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Many proposals lived to see another day. Among them: Gov. Gavin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919816/county-officials-are-skeptical-over-gov-newsoms-care-court-program\">Newsom’s proposal for new courts to compel more homeless individuals\u003c/a> to seek mental health and substance abuse treatment, and bills to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841120/ice-misusing-solitary-confinement-for-covid-19-quarantine-detainees-say\">strictly limit the use of solitary confinement in California jails and prisons\u003c/a>, allow for the composting of human remains and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918450/workers-wont-get-expanded-paid-family-leave-disability-under-california-budget-agreement\"> increase family leave payments\u003c/a> for lower-wage workers, though it wouldn’t take effect until 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many other closely watched bills came to an unceremonious end, killed in one of Sacramento’s most opaque lawmaking processes. They included a Republican-backed bill that would have capped copays for insulin, a California Medical Association-backed proposal making it easier for doctors to approve procedures and prescriptions without first getting permission from an insurance company, and a bill to allow prosecutors to go after social media companies for knowingly addicting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called the suspense file. For months, the appropriations committees, tasked with assessing the fiscal impact of any bill outside the annual budget, gather any legislation with more than a negligible price tag and put it to the side. Then twice a year, after legislative leaders decide which bills live and which die behind closed doors, they announce the results in a single hearing. In most cases, no public votes are taken and no debates are held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, this arcane procedure allows lawmakers to quickly run through the hundreds of fiscal bills they need to consider by the end of the legislative session, which arrives at the end of this month. Today, the two committees ran through more than 820 bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, it’s also a good way for Democratic lawmakers, who hold supermajority power, to kill legislation without having to take a public — and potentially politically difficult — stand. The stakes were especially high today. The legislative session ends this month and many lawmakers will either retire or be replaced before the next one begins, making this the last opportunity for some legislators to leave their mark on state policy. Politically, it’s also a tense time: The November general election is less than three months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, bills requiring gun owners to buy liability insurance and forcing law enforcement agencies to let the public listen to police radio transmissions were also quietly killed. Who pulled the trigger? The public often has no way to know for sure. We can only count the legislation that succumbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, more than 200 were killed, while nearly 600 stayed alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills that were culled — and the advocacy and interest groups that lobbied on them:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No help for diabetics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dead for the session: A bill by Sen. Pat Bates, a San Clemente Republican, that would have capped insulin copays at $35 per prescription per month for diabetics. With insulin list prices increasing on average 15% to 17% per year since 2012, some state and federal leaders have been pressing for action with little success. A similar effort for privately insured patients was also recently \u003ca href=\"http://washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/insulin-price-cap-diabetes-senate-republicans/\">abandoned in the U.S. Senate\u003c/a>; Congress is, however, moving forward with a $35-a-month cap for Medicare patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision by Assembly Democratic leadership to hold the bill blocked meaningful relief for millions of California residents struggling to pay for the rising cost of insulin. This was a missed opportunity for the California State Legislature to accomplish what Washington D.C. failed to do,” Bates said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill was opposed by the health insurance lobby that has long argued that copay caps do nothing to bring down the actual list price of the drug and would only shift the cost in the form of higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters said such a bill could have provided more immediate relief to patients. California has plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920898/to-make-insulin-affordable-california-aims-to-create-its-own-brand\">manufacture and distribute its own, more affordable insulin\u003c/a>, but that could take years. As of last week, the governor’s office said it has started a “request for information” process with drug manufacturers interested in partnering with the state. In California, 3.2 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and many of them rely on insulin to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ana B. Ibarra\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A mixed bag for tech regulation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Amid fervent opposition from the tech industry, lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2408\">killed a nationally watched bill\u003c/a> co-authored by Republican Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham of San Luis Obispo and Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks of Oakland that would have permitted public prosecutors, such as the state attorney general and county district attorneys, to bring civil lawsuits against social media companies for deploying products or features they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59094/does-my-kid-have-a-tech-addiction\">know will addict kids\u003c/a>. The bill had already been amended to remove a clause that would have also allowed parents to file civil lawsuits, but that evidently wasn’t enough to overcome pushback from powerful industry players — some of whom gathered last week with influential lawmakers at a swanky Napa Valley resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, who called the bill the most important of his career, pitched it as a response to a youth mental health crisis exacerbated by social media companies conducting “an unfettered social experiment on children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said he was “extremely disappointed” that Senate Appropriations Committee Chairperson Anthony Portantino, a Glendale Democrat, made “the unilateral decision” to hold the bill and warned that “the bill’s death means that a handful of social media companies will be able to continue their experiment on millions of California kids, causing generational harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that this idea would be overwhelmingly supported if presented directly to the voters, as it would be prohibitively expensive for social media companies to take every California voter on a Tech Caucus junket in Napa,” Cunningham added in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech companies countered there were better ways to address kids’ mental health than impinging on online platforms’ First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we’ve said from the start, protecting children online is a priority but must be done responsibly and effectively,” Dylan Hoffman, TechNet’s executive director for California and the Southwest, said in a statement. TechNet, an industry group that represents such companies as Meta (the parent of Facebook and Instagram), Apple and Google, lobbied aggressively against the bill. “We’re glad to see that this bill won’t move forward in its current form. If it had, companies would’ve been punished for simply having a platform that kids can access. It would’ve done little to improve child safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also dead: Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2781\">Cunningham bill\u003c/a> that would have authorized a study into whether using blockchain technology could help California’s beleaguered unemployment department verify applicant identities and prevent fraud — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922059/why-are-california-unemployment-checks-so-hard-to-get-new-report-has-ideas\">two things it’s struggled to do\u003c/a> amid the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other closely watched bills to regulate the tech industry advanced with amendments. They would expand kids’ privacy rights online, force social media companies to be more transparent about their terms of service, allow people targeted by violent posts online to seek an order requiring social media companies to remove them, and increase oversight of the budding cryptocurrency industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Emily Hoeven\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pay transparency, kind of\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced a pay transparency bill intended to root out discrimination and pay disparities — but only after stripping out its most significant provision: to require the state to post for public view businesses’ pay data, broken down by position, race and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That proposal by Sen. Monique Limón a Santa Barbara Democrat, landed SB 1162 on the California Chamber of Commerce’s “job killer” list, a designation policy advocate Ashley Hoffman said the Chamber is now prepared to remove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses with 100 or more employees are required to report the data to the state under a 2020 law, but the reports are not available for the public. The bill would have required the reports be published online for businesses with 1,000 employees or more by 2025 and 250 employees or more by 2027. The Chamber and other employer groups pushed back hard against the public reporting provision, arguing the reports are too broad to show discrimination but would be “held out to the public, whether it’s a media headline or a lawsuit … as representing something it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parts of the bill, which proponents say will still help narrow the wage gap, survived. The bill would still require the companies also to report the pay data of their contractors, and require all employers with more than 15 workers to post the pay ranges for open positions and add state enforcement authority for businesses not reporting the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Limón said that she was “deeply disappointed” in the amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day California will lead on pay equity and our actions will match our aspirations,” she said. “That day is just not today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jeanne Kuang\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No leeway for doctors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doctors' lobby took an “L” on one of its priority bills for the year. Senate Bill 250 by Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat, sought to ease administrative hurdles for physicians. More specifically, the bill would have required health insurance plans to exempt certain medical providers from prior authorization rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior authorization is seen as a cost-control tool that keeps doctors from providing and charging for unnecessary care. Health insurance plans must deem certain medication and procedures as “medically necessary” before a doctor can prescribe or render services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Medical Association argued that reducing red tape would allow doctors to spend more time on patient care and less on paperwork — most importantly, it would help patients access the care and medications they need more quickly. A timely example: One Orange County pediatrician shared on Twitter this morning that one of his premature baby patients can’t access “life-saving medication” because he can’t get a hold of the patient’s insurer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurance plans, in opposition of the bill, argued that SB 250 could instead lead to over-prescribing and inefficient care, ultimately raising costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ana B. Ibarra\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Student housing money in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers have a plan to spend $1.8 billion in loans for public colleges and universities to build student housing, the public doesn’t know about it. Held on the suspense file today was a bill that would have set the rules for a revolving loan to build student housing. It’s a strange development for a spending plan that lawmakers and the governor already approved in the state budget this year. Basically, the money is there, but the rules for spending the money are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among advocacy groups, the lone registered foe of the bill is the all-powerful State Building and Construction Trades Council. The construction union knocked the bill in June for what it said were “watered down” provisions to ensure that workers who build the campus housing are part of an apprenticeship program. But other unions whose workers are key to housing development backed the bill, including the California State Association of Electrical Workers and California State Pipe Trades Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill sought $5 billion for a revolving loan fund to build campus housing for students and staff. The budget deal approved over the summer would commit a smaller amount, $1.8 billion, for that purpose starting in the 2023-24 fiscal year. Either way, the idea is that the state lends campuses money to build housing, and as they pay back the loans over time, the state replenishes its campus housing reserves to lend out additional dollars. The loan fund would add to the several billion dollars in grants lawmakers have already committed to building student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento, said “we still need some further clarification on how it’s actually implemented in next year’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What that language will look like is unknown. Portantino’s office and the leadership of the Senate and Assembly didn’t respond to emails from CalMatters seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Police radios can stay silent to the public\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If they’re willing to wade through the crackly radio and police patois, reporters assigned to the newsroom scanner will hear about unexplained booms, cats lost, lawn equipment missing, kitchens smoking and shots fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, unless they’re in parts of the Bay Area and Inland Empire, where some police departments and sheriff’s offices encrypt radio communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Josh Becker, a San Mateo Democrat, and First Amendment advocates tried to change that this year, but Senate Bill 1000 today failed to clear Assembly Appropriations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue: a state Justice Department memo mandating that California police agencies submit a plan to keep identifying information such as people’s driver’s license numbers and criminal histories off police airwaves by December 2020. Some police departments ran with it, encrypting all of their communications. Others, including the California Highway Patrol, relay personal info on special channels while keeping most communications public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, while requiring unencrypted radio traffic, would have created exceptions: Officers would be urged to communicate identifying information through something other than a radio, and tactical or undercover operations communications could be encrypted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why the bill died, Becker said “I think there’s some misinformation on the cost side. This is not a cost issue. This bill would have saved money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association argued it would force police agencies that have already encrypted their radios to revert to their original, unencrypted transmission “at tremendous expense” — and that alternatives such as cell phones or laptops would not work in places where there’s no signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s really critical for our reporters to cover not only breaking news, but also how police respond to those situations as they occur,” said Brittney Barsotti, general counsel for the California News Publishers Association, which backed the bill. (CalMatters is a member of the association.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Nigel Duara\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A cut for carbon sequestration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today’s suspense file saw the death of Assemblymember Cristina Garcia’s bill that calls for sequestering at least 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in California’s wildlands, parks, forests and farmland by the end of 2030 — and more by the end of 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrat from Downey faced steep opposition from agricultural interests, who agreed that farmland can soak up and store carbon but questioned whether the targets were feasible. Critics also questioned whether the bill might alter the state’s forest management strategies to maximize carbon storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite support from environmental groups, the bill failed to clear the suspense file. “This summer is a stern reminder that bold action is needed now, and we must use all the tools available to us, it’s literally a matter of life and death,” Garcia said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move could be a setback for Gov. Newsom’s climate agenda for the final days of the legislative session, which called for state policy to “support sequestering carbon through natural carbon sequestration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or it could signal that there may be life yet for natural carbon sequestration in another form. There’s less than three weeks left to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rachel Becker\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The two appropriations committees went through more than 800 bills, and killed over 200 in the process. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661214390,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":2675},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Killed Hundreds of Bills in an Opaque Process Yesterday | KQED","description":"The two appropriations committees went through more than 800 bills, and killed over 200 in the process. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Lawmakers Killed Hundreds of Bills in an Opaque Process Yesterday","datePublished":"2022-08-13T01:05:16.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-23T00:26:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11922431 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11922431","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/12/california-lawmakers-killed-hundreds-of-bills-in-an-opaque-process-yesterday/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Killed Hundreds of Bills in an Opaque Process Yesterday","nprByline":"Ben Christopher","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11922431/california-lawmakers-killed-hundreds-of-bills-in-an-opaque-process-yesterday","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On most days, California lawmakers deliberate, debate and decide bills out in public for every Californian to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today is not one of those days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In simultaneous marathon hearings, the appropriations committees in the Assembly and Senate rattled through hundreds of bills in a single discharge of rapid-fire legislating. Many proposals lived to see another day. Among them: Gov. Gavin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919816/county-officials-are-skeptical-over-gov-newsoms-care-court-program\">Newsom’s proposal for new courts to compel more homeless individuals\u003c/a> to seek mental health and substance abuse treatment, and bills to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841120/ice-misusing-solitary-confinement-for-covid-19-quarantine-detainees-say\">strictly limit the use of solitary confinement in California jails and prisons\u003c/a>, allow for the composting of human remains and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918450/workers-wont-get-expanded-paid-family-leave-disability-under-california-budget-agreement\"> increase family leave payments\u003c/a> for lower-wage workers, though it wouldn’t take effect until 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many other closely watched bills came to an unceremonious end, killed in one of Sacramento’s most opaque lawmaking processes. They included a Republican-backed bill that would have capped copays for insulin, a California Medical Association-backed proposal making it easier for doctors to approve procedures and prescriptions without first getting permission from an insurance company, and a bill to allow prosecutors to go after social media companies for knowingly addicting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called the suspense file. For months, the appropriations committees, tasked with assessing the fiscal impact of any bill outside the annual budget, gather any legislation with more than a negligible price tag and put it to the side. Then twice a year, after legislative leaders decide which bills live and which die behind closed doors, they announce the results in a single hearing. In most cases, no public votes are taken and no debates are held.