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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">A</span>s Hurricane Harvey churned toward the Texas Gulf Coast last week, meteorologists, climate scientists and lay weather nerds on Twitter marveled at the crisp, detailed images of the storm sent to earth by a brand-new satellite. The nation’s first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-16, had been launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida 11 days after the November election, and has since transmitted high-resolution pictures of smoke from Canadian wildfires, of the August 21 North American eclipse and of a major fog event that spread out over the Midwest and Eastern U.S. But it’s been the images of hurricanes — Hilary, Gert and now Harvey — that have most mesmerized and thrilled weather forecasters, who for the first time have been able to see the storms develop from tropical wave to threatening hurricane almost in real time.</p><p>GOES-16 scans the earth every 15 minutes and tracks active storms at intervals as short as 30 seconds. It tracked Harvey as far back as August 17, when it was a tropical storm with 40 mile-per-hour winds approaching St. Lucia Island in the Caribbean.</p><p>“This new satellite will save lives,” said Todd McNamara of the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron, in a <a
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href="https://www.aip.org/fyi/2017/fy18-appropriations-bills-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration">$2 billion budget by 18 percent</a>.</p><p>A proposed budget in the U.S. House of Representatives would cut the satellite program even more steeply, by 23 percent, although the Senate budget only asks for a six percent reduction. The White House Office of Management and Budget insists the funding is enough to maintain the “current generation” of satellites. But the lack of commitment to the program reflects the administration’s ongoing hostility toward any science and research that might advance our knowledge of the earth’s climate — even when that research clearly saves lives. Here are four other ways that Trump’s priorities could make managing future disasters more difficult — and dangerous — in the U.S.</p><p><strong>Canceling New Flood Risk Standards </strong> On January 30, 2015, President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing a <a
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href="http://www.floods.org/ace-images/EOEnvReviewPermittingProcessAug15_2017.pdf">revoked</a> the order. Trump has also revoked two other Obama executive orders related to climate &#8212; one that helped states and local governments coordinate better with the federal government, and Obama’s June 2013 Climate Action Plan.</p><p><strong>Burdening the U.S. Coast Guard  </strong>As Houston’s streets turned to rivers and families clung to their rooftops, the U.S. Coast Guard had <a
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href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tsunami-warning-california-trump-20170710-htmlstory.html">bipartisan protests</a>, the funding was restored.</p><p><strong>Staffing Problems  </strong>If you’re looking for a job in the federal government, the National Hurricane Center is still looking for a director, according to the <a
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href="https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/">devastating report</a> by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune late last year —will take years of recovery, rebuilding and examination of our national priorities. It has at least changed the conversation in the short term. Depending on its aftermath and the research that follows, it may have changed it for good.</p><hr
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">I</span>nvestigative journalist David Cay Johnston has been reporting on Donald Trump since 1988, and admits that he has long been fascinated with a figure he calls “the greatest con artist in the history of the world.” Johnston first met Trump while reporting on casinos for the <em>Philadelphia</em> <em>Inquirer</em>, and has since served as a one-man fact-checking operation on Trump’s claims. His new book, <em>It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America</em>, tracks the first 250 days of the administration. Johnston spoke to Capital &amp; Main about what he’s learned while on the Trump beat, and why the mainstream media, despite incessant coverage of Trump, still tends to miss the big story.</span></p><hr
/><p><strong>Gabriel Thompson:  The title of your new book is <em>It&#8217;s Even Worse Than You Think</em>. It seems pretty bad already &#8212; what are we missing? </strong></p><p><strong>David Cay Johnston:</strong>  Journalists have done a very good job of covering Donald’s tweets and the nutty things that have gone on<a
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style="text-align: right;"><em>David Cay Johnston</em></p><p><strong>Johnston:  </strong>Throughout the campaign, Trump talked about how he is all for the veterans. One of the most important things he did was use the word <em>love</em>. He would say to his audience, “We love you. We love our police. We love our veterans.” I think that was a very powerful motivating word. And yet, his first budget proposal sought to cut the benefits for many disabled veterans when they reach retirement age. You’re unable to work because you served your country and you paid a terrible physical price, and you&#8217;re currently getting about $35,000 a year. Trump proposed to cut that amount to $13,000. That tells you that he doesn&#8217;t care about the vets.</p><p><strong>The only area that some Trump critics might give him some credit is on his knowledge of taxes. But you push back on this as well. </strong></p><p><strong>Johnston:  </strong>Donald testified under oath that he knows nothing about accounting. Well if you don&#8217;t know accounting, you cannot know taxes. That&#8217;s like saying I&#8217;m an expert in flying jet fighters, but I don&#8217;t know what lift is. I tried to give Donald tax advice in 1990—my purpose wasn’t to save him money, it was to find out if he really understood taxes. We had lunch in Trump’s Castle [a hotel and casino in Atlantic City], and he couldn&#8217;t follow my basic, simple advice. At the time, Donald was in deep financial trouble, and I was going over the terms of his ownership, but he didn&#8217;t even understand his own deal. When I say Donald doesn&#8217;t know anything, I literally mean that.</p><p><a
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">S</span>ince Donald Trump took office once year ago, perhaps no American has called into question the legal and ethical behavior of the president with more persistence and authority than Erwin Chemerinsky. One of the country’s preeminent constitutional scholars, and the dean of the University of California, Berkeley’s law school, Chemerinsky has sounded the alarm from day one of Trump’s administration – most strenuously over the president’s alleged daily violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Those provisions bar the president from receiving any form of payment from a foreign government, and also from receiving any payments beyond the salary of the chief executive. Last month, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit that Chemerinsky and other leading legal authorities had helped prepare seeking to stop the president from accepting any further payments – that decision is currently being appealed.</span></p><p>Capital &amp; Main sat down with Chemerinsky at his UC Berkeley office to discuss Trump’s tumultuous first year, and what may lie ahead.</p><hr
