead to building market-rate housing more freely in San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2018: Senate Bill 827 would have incentivized housing construction near transit lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019: State Assembly Bill 68 would streamline housing approvals near transit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2020: Senate Bill 1085 would strip away some local control against awarding incentives for building denser housing\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s pushback against state regulation doesn’t paint the full picture of Peskin’s housing record. In 2008, as president of the Board of Supervisors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/supes-ok-plan-for-thousands-of-new-homes-3260117.php\">Peskin played a central role in approving the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan\u003c/a>, legislation aimed at allowing the construction of 10,000 new housing units in the Mission, South of Market and Central Waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s arguably one of San Francisco’s most transformative rezoning efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he co-authored Proposition A with Breed, which was approved by voters in the March primary. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976959/proposition-a-why-sf-is-asking-voters-for-a-300-million-affordable-housing-bond\">That measure will deliver a $300 million bond\u003c/a> toward the construction of affordable housing. It was written in concert with companion legislation Peskin introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-breed-signs-housing-stimulus-fee-reform-plan-housing-crisis/\">that would defer development impact fees and winnow inclusionary housing requirements on new construction\u003c/a>. The deferral is estimated to spur the creation of roughly 8,000 housing units, a boon for San Francisco’s state-mandated goal to build 82,000 housing units by 2031. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sachin Agarwal, co-founder, GrowSF\"]‘I believe that Aaron Peskin is going to announce that he’s running. And I think our priority as GrowSF is going to be anybody by Peskin.’[/pullquote]At an election party for moderate-aligned Democrats at Anina bar two weeks ago, GrowSF co-founder Sachin Agarwal said Peskin would be bad for San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that Aaron Peskin is going to announce that he’s running. And I think our priority as GrowSF is going to be anybody by Peskin,” Agarwal said. “He is a huge NIMBY and has blocked an incredible amount of housing during the 20 years that he’s been in some form of San Francisco politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GrowSF is one of a coalition of tech billionaire-funded groups that have raised millions of dollars to recall school board members and former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, while also promoting Democrats aligned with their conservative values on public safety. Outsized funding from these groups has tipped the scales in recent elections and now an avalanche of cash threatens to bury Peskin. [aside postID=news_11976026 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240214-NONCITIZENVOTING-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']GrowSF isn’t the only roadblock to the housing strategies of the progressive camp. Annie Fryman, director of special projects at urbanist think tank SPUR, said any candidate opposing dense housing construction in San Francisco may clash with state regulators, \u003ca href=\"https://generalplan.sfplanning.org/I1_Housing.htm\">who have mandated the city to build those 82,000 housing units by 2031\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That leader will also eventually be accountable to disqualifying us from hundreds of millions of dollars of state affordable housing funding,” Fryman said. “That is a consequence of messing with the housing element.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Smith, executive director of the Housing Action Coalition, a pro-density group that has endorsed Breed, said there are pockets of voters he called old-guard “anti-housing voices” all over the city, particularly in North Beach, the Haight Ashbury and the west side of San Francisco. According to Smith, those constituents hold a Not In My Backyard ethos and oppose housing at every turn. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Corey Smith, executive director, Housing Action Coalition, a pro-density group that endorsed Breed\"]‘I think when you actually think of NIMBYism as it is, I don’t think it’s a big portion of the electorate. I do think there’s a lane for President Peskin in this race.’[/pullquote]“I think when you actually think of NIMBYism as it is, I don’t think it’s a big portion of the electorate,” Smith said. But as part of a coalition, “I do think there’s a lane for President Peskin in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen Boken, a west side advocate who frequently attends City Hall meetings, said her neighbors were “blindsided” by state Sen. Scott Wiener’s proposal to wrest housing approval control of Ocean Beach away from the California Coastal Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said it would unlock more housing construction along the waterfront. The Board of Supervisors approved Peskin’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1991442/battle-over-san-franciscos-coastal-development-sparks-statewide-concerns\"> resolution that opposed Wiener’s coastal plan\u003c/a> in February. The resolution reflected the concerns of people like Boken who worry tall apartment buildings will block views for some while allowing urban skylines to encroach on the beach experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is Ocean Beach going to become Miami Beach?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin mulls a run for mayor, how people view his opposition to market-rate housing would be both a strength and a vulnerability should he jump in the race against Mayor London Breed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710872413,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1461},"headData":{"title":"Aaron Peskin's Rumored Run for SF Mayor Has Same Strength and Weakness: Housing | KQED","description":"As Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin mulls a run for mayor, how people view his opposition to market-rate housing would be both a strength and a vulnerability should he jump in the race against Mayor London Breed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979849/peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin mulls a run for mayor, how people view his opposition to market-rate housing would be both a strength and a vulnerability should he jump in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s particularly true in San Francisco’s west side, a neighborhood replete with single-family homes where people have rallied against state laws that would allow more multi-story housing to be built. Peskin is sometimes viewed as a champion of saving neighborhood character from what residents consider to be outsize new construction. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘That’s going to be one of the turning points of the mayor’s race on the west side. Anybody with a brain running for mayor is going to start attacking the density programs.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"George Wooding, neighborhood activist who lives west of Twin Peaks","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> George Wooding, a neighborhood activist who lives just west of Twin Peaks, said neighbors are angry about Mayor London Breed’s “Housing for All Plan,” which would incentivize building taller, denser housing. He said they worry there isn’t enough parking or infrastructure to support the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to be one of the turning points of the mayor’s race on the west side,” Wooding said. “Anybody with a brain running for mayor is going to start attacking the density programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s next mayor will steer the city’s future approach to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin is on one side of a divide in development philosophy between moderate and progressive Democrats in San Francisco. The moderates want the city to build, build, build to bring housing costs down. Progressives want the city to focus on building affordable housing while fiercely defending tenant protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government has a role to play. And a progressive mayor, I think, can do so much more to protect and enhance our existing residents and our existing small businesses,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has not declared that he will run for mayor, but he has spoken openly about considering it. Breed is facing a re-election challenge mostly from more conservative Democrats, including former Supervisor Mark Farrell and philanthropist and nonprofit CEO Daniel Lurie. Another candidate, Supervisor Ahsha Safai, has generally been considered a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, whose housing views are more mixed than his supporters or opponents assert, would be running to the left of the aforementioned candidates. But because of his voting record, groups supporting unrestricted construction of market-rate housing are already lining up to stop him from winning the election. