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12:00-1:15 Opening Session: Mayors in the 12 Middle Moderated by Scott Lewis

1 1:30-2:30 1:30-2:30 SoccerCity, SDSU The Future of West or None of the Above Moderated by Sara Moderated by Libby and Ry Rivard Scott Lewis 2

2:45-3:45 2:45-3:45 Town Hall: Life, Crash Course: Undocumented, in California Ballot the Trump Era Measures 3 Presented by HuffPost With Sara Libby

4:00-5:15 4:00-5:00 Live Podcast: The Crash Course: Future of the City San Diego Ballot 4 Hosted by Scott Measures Lewis, Sara Libby With Lisa Halverstadt and Andrew Keatts

5 5:00-6:30 Closing Reception: KIPJ Garden Terrace

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1:30-2:30 1:30-2:30 1:30-2:30 Exit Interview w/ The Case for Ways to Get Assemblyman California Involved in Your Rocky Chavez Independence Community Presented by Led by the California Led by USD Adjunct CALmatters National Party Prof. Mary McKenzie

2:45-3:15 2:45-3:45 2:45-3:45 Interview w/ Addressing Measure Q: Mike Levin the Affordable Chula Vista 3:15-3:45 Housing Crisis Cannabis Tax Interview w/ Led by San Diego Led by High Tech Nathan Fletcher Deliberation Network High Students

4:00-5:00 4:00-5:00 4:00-5:00 4:00-5:00 Prop 10: Rent U.S./Mexico Civility in Politics Candidate Control Debate Relations Led by Ashley Round Table Presented by Led by USD Professor McGuire, National Moderated by USD CALmatters David Shirk Conflict Resolution Assoc. Professor Center Casey Dominguez

5:00-6:30 Closing Reception: KIPJ Garden Terrace

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Mayors in the Middle to SDSU, which itself has outlined a plan for a new stadium, a park, a 12:00-1:15 • SHILEY THEATER campus expansion and thousands Moderated by Scott Lewis, of homes. Or, San Diegans could VOSD CEO & Editor in Chief reject those options and insist on something different. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Sacramento Mayor Darrell PANELISTS: Steinberg come from different Nick Stone, partner FS Investors; political perspectives but they’re Marcela Escobar-Eck, land-use both grappling with thousands of consultant; Howard Blackson, people living on the street and the urban designer; Jack McGrory, health and safety problems that trustee, California State University; creates. In Tijuana, Mayor Juan and Laura Fink, political consultant Manuel Gastelum is dealing with similar problems – and some very different ones. The Future of California Soccer City, SDSU 1:30-2:30 • KIPJ ROOMS AB West, or None Moderated by Sara Libby, VOSD Managing Editor; and of the Above Ry Rivard, VOSD Reporter 1:30-2:30 • KIPJ THEATER Despite incredible economic Moderated by Scott Lewis, growth, California is dealing with VOSD CEO & Editor in Chief widespread poverty, struggling schools, concerns about public The Chargers moved from San safety and justice and an extremely Diego, and took part of its heart high cost of living. What will the with them. But their departure state’s leaders do to grapple with created a golden opportunity to do these problems? What is the future something special with the Mission of politics and what are the short- Valley stadium land that hosted the and long-term debates we’ll see in team for so long. San Diegans have Sacramento? Three leaders from the three choices on this November’s state Legislature will get into it all. ballot. Measure E would direct the city to sell and lease the land to PANELISTS: investors who promise to bring Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez in a Major League Soccer team, a (D-San Diego); Assemblyman park, thousands of homes and an Chad Mayes (R-San Bernardino); entertainment district. Measure G Assemblywoman Shirley Weber would direct the city to sell the land (D-San Diego)

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Assemblyman Elise Foley, HuffPost Reporter; Dulce Garcia, immigration attorney; Rocky Chavez Maya Srikrishnan, VOSD Reporter Exit Interview 1:30-2:30 • KIPJ ROOMS CD Presented by CALmatters Crash Course: Hear from Assemblyman Rocky California Ballot Chavez about what it means to be a Republican who supports Measures an overhaul of immigration law, 2:45-3:45 • KIPJ ROOMS AB opposes President Donald Trump’s Led by Sara Libby, border wall, and bucked his party VOSD Managing Editor by voting for the cap-and-trade program. He’ll also discuss being the Dive into the state propositions on target of Democratic Congressional the ballot, from gas tax repeal to Campaign Committee ads that housing bonds. Understand the attacked from the right, and pros and cons of each, and be ready what he sees as the future of the to vote in November. Republican Party.