/><p><strong>Capital &amp; Main  </strong>How would you assess Trump&#8217;s first year in office?</p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>It&#8217;s so much worse than I could have ever feared. I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;ve ever had a president who has less respect for the Constitution. It&#8217;s reflected in what he expresses with regard to freedom of the press, it&#8217;s reflected in the fact that on a daily basis he&#8217;s violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution by receiving benefits from foreign governments, benefits from the United States government beyond his salary. It&#8217;s reflected in his immigration policies, his travel ban, his efforts against sanctuary cities. It&#8217;s very frightening to me.</p><p><strong>What does it say about the rule of law in this country that we have a sitting president who, in your view, has been in violation of the Constitution every single day that he&#8217;s been in office?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>Before taking office the president-elect said that he was going to take steps to try to comply with the emoluments clause. None of that ever happened. What&#8217;s troubling to me is Congress seems largely unconcerned about it and so far the courts haven&#8217;t stepped in.</p><p><strong>Is there evidence that any of the president&#8217;s decisions have in fact been influenced by payments that his business interests have received?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky</strong>  China gave to President Trump some very valuable licenses on trademarks. He&#8217;d been trying to get them from China for years before being elected as president. He received them and then he changed his policy with regard to China. Maybe it was a coincidence, but certainly one followed the other.</p><p><strong>Some critics observed that the countries that were selected for the immigrant and refugee travel ban did not include any countries where President Trump’s business organization had properties and interests.</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>It&#8217;s at least ironic that when you look at the seven countries initially listed in the travel ban, none had Trump interests there. Of course there was also no linkage between terrorists of any of those countries and yet the countries where you could link past terrorist acts to people from those nations, like Saudi Arabia or Indonesia, were not on the list, and those are places where Trump had investments. The travel ban has gone through two more iterations and that continues to be so &#8212; Trump doesn&#8217;t have any interests in North Korea or Chad, and they find themselves on the list, but the countries where Trump does have interests don&#8217;t find themselves on the list.</p><p>One other example that is just astounding: The Trump administration has allowed offshore drilling now in all states that have coastal areas except for one &#8212; Florida. Of course that&#8217;s where Trump has coastal property. Maybe it&#8217;s a coincidence, but doesn&#8217;t this show exactly the kind of self-dealing that the Constitution’s emoluments clauses were meant to prevent?</p><p><strong>Is there a case to be made against President Trump on obstruction of justice?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>I think that there is significant evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice. He told the Russians that he fired James Comey for purposes of trying to end the investigation with regard to Russia.</p><p>If anybody tries to interfere with an ongoing federal investigation, that&#8217;s obstruction of justice. The crime that Richard Nixon would have been impeached for, if he didn&#8217;t resign, was telling the FBI not to investigate Watergate because it was a CIA matter. Well, that&#8217;s exactly what President Trump apparently tried to do &#8212; keep the FBI from investigating.</p><p>We also have more evidence that President Trump tried to interfere with the investigation of Russian interference in the election. All of this is the basis for strong concern with regards to obstruction of justice. My prediction is what we&#8217;ll see next is the implication of Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. The question is, will it reach to the president? Will it reach to the vice president?</p><p><strong>Do you believe that there is a credible case to be made for invoking the 25th Amendment based on concerns about Trump’s mental health?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>I think that Donald Trump&#8217;s engaged in erratic behavior. I don&#8217;t think that he&#8217;s shown himself to be mentally ill or physically ill in a way that would justify the 25th Amendment to this point in time. There&#8217;s a thing called narcissistic personality disorder &#8212; maybe it&#8217;s that. But I don&#8217;t know if all politicians don&#8217;t fall into that to a greater or lesser extent.</p><p><strong>Are there any other grounds for legal or constitutional concern about the president?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>My greatest concern for the next three years of the Trump presidency is whether there&#8217;s going to be a moment where a court issues an order and Trump says, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to ignore it.&#8221; When the courts first enjoined the initial version of the travel ban, there were rumblings from Trump that maybe the administration would just ignore the court order. My worry is once the president takes that position, if he does, then there&#8217;s nothing to stop him from locking up you or me or anybody else. Once the president says I&#8217;m going to ignore a court order then there&#8217;s nothing left of the rule of law.</p><p><strong>Does Trump’s pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio lay the groundwork for him to pardon anyone who&#8217;s indicted and convicted as a result of the Mueller investigation?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>The president is allowed to pardon anyone accused or convicted of a federal crime. I think the pardon of Joe Arpaio shows that President Trump has no shame, that he&#8217;s not hesitant to use it even in an instance where there was a violation of law. Joe Arpaio was ordered by a court to stop racial profiling. He ignores that court order and continues to engage in it. A judge finds him in criminal contempt, and before the judge even sentences, President Trump says, &#8220;I regard Joe Arpaio as a hero, I&#8217;m going to pardon him.&#8221; Will he do it with regard to the Mueller investigation? We don&#8217;t know.</p><p><strong>How do you assess Neil Gorsuch&#8217;s performance on the Supreme Court?</strong></p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>Since coming on to the court on April 6, 2017, Gorsuch has voted together with Clarence Thomas a hundred percent of the time. To put this in context, the last year Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas were on the court together, they voted together 87 percent of the time. Gorsuch so far has been at the farthest right part of the court. Maybe he&#8217;ll be different as months and years go by, but for the first nine months of his time on the court, no one has been more conservative.</p><p>Do you have concerns that the standards for what is legal and ethical behavior by a president have been damaged by this president in just one year?</p><p><strong>Chemerinsky  </strong>It&#8217;s impossible to know what the long term consequences of that are going to be. Is Trump going to lose to a mainstream Democrat or Republican in 2020 and we&#8217;ll regard this as a blip? Or is this the start of something much more apocalyptic?</p><p>The United States form of government isn&#8217;t going to be here forever. Every form of government is here until it&#8217;s not. I believe that the institutions of government can withstand the Trump presidency, but I know many are afraid that this is the start of something that is very different than we&#8217;ve ever seen before.</p><hr