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on London Breed ","tag":"london-breed"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breed is a frequent ally of those groups, and courted them in her State of the City speech last week when she promised to veto any “anti-housing” legislation that crosses her desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed through on that pledge Thursday, vetoing legislation brought by Peskin to limit dense housing construction in the Jackson Square Historic District, east of Columbus Street. Supervisors can reject the veto with a supermajority of eight votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ordinance passes off anti-housing policy in the guise of historic protections,” Breed wrote in her veto letter to the board. “Existing rules already protect against impacts to historic resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin countered, in a statement, “Instead of outsourcing housing decisions to developers so they can maximize profit, as the Mayor is doing, we need to build housing our working families can afford while improving the neighborhoods they live in. We don’t have to destroy San Francisco to save it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin was first elected to represent North Beach, Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf and other nearby neighborhoods in 2000. In recent years, he’s sponsored a flurry of resolutions opposing state legislation that would lead to building market-rate housing more freely in San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2018: Senate Bill 827 would have incentivized housing construction near transit lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019: State Assembly Bill 68 would streamline housing approvals near transit\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2020: Senate Bill 1085 would strip away some local control against awarding incentives for building denser housing\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s pushback against state regulation doesn’t paint the full picture of Peskin’s housing record. In 2008, as president of the Board of Supervisors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/supes-ok-plan-for-thousands-of-new-homes-3260117.php\">Peskin played a central role in approving the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan\u003c/a>, legislation aimed at allowing the construction of 10,000 new housing units in the Mission, South of Market and Central Waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s arguably one of San Francisco’s most transformative rezoning efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he co-authored Proposition A with Breed, which was approved by voters in the March primary. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976959/proposition-a-why-sf-is-asking-voters-for-a-300-million-affordable-housing-bond\">That measure will deliver a $300 million bond\u003c/a> toward the construction of affordable housing. It was written in concert with companion legislation Peskin introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-breed-signs-housing-stimulus-fee-reform-plan-housing-crisis/\">that would defer development impact fees and winnow inclusionary housing requirements on new construction\u003c/a>. The deferral is estimated to spur the creation of roughly 8,000 housing units, a boon for San Francisco’s state-mandated goal to build 82,000 housing units by 2031. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I believe that Aaron Peskin is going to announce that he’s running. And I think our priority as GrowSF is going to be anybody by Peskin.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sachin Agarwal, co-founder, GrowSF","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At an election party for moderate-aligned Democrats at Anina bar two weeks ago, GrowSF co-founder Sachin Agarwal said Peskin would be bad for San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that Aaron Peskin is going to announce that he’s running. And I think our priority as GrowSF is going to be anybody by Peskin,” Agarwal said. “He is a huge NIMBY and has blocked an incredible amount of housing during the 20 years that he’s been in some form of San Francisco politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GrowSF is one of a coalition of tech billionaire-funded groups that have raised millions of dollars to recall school board members and former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, while also promoting Democrats aligned with their conservative values on public safety. Outsized funding from these groups has tipped the scales in recent elections and now an avalanche of cash threatens to bury Peskin. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11976026","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240214-NONCITIZENVOTING-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>GrowSF isn’t the only roadblock to the housing strategies of the progressive camp. Annie Fryman, director of special projects at urbanist think tank SPUR, said any candidate opposing dense housing construction in San Francisco may clash with state regulators, \u003ca href=\"https://generalplan.sfplanning.org/I1_Housing.htm\">who have mandated the city to build those 82,000 housing units by 2031\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That leader will also eventually be accountable to disqualifying us from hundreds of millions of dollars of state affordable housing funding,” Fryman said. “That is a consequence of messing with the housing element.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Smith, executive director of the Housing Action Coalition, a pro-density group that has endorsed Breed, said there are pockets of voters he called old-guard “anti-housing voices” all over the city, particularly in North Beach, the Haight Ashbury and the west side of San Francisco. According to Smith, those constituents hold a Not In My Backyard ethos and oppose housing at every turn. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think when you actually think of NIMBYism as it is, I don’t think it’s a big portion of the electorate. I do think there’s a lane for President Peskin in this race.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Corey Smith, executive director, Housing Action Coalition, a pro-density group that endorsed Breed","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think when you actually think of NIMBYism as it is, I don’t think it’s a big portion of the electorate,” Smith said. But as part of a coalition, “I do think there’s a lane for President Peskin in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen Boken, a west side advocate who frequently attends City Hall meetings, said her neighbors were “blindsided” by state Sen. Scott Wiener’s proposal to wrest housing approval control of Ocean Beach away from the California Coastal Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said it would unlock more housing construction along the waterfront. The Board of Supervisors approved Peskin’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1991442/battle-over-san-franciscos-coastal-development-sparks-statewide-concerns\"> resolution that opposed Wiener’s coastal plan\u003c/a> in February. The resolution reflected the concerns of people like Boken who worry tall apartment buildings will block views for some while allowing urban skylines to encroach on the beach experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is Ocean Beach going to become Miami Beach?” she said.\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/11979849/peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_6931","news_17968","news_18536","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11979880","label":"news"},"news_11978645":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11978645","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11978645","score":null,"sort":[1709877733000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"6-key-takeaways-from-bidens-state-of-the-union-address","title":"6 Key Takeaways From Biden's Fiery State of the Union Address","publishDate":1709877733,"format":"standard","headTitle":"6 Key Takeaways From Biden’s Fiery State of the Union Address | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The State of the Union address is one of the durable set pieces of the presidency, a forum that almost always favors the speaker in a one-way conversation with millions of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the speeches are instantly dissected and almost as quickly forgotten. But this is a most unusual year, with President Joe Biden needing to make the case not simply that his policies warrant \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/state-of-union-biden-gaza-ukraine-israel-1a42ff9d4ef3e0f2753e43ac8d39fc18\">a second term\u003c/a> but that he has the personal capacity at age 81 to do the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laid out the clear contours of the campaign ahead, criticizing former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection and going after the Supreme Court, with justices present, over its ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the shrinking size of a Snickers bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key takeaways from the speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>He who won’t be named\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden opened the speech with fiery denunciations of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then singled out Republicans in the chamber and his GOP foe Trump. But he refused to utter Trump’s name, saying that “my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about Jan. 6.