Mike Levin, HuffPost Town Hall: Candidate for the Life, Undocumented, 49th Congressional in the Trump Era District 2:45-3:45 • KIPJ THEATER 2:45-3:15 • KIPJ ROOMS CD Moderated by Amanda Terkel, HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Interview by Alex Presha, NBC 7 San Diego Reporter More than 11 million undocumented people currently live in the United States, nearly a quarter of whom are in California. This panel explores what life is like for undocumented Nathan Fletcher, immigrants at a time when the president regularly vilifies them, Candidate for the administration has made San Diego County immigration enforcement a priority and lawmakers can’t agree on Supervisor comprehensive immigration reform. 3:15-3:45 • KIPJ ROOMS CD PANELISTS: Interview by Scott Lewis, VOSD Tom Wong, UCSD Professor; CEO & Editor in Chief

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Crash Course: Seize the chance to meet in a small group with candidates for state and San Diego Ballot local offices. Come prepared to ask Measures questions and get the inside scoop. PARTICIPANTS: 4:00-5:00 • KIPJ ROOMS AB Nathan Fletcher, Candidate for Led by Lisa Halverstadt, San Diego County Supervisor; VOSD Reporter Mike Levin, Candidate for the Dive into the local measures on 49th Congressional District; Mark the ballot, from the Mission Valley Meuser, Candidate for California stadium site to city council term Secretary of State; Monica limits. Understand the pros and Montgomery, Candidate for cons of each, and be ready to vote. San Diego City Council District 4; Morgan Murtaugh, Candidate for the 53rd Congressional District; Valeri Paul, Candidate for Solana Prop 10: Can Rent Beach City Council Control Do What the Market Can’t? VOSD Live Podcast: 4:00-5:00 • KIPJ ROOMS CD Presented by CALmatters The Future of California has a statewide San Diego moratorium on rent control laws. 4:00-5:15 • KIPJ THEATER And cities are banned from applying Hosted by Scott Lewis, Sara existing rent regulation ordinances Libby, and Andrew Keatts to new units. Now that the state is facing an affordable housing crisis, Voice of San Diego’s live podcasts some housing advocates want to have become riotous opportunities give cities a tool to put a legal lid to see local leaders let loose a bit on rents. Prop 10 would allow cities while also discussing important to introduce new restrictions on issues. For this special cap to the market rents or expand existing Politifest day, we’ll have a discussion rent control policies. with three of the people rumored to be considering running for mayor in 2020: Rep. Scott Peters, Assemblyman Todd Gloria and Councilman Chris Cate. We will not, Candidate however, talk about the 2020 race Roundtable at all. Not one bit. We will explore what the city is going to do about 4:00-5:00 • KIPJ ROOMS HI homelessness, infrastructure, police Moderated by Casey Dominguez, and public safety. Plus, some games Ph.D., USD Associate Professor with the audience.

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The Case for Measure Q: California Chula Vista Independence Cannabis Tax 1:30-2:30 • KIPJ ROOM E 2:45-3:45 • KIPJ ROOM F Led by Ken Brucker, Chairman, Led by High Tech High San Diego Central Committee of the California National Party Chula Vista students

Ways to Get Involved United States/ in Your Community Mexico Relations 1:30-2:30 • KIPJ ROOM F 4:00-5:00 • KIPJ ROOM E Led by Mary McKenzie, Adjunct Led by David Shirk, Professor, Professor, University of San Diego University of San Diego

Addressing Civility in Politics the Affordable 4:00-5:00 • KIPJ ROOM F Housing Crisis Led by USD Ashley McGuire, 2:45-3:45 • KIPJ ROOM E Restorative Specialist, National Led by San Diego Deliberation Network Conflict Resolution Center

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Howard Blackson Encinitas, Oceanside and Vista. Chavez serves as vice chair of the Howard Blackson is an urban Assembly Education Committee, as designer with AVRP Skyport Studios. well as the vice chair of the Assembly He has been the principal designer Veterans Affairs Committee. He of regional plans, new towns, is also a member of the Utilities neighborhood revitalization plans and Energy Committee, Budget and urban infill projects. He also Committee, Budget Subcommittee crafts policy and regulatory updates No. 2 on Education Finance, Higher for cities and counties. Blackson is a Education Committee and the Joint former board member of Civic San Diego and holds a master’s degree Legislative Committee on Emergency in urban design from the University Management. of Westminster, London. He is co- host of the ‘Whose City?’ podcast Casey Dominguez, Ph.D. with SDSU’s Dr. Larry Herzog. Casey B. K. Dominguez, Ph.D., joined the University of San Diego Councilman Chris Cate Political Science faculty in 2005. Councilman Chris Her research interests include Cate represents the congressional elections, political city’s Sixth District, parties, campaign finance, and the which includes presidency. She teaches upper and Clairemont Mesa, lower division classes on American Kearny Mesa, Mira Politics, as well as an upper division Mesa, Miramar, Park Village, and class on research methods. Sorrento Valley. As councilman, Cate has been lauded for his solution- Marcela Escobar-Eck oriented approach to public safety, economic development and the Marcela Escobar-Eck founded environment. He is chair of the Atlantis Group in 2007 to provide Committee on Public Safety and land planning and entitlement Livable Neighborhoods and a services to developers and property member of the Environment, Rules owners, and has grown the and Budget and Government company into the premier land use Efficiency committees. and strategic planning consulting firm in San Diego. She has more Assemblyman than 30 years of experience in land use and development. Formerly, Rocky Chavez as director of the Development In 2012 Assemblyman Services Department for the city Rocky Chavez was of San Diego, Marcela managed elected to represent all operations of a department the 76th Assembly with a $68.9 million budget and District, which 655 budgeted staff. She also includes Camp served as a chief deputy director in Pendleton, Carlsbad, Development Services overseeing

