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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016 • SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA • PRESSDEMOCRAT.COM Housing crisis tops candidates’ agendas

5TH DISTRICT RACE » that continue to vex the Board “I honestly don’t see Noreen ing to be the swing vote on a lot of Supervisors are likely to come and myself voting differently on of critical issues,” Evans said. How Evans, Hopkins up either on the county’s formal Tuesdays,” Hopkins said. “I see “I have fought hard for work- stand on the key issues agenda or in the wider public the way we spend our other six ing people for the past 20 years. discussion of how to spend pub- days of the week being more of The question in this race is are By ANGELA HART lic dollars on local government the difference. I really consider we going to have their concerns THE PRESS DEMOCRAT services. myself more of a community or- represented on the Board of Su- Lynda Hopkins, a political ganizer.” pervisors.” Housing affordability. newcomer and candidate for the However, Evans, a former As mail-in ballots go out to- Lynda Noreen Neighborhood concerns about 5th District seat held by Efren state legislator and Santa Rosa day, voters in the 5th District are Hopkins Evans Sonoma County’s expanding Carrillo, says she wants to bring councilwoman, ticked off a list poised to decide who will repre- wine industry. fresh ideas to the table. Yet she of high-profile initiatives that able housing development, tight- sent them on the county board Rising taxpayer costs for coun- doesn’t believe, ultimately, that could put daylight between the en winery regulations, upgrade and hold, perhaps, a pivotal say ty employee pensions. she and her opponent, Noreen two candidates were they both county roads and reign in county in policies and services that af- In the next 14 months, those Evans, would diverge on the voting on them today. They in- pension costs. issues and a number of others most hotly contested votes. clude proposals to spur afford- “This 5th District seat is go- TURN TO 5TH DISTRICT » PAGE A8

CLINTON-TRUMP DEBATE » FIGHT TO THE FINISH

Patsy Jardin, 71, may see A darkening tone her $48,000 pension cut to $19,000. CalPERS pensions at risk for cuts Small town’s situation could signal retirees’ plans not bulletproof By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH NEW YORK TIMES

Until the certified letters from Sacramento started coming last month, Loyalton, in California’s Sierra County, was just anoth- er hole in the wall — a fading town of just over 700 that had not made much news since the gold rush of 1849. Its lifeblood, a saw- mill, closed in 2001, wiping out jobs, paychecks and just about any reason an outsider might have had for giving Loyalton a second glance. “It’s a walking ghost town,” said Don Russell, editor of the STEPHEN CROWLEY / NEW YORK TIMES 163-year-old Mountain Messen- Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during their second presidential debate Sunday at Washington University in St. Louis. ger, a local newspaper that re- fuses, fittingly, to publish on the web. 2005 VIDEO » Trump denies LOCAL REACTIONS » Members But then came those letters, thrusting Loyalton onto center groping; says comments were of both parties agree Trump’s stage of the United States’ public ‘one of those things’ performance improves pension drama. The California Public Employees’ Retirement By ROBERT COSTA AND PHILIP RUCKER By ROBERT DIGITALE System, or CalPERS, said Loy- WASHINGTON POST THE PRESS DEMOCRAT alton had 30 days to hand over $1.6 million, more than its entire ST. LOUIS — The presidential campaign Both Sonoma County Democrats and Re- annual budget, to fund the pen- took a dark turn here Sunday night as publicans said GOP presidential candidate sions of its four retirees. Other- Donald Trump leveled a stream of harsh Donald Trump improved his debate perfor- wise, Loyalton stood to become charges at Hillary Clinton during their sec- mance Sunday night and did so at a critical the first place in California — ond debate, claiming she attacked women time in his campaign. perhaps in the nation — where who accused her husband of sexual abuse It remains to be seen how many voters a powerful state retirement sys- and suggesting he would send the former will be swayed by what they saw and heard tem cut retirees’ pensions be- secretary of state to jail if he is president. Sunday, but members from both parties cause their town was a deadbeat. Reeling from the release of a 2005 video said Trump gave his supporters a reason to “I worked all those years, and showing him crudely bragging about using stick with him after last week’s damaging they did this to me,” said Patsy his fame to force himself on women, Trump release of a video in which he made lewd Jardin, 71, who kept the town’s sought to salvage his candidacy by going on comments about women. books for 29 years, then retired the offensive against Clinton. “He stopped the quote, ‘bleeding,’” said in 2004 on an annual pension of He repeatedly interrupted the Demo- DOUG MILLS / NEW YORK TIMES Edelweiss Geary, chairwoman of the Sono- about $48,000. Now, because of cratic nominee. He lashed out at her with Debate moderators Anderson Cooper and ma County Republican Party. Loyalton’s troubles, CalPERS a multitude of falsehoods over her foreign Martha Raddatz at the start of the second Bleys Rose, chairman of the county’s could cut it to about $19,000. and domestic policies as well as her judg- presidential debate between Donald Trump Democratic Party Central Committee, said “I couldn’t live on it — no way,” ment and character. He called her “a liar” and Hillary Clinton. Trump “did better than people expected” she said. “I can’t go back to work. and “the Devil.” And as Clinton answered Sunday. Rose maintained that in compar- I’m 71 years old. Who’s going to voters’ questions in the town-hall-style de- he curtly broke with his vice-presidential ison to Democratic candidate Hillary Clin- hire me?” bate, Trump lurked just an arm’s length be- running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on ton, Trump went into the debate carrying Public pensions are supposed hind her with a grimace on his face. a central foreign policy issue. a greater burden after a bruising week in to be bulletproof, because cities Clinton, while mostly restrained, showed While Pence has described Russia in which a number of GOP leaders had an- — unlike companies — seldom flashes of ire at her aggressor. “OK, Donald, hawkish terms as a menace in the Middle nounced they no longer would support the go bankrupt, and states never I know you’re into big diversion tonight,” East, Trump said he disagreed and that New York businessman. do. Of all the states, experts say, she said. “Anything to avoid talking about they had not discussed Russia’s role in the “He accomplished what he needed to do, California has the most pro- your campaign and the way it’s exploding Syrian civil war. to give the Republicans who are still with tective pension laws and legal and the way Republicans are leaving you.” Trump was not alone in answering for his him a reason not to jump ship,” Rose said. precedents. Once public workers With the Republican Party in an unprec- political baggage. Clinton was forced to ad- The county GOP Central Committee join CalPERS, state courts have edented crisis and dozens of GOP officials dress damaging leaks of her paid speeches gathered about two dozen adults and a ruled, their employers must calling on Trump to step aside since the to Wall Street firms as well as the investiga- smattering of children Sunday in a ban- video’s release on Friday, Trump’s isola- TURN TO PENSIONS » PAGE A2 tion was laid bare on the stage here when TURN TO DEBATE » PAGE A2 TURN TO REACTIONS » PAGE A2

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