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrapped that into a larger theme that democracy is threatened like no time since the Civil War, signaling a clear line of attack he will use against the man he would not name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also criticized “my predecessor” for Trump’s assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin can “do whatever the hell he wants” with respect to NATO allies, and he implored Congress to pass additional aid for Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking with a vigor that his supporters have said has been lacking, he set up a contrast between his internationalist view of the world and the more isolationist leaning of his “predecessor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden used almost the entirety of the speech to find ways to try to persuade Americans of the contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The age-old question\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, Biden delivered what a lot of his own supporters had found wanting. It was a high-energy, forceful speech, and at times, he taunted Republicans with ad-libs. When they heckled his support for bipartisan border security legislation, Biden said, “Look at the facts. I know you know how to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden stumbled over a few words, and in the Republican response, Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama called him “dithering and diminished,” but it was a more vigorous performance than other speeches where his remarks can be meandering or hard to hear. It was also a rejoinder to criticisms that Biden is too old to keep serving as president. He would be 86 at the end of a second term, and Republicans — though Trump is only four years younger — have relished slicing and dicing videos of the president to make him look as feeble as possible on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden leaned into his age, mentioning he was born during World War II, but defended his vision for the country as fresh. “You can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Abortion on the ballot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The president said efforts to restrict abortion were an “assault on freedom,” and he derided the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, with members of the Supreme Court who were in the majority in that decision seated just feet away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u42TQs4Pf2c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also welcomed Kate Cox, a Dallas mother whose fetus had a fatal condition that put her own health at risk and forced her to leave the state in order to get an abortion. “My God,” Biden said, “what freedoms will you take away next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through much of his career, Biden has not emphasized abortion rights. In his speech, he showed how much he believes that issue could be a key to a second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Health care still a ‘big deal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden playfully said that the Obama-era health care law is still a “big deal” and vowed to work to make a tax credit tied to the law permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over 100 million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition,” Biden said. “Well, my predecessor, many in this chamber, want to take the prescription drug benefit away by repealing the Affordable Care Act. I’m not going let that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden appeared to slip in a riff about pharmaceutical companies selling their drugs at cheaper prices around the globe, telling the audience that he’d like to take them on Air Force One to several major global cities, including Moscow, to see how much they would save on the same drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he quickly caught himself, saying it was “probably” the case, even in Russia, that prescriptions cost a fraction of what they do in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>War in Gaza gets its moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas was an unavoidable backdrop to Biden’s speech. His motorcade took a different route to the U.S. Capitol after protesters blocked part of Pennsylvania Avenue. Inside the House chamber, some lawmakers wore keffiyehs, the black and white checkered scarves that symbolized solidarity with Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden announced plans for the U.S. military to help establish \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-gaza-humanitarian-aid-port-us-military-israel-25fb6d71bc951d7491de3ab99733a749\">a temporary pier on the coast of Gaza\u003c/a>, an effort that the administration says should significantly boost the flow of aid into the besieged territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"joe-biden\"]The unveiling of the plan was perhaps the most substantive element of his address that touched on the war. It allowed Biden to demonstrate that he’s taking action in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-uncommitted-israel-gaza-michigan-arab-eba62caeec16c00f57e3979ec61ca8bd\">anger and defiance from some Democrats\u003c/a> over his strong support for Israel even as the Palestinian death toll mounts. It also comes after Biden last week approved the U.S. military \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-meloni-white-house-ukraine-112dacd932a45f42621a25b304ae5d99\">airdropping aid into Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden said the temporary pier “will enable a massive increase in humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Biden underscored his support for Israel but called on its leadership to do more to alleviate the suffering even as they try to eliminate Hamas. “To Israel, I say this humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Middle-class Joe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden outlined an economic vision that went big and small. He touted a post-pandemic economic recovery that didn’t sacrifice job creation in order to tame inflation. With housing prices still high, he proposed a tax credit that would reduce mortgage costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also hammered Republicans for tax policies that favor the wealthy. “Check the numbers. Folks at home, does anybody really think the tax code is fair?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden argued there should be a minimum tax rate of 25% on billionaires, saying, “No billionaire should pay a lower federal tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker or a nurse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president talked about cracking down on junk fees that can chip away at Americans’ budgets, and he criticized snack companies for “shrinkflation,” which means getting less product for the same price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get charged the same amount, and you got about 10% fewer Snickers in it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term, aiming to dispel concerns about his age while drawing stark contrasts with Donald Trump that could rally Democrats to the polls.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709923613,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1250},"headData":{"title":"6 Key Takeaways From Biden's Fiery State of the Union Address | KQED","description":"President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term, aiming to dispel concerns about his age while drawing stark contrasts with Donald Trump that could rally Democrats to the polls.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Chris Megerian and Aamer Madhani\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11978645/6-key-takeaways-from-bidens-state-of-the-union-address","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The State of the Union address is one of the durable set pieces of the presidency, a forum that almost always favors the speaker in a one-way conversation with millions of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the speeches are instantly dissected and almost as quickly forgotten. But this is a most unusual year, with President Joe Biden needing to make the case not simply that his policies warrant \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/state-of-union-biden-gaza-ukraine-israel-1a42ff9d4ef3e0f2753e43ac8d39fc18\">a second term\u003c/a> but that he has the personal capacity at age 81 to do the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laid out the clear contours of the campaign ahead, criticizing former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection and going after the Supreme Court, with justices present, over its ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the shrinking size of a Snickers bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key takeaways from the speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>He who won’t be named\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden opened the speech with fiery denunciations of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then singled out Republicans in the chamber and his GOP foe Trump. But he refused to utter Trump’s name, saying that “my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about Jan. 6.”