10 Keep up with local election news at voiceofsandiego.org project management, and as Laura Fink redevelopment project director for Laura Fink is a sought-after speaker, the Naval Training Center in the city writer, instructor and strategist who of San Diego’s Planning Department. has grown businesses, rejuvenated nonprofits and elected national and San Diego Mayor statewide leaders by enabling them Kevin Faulconer to successfully tell their stories. She has served as a trusted adviser Kevin Faulconer to multiple members of Congress, is mayor of San high-profile philanthropists, Diego. Faulconer nonprofit executives, business and previously served labor leaders and a former speaker as the District 2 City of the California State Assembly. Council member for more than seven years, including as Council president pro tem. As Nathan Fletcher chairman of the Council’s Audit Nathan Fletcher is a candidate for Committee, he worked to restore the San Diego County Board of the city’s credit rating and repair its Supervisors for the County’s 4th credibility with investors following a district. A former representative pension scandal. in the California State Assembly,

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Fletcher currently federal legislator and president of serves as a professor the PAN in Tijuana. From December of practice in 2000 to February 2001, he was acting Political Science mayor of the city. Born in Tijuana, at the University he is fluent in English, a language of California, he first earned as a fifth- and sixth- San Diego. Fletcher served as a grader at Robert E. Lee Elementary Counterintelligence Specialist in the School in San Diego. Marine Corps and did two combat tours in Iraq, the Near East and the Assemblyman Todd Gloria Horn of Africa. In December 2016, Todd Gloria was Elise Foley sworn in as the Elise Foley covers politics and Assembly member immigration, including the for the 78th Assembly intersection of the two, for District, making HuffPost. She previously worked him only the second person of at the Washington Independent Filipino heritage ever elected to and attended journalism school at the California Assembly and the Northwestern University. Legislature’s only enrolled tribal member. Gloria currently serves in Dulce Garcia Assembly leadership as the Majority Whip. In 2008, he was elected to the Dulce Garcia is an attorney in San Diego City Council. He served Chula Vista. She represents clients two terms as City Council president in immigration, civil litigation and and as the city’s interim mayor from criminal defense cases. A DACA August 2013 to March 2014. Gloria’s recipient, Garcia is one of six service as interim mayor is credited DREAMers who sued the Trump for restoring the public’s trust in city administration over its plans to government. rescind DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Assemblywoman She’s been living in the United States since her family immigrated from Lorena Gonzalez Mexico when she was 4 years old. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Tijuana Mayor Juan was elected in May 2013. She is Manuel Gastelum the first Latina in Elected mayor in California history to 2016, Juan Manuel chair the Assembly Appropriations Gastelum is a Committee. She is also chairwoman member of Mexico’s of the Select Committee on Women National Action Party. in the Workplace and Vice Chair of He has served as the Latino Caucus. Prior to being a state legislator, elected to the Assembly, Gonzalez

12 Keep up with local election news at voiceofsandiego.org was a labor leader and organizer, was a political writer, state Capitol serving as the first woman and first reporter and assistant national person of color to be elected CEO editor. He also has served as editor and Secretary-Treasurer for the San of California Journal magazine and Diego and Imperial Counties Labor as California director for the New Council, AFL-CIO. America Foundation.