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class="s1">To do so, Perry compared wage growth and employment growth in California with statistics from 19 Republican-controlled states. But he also had to create a legitimate control group to weight factors like California’s tech boom, which might have skewed economic results, or a Republican-controlled state’s downturn, which may not have been due to conservative policies. To combat an apples-to-avocados comparison, Perry used a “synthetic control” method to weight data from Republican states to create an alternate California (or alt-California) in which CPM had not been enacted.</span></p><p
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class="s1">Perry found that California – the real California with its CPM – enjoyed higher total employment, private sector employment and GDP than the 19 Republican states <i>and</i> alt-California.</span></p><p
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class="s1">The study, by design, looked at the cumulative impact of policies instead of evaluating specific policies. “Still, one policy stood out to me,” Perry said. “My study found that the expansion of Medicaid through the ACA was one of the more pro-growth policies because it led to a greater demand in health care services and a growth in health industry jobs.”</span></p><p
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class="s1">The biggest takeaway from the study, Perry said, was that policies that make up the CPM – reducing carbon emissions, improving income for low-wage workers and helping more people access health insurance – have not, as critics warned, led to negative economic effects like job stagnation and lower GDP.</span></p><p
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class="s1">“There are warnings from conservatives that [progressive policies] will slow down economic growth, but California is a big piece of evidence that the fears are unwarranted,” Perry said.</span></p><p
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class="s1">Kansas, which went all in on supply side economics under Governor Sam Brownback, showed that the converse is true, that <a
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kansas-experiment-with-tax-cutting-failed-on-its-own-terms-2017-6"><span
class="s2">cutting taxes can sometimes kill growth</span></a>, Perry said.</span></p><p
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/14/an-important-new-analysis-shows-progressive-policies-dont-hurt-and-probably-help-growth-and-jobs/?utm_term=.44428dee3485"><span
class="s2"><i>Washington Post</i></span></a> op-ed, Jared Bernstein, chief economist to former Vice President Joe Biden, praised the study. He said that, while it didn’t convince him that there’s a direct line between progressive laws and job growth (a relationship Perry did not set out to prove), the study did, “in tandem with tons of other research, convince me that these progressive interventions do not hurt growth.”</span></p><p
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class="s1">The Berkeley study was released as Republicans on Capitol Hill pushed a tax bill heavily weighted to tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals, legislation that a majority of Americans are <a
href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364781-poll-majority-oppose-gop-tax-bill"><span
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class="s1">Despite the report’s generally rosy economic picture, Perry points out that some issues threaten California’s prosperity. First, progressive labor standards need to be enforced to combat <a
href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/18/why-wage-theft-is-a-serious-problem-in-california-8/"><span
class="s2">rampant wage theft</span></a> in California’s low-wage industries. Second, the effect of very high housing prices in much of the state could undermine some economic gains.</span></p><p
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class="s1">“High housing prices and lack of supply could force more people to live farther away from their jobs, which would increase carbon emissions and make it harder for [businesses] to attract workers,” he said.</span></p><p
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href="http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/california-job-loss-under-graham-cassidy/"><span
class="s2">Another study</span></a> from the UC Berkeley Labor Center earlier this year showed that California would have lost more than half a million jobs if the Graham-Cassidy repeal-and-replace legislation had passed.</span></p><hr
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href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54">Senate Bill 54</a>, de León’s <a
href="https://test.capitalandmain.com/historic-sanctuary-law-moves-forward-to-governors-desk-0822">hard-won</a> sanctuary state bill — and checking the administration’s <a
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/22/climate-change-deniers-plot-trumps-path-to-deregulation.html">planet-killing orgy</a> of climate deregulation.</p><p><strong>Working Californians’ biggest </strong><strong>disillusionment </strong><strong>during Trump year one: Sacramento’s Democratic supermajorities:</strong></p><p>The political journey between good intentions and the statute book was twisted even by Sacramento standards in 2017. Of the <a
href="http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-road-map-legislator-scorecards-20171224-story.html">2,980 bills</a> introduced by state lawmakers, <a
href="http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-trump-resistance-20170917-htmlstory.html">roughly 35</a> were drafted as “Trump resistance” measures. But by the time the <a
href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/16/anti-trump-resistance/">dozen-plus</a> resistance bills made it to the governor’s desk, they tended to be anodyne wisps of their original forms. Senate Bill 6, San Diego Democrat Ben Hueso&#8217;s effort to create a legal defense fund for undocumented workers scooped up in ICE raids, <a
href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/05/deportation-legal-defense-funds-move-to-distinguish-between-good-and-bad-immigrants/">became so toothless</a> that Hueso retitled his “Due Process for All Act” as the “Expanding Due Process Act.” A no-brainer by state senators Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) designed to <a
href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/16/trump-tax-returns-release-efforts-stall-243819">force Trump</a> to release his tax returns before getting on the state’s 2020 ballot earned a Brown veto. Most controversially, perhaps, Rendon <a
href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/23/breaking-single-payer-health-care-put-on-hold-in-california-as-leader-calls-legislation-woefully-incomplete/">tabled</a> SB 520, a sweeping <a
href="https://capitalandmain.com/california-once-again-considers-a-single-payer-health-care-system-0427">Medicare for All-styled measure</a> by state senators Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), before it even received a hearing.</p><p><strong>2017’s wannest excuse for a sanctuary state act:</strong></p><p>It once <a
href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1081">virtually banned</a> all state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE agents. But the <a
href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/05/jerry-brown-signs-california-immigration-bills-into-law/">bill signed into law</a> by Jerry Brown, which had promised to be the sharpest state rebuke yet to Trump&#8217;s mass deportations, now looked strangely familiar. That’s because to get the governor’s signature, the California Values Act had to first pass muster with the powerful California Sheriffs’ Association. The compromise gives ICE full access to prisons and jails, allows police and sheriffs to share databases and to detain and transfer people to ICE if they have been convicted of any crime from a risibly broad list of 800 “<a