\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>He wrapped that into a larger theme that democracy is threatened like no time since the Civil War, signaling a clear line of attack he will use against the man he would not name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also criticized “my predecessor” for Trump’s assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin can “do whatever the hell he wants” with respect to NATO allies, and he implored Congress to pass additional aid for Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking with a vigor that his supporters have said has been lacking, he set up a contrast between his internationalist view of the world and the more isolationist leaning of his “predecessor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden used almost the entirety of the speech to find ways to try to persuade Americans of the contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The age-old question\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, Biden delivered what a lot of his own supporters had found wanting. It was a high-energy, forceful speech, and at times, he taunted Republicans with ad-libs. When they heckled his support for bipartisan border security legislation, Biden said, “Look at the facts. I know you know how to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden stumbled over a few words, and in the Republican response, Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama called him “dithering and diminished,” but it was a more vigorous performance than other speeches where his remarks can be meandering or hard to hear. It was also a rejoinder to criticisms that Biden is too old to keep serving as president. He would be 86 at the end of a second term, and Republicans — though Trump is only four years younger — have relished slicing and dicing videos of the president to make him look as feeble as possible on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden leaned into his age, mentioning he was born during World War II, but defended his vision for the country as fresh. “You can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Abortion on the ballot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The president said efforts to restrict abortion were an “assault on freedom,” and he derided the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. 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In his speech, he showed how much he believes that issue could be a key to a second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Health care still a ‘big deal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden playfully said that the Obama-era health care law is still a “big deal” and vowed to work to make a tax credit tied to the law permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over 100 million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition,” Biden said. “Well, my predecessor, many in this chamber, want to take the prescription drug benefit away by repealing the Affordable Care Act. I’m not going let that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden appeared to slip in a riff about pharmaceutical companies selling their drugs at cheaper prices around the globe, telling the audience that he’d like to take them on Air Force One to several major global cities, including Moscow, to see how much they would save on the same drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he quickly caught himself, saying it was “probably” the case, even in Russia, that prescriptions cost a fraction of what they do in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>War in Gaza gets its moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas was an unavoidable backdrop to Biden’s speech. His motorcade took a different route to the U.S. Capitol after protesters blocked part of Pennsylvania Avenue. Inside the House chamber, some lawmakers wore keffiyehs, the black and white checkered scarves that symbolized solidarity with Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden announced plans for the U.S. military to help establish \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-gaza-humanitarian-aid-port-us-military-israel-25fb6d71bc951d7491de3ab99733a749\">a temporary pier on the coast of Gaza\u003c/a>, an effort that the administration says should significantly boost the flow of aid into the besieged territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"joe-biden"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The unveiling of the plan was perhaps the most substantive element of his address that touched on the war. It allowed Biden to demonstrate that he’s taking action in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-uncommitted-israel-gaza-michigan-arab-eba62caeec16c00f57e3979ec61ca8bd\">anger and defiance from some Democrats\u003c/a> over his strong support for Israel even as the Palestinian death toll mounts. It also comes after Biden last week approved the U.S. military \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-meloni-white-house-ukraine-112dacd932a45f42621a25b304ae5d99\">airdropping aid into Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden said the temporary pier “will enable a massive increase in humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Biden underscored his support for Israel but called on its leadership to do more to alleviate the suffering even as they try to eliminate Hamas. “To Israel, I say this humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Middle-class Joe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden outlined an economic vision that went big and small. He touted a post-pandemic economic recovery that didn’t sacrifice job creation in order to tame inflation. 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That dependence was made clear at the onset of the pandemic, with a persistent downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">office vacancy rate exceeding 30% due to the shift to remote work.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Breed also indicated that she believes technology companies still have a large role to play in fueling that economic engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are recruiting new businesses and continuing to see new leases signed led by AI, which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030,” Breed said. “And it won’t be AI alone. This is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world, with an unrivaled pool of talent, of builders and dreamers, and the largest collection of deployable capital in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet this new goal, Breed said she hopes to work with state Sen. Scott Wiener to \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20240216-senator-wiener-introduces-bill-revitalize-downtown-san-francisco\">change state laws\u003c/a> to provide regulatory and tax exemptions for building conversions and spur housing production downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Breed committed to vetoing any new piece of legislation that she deemed to be anti-housing.[aside label='More on London Breed' tag='london-breed']\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-and-research/plans-and-reports\">A state report released last October\u003c/a> criticized city rules for making new housing production slower and costlier. Even if some of those local rules are changed — obstacles remain — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839409/5-reasons-its-so-expensive-to-build-housing-in-california\">high construction costs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcements come as Breed seems poised to score several victories in Tuesday’s election, including the likely passage of propositions C, E and F, which she sponsored. Though not all votes have been counted, all three measures were leading by more than five percentage points as of \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20240305w/index.html\">Thursday afternoon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition C, if passed, would provide the new owners of converted office buildings with a one-time exemption from the city’s real estate transfer tax. As of this writing, it currently leads with nearly 54% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition F would require residents who receive city benefits to submit to drug screenings and treatment programs if they are suspected of having a dependence on illegal drugs or risk losing their benefits. Critics say coerced participation is not likely to lead to successful treatment — and vulnerable people could lose their housing if cut off from assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her speech, the mayor thanked residents for their support of those propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. Thanks to the voters for approving Proposition E on Tuesday,” Breed said. “We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. … We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.’[/pullquote] Along with giving police greater access to surveillance technology and reducing officer requirements for use-of-force reporting, Proposition E would allow police to engage in vehicle pursuits more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor seemed to take Tuesday’s election results as a mandate to continue her efforts to ramp up police crackdowns in the city, vowing to support arrests of drug dealers and even drug users “who are a danger to themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, offering people services is critical, but frankly, we must compel some people into treatment,” Breed said, adding that she also hopes to expand treatment options for those suffering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s test of true public support, though, will come in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when residents will decide whether to re-elect Breed and give her the time to enact these plans or vote in one of her challengers instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed delivered her State of the City address at Pier 27, unveiling the ‘30 by 30’ initiative. The plan seeks to revive the city's downtown by drawing in 30,000 residents and students by 2030.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709860130,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":789},"headData":{"title":"Breed Unveils San Francisco's Downtown Revival Plan in Annual City Address | KQED","description":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed delivered her State of the City address at Pier 27, unveiling the ‘30 by 30’ initiative. 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That dependence was made clear at the onset of the pandemic, with a persistent downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955554/could-empty-offices-in-san-francisco-be-converted-to-homes\">office vacancy rate exceeding 30% due to the shift to remote work.