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The state of State Street Mayor Randy Rowse talk about challenges for downtown Santa Barbara in News-Press interview

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Mark Infanti, who announced his candidacy for mayor in Solvang, stands with his wife, Gay Infanti, outside the city government complex.

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Mark Infanti made it official Wednesday morning.. He’s running for mayor of Solvang. Standing outside the Solvang city government complex, Mr. Infanti stood with Mayor Charles Uhrig, who decided not to seek another term and persuaded Mr. Infanti, a current Solvang City Council member and the mayor pro tem, to seek the office. “He made the point that I had two years left in my city council

term,” Mr. Infanti told the NewsPress after his announcement. “He said, ‘Why don’t you just move over to the center chair and serve your two years there?’ “I thought about that,” Mr. Infanti said. “I was hesitant. I wasn’t going to run. But I talked to a bunch of people who supported me. These folks said, ‘You can do it,’ so I’m running.” In addition to Mayor Uhrig, current council members Claudia Orona and Jim Thomas stood with Mr. Infanti to show their support during Please see RACE on A6

The Santa Barbara City Council has delayed action concerning the parklets on State Street.

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Clearly frustrated at the slow pace of the Santa Barbara City Council decision-making regarding the future of lower State Street and the pedestrian promenade, Mayor Randy Rowse says his administration is taking steps to address security, homeless and vacancy issues in the downtown area. Mayor Rowse told the NewsPress Wednesday that efforts will begin this summer to provide deep cleaning, supplemental lighting and an increased law enforcement presence downtown to corral wayward skateboarders, deter graffiti, and stop speeding bicyclists and high-powered electric bike riders from colliding with pedestrians. “There are a few things in the works right now,” Mr. Rowse said. “The first thing is cleaning and lighting.” The latter “will take care of a multitude of sins,” he said. “Things happening in the dark don’t happen in the light.” In addition, Mayor Rowse said the city is “actively recruiting” a supplemental police presence dedicated to increasing public safety downtown. He noted that while they will not be sworn officers with the power to arrest, “we’ll be expanding our professional staff down there to provide an authoritative enforcement presence.” Perhaps most important is that they’ll be able to keep an eye on skateboarders who are not even supposed to be on the street and bicyclists who ride outside their marked lanes. “Right now it’s like a little bit of Wild West out there,” Mayor Rowse said. “Any time you get a uniformed presence out there, things get

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Mayor Randy Rowse, shown above at his election victory party in November, said he wants the city of Sant Barbara to move on to solutions for State Street.

better. People don’t always have to be arrested. “There are a lot of nuisances that don’t rise to the level of arrests.” Mr. Rowse, who was elected mayor in November, said he had no problem with the rental e-bikes available downtown, noting they’re “a really cool way to explore downtown State Street,” but the high-powered bikes were not anticipated by the California Vehicle Code. “We need some type of movement on those. I’d like to see us paint definitive lines marking

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lanes,” he said. Regarding the vagrants who line downtown State Street, Mayor Rowse said that dismissing them as a single group called “the homeless” is “simplistic.” “There are a lot of chronic people we see who need to be housed,” he said, “It’s not just a problem for another day. Sooner than later something needs to be done.” Mr. Rowse note that the “Dignity Moves” project is designed specifically for transients to “invite” them into housing and that

those who need it will be contacted by appropriate social services personnel. Another approach involves posting police authority letters on the windows of vacant storefronts, which will give police the authority to go into adjacent alcoves, which technically are private property, and clean them out of anyone who shouldn’t be there, including those who set up camps. The mayor said he’s also been talking with individual State Street Please see ROWSE on A6

Salud Carbajal grew up in the shadow of gun violence. “When I was a young boy about 12 years old my sister took her life with a revolver,” U.S. Rep. Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, told the News-Press. “The trauma of that experience and the loss of my sister has stayed with me for the rest of my life. “I grew up in Oxnard, where I lived in an area where gun violence was pretty pervasive and the challenge to loss of life stayed with me as well,” Rep. Carbajal said. During a recent interview with the News-Press, the congressman discussed the red flag law, which was recently signed into law as part of a larger gun control legislation package. “The bottom line is that it will save lives by preventing mass shottings, reducing daily gun violence throughout the country and reducing suicides,” Rep. Carbajal said. “For the 19 states and Washington, D.C., this will bolster laws by providing more training for law enforcement officials and creating an awareness of these laws. At the end of the day this will bolster states that have these laws and it will bolster support. “Grant programs incentivize laws by providing funding for training and creating awareness on these laws,” he said. “We basically have another tool to reduce gun violence in communities. It adds to the

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mosaic of tools increasing the safety of communities. “When somebody is posting on social media that they are going to go shoot up a school that is enough to get a judge to assess that behavior, it is enough to report it to authorities,” Rep. Carbajal said. “The grants (for states) are for funding training programs and developing protocols,” he said about the legislation that he sponsored. “The grants will fund putting in place structures and protocols for reporting someone who has been observed to have erratic behavior. Some behaviors are more subtle and don’t immediately warrant notifying authorities, however observed repeatedly over time Please see CARBAJAL on A6

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At left, Annie Sly, a representative of YES! Save Our Downtown Open Spaces, is on Linden Avenue with the public parcel that YES! Save Our Downtown Open Spaces wants to preserve in the background. At right, Carpinterians will decide if the public land at the corner of Linden Avenue and 5th Street should remain for public use in November’s election. It is the site of a well-used parking lot and community garden.

Carpinterians launch campaign to save downtown open space By NEIL HARTSTEIN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Determined to save a downtown Carpinteria open space from being developed, a group of committed residents claims it has gathered more than enough signatures necessary to put the issue before the voters in November. The campaign, which officially launches on Thursday, took less than a year to gather “far more than the required number of signatures” to put an initiative on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot, according to Annie Sly, spokesperson for the all-volunteer grassroots organization, YES! Save

Our Downtown Open Space. “That’s the power of passion and spirit of community behind the city of Carpinteria’s YES! Save Our Downtown Open Space campaign,” she said. “The gateway to the beach should not be developed.” The group wants to change the zoning of Parking Lot No. 3, at Linden Avenue and 5th Street, from general commercial to open space/recreation, securing the high-use lot from commercial development, Ms. Sly said. Along with the conviction that a well-utilized public property should not be given by the city to a developer for private gain, the YES! campaign’s concerns

include: • Saving downtown open spaces from traffic and congestion. • Protecting the community’s finite water supply. • Preserving the existing community garden. • Keeping mountain views for all to enjoy. • Maintaining Carpinteria’s small town charm as well as the look and feel of its famed beach neighborhood. “Based on the response to our signature gathering, we are very optimistic about our public piece of land at 5th and Linden remaining public,” Ms. Sly said. “We have our work cut out for

us, but Carpinterians are no strangers to protecting what’s best for all. Everyone is welcome to join our good fight.” The YES! campaign will host an information table at the Seal Fountain on Linden Avenue Thursday afternoons, 3:30 to 5:30, coinciding with the Farmers Market. More information is available at parkinglot3.org and Facebook. com/saveourparkinglot3. The group can be reached by email at info@parkinglot3.org. Its mailing address is P.O. Box 684, Carpinteria 93014-0684.