href="http://www.catrustact.org/resources.html">hold offenses</a>” recycled from 2014’s California Trust Act. Those include the very serious offenses of “intentionally processing a milk product that is required to be pasteurized without pasteurization, manufacturing a milk product in an unlicensed plant, providing milk product for manufacture or resale to an unlicensed person, or falsifying records required.”</p><p><strong>2017’s most unsurprising (if most ignored) Rx </strong><strong>for national and California Dems:</strong></p><p>Just over <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Democratic_primary,_2016">46 percent</a> of California’s registered Democrats turned out for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary. That’s nearly the <a
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-anti-vote/exclusive-top-reason-americans-will-vote-for-trump-to-stop-clinton-poll-idUSKCN0XX06E">same percentage</a> that pre-election polling for the November vote indicated was motivated by <a
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribenshahar/2016/11/17/the-non-voters-who-decided-the-election-trump-won-because-of-lower-democratic-turnout/&quot; \l &quot;7a6a4b0f53ab">anti-Hillary feelings</a> — presumably disgust over four more years of the romance between <a
href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/obama-i-am-a-new-democrat-019862">Clinton-Obama</a> “New Democrats” and Wall Street — rather than anything remotely pro-Trump. Unfortunately, that lesson was lost on state Democrats when they gathered in May and selected Los Angeles County Democratic chair Eric Bauman as state party leader — in spite of Bauman’s financial <a
href="http://inthesetimes.com/features/our_revolution_democratic_party_takeover.html">ties to Big Pharma</a>. Progressive challenger Kimberly Ellis, who narrowly lost a vote plagued by <a
href="https://www.apnews.com/a12191081a5449ef99f0f93ae5391586">irregularities</a>, charged that a “<a
href="https://www.cadem.org/our-party/compliance-review-commission/body/Ellis-Formal-CRC-Challenge-060817.pdf">clear conflict</a>“ had developed among “those nestled in power.” That diagnosis <a
href="https://democraticautopsy.org/executive-summary/">was echoed</a> in postmortems that urged the disentangling of Democrats — “ideologically and financially — from Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and other corporate interests that put profits ahead of public needs.”</p><p><strong>California’s most badly bungled headline of 2017: </strong></p><p>The news in November was all about the great Silicon Valley <a
href="company%20shipped%20its%20cars%20to%20Arizona%20to%20test%20them%20there.">sigh of relief</a> that blew down from Palo Alto like a laissez faire Santa Ana wind: California’s Department of Motor Vehicles had issued its long-delayed driverless vehicle testing regulations that would allow autonomous vehicles on California highways. A potential global market of at least $42 billion by 2025, <a
href="http://beta.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-driverless-regulations-california-20170126-story.html">panted</a> the <em>L.A. Times</em> business pages. But for 3.1 million U.S. truckers (who represent represent two percent of total employment), there was little to cheer. In May, Goldman Sachs became the latest to predict that autonomous vehicle technology will disrupt trucking jobs — one of the last middle-class occupations that doesn’t require a high school diploma — into obsolescence at a rate of 25,000 a month, or 300,000 a year. A far more apropos headline would have been, “Just Say No.”</p><p><strong>2017’s poster child for neoliberalism: Elon Musk. Again.</strong></p><p>Everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley’s virulently anti-communitarian, anti-regulatory ethos seems to eventually get uttered by California’s favorite South African-born billionaire bad boy, Elon Musk. And in 2017, Musk did not disappoint. In February, the entrepreneur announced <a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/elon-musk-is-really-boring">the creation</a> of a new tunnel boring company and its first for-profit venture — digging an express tunnel that will bypass L.A.’s legendarily impenetrable rush hour traffic by connecting Musk’s Bel-Air home with his Space X headquarters in Hawthorne. Those lucky enough to be Elon Musk could see their morning hour commute cut <a
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">A</span>s the House and Senate moved toward approving the final version of the GOP tax bill, the International Business Times (IBT) revealed in an explosive story Friday that a loophole slipped into the bill in the final minutes will directly enrich President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as <a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/republican-senators-will-save-millions-special-real-estate-tax-break-2630037">wealthy senators</a> and key members of Congress, including the provision’s writers.</span></p><p>Controversy swirled around the timing of the measure and the fact that deficit hawk Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee abruptly switched his vote in favor of the bill, whose tax cuts the Congressional Budget Office estimated will add <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/28/us/politics/tax-bill-deficits.html">$1.4 trillion</a> to the deficit by 2027. Corker had been the lone Republican holdout in the Senate and had previously voted with Democrats against the bill. He has millions of dollars invested in real estate-related limited liability companies (LLCs) that could see a <a
href="https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/942760146303881218">$1.1 million payday</a> from the loophole. David Sirota’s IBT reporting quickly went viral as Corker’s apparent cushy accommodation was splashed across social media under the hashtag <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CorkerKickback?src=hash">#CorkerKickback</a>.</p><p>Capital &amp; Main spoke to Sirota for a blow-by-blow account of the developing story, its implications and its consequences.</p><p>IBT had been closely following the debate over how the tax measure would treat income passed through a tax shelter known as an LLC, a “pass-through” tax entity because profits pass through to its owners who report them on their personal tax returns. The Senate version had limited tax cuts to pass through LLCs that actually employ people — the &#8220;job creators.&#8221; The House version has been far broader.</p><p>“We took a look at the key tax writers on committees that oversaw the bill as well as leadership,” Sirota said. “And we got a list of their real estate-related LLCs, and a day before the final bill came out, we put together this story about who could benefit. We found that between the conference committee, the Ways and Means Committee, the Finance Committee and the two leaders of the House and Senate, there were 13 members of Congress who owned and were earning income from real estate or from real estate-related LLCs. And depending on whether the final tax bill adopts the House version or the Senate version, they would stand to make a lot of money.”</p><p><a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/paul-ryan-top-republican-lawmakers-could-reap-personal-windfall-new-real-estate">IBT reported</a> that the members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — have between $36 million and $163 million invested in real estate-related LLCs. Between $2.6 million and $16 million in “pass through” income from those investments would benefit from the new provision.</p><p>Which version of the pass through would end up in the final tax bill would be determined by the joint House and Senate conference committee. At 5:30 p.m. on Friday, the committee released a final version that appeared to follow the Senate approach, the more rational version, according to tax experts Sirota spoke to.</p><p>“At 5:45 we were sort of like, &#8216;Okay, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much to really write,’” Sirota said. “‘It looks like they kind of got it out.&#8217; But I said, &#8216;I&#8217;ll talk to a couple of tax lawyers who have been following this.&#8217; And what do you know? One of them comes back to me at 6:15 and is like, &#8216;You know, they added this one extra line that&#8217;s not in either of the bills. It talks about depreciable assets. This is the loophole.’ He said something along the lines of, &#8216;It&#8217;s narrow enough that it shows intent for a specific kind of investment vehicle.&#8217;”</p><h1 style="text-align: center;">Senator &#8220;John Cornyn on his Twitter feed is promoting a lobbyist&#8217;s talking points to defend this bill.”</h1><p>The original House tax cut on pass-throughs, Sirota explained, was broad enough to argue that it was merely an ideological, across-the-board tax cut rather than something that picked specific winners and losers. But the additional line was included with one intent in mind. That line carved out a particular tax windfall for owners of rental-income generators like apartment buildings or commercial office complexes, depreciable property with few or no employees.</p><p>“That&#8217;s when we realized this is an absolutely enormous story,” Sirota said.</p><p><span