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Breed also indicated that she believes technology companies still have a large role to play in fueling that economic engine.\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>“We are recruiting new businesses and continuing to see new leases signed led by AI, which alone is projected to add 12 million square feet of office space by 2030,” Breed said. “And it won’t be AI alone. This is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world, with an unrivaled pool of talent, of builders and dreamers, and the largest collection of deployable capital in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet this new goal, Breed said she hopes to work with state Sen. Scott Wiener to \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20240216-senator-wiener-introduces-bill-revitalize-downtown-san-francisco\">change state laws\u003c/a> to provide regulatory and tax exemptions for building conversions and spur housing production downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Breed committed to vetoing any new piece of legislation that she deemed to be anti-housing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on London Breed ","tag":"london-breed"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-and-research/plans-and-reports\">A state report released last October\u003c/a> criticized city rules for making new housing production slower and costlier. Even if some of those local rules are changed — obstacles remain — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839409/5-reasons-its-so-expensive-to-build-housing-in-california\">high construction costs.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcements come as Breed seems poised to score several victories in Tuesday’s election, including the likely passage of propositions C, E and F, which she sponsored. Though not all votes have been counted, all three measures were leading by more than five percentage points as of \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20240305w/index.html\">Thursday afternoon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition C, if passed, would provide the new owners of converted office buildings with a one-time exemption from the city’s real estate transfer tax. As of this writing, it currently leads with nearly 54% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition F would require residents who receive city benefits to submit to drug screenings and treatment programs if they are suspected of having a dependence on illegal drugs or risk losing their benefits. Critics say coerced participation is not likely to lead to successful treatment — and vulnerable people could lose their housing if cut off from assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her speech, the mayor thanked residents for their support of those propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. Thanks to the voters for approving Proposition E on Tuesday,” Breed said. “We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We will roll out 400 automated license plate cameras at 100 intersections across the city this month. … We will be installing new public safety cameras in high-crime areas, deploying drones for auto theft, car break-ins and other crimes.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Along with giving police greater access to surveillance technology and reducing officer requirements for use-of-force reporting, Proposition E would allow police to engage in vehicle pursuits more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor seemed to take Tuesday’s election results as a mandate to continue her efforts to ramp up police crackdowns in the city, vowing to support arrests of drug dealers and even drug users “who are a danger to themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, offering people services is critical, but frankly, we must compel some people into treatment,” Breed said, adding that she also hopes to expand treatment options for those suffering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s test of true public support, though, will come in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when residents will decide whether to re-elect Breed and give her the time to enact these plans or vote in one of her challengers instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25184","news_2114","news_18545","news_23420","news_27626","news_6931","news_17968","news_18536","news_38","news_33882","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11978597","label":"news"},"news_11977769":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11977769","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11977769","score":null,"sort":[1709582453000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results","title":"These Bay Area Elections Were Decided by a Handful of Votes","publishDate":1709582453,"format":"standard","headTitle":"These Bay Area Elections Were Decided by a Handful of Votes | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024\">\u003cem>Primary Election 2024 Live Updates: follow KQED reporters as we cover election results from across California and the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an old saying in elections: “Every vote counts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in this era of increased electoral college gridlock, congressional gerrymandering and uncontested races, you might feel like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973915/california-primary-election-2024-find-your-early-voting-site-or-ballot-drop-off-location\">your individual ballot\u003c/a> won’t be the difference between victory and defeat for candidates or ballot measures in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">California’s March 5 primary election\u003c/a>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kristin Connelly, registrar of voters, Contra Costa County\"]‘As an elections official, I always hope for a high turnout and wide margins, that’s sort of the easiest thing to call. But every vote counts, and we take that very seriously.’[/pullquote]Well, these campaigns from Bay Area history might convince you otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a sample of races and measures decided by the slimmest of margins. In each race, a different decision by a group of friends, a family or even a single person would have changed history in its own small way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an elections official, I always hope for a high turnout and wide margins; that’s sort of the easiest thing to call,” said Kristin Connelly, registrar of voters in Contra Costa County. “But every vote counts, and we take that very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without further ado, here are a handful of entrants in the Bay Area Election Nail-Biter Hall of Fame:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tied votes (when candidates receive \u003cem>exactly\u003c/em> the same number of votes)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2018: Byron Bethany Irrigation District Director 1 \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Sunnyvale City Council, District 3 \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Richmond City Council \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Rules on how to break electoral ties vary by jurisdiction. In the Byron Bethany Irrigation District — \u003ca href=\"https://bbid.org/\">a multi-county special district\u003c/a> serving an area that includes parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties — it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ContraCostaElections/videos/1883011188412861\">required the roll of a 20-sided die\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sunnyvale, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/murali-srinivasan-wins-tiebreaker-for-sunnyvale-city-council/\">the city clerk picked an envelope\u003c/a> with Murali Srinivasan’s name on it out of a bag. And something similar played out in Richmond, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933946/a-dead-heat-richmond-city-council-race-will-be-decided-by-drawing-a-name-from-an-envelope\">Cesar Zepeda won a tiebreaker\u003c/a> over Andrew Butt when the city clerk drew an envelope out of a shopping bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a recount, Zepeda was declared the winner by just three votes. Shopping bag don’t lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decided by one vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Travis Unified School District, Measure M \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2020: Sausalito City Council \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It took weeks after the 2020 election to determine that Ian Sobieski had claimed the last of three open spots on the Sausalito City Council, finishing just ahead of incumbent Joan Cox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sausalito-city-council-race-ian-sobieski-wins-by-single-vote/\">“I am gobsmacked,” Cox told KPIX 5\u003c/a>. “If I were to be defeated, it would be easier to be defeated by a larger margin, quite honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decided by three votes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Antioch City Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2007: Vallejo Mayor \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While the Zepeda-Butt tie in Richmond got all the attention in 2022, there was another incredibly close race also in Contra Costa County last election. In Antioch, incumbent Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker beat Joy Motts by just three votes. [aside label='More on California Elections' tag='elections']That’s the same margin of the 2007 mayor’s race