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Gas prices start around $5.86 a gallon Wednesday at the USA station on State Route 246 in Buellton. According to the American Automobile Association, the average in Santa Barbara County was $6.20 a gallon.

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Pioneer Valley department named state’s outstanding large agriculture program

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These agriculture pathways allow students to take courses in a variety of areas, challenge themselves academically, earn industry

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The UCSB men’s and women’s cross country teams released its 2022 schedule Wednesday afternoon, announcing a slate of five regular season meets, including the return of the UCSB Lagoon Invite. The season kicks off at home Sept. 3 as the Gauchos return to the Lagoon Course located directly on the UCSB campus for the first time since 2019. The invitational

features solely the Gauchos and their central coast rival, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Two weeks later on Sept. 17, UCSB heads out for its first of three meets at UC Riverside’s Ag/ Ops Course as the Gauchos look to compete in the Riverside Invite. The course will serve as this year’s site for the Big West Championship. Then the longest trek of the year comes on Sept, 30 when the Gauchos fly out to South Bend, Ind. for Notre Dame’s Joe Piane Invite. There the team will get a chance to

compete with a medley of different teams from conferences to close out the first month of the season. A few weeks later the regular season comes to an end as UCSB heads east for the NCAA PreNationals in Stilwater, Okla. at the site of the NCAA Championships. It will be a great opportunity for these young Gaucho teams to compete against nationally ranked programs, get a preview of the championship track, and earn national exposure while getting a chance to climb the polls as well.

Additionally, another group of Gauchos may make its way back down to UCR for the Highlander Classic that same weekend. Oct. 29 marks the Big West Championship as the men’s team will look to defend its title down in Riverside, Calif. The women’s team has had success at the Ag/Ops Course, winning its last conference title there in 2017. Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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SANTA BARBARA —An inmate has been returned to custody after a brief escape that ended with a K9 apprehension. At approximately 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, 26-yearold Nicholas Erickson of Santa Barbara escaped from the Santa Barbara County Main Jail. Mr. Erickson had originally been booked on June 18 by the Santa Barbara Police Department for charges including burglary (felony), vandalism (felony), vehicle theft (felony), loitering (misdemeanor), obstruction (misdemeanor), grand theft (felony) and committing a crime while released on bail (felony) as well as several outstanding warrants for theft and elder abuse charges. His original bail was $150,000. Custody deputies immediately locked down the Main Jail in Santa Barbara and notified patrol of the escape, said Raquel Zick, the public information officer for the Sheriff’s Office. Deputies, including two K9 teams, responded to the area and began searching within minutes. Deputies set up a perimeter area and requested a response from County Air Support to assist with the search.

County Air Support responded to the area with Air 50, a Cessna 206 airplane, and coordinated the search with deputies on the ground. While they were searching, a resident in the 4600 block of Sierra Madre reported seeing a suspicious subject in the area. As deputies closed in on the area, Air 50 tracked Mr. Erickson as he worked his way through brush towards Oak Glen Drive. Sheriff’s Deputy Phillip Farley and his K9 Odin encountered Mr. Erickson who feigned surrender and failed to comply with verbal commands before attempting to flee toward Oak Glen Drive. Deputy Farley deployed K9 Odin, who tumbled down a hill and fell from an 8–10-foot drop onto a sidewalk before apprehending Mr. Erickson in the 4500 block of Oak Glen Drive. Mr. Erickson was re-arrested at 8:20 p.m. and received medical attention for minor injuries sustained during his escape attempt as well as the K9 apprehension. K9 Odin was treated at an area veterinary hospital for a leg injury and is expected to recover. Mr. Erickson was re-booked at the Main Jail with additional charges of escape (felony), obstruction (misdemeanor) and harming a police dog (misdemeanor). He is being held on $200,000 bail. Ms. Zick said custody staff are conducting a

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The Pioneer Valley High School Agriculture Department was recently named the Outstanding Large Agriculture Program in the state, for the first time in the Santa Maria school’s history. The recognition was given during the California Agriculture Teachers’ Association annual conference in late June at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The department was previously awarded the Outstanding Agricultural Program for the South Coast Region in April and went on to compete at the state level. The region stretches from San Jose along the coast to Los Angeles. The department offers an array of courses that challenges students through academic rigor and practical application, according to a news release. Students can take agriculture courses in five pathway areas, and all courses taken in the agriculture department are UC/CSU approved.

standard certifications and college credit through our collaboration with Allan Hancock Community College. The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District has more than 40 CTE pathways. “We have students with small plant SAE projects; ag mechanics students build furniture, farm equipment, barbecue pits; and we have many students raise livestock. placement SAEs,” said Marcie Guerra, Pioneer Valley FFA adviser and teacher. “In 2021, our students invested nearly 44,000 hours and a total asset value of over $900,000 in their SAE projects. Leadership is also a major component of the program. Each year we have numerous students attend leadership conferences, participate in speaking competitions, travel throughout the state to compete in agricultural judging competitions, and run for leadership positions at the chapter, sectional, regional and state level,” she said.

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north into the U.S. Referred to as “gotaways,” they are defined by statute as criminal illegal aliens and, according to immigration law created by Congress, are eligible for deportation. “If you had told me 29 years ago when I entered law enforcement that I’d be doing this, I would have said no way,” Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd said, referring to tracking down foreign nationals committing crimes who’d made their way into his county some 200 miles north of the border. “You hear the term invasion, and that is exactly what this is. You hear the term immigration, and that is not what that is,” he said. “This is slave trade we deal with every day in our counties. These individuals that are being brought to us coming through our county who we’re intercepting, they are not free to go. They are the property of the cartels who get them to Houston and move them around the

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Arizona and judges of Texas both came to the same conclusion, living with the same facts and basing it on the same federal constitution. Having said that, that is historic.” Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 specifies that state war powers may be exercised when a state is invaded. The provision clarifies what states can’t do, including waging war, with one exception: invasion. It states, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit delay.” “The states reserve this right,” Mr. Cuccinelli said. “They decide that question. The state decides. And that means the governor. “When the judges say turn them back at the border, that’s literally what he’s talking about. That’s the one step Gov. Abbott hasn’t taken.”

