As the Democratic party hopes to rebuild after Tuesday's election, Nancy Pelosi is poised to spearhead House Democrats in their next 4 year bout with Trump's cabinet.
CAROLYN LOCHHEAD with The Chronicle: "Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is widely expected to lead House Democrats into battle against the new Trump administration, continuing an extraordinary 14-year run as her party’s leader that includes two terms as speaker."
"The San Francisco Democrat, 76, called leadership elections for Thursday and faces no obvious opposition yet, despite disappointing election results Tuesday for her caucus and grumbling that she and her top lieutenants, Steny Hoyer, 77, of Maryland and James Clyburn, 76, of South Carolina are blocking the path of younger members."
"Pelosi’s office would not comment about her future role but did nothing to discourage speculation that she would try to keep her job as minority leader. Democrats gained just six of the 30 seats she needed in her longshot bid to regain the speakership post that she held from 2007 to 2011, leaving Democrats at a severe 241 to 194 disadvantage against Republicans."
Blowback from the election continues as hate crimes skyrocket and both sides of the political spectrum amongst voters struggling with the transition of power.
HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS and RUBEN VIVES with LAT: "A Bay Area teacher was put on leave for comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. A woman speaking Assyrian on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train was accosted by another passenger who told her, “Trump might deport you.”
"Some Latino students in Northern California were given mock “deportation letters” by a classmate. And a high school student in San Mateo County was given a bloody nose after voicing support for Trump on Instagram."
"In the days since Trump was elected president of the United States, one thing has been certain in this divided country: Tensions are high."
Political protests across the country show no evidence of subsiding as tensions continue to mount over Nov. 8's election result.
JESSICA HICE and ELLEN GARRISON with Sacramento Bee: "About 800 people marched through Sacramento on Sunday, becoming part of a national round of protests since Tuesday’s election of Donald Trump as president."
"The protest, one of several in Sacramento in recent days, was peaceful. Sunday’s protesters carried signs with slogans, including “No Trump No KKK,” as they marched from McClatchy Park at 33rd Street, briefly blocked an Interstate 80 onramp near H Street, and went on to Sutter’s Fort, where their numbers dwindled by early afternoon."
“People kind of dissipated after (blocking the highway ramp) a little bit,” said protest coordinator Jamier Sale."
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The president-elect has hinted at his immigration reform in Sunday's '60 Minutes' interview. Step 1: Round up a couple of million immigrants with criminal records.
VERA BERGENGRUEN and ANITA KUMAR with Sacramento Bee: "President-elect Donald Trump says he will deport or incarcerate 2 or 3 million immigrants in the country illegally who have criminal records."
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers…we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump told CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday in his first television interview since Tuesday’s election."
"Once the border is secure and “everything gets normalized” his administration will determine what to do about other people in the U.S. illegally “who are terrific people,” he said."
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Loretta Sanchez's failed U.S. Senate race bid has many wondering "what next?" for the Orange County hopeful.
SARAH D. WIRE with LAT: "Loretta Sanchez first went to Washington 20 years ago after winning a race by less than 1,000 votes and against all odds. Now, after losing what was her second long-shot bid, this time for a U.S. Senate seat, she has just a few weeks left to pack up her office."
"Although we don’t know what our future will be, I can tell you that this is not the last that people will see of me,” the U.S. House representative from Orange County said in a statement conceding the race Wednesday."
"The lingering question is whether Sanchez, 56, will seek elective public office again after losing to state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris with just 37% of the vote — and if she would be successful after a campaign in which she emphasized her more conservative bonafides and attacked a candidate embraced by the Democratic establishment."
Some California students are supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribune against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
JESSICA LYNN with Daily Californian: "About 100 students and community members marched from campus to Downtown Berkeley protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sunday, in conclusion of an environmental justice conference held on campus over the weekend."