in Vallejo when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2007/12/06/davis-edges-past-cloutier-in-recount-final-will-become-vallejos-mayor/\">recount lifted Osby Davis to victory over Gary Cloutier\u003c/a>. That recount ended \u003cem>after \u003c/em>Cloutier had already taken the oath of office, requiring an awkward transition in leadership that finally culminated the next year when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/gary-cloutier-drops-suit-over-recount-3290885.php\">Cloutier dropped a lawsuit challenging the ballot count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connelly, the Contra Costa registrar, said she expects the number of close races to grow quickly in the coming years as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101904519/sf-chronicle-investigates-mixed-record-of-california-voting-rights-act\">more jurisdictions move to district elections\u003c/a> — with smaller pools of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anything, we’re going to see more of this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decided by five votes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2021: Woodside, Measure A\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Woodside voters headed to the polls for a special election in November 2021 and narrowly passed Measure A, which rezoned two parcels of land in the town center to be used for community gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of the closest elections in San Mateo County history, according to Jim Irizarry, the assistant assessor-county clerk-recorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Irizarry, the result “adds true meaning to the old adage” that this story began with … and well, you know the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In each Bay Area race, a different decision by a group of friends, a family or even a single person would have changed the outcome in its own small way.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710786228,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":734},"headData":{"title":"These Bay Area Elections Were Decided by a Handful of Votes | KQED","description":"In each Bay Area race, a different decision by a group of friends, a family or even a single person would have changed the outcome in its own small way.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/907c0199-96c9-4385-97c5-b12a01184c8b/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11977769/feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024\">\u003cem>Primary Election 2024 Live Updates: follow KQED reporters as we cover election results from across California and the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an old saying in elections: “Every vote counts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in this era of increased electoral college gridlock, congressional gerrymandering and uncontested races, you might feel like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973915/california-primary-election-2024-find-your-early-voting-site-or-ballot-drop-off-location\">your individual ballot\u003c/a> won’t be the difference between victory and defeat for candidates or ballot measures in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">California’s March 5 primary election\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘As an elections official, I always hope for a high turnout and wide margins, that’s sort of the easiest thing to call. 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In each race, a different decision by a group of friends, a family or even a single person would have changed history in its own small way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an elections official, I always hope for a high turnout and wide margins; that’s sort of the easiest thing to call,” said Kristin Connelly, registrar of voters in Contra Costa County. “But every vote counts, and we take that very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without further ado, here are a handful of entrants in the Bay Area Election Nail-Biter Hall of Fame:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tied votes (when candidates receive \u003cem>exactly\u003c/em> the same number of votes)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2018: Byron Bethany Irrigation District Director 1 \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Sunnyvale City Council, District 3 \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Richmond City Council \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Rules on how to break electoral ties vary by jurisdiction. In the Byron Bethany Irrigation District — \u003ca href=\"https://bbid.org/\">a multi-county special district\u003c/a> serving an area that includes parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties — it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ContraCostaElections/videos/1883011188412861\">required the roll of a 20-sided die\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sunnyvale, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/murali-srinivasan-wins-tiebreaker-for-sunnyvale-city-council/\">the city clerk picked an envelope\u003c/a> with Murali Srinivasan’s name on it out of a bag. And something similar played out in Richmond, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933946/a-dead-heat-richmond-city-council-race-will-be-decided-by-drawing-a-name-from-an-envelope\">Cesar Zepeda won a tiebreaker\u003c/a> over Andrew Butt when the city clerk drew an envelope out of a shopping bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a recount, Zepeda was declared the winner by just three votes. Shopping bag don’t lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decided by one vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Travis Unified School District, Measure M \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2020: Sausalito City Council \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It took weeks after the 2020 election to determine that Ian Sobieski had claimed the last of three open spots on the Sausalito City Council, finishing just ahead of incumbent Joan Cox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sausalito-city-council-race-ian-sobieski-wins-by-single-vote/\">“I am gobsmacked,” Cox told KPIX 5\u003c/a>. “If I were to be defeated, it would be easier to be defeated by a larger margin, quite honestly.”\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\u003ch2>Decided by three votes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2022: Antioch City Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2007: Vallejo Mayor \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While the Zepeda-Butt tie in Richmond got all the attention in 2022, there was another incredibly close race also in Contra Costa County last election. In Antioch, incumbent Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker beat Joy Motts by just three votes. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Elections ","tag":"elections"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s the same margin of the 2007 mayor’s race in Vallejo when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2007/12/06/davis-edges-past-cloutier-in-recount-final-will-become-vallejos-mayor/\">recount lifted Osby Davis to victory over Gary Cloutier\u003c/a>. That recount ended \u003cem>after \u003c/em>Cloutier had already taken the oath of office, requiring an awkward transition in leadership that finally culminated the next year when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/gary-cloutier-drops-suit-over-recount-3290885.php\">Cloutier dropped a lawsuit challenging the ballot count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connelly, the Contra Costa registrar, said she expects the number of close races to grow quickly in the coming years as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101904519/sf-chronicle-investigates-mixed-record-of-california-voting-rights-act\">more jurisdictions move to district elections\u003c/a> — with smaller pools of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anything, we’re going to see more of this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decided by five votes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In 2021: Woodside, Measure A\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Woodside voters headed to the polls for a special election in November 2021 and narrowly passed Measure A, which rezoned two parcels of land in the town center to be used for community gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of the closest elections in San Mateo County history, according to Jim Irizarry, the assistant assessor-county clerk-recorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Irizarry, the result “adds true meaning to the old adage” that this story began with … and well, you know the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977769/feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32839","news_28639","news_23394","news_27626","news_17968","news_18536","news_20147"],"featImg":"news_11977785","label":"news"},"news_11977752":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11977752","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11977752","score":null,"sort":[1709330426000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-election-workers-return-post-covid-and-conspiracy-theories","title":"California Election Workers Make Comeback After COVID and Conspiracy Claims","publishDate":1709330426,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Election Workers Make Comeback After COVID and Conspiracy Claims | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Between COVID-19 and election fraud conspiracy theories since 2020, it has been a tumultuous time for California’s election workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state lost 15% of its election officials between the November 2020 election and July 2021, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/sites/default/files/cvf_addressing_harassment_of_election_officials_report.pdf\">the California Voter Foundation\u003c/a>, which documented incidents of threats, harassment and stress.