\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>In theory, this arcane procedure allows lawmakers to quickly run through the hundreds of fiscal bills they need to consider by the end of the legislative session, which arrives at the end of this month. Today, the two committees ran through more than 820 bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, it’s also a good way for Democratic lawmakers, who hold supermajority power, to kill legislation without having to take a public — and potentially politically difficult — stand. The stakes were especially high today. The legislative session ends this month and many lawmakers will either retire or be replaced before the next one begins, making this the last opportunity for some legislators to leave their mark on state policy. Politically, it’s also a tense time: The November general election is less than three months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, bills requiring gun owners to buy liability insurance and forcing law enforcement agencies to let the public listen to police radio transmissions were also quietly killed. Who pulled the trigger? The public often has no way to know for sure. We can only count the legislation that succumbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, more than 200 were killed, while nearly 600 stayed alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills that were culled — and the advocacy and interest groups that lobbied on them:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No help for diabetics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dead for the session: A bill by Sen. Pat Bates, a San Clemente Republican, that would have capped insulin copays at $35 per prescription per month for diabetics. With insulin list prices increasing on average 15% to 17% per year since 2012, some state and federal leaders have been pressing for action with little success. A similar effort for privately insured patients was also recently \u003ca href=\"http://washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/insulin-price-cap-diabetes-senate-republicans/\">abandoned in the U.S. Senate\u003c/a>; Congress is, however, moving forward with a $35-a-month cap for Medicare patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision by Assembly Democratic leadership to hold the bill blocked meaningful relief for millions of California residents struggling to pay for the rising cost of insulin. This was a missed opportunity for the California State Legislature to accomplish what Washington D.C. failed to do,” Bates said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill was opposed by the health insurance lobby that has long argued that copay caps do nothing to bring down the actual list price of the drug and would only shift the cost in the form of higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters said such a bill could have provided more immediate relief to patients. California has plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920898/to-make-insulin-affordable-california-aims-to-create-its-own-brand\">manufacture and distribute its own, more affordable insulin\u003c/a>, but that could take years. As of last week, the governor’s office said it has started a “request for information” process with drug manufacturers interested in partnering with the state. In California, 3.2 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and many of them rely on insulin to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ana B. Ibarra\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A mixed bag for tech regulation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Amid fervent opposition from the tech industry, lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2408\">killed a nationally watched bill\u003c/a> co-authored by Republican Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham of San Luis Obispo and Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks of Oakland that would have permitted public prosecutors, such as the state attorney general and county district attorneys, to bring civil lawsuits against social media companies for deploying products or features they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59094/does-my-kid-have-a-tech-addiction\">know will addict kids\u003c/a>. The bill had already been amended to remove a clause that would have also allowed parents to file civil lawsuits, but that evidently wasn’t enough to overcome pushback from powerful industry players — some of whom gathered last week with influential lawmakers at a swanky Napa Valley resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, who called the bill the most important of his career, pitched it as a response to a youth mental health crisis exacerbated by social media companies conducting “an unfettered social experiment on children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said he was “extremely disappointed” that Senate Appropriations Committee Chairperson Anthony Portantino, a Glendale Democrat, made “the unilateral decision” to hold the bill and warned that “the bill’s death means that a handful of social media companies will be able to continue their experiment on millions of California kids, causing generational harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that this idea would be overwhelmingly supported if presented directly to the voters, as it would be prohibitively expensive for social media companies to take every California voter on a Tech Caucus junket in Napa,” Cunningham added in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech companies countered there were better ways to address kids’ mental health than impinging on online platforms’ First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we’ve said from the start, protecting children online is a priority but must be done responsibly and effectively,” Dylan Hoffman, TechNet’s executive director for California and the Southwest, said in a statement. TechNet, an industry group that represents such companies as Meta (the parent of Facebook and Instagram), Apple and Google, lobbied aggressively against the bill. “We’re glad to see that this bill won’t move forward in its current form. If it had, companies would’ve been punished for simply having a platform that kids can access. It would’ve done little to improve child safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also dead: Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2781\">Cunningham bill\u003c/a> that would have authorized a study into whether using blockchain technology could help California’s beleaguered unemployment department verify applicant identities and prevent fraud — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922059/why-are-california-unemployment-checks-so-hard-to-get-new-report-has-ideas\">two things it’s struggled to do\u003c/a> amid the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other closely watched bills to regulate the tech industry advanced with amendments. They would expand kids’ privacy rights online, force social media companies to be more transparent about their terms of service, allow people targeted by violent posts online to seek an order requiring social media companies to remove them, and increase oversight of the budding cryptocurrency industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Emily Hoeven\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pay transparency, kind of\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced a pay transparency bill intended to root out discrimination and pay disparities — but only after stripping out its most significant provision: to require the state to post for public view businesses’ pay data, broken down by position, race and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That proposal by Sen. Monique Limón a Santa Barbara Democrat, landed SB 1162 on the California Chamber of Commerce’s “job killer” list, a designation policy advocate Ashley Hoffman said the Chamber is now prepared to remove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses with 100 or more employees are required to report the data to the state under a 2020 law, but the reports are not available for the public. The bill would have required the reports be published online for businesses with 1,000 employees or more by 2025 and 250 employees or more by 2027. The Chamber and other employer groups pushed back hard against the public reporting provision, arguing the reports are too broad to show discrimination but would be “held out to the public, whether it’s a media headline or a lawsuit … as representing something it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parts of the bill, which proponents say will still help narrow the wage gap, survived. The bill would still require the companies also to report the pay data of their contractors, and require all employers with more than 15 workers to post the pay ranges for open positions and add state enforcement authority for businesses not reporting the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Limón said that she was “deeply disappointed” in the amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day California will lead on pay equity and our actions will match our aspirations,” she said. “That day is just not today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jeanne Kuang\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No leeway for doctors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The doctors' lobby took an “L” on one of its priority bills for the year. Senate Bill 250 by Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat, sought to ease administrative hurdles for physicians. More specifically, the bill would have required health insurance plans to exempt certain medical providers from prior authorization rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior authorization is seen as a cost-control tool that keeps doctors from providing and charging for unnecessary care. Health insurance plans must deem certain medication and procedures as “medically necessary” before a doctor can prescribe or render services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Medical Association argued that reducing red tape would allow doctors to spend more time on patient care and less on paperwork — most importantly, it would help patients access the care and medications they need more quickly. A timely example: One Orange County pediatrician shared on Twitter this morning that one of his premature baby patients can’t access “life-saving medication” because he can’t get a hold of the patient’s insurer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurance plans, in opposition of the bill, argued that SB 250 could instead lead to over-prescribing and inefficient care, ultimately raising costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ana B. Ibarra\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Student housing money in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers have a plan to spend $1.8 billion in loans for public colleges and universities to build student housing, the public doesn’t know about it. Held on the suspense file today was a bill that would have set the rules for a revolving loan to build student housing. It’s a strange development for a spending plan that lawmakers and the governor already approved in the state budget this year. Basically, the money is there, but the rules for spending the money are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among advocacy groups, the lone registered foe of the bill is the all-powerful State Building and Construction Trades Council. The construction union knocked the bill in June for what it said were “watered down” provisions to ensure that workers who build the campus housing are part of an apprenticeship program. But other unions whose workers are key to housing development backed the bill, including the California State Association of Electrical Workers and California State Pipe Trades Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill sought $5 billion for a revolving loan fund to build campus housing for students and staff. The budget deal approved over the summer would commit a smaller amount, $1.8 billion, for that purpose starting in the 2023-24 fiscal year. Either way, the idea is that the state lends campuses money to build housing, and as they pay back the loans over time, the state replenishes its campus housing reserves to lend out additional dollars. The loan fund would add to the several billion dollars in grants lawmakers have already committed to building student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento, said “we still need some further clarification on how it’s actually implemented in next year’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What that language will look like is unknown. Portantino’s office and the leadership of the Senate and Assembly didn’t respond to emails from CalMatters seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Police radios can stay silent to the public\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If they’re willing to wade through the crackly radio and police patois, reporters assigned to the newsroom scanner will hear about unexplained booms, cats lost, lawn equipment missing, kitchens smoking and shots fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, unless they’re in parts of the Bay Area and Inland Empire, where some police departments and sheriff’s offices encrypt radio communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Josh Becker, a San Mateo Democrat, and First Amendment advocates tried to change that this year, but Senate Bill 1000 today failed to clear Assembly Appropriations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue: a state Justice Department memo mandating that California police agencies submit a plan to keep identifying information such as people’s driver’s license numbers and criminal histories off police airwaves by December 2020. Some police departments ran with it, encrypting all of their communications. Others, including the California Highway Patrol, relay personal info on special channels while keeping most communications public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, while requiring unencrypted radio traffic, would have created exceptions: Officers would be urged to communicate identifying information through something other than a radio, and tactical or undercover operations communications could be encrypted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why the bill died, Becker said “I think there’s some misinformation on the cost side. This is not a cost issue. This bill would have saved money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association argued it would force police agencies that have already encrypted their radios to revert to their original, unencrypted transmission “at tremendous expense” — and that alternatives such as cell phones or laptops would not work in places where there’s no signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s really critical for our reporters to cover not only breaking news, but also how police respond to those situations as they occur,” said Brittney Barsotti, general counsel for the California News Publishers Association, which backed the bill. (CalMatters is a member of the association.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Nigel Duara\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A cut for carbon sequestration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today’s suspense file saw the death of Assemblymember Cristina Garcia’s bill that calls for sequestering at least 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in California’s wildlands, parks, forests and farmland by the end of 2030 — and more by the end of 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrat from Downey faced steep opposition from agricultural interests, who agreed that farmland can soak up and store carbon but questioned whether the targets were feasible. Critics also questioned whether the bill might alter the state’s forest management strategies to maximize carbon storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite support from environmental groups, the bill failed to clear the suspense file. “This summer is a stern reminder that bold action is needed now, and we must use all the tools available to us, it’s literally a matter of life and death,” Garcia said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move could be a setback for Gov. Newsom’s climate agenda for the final days of the legislative session, which called for state policy to “support sequestering carbon through natural carbon sequestration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or it could signal that there may be life yet for natural carbon sequestration in another form. There’s less than three weeks left to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rachel Becker\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11922431/california-lawmakers-killed-hundreds-of-bills-in-an-opaque-process-yesterday","authors":["byline_news_11922431"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_28321","news_2704","news_24778","news_20252","news_3883","news_29493"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11922448","label":"news_18481"},"news_11909759":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11909759","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11909759","score":null,"sort":[1648843166000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"haney-campos-laws","title":"We Reviewed Every Law Campos and Haney Wrote as SF Supervisors to Help You Vote in the State Assembly Runoff","publishDate":1648843166,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Candidates running for elected office are known for making rosy promises, giving grandiose speeches, and singing soothing songs of better days to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while that already makes choosing whom to vote for difficult, the race to represent San Francisco in Assembly District 17 (the city’s east side) between former Supervisor David Campos and current SF Supervisor Matt Haney can be even tougher to parse. That's because finding the daylight between the two Democrats, on the issues, can be like searching for a clean sidewalk downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit: It ain’t happenin’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, gentlepeople, as \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9vQaVIoEjOM\">a wise group\u003c/a> once said, don’t believe the hype. Instead of looking at what they’ve promised, look at what they’ve done. We’ll even help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11908113\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/campos-haney3-1020x661.jpg']KQED has read every law these two lawmakers stamped their names on, or co-sponsored, while serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Yes, all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may serve as a window into their futures, as one of the key jobs of members of the state Assembly is writing laws. The scale of whom those laws affect is just wider by, you know, some 39 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help get a handle on their political futures, here are some top-line findings on their political pasts: While the legislators make similar public statements, and support similar causes, you can find significant differences in their \u003cem>approaches. \u003c/em>They both agree there’s a housing crisis, for instance, but wrote entirely different sets of laws to help ease it. And while both have focused extensively on public health, their specific aims have been notably different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, lastly — with caveats — one other big takeaway: Campos tended to focus more on citywide legislation, whereas Haney’s legislative portfolio is more of an even mix, with ordinances sometimes centered on the specific neighborhoods he has represented, instead of San Francisco writ large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not much time left: The special election to fill the Assembly seat vacated by now-SF City Attorney David Chiu is April 19. And if you’re asking yourself, “Didn’t I vote for one of these guys already?” \u003cem>— \u003c/em>you very well might have. Campos, Haney, Bilal Mahmood and Thea Selby all were listed as candidates for the Assembly seat on the city’s Feb. 15 ballot. But because \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/election-results-sf-assembly/\">no one got a majority\u003c/a>, a special election was called between the top two vote-getters — Campos and Haney. Vote-by-mail ballots were sent out just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to help you with that vote, here’s more on what we found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How much work did they actually do in office? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To answer that, we first just straight-up counted all the proposed laws the two candidates wrote or sponsored. One major caveat: Campos spent eight years on the Board of Supervisors, versus Haney’s three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910113\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11910113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4.jpg\" alt=\"A breakdown of the number of laws written by assembly candidates David Campos and Matt Haney.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: San Francisco Legislative Research Center. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ordinances are legislation that becomes law, often drafted by the City Attorney’s Office at the direction of a supervisor, who becomes its “sponsor,” in wonk-speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolutions, by contrast, are policy statements to express approval or disapproval, that are introduced at Board of Supervisors meetings and voted on. For instance, an April 2021 resolution sponsored by Haney put the city on record “urging support of eliminating the United States Senate filibuster.” A January 2010 resolution by Campos recognized “the grand re-opening of the Bernal Heights Branch Library and commending the San Francisco Public Library and its team for their hard work and commitment to San Francisco and its residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors vote on it, and — presto, change-o — it becomes a statement of record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, hearings are meetings of the board, convened by one or more supervisors, to seek information or opinions on a topic of interest, wherein a representative of a city department may be asked to answer specific questions. Often these are a way to shine light on an issue for public understanding, or to establish a certain baseline of facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, Haney’s predecessor, hasn’t endorsed either candidate, but has long considered both of them allies and friends. We asked Kim to offer her own analysis on the two candidates’ lawmaking histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing these numbers for the first time, I would say that both Supervisor Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are both very active supervisors legislatively,” said Kim, who now runs the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that both candidates often wrote ordinances directly influenced by the hearings they called — rather than prompting one hearing after another without a clear goal in sight — Kim also suggested looking at those two tallies in tandem to gauge their productiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, for instance, held a hearing in 2015 to look into fire code inspections of apartment buildings\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/07/21/string-of-mission-district-fires-prompts-push-for-safer-buildings-tenant-protections/\"> after a string of fires in the Mission\u003c/a>, a neighborhood he represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016, Campos had introduced an ordinance requiring owners of buildings with three or more dwelling units to comply with annual fire alarm testing and inspection requirements every two years, and upgrade existing fire alarm systems, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney, meanwhile, called a hearing in 2019 to \u003ca href=\"https://beyondchron.org/supes-hold-hearing-on-tenderloin-drug-dealing/\">look into open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, a longtime problem there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By September 2019, he had convened a street-level drug-dealing task force to develop recommendations for further action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that it contributed to the urgency that led to the [Tenderloin] state of emergency and some of the solutions that have been deployed,” Haney said of the task force’s findings. One of those recommendations led to the presence of \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-mid-market-vibrancy-and-safety-plan\">nonprofit Urban Alchemy’s unarmed ambassadors\u003c/a>, Haney said, who patrol the neighborhood to provide increased safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Which laws did the two candidates work on? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We categorized Campos and Haney’s legislative histories based on subject area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Every law Matt Haney wrote or sponsored on the SF Board of Supervisors\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-sI01t\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sI01t/9/\" scrolling=\"yes\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some laws were aimed at spurring housing development or tackling the homelessness crisis, or were inclusion-related laws aimed at helping a specific group, like the LGBTQ community or people of color. Other laws were intended to help specific businesses in each supervisor's district, or a particular neighborhood, like when Haney created a local dog park in Mission Bay. The “reform” category includes new government ethics laws, improved access to voting, or cleaned-up errors in city code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Categorizing laws is more art than science — for instance, a public health law may specifically aim to help homeless people, so is it a health care law, or a homelessness law? We mostly focused on \u003cem>who \u003c/em>the law aimed to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11910114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic showing percentages of laws passed by assembly candidates David Campos and Matt Haney broken down by category.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: San Francisco Legislative Research Center. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reading their legislative histories, one top-line observation jumps out: The majority of laws Campos sponsored were citywide in scope, as opposed to targeting only his neighborhood. Haney, by contrast, has introduced more neighborhood-focused legislation. That differentiation could signal how they’d legislate in the Assembly, although, as Kim noted, it may also be circumstantial, given the open-air drug dealing, overdose deaths, poverty and homelessness that Haney has tried to address in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Kim said, supervisors in the beginnings of their careers tend to focus more on the neighborhoods and districts that helped them get elected. But, “as they log on more years, they become more citywide in perspective,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Campos attributed his dearth of neighborhood-facing legislation on an inclination to develop citywide solutions to issues he identified in his own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation centers that help unhoused people with extended stays and connections to services are one example, he said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10773847/as-s-f-s-homeless-crisis-grows-one-supervisor-wants-to-expand-new-approach-to-housing\">He helped get the first navigation center built in the Mission District, which he represented.\u003c/a> Along with other supervisors, Campos then sponsored legislation to expand navigation center construction in other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we realized after the navigation center had been open was that no one else was opening navigation centers in their district, that ours was the only one,” Campos said. “That's an example of something that was neighborhood-specific that then grew into a larger city issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he has focused more on his district because the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods have “a lot of huge challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, he trumpeted some of his own citywide laws, including placing on the 2020 ballot \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_B,_Public_Works_Commission_and_Sanitation_and_Streets_Commission_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">Proposition B\u003c/a>, which split San Francisco’s embattled Public Works Department into two separate departments, one of which now focuses solely on sanitation and streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Housing: same issue, different approaches\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Assembly candidates tackled housing from noticeably different angles during their times on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the whole, Campos tended to concentrate on protecting existing housing, while Haney has focused more on enabling new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of this is situational: Haney’s district includes South of Market and part of downtown, two neighborhoods that encompass much of the city’s development. By contrast, Campos’s district includes the Mission, a hotbed of tenant advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Every law David Campos wrote/sponsored on SF Board of Supervisors\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-ZKLpa\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ZKLpa/11/\" scrolling=\"yes\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at these two candidates side by side, they’re not going to differentiate a lot on their positions around tenant protections, but a voter may decide that one candidate just has a greater wealth of experience in regards to the technical aspects, or just experience working on tenant-protection legislation,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Campos authored an ordinance to provide Rent Board hearings for tenants who allege landlord harassment. He also sponsored eight additional tenant-protection-related ordinances, including fire protections, relocation payments to evicted tenants, tenant buyout agreements, and no-fault eviction protections for families with children under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Haney in 2019 wrote legislation extending some eviction protections to units constructed after 1979, his main legislative focus was promoting construction of housing. For instance, in June 2019, he sponsored an ordinance approving a development agreement between San Francisco and KR Flower Mart LLC, for the development of an approximately 6.5-acre office and retail site located at Fifth and Brannon streets that was expected to generate $166 million in community fees, with $54 million earmarked for affordable housing. That development is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney also sponsored neighborhood redevelopment plans intended to spur housing and office construction and increase a jobs/housing linkage fee to fund new affordable housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1503765849634598914\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of these plans were started by other lawmakers, and were years in the making before his time in office, they still stand in stark contrast to his opponent’s record, including Campos’s proposed “Mission moratorium,” a controversial 2015 ordinance to halt housing construction in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos told KQED he was largely responding to the wishes of his community at the time, when headlines often trumpeted high-profile evictions, and the issue of gentrification in the Mission District was on the tips of many tongues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s politics have shifted ever-so-slightly in recent years to more strongly favor building dense construction — and amid that backdrop, Campos said he now supports building more housing than he did while serving as supervisor. But it should always be affordable housing, he added, as opposed to “luxury housing,” a term some use to refer to market-rate construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said he would not repeat or replicate the Mission moratorium in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this business, you learn from your mistakes,” Campos said. “It's actually something that came from the community. They actually collected signatures and brought it forward. And I think that in the end, you know, supporting it was a mistake. And if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The health care divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As supervisors, both also focused extensively on health policy, but in different areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos’s landmark health-related legislation sought to plug a loophole in Healthy San Francisco, the landmark law authored in 2006 by his predecessor, Tom Ammiano, that offered universal health coverage to city residents. But while one provision in the bill asked for companies to establish health care accounts to disburse money for employees, it also had a loophole that allowed the companies to get away with never giving the money away at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos’s legislation prevented companies from getting out of funding their employee health care accounts. “David was the cavalry,” said Ammiano, who in addition to his role as supervisor also served in the Assembly, and is supporting Campos. “He came to the rescue of Healthy San Francisco and closed a loophole, and now Healthy San Francisco is still healthy, especially given the COVID crisis. That politically, personally, morally meant a lot to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos also authored health-related ordinances to establish a Medical Cannabis Task Force, and to require the city to create a plan for equitable distribution of health care services, among other legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DavidCamposSF/status/1494851925291855875\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Haney’s health-related legislation illustrates his timing as a leader during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney had only been a supervisor for a year when the pandemic struck. Immediately, many citywide priorities were dropped as legislators and department heads came to grips with the invisible threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March 2022, Haney had sponsored 10 COVID-19 emergency ordinances, the majority of which were extensions of two emergency laws. One requires grocery and drug stores, restaurants, and on-demand delivery service employers to provide health and scheduling protections to their employees during the pandemic. He also required the city to provide toilets and handwashing facilities within 1,000 feet of any tent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some areas where I didn't feel like our response as a city was robust enough, whether that was protecting essential workers, providing for bathrooms or handwashing,\" Haney said. \"There's still clearly areas where I needed to legislate to get people off the streets, to protect workers, to provide bathroom access.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, whom you decide to support may come down to a single issue. But, Kim advised, as you browse the lists of laws each candidate has written or sponsored, think about which laws you consider most vital and whom you would want to represent you based on their experience writing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s possible,” she said, “that the person with the greater experience in that legislative work will have a leg up the day they take their office in Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the heated race for state Assembly, David Campos and Matt Haney appear to be very closely aligned on many big issues. But their legislative records as San Francisco supervisors suggest deeper contrasts.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1649273760,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sI01t/9/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ZKLpa/11/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":2477},"headData":{"title":"We Reviewed Every Law Campos and Haney Wrote as SF Supervisors to Help You Vote in the State Assembly Runoff | KQED","description":"In the heated race for state Assembly, David Campos and Matt Haney appear to be very closely aligned on many big issues. But their legislative records as San Francisco supervisors suggest deeper contrasts.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"We Reviewed Every Law Campos and Haney Wrote as SF Supervisors to Help You Vote in the State Assembly Runoff","datePublished":"2022-04-01T19:59:26.000Z","dateModified":"2022-04-06T19:36:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11909759 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11909759","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/04/01/haney-campos-laws/","disqusTitle":"We Reviewed Every Law Campos and Haney Wrote as SF Supervisors to Help You Vote in the State Assembly Runoff","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11909759/haney-campos-laws","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Candidates running for elected office are known for making rosy promises, giving grandiose speeches, and singing soothing songs of better days to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while that already makes choosing whom to vote for difficult, the race to represent San Francisco in Assembly District 17 (the city’s east side) between former Supervisor David Campos and current SF Supervisor Matt Haney can be even tougher to parse. That's because finding the daylight between the two Democrats, on the issues, can be like searching for a clean sidewalk downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit: It ain’t happenin’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, gentlepeople, as \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9vQaVIoEjOM\">a wise group\u003c/a> once said, don’t believe the hype. Instead of looking at what they’ve promised, look at what they’ve done. We’ll even help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11908113","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/campos-haney3-1020x661.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>KQED has read every law these two lawmakers stamped their names on, or co-sponsored, while serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Yes, all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may serve as a window into their futures, as one of the key jobs of members of the state Assembly is writing laws. The scale of whom those laws affect is just wider by, you know, some 39 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help get a handle on their political futures, here are some top-line findings on their political pasts: While the legislators make similar public statements, and support similar causes, you can find significant differences in their \u003cem>approaches. \u003c/em>They both agree there’s a housing crisis, for instance, but wrote entirely different sets of laws to help ease it. And while both have focused extensively on public health, their specific aims have been notably different.\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>And, lastly — with caveats — one other big takeaway: Campos tended to focus more on citywide legislation, whereas Haney’s legislative portfolio is more of an even mix, with ordinances sometimes centered on the specific neighborhoods he has represented, instead of San Francisco writ large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not much time left: The special election to fill the Assembly seat vacated by now-SF City Attorney David Chiu is April 19. And if you’re asking yourself, “Didn’t I vote for one of these guys already?” \u003cem>— \u003c/em>you very well might have. Campos, Haney, Bilal Mahmood and Thea Selby all were listed as candidates for the Assembly seat on the city’s Feb. 15 ballot. But because \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/election-results-sf-assembly/\">no one got a majority\u003c/a>, a special election was called between the top two vote-getters — Campos and Haney. Vote-by-mail ballots were sent out just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to help you with that vote, here’s more on what we found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How much work did they actually do in office? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To answer that, we first just straight-up counted all the proposed laws the two candidates wrote or sponsored. One major caveat: Campos spent eight years on the Board of Supervisors, versus Haney’s three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910113\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11910113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4.jpg\" alt=\"A breakdown of the number of laws written by assembly candidates David Campos and Matt Haney.