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“Gov. Abbott, we’re asking you to step up even more than you already have and give us the resources that we need. Our county is being overrun. Let’s deal with these people at the border and not after they’ve come into the interior of our state.” Abbott press secretary, Ms. Eze, told The Center Square, “While President Biden ignores the evergrowing humanitarian crisis, and Congressional members visit the border for photo-ops and then return to Washington to do nothing, Texas has deployed thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers and allocated over $4 billion of Texas taxpayer money to secure our border.” This includes “building our own border wall, erecting strategic barriers, and sending significant resources to help our local partners as was mentioned repeatedly in the Brackettville press conference,” she added. Since Operation Lone Star began last March, law enforcement participating in it have made 274,000 apprehensions, more than 16,900 criminal arrests, including of smugglers and human traffickers, Ms. Eze added. They’ve also seized millions of lethal doses of fentanyl. “It’s past time for President Biden – and for both parties in Congress – to do their jobs and secure our southern border,” she said. “As the challenges on the border continue to increase, Texas will continue to take additional unprecedented action to address those challenges caused by the Biden Administration.”

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country, where they have to work off their indebtedness to the cartel … whether that be selling drugs, working in restaurants, working in hotels or forced prostitution. These individuals are not free. We are importing a peon class, and we are allowing the cartels to do it. It is an invasion being pushed by the cartels.” Sheriff Boyd said Gov. Abbott threw three law enforcement life line with funding made available through Operation Lone Star, an initiative the governor launched in 2021 as illegal immigration numbers surged. Others who spoke also thanked the governor and the impact that Operation Lone Star has had enabling them to pursue criminals with additional resources. Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan, the first judge to declare an invasion, said, “We don’t want to lose America. The Biden administration won’t do a thing about it. They could stop this thing this hour. They could stop it now. They don’t have the guts, but they have a plan. And their plan is to keep bringing them in: open borders. If we keep our open borders, we’re not going to have a nation. We’re fighting for our border.” Terrell County Judge Dale Curruthers, who also signed a declaration of invasion, said, “We are here to protect the sovereignty of our nation, not just the border. Every day our residents live in fear of the invasion. We have received support from the governor, and we are very grateful for that. But the invasion is real, and we are doing the best we can with limited resources. We have the least to offer and the most to lose.” Goliad County Judge Mike Bennett said, “We get a lot of stopovers” of criminal foreign nationals. “We are a very poor county. We have two stoplights in our county. We have a sheriff’s department with two deputies on duty at any given time. Three to four days a week, we have bailouts in our county, and it takes 150% of our sheriff’s department’s resources leaving the rest of the county totally unprotected. “We are asking the governor to do more. Clearly it’s a responsibility of the United States government to do this. Clearly they’re not going to do a thing.

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(The Center Square) — The man charged with killing seven people and injuring dozens more in the July 4 parade mass shooting in Highland Park later drove to Madison, Wisc., where he considered another attack, police said Wednesday. Robert E. Crimo III, who was ordered held without bond Wednesday on seven counts of first-degree murder, had about 60 rounds of ammunition in his car, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force spokesperson Chris Covelli said. “Investigators did develop some information that it appears when he drove to Madison, he was driving around. However, he did see a celebration that was occurring in Madison, and he seriously contemplated using the firearm he had in his vehicle

to commit another shooting in Madison,” Mr. Covelli said. “We don’t have information to suggest he planned to drive to Madison initially to commit another attack. We do believe he was driving around following the first attack and saw the celebration.” Mr. Crimo faces additional charges in the mass shooting, which sent more than 30 people to the hospital. Mr. Covelli said Wednesday that authorities still aren’t clear on the motive even though Mr. Crimo has talked to investigators. “I don’t want to go specifically into what he told investigators. However, he had some type of affinity towards the number four and seven, and the inverse was seven, four,” the deputy chief said. According to Mr. Covelli, the shooter’s affinity “comes from music that he’s interested in.”

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FDA temporarily lifts order banning Juul vaping products By RICHIE MALOUF THE CENTER SQUARE

within the U.S. The FDA said that the company’s premarket tobacco product applications, a request to legally sell and distribute a tobacco product in the U.S., included insufficient and contradictory data. Juul said they disagreed with the FDA’s ruling as they provided sufficient data addressing all the issues raised by the FDA. “In our applications, which we submitted over two years ago, we believe that we appropriately characterized the toxicological

profile of JUUL products, including comparisons to combustible cigarettes and other vapor products, and believe this data, along with the totality of the evidence, meets the statutory standard of being ‘appropriate for the protection of the public health,’” Juul said. A federal court blocked the FDA’s ban a day later after Juul filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for a stay on what they called an “extraordinary and unlawful action.”

Critics: Taxpayers on hook for Biden’s bailout of union pensions By CASEY HARPER THE CENTER SQUARE SENIOR REPORTER

(The Center Square) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday touted a federal program to delay insolvency for private unions’ pension funds, but critics say taxpayer dollars should not be used to “bail out” pensions negotiated by unions. President Biden spoke in Cleveland about the American Rescue Plan’s Special Financial Assistance program, which will protect more than 10 million Americans in multi-employer plans from seeing their benefits slashed when their plan becomes insolvent, which many are projected to do in the next few years. President Biden called the plan “historic.” “This was $90 billion, O.K.?” Mr. Biden said in his remarks. “But it is small in comparison to the bailouts of businesses and major corporations and banks ...” Multi-employer pensions are those negotiated across an entire industry, like mining or construction, with private unions and employers running the plans. The Biden administration announced a final rule this week regarding the rates of return and kinds of investments these pensions can utilize. “The backbone of the country are the working women and men, the middle class, and you know there’s a middle class for one reason: American unions,” President Biden said. Critics, though, say it will be

regular Americans who foot the bill. “(Biden) is saving private union pensions by making ordinary Americans pay for them,” said Rachel Greszler, an expert at the Heritage Foundation. “And 6% of private sector workers are unionized so many of the blue collar workers that aren’t part of a union — or maybe they are part of a union that no longer has a pension plan — they are the ones who are going to bear the burden.” Democrats praised President Biden’s decision, saying it will help millions of Americans keep their benefits. “Today’s action by the BidenHarris administration establishes the final rules for the multiemployer pension rescue program that will protect millions of Americans’ retirement security and save tens of thousands of businesses,” said U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-Va., who chairs the House Committee on Education and Labor. “For years, workers, retirees, businesses and taxpayers sought a solution to the multi-employer pension crisis. In response, congressional Democrats delivered a historic victory through the American Rescue Plan that keeps the promises made to retirees, saves businesses from going under and shields taxpayers from the even greater cost of a multi-employer pension collapse.” When some employers who originally were in the pension negotiations went out of business, their unfunded pension liabilities remained and were absorbed by