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>While not all left due to safety concerns, more than half of California counties have a new registrar of voters since 2020, compared to a 17% turnover between 2016 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon joining that list is \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-registrar-of-voters-will-retire-in-may/\">Cathy Darling Allen\u003c/a>, the registrar in Shasta County, where officials have faced intimidation and threats by some unhappy with election results. She announced in February that she is \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-registrar-of-voters-will-retire-in-may/\">retiring in May due to health issues\u003c/a> — and reducing stress is essential to recovery. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kim Alexander, president, California Voter Foundation\"]‘People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that.’[/pullquote]In November, tensions heightened when suspicious envelopes were sent to election offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Another arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2024-news-releases-and-advisories/presumptively-dangerous-substance-found-california-county-elections-office\">Yuba County’s office in January\u003c/a> and tested positive for fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ahead of Tuesday’s end of primary voting, elections officials in more than a dozen California counties say they’re in good shape for staffing permanent and temporary poll workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, attributes the shift to the attitudes of both election workers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, county elections officials have taken several steps to strengthen the protection of workers — including safety protocols for possible fentanyl-laced envelopes — and to educate people that their vote is secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, for example, the elections office works closely with local law enforcement and the health department to ensure the safety of election workers and voters, said Bob Page, the county’s registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has recruited about 1,600 people to work on elections — the result of a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>monthslong process that involves outreach efforts, background checks and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s important to make sure we give people that work in the vote centers the tools to provide good customer service and try to help people who have concerns or may be a little disruptive when they come in,” he said. “Safety is something we’re going to keep paying attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, election security doesn’t seem to be the only motivating factor. Some counties that have opted into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act/more-days-more-ways\">Voter’s Choice Act\u003c/a>, which extends in-person voting to 10 days, say shorter shifts and fewer locations make it easier to hire staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also money:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In San Bernardino County, funding to increase stipends for poll workers and to hire additional full-time staff has helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election cycle and election preparation is a very stressful environment, with a lot of work in a small amount of time,” said Stephanie Shea, the county’s registrar of voters. “We’ve been fortunate that the board has approved additional positions that have helped us with our preparation for our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the November 2022 election, the county had about 2,300 poll workers. For this year’s primary, it recruited more than 2,500. [aside label='More on California Elections' tag='elections']And in Kings County — where the county elections office is fully staffed for the first time since 2019 — Registrar of Voters Lupe Villa said he believes more people are looking for work now compared to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while safety seems to be less of a concern for election worker recruitment, incidents such as the suspicious envelopes and packages sent to Yuba, Los Angeles and Sacramento elections offices show the danger hasn’t entirely subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No staff were harmed in any of those cases. In January, the secretary of state’s office said it sent guidance to all counties on safety protocols and coordination with local, state and federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Kocurek, spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office, said Thursday there were no updates on the status of the three investigations that law enforcement agencies are handling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these incidents, county officials said they have trained employees to administer Narcan — an opioid overdose treatment — and stock gloves and masks to handle mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, at least, the scare didn’t seem to hamper the county’s ability to recruit workers for the primary. It has recruited 1,400 workers — including many who helped in prior elections, said Kenneth Casparis, a spokesperson for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite improvement statewide, some counties in California continue to face challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mono County has struggled to recruit and retain both temporary elections staff and poll workers — even after increasing pay to the minimum wage, said Queenie Barnard, Mono County’s clerk-recorder-registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11977756 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter fills out their ballot at a polling station at the American Legion in Shasta Lake, California, during a special election in Shasta County on Nov. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in Shasta, where \u003ca href=\"https://assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com/Assets/Connect/RootPublish/shasta-ca.connect.clarityelections.com/Election%20Results%202000-Present/2020/1103/Full%20SOV.SHASTA.11.3.2020.pdf\">Donald Trump won 65% of the vote in 2020\u003c/a>, not much has changed, said Joanna Francescut, the assistant registrar of voters. Voters who show up in person are often angry and yell at staff or workers — which makes it difficult to find workers willing to deal with that for 12 to 16 hours a day for little pay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poll workers that worked in 2020, we would call to recruit them in 2022, and we’d often hear, ‘That last election terrified me, and I don’t feel comfortable coming back immediately. If things settle down in a couple of years, I’ll come back after that point,’” Francescut said. “So we’re hearing that consistently, and that hasn’t changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent state laws, such as one in 2022 that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1131\">allows election workers to shield their addresses from the public\u003c/a>, haven’t had a noticeable impact yet, according to election officials throughout the state. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar, Shasta County Registrar of Voters\"]‘We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.’[/pullquote]And a law to address the decision by Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors to\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-voting-shasta-county/\"> cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Machines\u003c/a> and require a hand count only decreased trust among some residents, Francescut said. The law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB969\">signed by the governor in October\u003c/a>, limits hand-counting to only regular elections with less than 1,000 registered voters and special elections with fewer than 5,000 voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t something that’s going away because the state Legislature’s changed the law,” Francescut said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elections commission in the county, with about \u003ca href=\"https://elections.shastacounty.gov/resources/voter-registration-information/voter-registration-statistics/\">112,000 registered voters\u003c/a> continues to push for hand-counting ballots. But on Tuesday, one of the supervisors who voted to get rid of the voting machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/shasta-county-elections-commission-hand-count-votes/103-5f4131aa-a463-4fdc-88ff-326820bf8650\">faces a recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francescut said she hopes that legislators might understand the different points of view in Shasta County so that they can work together to achieve their shared goal of getting people to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the best way to protect election officials is to provide them with resources and training, especially given the changes in the last few years: “These people have been through a lot of stress, a lot of trauma, just for doing their work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also had a reminder for voters: “We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"They had to get through the pandemic, election denial and suspicious envelopes. While some left, counties now say they’re having better luck recruiting poll workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709330220,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1434},"headData":{"title":"California Election Workers Make Comeback After COVID and Conspiracy Claims | KQED","description":"They had to get through the pandemic, election denial and suspicious envelopes. 