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">T</span>he real estate-specific windfall immediately raised the question of whether the LLC pass-through had been part of a deal aimed at influencing Corker to switch. When asked to comment on the pass-through for a <a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/senator-bob-corker-said-he-hasnt-read-tax-bill-denies-changing-his-vote-exchange">followup story</a>, Corker didn’t seem to be familiar with it, Sirota said.</span></p><p>“He called it &#8216;ridiculous,&#8217;” Sirota said. “But then he called back — he must have talked to somebody — and he said, &#8216;You know, I&#8217;m not sure I want to criticize it that way. You know, I need more information. I haven&#8217;t really read it. I&#8217;ve only read a summary of the bill. I haven’t read the bill.&#8217; Which is, of course, another story: You&#8217;re the key vote on a $1.5 trillion [deficit] bill, and you&#8217;re announcing your support for it, admitting that you didn&#8217;t even read it. So your defense is, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t know about the provision because I didn&#8217;t read the bill that I&#8217;m voting for.&#8217; That became another sort of huge story about how [Republicans] are rushing the bill through without even the pivotal vote having read it.”</p><p>What followed Sirota’s story was a firestorm of public outrage on social media. Under mounting pressure, <a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/tax-bill-bob-corker-demands-answers-chairman-orrin-hatch-about-last-minute-tax">Corker wrote a letter</a> to Utah Republican Orin Hatch, the head of the Senate&#8217;s tax-writing committee, supporting the narrative that he didn&#8217;t know anything about the pass-through by asking for clarification of the provision, where it came from and how it got in the bill. To take the heat off Corker, Hatch <a
href="https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/942789304711032832">replied on Monday</a>, insisting that he had authored the loophole. Hatch added that Corker and his staff never contacted the tax-writing committee about the bill, in effect publicly admitting that a key swing vote on the tax bill wasn&#8217;t even communicating with the staff or the members of the panel writing it.</p><p>However, the Hatch alibi could not withstand <a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/tax-bill-bob-corkers-top-aide-could-reap-windfall-controversial-real-estate">new reporting</a> that revealed Corker&#8217;s chief of staff, Todd Womack, had been investing heavily in a real estate LLC in the run-up to the bill and also stood to profit from the provision. Worse, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn, in a <a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/tax-bill-john-cornyn-says-tax-cut-potentially-benefiting-bob-corker-was-part">Sunday appearance on ABC’s </a><em><a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/tax-bill-john-cornyn-says-tax-cut-potentially-benefiting-bob-corker-was-part">This Week</a></em>, admitted that the decision to include the pass-through came from an effort to “cobble together the votes we need to get this bill passed.” With Cornyn suddenly under attack himself, his office aggressively tried to backpedal.</p><p>“They were upset that anybody viewed it that way,” Sirota noted, “but you can <a
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-12-17-17-sen-john-cornyn/story?id=51834652">read the transcript</a>. It was very clear that&#8217;s exactly what he said. It&#8217;s incredible: Cornyn is now defending the provision on his Twitter feed — I swear to god, you cannot make this up — by <a
href="https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/942915386063724545">sending out</a> an <a
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2017/12/18/there-is-no-last-minute-real-estate-perk-in-tax-reform/#782b992f14ae" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2017/12/18/there-is-no-last-minute-real-estate-perk-in-tax-reform/%23782b992f14ae&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513956661094000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHRmjN6EBvkCdZTsn6Maf2QtY3NA">article</a> written by a <a
href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&amp;filingID=86949A66-4061-4F53-B77B-CF46E456B13E&amp;filingTypeID=69" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event%3DgetFilingDetails%26filingID%3D86949A66-4061-4F53-B77B-CF46E456B13E%26filingTypeID%3D69&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513956661094000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxJKJMzgnFfrxXz9IMzEg0SKNyPQ">bank lobbyist</a> who is lobbying on this provision. So John Cornyn on his Twitter feed is promoting a lobbyist&#8217;s talking points to defend this bill.”</p><p>But Sirota noted that the neither self-enrichment nor massive, deficit-hiking tax giveaways to corporations and the richest Americans are new. Republicans have been redistributing the country’s wealth upwards since the days of Ronald Reagan. What actually is precedent-setting about this tax bill, he said, is how explicit it is.</p><p>“There&#8217;s no pretense in this bill,” Sirota said. “There was a thing the Republicans put out in their summary when the bill came out. I <a
href="https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/941800143346573312">tweeted out the graphic</a>. It was sort of in a section about trying to prevent people from using their LLCs to put their wage income into their LLCs. They called it &#8216;safeguards&#8217; — and I&#8217;m paraphrasing here — &#8216;We have put safeguards in to make sure that the business income taxes not go to wage earners.’ They are very crystal-clear that this is a tax bill not for workers. This is a tax bill for corporations and business owners. That is the ideology. They&#8217;re actually open about that. They want the public to know.”</p><hr
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style="text-align: center;">State Senator Holly Mitchell (All photos by Joanne Kim)</p><p><em>Holly Mitchell, the state Senator who represents Los Angeles’ heavily blue-collar 30th District, has been </em><em>called by one colleague the &#8220;<a
href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-holly-mitchell-budget-20170228-htmlstory.html">social conscience of the entire Senate</a>.&#8221; A personable policy wonk whose career included a stint as chief executive of Crystal Stairs, a child development nonprofit, Mitchell chairs the Senate Budget Committee &#8212; the first African-American woman to do so. She recently sat down in Pico-Fairfax with Capital &amp; Main at the Paper and Plastik Cafe to talk about the possible effects of the Republican tax bill on California’s poor.</em></p><hr