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other employers, worsening the problem. “(Unions) have consistently promised more than they have set aside to pay,” Ms. Greszler said. “The incentives are all wrong here because the union can say to their members, ‘See we got you a higher pension benefit. We weren’t able to get you increased wages, but we were able to get you the pension benefit,’ and they can tell the employer, ‘We know you can’t afford higher wages, and we are not going to have you contribute more to the pension. We are just going to tweak our interest rate assumptions so that we can promise more, but you don’t have to pay anything more.’ “So that’s the problem, that historically they have assumed very high rates of return like 8%

where all financial economists will say if you have a guaranteed benefit like a pension, you should be using a riskless rate of return or at best a conservative bond rate. … Instead they used stock market rates that translate into being able to make good on your promises only 50% of the time, and when their returns fell short, plans consistently failed to make adjustments,” she said. “The promises were decades into the future, so they got away with it until recently when plans started failing, and the entire system is on track to pay only 42 cents on the dollar in promised benefits.” Critics also say the federal funds are a true bailout because the federal funds are not requiring any major reforms from the unions. The funds are also only enough to delay the insolvency of a fraction of the funds, critics say, and not fix the problem. “It actually makes it worse because it creates incentives in the short term for plans to promise more and to make worse assumptions than they already were so they can qualify under this short window to get bailouts, and there are no consequences going forward,” Ms. Greszler said. “And now that the federal government established that we are going to bail out these plans, plan administrators know that the sooner their plans become insolvent, the higher the likelihood they have of getting that bailout.” Casey Harper works at The Center Square’s Washington, D.C., bureau.

Governor’s office rejects fast tax relief for Washingtonians, brings up state income tax By BRETT DAVIS THE CENTER SQUARE STAFF REPORTER

(The Center Square) — Even as Washingtonians endure high prices at the pump and increased food costs due to record-breaking inflation, Gov. Jay Inslee seems to have no interest in offering people relief, at least in the form of a temporary suspension of the state gas tax or cutting the state’s sales tax or lowering property taxes. The governor is on record as being against suspending Washington’s nearly 50 cents per gallon gas tax — against pressure from President Joe Biden. The governor claims doing so would only result in fossil fuel companies enriching themselves by pocketing more profits. Even before the start of this year’s legislative session in January, Gov. Inslee resisted the idea of broad-based tax relief such as a cut in the state’s sales tax or a lowering of property taxes. “Well, it’s a simple fact that the need for expenditures will go on, but the revenues are going to go away,” Gov. Inslee said during the unveiling of his proposed supplemental budget in December. “If those who get stars in their eyes and think that this revenue is continuing to come pouring in is totally unrealistic.”

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Since then, revenue forecasts have consistently shown the state bringing in more money than expected. June’s revenue forecast showed a nearly $1.5 billion increase for the current biennium. At last month’s Economic Revenue Forecast Council quarterly meeting, Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, pointed out that revenue forecasts from February 202 through March 2022 showed a $4.6 billion increase in revenue. “We’re up another $1.4 billion,” he said. “We’re up by $6 billion in

this biennium alone. “Why we can’t look at, you know, some form of tax relief is beyond me.” The Democratically-dominated Legislature posed no threat in terms of passing tax cuts against Gov. Inslee’s wishes during the legislative session. Senate Bill 5897 would have suspended the state’s portion of the gas tax for all of 2022. Senate Bill 5932 would have reduced the state’s sales tax by a full 1%, taking it down from 6.5% to 5.5%. Senate Bill 5769 would have offered property tax relief. None of those bills passed. The only form of tax relief Gov. Inslee seems interested in is the Working Families Tax Credit that goes into effect in 2023. “There’s no question these are very difficult economic times for many Washington families,” Jaime Smith, the governor’s executive director of communications, told The Center Square via email. “The Legislature has looked at tax relief options, and our Department of Revenue is in the process of implementing one of those right now. The Working Families Tax Credit will provide hundreds of dollars directly to hundreds of thousands of families, and that will be an ongoing program, not onetime.” She offered no direct answer

when pressed on how targeted tax relief next year would help people now. “You asked about options for major tax relief and a program that will distribute $300 to $1,200 to hundreds of thousands of families – on an ongoing basis, not just one time – is one example of what legislators have recently approved,” she stressed. Meanwhile, plenty of states dominated by Democrats — from Oregon and California to New York and New Jersey and even Hawaii — have either considered or enacted major tax relief policies for residents hammered by the highest inflation in four decades. When asked why Gov. Inslee hasn’t pressed for something similar in Washington, Ms. Smith used the opportunity to bring up the idea of a state income tax. \“I don’t think you’ll find any disagreement among legislators or the governor that inflation and gas prices are putting tremendous pressure on a lot of families,” she said. “When you ask about the timing of different options, the mechanism for distributing direct refunds the most quickly would be a state income tax, which most other states have but we don’t.” Brett Davis covers the Washington state government for The Center Square.

Dunleavy signs bill he says will save the state millions in insurance costs By KIM JARRETT THE CENTER SQUARE ASSOCIATE EDITOR

(The Center Square) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed a bill that increases the statutory cap on the State Insurance Catastrophe Reserve Account from $5 million to $50 million. The change could save the state $3 million the first year and up to $6 million in subsequent years,

according to a news release from Gov. Dunleavy’s office. The account was created in 1987 as a way for the state to have a reserve for self-insurance, purchase other insurance and satisfy judgments and claims, according to Gov. Dunleavy. The cap has led the state to acquire “excess coverage on the market to adequately protect against catastrophic losses,” he said.