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She announced in February that she is \u003ca href=\"https://shastascout.org/shasta-county-registrar-of-voters-will-retire-in-may/\">retiring in May due to health issues\u003c/a> — and reducing stress is essential to recovery. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kim Alexander, president, California Voter Foundation","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In November, tensions heightened when suspicious envelopes were sent to election offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Another arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2024-news-releases-and-advisories/presumptively-dangerous-substance-found-california-county-elections-office\">Yuba County’s office in January\u003c/a> and tested positive for fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ahead of Tuesday’s end of primary voting, elections officials in more than a dozen California counties say they’re in good shape for staffing permanent and temporary poll workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, attributes the shift to the attitudes of both election workers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People care very deeply about the right to vote and want to protect that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\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>Since 2020, county elections officials have taken several steps to strengthen the protection of workers — including safety protocols for possible fentanyl-laced envelopes — and to educate people that their vote is secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, for example, the elections office works closely with local law enforcement and the health department to ensure the safety of election workers and voters, said Bob Page, the county’s registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has recruited about 1,600 people to work on elections — the result of a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>monthslong process that involves outreach efforts, background checks and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s important to make sure we give people that work in the vote centers the tools to provide good customer service and try to help people who have concerns or may be a little disruptive when they come in,” he said. “Safety is something we’re going to keep paying attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, election security doesn’t seem to be the only motivating factor. Some counties that have opted into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act/more-days-more-ways\">Voter’s Choice Act\u003c/a>, which extends in-person voting to 10 days, say shorter shifts and fewer locations make it easier to hire staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also money:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In San Bernardino County, funding to increase stipends for poll workers and to hire additional full-time staff has helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election cycle and election preparation is a very stressful environment, with a lot of work in a small amount of time,” said Stephanie Shea, the county’s registrar of voters. “We’ve been fortunate that the board has approved additional positions that have helped us with our preparation for our elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the November 2022 election, the county had about 2,300 poll workers. For this year’s primary, it recruited more than 2,500. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on California Elections ","tag":"elections"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And in Kings County — where the county elections office is fully staffed for the first time since 2019 — Registrar of Voters Lupe Villa said he believes more people are looking for work now compared to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while safety seems to be less of a concern for election worker recruitment, incidents such as the suspicious envelopes and packages sent to Yuba, Los Angeles and Sacramento elections offices show the danger hasn’t entirely subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No staff were harmed in any of those cases. In January, the secretary of state’s office said it sent guidance to all counties on safety protocols and coordination with local, state and federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Kocurek, spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office, said Thursday there were no updates on the status of the three investigations that law enforcement agencies are handling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these incidents, county officials said they have trained employees to administer Narcan — an opioid overdose treatment — and stock gloves and masks to handle mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, at least, the scare didn’t seem to hamper the county’s ability to recruit workers for the primary. It has recruited 1,400 workers — including many who helped in prior elections, said Kenneth Casparis, a spokesperson for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite improvement statewide, some counties in California continue to face challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mono County has struggled to recruit and retain both temporary elections staff and poll workers — even after increasing pay to the minimum wage, said Queenie Barnard, Mono County’s clerk-recorder-registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11977756 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter fills out their ballot at a polling station at the American Legion in Shasta Lake, California, during a special election in Shasta County on Nov. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in Shasta, where \u003ca href=\"https://assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com/Assets/Connect/RootPublish/shasta-ca.connect.clarityelections.com/Election%20Results%202000-Present/2020/1103/Full%20SOV.SHASTA.11.3.2020.pdf\">Donald Trump won 65% of the vote in 2020\u003c/a>, not much has changed, said Joanna Francescut, the assistant registrar of voters. Voters who show up in person are often angry and yell at staff or workers — which makes it difficult to find workers willing to deal with that for 12 to 16 hours a day for little pay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poll workers that worked in 2020, we would call to recruit them in 2022, and we’d often hear, ‘That last election terrified me, and I don’t feel comfortable coming back immediately. If things settle down in a couple of years, I’ll come back after that point,’” Francescut said. “So we’re hearing that consistently, and that hasn’t changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had over four years now of people hearing this false narrative about elections,” she added. And while elections aren’t perfect, “it doesn’t add up to widespread fraud, and I think people know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent state laws, such as one in 2022 that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1131\">allows election workers to shield their addresses from the public\u003c/a>, haven’t had a noticeable impact yet, according to election officials throughout the state. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. People tend to forget that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Joanna Francescut, assistant registrar, Shasta County Registrar of Voters","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And a law to address the decision by Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors to\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-voting-shasta-county/\"> cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Machines\u003c/a> and require a hand count only decreased trust among some residents, Francescut said. The law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB969\">signed by the governor in October\u003c/a>, limits hand-counting to only regular elections with less than 1,000 registered voters and special elections with fewer than 5,000 voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t something that’s going away because the state Legislature’s changed the law,” Francescut said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elections commission in the county, with about \u003ca href=\"https://elections.shastacounty.gov/resources/voter-registration-information/voter-registration-statistics/\">112,000 registered voters\u003c/a> continues to push for hand-counting ballots. But on Tuesday, one of the supervisors who voted to get rid of the voting machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/shasta-county-elections-commission-hand-count-votes/103-5f4131aa-a463-4fdc-88ff-326820bf8650\">faces a recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francescut said she hopes that legislators might understand the different points of view in Shasta County so that they can work together to achieve their shared goal of getting people to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the best way to protect election officials is to provide them with resources and training, especially given the changes in the last few years: “These people have been through a lot of stress, a lot of trauma, just for doing their work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also had a reminder for voters: “We are, in fact, humans, and people that have families and children and live in this community. 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