"The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has previously alleged that the pipeline’s approval violates the National Historic Preservation Actand puts the tribe’s livelihood, sacred sites and water at risk. The protesters began marching from the Valley Life Sciences Building lawn to Shattuck Avenue about noon, holding signs bearing the messages “Water is Life,” “No Dakota Access Pipeline” and “Solidarity with Standing Rock."
"We stayed on the sidewalk and we were trying to make sure it was as peaceful as possible,” said Amanda Miles, California Student Sustainability Coalition Board outreach coordinator.“The police were aware it was happening.”"
A Newport Beach doctor faked his own death and fled the country in an effort to evade charges of fraud.
JOSEPH SERNA with LAT: "Facing charges of healthcare fraud, Tigran Svadjian, a Newport Beach doctor, agreed to go undercover for federal prosecutors."
"But before he would wear a wire, he told them, he needed to visit his ailing mother in Russia."
"He never returned. The day he was to appear in court in 2002, prosecutors received paperwork from a Russian morgue stating that, just a few days before on a Moscow street, Svadjian died of pneumonia."
Some say California's bureaucratic improvements are thanks in no small part to head of the Department of Government Operations, Marybel Batjer.
ADAM ASHTON with Sacramento Bee: "Marybel Batjer says her year-by-year task overhauling the way California state government works is like “fixing the pipes” in an old building."
"If it goes well, taxpayers and workers alike won’t even notice that their 166-year-old state government has a fresh face, some new energy and a legion of eager employees."
"The heat comes on. Sometimes it’s too hot. Sometimes it’s too cool, but I don’t know anything that’s going on with the pipes,” she said, describing her effort to modernize state civil service from her office across the street from the Capitol."
Tragedy strikes in Stanislaus County after a 20-year veteran deputy of the county's sheriff's office is executed during an auto-theft investigation.
GARTH STAPLEY with Sacramento Bee: "Authorities in Tulare County on Sunday afternoon captured a man suspected in the killing of Stanislaus County sheriff’s Deputy Dennis Wallace that morning near Hughson. The arrest of David Machado, 37, followed a statewide manhunt started shortly after Wallace was gunned down while investigating a stolen vehicle."
"Evidence showed that a gun had been held to the head of Wallace, 53, and the trigger pulled twice, Sheriff Adam Christianson said. “This was an execution,” he said."
"Wallace – alone, in uniform and driving a marked patrol car – had come upon a suspicious van in the Fox Grove fishing access near Hughson at 8:24 a.m. Sunday. When a dispatcher advised that the van had been reported stolen, Wallace asked for backup."
Airbnb has made a dramatic transition in its stance on privacy as it works to craft a host information database with the city of San Francisco.
CAROLYN SAID with The Chronicle: "In a dramatic about-face, Airbnb says it is ready to police its San Francisco hosts, taking actions it has long resisted as invasive, unrealistic or unwieldy."
"The vacation-rental giant told The Chronicle it is willing to provide all local hosts’ names, addresses and guest stays as part of a mandatory registration system it would craft with the city. Once such a system exists, Airbnb could cut off listings when they hit the city’s annual cap on number of nights rented and ensure that apartments where tenants were evicted under the Ellis Act are not rented to travelers, the company said."
"The move comes as Airbnb faces two major threats to its business in its hometown."
And for star gazers around the world, the brightest Moon in nearly 70 years gave planet Earth a spectacular, stunning display of incandescent beauty.
AP in The Chronicle: "The brightest moon in almost 69 years is lighting up the sky in a treat for star watchers around the globe."
"The phenomenon known as the supermoon reached its peak luminescence in North America before dawn on Monday. Its zenith in Asia and the South Pacific was Monday night. Across the international dateline in New Zealand, it was to reach its brightest after midnight Tuesday local time."
"The moon orbits the Earth in an oval shape. The moon will be at its brightest this week because it is coming closer to the Earth along its elliptical orbit than at any time since January 1948. The supermoon will also bring stronger than usual high tides, followed by plunging low tides the next morning."