“Market forces have changed, insurance rates continue to increase and it’s no longer cost effective for the state to purchase excessive insurance,” Gov. Dunleavy said in House Bill 102’s sponsor statement. “This measure will provide the state flexibility, control and cost savings in its self-insurance program.” The bill passed the House and

Senate unanimously and was signed by Gov. Dunleavy on June 30. “This bill is a simple fix that will save our state millions of dollars annually,” Gov. Dunleavy said in a statement. “I thank the Legislature for taking action on my legislation to reign in excess spending toward the State Insurance Catastrophe Reserve Account.”

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(The Center Square) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration temporarily suspended its recent ban on the sale of Juul Labs Inc. products as the agency investigates the issue further. The FDA announced Tuesday night on Twitter its decision to issue an administrative stay on the market denial order against Juul, temporarily lifting the ban on its vaping products but not rescinding

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At left, “There are a lot of chronic people we see who need to be housed,” Mayor Randy Rowse said. “It’s not just a problem for another day. Sooner than later something needs to be done.” At right, people navigate through the Farmers Market on State Street. Mayor Rowse told the News-Press Wednesday that efforts will begin this summer on improvements in the downtown area.

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Continued from Page A1 building owners on reducing high rents whenever possible, not just for existing businesses but to bring in other businesses to take up space in vacant storefronts. “I don’t know if government has the power to do anything about that,” he said, adding that he doesn’t like imposing ordinances

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thesen erratic behaviors should be reported.” Rep. Carbajal said the red flag legislation is “in keeping with the overwhelming sentiment of the American people who say they are in favor of gun safety laws… These are effective laws, and I am happy we are taking a major step forward. While not perfect I think it is going to save a lot of lives.” In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision, Rep. Carbajal also spoke to the effort to codify Roe v. Wade through the Women’s Health Protection Act. It passed in the House but has so far failed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. If passed by Congress and signed into law, the act would override state laws and would ensure that women would have access to

or taxes on property owners. “When the government tries to step in and put a cap on, it works exactly nowhere,” especially “when we’re not doing our part cleaning up the city.” Besides, he said, most of the landlords he talks to have rents below market rates, even though they’re having to deal with everchanging, uncertain conditions than the ones that existed when they bought and leased their

properties. “They’re not being bad guys. They don’t know what the future looks like.” He said the city and landlords need to work together. “It’s not a one-sided deal. They need to cooperate with us, and we need to cooperate with them. Let’s work as if it’s a lump of clay, and we have to form the statue together.” Similarly, Mayor Rowse said it’s unfair that restaurants with outdoor dining parklets continue

to face uncertainty when it comes to regulations, rents, parades, portability, cleanliness and stormwater issues, and criticized the ad hoc committee for not doing its job by providing concrete proposals and performance timelines based on ideas generated by staff. “There were a certain amount of things we wanted” presented at the last city council meeting, he said. “They brought back nothing.

reproductive healthcare, including abortions. “The Women’s Health Protection Act would establish the federal statutory right for health care providers to provide abortion care, and the federal statutory right for patients to receive it, free from unnecessary state bans and restrictions intended to impede or block this access,” according to Rep. Carbajal’s office. This bill would ensure that patients can access abortion care and health care providers can provide it without burdensome restrictions that single out abortion care as compared with other medical procedures with similar risk, according to a news release. As noted previously, the filibuster remains an obstacle to passing the act. The Senate requires a minimum of 60 votes to pass major legislation. Ending the filibuster would lower this threshold to a vote of 51.

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona while both in favor of codifying Roe, are staunchly opposed to dropping the filibuster “I would say that I certainly understand the reluctance to not do away with the filibuster,” Rep. Carbajal said. “But I think that it is outdated, especially for women’s and civil rights (and voters’ rights). I think we need to consider doing away with filibusters, especially for civil rights. “I think this is in keeping with decades of precedent by the Supreme Court that has protected those rights for women,” Rep. Carbajal said. “Certainly the Supreme Court has demonstrated on this and other issues that they are out of step with the American people. This conservative court is out of step with the American people… “The Supreme Court on gun safety laws is out of step. They

are making decisions that are politically charged and out of step with the American people. “There is no doubt that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on abortion is going to be on the ballot in November,” Rep. Carbajal said, referring to issues that will dominate the midterms. (Rep. Carbajal is running against Republican candidate Brad Allen, a semi-retired pediatric heart surgeon with a home in Summerland.) Currently no Republicans have signed the Women’s Health Protection Act in its current form. However, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, have introduced an amendment to the bill in the Senate that they say would bring the bill into a place where they could vote for it, according to a statement from Sen. Collins’ office. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

The motion for action did not take any action. There was nothing to vote on there. They got the bones but not the meat. “In my heart of hearts, I do not think the council should bounce around concepts. We’re supposed to receive and ratify and modify those concepts, not brainstorm.” The council voted 4-3 to send most issues concerning the downtown pedestrian promenade back to committee, and Mayor

Rowse said there’s no date set for when the issue will return to the full council. “Here’s my deal. I don’t want to hear any stories or excuses,” Mr. Rowse said. “I heard the problems. Let’s move to what we think we can do. Let’s move on to solutions. Continuation of the status quo does not make any sense to me.” email: nhartstein@newspress.com

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Vandenberg 66/54

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Los Alamos 81/55

Buellton 76/52

Solvang 83/55

Gaviota 74/56

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Continued from Page A1 the announcement, which was primarily attended by a few reporters. Mr. Infanti said the city’s budget and infrastructure are among his top goals. Like the city of Goleta, the city of Solvang is putting a 1% sales tax increase on its November budget, which Mr. Infanti said will add an estimated $1.7 million a year in revenues. Solvang, which stands out for its Danish-themed exterior, needs improvements to its water system, Mr. Infanti said. “We just had a water main break down by Nielsens Market (on Alamo Pintado Road). It was a big main. “We need the money to rebuild this very old water system,” he said. Mr. Infanti noted that keeping part of Copenhagen Drive closed to traffic would have cost the city money. It is now fully reopened to traffic. “One thing that nobody ever thinks about is you have to have ADA compliance to get over a curb,” he said. “It was going to cost a million and a half dollars to make that street be closed permanently.”

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From left are former Solvang City Council member Joan Jamieson, Solvang City Council members Claudia Orona and Jim Thomas, Mayor Charles Uhrig and Candidate Mark Infanti. Mayor Uhrig reads his endorsement of Mr. Infanti.