/><p><strong>Capital &amp; Main: Taking the temperature between now and New Year’s, what’s your prognosis for the House and Senate tax bills?</strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>The GOP tax plan is a redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich or semi-rich. It gambles away the health care of poor people and this is unacceptable.</p><p>I&#8217;m so disappointed with the work of the [U.S.] Senate Budget Committee. I can&#8217;t imagine being a legislator, getting a report from the Congressional Budget Office that says the things it says about these bills &#8212; and voting to pass it. Did they ignore it? Did they not care?</p><p><strong>One Senator, when interviewed, expressed concern about the bill’s potential to make the deficit skyrocket. When asked if that was enough to make him not vote for it he said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure. I&#8217;m still working on it.&#8221;</strong></p><p><a
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77134" src="https://capitalandmain.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/JoanneKim_HollyMitchell-25.jpg" alt="" width="1200" height="800" /></a></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell:</strong> The whole point of having the support of fiscal analysts and the Congressional Budget Office, with their independent status, is to provide you with critical data to help you make a decision. How can you say, &#8220;Oh yeah, that&#8217;s bad, but I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to go forward on this or not”? Politics is continuing to trump &#8212; lowercase T—what’s best.</p><p><strong>Is Sacramento concerned?</strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>Am I concerned? Yes! But I think what I&#8217;m more concerned about now is the Healthy Families Program.</p><p><strong>This is the entitlement for California families who aren&#8217;t poor enough for Medi-Cal &#8212; but don&#8217;t earn enough to have private insurance. </strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>It provides care for about two million kids [and] requires federal reauthorization. And [Congress] has not reauthorized it. That could have immediate impacts on California&#8217;s budget. It&#8217;s a separate process [from the federal tax bills] but they have already missed the deadline.</p><p><strong>It’s also been said that the tax proposals could <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/california-today-tax-proposals-threaten-lower-income-housing.html">undermine affordable housing construction</a> in California because they would affect the credits and tax breaks that developers receive.</strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell:</strong> Yes, which are critical for developments to pencil out. Given how far behind we are in terms of our housing-unit need, it would be devastating. L.A. County has done amazing things &#8212; voters have said yes to <a
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-20161108-story.html">Prop M</a>, yes to <a
href="http://www.unitedwayla.org/town_hall">Prop HHH</a>. All of that could be compromised &#8212; this delicate balance where developers can come in, get these credits to build affordable units. We&#8217;re already behind the eight ball in terms of our need. This would be yet another blow.</p><p><strong>Defenders of the tax bill say everybody will get their taxes cut initially. Then by 2027, according to the Congressional Budget Office, <a
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/heres-how-the-senate-tax-bill-affects-people-earning-less-than-100000.html">middle- and low-income people</a> will experience a net loss. </strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>They claim that they&#8217;re protecting “the middle class” &#8212; folks who make $100,000 and over. But that’s <em>not </em>how we define the middle class in California—here the salary <a
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-class-in-every-us-state-2015-4">threshold is much lower</a>. What they claim is good news, I think, masks the bad news. And they&#8217;re rushing it through the process.</p><p><strong>What steps are needed to analyze and create a response for a new federal tax plan’s effect on California?</strong></p><p><a
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77135" src="https://capitalandmain.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/JoanneKim_HollyMitchell-15.jpg" alt="" width="1200" height="800" /></a></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>It will be a process. Unlike [the U.S. Senate], I will rely on our Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the Senate Budget Committee staff to have discussions, to have a full budget hearing.</p><p><strong>What&#8217;s your sense of the tax proposals’ potential effect on the state&#8217;s economic health?</strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>How we earn income as a state government could be severely impacted. We are socking money away into rainy-day funds to try to prepare for the time at which our recovery will slow down &#8212; [but] we couldn&#8217;t save enough to prepare for these [federal] proposals and the kind of hole they could blow in the state&#8217;s general fund.</p><p><strong>What&#8217;s your plan if California does take a financial hit? </strong></p><p><strong>Senator Mitchell: </strong>As budget chair, I would be forced, as painful as that would be, to go back to the days of cutting. We may not be able to use a scalpel. It may be sledgehammer time &#8212; it would be devastating. In terms of the trend we&#8217;ve experienced with investments in K through 12, early education, the investments we have made in the last couple of years in the University of California and Cal State University systems &#8212; all these investments that we&#8217;ve made to expand access to services, would be impacted.</p><p>We fund Opti-Cal and Dental-Cal [for eye and dental care] &#8212; those are the kinds of core, basic human services that we could potentially have to roll back again. Medi-Cal funding helps undergird and support our overall health-care delivery system. If that went away, everything would be compromised.</p><hr
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href="https://www.jct.gov">nonpartisan analyses</a> uniformly showed that the biggest cuts in the GOP tax plan go to the wealthy and to corporations, while many middle- and lower-income families will face increases.</span></p><p>Nonetheless, the U.S. House <a
href="https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1/BILLS-115hr1eh.pdf">version</a>, giving Californians with incomes in the top one percent more than <a
href="http://calbudgetcenter.org/blog/new-estimates-show-far-benefits-house-tax-bill-tilt-wealthy/">50 percent of the cuts</a> by 2027, passed 227-205, on a mostly party line vote with 13 Republicans opposing it.</p><p>The Senate’s version of the tax cuts is wending its way through that chamber, and the House bill will no doubt be changed substantially when a conference committee meets to reconcile the two versions if and when the Senate bill passes.</p><p>As matters now stand, the House version is the only one before the public, and it contains a bit of possibly welcome news for some taxpayers. <strong>It doubles the standard deduction from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals and from $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples.</strong> The theory behind that change is that more taxpayers would likely take the standard deduction if it is higher than itemized deductions like mortgage interest. But mortgage interest is a deduction many Californians have come to depend on. And changing it is not the only land mine in the House bill that would directly impact Californians.</p><hr
/><h1 style="text-align: center;">&#8220;Students would be taxed on income they literally don’t have. They will be even deeper in debt, or won’t be able to go to school.”</h1><hr