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide3-4-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: San Francisco Legislative Research Center. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ordinances are legislation that becomes law, often drafted by the City Attorney’s Office at the direction of a supervisor, who becomes its “sponsor,” in wonk-speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolutions, by contrast, are policy statements to express approval or disapproval, that are introduced at Board of Supervisors meetings and voted on. For instance, an April 2021 resolution sponsored by Haney put the city on record “urging support of eliminating the United States Senate filibuster.” A January 2010 resolution by Campos recognized “the grand re-opening of the Bernal Heights Branch Library and commending the San Francisco Public Library and its team for their hard work and commitment to San Francisco and its residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors vote on it, and — presto, change-o — it becomes a statement of record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, hearings are meetings of the board, convened by one or more supervisors, to seek information or opinions on a topic of interest, wherein a representative of a city department may be asked to answer specific questions. Often these are a way to shine light on an issue for public understanding, or to establish a certain baseline of facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, Haney’s predecessor, hasn’t endorsed either candidate, but has long considered both of them allies and friends. We asked Kim to offer her own analysis on the two candidates’ lawmaking histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing these numbers for the first time, I would say that both Supervisor Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are both very active supervisors legislatively,” said Kim, who now runs the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that both candidates often wrote ordinances directly influenced by the hearings they called — rather than prompting one hearing after another without a clear goal in sight — Kim also suggested looking at those two tallies in tandem to gauge their productiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, for instance, held a hearing in 2015 to look into fire code inspections of apartment buildings\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/07/21/string-of-mission-district-fires-prompts-push-for-safer-buildings-tenant-protections/\"> after a string of fires in the Mission\u003c/a>, a neighborhood he represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016, Campos had introduced an ordinance requiring owners of buildings with three or more dwelling units to comply with annual fire alarm testing and inspection requirements every two years, and upgrade existing fire alarm systems, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney, meanwhile, called a hearing in 2019 to \u003ca href=\"https://beyondchron.org/supes-hold-hearing-on-tenderloin-drug-dealing/\">look into open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, a longtime problem there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By September 2019, he had convened a street-level drug-dealing task force to develop recommendations for further action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that it contributed to the urgency that led to the [Tenderloin] state of emergency and some of the solutions that have been deployed,” Haney said of the task force’s findings. One of those recommendations led to the presence of \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-mid-market-vibrancy-and-safety-plan\">nonprofit Urban Alchemy’s unarmed ambassadors\u003c/a>, Haney said, who patrol the neighborhood to provide increased safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Which laws did the two candidates work on? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We categorized Campos and Haney’s legislative histories based on subject area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Every law Matt Haney wrote or sponsored on the SF Board of Supervisors\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-sI01t\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sI01t/9/\" scrolling=\"yes\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some laws were aimed at spurring housing development or tackling the homelessness crisis, or were inclusion-related laws aimed at helping a specific group, like the LGBTQ community or people of color. Other laws were intended to help specific businesses in each supervisor's district, or a particular neighborhood, like when Haney created a local dog park in Mission Bay. The “reform” category includes new government ethics laws, improved access to voting, or cleaned-up errors in city code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Categorizing laws is more art than science — for instance, a public health law may specifically aim to help homeless people, so is it a health care law, or a homelessness law? We mostly focused on \u003cem>who \u003c/em>the law aimed to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11910114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic showing percentages of laws passed by assembly candidates David Campos and Matt Haney broken down by category.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/slide4-4-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: San Francisco Legislative Research Center. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reading their legislative histories, one top-line observation jumps out: The majority of laws Campos sponsored were citywide in scope, as opposed to targeting only his neighborhood. Haney, by contrast, has introduced more neighborhood-focused legislation. That differentiation could signal how they’d legislate in the Assembly, although, as Kim noted, it may also be circumstantial, given the open-air drug dealing, overdose deaths, poverty and homelessness that Haney has tried to address in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Kim said, supervisors in the beginnings of their careers tend to focus more on the neighborhoods and districts that helped them get elected. But, “as they log on more years, they become more citywide in perspective,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Campos attributed his dearth of neighborhood-facing legislation on an inclination to develop citywide solutions to issues he identified in his own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation centers that help unhoused people with extended stays and connections to services are one example, he said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10773847/as-s-f-s-homeless-crisis-grows-one-supervisor-wants-to-expand-new-approach-to-housing\">He helped get the first navigation center built in the Mission District, which he represented.\u003c/a> Along with other supervisors, Campos then sponsored legislation to expand navigation center construction in other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we realized after the navigation center had been open was that no one else was opening navigation centers in their district, that ours was the only one,” Campos said. “That's an example of something that was neighborhood-specific that then grew into a larger city issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he has focused more on his district because the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods have “a lot of huge challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, he trumpeted some of his own citywide laws, including placing on the 2020 ballot \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_B,_Public_Works_Commission_and_Sanitation_and_Streets_Commission_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">Proposition B\u003c/a>, which split San Francisco’s embattled Public Works Department into two separate departments, one of which now focuses solely on sanitation and streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Housing: same issue, different approaches\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Assembly candidates tackled housing from noticeably different angles during their times on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the whole, Campos tended to concentrate on protecting existing housing, while Haney has focused more on enabling new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of this is situational: Haney’s district includes South of Market and part of downtown, two neighborhoods that encompass much of the city’s development. By contrast, Campos’s district includes the Mission, a hotbed of tenant advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Every law David Campos wrote/sponsored on SF Board of Supervisors\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-ZKLpa\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ZKLpa/11/\" scrolling=\"yes\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at these two candidates side by side, they’re not going to differentiate a lot on their positions around tenant protections, but a voter may decide that one candidate just has a greater wealth of experience in regards to the technical aspects, or just experience working on tenant-protection legislation,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Campos authored an ordinance to provide Rent Board hearings for tenants who allege landlord harassment. He also sponsored eight additional tenant-protection-related ordinances, including fire protections, relocation payments to evicted tenants, tenant buyout agreements, and no-fault eviction protections for families with children under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Haney in 2019 wrote legislation extending some eviction protections to units constructed after 1979, his main legislative focus was promoting construction of housing. For instance, in June 2019, he sponsored an ordinance approving a development agreement between San Francisco and KR Flower Mart LLC, for the development of an approximately 6.5-acre office and retail site located at Fifth and Brannon streets that was expected to generate $166 million in community fees, with $54 million earmarked for affordable housing. That development is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney also sponsored neighborhood redevelopment plans intended to spur housing and office construction and increase a jobs/housing linkage fee to fund new affordable housing development.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1503765849634598914"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>While some of these plans were started by other lawmakers, and were years in the making before his time in office, they still stand in stark contrast to his opponent’s record, including Campos’s proposed “Mission moratorium,” a controversial 2015 ordinance to halt housing construction in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos told KQED he was largely responding to the wishes of his community at the time, when headlines often trumpeted high-profile evictions, and the issue of gentrification in the Mission District was on the tips of many tongues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s politics have shifted ever-so-slightly in recent years to more strongly favor building dense construction — and amid that backdrop, Campos said he now supports building more housing than he did while serving as supervisor. But it should always be affordable housing, he added, as opposed to “luxury housing,” a term some use to refer to market-rate construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said he would not repeat or replicate the Mission moratorium in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this business, you learn from your mistakes,” Campos said. “It's actually something that came from the community. They actually collected signatures and brought it forward. And I think that in the end, you know, supporting it was a mistake. And if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The health care divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As supervisors, both also focused extensively on health policy, but in different areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos’s landmark health-related legislation sought to plug a loophole in Healthy San Francisco, the landmark law authored in 2006 by his predecessor, Tom Ammiano, that offered universal health coverage to city residents. But while one provision in the bill asked for companies to establish health care accounts to disburse money for employees, it also had a loophole that allowed the companies to get away with never giving the money away at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos’s legislation prevented companies from getting out of funding their employee health care accounts. “David was the cavalry,” said Ammiano, who in addition to his role as supervisor also served in the Assembly, and is supporting Campos. “He came to the rescue of Healthy San Francisco and closed a loophole, and now Healthy San Francisco is still healthy, especially given the COVID crisis. That politically, personally, morally meant a lot to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos also authored health-related ordinances to establish a Medical Cannabis Task Force, and to require the city to create a plan for equitable distribution of health care services, among other legislation.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1494851925291855875"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Haney’s health-related legislation illustrates his timing as a leader during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney had only been a supervisor for a year when the pandemic struck. Immediately, many citywide priorities were dropped as legislators and department heads came to grips with the invisible threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March 2022, Haney had sponsored 10 COVID-19 emergency ordinances, the majority of which were extensions of two emergency laws. One requires grocery and drug stores, restaurants, and on-demand delivery service employers to provide health and scheduling protections to their employees during the pandemic. He also required the city to provide toilets and handwashing facilities within 1,000 feet of any tent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some areas where I didn't feel like our response as a city was robust enough, whether that was protecting essential workers, providing for bathrooms or handwashing,\" Haney said. \"There's still clearly areas where I needed to legislate to get people off the streets, to protect workers, to provide bathroom access.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, whom you decide to support may come down to a single issue. But, Kim advised, as you browse the lists of laws each candidate has written or sponsored, think about which laws you consider most vital and whom you would want to represent you based on their experience writing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s possible,” she said, “that the person with the greater experience in that legislative work will have a leg up the day they take their office in Sacramento.”\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/11909759/haney-campos-laws","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_30878","news_30892","news_29966","news_30890","news_4367","news_23420","news_736","news_25468","news_30891","news_38","news_196","news_30889","news_20252"],"featImg":"news_11909925","label":"news"},"news_11908113":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11908113","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11908113","score":null,"sort":[1647466524000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-heated-campaign-campos-and-haney-aligned-on-key-legislation","title":"Despite Heated Campaign, Campos and Haney Aligned on Key Legislation","publishDate":1647466524,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The runoff campaign for a state Assembly seat representing the east side of San Francisco has become a fractious affair typical of politics in this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904968/close-call-sf-assembly-race-likely-heading-to-a-run-off-election-between-haney-campos\">the primary election\u003c/a>, Democrats Matt Haney, currently a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, and David Campos, a former supervisor, have assailed each other's records and credentials. Campos has blamed Haney for not adequately addressing rampant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-liberal-San-Francisco-politicians-are-locked-16931313.php\">public health and homelessness issues\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin neighborhood he represents. Haney, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/assembly-race-heats-up-as-haney-accuses-campos-of-misleading-voters-with-civil-rights-attorney-designation/\">successfully sued Campos\u003c/a> over his ballot designation, calling it misleading. A judge agreed, forcing Campos to change his title from \"civil rights attorney\" to \"criminal justice administrator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Assembly District 17 candidates, running to fill out the remainder of former Assemblymember David Chiu's term, are likely to bring a similar perspective on key issues currently before the Legislature. And the winner of the April 19 runoff will take office in time to cast crucial votes on high-profile bills, some of which have divided members of the Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the issues Campos and Haney see eye-to-eye on, according to their responses to a questionnaire from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CARE courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Campos and Haney say they support Gov. Gavin Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907115/newsom-proposes-offering-more-treatment-services-for-unhoused-people-and-forcing-some-to-participate\">recently announced plan\u003c/a>, called CARE court, to assist Californians suffering from severe mental health issues or substance use disorders. The proposal would require each county in the state to create a mental health branch of civil court with the authority to order outpatient care, that, if rejected, could lead to more restrictive forced hospitalizations or conservatorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support the idea of requiring every county to do something,\" Campos said in an interview. \"I think that there are some instances where people may not be able to decide for themselves if something is appropriate for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some civil liberties advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/civil-rights-advocates-worry-newsoms-care-court-is-too-coercive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bristled at the idea of compelling treatment\u003c/a>, and are urging that the government's focus and resources instead be directed toward voluntary treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in justifying his support for the bill, Haney told KQED, \"[T]he current system is failing, it's not getting those people into care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Housing was a major flashpoint in the primary election, when Haney finished just 726 votes ahead of Campos, a margin thin enough to trigger the runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sparred over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Why-did-S-F-supervisors-vote-against-a-project-16569809.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed development in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which Haney supported, but ultimately was voted down by the Board of Supervisors. Meanwhile, endorsements from housing groups have split along familiar lines, with Haney gaining the backing of homebuilders and \"yes in my backyard\" (YIMBY) groups, while Campos is supported by the city's tenants union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"matt-haney\"]But Campos agrees with Haney on two bills championed by YIMBYs: one to ban parking requirements for new developments near transit (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2097\u003c/a>) and another (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 886\u003c/a>) to exempt student housing and faculty housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that if there are things that we can do to help ease the way in which housing is approved and created, I'm all for that,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates also both support an ambitious plan to give the state a greater role in actually developing housing. The \"social housing\" policy in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2053\u003c/a> would set up a state agency to build and acquire government housing for different income levels. Haney said he will be introducing a resolution at a future Board of Supervisors meeting in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that we have to build a lot more housing at all [income] levels of all types,\" Haney said. \"That means both market-rate housing and also a lot more housing that is subsidized, that is built by the government, that is built by nonprofits and that ensures a true affordability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos also both back \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2469\u003c/a>, which would create a state registry of information about rental properties, owners and tenants. Versions of the proposal have been defeated in three consecutive years, after facing opposition from landlord groups that have raised concerns over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy harmony between the two extends to their support of a proposal that critics contend will stifle housing development: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1001\u003c/a>, a bill that expands the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act to consider environmental justice concerns and ensure that mitigation of a polluting project happens in the community where the project is located, not elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID-19 response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Past attempts to tighten vaccine requirements have been met with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256750522.