“We did it (close the portion of Copenhagen Drive) because it helped the businesses at the time. It was a good decision,” Mr. Infanti said. But he said the city had to reopen the portion to traffic when emergency pandemic measures, which protected the

WATERS, Patricia

Patricia Waters passed away peacefully surrounded by family on October 22, 2021 in Santa Barbara, California after an 8-year battle with dementia. Born in Washington, DC on December 7, 1937, Patricia was raised in Frederick, Maryland. Her marriage to Michael Waters of Eureka, CA brought her to California where she worked in retail for over 40 years while raising her three children. Patricia was preceded in death by her sister Kathleen and John Holter as well as her ex-husband Michael Waters. She is survived by her three children - Kevin and Carolyn Waters (Danville, CA); Karen Waters (Playa del Rey, CA) and Kristyn and Ken Krutenat (Santa Barbara, CA) - and her two grandsons – Kyle Krutenat (Chicago, IL) and Keaton Krutenat (Santa Barbara, CA). She is also survived by her four siblings – Joe & Ann Smith, Rita & Al Mckendrick, Peggy & Ken Tregoning and Leo & Dawn Smith. A celebration of life mass will be held at St. Raphael’s on Saturday, July 9th.

city, ended. And while restaurant and wine tasting room owners liked the closure, retailers didn’t, Mr. Infanti said. He explained that’s because stores benefit from people walking down a sidewalk and looking into their windows, something they’re not doing if they’re walking down

the center of the street. More about Mr. Infanti will appear in Friday’s News-Press. And there will be more about Solvang in Friday’s News-Press: The Danish ambassador visited the city on Wednesday. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Wind west-northwest at 7-14 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a south swell 2-4 feet at 17-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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Wind west-northwest at 7-14 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a south swell 2-4 feet at 17-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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Wind from the west at 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a west swell 2-4 feet at 5-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 81,856 acre-ft. Elevation 705.85 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 32.4 acre-ft. Inflow 9.6 acre-ft. State inflow 22.4 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -86 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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NASA astronaut Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall) commands Sojourner, the spacecraft racing to Mars against Helios’ Phoenix and the Soviets’ spacecraft in “For All Mankind.”

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Journey to Mars

‘For All Mankind’ explores a reimagined history in which Soviets, NASA, American business race to the Red Planet By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

NASA’s Sojourner heads toward Mars.

magine the Soviet Union putting the first man on the moon. From there, space history takes off in all kinds of directions, to the point of a race to put the first humans on Mars in the mid-1990s. There are three entities in this race: NASA, the Soviets and a private American company, Helios. And they’re all racing to Mars at the same time. Who will get there first — in a race where getting there first means everything? That’s the dramatic backdrop of “For All Mankind,” which recently started its third season on Apple TV and is one of the most imaginative series in the universe of streaming. This season, the series has an Elon Musk-like entrepreneur who has modified a former hotel/

Astronauts are setting foot this season on Mars — in the 1990s — in the rewritten history behind the drama series “For All Mankind.”

space station (similar to the large rotating one in “2001: A Space Odyssey”). He’s flying it to Mars! Commanding the Helios’ company’s giant Phoenix ship is former NASA astronaut Edward Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), whose late friend’s son Danny Steven (Casey Johnson) is one of the pilots. Meanwhile, Edward’s daughter Kelly (Cynthy Wu) is the microbiologist on the Sojourner, the NASA spacecraft that has a clever trick up its sleeve to beat Helios and the Soviets to Mars. (It’s nothing sinister, just imaginative American know-how.) “For All Mankind” succeeds because it has found the right balance between exploring the characters and exploring outer space. The series has just the right amounts of science, politics and personal drama to keep fans engaged, and the outer space heroes are flawed but likable people. The first two seasons

saw NASA and the Soviets establishing bases on the moon and some twists in history on space and Earth. This season, a former astronaut runs as the Republican candidate against Bill Clinton in the presidential race. So far, the series has gone from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, and changes in relationships are explored along the way. Edward was recruited to be an astronaut for Helios by his ex-wife, Karen Baldwin (Shantel VanSanten). Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt), who’s brilliant at math and music (she’s a pianist), has risen through the ranks at Mission Control at Johnson Space Center to become the NASA administrator. And she and her Soviet counterpart have been secretly exchanging information in the name of science, but unknown to Margo, he’s getting his orders from the KGB. So yes, Please see MANKIND on B2

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there’s a Cold War spy element in “For All Mankind.” Margo also has been helping her protege, the brilliant and loyal Aleida Rosales (Coral Pena), at NASA, so there’s a story about mentorship as well. Ultimately, “For All Mankind” appeals to a wide range of viewers because it’s about space, the Cold War, political history and, for soap opera fans, personal drama. The series also benefits from the background of its cocreator, Ronald D. Moore, who was a key producer and writer in “Star Trek” during the 1990s and 2000s. As you might expect, the series occasionally refers to “Star Trek.” And while it’s grittier and messier than “Star Trek,” “For All Mankind” shares the “Trek” franchise’s positive message of optimism and courage. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Cherokee purple tomatoes This is one of the most recognizable and popular of the heirloom tomato varieties to arrive all season, kicking off the outdoor-grown tomato season locally. Reaching up to about a pound each, they deliver a nice sweetness throughout, with an almost underlying smokey presence. They’re perfect for elevating your grilled burgers or using to make an array of sauces and salsas. This week I prepared a rustic hand-

chopped gazpacho as the Fix of the Week, below. An heirloom beefsteak variety, Cherokee Purple tomatoes are recognized by their deep purple, red, and green variegated skin and primarily rose and some green colored flesh. You can expect to find Cherokee Purple tomatoes at most weekly Santa Barbara certified farmers markets from several local farmers. Price averages $4 per pound.

Canary melon The skin of these large oval shaped melons is bright yellow, and once sliced open, a white flesh is exposed. The flesh within is firm, yet sweet and juicy. It’s ideal for adding to fruit salads. I also thoroughly enjoy canary melons in salads with cucumber, basil, feta cheese and red onion. It’s a good source of vitamins A and C, as well as potassium, manganese, iron, phosphorus and calcium. Grown and sold by Old River Farm of Bakersfield, canary

Purple pepper Peter Piper picked a peck of purple peppers. Well, maybe not Peter, but both John Givens Farm and Her Family Farm have been harvesting these stunning specimens for the last couple of weeks, available at the weekly Saturday Santa Barbara,

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melons can be found at the weekly Saturday Santa Barbara, Sunday Camino Real, Tuesday Santa Barbara, Wednesday Solvang, and Thursday Carpinteria farmers’ markets. Price averages $6 each.