/><p><strong>U.S. taxpayers can now deduct interest paid on mortgage loans up to $1 million for one or more homes. The House bill and the Senate&#8217;s current version slashes the cap to $500,000, and eliminates the deduction for second homes. </strong>That provision would disproportionately hit residents of states with high real estate values, like California, where finding a home under $500,000 in most urban markets is very difficult.</p><p><a
href="https://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/slideshow/12-markets-hit-hardest-by-slashing-the-mortgage-interest-deduction?utm_source=audiencedev&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=AllProspects&amp;utm_campaign=facebook-keywee&amp;kwp_0=586995&amp;kwp_4=2088829&amp;kwp_1=872864">National Mortgage News</a> estimates that five of the top 12 real estate markets that would be hardest hit by slashing the mortgage-interest deduction are in California.</p><p>The House bill also caps property tax deductions at $10,000 while the Senate is considering eliminating the deduction altogether.</p><p>Real estate organizations like the <a
href="https://www.nahb.org/en/news-and-publications/press-releases/2017/10/statement-from-nahb-chairman-granger-macdonald-on-gop-tax-plan.aspx">National Association of Home Builders</a> have come out strongly against slashing the mortgage interest deduction, saying it would diminish incentives for buying a home.</p><p><a
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77080" src="https://capitalandmain.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/house2.jpg" alt="" width="942" height="720" /></a></p><p><strong>The lowest income Americans now have some help with affording housing through a federal low income housing tax credit funded by tax-exempt private activity bonds issued by state or local governments.</strong> Those bonds are loaned to private companies to finance projects like affordable multifamily housing and for infrastructure projects, like roads and bridges.</p><p>If the final tax overhaul keeps the House’s removal of that exemption, money from investors, mostly banks, will dry up, according to Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.</p><hr
/><h1 style="text-align: center;">Only three of 14 members of California&#8217;s Republican delegation voted against<br
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/><p>However, Yentel said she doesn’t have an issue with cutting the mortgage interest deduction but with how the savings will be used. “The problem is the House bill would use the savings from slashing the [deduction], which would be $95 billion over 10 years, not to support low-income renters, but to give tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans.”</p><p>Housing inequality is a huge problem in California, she said. “For every 100 extremely low-income renters that need housing in California, only 21 units are available. In Los Angeles, it’s 16 for every 100.”</p><p>Yentel’s organization has proposed federal renters tax credits and more funding for the <a
href="http://nlihc.org/issues/nhtf">National Housing Trust Fund</a>.</p><p>Jonathan Kaplan, a senior analyst at the <a
href="http://calbudgetcenter.org/blog/five-reasons-gop-plans-reduce-eliminate-state-local-tax-salt-deduction-bad-deal-californians/">California Budget and Policy Center</a>, agreed with Yentel that the mortgage-interest deduction needs reform and that any reform should generate funds to lessen housing inequality in California.</p><p>“Not only are the benefits of cutting the [deduction] going to corporations and the very wealthy, it would raise taxes on many homebuyers, and create disincentives for moving in an already difficult market,” Kaplan said. “That in itself will also exacerbate California’s housing affordability crisis.”</p><p>In a cost-sharing arrangement between the state and federal governments, individuals can now deduct state and local property taxes, and either state and local income taxes or sales taxes.<strong> The House GOP tax overhaul eliminates state and local tax deductions for all Americans.</strong></p><p><span
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">M</span>ore than five million California households claim state and local tax deductions on their federal returns, according to the California Budget and Policy Center. Someone with a gross income of $60,000 who owes $5,000 in California tax, now would pay federal taxes only on $55,000. Under the GOP plan, that individual would pay federal taxes on the entire $60,000, essentially being double taxed.</span></p><hr
/><h1 style="text-align: center;">The House GOP tax bill eliminates the $7,500 federal tax credit for people who buy a hybrid or battery electric vehicle.</h1><hr
/><p><strong>The center estimates that eliminating state and local tax deductions would not only raise taxes on millions of Californians, but would put a burden on local governments to fund services like schools and public safety.</strong></p><p>“State and local governments will no longer be able to say, ‘We need to raise taxes in order to pay for schools, but don’t worry because you can take a portion of that off your federal taxes,’” Kaplan said.</p><p><strong>The House bill affects higher education in three ways. It eliminates the student loan deduction that reduces taxable interest on loans for up to $2,500. It also eliminates a $2,000 lifetime learning credit.</strong></p><p>Possibly the biggest hit to students is that tuition waivers would be considered taxable income. This would affect many graduate students who receive reduced or free tuition in addition to a small stipend.</p><p>“These are significant tax increases on students,” said Kaplan. “These students would be taxed on income they literally don’t have. They will be even deeper in debt, or won’t be able to go to school.”</p><p>Just over a million Californians file tax returns with a student loan interest deduction, amounting to $1 billion, Kaplan said.</p><p><a
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77075" src="https://capitalandmain.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/EV.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="635" /></a></p><p><strong>The House GOP tax bill also <a
href="https://www.dmv.org/articles/gop-tax-plan-eliminates-hybrid-electric-vehicle-credit">eliminates the $7,500 federal tax credit</a> for people who buy a hybrid or battery electric vehicle.</strong> <a
href="https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1112251_electric-cars-now-5-percent-of-california-new-car-sales-report">A recent study</a> by the non-profit environmental organization Next 10 showed that five percent of new car sales in California are electric, and a survey by CleanTechnica showed that California accounted for nearly half of all electric vehicles sold in the U.S. between 2011 and 2016.</p><p>Given the hits to Californians in the House tax overhaul, it might be surprising that only three of 14 members of California&#8217;s Republican delegation — <a
href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/government/darrell-issa-PEPLT003178-topic.html&quot; \o &quot;Darrell Issa">Darrell Issa</a> of Vista, Tom McClintock of Elk Grove and <a
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">O</span>n February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066">Executive Order 9066</a>, which authorized the War Department to declare much of the West Coast to be military exclusion zones, resulting in the arrest, removal and incarceration of 120,000 law-abiding residents — including roughly 70,000 birthright American citizens — for the offense of being of the wrong race during wartime. Civil rights vanished for Americans of Japanese descent who were forcibly uprooted and deprived of their property without due process.</span></p><p>Social justice filmmakers Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider’s powerful new documentary, <a