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests at the Capitol and attempts to intimidate lawmakers\u003c/a>. But both Haney and Campos said they would join Democrats in the Legislature to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1993\u003c/a>) while also eliminating the ability of K-12 public school students to use personal belief exemptions to avoid vaccinations (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 871\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it absolutely would make sense to have a vaccination requirement and to not allow for the personal belief exemption, which I think is so often misused,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has the right to their opinion, but that right ends when their actions infringe upon the rights of other people,\" he said. \"And in this particular case, someone not getting the vaccine is something that could hurt other people, their fellow Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change in education policy introduced in the Legislature this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 830\u003c/a>, legislation to revamp how the state funds the thousands of K-12 schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos said it's time for the state to move away from the current model of calculating funding based on average daily attendance, and instead start giving schools money based on their total enrollment. While truancy is a top concern about any system that isn't built on attendance, the candidates say the switch will add more predictability and resources for school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of uncertainty that the current funding structure creates, I think, is a reason why we should go to a different model that has more stability, that allows districts to plan, that doesn't really have a sort of a strange fluctuation,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Theft and shoplifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters' concerns about crime on the rise\u003c/a>, some Democrats in the Legislature have signaled they are open to tweaking \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the state's landmark criminal justice reform law that voters widely approved in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed wholesale reversal\u003c/a> of the law was quickly voted down last week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1603\u003c/a> (written by Bakersfield Democrat Rudy Salas) seeks to lower the dollar threshold at which larceny would switch from being a misdemeanor to a possible felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Assembly candidates, however, oppose bringing such a change back to the voters, who would need to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one wants to give a green light to retail theft, no one wants to let people do whatever they want without consequences,\" Campos said. \"But I don't think that this is the way to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here's where Assembly District 17 candidates, Matt Haney and David Campos, stand on housing, COVID-19 vaccinations, education and criminal justice bills.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1651299641,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1168},"headData":{"title":"Despite Heated Campaign, Campos and Haney Aligned on Key Legislation | KQED","description":"Here's where Assembly District 17 candidates, Matt Haney and David Campos, stand on housing, COVID-19 vaccinations, education and criminal justice bills.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Despite Heated Campaign, Campos and Haney Aligned on Key Legislation","datePublished":"2022-03-16T21:35:24.000Z","dateModified":"2022-04-30T06:20:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11908113 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11908113","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/16/despite-heated-campaign-campos-and-haney-aligned-on-key-legislation/","disqusTitle":"Despite Heated Campaign, Campos and Haney Aligned on Key Legislation","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11908113/despite-heated-campaign-campos-and-haney-aligned-on-key-legislation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The runoff campaign for a state Assembly seat representing the east side of San Francisco has become a fractious affair typical of politics in this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904968/close-call-sf-assembly-race-likely-heading-to-a-run-off-election-between-haney-campos\">the primary election\u003c/a>, Democrats Matt Haney, currently a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, and David Campos, a former supervisor, have assailed each other's records and credentials. Campos has blamed Haney for not adequately addressing rampant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-liberal-San-Francisco-politicians-are-locked-16931313.php\">public health and homelessness issues\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin neighborhood he represents. Haney, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/assembly-race-heats-up-as-haney-accuses-campos-of-misleading-voters-with-civil-rights-attorney-designation/\">successfully sued Campos\u003c/a> over his ballot designation, calling it misleading. A judge agreed, forcing Campos to change his title from \"civil rights attorney\" to \"criminal justice administrator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Assembly District 17 candidates, running to fill out the remainder of former Assemblymember David Chiu's term, are likely to bring a similar perspective on key issues currently before the Legislature. And the winner of the April 19 runoff will take office in time to cast crucial votes on high-profile bills, some of which have divided members of the Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the issues Campos and Haney see eye-to-eye on, according to their responses to a questionnaire from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CARE courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Campos and Haney say they support Gov. Gavin Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907115/newsom-proposes-offering-more-treatment-services-for-unhoused-people-and-forcing-some-to-participate\">recently announced plan\u003c/a>, called CARE court, to assist Californians suffering from severe mental health issues or substance use disorders. The proposal would require each county in the state to create a mental health branch of civil court with the authority to order outpatient care, that, if rejected, could lead to more restrictive forced hospitalizations or conservatorships.\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>\"I support the idea of requiring every county to do something,\" Campos said in an interview. \"I think that there are some instances where people may not be able to decide for themselves if something is appropriate for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some civil liberties advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/civil-rights-advocates-worry-newsoms-care-court-is-too-coercive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bristled at the idea of compelling treatment\u003c/a>, and are urging that the government's focus and resources instead be directed toward voluntary treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in justifying his support for the bill, Haney told KQED, \"[T]he current system is failing, it's not getting those people into care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Housing was a major flashpoint in the primary election, when Haney finished just 726 votes ahead of Campos, a margin thin enough to trigger the runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sparred over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Why-did-S-F-supervisors-vote-against-a-project-16569809.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed development in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which Haney supported, but ultimately was voted down by the Board of Supervisors. Meanwhile, endorsements from housing groups have split along familiar lines, with Haney gaining the backing of homebuilders and \"yes in my backyard\" (YIMBY) groups, while Campos is supported by the city's tenants union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"matt-haney"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Campos agrees with Haney on two bills championed by YIMBYs: one to ban parking requirements for new developments near transit (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2097\u003c/a>) and another (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 886\u003c/a>) to exempt student housing and faculty housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that if there are things that we can do to help ease the way in which housing is approved and created, I'm all for that,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates also both support an ambitious plan to give the state a greater role in actually developing housing. The \"social housing\" policy in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2053\u003c/a> would set up a state agency to build and acquire government housing for different income levels. Haney said he will be introducing a resolution at a future Board of Supervisors meeting in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that we have to build a lot more housing at all [income] levels of all types,\" Haney said. \"That means both market-rate housing and also a lot more housing that is subsidized, that is built by the government, that is built by nonprofits and that ensures a true affordability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos also both back \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2469\u003c/a>, which would create a state registry of information about rental properties, owners and tenants. Versions of the proposal have been defeated in three consecutive years, after facing opposition from landlord groups that have raised concerns over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy harmony between the two extends to their support of a proposal that critics contend will stifle housing development: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1001\u003c/a>, a bill that expands the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act to consider environmental justice concerns and ensure that mitigation of a polluting project happens in the community where the project is located, not elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID-19 response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Past attempts to tighten vaccine requirements have been met with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256750522.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests at the Capitol and attempts to intimidate lawmakers\u003c/a>. But both Haney and Campos said they would join Democrats in the Legislature to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1993\u003c/a>) while also eliminating the ability of K-12 public school students to use personal belief exemptions to avoid vaccinations (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 871\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it absolutely would make sense to have a vaccination requirement and to not allow for the personal belief exemption, which I think is so often misused,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has the right to their opinion, but that right ends when their actions infringe upon the rights of other people,\" he said. \"And in this particular case, someone not getting the vaccine is something that could hurt other people, their fellow Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change in education policy introduced in the Legislature this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 830\u003c/a>, legislation to revamp how the state funds the thousands of K-12 schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos said it's time for the state to move away from the current model of calculating funding based on average daily attendance, and instead start giving schools money based on their total enrollment. While truancy is a top concern about any system that isn't built on attendance, the candidates say the switch will add more predictability and resources for school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of uncertainty that the current funding structure creates, I think, is a reason why we should go to a different model that has more stability, that allows districts to plan, that doesn't really have a sort of a strange fluctuation,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Theft and shoplifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters' concerns about crime on the rise\u003c/a>, some Democrats in the Legislature have signaled they are open to tweaking \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the state's landmark criminal justice reform law that voters widely approved in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed wholesale reversal\u003c/a> of the law was quickly voted down last week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1603\u003c/a> (written by Bakersfield Democrat Rudy Salas) seeks to lower the dollar threshold at which larceny would switch from being a misdemeanor to a possible felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Assembly candidates, however, oppose bringing such a change back to the voters, who would need to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one wants to give a green light to retail theft, no one wants to let people do whatever they want without consequences,\" Campos said. \"But I don't think that this is the way to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11908113/despite-heated-campaign-campos-and-haney-aligned-on-key-legislation","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29966","news_4367","news_30879","news_25468","news_17968","news_20252"],"featImg":"news_11908432","label":"news"},"news_11903639":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11903639","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11903639","score":null,"sort":[1643762703000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"not-everything-about-fast-food-is-fast","title":"Not Everything About Fast Food Is Fast","publishDate":1643762703,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11903654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a bacon cheeseburger labeled, \"$1.99, ready in one minute,\" opposite a crowd of fast food workers labeled, \"$2 million and still waiting.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903450/state-assembly-backs-new-council-to-oversee-fast-food-industry\">passed a bill\u003c/a> on Monday that would establish a council to regulate the fast food industry, thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorewagetheft\">victims of wage theft continue to wait for the money they're owed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many different businesses stiff their workers, the fast food industry is notorious for not paying its employees for overtime and meal or rest breaks as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A restaurant group that owned several Burger King franchises in San Francisco is on the hook for around $2 million in wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which is tasked with distributing restitution to victims of wage theft, seems to be about as efficient as a snail towing a glacier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who can least afford to go without their wages are suffering thanks to greedy corporations and an overwhelmed state agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While the state Assembly passed a bill on Monday that would establish a council to regulate the fast food industry, thousands of victims of wage theft continue to wait for the money they're owed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1643763045,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":142},"headData":{"title":"Not Everything About Fast Food Is Fast | KQED","description":"While the state Assembly passed a bill on Monday that would establish a council to regulate the fast food industry, thousands of victims of wage theft continue to wait for the money they're owed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Not Everything About Fast Food Is 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src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a bacon cheeseburger labeled, \"$1.99, ready in one minute,\" opposite a crowd of fast food workers labeled, \"$2 million and still waiting.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/waiting_020122_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903450/state-assembly-backs-new-council-to-oversee-fast-food-industry\">passed a bill\u003c/a> on Monday that would establish a council to regulate the fast food industry, thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorewagetheft\">victims of wage theft continue to wait for the money they're owed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many different businesses stiff their workers, the fast food industry is notorious for not paying its employees for overtime and meal or rest breaks as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A restaurant group that owned several Burger King franchises in San Francisco is on the hook for around $2 million in wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which is tasked with distributing restitution to victims of wage theft, seems to be about as efficient as a snail towing a glacier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who can least afford to go without their wages are suffering thanks to greedy corporations and an overwhelmed state agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11903639/not-everything-about-fast-food-is-fast","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_913","news_29044","news_19904","news_20949","news_20252","news_18208"],"featImg":"news_11903654","label":"news_18515"},"news_11898329":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11898329","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11898329","score":null,"sort":[1638919978000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-much-will-california-redistricting-shift-political-power","title":"How Much Will Redistricting Shift Political Power in California?","publishDate":1638919978,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/12/cuanto-cambiara-el-poder-politico-con-la-redistribucion-de-distritos-en-california/\">Leer en español.