Sunday Camino Real, Tuesday Santa Barbara and Thursday Carpinteria farmers’ markets. Delivering a mild, crisp flavor, they are similar to a standard bell pepper, with thinner flesh walls. When mature, these beauties have a vibrant purple hue, with some yellow mixed in. They’re excellent enjoyed raw or roasted in a salad, when sliced and served with hummus, or added to a quick stir-fry. Certified organic from John Givens Farm, these pepper sell with an average price of $4 per pound.

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n array of freshly harvested tomatoes were on full display this past week, with over three dozen types of heirlooms, cherries, and hybrids making an appearance. They vary greatly in shape, size, color, flavor and texture, and I found myself bringing home far more of an assortment than intended. I just couldn’t resist. I enjoyed the super sweet sungold cherry tomatoes right out of the basket, most of which were consumed on my car ride home from the Saturday downtown farmers’ market. Also in my collection included some stunning Red Tiger Stripe heirlooms, pink hued Momotaro, Black Krim, pineapple, big beef and Cherokee purple tomatoes. Now I just needed to decide how I would incorporate each into my meals throughout the week. I add tomatoes to salads on, pretty much, a daily basis, and use them to produce fresh salsas and pasta sauces weekly. Another quick and healthy dish I often

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prepare this time of year when the summer tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers arrive is gazpacho. Incredibly refreshing and delicious, this simple preparation is ideal to enjoy on a warm summer afternoon or evening. When preparing this chilled soup, I most often blend all of my ingredients together until smooth, serving with a nice piece of charred bread. This week, however, I did a very rustic preparation by doing a handchopped version, leaving the blender in the cupboard. The texture of the dish was quite enjoyable to eat right out of the bowl. Infused with fresh basil leaves, a single clove of garlic, Italian peppers, and refreshing cucumbers, I selected the flavorful and slightly smoky Cherokee purple heirloom tomatoes to tie in all together. Sam Edelman is general manager of the Santa Barbara Certified Farmers Market Association and host of “Farm to Table,” which airs live 9 a.m. Thursdays on KZSB AM 1290.

RUSTIC HAND-CHOPPED GAZPACHO 2 large Cherokee purple tomatoes (or any variety you prefer), scarred portion below stem discarded. 1 Persian cucumber, ends trimmed and discarded. 1 Italian pepper (or bell), seeds, stem and membrane discarded. 6 large Italian basil leaves, very finely chopped. 1 clove garlic, well minced. 1 teaspoon of high-quality balsamic vinegar. 1 teaspoon good quality olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste. On a large cutting board, finely dice the tomato, pepper and cucumber separately, then pile together. Add basil leaves and garlic, then chop everything together. Place contents in a mixing bowl and add vinegar, olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Toss together until well incorporated. Add more vinegar, olive oil and seasoning, if desired. Yield: Serves 2.

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you to get outside and feel the wind blowing, Libra. Reconnect with nature and be aware of the four elements. Take deep breaths and fill your lungs with this energizing life force. Imagine yourself on a mountaintop looking over a vast ocean below. Expand your awareness so that nothing escapes your attention. SCORPIO — Make practical use of the thoughts you have synthesized over the last few days, Scorpio. Stretch your boundaries and extend your wisdom to the people around you. This is a day to take action. Connect with your heart and move forward with your plans. We normally think of our hearts as being soft, tender, and vulnerable. SAGITTARIUS — This is an important day for you to make valuable connections with others, Sagittarius. You’ll find yourself engaged in fast-paced, witty conversations and debates from which you can learn a great deal. You’re good at seeing both sides of an issue, but the problem is that this can lead to indecisiveness and an inability to commit to anything. CAPRICORN — It could be hard for you to get a handle on things today, Capricorn, as your focus seems to jump from one subject to the next without finding resolution for any. This isn’t a day to find solutions. You’re better off researching, asking questions, and gathering facts. Keep the channels of communication open, and don’t try to pin anyone down for a solid answer. AQUARIUS — You might come across strong opposition today from someone who seems to want to cut straight through to your heart, Aquarius. In reality, this is a message reminding you to think about things in terms of the collective - the oneness of us all. Be aware of a greater perspective in which you see more than just your side of the issue. PISCES — Act on your instincts today, Pisces, and you won’t go wrong. You may need to give up a bit of control and put logical thinking aside for the day. Let the wind take you where it wants you to go. Explore your mind and its interactions with others. You’ll find that it will be just about impossible to solidify any plans.

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HOROSCOPE ARIES — Today you’ll find that you’re the missing puzzle piece that people need in every situation, Aries. Engage in light conversation in social arenas and feel free to turn your charm up full blast. You have the ability to make favorable impressions on just about everyone, so get the day off on the right foot. TAURUS — You may find that people want to do a great deal of talking but not a great deal of feeling today, Taurus. Go ahead and put your emotions on the back burner and let your mind take over. Deal with facts and make sure your emotions don’t interfere with the information you receive. GEMINI — You should be able to evaluate your emotions from a very neutral, detached perspective today, Gemini. Use this opportunity to take action based on what you feel. Make sure your actions aren’t reactionary and that you aren’t simply acting rashly in response to someone else’s hasty maneuvers. CANCER — If you’re talking about another person today, Cancer, make sure you aren’t saying anything that would be upsetting if they were standing right there. Gossip may be running rampant, but that’s no excuse for you to contribute to it. Be aware that what you say has a strong impact on the people around you and is likely to reach many more ears than you may think. LEO — It’s important for you to take action on a day like today, Leo. Trust yourself and your instincts. Oftentimes you’ll have the perfect advice for every situation and every other person except yourself. Remember that you might have to consult others in order to find the best counsel for yourself. Talk things out and take definitive action. VIRGO — You might find yourself a bit unfocused and confused about which way to go, Virgo. The baffled look on your face isn’t helping anyone else figure out how to help you. Don’t feel obliged to remain in an unhealthy situation. It may be time to let go and break some ties to things that no longer work for you. LIBRA — It’s important for

