Million. The opposition spent a fraction of that. Just a tenth. And i think that voters heard that. The measure wasnt as well crafted as perhaps it could have been. It was very easy to attack. And you know, this was something that a lot of the cities, the mayor, a lot of the cities sort of political establishment came out against. But we saw other issues that i think we want to talk about where housing played front and center. Wrooel get to that in a second. Lets talk about the mayors race. Mayor ed lee easily won reelection. He picks up 60 of the vote. But 40 of the voters said no to him. To what extent was that percentage a protest vote against ed lee . I would say it absolutely is. Not only that but we had 10,000 people sit out the mayors race. This is an incumbent who is well known in san francisco. Mayor gavin newsom in 2007, the year he had an fair with the wife of one of his employees who worked for him got 74 of the vote. This is not as much of a mandate as the mayor could have
I would say that the valley fire in lake county will be one of the top 20 most devastating fires weve seen in california and the fire season itself has probably been the most extreme that ive seen in my 30 years with regards to the number of fires that weve seen statewide, the way these fires are starting and spreading in and ending up in basically a migration is a rapid and very erratic spread of fire and its making it very, very difficult to fight and to get on and its putting people and property in harms way. And my colleague, Scott Schaefer spends part of the week in lake county as kqedsuki lewis. Welcome to you both. Suki, let me start with you. You were among the first allowed back into the fire zone. What did you see . It was as the sun was setting and we went through the blockade and there were still spot fires everywhere, and there was smoke rising from the bound and the big tree stumps from where the fire had burned to the ground and we were driving further down the road to a
The United States is home to 5 of the wor 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. Many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. Our streets are safer thanks to the Brave Police Officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. But over the last few decades weve also locked up more nonviolent offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before. Thats one of the real reasons our prison population is so high. In california, efforts to reform the criminal Justice System are already under way. One year ago, voters passed proposition 47. The landmark law reduces certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also gives felons convicted of those crimes an opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Is prop 47 working . Joining me to help answer that question are george gascon, San Francisco District Attorney. Brandon martin, Research Associate for Public Policy institute
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