David Lesher Mike Levin David Lesher is co-founder, For the last two editor and CEO of CALmatters, decades, Mike Levin a nonpartisan, nonprofit news been involved in venture committed to explaining a variety of local, how California’s state Capitol works state and federal and why it matters. Previously, political campaigns Lesher was director of government and community organizations. He affairs at the Public Policy Institute served as executive director of the of California, a non-partisan think Democratic Party of Orange County tank focused on state policy issues. and has worked as an attorney Lesher has more than 25 years of focused on environmental and journalism experience, largely at energy regulatory compliance and the Times, where he government affairs. Levin has served

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for several years on the board of Jack McGrory the Center for Sustainable Energy, based in San Diego, and co-founded Jack McGrory is a leading member Sustain OC in Orange County. of the Friends of SDSU steering committee, a volunteer group Assemblyman Chad Mayes championing Measure G to grow San Diego State University. Jack is Chad Mayes was also CEO of La Jolla MJ Management first elected to LLC, a real estate investment the Assembly in company, and served as city November 2014 manager for the city of San Diego. to represent the A member of the California State 42nd District in the University Board of Trustees, Jack California State Assembly. This Inland Empire district encompasses is actively involved with San Diego parts of San Bernardino and State University serving as the Riverside counties. Mayes is past chairman of the Campanile most passionate about housing, Foundation Board, chairman of the transportation and reducing poverty Veterans Council and chairman of through education, job creation and the School of Public Affairs Council, economic expansion. among other involvement. Yes on Measure E

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institutions and corporations on Sacramento Mayor policies, curriculum development and business initiatives. Darrell Steinberg Darrell Steinberg is Rep. Scott Peters mayor of Sacramento. He previously Rep. Scott Peters represented serves California’s Sacramento as a 52nd Congressional City Council member District, which (1992-1998), state Assemblyman includes Coronado, (1999-2004) and state senator and Poway and most of Senate president pro tempore in the northern San Diego. First elected in California Legislature (2006-2014). 2012, he has worked across the aisle to fix a broken Congress and stand up for San Diego’s military and Nick Stone veterans community. Peters began Nick is a partner at FS Investors his political career as a member of and serves in a variety of direct the San Diego City Council, where management, advisory and director he later became the city’s first City positions at portfolio companies. Council president. He has served on Prior to joining FS Investors, he was the Governor’s Commission on Tax a vice president at TPG Capital, one Policy in the New Economy, and in of the world’s largest private equity 2002, the speaker of the Assembly funds. Prior to joining TPG, Stone appointed him to the California was an investment professional at Coastal Commission. Peters also KKR, another of the world’s top-five served as chairman of the San Diego private equity investment firms. Unified Port District. Amanda Terkel Maya Srikrishnan Amanda Terkel is the Washington Maya Srikrishnan covers the U.S.- bureau chief at HuffPost. Previously, Mexico border and immigration she served as deputy research issues for Voice of San Diego. She director at the Center for American holds a degree in Latin American Progress and managing editor of studies from the University of Texas ThinkProgress.org. at Austin and a master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs Assemblywoman from Columbia University. She came to San Diego in 2015 and has been Shirley Weber working at Voice of San Diego since, Assemblywoman previously reporting on housing, Shirley Weber was land use and education issues in the elected in November county. Her work has also appeared 2012 to represent in the , the New California’s 79th York World and ABC News. Assembly District,

16 Keep up with local election news at voiceofsandiego.org which includes Bonita, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, National City and parts of San Diego. Dr. Weber chairs the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Public Safety. She also serves as a member of the Assembly Standing Committees on Education, Higher Education, Elections, Budget, and Banking SPECIAL GUESTS and Finance. She has focused her legislative efforts on public Voices of Our City Choir safety, educational equity, voting rights and food insecurity. Founded in 2016 by San Diego musicians Steph Johnson and Nina Deering, Voices of Our City Tom Wong Choir was created in response Tom K. Wong is an associate to the current housing crisis. The professor of political science choir gives voice to San Diego’s homeless community, past at the University of California, and present. Singing provides San Diego, where he is director a positive sense of community of the International Migration and solidarity for people facing Studies Program Minor. He extreme hardships, and their served as an adviser to the neighbors. It reduces stress, White House Initiative on Asian heightens awareness, empowers Americans and Pacific Islanders minds, strengthens bodies and under the Obama administration sets the stage for peace and and currently serves on healing. To date, the choir has helped more than 27 unsheltered California’s Census Complete singers secure their own housing. Count Committee. Wong’s research focuses on the politics of immigration, citizenship, and Steph Johnson migrant “illegality” and explores Award-winning singer-songwriter the links between immigration, and guitarist Steph Johnson is race and ethnicity, and the a rare talent who catches your attention upon the first note. politics of identity. He has She has released four CDs. Her published two books, “Rights, most recent recording, “Music is Deportation, and Detention in Art,” was produced by two-time the Age of Immigration Control” Grammy Award winning producer and “The Politics of Immigration: Kamau Kenyatta. Johnson began Partisanship, Demographic her full-time musical career in Change, and American 2008. Her second CD won an National Identity.” SDMA for Best Jazz Record.

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