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting won’t change that California is a blue state. But it could decide just how blue it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time, the once-in-a-decade process of drawing the state’s new congressional and legislative districts is in the hands of an independent commission, officially without concern about the impact on the partisan balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reality, party politics shadows the entire process — and the California Citizens Redistricting Commission is getting plenty of outside pressure as it \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1637532173/Agenda_11.30.21_-_12.4.21_and_12.6.21_%28DRAFT_-5%29.pdf?1637532173\">meets this week to cull through public comment\u003c/a> on its preliminary maps and consider changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how the commission draws the final districts will nonetheless affect partisan dynamics, including \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/416351-dems-gain-veto-proof-supermajority-in-california-state-senate-after\">whether Democrats are able to keep the supermajority in the Legislature they won in 2018\u003c/a> and retained in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into the 2022 elections, Democrats have a stranglehold on power in California: \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers\">fifty-nine of 80 seats in the state Assembly\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators\">31 of 40 in the state Senate\u003c/a>, plus 42 of 53 in the U.S. House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While slightly more competitive, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/race-and-partisan-leanings-in-californias-draft-redistricting-maps/\">preliminary districts aren’t likely to change\u003c/a> those numbers much, according to one study. Democrats are likely to keep 40 of 52 House seats, 62 Assembly seats and 31 Senate seats, says the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those party breakdowns could shift in the final districts that the \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">commission will be working on the next several weeks\u003c/a> before adopting them just before Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission, said that when seeking public comment, the commission didn’t ask for political affiliation. And he noted that the state constitution says that “districts may not be drawn for the purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Senate and Assembly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democrats have a supermajority in the state Legislature, and, under the draft maps, that doesn’t appear likely to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=assembly&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-assembly&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis, which uses data from the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://planscore.campaignlegal.org/#!2020-statehouse\">PlanScore site\u003c/a>, 14 Assembly seats and 11 Senate seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade — a slight increase from 12 and 9 with the current districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission — which is \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">discussing Assembly maps this week\u003c/a> and state Senate districts the week of Dec. 14 — does not take into account the current district lines, or where incumbents live. That’s why the draft maps place as many as 29 state Assembly members and 14 state senators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-incumbents/\">in a district with another incumbent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators would have to move to another district to avoid running against a fellow lawmaker, though enforcement of the law has been weakened. The final lines also will determine who can challenge incumbents and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465806246573797380?s=20\">run for open seats\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=senate&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-senate&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor that is already influencing the potential partisan breakdown: legislators who are leaving voluntarily. Democratic Assemblymember Ed Chau of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, for example, was appointed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to a judgeship. Chau represents the only Asian-majority legislative district not just in California, but the continental U.S., according to redistricting expert \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulmitche11/status/1465442490207518722\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Democratic Assemblymembers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinmullin/status/1463196997511352322?s=20\">Kevin Mullin of San Mateo County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/10/school-walkout-2021-california/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b8c718bc04-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-b8c718bc04-150256405&mc_cid=b8c718bc04&mc_eid=498adde128#h-other-stories-you-should-know\">Rudy Salas of Bakersfield\u003c/a> and state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465459497367859201?s=20\">Sydney Kamlager of Los Angeles\u003c/a> all are eyeing U.S. House seats. Assemblymember Marc Levine of Marin County is running for insurance commissioner, and fellow Democratic Assemblymember Richard Bloom of Santa Monica is running for Los Angeles County supervisor, while \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmFrazier/status/1466143183503380488?s=20\">Assemblymember Jim Frazier, a Fairfield Democrat\u003c/a>, announced Dec. 1 that he’s stepping down Dec. 31 to seek a transportation job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some departures, however, Republicans have no realistic hope of winning a majority in the Legislature. But getting rid of the Democratic two-thirds supermajority — which \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">allows Democrats to pass tax increases\u003c/a> or put constitutional amendments on the ballot without any Republican votes — is conceivably within reach.[aside tag=\"redistricting\" label=\"More on CA redistricting\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Republicans were able to \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">flip at least seven seats in the Assembly and five in the state Senate\u003c/a>, they would have more influence over taxes and policy choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders shied away from commenting on the potential impact of the new districts while the commission is still at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In keeping with the distinct roles established by voters for the Legislature and the Citizens Redistricting Commission, we will not be able to provide comment on the draft maps,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon of Lakewood said in a joint statement provided Tuesday to CalMatters by a spokesperson. “While the Citizens Redistricting Commission does its job, the Legislature will continue to do ours — building upon the historic and transformative accomplishments that we have made in this legislative session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-u-s-house\">U.S. House\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In comparison, the competition and the stakes for California’s congressional seats could be a little higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis of the preliminary maps, 13 U.S. House seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade, compared to 10 within the existing districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=congress&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-congress&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">Republicans only need to flip five seats in 2022\u003c/a> to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. And they’re well on their way, just from the GOP-controlled redistricting already completed, according to analyses of new congressional districts by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/\">Politico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not by accident: In most other states, redistricting is done by state legislatures, most of which \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures\">are under Republican control\u003c/a>. That includes states that gained congressional seats after the 2020 census, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/republicans-gerrymandering-north-carolina-supreme-court/620625/\">North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/texas/\">Texas\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-congress-census/\">lost a seat for the first time ever\u003c/a>, complicating the redistricting process.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where legislators drew the lines, nearly 90% of congressional races over the last decade were easy wins for one party or the other, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/18/redistricting-house-congressional-maps-522862\">Politico reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, which has led the charge for independent redistricting commissions statewide and on the local level, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_jonathanstein/status/1465353046234329094?s=20\">noted\u003c/a> that while the process has been “disruptive,” the alternative as seen in other states is a lot \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/aggressive-gerrymandering-may-make-elections-far-less-competitive-experts-say-n1284179\">more gerrymandering and less competition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An independent redistricting process in California could tilt some districts more red or blue, potentially affecting Democrats' supermajority in the California Legislature.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1638994222,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1074},"headData":{"title":"How Much Will Redistricting Shift Political Power in California? | KQED","description":"An independent redistricting process in California could tilt some districts more red or blue, potentially affecting Democrats' supermajority in the California Legislature.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Much Will Redistricting Shift Political Power in California?","datePublished":"2021-12-07T23:32:58.000Z","dateModified":"2021-12-08T20:10:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11898329 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11898329","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/07/how-much-will-california-redistricting-shift-political-power/","disqusTitle":"How Much Will Redistricting Shift Political Power in California?","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"www.calmatters.org","nprByline":"Sameea Kamal and Jeremia Kimelman","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11898329/how-much-will-california-redistricting-shift-political-power","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/12/cuanto-cambiara-el-poder-politico-con-la-redistribucion-de-distritos-en-california/\">Leer en español.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting won’t change that California is a blue state. But it could decide just how blue it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second time, the once-in-a-decade process of drawing the state’s new congressional and legislative districts is in the hands of an independent commission, officially without concern about the impact on the partisan balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reality, party politics shadows the entire process — and the California Citizens Redistricting Commission is getting plenty of outside pressure as it \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1637532173/Agenda_11.30.21_-_12.4.21_and_12.6.21_%28DRAFT_-5%29.pdf?1637532173\">meets this week to cull through public comment\u003c/a> on its preliminary maps and consider changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how the commission draws the final districts will nonetheless affect partisan dynamics, including \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/416351-dems-gain-veto-proof-supermajority-in-california-state-senate-after\">whether Democrats are able to keep the supermajority in the Legislature they won in 2018\u003c/a> and retained in 2020.\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>Heading into the 2022 elections, Democrats have a stranglehold on power in California: \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers\">fifty-nine of 80 seats in the state Assembly\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators\">31 of 40 in the state Senate\u003c/a>, plus 42 of 53 in the U.S. House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While slightly more competitive, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/race-and-partisan-leanings-in-californias-draft-redistricting-maps/\">preliminary districts aren’t likely to change\u003c/a> those numbers much, according to one study. Democrats are likely to keep 40 of 52 House seats, 62 Assembly seats and 31 Senate seats, says the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those party breakdowns could shift in the final districts that the \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">commission will be working on the next several weeks\u003c/a> before adopting them just before Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission, said that when seeking public comment, the commission didn’t ask for political affiliation. And he noted that the state constitution says that “districts may not be drawn for the purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Senate and Assembly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democrats have a supermajority in the state Legislature, and, under the draft maps, that doesn’t appear likely to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=assembly&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-assembly&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis, which uses data from the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://planscore.campaignlegal.org/#!2020-statehouse\">PlanScore site\u003c/a>, 14 Assembly seats and 11 Senate seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade — a slight increase from 12 and 9 with the current districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission — which is \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/374/attachments/original/1638211311/Schedule_Rv_2%2811-28-21%29.pdf?1638211311\">discussing Assembly maps this week\u003c/a> and state Senate districts the week of Dec. 14 — does not take into account the current district lines, or where incumbents live. That’s why the draft maps place as many as 29 state Assembly members and 14 state senators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-redistricting-incumbents/\">in a district with another incumbent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators would have to move to another district to avoid running against a fellow lawmaker, though enforcement of the law has been weakened. The final lines also will determine who can challenge incumbents and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465806246573797380?s=20\">run for open seats\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=senate&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-senate&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor that is already influencing the potential partisan breakdown: legislators who are leaving voluntarily. Democratic Assemblymember Ed Chau of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, for example, was appointed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to a judgeship. Chau represents the only Asian-majority legislative district not just in California, but the continental U.S., according to redistricting expert \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulmitche11/status/1465442490207518722\">Paul Mitchell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Democratic Assemblymembers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinmullin/status/1463196997511352322?s=20\">Kevin Mullin of San Mateo County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/10/school-walkout-2021-california/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b8c718bc04-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-b8c718bc04-150256405&mc_cid=b8c718bc04&mc_eid=498adde128#h-other-stories-you-should-know\">Rudy Salas of Bakersfield\u003c/a> and state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1465459497367859201?s=20\">Sydney Kamlager of Los Angeles\u003c/a> all are eyeing U.S. House seats. Assemblymember Marc Levine of Marin County is running for insurance commissioner, and fellow Democratic Assemblymember Richard Bloom of Santa Monica is running for Los Angeles County supervisor, while \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmFrazier/status/1466143183503380488?s=20\">Assemblymember Jim Frazier, a Fairfield Democrat\u003c/a>, announced Dec. 1 that he’s stepping down Dec. 31 to seek a transportation job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some departures, however, Republicans have no realistic hope of winning a majority in the Legislature. But getting rid of the Democratic two-thirds supermajority — which \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">allows Democrats to pass tax increases\u003c/a> or put constitutional amendments on the ballot without any Republican votes — is conceivably within reach.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"redistricting","label":"More on CA redistricting "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Republicans were able to \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-supermajority-what-the-legislature-can-do/\">flip at least seven seats in the Assembly and five in the state Senate\u003c/a>, they would have more influence over taxes and policy choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders shied away from commenting on the potential impact of the new districts while the commission is still at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In keeping with the distinct roles established by voters for the Legislature and the Citizens Redistricting Commission, we will not be able to provide comment on the draft maps,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon of Lakewood said in a joint statement provided Tuesday to CalMatters by a spokesperson. “While the Citizens Redistricting Commission does its job, the Legislature will continue to do ours — building upon the historic and transformative accomplishments that we have made in this legislative session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-u-s-house\">U.S. House\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In comparison, the competition and the stakes for California’s congressional seats could be a little higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the PPIC analysis of the preliminary maps, 13 U.S. House seats are likely to change party control at least once in the next decade, compared to 10 within the existing districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-redistricting-in-progress-2020-cd-map.netlify.app/partisan-comparison.html?chamber=congress&initialWidth=780&childId=partisan-comparison-congress&parentTitle=California%20redistricting%3A%20How%20much%20will%20party%20power%20shift%3F-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F12%2Fcalifornia-redistricting-party-politics%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">Republicans only need to flip five seats in 2022\u003c/a> to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. And they’re well on their way, just from the GOP-controlled redistricting already completed, according to analyses of new congressional districts by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/\">Politico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not by accident: In most other states, redistricting is done by state legislatures, most of which \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures\">are under Republican control\u003c/a>. That includes states that gained congressional seats after the 2020 census, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/republicans-gerrymandering-north-carolina-supreme-court/620625/\">North Carolina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/texas/\">Texas\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-congress-census/\">lost a seat for the first time ever\u003c/a>, complicating the redistricting process.