href="https://www.thentheycamedoc.com/"><em>And Then They Came For Us</em></a>, is not the first to tell the story of one of modern America’s most ignominious mass violations of civil rights. Rarely, however, has any account of this shameful history been presented with such persuasively contemporary urgency.</p><p>From Ginzberg’s opening shots of protest at San Francisco Japantown’s February 19th Day of Remembrance march, to the film’s concluding call for solidarity between the survivors of 9066 and the Muslim immigrants who now find themselves targeted by yet another baldly racist executive action, it is always harrowingly apparent who is behind today’s clear and present danger to bedrock civil liberties.</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">Woodland, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange.</p></div><p>In fact, as Ginzberg explained to Capital &amp; Main, it wasn’t until the days following Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory that she became convinced she had a compelling enough hook on which to hang an otherwise oft-told tale. That’s when she saw Trump surrogate Carl Higbie <a
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/megyn-kelly-muslim-registry-2016-11">appear on TV</a> and cite the wartime internment as a precedent for <a
href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/index.html">candidate Trump’s calls</a> for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” which included surveillance against mosques and establishing a database for all U.S. Muslims.</p><p>“I could suddenly see the politics of the film, I could understand its importance to today,” she recalled. “It didn&#8217;t become [a] dry history based on post-World War II analysis. It made me get very excited about it and decide that this film had to be done. We needed to find a way to get it out into the world as quickly as possible.”</p><p>Her idea was to approach the internment as if it were a breaking news story. By keeping it lean, forgoing lengthy fundraising or complicated locations, the film might get from script to screen while the headlines were still fresh enough to have an impact. That’s when the <a
href="https://jonathanloganfamilyfoundation.org/">Jonathan Logan Family Foundation</a>, which funds progressive investigative journalism, ponied up for the entire budget — a rare stroke of fortune in the social justice filmmaking world: “I was able to create a budget, give it to them and say, &#8216;I will do this film if you pay the bills.&#8217; And they did. We started filming in October of 2016. And we finished it kind of mid- to end-of-April, 2017. For me that is record time.” (Disclosure: The foundation is a financial supporter of this website.)</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">The Mochida family. Photo by Dorothea Lange.</p></div><p>The heart of <em>And Then They Came for Us</em> lies in the trauma and unreconciled anger of the incarcerated — including the articulate testimony of former camp children like actor-activist George Takei. The experiences of now-deceased adults survive in an extraordinary trove of documentary images taken by photographers hired as government propagandists by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The photographers, among them Ansel Adams and the magnificent Dorothea Lange, were carefully monitored by minders lest they violate rules against taking photos of camp barbed wire, guard towers and heavily armed military police. The prisoners themselves were forbidden cameras of any kind, and it is ironic that the only images of the Japanese-Americans behind barbed wire are those taken by internee Toyo Miyatake, using smuggled equipment and film.</p><p>“We tapped into a reservoir of stories,” said Ginzberg, “and we were able to kind of cobble the film from everybody contributing something. But the two people who lead the film are George Takei and Satsuki Ina, who really have spent a lot of their lives working on this. … A third person, who&#8217;s not related at all to George, is Barbara Takei, who&#8217;s part of the <a
href="https://www.tulelake.org/">Tule Lake Committee</a>.&#8221; Local authorities, she added, &#8220;are now threatening to build an airfield sorta smack in the middle of the Tule Lake camp, which would mean that any notion of sacred space, or being able to [honor] it as a historical site, will go to hell.”</p><p><span
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class="wpsdc-drop-cap">E</span>schewing the usual newsreel footage, Ginzberg sought &#8212; and was given &#8212; unrestricted access to recently unearthed and previously unpublished photographs, and research culled by photo historians Richard Cahan and Michael Williams for their 2016 coffee-table tome</span> <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Incarceration-Americans-Government-Photographers/dp/0991541863"><em>Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II</em></a>. <span
style="color: #333333;">The book includes 170 images drawn from a 7,000-shot archive of the “evacuation.” Ginzberg mostly narrows that to the work of Adams and Lange. And it is the unwavering gaze of the Lange portraits — part of an almost legendary, 800-image cache that was immediately impounded and “lost” for 60 years by the U.S. Army — that drives home the human scale of the tragedy. Many of Lange’s photos were impounded for too truly reflecting the emotional reality of the camps.</span></p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">Manzanar, Owens Valley. Photo by Toyo Miyatake.</p></div><p>“We try to let the photos in a certain way speak for themselves,” Ginzberg pointed out. “We&#8217;re letting people sort of read it in the faces of the Dorothea Lange [images], and something — &#8220;magical&#8221; is not the right word — but something deep happens in the experience of looking at those photos that are up there a little bit longer than they might be in some other setting. [Audiences are] able to read, as Takei says, the resilience and the stress. And so there&#8217;s something happening that becomes a first-person experience.”</p><p>In one of the most haunting scenes, internment historian and filmmaker Satsuki Ina, who was born in 1944 at the Tule Lake Segregation Camp near the Oregon border, a maximum security facility reserved for “troublemaker” activists, pensively encounters a Lange portrait of her mother, Shizuko, taken in 1942. Capturing an attractive, immaculately dressed young woman, the picture freezes a moment when her features are visibly drawn in worry as she waits with other first- and second-generation Japanese-Americans on a long sidewalk queue underneath government posters announcing their imminent removal.</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">Shizuko Ina, foreground. Photo by Dorothea Lange.</p></div><p>Other speakers describe remarkably similar memories of the pain of witnessing their parents undergo the humiliation of gradually being shorn of their freedom and independence. Within a matter of weeks, the WRA froze bank accounts, limited movement and finally stripped internees of their automobiles and other property through forced sales. Los Angeles families were shipped to the Santa Anita racetrack and housed in horse stalls. Orwellian euphemisms ran through a government narrative that spoke soothingly of “evacuations” and &#8220;relocation centers,&#8221; rather than forced removals and concentration camps.</p><p>According to Ginzberg the film has been well received by audiences at the handful of film festivals it has entered since its May premiere. She’s been offering it for sale on <a
href="https://www.thentheycamedoc.com/">the movie&#8217;s website</a> for activist groups that have already hosted a number of screenings around the country, and it has played particularly well with teachers. Ginzberg’s strategy is to market the film as a classroom-friendly component (the runtime is 46 minutes) to lesson plans about the incarceration.</p><p>“Let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t educate people, organize people and have this film be as relevant as possible to what is going on, particularly with the Muslim travel ban, and then with other really repressive immigration policies.”</p><hr
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