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Oregon voters will decide on an initiative to disqualify legislators from re-election for absenteeism By VICTORIA ANTRAM BALLOTPEDIA VIA THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) — In November, Oregon voters will decide on an initiative to disqualify legislators from reelection if they are absent from 10 legislative floor sessions without permission or excuse. On Tuesday, the Oregon Secretary of State announced that the initiative had received enough signatures to make the ballot. The proposed constitutional amendment needed 149,360 valid signatures (8% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election). On May 27, the campaign filed 184,680 signatures for verification. The secretary of state reported that 155,343 signatures were valid. Currently the state constitution authorizes legislative chambers to punish disorderly conduct, including legislative absenteeism, with a two-thirds supermajority vote. Punishment may include the

expulsion of a member. One committee, Legislative Accountability 1, is registered in support of the initiative. As of Tuesday, it had reported over $1.5 million in contributions. The initiative has received endorsements from Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat; AFSCME Council 75; the Oregon Education Association and SEIU Local 503. AFSCME Council 75 Associate Director Joe Baessler said, “Oregonians just understand it on its face. You don’t show up for work without a reason, and you lose your job like anyone else. That makes it super popular and fair, and so it will pass.” Several times in recent decades, members of a minority party left the state capitol or the state entirely to prevent the passage of legislation. State legislatures require a specific number of members to be present in order to conduct official business, such as debating or voting on legislation. Ballotpedia tracked five

noteworthy legislative walkouts in Oregon, where legislators left the state for at least a week or received significant national media attention. The legislative walkouts occurred in 2001, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Four of the five involved Republicans walking out during Democratic control of the state legislature, and one involved the inverse – Democrats walking out during a Republicancontrolled state legislature. The deadline to file signatures for ballot initiatives in Oregon is Frid. Sixty initiatives were filed targeting the 2022 ballot. The legislative walkout amendment is the first initiative to qualify for the ballot. Oregon voters will also be deciding on two legislative referrals. One would add “affordable health care as a fundamental right” to the state constitution, and the other would repeal language allowing slavery or involuntary servitude as criminal punishment.

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(The Center Square) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker continues to deny he’s seeking to make a bid for the White House in 2024. The incumbent Democrat has been rumored as a possible 2024 Democratic contender for president of the United States. He was asked if that’s the case last week. “Well, I’m supporting (President Joe Biden) in his re-election, and he has said and indicated that he intends to run, so that’s where I stand,” Gov. Pritzker said. “I’m going to be out there advocating for his re-election and the election of all Democrats.” The incumbent Democratic governor also denied he’s been asked to run for the presidency. “Nobody asks anybody,” Gov.

Pritzker said. “I’m focused on running for the governorship of Illinois. Every day I spend trying to lift up people across this state. I intend to do that for the next four years.” Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski said it’s difficult to take that seriously if you look at recent speeches Gov. Pritzker has given, in particular a speech last month to New Hampshire Democrats. “I think you can reach only one conclusion watching that speech: It’s a yes. Of course, that’s just my guess,” Mr. Dabrowski told WMAY. “You watch that speech, you watch him lean in, you watch his rhetoric, you watch his energy. It sure looks like it. It’s hard to say no after watching that speech.” Gov. Pritzker faces Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey in the November gubernatorial election.

Next steps for Illinois elections: Independent candidate filing, filling established party vacancies By GREG BISHOP

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(The Center Square) — With last week’s primary election results to be certified later this month by the Illinois State Board of Elections, the window is now open for independent candidates to get on the November ballot. The window is also open for local Democratic and Republican parties to place candidates in races where they didn’t have any for the primary. Last week’s primary was just for the Democratic and Republican party candidates. Matt Dietrich with the Illinois State Board of Elections said Tuesday opened the filing period for new, independent and nonestablished political parties. The signature threshold is much higher than for the Republicans or Democrats.

“The thinking behind the statute that set those is that you want to make sure since these candidates are going to go directly onto the November ballot, you want to make sure that you have legitimate candidates, candidates who have some degree of support, so that you don’t end up with 50 candidates in the governor’s race or more,” Mr. Dietrich told The Center Square. One example Mr. Dietrich gave is that established party candidates only needed 3,250 signatures to get on the ballot for a statewide office. New party or independent candidates must get 25,000. The filing period for such candidates ends at 5 p.m. July 11. In some primaries across the state, Democrats and Republicans didn’t have a choice on their ballot last week. But a

candidate could still be placed for that party for the November election. In Sangamon County, the Republican incumbent Sheriff Jack Campbell didn’t have a GOP opponent in last week’s primary. There wasn’t a Democratic primary. But there could be a Democrat placed on the November ballot by the party. “I know I did my job, I worked hard, I passed petitions, got my signatures and did it the right way to get on the ballot and I would hope that anybody that’s going to seek such an important office as Sangamon County Sheriff would have done that same thing,” Sheriff Campbell told WMAY. Mr. Dietrich said it’s up to the local Democratic and Republican parties to place a candidate in such races across the state where the parties didn’t run a candidate for the primary last week.

State representative has questions about Wisconsin voter roll postcards By BENJAMIN YOUNT THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) — Nearly 180,000 people in Wisconsin will soon get a postcard asking them to register to vote, but one Republican lawmaker wants more information about the people on that list. The Wisconsin Elections Commission will mail what it is calling Eligible but Unregistered postcards on Friday. “Approximately 178,500 postcards (are) going to prospective voters,” WEC said in its latest newsletter. “The Elections Commission is required to contact individuals who meet voter eligibility requirements but who are not registered.” The postcards include information on how to register to

vote for both the August primary election and the November general election. Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, said Tuesday that the list comes from Wisconsin’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center. But she’s not comfortable with how that membership is working out. “The Elections Commission WEC uses ERIC to provide names and addresses of ‘unregistered voters.’ But the commission hides behind the private ERIC contract to determine who, and where they are getting this information,” Rep. Brandtjen explained. Rep. Brandtjen said ERIC and/or the commission should have to tell voters and lawmakers just where they are getting the information.

“Wisconsin’s voter rolls and the WIsVOTE system have become a concern like other states, as WEC uses a private contractor to add and subtract voters without oversight,” Rep. Brandtjen said. “Only WEC and clerks have the ability to change voters from active to inactive.” WEC has been clear for years that it will only switch voters from active to inactive after several attempts to contact voters, and several years without any voting history. No one in Wisconsin is ever truly dropped from the state’s voter rolls. The Eligible but Unregistered postcards are due to be mailed this week. Voters have until July 20 to register to vote online or through the mail. Voters in Wisconsin can always register to vote at the polls on Election Day.