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where legislators drew the lines, nearly 90% of congressional races over the last decade were easy wins for one party or the other, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/18/redistricting-house-congressional-maps-522862\">Politico reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, which has led the charge for independent redistricting commissions statewide and on the local level, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_jonathanstein/status/1465353046234329094?s=20\">noted\u003c/a> that while the process has been “disruptive,” the alternative as seen in other states is a lot \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/aggressive-gerrymandering-may-make-elections-far-less-competitive-experts-say-n1284179\">more gerrymandering and less competition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11898329/how-much-will-california-redistricting-shift-political-power","authors":["byline_news_11898329"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_30342","news_20149","news_282","news_20252","news_3883"],"featImg":"news_11887047","label":"source_news_11898329"},"news_11888182":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11888182","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11888182","score":null,"sort":[1631485128000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-rundown-of-major-laws-passed-and-not-passed-by-the-california-legislature-this-year","title":"A Rundown of Major Laws Passed — and Not Passed — by the California Legislature This Year","publishDate":1631485128,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California lawmakers finished their work for the 2021 legislative session Friday night, just four days before voting concludes in a statewide recall election targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the outcome of the recall election, Newsom will likely still have the final say on the hundreds of bills the Legislature put on his desk in the past two weeks. Even if Newsom were to lose the election, by the time his successor took office the deadline for signing or vetoing legislation will have passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bills that have passed must be reviewed by the governor before becoming law, unless otherwise noted. Here’s a look at what passed — and what failed — in the California Legislature this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two bills passed that would make it easier to build small apartment buildings in areas where only single-family homes are allowed. The goal is to address a housing shortage in the nation's most populous state. A group of 241 cities have urged Newsom to veto one bill because it would bypass local zoning laws, with some exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other high-profile housing bills didn't make it. The bills would have made it easier to turn abandoned shopping malls into apartment buildings. Both bills passed the Senate but did not get a vote in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drugs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A bill passed that could make California the first state to pay people struggling with drug addiction to stay sober. The treatment, known as “contingency management,” pays people as little as $2 for every negative drug test over the course of a few weeks. The federal government has been doing it for years with military veterans, and research shows it is one of the most effective treatments for drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But bills that would have legalized some psychedelic drugs and given opioid users a place to inject drugs while supervised failed to pass this year. Sen. Scott Wiener, the author of both bills, said he will try again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Public safety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers approved a bill that would end the careers of bad cops by preventing them from getting hired at other law enforcement agencies. The bill would create a mandatory new license for law enforcement officers. A new disciplinary board could permanently revoke someone's license with a two-thirds vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also approved barring police from arresting anyone for loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution, following a debate over whether the move would help or harm sex trafficking victims. But Sen. Scott Wiener then used a procedural move to withhold his bill from the governor’s consideration until next year, saying supporters need more time to make their case about why it’s a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaywalking would be decriminalized under another bill that passed, eliminating a crime that Democratic lawmakers said is arbitrarily enforced against people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would set statewide standards for law enforcement’s use of rubber bullets and chemical irritants during protests under another of the many criminal justice bills considered by lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a bill that would have overhauled California's cash bail system failed to pass this year. The bill's demise comes one year after voters blocked a law that would have ended cash bail in favor of risk assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lower-income people who are 50 and older and living in the country illegally can now get their health care bills paid for by taxpayers. Lawmakers also made it easier for older people eligible for Medicaid by eliminating an asset requirement that disqualified many people 65 and over. Newsom signed both proposals into law as part of the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public schools and colleges would have to stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under another bill that passed.[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a proposal that sought to make health care less expensive for everyone in California failed to pas this year. Newsom had wanted to create a new “Office of Health Care Affordability,\" which would have the power to regulate health care prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers passed a bill that would make ethnic studies a requirement to graduate high school in California. Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year because he thought the model curriculum was “insufficiently balanced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reparations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California became the third state to approve reparations of about $25,000 a person for those who were sterilized against their will. The program targets people sterilized under the state's eugenics laws that sought to weed out undesirable traits by sterilizing people with mental illnesses and other issues. The state also agreed to pay women the state coerced into getting sterilized while in prison. Newsom signed that into law as part of the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also moved to allow the return of prime beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who were stripped of their Bruce’s Beach resort for African Americans amid racist harassment in the city of Manhattan Beach a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Guaranteed income\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California is the first state to approve a statewide guaranteed income plan. Newsom signed into law a $35 million plan designed to give monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care with no restrictions on how they can spend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stimulus checks and rental debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers approved, and Newsom signed, a plan to send stimulus checks of up to $1,000 to more California adults. Lawmakers also agreed to use federal money to pay off 15 months worth of people's unpaid rent.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Whatever the outcome of the recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom will likely still have the final say on the hundreds of bills the Legislature put on his desk in the past two weeks.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631566043,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":930},"headData":{"title":"A Rundown of Major Laws Passed — and Not Passed — by the California Legislature This Year | KQED","description":"Whatever the outcome of the recall election, Gov. 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Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the outcome of the recall election, Newsom will likely still have the final say on the hundreds of bills the Legislature put on his desk in the past two weeks. Even if Newsom were to lose the election, by the time his successor took office the deadline for signing or vetoing legislation will have passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bills that have passed must be reviewed by the governor before becoming law, unless otherwise noted. Here’s a look at what passed — and what failed — in the California Legislature this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two bills passed that would make it easier to build small apartment buildings in areas where only single-family homes are allowed. The goal is to address a housing shortage in the nation's most populous state. A group of 241 cities have urged Newsom to veto one bill because it would bypass local zoning laws, with some exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other high-profile housing bills didn't make it. The bills would have made it easier to turn abandoned shopping malls into apartment buildings. Both bills passed the Senate but did not get a vote in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drugs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A bill passed that could make California the first state to pay people struggling with drug addiction to stay sober. The treatment, known as “contingency management,” pays people as little as $2 for every negative drug test over the course of a few weeks. The federal government has been doing it for years with military veterans, and research shows it is one of the most effective treatments for drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But bills that would have legalized some psychedelic drugs and given opioid users a place to inject drugs while supervised failed to pass this year. Sen. Scott Wiener, the author of both bills, said he will try again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Public safety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers approved a bill that would end the careers of bad cops by preventing them from getting hired at other law enforcement agencies. The bill would create a mandatory new license for law enforcement officers. A new disciplinary board could permanently revoke someone's license with a two-thirds vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also approved barring police from arresting anyone for loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution, following a debate over whether the move would help or harm sex trafficking victims. But Sen. 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The bill's demise comes one year after voters blocked a law that would have ended cash bail in favor of risk assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lower-income people who are 50 and older and living in the country illegally can now get their health care bills paid for by taxpayers. Lawmakers also made it easier for older people eligible for Medicaid by eliminating an asset requirement that disqualified many people 65 and over. Newsom signed both proposals into law as part of the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public schools and colleges would have to stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under another bill that passed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"politics","label":"More political coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a proposal that sought to make health care less expensive for everyone in California failed to pas this year. Newsom had wanted to create a new “Office of Health Care Affordability,\" which would have the power to regulate health care prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers passed a bill that would make ethnic studies a requirement to graduate high school in California. Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year because he thought the model curriculum was “insufficiently balanced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reparations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California became the third state to approve reparations of about $25,000 a person for those who were sterilized against their will. The program targets people sterilized under the state's eugenics laws that sought to weed out undesirable traits by sterilizing people with mental illnesses and other issues. The state also agreed to pay women the state coerced into getting sterilized while in prison. Newsom signed that into law as part of the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also moved to allow the return of prime beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who were stripped of their Bruce’s Beach resort for African Americans amid racist harassment in the city of Manhattan Beach a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Guaranteed income\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California is the first state to approve a statewide guaranteed income plan. Newsom signed into law a $35 million plan designed to give monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care with no restrictions on how they can spend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stimulus checks and rental debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers approved, and Newsom signed, a plan to send stimulus checks of up to $1,000 to more California adults. Lawmakers also agreed to use federal money to pay off 15 months worth of people's unpaid rent.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11888182/a-rundown-of-major-laws-passed-and-not-passed-by-the-california-legislature-this-year","authors":["byline_news_11888182"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27626","news_16","news_17968","news_1217","news_20252","news_3883"],"featImg":"news_11881300","label":"news"},"news_11869066":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11869066","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11869066","score":null,"sort":[1618270148000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly","title":"Mia Bonta Enters Race to Replace Husband Rob in State Assembly","publishDate":1618270148,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Alameda Unified Board of Education President Mia Bonta launched a campaign on Monday for state Assembly,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> joining a field of candidates\u003c/a> vying for an East Bay seat currently held by her husband, Rob Bonta, who was tapped to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\">California's next attorney general\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta's name identification will be a key asset in a special election that could be held this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\">if Rob Bonta is confirmed\u003c/a>. But in an interview with KQED, Mia Bonta vowed \"to earn every single vote\" in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My background and experiences as a child advocate and as a youth advocate and as an advocate for working families stand on their own,\" Bonta said. \"And I'm extremely qualified to serve the communities of the East Bay in the state Assembly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mia Bonta, Alameda Unified School District Board of Education president\"]'People have been in pain, they've been struggling. The incidence of mental health needs have increased substantially for our students and our families.'[/pullquote]Bonta said she would lean on her experience in managing the reopening of public schools in the city of Alameda this year. Elementary school children in the district began a return to classroom instruction back in March. Middle and high school students are set to begin hybrid learning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That experience of having to deal with COVID and considering reopening our schools is really the drive behind why I decided to run, in a lot of ways,\" Bonta said. \"People have been in pain, they've been struggling. The incidence of mental health needs have increased substantially for our students and our families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Bonta said she'll prioritize education and housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These issues ... are personal for me, I grew up and my family moved 13 times in 16 years,\" Bonta said. \"I have built into me the experience of feeling that housing insecurity, and I know the impact that has on one's ability to be able to get work, to keep work, to keep an education, to be focused on an educational pathway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, District 18, which includes most of Oakland, along with the cities of Alameda and San Leandro, has been represented by Rob Bonta, a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His nomination to be the state's attorney general has created an opening in one of the state's most liberal districts, where nearly two-thirds of voters are registered as Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three candidates have already made plans to run for the seat: San Leandro school board member James Aguilar, social justice attorney Janani Ramachandran and Alameda City Councilmember Malia Vella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In special elections that have seen low levels of voter turnout in the past, candidates with familiar names typically enjoy a marked advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='elections']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, Dr. Akilah Weber won a special election for a state Assembly seat in San Diego, replacing her mother, new Secretary of State Shirley Weber. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/SanDiego/LiveResults/en/Index_11.html\">turnout at 21.2%\u003c/a> of registered voters, Weber won 50.1% of votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, more than a half-dozen legislators have a family member who is also serving or previously served in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta also enters the race with endorsements from Weber, State Treasurer Fiona Ma and the California Legislative Black Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella has been backed by Assemblymembers Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and Bill Quirk, D-Hayward, along with two of Bonta's colleagues on the Alameda school board: Jennifer Williams and Heather Little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Rob Bonta is confirmed as attorney general, a special election to fill his seat could take place in June or July. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, a runoff between the top two finishers would take place later in the summer.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Alameda Unified School Board President joins a crowded field to replace Rob Bonta, her husband, who has been tapped to be California's next attorney general.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624295374,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":626},"headData":{"title":"Mia Bonta Enters Race to Replace Husband Rob in State Assembly | KQED","description":"The Alameda Unified School Board President joins a crowded field to replace Rob Bonta, her husband, who has been tapped to be California's next attorney general.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mia Bonta Enters Race to Replace Husband Rob in State Assembly","datePublished":"2021-04-12T23:29:08.000Z","dateModified":"2021-06-21T17:09:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11869066 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11869066","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/12/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly/","disqusTitle":"Mia Bonta Enters Race to Replace Husband Rob in State Assembly","path":"/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alameda Unified Board of Education President Mia Bonta launched a campaign on Monday for state Assembly,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> joining a field of candidates\u003c/a> vying for an East Bay seat currently held by her husband, Rob Bonta, who was tapped to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\">California's next attorney general\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta's name identification will be a key asset in a special election that could be held this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\">if Rob Bonta is confirmed\u003c/a>. But in an interview with KQED, Mia Bonta vowed \"to earn every single vote\" in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My background and experiences as a child advocate and as a youth advocate and as an advocate for working families stand on their own,\" Bonta said. \"And I'm extremely qualified to serve the communities of the East Bay in the state Assembly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'People have been in pain, they've been struggling. The incidence of mental health needs have increased substantially for our students and our families.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Mia Bonta, Alameda Unified School District Board of Education president","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bonta said she would lean on her experience in managing the reopening of public schools in the city of Alameda this year. Elementary school children in the district began a return to classroom instruction back in March. Middle and high school students are set to begin hybrid learning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That experience of having to deal with COVID and considering reopening our schools is really the drive behind why I decided to run, in a lot of ways,\" Bonta said. \"People have been in pain, they've been struggling. The incidence of mental health needs have increased substantially for our students and our families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Bonta said she'll prioritize education and housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These issues ... are personal for me, I grew up and my family moved 13 times in 16 years,\" Bonta said. \"I have built into me the experience of feeling that housing insecurity, and I know the impact that has on one's ability to be able to get work, to keep work, to keep an education, to be focused on an educational pathway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, District 18, which includes most of Oakland, along with the cities of Alameda and San Leandro, has been represented by Rob Bonta, a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His nomination to be the state's attorney general has created an opening in one of the state's most liberal districts, where nearly two-thirds of voters are registered as Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three candidates have already made plans to run for the seat: San Leandro school board member James Aguilar, social justice attorney Janani Ramachandran and Alameda City Councilmember Malia Vella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In special elections that have seen low levels of voter turnout in the past, candidates with familiar names typically enjoy a marked advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"elections"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, Dr. Akilah Weber won a special election for a state Assembly seat in San Diego, replacing her mother, new Secretary of State Shirley Weber. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/SanDiego/LiveResults/en/Index_11.html\">turnout at 21.2%\u003c/a> of registered voters, Weber won 50.1% of votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, more than a half-dozen legislators have a family member who is also serving or previously served in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta also enters the race with endorsements from Weber, State Treasurer Fiona Ma and the California Legislative Black Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella has been backed by Assemblymembers Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and Bill Quirk, D-Hayward, along with two of Bonta's colleagues on the Alameda school board: Jennifer Williams and Heather Little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Rob Bonta is confirmed as attorney general, a special election to fill his seat could take place in June or July. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, a runoff between the top two finishers would take place later in the summer.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29293","news_18848","news_20770","news_913","news_2704","news_26650","news_29347","news_3674","news_20252"],"featImg":"news_11869162","label":"news"},"news_11866499":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11866499","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11866499","score":null,"sort":[1616786411000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat","title":"East Bay State Assembly Candidates Launch Campaigns to Fill Rob Bonta's Seat","publishDate":1616786411,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The race to fill a potentially vacant East Bay state Assembly seat got underway almost immediately after Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped Assemblyman Rob Bonta on Wednesday to be California's next attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day's end on Thursday, three candidates in one of California's most liberal districts announced plans to run. And more contenders are almost certain to join the accelerated campaign before a special election takes place this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a mad scramble because it’s not a traditional cycle,\" said Bill Wong, political director of the California Assembly Democrats. \"There's probably going to be a lot of interest, because it’s a really progressive seat and there’s a lot of local electeds there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacant legislative seats in the deep-blue East Bay tend to draw fervent interest from candidates: In 2018, an opening in the adjacent\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ad15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 15th Assembly District\u003c/a> drew a field of a dozen hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, three candidates have declared that they will enter the race to replace Bonta if he is confirmed: social justice attorney Janani Ramachandran, Alameda City Councilmember Malia Vella, and James Aguilar, a San Leandro Unified School District Board trustee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with KQED, the three Democrats expressed a commitment to the progressive policies that make the district — which includes most of Oakland, along with the cities of Alameda and San Leandro — one of the most progressive in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two-thirds of the district's voters are registered as Democrats, the second highest percentage of any Assembly district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino, white, Asian and Black residents each account for at least 20% of the district's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Three Candidates Announce Campaigns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran was the first candidate to launch a campaign for the seat — she began running weeks ago as speculation mounted about Bonta's possible nomination for attorney general.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bill Wong, political consultant\"]'There's probably going to be a lot of interest, because it’s a really progressive seat and there’s a lot of local electeds there.'[/pullquote]Her career began as a case manager at a community health clinic, before she founded the nonprofit Berkeley Resistance Against Inter-Partner Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started getting involved in not only legal aid, domestic violence work, but also every issue that intersects with violence, because you can't, in my opinion, take a social problem and think about addressing that one thing alone,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led to work on eviction protection litigation and a spot on the Oakland Public Ethics Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said her campaign platform would consist of a $22 minimum wage, tenant protections, criminal justice reform and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perspective that I am going to bring into this seat is a very community-driven understanding of things, with the combination of my understanding of the law, how laws are formed, how they're interpreted and how and to what extent they're enforced,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Vella, who was elected to the Alameda City Council in 2016, has expressed an interest in working on issues of housing affordability, and touts her work in introducing an eviction moratorium in Alameda during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issues here are really no different city to city. We're all facing issues around housing,\" said Vella, who argues that her local government experience positions her well for a move to the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s one thing to say I’ve got these pie-in-the sky ideas, it’s another to see how they are implemented,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella also works as an attorney for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, and could bring the support of organized labor into the race. She said dealing with members' concerns is akin to working with constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I like to tell people I don’t have one boss, I have thousands of bosses, and being in the Assembly is similar to that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"rob-bonta\"]James Aguilar, the San Leandro school board trustee, is seeking state office after being elected to the school board in 2018, at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only as the youngest voice in the race, but the son of union workers and labor organizers, and as a gay Latino, I have all of these intersecting experiences that would be of value to the Assembly district,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said the debate over the resumption of classroom learning (his district is beginning hybrid learning for all grades on April 12) has been an instructive political experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been stressful, but it's also been really great because we have had an opportunity to connect with our community more than ever,\" Aguilar said. \"I would say we've had our calls maxed out on Zoom and that community participation is just absolutely tremendous and we haven't had that kind of involvement before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Aguilar said he looks forward to working on legislation addressing climate change, racial justice and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Likely to Be a Crowded Field\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>More candidates are expected to join the race in the coming days. A large field would almost certainly ensure that no candidate receives a majority of votes in the primary election, which would likely take place in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you’ve got seven or eight candidates, the math never works out that way,\" said Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no candidate with the districtwide name recognition needed to clear the field has entered the ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, whose term expires in January 2023, has no interest in the seat, a spokesperson for the mayor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan and Mia Bonta, president of the Alameda Unified School Board — and Rob Bonta's wife — did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If no candidates gets a majority, then the top two finishers in the primary would advance to a runoff election, which would likely take place in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding another wrinkle, the district's map will change in the next year as part of California's redistricting process, so the winner will have to run for reelection in a redrawn district in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860552/state-legislature-votes-to-extend-universal-vote-by-mail-through-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> legislation signed by Newsom\u003c/a> earlier this year, every registered voter in the district will automatically receive a ballot in the mail. It remains to be seen how Alameda County will supplement the mail voting with in-person options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, KQED reported on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851601/voting-issues-in-alameda-county-raise-questions-about-election-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a series of voting issues in Alameda\u003c/a> that raised questions among experts about the management of elections in the county.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With Bonta slated to become California's next attorney general, three candidates have already jumped in the race to fill his Assembly seat, which represents parts of Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro. 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Gavin Newsom tapped Assemblyman Rob Bonta on Wednesday to be California's next attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day's end on Thursday, three candidates in one of California's most liberal districts announced plans to run. And more contenders are almost certain to join the accelerated campaign before a special election takes place this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a mad scramble because it’s not a traditional cycle,\" said Bill Wong, political director of the California Assembly Democrats. \"There's probably going to be a lot of interest, because it’s a really progressive seat and there’s a lot of local electeds there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacant legislative seats in the deep-blue East Bay tend to draw fervent interest from candidates: In 2018, an opening in the adjacent\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ad15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 15th Assembly District\u003c/a> drew a field of a dozen hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, three candidates have declared that they will enter the race to replace Bonta if he is confirmed: social justice attorney Janani Ramachandran, Alameda City Councilmember Malia Vella, and James Aguilar, a San Leandro Unified School District Board trustee.\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>In interviews with KQED, the three Democrats expressed a commitment to the progressive policies that make the district — which includes most of Oakland, along with the cities of Alameda and San Leandro — one of the most progressive in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two-thirds of the district's voters are registered as Democrats, the second highest percentage of any Assembly district in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino, white, Asian and Black residents each account for at least 20% of the district's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Three Candidates Announce Campaigns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran was the first candidate to launch a campaign for the seat — she began running weeks ago as speculation mounted about Bonta's possible nomination for attorney general.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There's probably going to be a lot of interest, because it’s a really progressive seat and there’s a lot of local electeds there.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Bill Wong, political consultant","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her career began as a case manager at a community health clinic, before she founded the nonprofit Berkeley Resistance Against Inter-Partner Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started getting involved in not only legal aid, domestic violence work, but also every issue that intersects with violence, because you can't, in my opinion, take a social problem and think about addressing that one thing alone,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led to work on eviction protection litigation and a spot on the Oakland Public Ethics Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said her campaign platform would consist of a $22 minimum wage, tenant protections, criminal justice reform and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The perspective that I am going to bring into this seat is a very community-driven understanding of things, with the combination of my understanding of the law, how laws are formed, how they're interpreted and how and to what extent they're enforced,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Vella, who was elected to the Alameda City Council in 2016, has expressed an interest in working on issues of housing affordability, and touts her work in introducing an eviction moratorium in Alameda during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issues here are really no different city to city. We're all facing issues around housing,\" said Vella, who argues that her local government experience positions her well for a move to the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s one thing to say I’ve got these pie-in-the sky ideas, it’s another to see how they are implemented,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella also works as an attorney for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, and could bring the support of organized labor into the race. She said dealing with members' concerns is akin to working with constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I like to tell people I don’t have one boss, I have thousands of bosses, and being in the Assembly is similar to that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"rob-bonta"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>James Aguilar, the San Leandro school board trustee, is seeking state office after being elected to the school board in 2018, at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only as the youngest voice in the race, but the son of union workers and labor organizers, and as a gay Latino, I have all of these intersecting experiences that would be of value to the Assembly district,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said the debate over the resumption of classroom learning (his district is beginning hybrid learning for all grades on April 12) has been an instructive political experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been stressful, but it's also been really great because we have had an opportunity to connect with our community more than ever,\" Aguilar said. \"I would say we've had our calls maxed out on Zoom and that community participation is just absolutely tremendous and we haven't had that kind of involvement before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Aguilar said he looks forward to working on legislation addressing climate change, racial justice and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Likely to Be a Crowded Field\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>More candidates are expected to join the race in the coming days. A large field would almost certainly ensure that no candidate receives a majority of votes in the primary election, which would likely take place in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you’ve got seven or eight candidates, the math never works out that way,\" said Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no candidate with the districtwide name recognition needed to clear the field has entered the ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, whose term expires in January 2023, has no interest in the seat, a spokesperson for the mayor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan and Mia Bonta, president of the Alameda Unified School Board — and Rob Bonta's wife — did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If no candidates gets a majority, then the top two finishers in the primary would advance to a runoff election, which would likely take place in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding another wrinkle, the district's map will change in the next year as part of California's redistricting process, so the winner will have to run for reelection in a redrawn district in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860552/state-legislature-votes-to-extend-universal-vote-by-mail-through-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> legislation signed by Newsom\u003c/a> earlier this year, every registered voter in the district will automatically receive a ballot in the mail. It remains to be seen how Alameda County will supplement the mail voting with in-person options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, KQED reported on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851601/voting-issues-in-alameda-county-raise-questions-about-election-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a series of voting issues in Alameda\u003c/a> that raised questions among experts about the management of elections in the county.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29293","news_17968","news_3674","news_20252"],"featImg":"news_11866620","label":"news"},"news_11846562":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11846562","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11846562","score":null,"sort":[1604872197000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-elects-25-year-old-lawmaker-youngest-in-82-years","title":"California Elects 25-year-old Lawmaker, Youngest in 82 Years","publishDate":1604872197,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California has elected its youngest state lawmaker in more than eight decades, elevating a 25-year-old progressive Democrat who already has years of legislative experience to the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Lee survived a crowded nine-candidate primary election in March, then trounced his Republican rival by winning 73% of the vote in a San Francisco Bay Area district that includes part of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to keep living with his mom in San Jose for the time being and had to take a part-time gig economy delivery job to make ends meet during his Assembly District 25 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has worked for five different lawmakers either as a college intern or more recently a paid aide, quickly exhibiting such “encyclopedic knowledge” of pending legislation that “he became kind of the local Wikipedia for what’s happening on the Senate floor,” said state Sen. Henry Stern, who employed Lee from 2017 until he left last year to work for another lawmaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He makes me look like an old man,” joked Stern, 38, who was the first Millennial elected to the Senate four years ago. “I thought I had something fresh going on there. But now Gen Z comes up and what do I know? Now I’m a Boomer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee prevailed despite setting himself other obstacles, like not accepting corporate campaign money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Friday that the first bill he will introduce when he takes office next month will propose to prohibit corporate contributions directly to candidates. 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And that’s going to be informing my perspective going into office,” said Lee, whose new gig carries a salary of nearly $115,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Lee’s Republican opponent nor Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee will undoubtedly run into fellow lawmakers who will be skeptical or “they’ll say, ‘Wait your turn,’” Stern said from experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “he’s speaking for a real demographic that is underrepresented in politics in general,” Stern said. ”I hope it’s a trend. 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